Two diverse performances this evening at the MIUC. A new duo featuring one of Melbourne's most exciting emerging free jazz/free rock drummers, Gareth Thomson, with one of Australia's most celebrated contemporary jazz guitarists, Steve Magnusson. And Publik Orgy, featuring three of Australia's most audacious performers, who have been traveling the noise-waves for many years bringing you the outer sounds from way out. • Steve Magnusson (guitar) and Gareth Thomson (drumkit) • Publik Orgy, featuring: nylstoch (drums/vox), hart (bass/vox) and campbell (resonant-feedback) The Make It Up Club www.myspace.com/makeitupclub Avant ...
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This week, the MIUC runs the gamut from circuit-bending, to extreme vokills, to skronking double quintet aktion. Damien Young's Social Climber project explores the sonic expanse of DIY electronics, creating impossible audial landscapes through cracked circuits and voice. Two of Melbourne's most talented extreme metal singers combine for the first time as a duo, blending abstract noise electronics with the growling viscera of grindcore and black metal. And a massive group featuring some of Melbourne's most experimental improvisers harvesting the limits of free jazz and free punk. • Social Climber ...
This week, amazing young sound artist and improviser Que Nguyen makes her MIUC solo debut, presenting recent explorations in voice manipulations mediated by extended vocal technique and electronic processing. Reprising their duo from the Overground event at this year's Melbourne International Jazz Festival in May, Australian punk icon Kim Salmon and legendary experimental guitarist Dave Brown, weave delicately grainy tapes and pedals with their familiar mastery of fractured and brittle guitar distortion. And young postskronk/noisejazz trio, Tucceri/Febbraio/Ellis abstracting the jazz rock-tradition through grinding density. • Que Nguyen (voice and electronics) ...
Tonight, the MIUC focuses on recent developments in Melbourne improv with groups that feature some of the strongest emerging voices in the local scene. Young firebrand noisniks, Nic Tammens and Lloyd Honeybrook are joined by Australia's most respected avant violist, Erkki Veltheim, in a collaboration emphasising density, pointalism and low-end rumble. The human breath and it's sonic extensions are highlighted in Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and Rosalind Hall's duo, whose recent CD, From My Winter Snow Your Summer Fire Until My Autumn Rain Your Spring Sunshine is essential listening. And improv-genre polymath, Edryan Hakim leads Impvlse/Kontrol, where ...
Tonight at the Make It Up Club, three groups with very distinctive approaches to the subtle incorporation of electronics with traditional, acoustic improv. PAUSA II is a collaboration between Melbourne improv legends, Brigid Burke and Adrian Sherriff, with English computer music genius, Ollie Bown, exploring the rarefied possibilities of realtime electronic processing and acoustic sonorities. Buggatronic see's Swiss avant-classical percussionist, Daniel Beuss, and Melbourne-based new music composer, James Hullick continuing their rich partnership where music concrete and extended percussion technique are fused into a seamless whole. And Skepper/Harrison/Lewis/O'Hagen feature 4 of Melbourne's boldest contemporary jazz musicians exploring ...
This week at the MIUC we travel the spaceways: spanning the sonoverse from concrete freefolk to avant classical and postfracture synthpunk. American metaphysical troubadour of electroacoustic post-nihilism, Zack Kouns is joined by Alps of NSW's Chris Hearn for collaborative explorations. Golden Fur's Judith Hamann, fresh from a European tour presents her latest expositions on solo cello. And, Young Romantix, where musique concrete, the 1980s and avant noise meet! • Zack Kouns (USA) (clarinet and electronics) and Chris Hearn (NSW) • Judith Hamann (cello) • ...
Sydney math-prog-skronk-improvcore duo, BzNzz finally make it to MIUC to present their post-Ruins take on the state of fusion in the 21st Century. A new trio featuring 3 of Melbourne's enfents terrible of the new-noise. And, Andrew Tuttle (the mastermind behind electro-free-folk sensation, Anonymeye) returns from Brisbane for a series of shows, teaming up with local electronic improviser Sasha Margolis for this one. • BzNzz featuring: Alon Ilsar (drumkit) and Josh Ahearn (bass) • Bile Worship featuring: Tommy Psychward (mvsik), Liam Tea & Sympathy Symphony (mvsik) ...
The Prophets return with an expanded ensemble, celebrating the rich legacy of Albert Ayler, Ethiopiques, Konono No1 and pantonal improv from across the planet of noise. This group lies somewhere between outsider free-jazz, joyous street music and dada-busking and comprises some of Sydney's great young improvisers alongside Melbourne Fugee, Dale Gorfinkel. And, the premiere of a new duo featuring the post-Bailey six-string deconstructions of Irish-born, Melbourne-based guitarist, Gearoid Brinn with composer and saxophonist of repute, Gideon Brazil. • Prophets, featuring: Peter Farrar (saxophone, mpc, xylo, percussion), Sam Dobson ...
