Monday 28th Februrary, 2011 - BENE GESSERIT HOUSE NURSERIES

Yes yes, dark ambient etc experimental dronescapes freezing your soul etc with intense low-frequency black shamanic etc. But this shit's actually DOPE, man.

Bene Gesserit House Nurseries returns for its third year, starting the year off with the mighty and irrepressible Czura (collab project of Shane Reynolds and Rotteur), the post-dimensional fury of Electronic Shaman, and the blackened cinematic experimentation of GRIST. 9pm, LOOP in the City (23 Meyers Place). Be there, or be etc.

Tuesday March 1st @ the Make It Up Club

ACT emigre, Nick McCorriston debuts his latest solo explorations, akin to flinging longitudinal waves of digitally manipulated and layered feedback. The incredible Axximilation grace our stage again for a very rare performance of inspired and unique noisecore improv. Nic Tammens plays his first solo show for the year after recently returning from the US, and promises densely layered aural haystacks of crushing beauty. And a new duo featuring the brothers Kavanagh, combining abstracted sound sculptures punctuated by free-flowing percussion.

• Nick McCorriston (ACT) (feedback, electronics and voice)
• Nic Tammens (guitar)
• Mattress of Pagan Horror, featuring: Dominic Kavanagh (electronics) and Leo Kavanagh (drumkit)
• Axximilation, featuring Anna-lise and Pandie (drumkit, laptop, loops and voices)

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:
08/03/2011: Focus on the Turntable, featuring, Clinton Green; Lloyd Honeybrook; Ryan Cockburn; Riki-Metisse Marlow and Gabriel Carazo.
15/03/2011: Tony Osbourne (Syd).
22/03/2011: Mike Majkowski, Cor Fuhler and Jim Denley (Syd/Melb); Steve Heather, Ren Walters and David Tolley (Berlin/Melbourne); James McLean, Jon Smeathers and Sam Zerna.
29/03/2011: Mike Cooper (Roma) and Alex Garsden; Joe Mariglio (San Diego); Rory Brown (NSW).

AXXONN - Yah Yahs - 27 Feb 2011

NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA presents

AXXONN, MYSTIC EYES, NO ZU & PEON

Yah Yahs, Fitzroy VIC
Sunday 27th February 2011
7pm, FREE

The final date of the 'AXXONN National Tour 2011'...AXXONN gathers up his keyboards and subsonic fuzz to jaunt around the country one more time, before heading overseas to promote his new album 'Let’s Get It Straight' (Arlen / Southern Record Distribution). The tour is presented by NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA, marking their inaugural Australian excursion after a string of successful Sydney events and nearly two years of compilation and artists releases through the label.
NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA has called upon a diverse and eclectic range of acts to feature alongside AXXONN, which the Melbourne show includes MYSTIC EYES, NO ZU & PEON.

AXXONN http://www.myspace.com/AXXONN1

MYSTIC EYES http://www.myspace.com/lisamackinney

NO ZU http://www.myspace.com/nozu

PEON http://samprice.net/

(forwarded from New Weird Australia)

2011 - What are your plans for this year?

We've missed New Year resolution window, but I'm curious as to what everyone around Melbourne has planned for 2011 as far as your music is concerned. What projects do you have planned for this year? What are your goals?

Please post your plans for the year as comments to this post.

Clinton - blogfurher.

Infinite Decimals CD launch - Empress - 3 Mar 2011

Dreamland Recordings Presents:

INFINITE DECIMALS "2.54421781" CD Launch

Being just over 3 years in existence, playing just over 3 headline shows in that time, audio-visual trio, INFINITE DECIMALS release their 3rd Cd in Melbourne with a neat show at The Empress on Thursday 3rd March!

Recently INFINITE DECIMALS have played with a bunch of international visitors - Superflux (France), Yan Jun (China), The Superusers (Berlin) and To Go Ro No Mi Ko (Japan) - as well as performing interstate shows and being the main support to Primitive Calculators for the Shape Of Sound compilation Cd launch – which they also appeared on.

With all this recent activity INFINITE DECIMALS promise something special for their launch show, intent on playing multiple instruments and accessing a plethora of visual projection sources to make this event something special. Support sets on the night come from Bonnie Mercer (Breating Shrine), LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) and recently formed collaboration, Mitchell Brennan/Lara Soulio. Dj Downpat (O'Tomorrow) will weave sounds between sets with his inimitable taste and style.

