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 ...
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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 ...
This week, two duos exploring the intersection of abstracted sounds inspired by musique conctrete and the avant classical tradition and the fluidity and angularity of contemporary noise-based improv. James Rushford and Joe Talia have been lauded around town as one of the most exciting collaborations of recent times. Utilising viola, percussive objects and electronic processing, this duo has achieved a unique group-sound complimented by sublime interaction. Lazy is the longstanding duo featuring Melbourne improv luminaries, David Brown and Sean Baxter. For many years, this duo has been an outlet for both performers to explore the more extreme and severe possibilities ...
Four of the most exciting, emerging improvisers from the VCA present their new duos. Freya Schack-Arnott and Nic Tammens straddle the bounds of avant garde classical, non-idiomatic improv and extended technique, producing fresh and thrilling interjections into the world of strings. Jon Heilbron and James McLean are both at the forefront of Melbourne’s new generation of performers exploring the nexus of avant jazz and sound art, their new duo deconstructs the sonic spaces where these traditions overlap. Freya Schack-Arnott (cello) and Nic Tammens (electric guitar)Jonathan Heilbron (contra bass) and James McLean (drumkit) The Make It Up ...
Tonight, the latest in ragged noise improv, featuring a stellar cast of Melbourne’s most adventurous noisicians. An expanded version of the legendary Occult Blood, with English émigré, M-V, and Tara Green (from the grimmest of underground junk-noise supergroups, Psychward Cult) joining Pete Hyde and Dan Brady. And, AXXIMILATION, the possessed duo forged at the bottom of a black riverbed, expelling droney-metal-noise, riot-bitch deathcore, grime sludge, brown panther, girl metal hack, drill and bass, brainsmash of feedback....and audio abuse.Pete Hyde (vocals and effects), Dan Brady (tape loops and vocals), Tara Green (vocals and percussion) and Maya Victoria (feedback and tape destruction)AXXIMILATION, ...
The MIUC’s 2010 return to Bar Open features an exciting duo from Belgium who redefine the free jazz pairing of drums and sax for a new millennium. Chaos of the Haunted Spire features respected contemporary jazz performers, Teun Verbruggen and Andrew Claes, presenting their avant, free noise project for the first time ever in Australia. And, Kris Wanders and Mani Neumeier reprise a collaborative partnership which began in the late sixties in the groundbreaking Globe Unity Orchestra in Germany. Chaos of the Haunted Spire (Belgium), featuring: Andrew Claes (saxophones, EWE and Processing) and Teun Verbruggen (drumkit and processing)Kris Wanders ...
Two influential figures from the MIUC's past are in Melbourne at the same time, and present two classic avant jazz projects. MIUC founders, Will Guthrie and Ren Walters, reprise a vital collaboration with Chris Becker; and Tim O’Dwyer (MIUC artistic director from the 90s/00s) returns to Melbourne with his pumping trio featuring two of Australia’s greatest expatriate jazzheads (and Ghostface acolytes) in Darren Moore and Clayton Thomas. Will Guthrie (Nantes) (drumkit), Chris Becker (bass) and Ren Walters (guitar)Tim O’Dwyer, (Singapore) (alto saxophone), Darren Moore (Singapore) (drumkit) and Clayton Thomas (Berlin) (double bass) The Make It Up ...
In the midst of the What Is Music? Festival, the MIUC has been graced with a number of performers visiting Melbourne for that great event. Infamous stringmeister, Jon Rose presents a new improv work for quadraphonic speakers and violin; one of the truly great punk-noise-improv groups in Occult Blood have recombobulated in a reconfigured form of extreme sonic inspiration; and the legendary Tasmanian guitarist, Greg Kingston, unites with Bum Creek genius, Tarquin Manek for what promises to be a sublime duo of Dadaist genius. Jon Rose (solo quadraphonic violin)Occult Blood, featuring: Maya Victoria (UK) (electronics and noise), ...
A new, automated robot percussion and trumpet project from Eugene Ughetti featuring radio-bots developed by Matt Gardiner, with Eugene and Peter Knight on acoustic percussion and processed trumpet respectively; Dave Brown (arguably Australia’s most innovative guitarist) launches his latest Candlesnuffer CD, Mimosa; and legendary Melbourne grindcore drummer, Matty Skitz (Damaged) joins avant schlagwerker Sean Baxter for a blasting/junknoise drumkit duo. Eugene Ughetti (percussion), Peter Knight (trumpet) and Matt Gardiner (robotics)Candlesnuffer AKA, David Brown (solo guitar and concrete) Mimosa CD LaunchMatt “Skitz” Sanders (drumkit) and Sean Baxter (drumkit) The Make It Up Clubwww.myspace.com/makeitupclubAvant Garde Improvised Music and ...