This week, some very punchy, acoustic free improv. Propelled by 2 drumkits augmented with saxophone and guitar, the M-B Project is a Brisbane/Melbourne collaboration comprising some of Australia's most exciting, emerging improvisers, straddling the worlds of free jazz, abstract improv and avant-hardcore. Both recently returned from Japan, Honeybrook and Baxter reprise their new acoustic duo that channels the Interstellar Space of Ali/Coltrane through the filter of extreme, grinding metal and noise. And, upping the percussive anti, a drumkit quartet featuring the aforementioned joined by Melbourne wunder-schlagwerker, Gareth Thomson. • The ...
This week, the MIUC is excited to present some incredible interstate and international guests. Tokyo’s master guitarist of post-onkyo, improv maximalism, Tetuzi Akiyama will be performing a wild set of skronking guitar intensity. Sydney-based extended voice artist, Tony Osbourne makes his solo Melbourne debut. And Queensland improv-punk-noise maverick, Andrew McLellan, is joined by the masterminds behind one of Melbourne’s greatest extreme noise groups, the Dead Boomers. • Cured Pink, featuring: Andrew McLellan (guitar), Mark Groves (drum machine and reverb tank) and Leith Thomas (bass) ...
A bumper lineup of crack noisniks from the new generation of Melbourne sound explorers. Wallace/Hall specialise in the production of unearthly, heavy sound, generated through the processing of found objects, strings and voice. Daddy's Room is a new project from some of the city's most engaging punk-improv provocateurs. And Nic Tammens brings the deep sub-bass sheets of sound, evoking colossal, abstract doom. • A Wallace (voice and electronics) and Tom Hall (junk and electronics) • Daddy's Room, featuring: Barwise (guitar), Lloyd Honeybrook (bass), Angus Leslie (drumkit) and ...
Tactile Response Group is a new project from Bonnie and Nylstoch—fearless archivists of Australian avant and outsider sound performance, documented under the moniker of Venting Gallery, and avant skronkers of unaustralian infamy. It boasts a formidable trio of collaborators including no less than Sydney/Blue Mountains icon, Adam Sussmann. Tonight also features the joyful and sublime treats of Tony Hicks, presenting his latest explorations in the sonoverse of solo woodwinds. • Tactile Response Group, featuring: Chris Nylstoch (guitar), Bonnie Hart (objects), Seame (objects), Matt Williams (conch, electronics and ...
MIUC's very own resident sound genius, Stephen Richards, and Nigel Wright with Tim Coster, serious shit you guys have to witness from Auckland. Stephen Richard**s, as **Cleaninglady is proposing: 1.) MC-202 - Sub Bass Set 2.) Ableton Live - Microphone and Effects Rack Noise Set. 3.) Mackie 1202 - Empty Mixer Brutal Noise Set. Your choice peeps! And, our great pleasure: Cathedrals is the duo of Nigel Wright & Tim Coster , channeling the drone spirits of goth and emo, and playing the same song over and over again.. They are from ...
Some volatile free jazz explosions at MIUC this week. Local tenor firebrand, Brett Evans, makes his debut with some veterans of Australia's fire-music scene. Lots of powerful horns, and a totally tough rhythm section, promises some robust and ecstatic music. And, a quartet of young, avant jazz vurtuosi, expanding their palates as Dudes with Trowels. With 2 kits, lots of toys, and a playful, fluxus performance aesthetic, replete with costumes, expect some daring extrapolations. • Brett Evans (tenor saxophone), Andy Sugg (saxophones), Kris Wanders (tenor saxophone), Tom Fryer (guitar), Rory Brown (double bass), Damien Ellis (drumkit) and Adrian ...
This week, the MIUC features 2 duo premieres. Melbourne master of concrete guitar, Marco Fusinato, is joined by Sean Baxter for a collaboration exploring the extremes of electro-acoustic improvisation. Comprising jagged deconstructions of the sonic range of the electric guitar with acoustically generated feedback from the percussive membrane, Fusinato/Baxter extend the language of avant garde tape music by subverting its very construction. And, a rare and rarefied meeting of Baileyesque guitar precision and virtuosity with omnivorous restructuring and extemporisation by artist, Georgina Butterfield manipulating the sublime guitar stylings of Gearoid Brinn. • Marco Fusinato (guitar and electronics) ...
This week at the MIUC, free-skronking with some of Melbourne's best post-Sharrock/no-wavers, and two guns of the digilogue revolution go head to head for a premiere duo. Conceived by Dead Ants Rainbow maestro Troy Naumoff as a corrupted, post-dada exploration of text in musical settings, the expanded Dead Ants explore the possibility of the aleotoric punk song. Extracting random words from random texts, applied to random found set-lists from other bands... Cage would be so proud! And Mitchell Brennan collides with Mark Skelton for what will surely be musical fireworks from these two firebrands of Melbourne's new noise/grimcore scene. ...
A night where grindcore and contemporary noise merge in a sublime cacophony of music’s future. Notorious Sydney grind/freejazz trio, Pure Evil, are in Melbourne for a whirlwind tour, and will be teaming up with Dan Brady’s Either/Or project. And, young noise geniuses Brad Smith and Nik Kennedy will be collaborating with the incredibly energetic, and talented screamstress from the brutal Pig & Machine, Yuka Harte. • Pure Evil Trio with either/or, featuring: Abe Evil (bass), John Evil (drumkit), Aaron Evil (guitar) and Dan Brady (analogue electronics)• ...
