Image by Vicki Shukuroglou
Saturday, November 23, 2013
International Festival of Free Improvisation, Free Jazz and Experimental Music on the 23 - 25 January + 7 Feb
Monday, November 18, 2013
SoundOut 2014 profile
This is the milestone 5th year of the annual SoundOut
festival, and in 2014 we will
bring to you the continuation of the incredible bristling explorative sonic
arts event. This is the Free
Improvisational, Free Jazz and Experimental Music festival to
will uplift tired ears, explore the unknown, see within the fabric of sound, unravel
the threads of normative musical praxis, and question sonic hegemonies. It will
replenish your ears and mind!
With Artists from Australia, Canada, France, Germany Norway,
Poland, UK and USA that will combine, mix, cross-fertilize,
and move sound mountains to inspire inquiring ears.
This coming years festival 2014 sees extraordinary
artists such as the brilliant improviser Jim
Denley (Aust) shift the
ground on sound perception, taking our ears to unknown realms, while the
astounding V (UK/US)
dissect the inner working of voice while Melanie Herbert (Syd) forges new sound pathways on the violin with the vision
of experimental film maker Louise Curham
(Aust); The phenomenal Overtone Ensemble
(Aust) delves into the inner sound of metal rods; while astonishing pianist Cor Fuhler (NL/Aust) explores the
textured world of the prepared piano; the sublimely innovative guitarist Kim Myhr (NO) coaxes textural finesse from strings; extraordinary bassists Clayton Thomas (Gr/Aust) and Slawek
Janicki (Poland) coax virtuosity from between the fractures in sound;
Krista Martynes (US/Canada) takes us
into new sonic possibilities for the bass clarinet;
dancer Maya Revillion (Fr / NL) explores the
sound dance improvisational boundaries; Radio Cestege (NZ) plays with our ears
and the electronics of the airwaves; Ross
Manning (Aust) reinvents our notions of the sound source with invented
instruments; incredible saxophonist and guitarist Rosalind Hall and Dave Brown
improvise the nuanced delicacy of sonic play, while other Australian firebrands
of the new Evan Dorrian, John
Porter, Reuben Lewis Rhys Butler, Richard Johnson and guests, will
bring their own special unique blend of sonic exploration to illuminate these
collaborative futures.
The 2014 group of Artists has never gathered before
and never will again in the same configuration, but they are all involved in an
international dialogue that is essential to the unfolding of new music
structures and what it means to be human in the 21st Century. Come, see and hear the new music evolve.
SoundOut 2014 is very grateful for the continued
generous support from the ACT Government, SoundOut and the volunteers that help
with the festival. The French Consulate proudly supports the artist from France
in coming to SoundOut 2014 as well as the respective Governments from Poland, Norway and Canada.
When:
January 23rd Thursday,
Opening Night
Session 1: 7
pm – 11:30pm
January 24th Friday
12:30 pm – 2pm Free
outdoor performance:
Curated
by Jim Denley for 6 musicians
For this
event Jim Denley will lead a group of musicians to play together outside. "Australia has unique
geography, history, weather, flora and fauna, and all these elements conspire
to create wonderful sonic environments. This is true of our forests, Sydney's
sandstone formations, desert clay pans of far west NSW, down the Todd River in central
Alice, amongst the boulders of Tibooburra, or even close to the designed Lake
Burley Griffin. If you can plunge into these worlds and play with the elements,
then you engage with the place in a way that we rarely, at other times, do. This engagement is
instantly understood by those who attempt to know a place. Perhaps this has
always been one the major functions of music - just as birds delight in space
through sound, there is a delight in finding appropriate human sounds to
resonate in space. Inherent in
this is a deep listening to space. This complex activity defies easy analysis -
it doesn't begin with thoughts, but with our bodies engagement with place. In this state, the
world neither surrounds nor is surrounded by musical sounds – they're intertwined
- through the music we can be woven into the world. Exploratory music, in this
context, can engage with the listener in ways that we can never achieve in a
concert hall. Let's
remember people have been making music outside in Australia for thousands of
years".
map for outdoor performance [click on map to enlarge].
X marks the area where performance will take place.
Please be on time 12.30 sharp.
X marks the area where performance will take place.
Please be on time 12.30 sharp.
Friday 24th January
Session 2: Evening 7 pm – 11:30pm
Session 2: Evening 7 pm – 11:30pm
Saturday 25th January
Session 3: Matinee 1 pm – 5 pm
Session 4:
Evening 7 pm – 11:30pm
Where:
THEATRE 3
Ellery Crescent
Acton, Canberra
Book NOW!
(02) 6257 1950
Tickets:
Adult: $35 per session
Concession: $25 per session
Season
Adult: $110
Season
Concession: $80
Children under 12 years
free
Also SoundOut
festival night extension
Friday 7th February
7pm
– 10:30 pm
Special extended
night of the SoundOut festival with the brilliant Canadian clarinetist Francois Houle and the Psithurium wind
trio (Aust) + more
Where
Smiths
Alternative Bookshop
76 Alinga St
Canberra City
02 6247 4459
Tickets on the door
For more
information contact:
Richard Johnson
vortexrec@gmail.com
0411 117 462
Please see Program and Artists profiles below.