INFINITE DECIMALS have created their debut video clip (for the first track on their current Cd) – viewable on their Facebook page.

A track from the Cd can be heard @ http://www.myspace.com/infinitedecimals

"2.54421781" is available from Sunshine & Grease or Missing Link (in person)
Or order online @ Dreamland recordings


Thursday 3rd March, 8pm, $7

INFINITE DECIMALS
BONNIE MERCER (Breathing Shrine)
LCD (Lowest Common Denominator
MITCHELL BRENNAN/LARA SOULIO DUO


INFINITE DECIMALS have curated some remixes by Children Of the Wave and Marcus Whale (Collarbones) of the lead track from last year's Audio Actions Cd release - listen to/free download remixes for free in the 'Tracks' tab on their Facebook page

DREAMLAND RECORDINGS
http://dreamlandrecordings.ipower.com
MICRO LABEL - MUSIC & AUDIOVISUAL EVENTS

(forwarded from Dreamland Recordings)

Megaphone Project - Footscray Station - 19 Feb 2011

(forwarded from Footscray Community Arts Centre):
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The megaphone project will be at Footscray Station overpass tomorrow (19 Feb) from 10am-12pm.... first time in Footscray experience! http://www.themegaphoneproject.com/

Tuesday February 22nd @ the Make It Up Club

This week at MIUC, John Zorn's famous game-piece, COBRA, performed by the Park Street Cobra Collective. COBRA is one of Zorn's many structured improvisations, in which a group of improvisers are aided by a prompter, or conductor, to create a spontaneous composition that adheres to certain rules. COBRA is notable as one of Zorn's most volatile game-pieces, given the amount of freedom and autonomy the performers have in opposition to the conductor. Members of the ensemble can form break-away, or guerrilla subgroups, which can steer the music into radically different domains to those being developed by the conductor and the remainder of the ensemble. For the audience, this makes COBRA one of the most exciting and challenging of Zorn's structured improvisations; and for the performers, it makes it one of the most fun and subversive to participate in. The Park Street Cobra Collective comprises some of the most exciting and energetic emerging improvisers from the free jazz and avant garde scenes in Melbourne.

• The Park Street Cobra Collective, featuring:
• Andrew Brooks (saxophone)
• Al McLean (guitar)
• James Bowers (keyboards)
• James Macauley (trombone)
• Jon Smeathers (saxophone)
• James McLean (drumkit)
• Hugh Harvey (drumkit)
• Sam Hall (drumkit)
• Loni Thomson (voice)
• Sam Pankhurst (bass)
• Ron Romero (saxophone)

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:
01/03/2011: Nick McCorriston (ACT); Nic Tammens; Axximilation; Mattress of Pagan Horror, featuring Dominic Kavanagh and Leo Kavanagh.
08/03/2011: Focus on the Turntable, featuring, Clinton Green; Lloyd Honeybrook; Ryan Cockburn.
15/03/2011: Tony Osbourne (Syd).
22/03/2011: Mike Majkowski, Cor Fuhler and Jim Denley (Syd/Melb); Steve Heather, Ren Walters and David Tolley (Berlin/Melbourne); James McLean, Jon Smeathers and Sam Zerna.
29/03/2011: Mike Cooper (Roma) and Alex Garsden; Joe Mariglio (San Diego); Rory Brown (NSW).

VICMOD Records HEALY/HASSLER release out now!

VICMOD is pleased to release .......Modular synth improv at its finest!
Healy/Hassler
Degenerate Stimuli Much Notification
VMDL04

Ross Healy- Serge Modular, EMS Synthi AKS. Recorded Amnesia International, Mobile Unit 1, Melbourne Australia.
Don Hassler - Buchla 200e recorded at home USA.

Don Hassler and Ross Healy have been involved with electronic music for over 3 decades.
Through communications online, via electronic music forums, the two became friends and started to share recordings.
Ross decided to mix Don’s solo Buchla recordings with his own solo Serge/ EMS tracks and that is what you hear today!

