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Chris
Abrahams is probably best
known for his work as pianist with the
improvising trio The
Necks. He has also recorded and
released four solo piano albums, written
numerous soundtracks for films, and
produced several radio features for
The ABC. He tours extensively in both
Australia and Europe.
APPEARING: July 14
Lloyd
Barrett curates the Audiopollen
show on 4ZZZ, assists with Small Black
Box and performs as part of Diaspora
and Poota. His current obsessions
are fake ethno & field recordings
and the transformation of spaces through
sound. http://www.halftheory.com/skon.
Pierre
Bastien built his
first musical machinery in 1977. For
the next ten years he composed for
dance companies and plaed with Pascal
Comelade, while constantly developing
his mechanical orchestra. Since 1987
he has concentrated on the orchestra
through solo performances, sound installations,
recordings and collaborations with
artists including Pierrick Sorin,
Karel Doing, Jean Weinfeld, Robert
Wyatt or Issey Miyake. http://www.pierrebastien.com
Peter
Blamey is a Sydney-based
musician whose current practice combines
inverted signals from saturated electronics,
aimed at making broad sound environments
with a peculiar faux-spatiality. By
working a space between an initial
signal and its inverse, this approach
allows the work to be largely determined
by the interactions of the sound with
itself.
Bucketrider
are one of Australia's most innovative
and challenging contemporary music
ensembles. Founded nearly a decade
ago by David Brown, Sean Baxter and
Tim O'Dwyer, they are as adept in
the rarefied realms of improvisation
and new music as they are with the
raw energy of free jazz and punk rock,
fusing these disparate styles into
a coherent and exciting whole. http://www.bucketrider.com
Tim
Catlin is a Melbourne-based
guitarist and sound artist who focuses
on extending the sonic possibilities
of the guitar. Slow Twitch, a CD of
solo guitar works, was released on
Dr Jims records in 2003.
Hannah
Clemen is a composer/musician
of acoustic and electronic music,
and has more recently been creating
sound art and installation works.
She is currently
completing her Masters research at
WAAPA (Perth), investigating ways
in which meditation techniques can
be used as creative tools in interactive
musical systems.
Clocked
Out Duo use traditional
and modified instruments alongside
a bewildering array of toys, found
objects, junk and sound sculptures
to create carefully designed sonic,
visual and theatrical experiences.
Their totally unique style embraces
a wide variety of influences including
American Experimentalism, Free Improvisation,
European Avant-Garde, Jazz, Fluxus,
Minimalism, Chinese percussion, Folk
Music and Street Sounds.
Grant
Collins has been described
as a "one man percussion orchestra"
and one of "Australia's hottest
professional drummers". He has
toured widely throughout Australia,
Asia and the USA, performing alongside
well-known international drummers
Dennis Chambers, Terry Bozzio and
Dom Famularo. Grant has released two
solo albums, Primal Instinct and Dogboy.
COMPOST
is a unique team of Australian
composers that designs, composes and
produces new music events. Since 1997
COMPOST has premiered over 60 new
works and has worked with many of
Australia's leading performers, conductors
and ensembles. COMPOST is Damian Barbeler,
Julian Day, Luke Jaaniste, Freeman
McGrath and Toby Wren.
Tony
Conrad is considered one
of the first "minimal" composer/performers,
associated in his early period with
La Monte Young, John Cale, Henry Flynt
and legendary New York underground
filmmaker, Jack Smith. Conrad is also
acknowleged as a pioneer of structuralist
filmmaking, and in recent years, he
has presented and performed at festivals
and events worldwide.
Rod
Cooper is a Melbourne-based
sculptor, instrument builder and performer
who likes to perform in locations
including storm water pipes, bridges
and other industrial installations.
He is part of the Make It Up Club
committee.
Kate
Crawford is a composer,
writer and academic, who has been
creating electronic music in different
projects for over nine years. These
include B(if)tek (with Nicole Skeltys),
Clone (with Bo Daley) and Little Field
(with Lawrence English and Ben Frost.
Kate is also a lecturer in Media and
Communications at the University of
Sydney.
Reinhold
Friedl is a performer,
interpreter and composer. He has
received various fellowships (among
others, from Eurocréation
Paris) as well as various commissions
from such institutions as the Berlin
Senate's Department of Cultural
Affairs, and he founded and directs
the ensembles Piano-Inside-Out and
zeitkratzer. zeitkratzer, in particular,
has caused a sensation since its
formation in 1997 with several CD
recordings and numerous concerts
and performances. http://www.zeitkratzer.de
Andrew
Garton is an internationally
respected composer, performer and
producer working within an interdisciplinary
context since the late 70s. His compositions
and performances are minimalist by
nature and generative in actuation.
Commissioned sound works and performances
have taken him throughout Europe and
Asia. He is co-founder of c2o/Toy
Satellite and Secession Records. http://www.toysatellite.org/agarton
Camilla
Hannan is a Melbourne
based sound designer, composer and
installation artist. Her installations
and soundscape works have been exhibited
and performed nationally and internationally.