Please see Program and Artists profiles below.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Artists for SoundOut 2014
V : vocal,
composer, SoundArtist – UK/US
Atticus Bastow: overtone ensemble,
Melbourne
Cor
Fuhler: piano/electonics, Sydney/Netherlands
Clayton
Thomas: Bass, Sydney/Berlin
David Brown: prepared Guitar – Melbourne
Evan Dorrian: drummer/percussionist Canberra
Jim Denley: wind instruments - Sydney
John Porter: alto/tenor saxophone – Canberra
Kim Myhr: guitar – Norway
Krista Martynes: bass clarinet / clarinet - US/Canada
Krista Martynes: bass clarinet / clarinet - US/Canada
Louise Curham: experimental
film maker/performer Canberra
Maya Revillion OS: dancer, improviser – France/Netherlands
Melanie Herbert: violin - Sydney
Philip Brody: overtone ensemble, Melbourne
Philip Brody: overtone ensemble, Melbourne
Reuben Lewis: trumpeter - Canberra.
Rhys Butler: alto Sax – Canberra
Richard Johnson: wind
instruments – Canberra
Rosalind Hall: alto sax - Melbourne
Ross Manning: Sound Artist/improviser – Brisbane
Radio Cegeste (Sally Ann McIntrye): electronics – New Zealand
Sean Baxter: drums and percussion - Melbourne
Slawek Janicki: bass/film - Poland
Tim Caitlan: Guitar, invented instruments: Overtone ensemble – Melbourne
François
Houle: Clarinetist - Canada
Thursday, November 14, 2013
SoundOut 2014 Program
SoundOut 2014 program
Thursday 23 rd January
Opening Night
1: 7 pm – 7: 40pm
Psithurism
Trio
Richard
Johnson: wind instruments
Rhys
Butler: alto sax
John
Porter: tenor sax
2: 7:50 pm – 8: 30
Kim
Myhr: guitar
Maya
Revillion: dance
Cor
Fuhler: piano
3: 8:40 pm – 9: 20
David
Brown: guitar
Rosalind
Hall: alto sax
BREAK: 15 minutes
4: 9:35 pm – 10:15 pm
TBA: Krista Martynes to curate or Solo
5: 10: 20 pm – 10:50 PM
Radio
Cegeste: Radiophonics
Ross
Manning: Sound Art
Viv
Corringham: vocals
Evan
Dorrian: drums
+
6. 11 pm – 11:30
Collective improvisation from the nights performers
Friday 24 January
Afternoon
Jim
Denley to curate the free outdoor performance (see map above)
7. 12:
30 – 2:00pm
Jim
Denley / Kim Myhr/ Rosalind Hall / Radio Cegeste / Ross Manning / Evan Dorrian
Friday 24 January
Evening Performances
8. 7pm –
7: 40
Psithurism
Trio +
Richard
Johnson: soprano sax +
Rhys
Butler: alto sax
John
Porter: tenor sax
Krista Martynes: bass clarinet
Rosalind
Hall alto sax
9. 7:50
pm – 8:30
Slawek
Janicki: double bass
Sean
Baxter: drums
Cor
Fuhler; piano
Clayton
Thomas: double bass
BREAK 30 mins
10. 9 pm
– 9: 40
Overtone
Ensemble: invented metal rod instruments
11. 9:50
pm – 10: 30
V voice
Melanie Herbert: violin
Melanie Herbert: violin
Lousie
Curham: experimental film projections
+
12. 10:
35 pm – 10:50
Kim
Myhr: guitar
Reuben
Lewis: trumpet
Richard
Johnson: gourdophone/drum/sop sax
+
13. 11:00
pm – 11: 30
Collective
improvisation from the days performers
Saturday
25th January
Matinee Performances:
14. 1pm –
1: 40
Ross
Manning solo
15. 1:50
pm – 2: 30
John
Porter: tenor/alto sax
Slawek
Janicki: double bass
Dave
Brown: prepared guitar
16. 2: 40
pm – 3: 10
Clayton
Thomas: double bass
Evan
Dorrian: drums
Cor
Fuhler: piano
17. 3:30pm
– 4:05
Radio
Cegeste solo Radiophonics
18. 4: 20
pm – 5 PM
Overtone ensemble: invented metal rod
instruments +
Saturday 25th January
Evening performances:
19. 7pm –
7: 35
Krista Martynes: Bass clarinet / clarinet
Clayton
Thomas: double bass
20. 7: 45
pm – 8:20
Sean
Baxter solo (or to curate TBA)
21. 8: 35
pm – 9: 10
Maya
Revillion: dance
V:
vocals
Reuben
Lewis: trumpet
Radio
Cegeste: Radiophonics
Rhys
Butler: alto sax
Break (20 mins)
22. 9:30pm
– 10: 10
Jim
Denley: wind instruments
Cor
Fuhler: piano
23. 10:
20 pm – 11:00
Tim
Catlin: guitar
A: violin
Richard
Johnson: wind instruments
John
Porter: tenor sax
24. 11:10
pm – 11: 40
Collective Improvisation from the days performers
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
SoundOut 2014 Artists Bios
SoundOut 2014
Biographies
Atticus Bastow: overtone ensemble, Melbourne
Atticus Bastow comes from a strong music
performance background, having studied music (specifically Drums and
Percussion) for over 10 years. After completing a Bachelor degree in Music
Performance, Atticus decided to follow a pathway exploring the limitless
possibilities of sound, freeing him self from the rigidity of music theory. Atticus’
music performance and composition experience ranges from minimal ambient and
digital music synthesis (including a large focus on MAXMSP), to arranging for
Big Band jazz ensembles and orchestra’s. His sound design palette is similarly
diverse, having sculpted sonic pieces for numerous disciplines including Dance,
Animation, Film and experimental video art, as well as approaching the computer
as a performative music tool in both solo and ensemble environments. Atticus is
currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT, specializing in Sound
Design.
