#DJ Spooky Live Performance, March 5th, #Melbourne

Experimenta, Open Channel, Shed 4, Stable and RBMA Radio present:

DJ SPOOKY, THE NAURU ELEGIES

As part of the Nauru Elegies, DJ Spooky will give an exclusive live performance in Melbourne’s iconic Docklands warehouse, Shed 4. Composed by Paul D. Miller (aka. DJ Spooky), the performance reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated by DJ Spooky and a string quartet.

Tickets on sale now, $25, $20 concession + booking fee:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=34591&ref=Shed4

Friday 5 March, 8pm
Shed 4, North Wharf Road, Docklands, Melbourne

http://www.djspooky.com/

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The Nauru Elegies #Melbourne #DJSpooky

A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture

The Nauru Elegies is a multimedia portrait of the island of Nauru. The work explores the island in a state of economic collapse and environmental devastation. It has been realised through the collaboration of composer Paul D. Miller, best known as DJ Spooky, and architect Annie K. Kwon.

The music component of the Nauru Elegies reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated into a string quartet, composed by Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, while the architectural component conceptualized by Annie K. Kwon spatializes and formalizes otherwise invisible economic flows and irreversible ecological devastation.

Venue: Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building,
Level 7, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Dates: 19 February – 6 March. Times: 10-5 daily

http://www.experimenta.org/

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Push Over #musical event #Melbourne March 7, 2010

The Push’s signature all ages live music festival Push Over returns to The Abbotsford Convent (Melbourne) on Sunday 7 March, 2010. As always, Push Over will feature over 30 acts across four stages, and some of the best current crop or upcoming “next big things” on the Australian indie rock, hardcore and hip hop scene! Now in its 18th year, Push Over provides one of the hottest and freshest summer line ups on offer – as voted by young people from around the state!

Live acts for the 2010 event include: 50 Lions, Break Even, Built on Secrets, City Escape, Dash & Will, Heroes for Hire, Horrorshow, I Explode Like, Kisschasy, Lovers Grave, The Mission In Motion, The Sundance Kids, Urthboy, Wherewolves, Yacht Club DJs, Young Heretics and Yves Klein Blue; plus nine FReeZA Push Start battle of the bands Regional Final Winners, and multiple MCs, DJs and break-dancers battling it out in the Push It hip hop arena.

Keeping the event way more affordable and accessible than other music festivals thanks to the generosity of the bands, the ticket price will remain at just $30 presale ($40 on the door, if not sold out). Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au, www.oztix.com.au & Ticketek 132 849

For more info head to www.thepush.com.au, call (03) 9380 1277 or email push@thepush.com.au
Push Over is proudly supported by The Push, triple j, FReeZA, FReeZACentral and Victoria Rocks.

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Triple M to launch #AC/DC digital radio station

Austereo’s Triple M is launching digital radio station, High Voltage Radio, (MIX 94.5) featuring songs and content dedicated to Australian rock band AC/DC.

It will go to air for four weeks until the end of AC/DC’s national tour and will be broadcast on DAB+ and online at mix.com.au, High Voltage will be the fourth Digital Radio offering from Austereo and will air for four weeks until the end of AC/DC’s national tour.

AC/DC songs featured will include their big hits, lesser known tracks, live versions and archived Triple M interviews.

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World War Whale download and godinpants plankton juice

In a future much like the present, the Earth is host to a variety of Cetaceans within its seas. These giant fleshy beasts of the deep have long been sought after sources of riches, providing enough oil to lubricate a robot army for weeks, and enough pre-digested plankton to fill a million sea monkey tanks.

It is in this future we find godinpants, documenting the great downfall of mankind against its Cetacean foes.

You gotta love this! x

More more more from 8bitcollective. And yes apart from being a very fanciful story of whales-at-war it’s also a Free download of ‘World War Whale’ – new release from experimental / chiptune artist

Twitter name @godinpants

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Psycho: 50th anniversary of this suspense masterpiece, film screaming with live score Syd Opera House Jan 5, 2010

Have you ever truly forgotten that shower scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho? The 50th anniversary of this suspense masterpiece will be celebrated at a special screening at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on January 5, 2010. Hitchcock’s Psycho as never before for one night only, as Bernard Herrmann’s score is performed live by the Sydney Lyric Orchestra.

Bernard Herrmann’s spine-tingling score will be brought to life when for the first time ever in Australia Psycho will be digitally projected onto the big screen in the Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall accompanied by a specially assembled all-strings Sydney Lyric Orchestra.

Academy Award-winning composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), collaborated with Hitchcock in 1960 to produce the soundscape- score for Psycho, which stands today as one of the most dramatic and effective examples of film & music coupling. The noted American composer, who worked on many of Hitchcock’s motion pictures including Vertigo, The Trouble With Harry and The Birds, is recognised for his keen awareness of the effect that music plays in film. There can be no better example of this than Psycho’s infamous shower scene – which Hitchcock had originally planned to leave unscored, but after hearing Herrmann’s composition agreed.

Unique among Hollywood films, the score of Psycho was written by Herrmann solely for string instruments, enabling him to achieve the brilliant sound the film is renowned for. With Concert Master, Adrian Keating – the Principal Violinist for the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra – ably leading the Orchestra, the live musical soundtrack will drive the drama of an engrossing story as never before! Psycho at the Opera House will be a feast for the senses. Conductor, Nic Buc, explains- “the sound of Bernard Herrmann’s music with its piercing strings underlying every jab of violence really is one-of-a-kind and well ahead of its era, and truly creates the excitement, tension and fear”.

Kick off the New Year with a scream and book your place in the shower scene!

