SAT SEPT 30

ROGERS ST. BRIDGE

PORT MELB. 9PM

BRACKISH (QLD, ABSTRACT NOISE)
PSYCHWARD (ABSTRACT /HARSH)
SELF TREPANATION (INDUST /HARSH)
CONE PUNCHER (HOMEMADE INSTRUMENTS)
ROD COOPER (OLD-SCHOOL HOMEMADE INSTRUMENTS)
PORPOISE TORTURE (ABSTRACT NOISE)

UNDER THE BRIDGE - A.F.L. GRAND FINAL DAY
PSYCHWARD CDRS, TAPES AND SHIRTS AVAILABLE

FLYER BY JANUS TAPES

1000 Ears 13

September 24, 3pm at 36 Moreland St. Footscray.

Featuring Bonnie Mercer (guitar), Jen Callaway (things), and Robbie Avenaim (drums).

$10/5. Cash or Pay ID.

Sky Needle + Clinton Green

Thursday 14 September 2023, 8pm

Long Play Cinema – 318 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North.

Tickets

Sky Needle is an improvising band that originated in Brisbane in 2009, taking its name from the ‘sky needle’, an architectural oddity built by the Japanese pavilion for Expo 88, which remained abandoned for many years. Mainstays of the group have been Sarah Byrne, Alex Cuffe, and Joel Stern, joined over the years by Ross Manning, Michael Donnelly, Glen Schenau, Daniel Jenatsch, and Alan Nguyen amongst others. The band’s performances feature an array of self-made and invented instruments, including ‘leg horns’, ‘speaker box bass’, and ‘the plank’. Sky Needle’s sound is difficult to place but instantly recognizable; a confounding and detuned hybrid of rhythm, noise, repetition, and wordless vocalization that oscillates between broken motorik grooves and psychological collapse. Since its formation, Sky Needle has released various LPs, 7″s, and tapes, including works such as “Rave Cave” (Negative Guest List), “Debased Shapes” (Bruit Direct Disques), “Neckliner” (Albert’s Basement), and “Acid Perm” (Nihilistic Orbs). The band has performed extensively across Australia, Indonesia, and Europe.

Clinton Green is an Naarm/Melbourne-based experimental musician who has worked with hacked and faulty equipment and idiophones, including turntables, bowed metal and telephone pole infrastructure. His latest work involves drawing rhythmic minimalist music from decrepit Walkmans playing parts of themselves.

Please join us at Longplay this coming Thursday 31 August.  

An exciting new trio featuring Rafal Kaczmarek drums, Ben Speth guitar, David Palliser sax, clarinet loops.......

The first encounter of the incredible Carolyn Connors voice and accordion with Meister of electronic sonics Justin Ashcroft....and a solo performance by the extraordinary Vi A on no-input mixer.  

Promises to be a memorable night in the intimate Longplay theatre.  

318 St Georges rd Fitzroy North.   

7.30pm for a 8pm start.  

$10 

PSYCHWARD (Abstract/ Harsh Noise) 

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the IWML's favourite agitappropriator, Buttress O'Kneel, has re-emerged with a new collection of plunderphonic intellectronica, COMPOP 42.5 - FREE DADAPOP.

as well as her usual collection of remediated breakcore and glitchtastic mashuppery, this release also features several pieces constructed entirely from improvised layers of manipulated CDJ - including the 22 minute piece implied by the cover artwork, a rerendering of a Crosby Stills and Nash song, turned into a frankensteinian mishmash of free jazz, drone, and bagpipery.

like every B'O'K release, it is perplexingly alien while remaining strangely familiar - 100% new while being 100% recycled.

pay-if-you-want!

(downloads come with the 22 minute piece mixed down WITHOUT the Crosby Stills and Nash, as a bonus track.)

https://buttressokneel.bandcamp.com/album/free-dadapop

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 and if you like this multiple-layers-of-abstract-improvised-CDJ malarky, you may also enjoy these other releases which employ the same compositional strategies:

https://buttressokneel.bandcamp.com/album/beginning-middle-and-end

https://buttressokneel.bandcamp.com/album/11-layers-of-live-cd

and her duet with Justin Ashworth on turntables:

https://buttressokneel.bandcamp.com/album/small-memories

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NFP is Back! No Former Performer Has Performed This Performance Before #8 is the eighth iteration of this parachute-less skydive into risk, improvisation, and audience performer reciprocity. A high risk performance with no safety net. No script and no plan. Performed annually until one of them dies… who will go first? Photo Credit Image 1 & 2: Morgan Roberts Book Now Your second (and third, and forth, and fifth and...) ticket 50% off! Three of Melbourne’s most distinguished and virtuosic performers will willingly live and re-live the actor’s nightmare night after night. The galvanizing gaze of the audience meets the embodied skills of the performers… and they’re off! The result is an exhilarating show; edgy, immediate and playful. “An ode to consistency, to relationship, to process, to aging. In this era of ‘the next big thing’, when work in the arts feels so piecemeal, so contracted and freelance, the pure ambition of this commitment is both breathtaking and deeply reassuring.” Emily Collier. Witness Performance Photo Credit: Daniel Rabin.                                                      Caitlin Zacharias NFP#8 Creative Team Penny Baron: Artistic Director/ Performer Carolyn Hanna: Artistic Director/ Performer Michael Havir : Sound Artist Bronwyn Pringle : Lighting Design and Operation Dagmara Gieysztor : Visual Dramaturg Andrew Morrish: Coach and Provocateur Dates: Aug 10-19th Thurs - Sun Times: 8pm Venue: Theatreworks Tickets: Adult $45; Conc $35; Preview $28; Mob Tix $20 Discount for 2 or more shows Half Price   Penny and Carolyn have recently had their first ever academic writing published about No Former Performer the Australasian Drama Studies Journal, co edited with Professor Rea Dennis from Deakin University. Anyone interested in reading this can contact us by email at info@borninataxi.com.au

CHELA’s Diagonal Drift - the project of Ajay Saggar (Bhajan Bhoy) and Kohhei Matsuda (Bo Ningen).

Diagonal Drift is another collaborative release between Echodelick Records (USA), We Here & Now (Canada), Ramble Records (Australia), Worst Bassist Records (EU). 

Six minimal songs that weave darkly hypnotic melodies with drone-folk structures and crisp electronica on a cinematic bent. 

https://ramblerecords.bandcamp.com/album/diagonal-drift

Chilean fuzz poet K Lihn’s  psych dreamscape K. Borrowing freely from Kerouac’s work K Lihn’s spoken poetry is layered delicately over a concoction of  psychedelic, krautrock, and fuzzed out soundscapes.

https://ramblerecords.bandcamp.com/album/k

Norwegian guitarist Christer Fredriksen’s first release for Ramble ‘Mauve’ is an ambient solo jazz recording uilising loops, ambient field recordings and the jazz idiom as an anchor to create a vast improvisational soundscape. 

https://ramblerecords.bandcamp.com/album/mauve

Clinton Green presents a new work for sound generated from the insides of broken Walkmans.

Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung plays various huqin (erhu, zhonghu, yehu), presents material from her ‘Fishing Songs’ series – fingertip precision, patience, and Cantonese folk aesthetics.

Studio Norwood Lab (Colin Hodson) debuts a new instrument that detournes the bicycle as a sonic object.

Long Play, 318 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North – $15 on the door.