Cor Fuhler: piano/electonics, Sydney/Netherlands
Cor has been called many things: a maverick,
a chameleon, a tinkerer, innovator and even traditionalist. However, above all, he simply thinks of
himself as an improvising musician and organizer of sounds, ideas and
combinations of people. Cor has
been awarded the highly competitive 3 year composing and research stipend
for experimental and improvised music from the Dutch Arts Council every three
years since the year 2000 for his ongoing output and projects.
As a performer piano and prepared piano
(acoustically and electronically) is usualy his first choice, the instrument he
studied at the conservatorium in Amsterdam in the 80’s. Since then he has added an array of
other instruments to his practice: the EMS synthi analogue synth, the keyolin
(a keyed violin of his own invention), the guitar, a collection over over 30
organs or keyboard instruments and various unusual (but usually modified)
instruments. He has been busy
performing, composing, touring and recording with his own groups: Corkestra,
the Cortet, Fuhler/Bennink/de Joode, devised music and story for "Wayang
Detective" a combination of improvising musicians, gamelan orchestra and
shadowpuppets. Cor was a member of the eclectic rock/improv group Palinckx,
electronics duo the Flirts, Otomo Yoshihide’s ONJO and the (in)famous
electronic orchestra MIMEO that brings together some of the best electronic
improvising musicians in Europe. He
has recorded for international labels such as Erstwhile, Potlatch, Leo, BTL,
Nuscope, Geestgronden, Unsounds, Datarecords and his own label ConundromCd. Cor has written contemporary
pieces for chamber music ensembles MAE, the Nieuw Ensemble, Insomnio, Ensemble
Offspring just to name a few, and is regularly comissioned by smaller groups
and individuals. He has taught classes at Princeton University, Dutch Impro
Academy, the Art Instutute of Chicago, West Coast Conservatory of Music
(Vancouver) etc. Cor has performed
at Vancouver Int Jazz festival, Montreal Int Jazz Fest, Victoriaville, North Sea
Jazz fest, Umbrella Music fest Chicago, Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf,
Perspectives Fest (Sweden), What is Music Fest Sydney, Moers Fest (Germany),
Molde Int Jazz fest (Norway), Musique Action (France) etc etc He has played
with Han Bennink, Jim O’Rourke, Louis Moholo, John Zorn, Roswell Rudd, George
Lewis, Evan Parker, Christian Marclay, John Tilbury, Alvin Curran, Frances
Marie Uitti, Leo “Wadada” Smith, Hamid Drake, Mats Gustafsson, Toshimaru
Nakamura, Peter Brötzman, Misha Mengelberg, Paul Lovens, Christian Fennesz, Lol
Coxhill, Keith Rowe, Sonic Youth, just to name a few.
Clayton
Thomas: Bass, Sydney/Berlin
Clayton is a
double bass player who's most common approach to making music is through
improvisation; that doesn't mean he doesn't make plans - he does, often quite
systematic and considered ones. When these systems are deployed, however, is
usually triggered by an in-action musical moment, not a preconceived plan of
events. Although working with a rather well researched and focused set of
language devices - from extended techniques to preparations - he often finds
himself struggling with a technical issue directly influenced by the
spontaneous choice of technique which he has to then contend with in as musical
a way as possible. He has gone through these issues with some of the worlds
most experienced and recognized creative musicians, including; Peter Brotzmann,
Jon Rose, Jim Denley, Paul Lovens, Marilyn Crispell, John Butcher and Evan
Parker to name not many. He founded the NOWnow festival, the Splinter Orchestra
and its European sister group SPLITTER. He has lived in Berlin for 6 years, and
comes from Tasmania.
David Brown: Guitar – Melbourne
David has been involved in the Melbourne avant-garde, art rock/punk rock
scene since the mid-seventies with such groups as “False Start”, “Signals” and
“Dumb and the Ugly”. The first two
of these groups began from associations made around the time he was completing
a diploma of fine arts in the mid-1970s.