Skronkin’ Brisbane-based free-jazz-rock-improv collective, The Mute Canary Project will be collaborating with local guests for a powerhouse performance. Led by one of Australia’s most respected contemporary jazz saxophonists, Elliot Dalgleish, the group traverses traditions and generations, delivering powerful improvisations with dense but sensitive blocks of sound. And, New Zealand sound artist Nathan Thompson (perhaps best known for his work in the legendary Sandoz Lab Technicians and Sleep) teams up with long-time collaborator and NZ émigré, Ryan Cockburn for a guitar/electronics duo. The Mute Canary Project (Bris and Melb), featuring Yusuke Akai (guitar), Elliott Dalgleish (sax), Scott McConnachie (sax), Jack ...
Nomex is the performance identity of UK/NZ bruitist noise artist, Paul Kidd. He returns to Melbourne this month for a series of shows around town, and will be performing a solo at MIUC focusing on his more abstract, fractured and brutal sonic spectra. Vainamoinen is a new duet comprising Sydney sound artist, Anna Vo, and Melbourne-based New Noise maverick, Dan Brady. And Make Up Sex is the latest project from 2 of Melbourne’s most interesting singers from the worlds of jazz and punk Nomex (New Zealand) (abstract avant noise)Vainamoinen featuring: Dan Brady (noise and contraptions) and Anna Vo (noise ...
A night of rarefied acoustic improv featuring strings and reeds: where extended technique shines through. Melbourne expat, Diane Peters (known for such innovative groups as Archaeopteryx in the 90s), returns from Italy with her new collaborator, Maria Vicentini for a duo of preparations and extended technique on harp and viola. Multi-woodwind virtuoso, Tony Hicks presents his recent explorations in solo reeds. And a new duo of prepared double bass with two exciting young performers: Ida Dueland and Jonathan Heilbron.Diane Peters (ITALY) (harp) and Maria Vicentini (ITALY) (viola)Tony Hicks (solo reeds)Ida Duelund (prepared contra bass) and Jonathan Heilbron (prepared contra bass)The ...
Tonight’s concert (guest-curated by visual-art-punk-provocateur, Harriet Morgan) features four acts at the forefront of Melbourne’s NewNoise improv scene. MURT’ER is the new duo project from Morgan and transcendental voice artist, Alex Vivian. Stonehenge Vacuum, featuring Christopher Hill on blackmetalvoiceambience and Masato Takasaka on guitarclinicschredding, fuses atonal guitar skronk and extended vocal technique. Marco Fusinato is a master of ecstatic free noise, generated by overdriven guitar and deracinated electronic detritus. And, to kick proceedings off, 2 giants of noisestep genius in Justin Fuller and Simon Taylor. MURT’ER featuring: Harriet Morgan (guitar and drum machine) and Alex Vivian (voice and pedals)Stonehenge ...
A night of solos from 3 distinctive improvisers, exploring the outer limits of their instruments and the traditions circumscribing them. First up is a solo drumkit and processing project from jazz drummer extroadinaire, Sam Price. Ben Byrne returns for a maelstrom of laptop genius. And Tim Catlin continues his expansion of the resonant possibilities of the humble humbucker. Ben Byrne (solo laptop and electronics) Tim Catlin (solo electric guitar and effects)Sam Price (solo drumkit and processing) The Make It Up Clubwww.myspace.com/makeitupclubAvant Garde Improvised Music and Sound PerformanceEvery Tuesday night at Bar ...
A Bumper night of Cracked Toys, Outsider Instruments and Extreme Vocals. Crackside is a debut ensemble featuring some of Melbourne's most interesting and adventurous sound artists. Over a number of sets throughout the night, the group will fragment and morph, both spatially and in personnel, within the MIUC performance space. With an arsenal of circuit-bent keyboards, electronics and musical toys, along with an array of intriguing, home-made instruments, Crackside promises an unforgettable experience of displaced and mobile sonic invention. Also performing well be an extreme choir composed of luminaries from the Melbourne grindcore, noise and avant-jazz communities. Expect the humble ...
Ikko Taniuchi (Osaka) is a remarkable performance artist: exploring the nexus of sound, movement and visual spectacle, he confronts audiences with a rich feast of deconstructed Butoh and action painting, investing the performance with both visceral intensity and wry humor. For his performance at the MIUC, he will be collaborating with 2 masters of fractured, post-breakcore, electro-improv mayhem, Yuka Mikayama and John Harte, most famously associated with legendary group, Pig and Machine. And, to kick proceedings off, 2 of Melbourne's most sublime soloists in a premiere duo of acoustic sonorities teetering on the edge of feedback chaos.Gearoid Brinn (guitar) and ...
