Sunday, September 18, 2016

Sound Of Not Doing #02 - 24/09/2016

MAGNET Presents:

SOUND OF NOT DOING #02

Drone/Ambient/Psych sound-bath immersion in the amazing SPATIAL Studio at Magnet. Comfortable surroundings and special extended sets and collabs with your fellow travelers...

+ SACRED ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
Microtonal/xenharmonic ambient group project by REFUND & cohorts
http://refund.bandcamp.com

+ THE CONVOY (+ guests)
http://theconvoy.bandcamp.com

+ SKLERGK
Rory Brown (extended contrabass), James Tolman (synth/electronics), Robbie Avenaim (concrete cutter), Nik Kennedy (vocals/synth/electronics)

+ MALLARD/DEAD MEN
Dark concrete country/desert drone from Craig & Zac

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24th Sept 2016
7:00pm Start
$10 entry
SPATIAL Studio @ Magnet
11 Roosevelt St. North Coburg

Friday, September 16, 2016

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 18/09/2016

+ INTERNAL ROT
A rabid swarm of mutant lawnmowers!

+ UMBILICAL TENTACLE
The exhilirating embrace of a giant squid!

+ DONKEY MUTHAS OF ARSE
Overinflated lungs exploding in a bottomless pit!

+ HEADLESS DEATH
The grim contemplation of your pathetic existence!!

+ SKYSCRAPER
Realisation that your spouse is actually a cyborg!

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The Tote Upstairs
Doors 6:00pm
First act 6:30pm
All done by 10:00ish
$5 entry

https://www.facebook.com/events/1162446293828006/
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DISCO MULTIVERSE
NOISEMUSICSOUNDS OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES SINCE 2011! 
NEXT GIG: SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER

Noise / Music / Performance / Experimental / Improv / Ambient / Harsh / Weird / Noise You Can Dance To / Breakcore / Noisecore / Grindcore / Hardcore / Punk / Non-Popular Pop / Psych / Drone / Electronics / Audio-Visual / Indescribable / etc... 

To enquire about playing
email info/links to Nik - sfhsgrind [@] hotmail . com

Sunday, August 14, 2016

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 14/08/2016

THE CONVOY
https://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/

TANNHAUSA GATE
Tannhäusa Gate merges the glitches and noise pollution of our digital environment with the warm dulcet tones of analog synths, creating aural mantras and enigmatic psychedelic soundscapes.

+ SUPPORTS
Snow-soaked nebulousnessless. Swathes of sonoversal stoicisms. Serendipitous sinusoidal supplications. Siiiiiiiick.

BUTLER/KACZMAREK/HILTON
Gary Butler (the creation and destruction of music), Rafal Kaczmarek (drums), Tim Hilton (trombone)

HOLY BONER
Total Devastation Noisecore (+ guests)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7YuhHGb1lE

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DISCO MULTIVERSE
NOISEMUSICSOUNDS OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES SINCE 2011!
NOW AT THE TOTE UPSTAIRS ALMOST EVERY MONTH!
NEXT ONE AFTER THIS: 18TH SEPT 2016

Noise / Music / Performance / Experimental / Improv / Ambient / Harsh / Weird / Noise You Can Dance To / Breakcore / Noisecore / Grindcore / Hardcore / Punk / Non-Popular Pop / Psych / Drone / Electronics / Audio-Visual / Indescribable / etc...

http://letsnoise.blogspot.com/
To enquire about playing
email info/links to Nik - sfhsgrind [@] hotmail . com


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OCTAVE PUSSY pulled out so due to zero public demand, HOLY BONER will fill in.

Sunday, July 31, 2016

SPASMOSLOP @ Make It Up Club - 02/08/2016

This Tuesday at MIUC is a torrential onslaught of scaturient sonics, as three solo cacophonists dredge through the atramentously anarchistic realm of astringent dissonance to adjure and agitate perceptible frequential extents into audibly delectable textural densities. 

Spasmoslop spews forth the genus of genius only attainable via the persistent auricular ingestion of sublimated brutalities, augmented with anodic accretions and the requisite gargling of glass, for the umpteenth consecutive year conjuring the consummatest in electro-oral noise. 


Bleach Boys summons corrupted quixoticisms from the thresholds of the analogue apocalypse, sparking shimmering sensatory paroxysms from antediluvian playback apparatuses and excavating sublimely stygian resonances dripping in serene restlessness. 