Subsequent projects include punk jazz band “bucketrider”, ”lazy” an
improvising duo with percussionist Sean Baxter, improv/sound art group “Western
Grey” with Baxter and Philip Samartzis, psychedelic electronic group “Terminal
Hz” with KK Null from Japan, prepared improvisational group
“Pateras/Baxter/Brown, electric free jazz group “Embers”, the duo “culture of
un” with Sydney pianist Chris Abrahams, the prepared instrument duo “Hakea”
with saxophonist Rosalind Hall, the duo “Helium Clench” with Melbourne
guitarist and microtonal instrument builder Tim Catlin as well as more
occasional groups “The Greg Kingston Big Band” and “The Crowded Foxhole”, the
latter with son Louis Peake. David has
performed regularly at the What Is Music? Festival since 1996, the Melbourne
and Wangaratta Jazz festivals, the Articulating Space festival, the Nownow
Festival in Sydney, Liquid Architecture Festival plus featured performances at
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2002, the Podewil Centre in Berlin in
2003 and extensive tours of numerous European cities with Pateras/Baxter/Brown
in October 2004, November 2006 and May 2007. In October/November 2008
Pateras/Baxter/Brown again toured Europe, this time performances in France and
Switzerland were undertaken with their compatriots ‘The Necks.’ In February
2011 Terminal Hz toured Europe. In
2005, 2006 and 2008 respectively Brown made contributions to the soundtracks of
the motion pictures ‘Wolf Creek’, ‘Rogue’ and ‘The Square’ composed by Franc
Tetaz. Brown has also contributed performances and live accompaniment to the
soundtrack ‘Au Revalateur’, composed by Philip Brophy.
Evan Dorrian: drummer/percussionist (Canberra)
Evan is an Australian improvising musician and sound artist. Using the
drum kit and percussion as sound sources, he pulls apart the traditional
notions of his acoustic instruments and reconstructs them as pure sound matter
and busted anti-rhythm. His main projects are Spartak; an electro-acoustic duo
that sees 60’s fire music and post-punk drift in dub ambience while Pollen Trio
is an exploratory outfit that is founded on melodic song-form and textural
improvisation. Alongside this work, Evan has also collaborated with Australian
jazz figures such as Adam Simmons, Cameron Deyell and Abel Cross; tireless
improvisers like Dave Brown and Mike Cooper as well as electronic sound
sculptors including Seaworthy, Andrew Pekler and Adrian Klumpes.
Jim Denley: wind
instruments (Sydney)
An emphasis on
spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration has been important in his
work. He sees no clear distinctions between his roles as instrumentalist,
improviser and composer. Collaborations, his ABC radio feature won the Prix
Italia in 1989. In 1990 he was a member of Derek Bailey’s Company for a week of
concerts at The Place London. Derek also included a paragraph of Jim’s writing
about solo improvisation in a revised version of his classic text Improvisation
published by the British Library. From 1989 to 2003 he worked with the
text/music group Machine for Making Sense, (Amanda Stewart, Stevie Wishart, Rik
Rue and from 89-96 Chris Mann.) Machine has performed in Australia, the USA and
Europe, recording for ORF, SFB, ABC and the BBC. This August they will play their
first concert in 8 years. In 2006 he made a radiophonic work from recordings he
made in the Budawang mountains south west of Sydney. These recording became the
CD, Through Fire, Crevice and the Hidden Valley, gaining an honorary mention in
the Prix ARS Electronica in 08. John Shand in the Sydney Morning Herald said of
this disc, "This is music at it's most primal, enhancing the beauty of
creation." In May 08 He made Coexistence - a radio manifesto of his ideas
about playing music in the Australian bush - for the ABC, from new recordings
from the Budawangs. In 2007 he recorded with Norwegian guitarist Kim Myhr,
Systems Realignment. In 2008 and 2009 they performed in Switzerland, Norway,
Australia, France, Poland and Austria. They formed the group MURAL with Norwegian
percussionist Ingar Zach, and performed in Houston at the Rothko Chapel in
March 2010 as part of a tour of Texas (A CD of this concert was released by the
Rothko Chapel in 2011. They launched the CD at the Chapel this March.) In May
2010 they performed at Victoriaville Canada. In October 2011 they toured
Europe, Columbia and Chile. In April 2012 they played in Beirut, Lebanon. He
was awarded a Fellowship in 2006 and 2007 by the Music Fund of the Australia
Council.
John Porter: alto/tenor saxophone – Canberra
Born in Toowoomba in 1985, John is a formidable young saxophonist with a
deep interest in free improvisation. After starting on the clarinet at an
earlier age he switched to the tenor saxophone and never looked back. In 2003 John moved to Brisbane to study
music full-time, completing a Bachelor of Music in 2005 and a Master of Music
in 2008 where his thesis was on the avant garde composer Cornelius Cardew. It
was during this time that John received his first exposure to improvised music,
participating in a number of groups in and around Brisbane. He has since played
with a number of artists including Shoji Hano, Jeff Henderson, Kris Wanders,
Madoka Kouno, Elliott Dalgleish, and the Stasis Duo, and appears on recordings
released by the [Array] and Homophoni labels. John is currently in a saxophone
trio with Richard Johnson and Rhys Butler. John recently played at SoundOut
2013 festival of free improvisation in Canberra. He loves playing music to
birds and animals in a dialogue with the sound-scapes around him, as it were.
Kim Myhr: guitar – Norway
Kim is an extremely innovative guitarist with an emphasis
on using a wide range of extended percussive, harmonic and timbral techniques.
