[ sydney info ] - and ever so slightly related to 'severed heads and you'...

[Tobias Kazumichi Grime <toby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Below is some Sydney info for an refreshing couple of nights of sound 
art / performance.
Those not in Australia may  / may not be familiar with the artists 
names. Some of you maybe familiar with the work of Minit from sigma 
editions or Rik Rue etc...
(Apologies for those outside Australia)

The evenings are curated by Gray Bradbury (one half of severed heads 
in the 'early days')

As you can see from the descriptions, its a fairly diverse range of 
sound practice happening on the two nights, elements of traditional 
tape loop art, glitch, sample looping, laptop bashing, live voice, 
flash sound widgets, super 8 film loops, laptop based video art and 
more...

I've just started reading this list - great stuff and i'll get 
involved soon as i gather my thoughts.

List query: Where do most people come from on this list? I see it 
mostly US based?

Its been really fun reading the 'Re: severed heads and you :)' responses. Nice.

regards,
Kazumichi Grime
Sydney.

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STATIC MUSEUM 2 PROGRAMME
ARTSPACE 2001

EVENING ONE: THURSDAY 30TH AUGUST

THE LOOP ORCHESTRA: A Touch of Bloop
The Loopies present a pornographic audio homage to the late great Miles Davies.
Consisting entirely of tape loops strung onto dodgy old reel to reels 
in various states of repair.
With film loop accompaniment by Ian Andrews.

SCOT HORSCROFT: Chug R Chug
Four inaudible guitarists, playing continuous loop like riffs, are 
processed live thru a laptop
to produce a subtlely differentiated textured layered 
mass.contact:shindig@xxxxxxxxxxxx

THREAD: Work in continuous progress
A collaboration between sound artist/designer Kazumichi Grime and 
Greenwood and Polaine
who on this occasion generate accompanying visuals triggered by 
audio. This performance will utilise Pitch Poker;
self designed musical software and a video variants created by 
Polaine (from AniRom fame in England) and Greenwood (ZKM Institute 
artist, Germany).

SANITY CLAUSE: Bilabial Plosive and other spontaneous works
Bradbury and Andrews focus on the destruction and rehabilitation of 
vinyl records.
Multiple turntables are applied to explore and unleash the archaic 
audio detritus inscribed on the surface of these abject twentieth 
century artifacts.

WAKE UP AND LISTEN: Various
Driven by a compulsion to collage and emerging from an active 
participation in experimental radio culture, O'neill and Bertram 
layer and manipulate various sound sources into complex fields of 
disturbing ,yet often humorous, stuff.


EVENING TWO: FRIDAY 31ST AUGUST

RIK RUE: Things Change, Things Remain the Same (ver. 3)
This piece is composed as both a performance and a radiophonic work.
First performed for Solo's Festival in Geneve and Lausanne, 
Switzerland in 1997.
Also presented in it's radiophonic form for ABC's Listening Room and 
ORF Radio Australia.
Dedicated to the late Brion Gysin and Paul Bowles.
Inspired by the Altas Mountains, Morroco and the Australian outback.

BRADBURY: Various
Recent works and reworkings by former member of Size, Severed Heads....
Applying numerous household sounds along with various analogue bleeps 
and grunts.
A domestically inclined electronic folk music for a consumer culture 
steeped in banality.

ANDREWS: Molecular Transmissions
A bunch of flash web interactives re-worked for live performance. 
http://sysx.org/microsound/

ZERO CHARISMA: A Construction
A fresh collaboration between Mutante Frequante and Milk (of the 
infamous Triclops)
in which custom build mechanical devises, spread throughout the room, 
combine with mutant electronics. The listener sits immersed within 
the apparatus itself.

MINIT: Various
The Sonny and Cher of the Sydney electronic music milieu present recent works.
Consistantly intriguing, delicate yet powerful.

SWEDEN: Greatest Hits
Dim memories of a neglected childhood spent listening to AM radio 
come hurtling back through  a sea of tortured twisted metal and 
second hand records.
Sweden advocates the dissolution of self through the specific 
application of Glam Aktionism.
This performance is in memory of Ashwoods.

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Tobias Kazumichi Grime
New media artist / sound / design / interactive / motion

M 0412 030 177

email: toby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.kazumichi.com
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