Camilla is currently working on her
debut CD of industrial soundscapes
due for completion at the end of 2004.
Jody
Kingston is a Brisbane-based
composer/sound artist and researcher
currently working on a PhD in sound/music
and interdisciplinary performance-making
at QUT. Her practice focuses on the
creation of sound for live performance
pieces or events that work with fundamental
performance elements of energy, presence
and gesture.
mimic
mass use voice and electronics
as their tools, employing narrative
as a reference point for constructing
their work. Inspired largely by film
structures, they impose the medium's
conventions upon musical material.
A word is sung from a stage. The word
is repeated through a speaker: a reproduction,
or a mimic.
Bruce
Mowson is a media artist
living and working in Melbourne.
Since 2001 he has been working with
sound and video that is static,
with changes occurring through illusions
of perception. His approach has
been to pare back the layers of
style, fashion, statement, position,
feeling and intention, seeking the
basic elements that exist when the
audience meets the object.
Adam
Nash works primarily
exploring real-time, multi-user
3D space as a live performance medium.
He is interested in exploring the
native qualities of 3D space on
its own terms, rather than as a
visual, sonic or literal representation
of real space. His work has been
presented around the world, most
recently in 2004 at the Thailand
New Media Festival.
Anthony
Pateras is a composer/pianist
working at the nexus of notated
composition, improvisation and electronics.
His primary interests include post-1940s
composition, Balkan folk music,
real-time electronics, contemporary
improvisation and noise.
Pimmon
(aka Paul Gough) is recognised internationally
as one of a handful of new artists
pushing the boundaries of music
and digital composition. Gough's
music is a combination of pop, minimal
composition, exotic drones and field
recordings, which creates a dense,
emotive, compelling and challenging
listening experience.
Geoff
Robinson's work
creates time-based experiences
that use sound, light and construction
to alter the form, scale and perception
of a space. Geoff has collaborated
with several other artists on
sound/performance work, including
James Cecil, Andrew Barry and
Jennifer Sochackyj.
Paul
Rodgers: the Sun,
the reason we are all here, a huge
globe of hot gas and fire and sounds
from all parts of the electromagnetic
spectrum. Static on a TV; 5% of
the noise is background radiation
from outer space. Let us just switch
it off and on.
M.Rösner
is a sound artist based in Western
Australia. Using natural as well as
manmade sound sources, M.Rösner
attempts to infuse the isolation of
his
environment into his minimalist sound
creations. M.Rösner also records
and performs under the Pablo Dali
moniker. Pablo Dali's music retains
the organic elements, however beats
and a large melodic focus come
into play.
Philip
Samartzis is currently
co-ordinator and lecturer in Sound
within the Media Arts course area
of RMIT University in Melbourne, where
he is also engaged in research into
surround sound and immersive environments
for installation art. As a solo artist
he has performed widely in Australia,
Japan, Europe and the United States,
and has published four solo compact
discs. http://www.philipsamartzis.com
Eamon
Sprod is currently
studying at RMIT Media Arts. He
works on the fringes of the Melbourne
sound world under the name tarab,
and has just released his first
CD, surfacedrift, on Melbourne
label Naturestrip.
Terre
Thaemlitz is an
award-winning multimedia producer,
theorist, public speaker, educator
and DJ. His work critically combines
themes of identity politics (including
gender, sexuality, class, linguistics,
ethnicity and race) with an ongoing
critique of the socio-economics
of commercial media production.
http://www.comatonse.com
The
Terminal Quartet
was originally conceived by Andrew
Garton and John Power as a means
to define software as instrument,
both in an audible and visual context.
The Quartet is comprised of musicians,
sound and video that utilise computers
in their practice. Principals are
Andrew Garton, Steve Law, Paul Abad.
http://www.toysatellite.org
Topology
Topology has played in gigs ranging
from Fluxus exhibitions to supporting
Savage Garden for 15,000 screaming
teenagers. They have created new
media works for festivals (Olympics,
Brisbane, Qld Biennial, Sydney
Spring), premiered works by composers
such as Nyman, Riley, Glass, Bryars
and Reich, and have toured around
Australia, Canada and the US.
http://www.topology.org.au
Darrin
Verhagen divides
his time between writing conservative
scores for Dance, Theatre &
Computer Games and teaching at
RMIT, whilst eschewing any
caution and 'respectability' on
his personal projects: Shinjuku
Thief (schlock theatrics), d verhagen
(lowercase glitch/electroacoustic)
and E.P.A. (power electronics/
noise). RIP dorobo.
Michael
Vorfeld is a musician
and visual artist based in Berlin.
He plays percussion and self-designed
stringed instruments and works
in the field of improvised music
and sound art. His visual work
concentrates mainly on realisations
of light installations and performances
with light. Beside solo activities
he is a member of various ensembles
and collaborates with artists
from different art forms. http://www.vorfeld.org