He has embarked on an international career with performances throughout Europe,
USA, Canada, Australia, China and Japan. His projects include a duo with Sebastien
Roux (electronics/FR); a duo with dancer Orfee Schuijt; the trio MURAL with
Denley and Ingar Zach; the group “Silencers” with Benoit Delbecq (piano/FR) as
well as a piece (CD release) for Trondheim Jazz-orkester featuring Sidsel
Endresen, Christian Wallumrod and many others. He has also performed with
Martin Tetreault, Anthony Pateras, Toshi Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Robbie
Avenaim to name a few.
http://www.norway.org.au/News_and_events/Culture/Kim-Myhr-in-Canberra/
Krista
Martynes: Bass clarinet / clarinet
Clarinetist
Krista Martynes studied in the USA, Canada, and continued in Europe
with the “Unanimous” First Prize from the National Conservatory of Paris, in
France. She received a Masters and the Accademia Perosi in Italy, and a Masters
in Musicology at the Paris VIII University. She is a researcher specializing in
mixed media with live video and electronic possibilities and digital effects. As
a classical musician, Krista toured with the “Orchestres des Regions Européennes”
and has performed in the Abbaye de Sylanes, Abbayes aux Dames as well as toured
France, Germany, Mexico, Ukraine and China.
As a contemporary Artist she was featured
as a soloist at the Festival Acanthes in 2005 – 2006, IRCAM Centre, Maison de
la Musique in Nanterre and Theatre de Nantes in France, performed in the
Musikprotokoll Festival in Italy, Klangspuren Festival and Transart Festival in
Austria. She has participated in a documentary on the music of Luigi Nono in
Venice also.
As an Improvisor, she has worked with
world renowned clarinettist Loius Sclavis as the Abbaye de Royaumont, Sylvian
Kassap and Michel Massot with the Ensemble Transversale 20.21, Instant
Composers Pool, Magpie Music and Dance Company Amsterdam, and DesiDela dance
company in Paris. She collaborated with sound artist Alexis O’Hara and video
artist Dayna McLeod in the Edgy Women Festival in Montreal. At SoundOut 2014
festival she will be performing solo as well in a few new collaborative
grouping of musician. Krista is a Conn-Selmer Artist
Louise Curham:
experimental Film Maker and performer (Canberra)
Louise is a Canberra-based film maker/visual
artist. Working predominantly with found and obsolete moving image materials,
Louise’s work addresses the givens of cinema – specifically its usually fixed
relationships between projection, audience and image. She works in film
performance, installation and experimental film and extensively with sound art
and music. Past (and continuing) collaborations include David Young, Alister
Spence and Mike Cooper.
Maya Revillion (OS): dancer, improviser – France / Netherlands
Maya has been studying at the theaterschool voor de kunsten, and
graduated in 2009. Since then she has been working for Sanna Myllyahti
(finland), Arno schuitemaker (holland), and Francesco Scavetta, Wee
Company. She is part of the Poro Collective (finand), and creates there
her own work in collaboration with Soile Voima and Riina Kalmi. She works
as well with photography inside of Coca Braun collective, and with drawing, on
the way to create books and drawing/text exhibitions together with Leela May
from Stokholm Sweden. She is fascinated by cinema, mountain trekking, and
graphism, physical research and dance. She is part of the Tail collection
collective. She comes to SoundOut 2014 to do a
collaborative piece of dance and improvisation for the SoundOut 2014 festival
called Haze.
Melanie Herbert: violinist - Sydney
Melanie is a
Sydney-based composer, performer and installation artist. She performs in
8-piece laptop orchestra Electronic Resonance Korps, as well as large-scale
improvising ensemble, Splinter Orchestra. As resident sound artist for
Earthcrosser Company, Melanie has been involved in self-devised theatre works
such as Room, due for release at PACT theatre in 2014. She has
performed and created works for The NOW now, What Is Music?, Frequency Oz,
Volta Collective, and Liquid Architecture. Recently, Melanie's work featured in
Ghost Hunters, a sound and video exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery in
Hobart. Her
solo installation entitled it called out
was presented at CAT Gallery in Hobart for the MONA Festival of Music and Art
2014.
Philip Brody: overtone ensemble, Melbourne
The Overtone Ensemble (Tim Catlin, Atticus
Bastow, Dave Brown, and Phillip Brody) was formed in 2012. The group has been
active within Melbourne playing at galleries such as West Space and Conduit as
well as festivals such as Slow Music and Liquid Architecture. Group
members have a long history of involvement in experimental music, sound art and
improvised music both within Australia and internationally. The ensemble use microtonally tuned
metal rod instruments designed and built by Tim Catlin. Each instrument
consists of between 12 and 24 vertically mounted solid aluminium rods.
Dubbed the “Vibrissae”, after feline tactile hair follicles (cats whiskers),
these instruments are longitudinally stroked by hand and produce an ethereal,
haunting sound. The long sustaining nature of the rod’s sound and close
interval tunings allow players a sonic palette of rich textures and harmonic
complexity. Although the vibrissae’s purity of tone sounds electronic, all
sounds are acoustically generated, without effects or processing. These rod
sounds are complemented with bowed metal objects and sound sculptures, acoustic
guitars, wineglasses, hand bells, long wire instruments and re-tuned
glockenspiels. Overtone
Ensemble Microtonal rod tunings
allow the group to explore and manipulate acoustic phenomena such as phasing,
difference and beat tones, sympathetic vibrations and room resonance. The
overall effect is of a shimmering sound field full of internal movement,
strange harmonies and complex overtone patterns. After
releasing numerous records and CDs on the new music label INNOCENT and the pop
label PRESENT, Philip Brophy created SOUND PUNCH to
focus on his film music and audiovision projects. The label also features his
collaborations Ph2
and LAZY3.