And Scumwitch conveys ceremonially cathartic caterwauls of cut-n-waste chaos cobbled from deafening detrital dystopia, shredding oscillatory spectra into clamorous turbulences that ruthlessly cleave through speaker cones and cerebella alike. 


• Spasmoslop aka Nik Kennedy (Electro-Oral Noise) 


• Bleach Boys aka Maya Victoria Kjellstrand(Tapes, Electronics) 


• Scumwitch aka Romy Seven (Electronics) 


The Make It Up Club 

http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/ 
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 

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First time playing solo at MIUC in years, really really really looking forward to it!!


Tuesday, July 26, 2016

YENDO BRUUC @ Hotsh*ts - 30/07/2016

Fundraiser for FLOWERGRAVE COLLECTIVE PHILIPPINES
Heaps more info about them and the gig here - https://www.facebook.com/events/1741178252836452/

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Looking forward to our first official gig with YENDO BRUUC!! We're on first at 4:00pm.
YENDO BRUUC is Yendo (AKA Rod Cooper) on yet-unnamed noise instrument & snare-ified vocals, and Bruuc (AKA Spasmoslop) on Mr. Putin noisebass & broken-speaker vocals. It's kinda halfway between noisecore and harsh noise... no drums, just tight, dense blasts of harshness and some mechanical/industrial vibes... it's odd but we think it works!
Cheers to Nathan for putting us on and Hotsh*ts & friends for hosting and continually supporting good causes!!

Thursday, July 21, 2016

MSHING + SPASMOSLOP @ Magnet - 23/07/2016


MAGNET PRESENTS FIRE & SOUND II

MOTTE (CHCH, NZ)
https://mottemotte.bandcamp.com/releases
ARI SHARP 
(medium as message / journey in static)
WORLDS NUMBER ONE SOUNDHEALER ! 
(Gemfukiner & Sebastion Berto)
THE CONVOY
http://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/
MSHING / SPASMOSLOP
http://mshing.bandcamp.com/ / http://letsnoise.blogspot.com/

Saturday 23rd July
6:30PM START

11 Roosevelt St. North Coburg
Entry by Koha ( Donation )

Thursday, July 07, 2016

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 17/07/2016

LARA SOULIO + ANDREW WATSON
Atmosphere/dissonance/meditation from these two multi-instrumentalist explorers of music and noise
https://soundcloud.com/lars-von-onion\
www.tmwwt.com

MALLARD/MUSCOVY
Sonic migration, tri-phonic guitar drones, terrestrial and other

ROGUE WAVS
https://soundcloud.com/roguewavs

FEED
Soulful and tuneful A/V mash-ups from Mr. Nason

MSHING + SPASMOSLOP
http://mshing.bandcamp.com/ / http://letsnoise.blogspot.com/

The Tote Upstairs
First act 6:30pm
$5 entry

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DISCO MULTIVERSE
NOISEMUSICSOUNDS OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES SINCE 2011!
AT THE TOTE UPSTAIRS ALMOST EVERY MONTH!

NEXT GIG: SUNDAY 14th AUGUST 2016

Noise / Music / Performance / Experimental / Improv / Ambient / Harsh / Weird / Noise You Can Dance To / Breakcore / Noisecore / Grindcore / Hardcore / Punk / Non-Popular Pop / Psych / Drone / Electronics / Audio-Visual / Indescribable / etc...

We're always looking for new acts to play! To enquire about playing email info/links to Nik - sfhsgrind [@] hotmail . com

Sunday, June 26, 2016

SPASMOSLOP @ Last Chance - 27/06/2016

Come out for a Monday night of Sludge Doom Noise good times. $6 entry $6 pints $6 Souvlakis

True Defective 9:40 - 10:10
Molasses 8:50 - 9:20
Spasmoslop 8:00 - 8:30


Last Chance Rock&Roll Bar (formerly Public Bar)
238 Victoria St. North Melbourne

You can just come straight from the office/uni/centrelink and indulge in some sounds that might somehow manage to be even more unpleasant than your day was...https://www.facebook.com/events/1344687108881687/

Sunday, June 05, 2016

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 19/06/2016

NOISEMUSICSOUNDS OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES

+ CLOGGED
Maximum Goregrind Hooliganism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8iuEl9KZzw

