Aphids Reel Music Festival

A fusion of sound and vision over four days will see the inaugural Aphids Reel Music Festival present four very different live music and film experiences.

Highlights include:

26 June 8pm: Waiting to Turn into Puzzles Louise Curham’s visually stunning hand-processed Super 8-based film with music by David Young will have its Melbourne premiere at the Aphids Reel Music Festival.  Shot in Yokohama on special Fuji film stock and hand-processed in Australia, Waiting to turn into puzzles is accompanied by live music performed by Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring. The five-member ensemble will perform from hand-water-coloured musical scores that incorporate screen captures and imagery from the film. This is Ensemble Offspring’s first Melbourne appearance.

27 June 8pm:  Skin Quartet The collaboration between visual artist Louisa Bufardeci and composer David Young, Skin Quartet received critical acclaim at its premiere at the 2003 Melbourne International Arts Festival.  Using the USA’s CIA Factbook as the source, Bufardeci  and Young have created  an intricate meditation on ethnicity, skin colour and nationhood. This will be the first performance of Skin Quartet in Australia since its world tour to America, South Africa and Belgium

28 June 8pm: d.v.d (Tokyo) The extraordinary Japanese trio d.v.d. (two drummers and a video artist) who will offer up a playful visual music animation recorded live during their exhilarating drum-triggered-visuals show.  Their radical reworking of 1980’s arcade classic “Pong” with a retro-Atari aesthetic sees the musician’s drumming controlling game-like animations which generate additional sounds. In turn their drum-play is dependent on the structure of the animation.  Based in Tokyo and just back from their first European tour, this is d.v.d.’s first performance in Australia.

29 June, 4pm: Vormittagspuk Genevieve Lacey and Geoffrey Morris perform Italian composer Maurizio Pisati’s score for the 1928 Hans Richter animation masterpiece, Vormittagspuk. This is the first performance in Melbourne of this exacting and mesmerising work.  The program also includes works by Romitelli, Scelsi and Pisati’s ZONE-Spidersound with film animation by Max Bertola.

Tickets for the Aphids Reel Music Festival are on sale NOW For full program details and further information www.aphids.net

Where: ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne

Bookings:  03 8663 2583 www.acmi.net.au