Astasie-abasie is a project of Ian Andrews which evolved out of a long running performance collaboration with Garry Bradbury. The project focuses on the amplification of small sounds (following the approach of John Cage, Gordon Mumma and David Tudor) through the capture of sounds generated by small objects by way of contact microphones, home constructed cartridges, miniature piezo microphones and conventional microphones. Various devices are used as constraints in order to distance any performing gesture of the artist from the compositional process. The compositional process is, in this sense, aleatory and close to automatic. Much like field recording, sounds are found rather than performed or manipulated. Modified, or ‘prepared’ turntables are often used to bring about the sounds, after which any editing of the material is kept to a minimum. Two albums "Elliptical Gamelan" (2022) and "Molecular Gamelan" (2021) have recently been released on Shame File Music - https://ianandrews.bandcamp.
LIKE is a new duo of Llara Goodall & Ben Speth.
Clinton Green & Michael McNab share a long history of improvised work in various contexts, arising out of the multi-disciplinary group THIS Ensemble and their ritualistic trio with Ren Walters. Each often works with percussive elements, and sometimes incorporate turntables, feedback, and movement, drawing on their shared experiences of sound and creation, always shifting and evolving. Their 2016 album with Ren Walters, recorded in Murray Sunset National Park, is here - https://shamefilemusic.
Sunday 4 December, 6pm
Static Open, 144 Gordon Street, Footscray
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