Don Hassler, Atlanta, Georgia.
Born 1960 Ohio, USA
30 years of abstract electronic music and sound art.
Performed in free improvisation group Accidents Of Culture in the early 80's.
Created site specific sound sculptures.
Helped develop and taught experimental sound class at now defunct Atlanta College of Art.

Ross Healy, Melbourne, Australia.
Born 1968 Melbourne, Australia.
Has been recording and releasing albums around the globe since 1990 under many artist names and styles.
Ross’ most recent artist name is Cray.
His music has appeared in the odd TV commercial in Japan, TV shows and web pages.
Ross is the co- founder of VICMOD and VICMOD Records.

You can purchase a VICMOD Subscription for US$25 and get a years 12 releases ( one new release a month) plus the entire back catalogue!

Or

purchase individual releases at US$5 for a digital download.

purchase here

Fred / Holy Boner / I Do'd It @ Idgaff - Saturday 19th Feb

Shane Van Den Akker and Corey Keem's Improvised noise duo "I Do'd It" perform their second gig as part of this event. Kicks off early, 5pm. "I Do'd It" are on first, experimental noisecore act "Holy Boner" on second and the almighty rock gods and godess "Fred" to take it home. Bring your earplugs! Bruta-ful noise!

Hi God People at 200 Gertrude st

The Hi God People's first show for 2011 is at Gertrude Contemporary, 200 Gertrude st Fitzroy on Saturday afternoon the 26th February.

HGP will be joined by public-disruption performance artist Penelope Trotter.

It's part of Dylan Martorell's exhibition at the gallery and it's also a launch for HGP member Julian Williams' new solo album Standing Creek.

This is a free entry, all-ages, easy public transport show starting right on 3pm.

Ernie Althoff & Undecisive God - Sunshine and Grease - 19 Feb 2011

Ernie Althoff - Australia's legendary experimental instrument maker offers a rare live performance

Undecisive God - Triple turntable/broken records up close and personal in the cozy confines of Sunshine & Grease

Sat 19 February 2011, 4pm.

FREE ENTRY

Sunshine & Grease

9 Queens Parade

Clifton Hill

Tuesday February 15th @ the Make It Up Club

This week, the MIUC is totally stoked to present a very special evening of DIY hack and crack, analogue detournement with the GLTCHD Collective. Curated by Ben Kolaitis, and featuring a cast of luminaries from Melbourne's ripe electro-cracker scene, this collective of circuit-board guerrillas will expose their latest experiments over 2 sets, with Q&A sessions highly welcome during the breaks. GLTCHD is a collection of artists that use DIY construction and techniques in creating instruments and sculptures. Some of these new experimental inventions include circuit bent oscilloscope tv's, unique handcrafted midi devices, handmade synthesizers controlled via fruit, handcrafted modified trumpets and many more. GLTCHD is a world where both the performer and the inventor have come together to push innovation in the field of experimentation.

• GLTCHD Collective, featuring:
• Benjamin Kolaitis: Handmade synthesisers using fruit, graphite drawings, and light.
• Dale Chapman: Handmade synthesiser wi/ plasma ball
• John Jacobs:Gltchd Set-top Box, and circuit bent madness
• Dale Gorfinkel: Electro-acoustic instrumentation and modified trumpet
• Alex Cuffe: Voice box Madness
• Vijay Thillaimuthu: Oscilloscope Tv's, Handmade Synths
• Tom Baker: Handmade LFO Synths with light controls
• Jason Uithol: Washing Machine Chandelier
• and more to be announced...

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:
22/02/2011: John Zorn's COBRA performed by the Park Street Cobra Collective.
01/03/2011: Nick McCorriston.
08/03/2011: Focus on the Turntable.
15/03/2011: Tony Osbourne (Syd).
22/03/2011: Mike Majkowski, Cor Fuhler and Jim Denley (Syd/Melb); Steve Heather, Ren Walters and David Tolley (Berlin/Melbourne).

To Go Ro No Mi Ko - Curtain Band Room - 17 Feb 2011

Neumusak presents its second show for the year, and again it is an international headline act!

On Thursday 17th February the Curtin Band Room will unceremoniously be transformed into a psychedelic cesspool of noise gravy and ambient drones with spiralling sonic interludes as Japanese superhunk noise purveyors To Go Ro No Mi Ko make their debut in the sticky sexpit that is Ol' Melbrown Town.