For the first time in many years, two of Australia's most innovative and challenging improvising guitarists are reunited in Melbourne for a duo of sublime genius. Featuring Hobart's one-and-only Schwitters of guitar, Greg Kingston, and Melbourne avant legend, Dave Brown, The Handy Doorholes are an unlikely melding of two utterly confused temperaments where Chaos, bad sex, dead melody, nervous tics, call and response, bird talk, incendiary noise, threatened quietude, and beautiful melodic banter all loop and channel into one sick amalgam by dint of two electric guitars and a plethora of weird electrical devices, toys and junk. And returning for ...
Tonight, Sydney krautrock powerhouse, The Gruntled, are performing an improv set of drone-prog, channeling the lost art of the medieval carnivalesque, and will be joined by various Stabbs and legendary psychadelic freak: Paul Kidney, busting lungs and genre expectations. And, with voices that defy the senses and sensibilities of the latent potential of the oldest human musical instrument, the incredible Carolyn Connors in duet with Adelaide's master of extended vocal technique, John Brennand. The Gruntled (NSW) with Paul Kidney, featuring: Nick Potts (assorted medieval instruments, loops, effects), Ricarda Reek (hurdy gurdy), Richard Walsh (theremin, effects), Craig Darryl ...
Priming for their forthcoming tour of Japan, the duo of Robbie Avenaim and Lloyd Honebrook (affectionately entitled Fucked!), will make their final Melbourne appearance for some months. An intensely challenging collaboration—which demands as much from the audience as it does from itself—Fucked! distills the history of Modernist improv (from dada to aktionism, free music to extreme noise) into a vicious aural experience. And, from Adelaide, noisy/psych/drone/improv outfit Bitches of Zeus make their MIUC debut, featuring some of South Australia’s most adventurous improvisers including: Dan Varricchio, Lenin Simos and Pat Saracino. ...
The MIUC is totally stoked to be hosting the launch of a new record label dedicated to releasing avant-electronic music. VICMOD Records is a new label set up by the VICMOD crew who have been behind so many awesome shows in Melbourne which feature analogue, modular synthesizers (from the venerable Moog, Buchla and AKS SYnthi to totally brutal new breeds like the Doepfer), lovingly exploited by some of the country's most adventurous electronic musicians. The first batch of releases will be available on the night, and there will be special giveaways too! Sweet! Give them some love at the Vicmod ...
Postmodern guitar genius, Mike Cooper (Italy) returns for his annual tour of the South Pacific. Reprising his 2009 collaboration with Irish émigré and six-string savant, Gearoid Brinn, they will be joined by Melbourne’s master of guitar-drone automation and table-top preparations, Tim Catlin. And, for the first of a number of collaborations scheduled for the coming months, punk-noise raconteur and master of vokilling brutage, Pete Hyde explores the disoverse with UK noisician, Maya-Victoria. Mike Cooper (guitar) (ITALY), Tim Catlin (guitar) and Gearoid Brinn (guitar)Maya-Victoria (UK) (…sonance) and Pete Hyde (…sonance) The Make It Up Clubwww.myspace.com/makeitupclubAvant ...
Ren Walters’ sublime platform for “realtime composition,” THIS Ensemble, features a stellar cast of Melbourne improvisers for its first show of 2010. THIS is Ren’s long-running project for the exploration of large group improv where genre, idiom and instrumentation are sublimated by an adventurous focus on form and timbre. The group is always composed of musicians from diverse traditions who are nevertheless united by incredible listening skills, ensemble discipline and virtuosic technique. Running the gamut of freejazz, non-idiomatic improv, electronic music, punk, prog and abstract fusion, THIS is always an amazingly rewarding listening experience, where new and hitherto unheard musical ...
A very rare performance from this internationally renowned, abstract improv trio, featuring 3 of Melbourne’s most accomplished and adventurous. This appearance by Pateras/Baxter/Brown at the MIUC is made even more special by the fact that there will be no piano! That’s right, the first P/B/B electro set in Melbourne in over 5 years, featuring Anthony Pateras on the Doepfer modular analogue synthesizer and Revox reel to reel. And, unleashing a new set of extreme improv-noise explorations on the humble electric guitar, the maestro brutagist of monolithic subsonics, Marco Fusinato. Heavy times indeed! Pateras/Baxter/Brown featuring: Anthony Pateras (doepfer and revox), ...
This week, the MIUC is excited to present a series of legends of totally “out there” improv. The Charles Ives Singers have a rich heritage of pushing the boundaries of sound and performance (both collectively and individually, in visual art and music) in Melbourne for over 30 years. With ties to the legendary People With Chairs up Their Noses and the “Clifton Hill” scene, this group of visual artists have been astounding and confounding audiences with their unique blend of dada-improv and abstract avant sound. And, 3 pillars of the avant scene in Melbourne, Young, O’Hagen and Fryer promise a ...
