FOLD a/v collaborative platform Wed March 10 #Melbourne #HorseBazaar

• HOLY BONER AV SET – Lovers of horror and noise, HOLY BONER feat. Brad Smith (drumkit/screams of agony) & Nik Kennedy (electronics/voices from the grave) reprise their collaboration with visual artist Grand Guignol AKA Tina Douglas.  + special guest victims Zev Langer (zombie groans) and Diana Szabo (bloodcurdling screams) make the noise to go with it. Lionel will get his revenge!
• EARLE STUART / SEAN BAXTER – Legendary outsider Hip Hop MC, Earle Stuart (from the incredible Curse Ov Dialect), joined by percussion nut Sean Baxter.
• DJ CRUMBS (Max Kohane) between the acts!

Wed March 10, 2010

8:30pm

$10 (full) / $5 (conc)

@Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

www.myspace.com/stuttermelb

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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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Peter Greenaway creates the Last Supper to be served in Melbourne

Acclaimed as an extraordinary spectacle of sound, light and multimedia magic, Melbourne Festival invites you to the Australian premiere of one of this year’s most exciting and affordable events on offer.  From Saturday 10 October, North Melbourne Town Hall will be transformed into the Santa Maria delle Grazie of Milan, with visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s acclaimed masterpiece Leonardo’s Last Supper.

Screening every half hour for only $10 for adults and $5 for children, Melburnians are sure to be mesmerized as Greenaway gives new life to one of the world’s most iconic and mystifying masterpieces, merging visual arts, cinema, music and cutting-edge technologies.

A master of cinematic magic, Greenaway has created an inspiring multimedia event in front of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. This is a perfect, three-dimensional sculptural clone of Milan’s crumbling, 510-year-old chapel wall and painting, with live projections of images and light as well as a life-size physical reconstruction of the table in the painting accompanied by a soundscape of voice, music and atmospherics.

The Last Supper depicts the moment when Christ announces that one of the apostles will betray him and disruption ensues. Greenaway’s sensitive spectacle delves into this moment. It uncovers truths about the painting and its influence, and reveals obscure details lost to time, overpainting and restorations.

“To the strains of modern opera, he used cutting-edge technical trickery to make Leonardo’s Christ appear like a three-dimensional hologram while a radiant sun rose and fell over his head. He turned the original colourful image red, grey and black before the artist’s gentle brush strokes were replaced with a chalk outline of the 13 figures, as if Leonardo had drawn a crime scene. Dawn broke, dusk fell and by the end the disciples had been dramatically cast into the shadow of prison-like bars,” Robert Booth, The Guardian.

This exact recreation of the chapel wall - to the same size and scale, and featuring the same characteristics and texture of the original - has been achieved through a groundbreaking combination of sophisticated technology and craftsmanship.  Leonardo’s Last Supper places Peter Greenaway among the great artists who experiment unflaggingly with new means of expression for the new millennium.

Greenaway conceived Leonardo’s Last Supper in response to a deep fascination with visual literacy and explores the potential interaction between 114 years of cinema and eight thousand years of painting.

More info at the Melbourne Festival website

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LAND. Ulf Langheinrich. Digital Illusion part of the Brisbane Festival

A SENSORY JOURNEY COMES TO AUSTRALIA

LAND is a triple-screen digital landscape rendered solely out of two algorithms that create pure noise. Through its sheer immensity and use of pulsing repetition it induces a changed state of consciousness, or, as the artist puts it, “an altered state of reality”.

LAND, which debuted at the 2008 Liverpool Biennial (UK), continues the German artist’s exploration into sensory immersive environments, at the core of his recent artistic research into the nature of digital illusion.

15 September – 1 October
The Block
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia

For more details, see description on QUT website

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Digital Fringe is calling for Youuuuuuuuu.

Ferret around your hard drives for (video, stills or audio), dig out those gems and have your work seen on hundreds of public screens in Melbourne.

Uploaded content will play on an extensive network of screens around the world: from retail television display walls to huge urban screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public nooks and crannys.

Visit digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works and for more festival info, or contact us – people@digitalfringe.com.au

Digital Fringe is produced by Horse Bazaar as part of the MelbourneFringe Festival (September 23 – October 11)

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Random Acts of Elevator Music, back by popular demand

Returning by popular demand to a building near you…

Appearing spontaneously in elevators throughout the city, Random Acts of Elevator Music enlighten the consciousness of office workers with live muzaktronica.  Their portable studio hidden in briefcases, who knows where these undercover sonic redesigners will strike next.  Check their website for the inside tip on where and when to experience the soothing oscillations and melodies of Random Acts of Elevator Music.  Just don’t tell your HR department or the security guy at the front desk…

Random Acts of Elevator Music are back in 2009, performing as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival between September 23rd and October 9th at office buildings throughout Melbourne’s CBD.  Covert visits to Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra are planned, along with rare out-of-office-hours appearances at bars and venues, as they spread sonic joy throughout the land. There is also an album on the way, helping to increase productivity in workplaces everywhere.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

The original City Frequencies installation was a live surround-sound audiovisual performance held at the Melbourne Town Hall for the 2000 Next Wave Festival, utilising the sounds and sights of the Melbourne CBD as source material.  Following this, City Frequencies included material in the Australian Sound Design Project’s Hearing Place for the 2003 International Symposium of World Forum of Acoustic Ecology.