The guitar features in this week’s concert, with 2 special guests in premiere duos. Wollongong’s finest Von Crapp Family member and Anarchist Noisemakers Kollective founder, Gary Butler joins vocal virtuoso Carolyn Connors in a duo of toys, voice, guitar, hatchets and seriously thought-provoking, sonic stupidity. And, from New Zealand, via the planet of noise, the mastermind behind Pumice, Stefan Neville teams up with alt-pop superstar, Ned Collette, in a duo of thought provokingly serious, deconstructed-free-pop-improv-alchemy. • Carolyn Connors (voice) and Gary Butler (THEGONG) (guitar and toys) • Stefan Neville (NZ) (noisemaking machines) and Ned Collette (guitar ...
Tonight, some New Noise from Brisbane and some Classic Free Jazz from Melbourne. AXXONN is a new duo featuring Brisbane electro improvisers, Tom Hall and Ian Rogers, and hammers the universe of sound with grimcore ululations (evoking the ambience of black metal with the density of deep, subsonic drone). Blow!, is the legendary partnership of saxophonist Peter Harper and drummer Ted Vining, two inspired veterans of Melbourne's avant jazz scene who have been extending the vocabulary of free jazz for decades. AXXONN featuring: Tom Hall (various analogue and ...
Two mavericks of the Australian avant scene present recent experiments in solo improv performance, and then combine for a debut duo collaboration. Chris Nylstoch as been at the forefront of totally fucked up improv for over a decade, and his latest explorations of ruined electric guitars have been a revelation for those caught in the post-Derek Baily cul de sac. Sean Baxter has similarly brought new life and performance possibilities to the drumkit, forsaking tradition by abusing the kit as an aleatoric device, pelted by an arsenal of metalic junk and percussive detritus. Chris Nylstoch (guitar ...
Guitar features tonight at the MIUC, with 2 innovators from the old guard and the new guard. Making their MIUC debut as a duo, is sublimely fractured virtuosity of Ren Walters and Steve Law; and Dead Ants Rainbow, presenting their latest free-scronk explorations in dirty bottom end maelstrom. Dead Ants Rainbow, featuring: Troy Naumoff (baritone guitar), William Cassell (baritone saxophone), Mat Blackwell (bass guitar) an Jonathon Nokes (drumkit) { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } Ren Walters (guitar) and Steve Law (laptop, synthesizers and effects)The Make It Up Clubwww.myspace.com/makeitupclubAvant Garde Improvised ...
Tonight features an eclectic mix of emigres and visitors, from a range of improvising traditions and generations. First up, the legendary Warren Burt (one of the founders of avant music practice in Melbourne) will be performing his latest experiments in solo improv genius; from the USA, a young powerhouse of abstract avant percussion, Ryan Jewell, makes his debut at the MIUC for a solo set of snaredrum and electronics; and to cap the night off, a transcontinental and transcendental free jazz quintet featuring Polish rhythm section par excellence (Slawek and Quba Janicki) with the ...
Recently postponed due to the swine flu demon, Cleaninglady vs Cray are back up: Ross Healy (Cray) will perform on tiny electronic gadgets and spring reverb giving you avant electronics at its finest whilst Stephen Richards (Cleaninglady) will spit out sonic venom on saxophone. And Legendary Radio National Producer, John Jacobs makes his MIUC debut in the guise of SwSw ThRgHt (Norfolk Is.) for a rare solo appearance. Expect circuit and gender bending, some vidèo concrète, a little prestidigitation and lashings of ginger beer. Cleaninglady vs Cray, featuring: Stephen ...
NSW contra bass radical, Rory Brown returns to the MIUC with a quartet featuring some iconoclasts of the Australian hardcore abstract/DIY improv scene - Sussmann, Cooper and Gorfinkel have all made significant contributions to the field; and the brutal noise-art terror of Poletopra will make both your body and your mind think hard and long about the nature of music and the sonoverse (whilst your inner metalhead rocks out). Chimurenga featuring: Rory Brown (NSW) (contra bass), Adam Sussmann (NSW) (electronics),Rod Cooper (homemade instruments) and Dale Gorfinkel (homemade ...
The second installment of our special August program (which sees the innovative Robin Fox teamed with an equally innovative Australian percussionist) features Robbie Avenaim, in a duo of MAX MSP vs Mechanical kick-drum mayhem; 4 of Australia's mavericks of the avant classical scene combine in a string quartet from hell; and a new interdisciplinary duo exploring the interstices of sound and movement. Robin Fox (laptop and processing) and Robbie Avenaim (drumkit and percussion)Erkki Veltheim (viola), Anthea Caddy (cello), James Rushford (violin) and Judith Hamann (cello)Pocket featuring: Nat Grant (percussion and toys) ...