+ LANGLO PANIFLAX
So crisp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xceIKmmeZWg

+ COP DATE
You just made a big mistake, pal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcVjOqIwW3E

+ CIARAN GEOGHEGAN
Electronic bleaknesses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvK3i4YuZHg

+ TINA DOUGLAS
Sci-fi sensory synthesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvO0Ybt2aB0

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The Tote Upstairs
Doors 6:00pm
First act 6:30pm
$5 entry

Monday, May 30, 2016

UMBILICAL TENTACLE surfin' with GRANPA

June 6th @ Northcote Social Club
Monday Night Mass - FREE

- Rice Corpse (Lucas Abela/Maria Moles/James Bowers)
- Umbilical Tentacle (partygrindharshsurfmoshnoisecoremania)
- Angus Leslie & Cosima Jaala (first-time face-off of epic bratcore proportions)

In a Melbournian first Lucas 'Granpa' Abela kicks off three days of tinnitus-drenced madness with his angular noiserock improv unit Rice Corpse adeptly assisted by local shredders Maria Moles - the percussive prowess behind Jaala and Titanic Jamz - and James Bowers - the vocoder (and keyboards or whatever) behind Sex On Toast, Au Dré and far too many others. To welcome the cacophonous royalty we've laid out our finest silly sonic silverware with absurdist aristocrats Umbilical Tentacle reppin' the everythingcore brutality, and turn up the musical and performative intensities by clashing two of the most charismatic frontpeople in town - Angus Leslie and Cosima Jaala. Eep.


More info and stuff here - https://www.facebook.com/events/980560695355348/

Cheers to Lloyd Honeybrook for organising!!

WANKOSLOP Japan & Spasmo Instagram



Here's a video of the first show of the WANKOSLOP with ROD COOPER Japan tour! Thanks for the upload! Thanks everyone who helped with the tour!! ARIGATO!!!

I've got an instagram account now which has photos from Japan and other gigs and will have more dumb stuff in future ----> https://www.instagram.com/spasmoslop

Monday, March 28, 2016

WANKOSLOP @ DISCO MULTIVERSE - 03/04/2016

+ AC/AC
Free-shred-skronk guitar heat feat. YSK & cohort(s)

+ REFUND vs. CONEPUNCHER
Two very clever dudes. Modular synth vs. DIY handmade synths. Electrical wizardry. First time collab.

+ COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE?
Repulsive harsh noise.

+ WANKOSLOP
Surreal noise ritual. Pre-Japan tour warm-up. Yuka Discobeans (matcha ceremony/vocals), Nik Kennedy (subsonic noisebass/vocals), Rod Cooper (electric hurdy-gurdy)

+ WUMPY
"Incorporating elements of found-audio collage, noise and surrealism. In performance he wears, moves, carries and plays laptop, multiple speakers, sampler, radio and video projector, creating a hybrid between DJ set, live installation and meta-musical performance."
https://soundcloud.com/wumpybeats

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Doors 6:00pm
First act 6:30pm
$5 entry
The Tote Upstairs

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WANKOSLOP Japan line-up!... we leave mid-April...  over the last month or two I've been working with Rod Cooper to make a travel-size subsonic noisebass for me to take on the tour and it turned out absolutely amazing. Two bass strings and three springs, stainless steel neck, Fijian Mahogany body... Rod & I developed the design together and he did the construction and science cause he's a fuggin GENIUS... this thing sounds utterly MASSIVE... but is also really versatile and does subtle ambient stuff very well too! Thank you Rodney!!

Introducing "Mr. Putin":

Sunday, March 20, 2016

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ The Tote - 07/04/2016

Increased tremblings measured of late by the Seismologists of Eastern Australia are no mistake. There is indeed a significant event approaching:
DEAD and MoE are touring together. It’s the double bill you need n your life. You have been warned.
And yes that is THE MoE from Norway; legendary noise rock/avant garde DIY stalwarts.
Two relentlessly active and uncompromising bands; it’s a pissing contest of low end, high output and DIY cred. Remember that time John Farnham sold out 17 concerts at the Tennis Centre? This will be nothing like that.


First show of the tour. For full dates go here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/438455706360939/

Lineup of the bloody century!

DEAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_Q6_qAuzw

MoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqZut6YtXU

Batpiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AixU9XKgXFc

Umbilical Tentacle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFzLeDKCH_U

8pm. $10 Conc. / $15 Full
The Tote Hotel

School night, won't run late.


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Thanks Jem/DEAD for the invite!

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Howler - 01/03/2016

NEXT GIG!!! WITH OUR HOMIES CURSE OV DIALECT!!!! CAN'T WAIT TO SAY WE KNEW THEM BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS!!!! THIS JOINT IS A NIGHTCLUB OR SOMETHING??? MAYBE THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE WHO ARE ON A DATE AND WE CAN GET THEM IN THE MOOD FOR SOME HOTTTTT TENTACLE-THEMED LOVIN'

https://www.facebook.com/events/696012243834930/

Monday, February 15, 2016

Sound Of Not Doing #01 - 27/02/2016

27/02/2016 :: Magnet Presents:

SOUND OF NOT DOING #01

5+ Hours of Drone/Ambient/Psych. Special extended sets & collaborations, a rare appearence of Rod Cooper's Vessel (a 4-metre long boat-shaped sound sculpture), and other curious happenings. Get comfortable and bask in the waves of...

~ STEVE LAW
~ THE CONVOY Feat. MIKE ROTHWELL
~ THE VESSEL (ROD COOPER w/ SPASMOSLOP)
~ EVES
~ XENOSINE Feat. MARTIN KAY
~ FREEZING FOG

VIsuals by Tina Douglas, Xenosine & more
Immersive Sound Setup by Magnet Studios
Matcha Tea, Sweets & Snacks by Discobeans available for purchase
Couches and other comfortable stuff to sit/lie on - feel free to BYO pillow, blanket, camping mat, beanbag etc.
Outdoor garden area for brain resting

Entry by Koha (donation). All support is greatly appreciated!
First act 6:00pm sharp, other set times unknown...
11 Roosevelt St.
North Coburg

Magnet - www.magnetmelbourne.com.au
Discobeans - www.discobeans.com.au
Steve Law - http://www.solitary-sound.com/
The Convoy - https://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/
Eves - https://eves.bandcamp.com/
Rod Cooper - https://youtu.be/eDtjCCtqjqU
Spasmoslop - http://letsnoise.blogspot.com/
Xenosine - http://xenosine.com/
Tina Douglas - http://www.tinadouglas.net/


I'm very very excited about this.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 21/02/2016

+ LANGLO PANIFLAX
https://youtu.be/xceIKmmeZWg

+ MILITARY POSITION
https://youtu.be/VN9cw2iQxC0

+ HUMAN LARD
https://youtu.be/8pxYkzURxdg

+ SEAN BAXTER
https://youtu.be/cRiUXT45cW4

+ TODD ANDERSON-KUNERT
https://youtu.be/KTAIy22eVBE

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The Tote Upstairs
Doors 6:00pm
First act 6:30ish
$5 entry

Sunday, February 07, 2016

HOLY BONER live @ The Tote video



Courtesy of the Blarghstrad blown-out phonecam channel!

UMBILICAL TENTACLE live @ Yarraville video



Cheers to Wayne from COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE? for this one! 
Also check out Wayne's very-bloody-long-running INFERNAL NOISE radio show here - www.facebook.com/infernalnoizeradio or here - www.3ser.org.au/programs.html?infernal-noize

'STILL AGITATED' - 13/02/2016


'Still Agitated' is a conceptual improvisation by Todd Anderson-Kunert, requiring five drummers and five noiseicians to surround the edges of the room, and follow simple visual and audible directives as they spread from one performer to the next. 


Drummers:
Joe Talia
Nat Grant
Llara Goodall
Leo Kavanagh
Michael McNab

Noisicians:
Todd Anderson-Kunert
Ciarán Geoghegan
Carey Knight
Mark Groves
Spasmoslop

Evening also includes supporting sets from:
Xenosine
The Vainglories

$10 Entry.

NOTE: I'm not entirely sure how much room is left in Conduit Arts Initiative after we fill it with five drum kits and five amplifiers / noise rigs, but the venue was chosen for its potential intimacy and intensity.


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Thanks Todd AK and Conduit! This should be real cool... it's kinda like a human feedback loop laser beam going around until we melt the floor. Some really sick players in this and I'm thrilled to be laser beaming with them.. and the only idiot using a performing name!