With support and general stool grooming provided by three of Melburghs most innovative and imaginative sound (and live visual) artists:

Niko Niko (formerly Hungry Jackals), climbing out of dingey innner-urban warehouses to perform a rare full band show in formal venues in support of To Go Ro No Mi Ko's Australian tour - http://www.myspace.com/nikonikoband

Infinite Decimals, hot on the heals of their main support to Primitive Calculators (last Sunday) launching the Shape of Sound compilation, this Curtin show will be a warm-up for this audio-visual trio before they launch their own 3rd Cd (on Dreamland Recordings) on March 3rd at The Empress - http://www.myspace.com/infinitedecimals

Angel Eyes the sound amazement of one man, namely Andrew Cowie - a must see - http://www.myspace.com/andrewrcowie

Facebook event page here

Thursday 17th February
The Curtin Bandroom
To Go Ro No Mi Ko
Niko Niko
Infinite decimals
Angel Eyes

A mere seven bux will get you in, 8pm start (The Curtin Bandroom is at the City end of Lygon St, Carlton, opposite Trades Hall)

Come show your appreciaton to To Go Ro No Mi Ko for being brave enough to make it to Australia, the land of few and far between, land of cover bands and boganites plus its their first ever international stopover.
To Go Ro No Mi Ko tewns here - http://www.myspace.com/mejika

(forwarded from Neumusak)

Heirs, Dead & Stellarvore vs Abre Ojos @ Yah Yah's 13th Feb

Prepare for an evening of Rites, Ritual and Ruin as 27 Stone presents Heirs, Dead and Stellarvore vs. Abre Ojos Sunday Feb 13th at Yah-Yahs in Collingwood. Celebrate the beginning of Lupercalia, The Anniversary of Black Sabbath being released or even the birth of Jerry Springer on this fine night as we journey through the depths of low-end and back again. Doors at 6pm, first band at 7pm, Free Entry.

Heirs:

Upon returning to Melbourne after 67 shows across Europe and Japan, Heirs commenced work on their second album, Fowl. From wheezing blasts of industrial steam to weeping passages of gothic suspense, Fowl is a fully realised analysis of the repugnant. Its pugilistic rhythmic foundation, reverb soaked guitars, crackling electronics and deadpan dark-wave meditation create an abstract dronescape of industrial dirge and metallic ambience coalesced into an ambitious whole.

http://www.heirs.com.au

DEAD:

Comprised of members of Firewitch and Fangs Of A Teenage Evangelist, DEAD is upon us! The band formed in September and played their first show on Nov 26th at The Prague, Thornbury with Wicked City, Nunchukka Superfly & Teen Archer. They then hit up Adelaide the week after, East coast after that and are currently booking a South East Asian tour for May 2011! Have they done a recording yet? No. Has that hindered them booking shows? Slightly.

http://deadsounds.com/

Stellarvore vs. Abre Ojos:

The crushing doom of Stellarvore meets the transcendant synesthesia of Abre Ojos for a special set that will enlighten as much as it destroys. Guitar, Drums and Modular Drones will do battle to reach the outer limits and all before the sun goes down!

www.facebook.com/stellarvoredoom

Tuesday February 8th @ the Make It Up Club

This week, we feature two very special guests from Osaka, along with two of our favorite local iconoclasts. One of the most interesting performers of the new Japanese noise/performance scene, Harico specialises in unusual instruments in unconventional guises. Her recent use of contact-miced sewing machines has been a cause-celibre in Tokyo and Osaka. Cuckoo (from Psychedelic Desert, amongst other innovative post-onkyo-noise projects), is a master of the abrassive drone-cut and is joined by local absurdist and sonic-forger, Shaggs. And, thanks to WIFE for subbing for Nic Tammens (family committments in Tassie), who feature the two geniuses behind Gulag Projects and the new and amazing North Melbourne artspace, KIPL, Samaan Fieck and Eric Demetriou.