VENUE: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
DATES: January 5th 2010 (Tuesday)
DURATION: 109 Minutes
BOOKINGS: P +61 2 9250 7777; E: bookings@sydneyoperahouse.com
W: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/psycho_with_orchestra.aspx

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60×60 is collaborating with ICMC (International Computer Music Conference 2010)

Vox Novus is inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less in length to be included in its eighth annual 60×60 project!

60 compositions will be selected to be played continuously in a one-hour concert.

For this special event we are looking for 360 works for 6 one hour performances at Stony Brook University and New York City: 360 degrees of 60×60.

We are also have an International Mix and a microtonal mix (the UnTwelve Mix) I also have venues for another UK Mix, Midwest Mix, Canada Mix, and Pacific Rim Mix. (if we get enough submissions. get it? if you submit.there is a possibility of 12 different mixes. that is 720 slots with a great chance of multiple performances around the globe and the possibility of a multimedia collaboration with video or dance that are getting press reviews and attending audiences in the thousands.)

ICMC has an online submission process.
http://music.oc.cct.lsu.edu/author/submit.php
check the 60×60 box and then upload your ZIP file containing your submission form (PDF) and sound file (AIFF) (I know it says MP3 is allowed but don’t do that for 60×60 submissions)

you can get the submission form here:
http://www.VoxNovus.com/60×60/Call.htm

The idea is to activate the entire community of electro-acoustic music.

Robert Voisey
RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com
60×60 Director
Living Music Foundation Vice President
Founder of Vox Novus
http://www.VoxNovus.com

> Submissions must be uploaded by December 31st, 2009.

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Kevin Blechdom featuring Barnwave in #Melbourne with SGK. The mistress of melodic mayhem hits town!!

Kevin Blechdom (real name: Kristin Erickson) was born in Florida in 1978.

Kevin Blechdom’s third solo album, GENTLEMANIA, was released on Sonig Records in April 2009, co-produced by Kevin and Mocky in Berlin. Less schizophrenic and madcap manic as her previous two electronic albums, on GENTLEMANIA we hear Blechdom slow down, take a deep breath, and, with thoughtful control, peel back layers of emotion. Combining a strong background in classical and experimental music with a broad knowledge of songwriting traditions, Kevin travels between and coalesces country jangle, Broadway show tunes, old-school R&B, and many other styles into a cohesive and true musical story. The autobiographical and interpersonal themes revolve around introspection, longing, doubt, hope, and ultimately, human transformation.

Since 2007, and to support her newest release, Blechdom is touring as a duo in a hi-tech country and ragtime band with Christopher Fleeger called BARNWAVE.

full tour schedule at
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128054628907&ref=ts

With support from shitcore sleaze rockers Suzanne Grae and the Katies (featuring the Sportsgirls), triplet one man band mariachi rock n roll band Puta Madre Brothers and what-the-fuck it’s the Purple Duck.

Kevin is one of the most amazing live acts you will ever see. Not to be missed!

Host: Suzanne Grae & the Katies (SGK)
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time: 8:00pm – 11:55pm
Location: Northcote Social Club, 301 High St, Northcote, Melbourne, Australia

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the sound of the acid-stained Down Underground, #Marinetti Soundtrack CD #launch #Melbourne

Albie Thoms’ - Marinetti was the culmination of the synthetic environments that the UBU group had pioneered in Australia; festive public ‘happenings’ that combined the energy and volume of creative rock and jazz with the mesmeric effect of multi-dimensional lightshows. Another kind of culmination: Marinetti records most of the principal collaborators in the UBU film group, like Aggy Read and the Perrys. Uniquely valuable as a document of Australia’s late 1960s counter-culture, the soundtrack provides the best indication of the unrestrained liberty that bands like Tully and the John Sangster Underground band – some of whose members perform on this recording – were famously achieving in their improvisations of the period.

This is the sound of the acid-stained Down Underground…

Launch of the OST CD & also thee Roundtable label, < http://thee-roundtable.com/ >

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8:00pm

Melbourne, Australia

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Forever Michael – 7 minute video touring some of the hundreds of Second Life tributes to Michael Jackson

Forever Michael (Sin City)

Designed around spontaneous memorials that are erected around key sites at the time of celebrity deaths, this installation both pays tribute to and comments in the mass hysteria surrounding Michael Jackson’s untimely passing. First reported on celebrity gossip site TMZ.com, Michael’s death sparked an unprecedented internet frenzy, with Twitter recording over 5000 Jackson Tweets a minute. Over 11 million people watched his memorial live on the web, and tributes, traditionally found on the street were springing up on social networking sites and virtual reality applications such as Second Life.This traditional tribute memorial combines both the physical and virtual with a 7 minute video touring some of the hundreds of Second Life tributes to Michael Jackson. Streaming along the bottom of the screen are the sensationalized headlines which appeared, and continue to appear, on TMZ.com. Ending with paparazzi footage of Michael in the last month of his life, we are both voyeur and sympathiser as we watch a lonely figure being hunted and trapped by a mob of ever-persistent cameramen who feed the frenzy that surrounded him in life, and now in death.

“Michael Jackson kept his most stunning performance for the very end. Always able to command an audience, he knew how to bring whole arenas to fits of exultation with his moves and then silence them to the point of tears with his poetry. He was brilliant, excessive, maudlin, tacky and possibly criminal, but you could never ignore him. So it was fitting that in death, he momentarily silenced the largest arena humanity has ever known, the Internet.” TIME MAGAZINE, JULY 2009

Join us for one of Don’t Look’s final exhibitions!

What: Forever Michael (Sin City)
Who: Georgie Roxby Smith
Where: Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, Australia
(a block back from the corner of New Canterbury Rd and Marrickville Rd).
When: Opening — Wednesday 9 December, 6.oopm
(see the exhibition for the next ten days through the front window)
Contact: dontlookgallery@gmail.com, Greg -0401 152 434

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