His most recent work involves live music performed to films and videos, such as
the BEAUTIFUL
CYBORG series and the avant-garde silent films AUREVELATEUR
and KISSED.
Other live quadraphonic performances are THE CAVERN OF
DEEP TONES and THE PLANETS.
His current live/studio projects in development include the ongoing FLUORESCENT
series of video installations; the live surround-sound performances VOICELESS
and I AM PIANO;
the live rock event performance STADIUM. Philip has scored the feature BODY MELT
and sound-designed the feature MALLBOY
as well as numerous
shorts. In this field Brophy specializes in Dolby Surround
applications and contemporary soundscapes. Most SOUND PUNCH
releases are encoded in Dolby Surround. The label is now in its 10th year and
has also now made availale DVD-Rs of all of the original quadraphonic mixes of
his projects. Brophy was also instigator and director of the CINESONIC
International Conference on Film Scores & Sound Design held
annually in Melbourne, and has edited 3 books from the conference published by
the Australian Film TV & Radio School. He is widely published in all three
areas internationally and has written columns and occasional articles for THE
WIRE, London. He is a regular contributor of sound articles to FILM COMMENT,
New York. His recent books include 100 MODERN
SOUNDTRACKS for the British Film Institute, London - also translated
into Japanese and published by Film Art, Tokyo. He has also produced radio such
as the series TRACES OF
SOUNDTRACKS, commissioned for ABC Classical-FM, Australia.
Radio Cegeste – [Sally Ann McIntrye] electronics – New Zealand
Sally Ann McIntyre is a writer, sound
practitioner and radio artist working out of Dunedin, New Zealand. She has a
history in independent radio production, and since 2008 has programmed the Mini
FM station Radio Cegeste 104.5 as a small-radius platform for site-responsive
radio art events. Her work oscillates around themes of site-specificity,
nomadism, the non-monumental memorial, the collection of sound libraries,
phonography, museology, translation and transcription, memory, the haunted
materiality of absent presence, old buildings and other historic sites, psychogeography,
the performative fragility of small-scale transmission, bird migration and
electromagnetism, the complex idea of 'dead air', the recorded and transmitted
history of birdsong (sometimes also as a sonification of a New Zealand
nationalism), and the possibility of an ecology of the radio that doesn't
represent unstable systems as functioning in eternal homeostasis. She has
initiated projects in environments from the most remote to the most populous,
such as ‘soundtracks for the city’, scoring urban Melbourne on inner city
street corners with a portable record player by playing stacks of discarded
library music on 10” disc from the channel 10 TV archives, to a set of
recordings of gallery spaces destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake played
back to an artist-run gallery space in another city about to lose its lease, to
a series of EVP recordings of extinct native birds held in museum collections,
transmitted back into remote wilderness areas of the New Zealand bush.
Reuben Lewis: trumpeter - Canberra.
He has collaborated with some of Australia finest musicians such as Larry
Sitsky, (one of Australia’s leading composers) and Miroslav Bukovsky (one of Australia
leading trumpet players). In early 2012 he relocated to Berlin, Germany for 12
months, where he established artistic connections; performing and touring with
legends in the European/American experimental music scene and collaborated with
the likes of Tristan Honsinger, Harri Sjöström, as well as artists such as Mike Majowski and Christian Windfeld. He also studied with acclaimed artists
such as Axel Dörner, Clayton Thomas, Nils Ostendorf and Evind Lonning. In Australia, Reuben has performed extensively
at reputable venues and national festivals, such as SoundOut 2012 (ACT),
Canberra International Music Festival (ACT), Capital Jazz Project (ACT), Jazz
at the Gods Café (ACT), Jazzgroove (NSW), The Now Now Spontaneous Music &
Experimental Film Series (NSW), Wangaratta Jazz Festival (VIC), Woodford Folk
Festival (QLD), Womadelaide World Music Festival (VIC). He has released two albums (Samadhi
– 2010, Fractured Spring – 2012) of original music under his own name
featuring various experimental ensembles. As a collaborator he has appeared on
several albums, most recently Trio – Praetzlich/Beierbach/Lewis
Trio (pending release in 2014 on gligg-records.com in Germany). https://soundcloud.com/reubenlewis
Rhys Butler: alto Sax - Canberra
Rhys has come to know the cities he has lived in through improvised and
noise music. The trio Dinner Sock (Stephen Roach (drums), David Keyton
(feedback), and Rhys Butler (saxophones)) formed from the weekly Fugue State Sessions
in Guanzhou. The group performed with local experimenters such as Yan Jun, Feng
Hao and Li Zenghui and collaborated with musicians transiting China such as Uwe
Bastiansen (Faust) and Lucas Abela. Despite living in different corners of the
world, Dinner Sock has continued to participate in China's experimental music
scene and played Beijing's Sally Can't Dance festival and NOIShanghai in 2012.
In Santiago, Chile, Rhys participated in events run by Productura Mutante and
played in the free-for-all Collective Improvisation NO. Now residing in
Canberra, Rhys has been working in a duo with Reuben Ingall (live processing)
and more recently in a reeds trio with John Porter and Richard Johnson.
