For our annual Melbourne Fringe Festival presentation, the Make It Up Club is focusing exclusively on percussion. Over 2 successive Tuesdays, some of the city's most adventurous improvisers (spanning the worlds of avant classical, grindcore, sound art, free jazz, and art-punk), will push the rhythmic and timbral potential of the membraphone to extremes. Headlining each concert, a special exploration of current trends in realtime drumkit processing, with two titans of the experimental scene, Robin Fox and Robbie Avenaim, head to head on the 28th, and British code-ninja Ollie Bown (Icarus) manipulating grindcore powerhouse Max Kohane (AoA, Pivixki) on the 5th. The rest of the program includes large group collaborations, including a quartet comprising four of the most exciting emerging percussionists from the avant classical and free improv milieu, comprising James McLean, Nat Grant, Gareth Thomson and Matthias Schack-Arnott. And a quartet featuring 4 of the boldest women drummers in the art and punk scenes at the moment: Bianca Hester (The French, Paeces), Maya-Victoria (Occult Blood), Jen Tait (GoGenreEverything) and Harriet Morgan (ZOND, Wasted Truth). Solos that span the sonic spectrum from Riki-Metisse Marlow's aleatoric sound sculptures, and Joe Talia's (Wirewalker) expansive cymbals and drums to the blastasfuck onslaught of Brad Smith (Super Fun Happy Slide, Holy Boner). And a duo featuring two of Australia's most respected percussive explorers from the traditions of free improv and avant classical: Sean Baxter (Pateras/Baxter/Brown, Embers) and Eugene Ughetti (SPEAK Percussion). GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME!!! September 28th:
• Robin Fox (processing) and Robbie Avenaim (percussion)
• Joe Talia (cymbals and drums)
• Brad Smith (drumkit and voice)
• James McLean (drumkit), Nat Grant (percussion), Matthias Schack-Arnott (percussion) and Gareth Thomson (drumkit)
October 5th:
• Ollie Bown (processing) and Max Kohane (drumkit)
• Sean Baxter (drumkit) and Eugene Ughetti (percussion)
• Riki-Metisse Marlow (automated and aleatoric percussion)
• Bianca Hester (drumkit), Maya-Victoria (drumkit), Jen Tait (drumkit) and Harriet Morgan (drumkit)
The Make It Up Club
www.myspace.com/makeitupclub
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10
Coming up:
12/10: Dead Boomers with Dan Crow; GNAUMGN; Clinton Green.
19/10: Natasha Anderson's RMIT Performance class.
26/10: the ReMOVALISTS featuring Tony Hicks, Ren Walters, David Tolley and Ted Vining.
02/11: Dominic Kavanagh; Galactagogue Trio.
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