• Harico (sewing machine)
• Cuckoo (bass and electronics) and Shaggs (electronics)
• WIFE, featuring : Samaan Fieck (genius) and Eric Demetriou (genius)

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:
15/02/2011: GLTCHD Symposium of DIY circuit-bent, crack and hack electronics, featuring: Benjamin Kolaitis, Dale Chapman, John Jacobs, Dale Gorfinkel, Alex Cuffe, Vijay Thillaimuthu, Tom Baker and Jason Uithol.
22/02/2011: COBRA

February 25th, Ovens St. Warehouse.

Excellent and varied lineup at Ovens St. warehouse on Friday, the 25th of February. To start things off, Reunion Sacred Ibis will weave a web of loose melody with Nintendo DS and tape based loops. Next will be Shaun South's synth-noise cacophony, Young Romantix. Followed by a journey to nirvana, courtesy of Angel Eyes' psychedelic bliss-drone. The night will close with Matthew Brown's hypnotic take on analogue techno.

8pm
$8
22 Ovens St. Brunswick (off Hope St, just behind Sydney Rd)

Discobeans Mondays #1 - 7th Feb

Come down for a new monthly gig series starting @ Discobeans! 

First Monday of every month there'll be noise/music/performance stuffz both local and not-so-local crankin it out in the downstairs restaurant area of Discobeans (restaurant is closed on Monday).

For the first gig, this Monday 7th February 2011, is a killer line-up featuring:

 

+ HARICUCKOO (Japan)

+ CLICKJAW PRESENTS POSTCARDS FROM AUSTRALIA & MIRANDA

+ YUKA DISCOBEANS WITH HOLY BONER

+ R.S.I.

 

Starts 7:00pm - don't be late!
$5 entry

Discobeans
238 High St. Northcote

www.discobeans.com

Klunk play Vessel - Kipl - 11 Feb 2011

(forwarded from Rod Cooper):
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The Vessel Project Presents

Klunk play Vessel. Founded by Rod Cooper and Dale Chapman from Melbourne's own Sub-terrestrial improvising outfit.

The metallic electronically driven behemoth returns to a space where it fits easily through the roller door.

With special guest solos by
Cleaninglady, Freshly built new synth modulator, still warm from the soldering iron
Vijay Thillaimuthu , Extreme gadget manipulations touched by the hooves of electrified mules.

FRIDAY FEB 11th at Kipl Project Space 136 Roden Street North Melbourne.
Starts 7.30 PM Entry $10.00
Public transport options
Short walk from North Melbourne Station
Or Trams from Victoria and Errol streets North Melbourne

Oxygen Abortion "Endeless" CD

(forwarded from Paul):
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Oxygen Abortion (Melbourne) have released their first full-length CD 'Endeless' through Ancient Altar Productions. The material contains elements of industrial, noise and metal, and is recorded using various instruments, samples and inanimate objects.
Samples can be found here: http://www.reverbnation.com/oxygenabortion
Promo copies are available by emailing oxygenabortion@hotmail.comCopies of the 'AntiMatter' ep from 2009 are also available. Trades preferred.

Abre Ojos - Chakra DVD Release

Seven tracks based on the Chakras created using a Eurorack modular synthesizer and some vocals with reactive visuals made in Quartz Composer. The gear set up pics are below. The audio has been professionally mastered by Gregg Janman at Hermetech Mastering and you get DVD quality 16:9 video. The inside cover includes a link to download high quality FLAC or 320k MP3 for your computer or portable audio device. Over 90 minutes of immersive drones and visuals.

The DVD is a hand numbered limited edition of 100 copies and every disc comes with an Abre Ojos sticker. They are $20USD (about $10AUD at the current rate of exchange) each including shipping to wherever you are in the world/country. Purchase at http://abreojos.net via Paypal.

Track listing (click the names for links to vimeo versions) :

1. Root
2. Sacral
3. Solar Plexus
4. Heart
5. Throat
6. Brow
7. Crown (only available on the DVD)

Anthony Pateras upcoming performances & new LP

(forwarded from Anthony Pateras)
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02/02: MELB - Francis Plagne Band @ Bar Open (w/ Make Up Sex & Fjorn Butler)
04/02: MELB - PIVIXKI @ The Evelyn (with Mendek Penha & Umlaut)
06/02: MELB - Francis Plagne Band @ The Empress Hotel (w/ Sophie Brous, Grand Salvo & Oliver Mann)

New THYMOLPHTHALEIN LP available now from EDITIONS MEGO!