Richard Johnson: wind instruments - Canberra
Richard performs with the texture of sound on soprano/baritone saxophone
and bass clarinet and in the last couple of years has been experimenting with
instruments made from the conical gourds from PNG. These particular gourds
allow the stripping back of the wind instruments to their most visceral and
most sensuous form and allow for the exploration of the fundamentals of sound
production with extended techniques. He has performed at the What is Music
Festival, Nownow Festival; the Make it Now performances; also performances with
the Brice Glace Ensemble and the 102 Club Orkestra in Grenoble France 2004;
“Whip it“ series in Sydney; various Precipice annual Improv workshops hosted by
Tony Osbourne as well as hosting local/interstate/international improvisation
nights in Canberra and as being the Producer/Director/Curator and performer at SoundOut
2010 – 2013. As a sound artist he was commissioned by the Casula Power
House in Sydney to collaborate with renowned Artist Savanhdary Vongpoothorn to
produce a 30-minute Soundscape for the Australia Exhibition at The
Casula Power House in Sydney 2008; in 2010 he collaborated with
glass/conceptual artist Denise Higgins on a soundscape for her show in
Melbourne. He has performed with the likes of Jaap Blonk, Jon Rose, Mats
Gustafsson, Robbie Avenaim, Jerome Nottinger, Xavier Querell, Jim Denley, Kim
Myhr, Clare Cooper, Annette Giesreigl, Rodrigo Motoya, Antonio Panda
Gianfratti, Clayton Thomas, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Yan Jun, Laura Altman, Michael
Norris, Evan Dorian, Christine Abdelnour, Philippee Lauzier, Eric Normand, Sam
Pettigrew and Rishin Singh etc. Currently he is working in a wind trio with
John Porter and Rhys Butler and an electro-acoustic duo with Michael Norris as
well as working on developing a large-scale free improvisational collective
ensemble.
Rosalind Hall: alto saxophone - Melbourne
Rosalind is a musician and performer,
using sound, improvisation, technology and space as a mediums. She is
interested in sound as both a tangible and elusive expression, in connecting
with a moment in time, the collaborative experience, the body as a vibrating
form, states of awareness and the shared listening space between performer and
audience. The sound worlds she
creates in performances are bodily and organically evolving, using the
saxophone with preparations to abstract and alter the sounds and playing
techniques. She makes reeds from plastics and metals and place objects in
the bell that become vibrating objects and extensions to the instrument.
She uses the breath, saliva and gestures with small, sensitive microphones
attached to her throat and horn to capture the sonic microcosm of her body and
the internal world of her saxophone extension.
Ross Manning: Sound Artist/improviser – Brisbane
Ross is a Brisbane based artist and music maker who works with movement,
space, perception, light, kinetics, sound, and technology. His background in
instrument building, sound sculpture, and improvisational music contributes towards
his innovative aesthetic language. Reworking Duchampian notions of the
readymade, Manning’s artworks combine re-purposed technologies with common
objects. His kinetic environments construct independent systems of logic,
generating automatons of coloured light, electronic imagery and sound. Manning is a finalist in the 2012
National New Media prize awarded by the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of
Modern Art. He exhibited in NEW12 at Australian Center for Contemporary Art,
and Primavera 2010 at the Museum Contemporary Art. Ross regularly presents live
performances with his custom instruments both nationally and internationally
and in recent years has performed at What is Music, Liquid Architecture,
Melbourne internationally Jazz Festival, Mona Foma and the Now now. He is represented by Milani Gallery,
Brisbane.
Sean Baxter: drumkit and percussion - Melbourne
Sean is an Australian improviser who is interested in exploring the
percussive possibilities of sound. Focusing on the use of extended techniques
applied to the conventional drumkit (both acoustically and through the manipulation
of membraphonic feedback), he utilises an arsenal of metallic junk and other
percussive detritus to expand the sonic palette of the percussion tradition.
His performance aesthetic evokes a variety of sonic practices, ranging from
extreme metal and punishing noise to free jazz and the Modernist abstraction of
the classical avant garde. He has been part of the trio with pianist/composer
Anthony Pateras and David Brown as well as performed at numerous festivals in
Australia and Overseas.
Slawek Janicki: double bass/film maker - Poland
Since the early 80’s Slawek has played in bands such as Henryk
Brodaty, Trytony, Mazzoll & Arythmic Perfection and Pieces of Brain. He has worked with many artists who
over the time performed at the "Mózg" festival such as Kazik
Staszewski, Jon Dobie, Karoline Crabel, Wojciech Zamiara, Grzegorz Pleszynski
and many others. In 1999, he started playing with Zdzislaw Piernik, a world
famous tuba player. They performed in Poland, Netherlands, Germany and Hungary,
and produced a film from a live performance in "Mózg" that was later
broadcasted by TV Kultura, Poland. In 2001, he visited Australia for the first
time where he was an Artist in resident at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in
Sydney and, with Grzegorz Pleszynski, produced a performance in which, outside
its authors, played four bass players. He performed in festivals in Europe and,
in January 2004 and 2005 in Sydney and Melbourne during the "Now now"
Festival. Since 2004 he has been a head of the ART ASSOCIATION MOZG and as an
artistic director of the annual 'MOZG FESTIVAL'. Since January 2009 Janicki
started work with John von Sturmer. They set up Assocition for Contemporary
Music and Performance Inc. The Association aims to promote contemporary music
and performance in conjunction with but not limited to visual arts, theatre,
literature and film. At 2010 Slawek Janicki & John von Sturmer are
realizing a cross-disciplinary project "Definition of performance"
which was supported by Australia Council for the Arts. In April 2010 Janicki
started cooperation with ABC, one of the major tv stations in Australia.
