MELBOURNE ii in collaboration with cellists Emily Williams and Francesca Mountfort
ii have a series of shows throughout August at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria. The shows will take place each Wednesday throughout the month, from 8-9pm; though music will be constant from 5-9pm.
Max credibility, gallery style. But these performances are different in another way: rather than the usual guitar-guitar-synth-drumset configuration, ii have completely rebuilt themselves for this series, using two computers, a modular synthesiser, sampler and an array of effects. The result will be very different to previous outings for the pair. Additionally, ii are performing in collaboration with cellists Emily Williams and Francesca Mountfort. Together, the four have composed an hour-long suite of new music.
Also playing throughout the series are vocal duo Soteria Bell, best known for their ARIA Award-winning music for the Australian film Jindabyne. They’ll play from 7-8pm, and Emily Williams will play solo cello from 5-7pm.
Entry is free. NGV International is located at 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne. These performances are part of the Art After Dark series… food and wine is available, and the gallery’s much-anticipated Guggenheim exhibition will be open late each Wednesday, too.
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WHAT: Face-off
WHEN: Opening Wednesday August 1, 6pm
Thur August 2-18 (Thur-Sat 11-5)
WHERE: DON’T LOOK Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd (Near Marrickville Rd), Dulwich Hill
Sydney, NSW
WHO: Red vs. Red
CONTACT: Greg Shapley – Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: myspace.com/dontlookgallery
FACE-OFF
By Red vs. Red
We are all lepers….
As the leper was separated through material and social means, so are
we through the performance of new media. We lose parts of our body
through these interfaces. Communication is facilitated but it is also
distorted, disrupted and finally, thwarted. The daily interaction
through screens means that we communicate with each other, yet remain
separate, invisible and masked.
Through the use of video projections, duct-tape and performance Red
vs. Red will explore the idea of virtual dislocation. Invoking a
primitivist physicality they will go through the very real process of
wrapping themselves together with duct tape. The audience will be cut
off from this sensory experience shared by the performers by the
digital paraphernalia that, paradoxically, allows them to eventually
experience it.
Roland Barthes referred to the process of taking a photo as a type of
death – the moment frozen in the mausoleum that is the medium –
fossilised for eternity, the point of immortalisation also signifying
a loss of mortality. If this is so, then the vast array of digital
media whizzing round the globe is an incessant slaughterhouse, turning
every previous moment into an array of fine cuts for easy consumption.
Face-off uses digital media to critique its shortcomings. These ‘fine
cuts’ will be on display along with other fossilised remnants of the
ritual (including the duct tape ‘shell’ and life size photos). By
presenting the ‘dead’ performance to a ‘live’ audience, this work will
also explore the oppositional aspects of contemporary communication,
of ‘my body versus your body’.
What do Aleister Crowley and Led Zeppelin have in common? What happens when you point a theremin at the street?
Rock music was designed to be transported, captured in the dark matter of vinyl and brought back to life through the rediffusion of hi fidelity. The stylus is to the turntable what the wand is to the magus. Jimmy Page channelled the airwaves with the theremin, the electronic conductor of the spectral. His violin bow is the anachronous coupling of spiritualism and cock rock, a relic from a different age, the sword that invoked the Egyptian god Anubis, the black dog, the despoiler, messenger from the afterlife.
ZOSO is not a work about transformation. It is transformative. The visitor will not be the same when they leave the gallery. They will think differently about vinyl and teak wood finish. They will never take a Persian rug for granted again. They will be able to identify the sound of a Moog synthesizer. And they will never forget that there is no such thing as silence and that words have two meanings. Words, symbols and images will resonate anew. The world, in other words, will be transformed to the power of 666.
A ritual of rock, runes and magick
Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
ExhibitLocation:Project Space, Cardigan Street, Carlton, Melbourne
Monday, October 29, 2007 at 5:00pm
Friday, November 16, 2007 at 5:00pm
Red Hat are going to run a 1.5 day course on open source graphic design with
InkScape.
Open source graphic design: Inkscape, Scribus & Gimp
Instructor: Andy Fitzsimon of Red Hat
1/2 day Introduction; August 8; $200 (or $50 for student /
not-for-profit)
This hands-on class will introduce participants to the fundamentals of graphic
design and illustration using Inkscape, which is a powerful Open Source vector
editing program comparable to Adobe Illustrator, freehand and Corel Draw.
Participants will create photo realistic vector renderings and learn about how
to best manage design considerations for icons and logos.
1 day Master class; August 9; $700 (or $200 for student / not-for-profit)
In this master class, participants will explore the depths of Open Source
graphic design. In particular they will learn:
* How to implement powerful graphic workflow solutions using XML and SVG.
* Deal with designing for translations and other dynamic data.
* Creating colour managed PDF’s with spot and registration colours.
* Web optimisations including compression and advanced stylesheet techniques.
About the lecturer
Red Hat’s Andrew Fitzsimon is an Inkscape developer, participant in Scribus
development and most notably a passionate open source graphics user.
Following A background in animation, Andrew is currently involved in technical
Illustration, desktop, web, and publishing design for print.
Speaking history:
Andrew has presented technical talks about free graphics software at Australia’s
linux.conf.au for the past two years as well as the Libre Graphics Meeting held
in Montreal, Canada and Lyon, France the year before that.
Location. The courses will be run in Melbourne.
For more information or to register, please contact Paul Took <ptook@redhat.com>
On the hot heels of releasing and performing with Pretty Boy Crossover and
Mist & Sea, the ubiquitous Jason unleashes a new electro-pop act, School
of Two, in Melbourne…
On WEDS AUGUST 1 – MELBOURNE @ The Toff
– the Melbourne launch of the POWWOW new music series on Feral Media.
Bands: SCHOOL OF TWO (Adel/Melb), BARRAGE (Melb) & THE EMERGENCY (Melb)
Where: The Toff In Town, Level 2, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
Date: Weds 1 August.
Cost: $10
Time: Doors open at 8pm.
What: Launching POWWOW One: School Of Two – 8 song CD.
Also available new Barrage ‘2’ 7 inch vinyl single.
School of Two is the duo of Jason Sweeney and Harry Whizkid – they write
catchy, edgy, queer and melancho-lectronica pop music using a combination
of electricity, acoustic sounds, singing and samples.
School of Two will be performing tracks from the first in the Powwow CD
series. Barrage will be playing cuts from his first new recordings in two
years, the 7 inch single ‘2’, featuring the radio track ‘only, only’. This
is also the first vinyl record from Feral Media, surely a reason to party!
A barrage live show does not disappoint. The Emergency have recently
released a 7 inch too. ‘Spending Time / Switch Me’ is available via Metal
postcard.
POWWOW is an innovative series of ten releases that will bring outstanding
original music to light, over the course of twelve months from July 2007.
It has been created to produce and promote quality independent music that
would otherwise not be heard widely. POWWOW will give quality left-field
music a focus and an outlet, and it will build a unique musical identity
from its diverse range of bands and artists. POWWOW will also give
talented musicians a platform for their work and, as it evolves, POWWOW
will become a strong, creative statement; a unit much greater than the sum
of its parts.
http://www.feralmedia.com.au/powwow/
http://www.schooloftwo.com