In 2004 City Frequencies recorded the conversations of Fitzroy café-goers at Kent Street Cafe, using the tapes to create the Café Voyeur installation for the Fringe Festival that year.  The installation was presented again during 2005 in a listening gallery environment and is now being remixed for surround-sound DVD release.

Random Acts of Elevator Music has been developed over the last few years with discrete showcase performances in the Electundra festival at Loop Bar and an exploratory series of elevator performances in the previous Melbourne Fringe.  Now they are ready to venture forth into the city once more…

For further information visit:

www.akm.net.au/cityfreqs

www.twitter.com/cityfreqs

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Yes To Fear, Yes To Desire Panoptique Electrical tour

Yes To Fear, Yes To Desire is the second album from Panoptique Electrical AKA Jason Sweeney (Pretty Boy Crossover, Mist & Sea). It follows on from 2008’s Let The Darkness At You, an album which garnered significant critical praise and has become one of Sensory Projects’ best selling releases outside of Australia.

Celebrating the release of the new album, PANOPTIQUE ELECTRICAL will perform across Australia in August 2009, supported by the Sound Travellers initiative.

Find Panoptique Electrical live in 2009 and you will experience the extension in the line-up, coming via the addition of Zoë Barry (cello – Ladykillers, Hope Diamond) and Jed Palmer (guitar – Bergerac, Mist & Sea, Hope Diamond), and Tristan Louth-Robins (laptoptronica – aka Red_Robin). The results are expansive depth of sound, the combination of guitar drones, Zoë’s exquisite cello work, and nuances and tones from Louth-Robins, recalling early 4ad outfits The Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil and their mesmeric recorded works.

Venue:
Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, Australia

Date:
Sunday, August 23, 2009
6:00pm – 9:00pm
$10

Info:
dontlookgallery@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery

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Waiting to Turn into Puzzles at Frankston Art Centre

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles Installation

(Cube 37), Frankston Art Centre, Victoria

10-30 August, 2009

From Dusk till dawn
Featuring Video Projection and Sound Installation

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles is the latest collaboration between film artist Louise Curham and composer David Young. Shot in Yokohama Japan, this 45 minute hand-processed super 8 film/music work forms the basis of the musical scores. The inter-medial nature of the work creates a hovering connectedness between image and sound, shifting the boundaries between the artforms. Similarly the graphic music notation allows a certain freedom and spontaneity in the performance of the music which accompanies the film, whilst remaining precisely structured.

As part of the opening of Waiting to Turn Into Puzzles installation in Cube 37, an excerpt of the work will be performed by Melbourne-based Quiver Ensemble. Quiver consists of a group of highly focused young musicians who are passionate about contemporary art music, experimental improvisation and interdisciplinary practice. The four core players are also co-directors who share a dedication to innovative programming and close composer-performer collaboration.

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Endangered Sounds Conference

Australasian Sound Recordings Association – 2009 Conference

Thursday 20th and Friday 21st August 2009
National Library of Australia – Canberra, Australia

In an age of rapid environmental, social and technological change, the sounds of our world are noticeably disappearing. These sounds form an essential component in the fabric of our cultures, and the ability to preserve these sonic environments is a necessity. Conference themes include capturing the shifting soundscapes of humanity, vanishing natural environments, impermanence of installation and performance works, virtual sounds in virtual spaces, endangered languages and community collections. Selected Australian professionals and practitioners will present powerful ideas regarding the past and future of our sounds.

Composer and sound artist William Duckworth will deliver the keynote address entitled Endangered Sounds of the Future, with Indigenous curator Liz McNiven delivering the annual Alice Moyle Lecture. Drawing together a wide range of knowledge and experience, conference papers will be presented by curatorial, technical and archival experts, as well as creative and academic practitioners
in the sound arts. The speakers include sound recordist Greg Simmons, Aboriginal language linguist Michael Walsh, innovative environmental recording system designer Neil Boucher, Vincent Plush, Kevin Bradley and more.

The 2009 Endangered Sounds conference will be held in the National Library of Australia’s theatre in parallel with the National Film and Sound Archive’s 2009 Sound Week activities.  Of special interest is the announcement of the 2009 selection of ten Sounds of Australia for inclusion in the National Registry of Recorded Sound, announced by the Honourable Peter Garrett, Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts at the NFSA on Sound Day, Wednesday 19th August.

For conference registration please see the website: www.asra.asn.au or for more information contact:
Shelly Grant: sgrant@nla.gov.au or (02) 6262 1545.

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Knitted Abyss a night of melodic experimental sound

Saturday 1 August
Knitted Abyss
Seth Rees + Seaworthy
Hochman & Hopkins

A night of melodic experimental sound.

Hochman & Hopkins features members of Jonathan (Holy Balm, Stick Stick, Pagan Dawn) & Matthew (Naked on the Vague, Vincent over the sink and Bad Tables/Lamp Puffer) and make a fuzzy kind of melodic noise.http://www.myspace.com/hochmanhopkins

Knitted Abyss features Anna (Holy Balm) and Lucy (Naked on the Vague) and specialize in buzzy jams of melodic guitars, organ and vocals.http://www.myspace.com/knittedabyss

Seth Rees is a Melbourne-based New Zealander (Amplifier Machine, The Spheres, This is you captain speaking) who uses guitar and feedback to create drifting multilayered textures. This show will also feature Sydney-based soundscapist Seaworthy in a special one-off improvisation.
http://www.myspace.com/sethrees
http://www.myspace.com/backgroundfrequencies

Saturday, August 1, 2009
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Don’t Look Gallery| 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, Australia

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