Since
2011 Janicki has been based in Poland where he runs the Morg Festival still.
Tim Caitlan: Guitar, invented instruments: Overtone ensemble – Melbourne
Tim Catlin is a guitarist, instrument designer and sound artist with a
deep fascination for exploring the sonic possibilities inherent in friction,
magnetism and resonant systems.
Although his work spans composition, improvisation, installations and
soundtracks, common threads woven throughout are a keen ear for sonic minutiae,
a preference for physical over digital audio manipulation and a yearning for
transcendence through sound. Much
of his activity has involved re-investigating the sonic properties of the
guitar through a combination of traditional and extended techniques, guitar
preparation and modified designs. These pieces are often drone based and
densely textural, “blurring lines between metal machine music and
holy minimalism” (The Wire, UK).
Further works utilising resonance, feedback and the harmonic series have
employed electric sitar, chromatic handbell sets, cymbals and long string
instruments. Most recently he has constructed a set of new instruments; the
“Vibrissae”. These are microtonally tuned metal rod instruments, which are
activated by longitudinal stroking to produce a sustained, “singing” tone. He
formed the Overtone Ensemble in 2012 to perform works using these instruments
along with other self-made instruments. He has performed or collaborated with
Machinefabriek, Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, Otomo Yoshihide, Phill Niblock, Mike
Cooper, Candlesnuffer, Philip Samartzis, Rod Cooper, The Wall of E Guitar
Ensemble and many others. Solo and collaborative releases include “Radio Ghosts”
(23five, 2007), “Slow Twitch”, (Dr Jims, 2004), “Sieve” with David Brown
(Bocian, 2013), “Glisten” and “Patina” with Machinefabriek (Low Point, 2009 and
2011) and “Plates and Wires” with Jon Mueller, (Crouton 2007).
V: vocalist, composer and sound artist – UK/USA [V&A Duo]
V is currently based in Minneapolis, USA, who has worked internationally
since the early 1980s. Her work includes music performances, audio
installations and soundwalks. She is interested in exploring people's
special relationship with familiar places and how that links to an interior
landscape of personal history, memory and association. Her ongoing project
Shadow-walks has been presented in gallery shows from New York to Istanbul to
Hong Kong. Her educational background and awards include an MA Sonic Art
with Distinction from Middlesex University, London, England and a BA Theatre
Design from Nottingham Trent University, England. She is a certified teacher of
Deep Listening, having studied with composer Pauline Oliveros. She is a 2012 and 2006 McKnight
Composer Fellow. Other grants and awards have come from Jerome Meet the Composer,
the English and Irish Arts Councils, Jazz Services, Millennium Funding, London
Arts Board, Chisenhale Awards, Creative Partnerships and Awards for All. Recent
performances: Shadow-walks: Hong Kong - Around Sound Art Festival, soundpocket,
Hong Kong 2013 (residency, installation); Singing In Place – Tempo Reale
Festival, Florence, Italy 2012 (solo performance); Shadow-walks: Florence –
Radio Papesse, Florence, Italy 2012 (radio art, residency); Soundworks –ICA, London, UK 2012 (group
show); Her Noise Festival – Tate Modern, London, UK 2012 (lecture/performance);
Arrivals: Kingston – Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, NY, USA 2012
(GPS-linked iPhone app); Walking with Paul Halupka – C33 Gallery, Chicago, USA
2011 (audio installation); Rembetronika –An Insolent Noise Festival, Pisa,
Italy; Café Oto, London, UK 2011 (performance with Mike Cooper);
Shadow-walks: Gowanus – Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2011
(audio-walk); Shadow-walks: Kingston – Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, NY,
USA 2010 (audio-installation, residency) etc. V has duo performance with
violinist A which will be touring Australasia in 2014.
François Houle: Clarinetist – Canada
Clarinetist François Houle has established himself as one of today’s most
inventive musicians, in all of the diverse musical spheres he embraces:
classical, jazz, new music, improvised music, and world music. He has twice
been listed by Downbeat magazine as a “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” and
was hailed as a “Rising Star” in Downbeat’s 2008 Critics’ Poll. His extensive
touring has led to solo appearances at major festivals across Canada, the
United States and Europe, and he has released more than a dozen recordings,
earning multiple Juno Award and West Coast Music Award nominations. François’
clarinet playing transcends the stylistic borders associated with his
instrument. Inspired by musical innovators such as Steve Lacy, John Carter,
William O. Smith and Evan Parker, he has developed a unique improvisational
language, virtuosic and rich with sonic embellishment and technical extensions.
François has performed and recorded with Marilyn Crispell, Myra Melford, Ab
Baars, Marc Dresser, Georg Gräwe, Joëlle Léandre, Evan Parker, Dave Douglas,
Benoît Delbecq, and Michael Moore. By mastering each of the diverse musical
genres he approaches, François demystifies music for his audiences, and has
become known as one of today’s most engaging and stimulating musicians.
François is on faculty at Vancouver Community College School of Music, and was
Artistic Director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute for five years.
Visit Francois on-line at www.francoishoule.ca
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