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

'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!

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 26/12/2015

Flyer by OVE-NAXX

Last DISCO MULTIVERSE for 2015... co-organised by OVE-NAXX - expect nothing but the finest beats, noises and danceable party noisemusic sounds goin around... with special international guest YOBKISS from Netherlands!

Hey Summer, here is party for you on Boxing Day.
lots mates r going away for family what u gonna do, come join this party kick the bored off Santa's lazy day.

line up following ABC...

+ EGYPT LIES

+ Impatient 8 - bachi

+ OVE & Elf Tranzporter

+ SADO

+ Snuggy Man

+ Voici Bec U

+ WANKOSLOPISS (Wankoslop/Simon Pissbolt collab)

+ YOBKISS (NL)

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Doors 8:00pm
$5 entry
The Tote upstairs
Cnr Johnston & Wellington St. Collingwood

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 23/08/2015

DISCO MULTIVERSE at The Tote Upstairs continues...

+ ROD COOPER & MICHAEL FAMULARO
https://youtu.be/eDtjCCtqjqU
https://www.facebook.com/lefthandpathnoise

+ FAITH AVERSION
Wankoslop meets Monolith... Yuka Discobeans (vocals/noise), Peter James (noise), Nik Kennedy (vocals/noise)
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com/
https://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/spectres

+ CHARLES IVES SINGERS
https://youtu.be/UimUnKv9jYE

+ BARISAL-GUNS
Collaboration between Tina Douglas and Peter Webster. Laptop, sensor devices synthesising 3D position data (Nintendo wii controller & Leap Motion controller), sound reactive realtime video feed.
http://tinadouglas.net/

+ EGORS MTN
Improvised psychedelica made with guitar, effect pedals and feedback.
http://soundcloud.com/egors-mtn

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Doors 6:00pm // First act 6:30pm
$5 entry

DEATH BY CONES @ Conduit Arts - 01/08/2015

4 x noisemakers, 4 x amps in the 4 corners of a 4-sided room. Audience goes in the middle. Get comfortable and soak it up, or move around and find the sweet spots.

For this event there will be 3 different sets with 3 different line-ups...
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VOCALS
Anne-Lise Ah-Fat, Jenny Barnes, James Tolman, Shane Van Den Akker

SYNTHS
Richie Cyngler, Jason Heller, Peter James, Stephen Richards

NOISE
Todd Anderson-Kunert, Llara Goodall, Nik Kennedy, Tom Miller

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8:00pm
$10 entry
Conduit Arts - 83 Brunswick St. Fitzroy
www.conduitarts.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/690312044434669/

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Very excited about this gig.... I've been wanting to put on a "various artists" DEATH BY CONES for aaaaaaages. Can't wait to play and especially can't wait to actually be in a DBC audience! Big thanks to Todd Anderson-Kunert for co-organising with me, and Leo Kavanagh & Conduit Arts for hosting.

Recent stuff - 16/06/2015

Whoops, haven't updated the blog for ages... so here are some things I've been up to lately...

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Disco Horse photos by Nayuto Adachi

Vocals/noise/contrabass-processing setup for collab set with Rory Brown & Passenger of Shit @ "Sunday Arvo Noisemusics" gig @ Magnet Studios shitty photo by me

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Ultra/Hyper, Magnet Studios photo by Lloyd Honeybrook

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Ultra/Hyper, Magnet Studios photo by Peter James

THE KILL & friends flyers by ???

THE KILL @ Little & Olver photo by Lloyd Honeybrook

First KILL gigs since Euro tour 2014!! Our 2nd full-length is out now... did I mention that already?

Also just released - "Speed Freak Killer" CDEP which contains our tracks from the 3-way split with Antigama & Noisear, plus 3 bonus tracks. The 3-way split tracks are some of my favourite THE KILL tracks that we have recorded... bridging the gap between MAKE 'EM SUFFER and KILL THEM... ALL, I'm particularly happy with the way my vocals sound on this recording, thanks to Jason Fuller/Goatsound recording them through a pre-amp to give them that harsh and distorted sound, brrrrrutal!

Check it all out here - https://blastasfuk.bandcamp.com/

Oh yes and THE KILL contributed a BLACK FLAG cover to this thing - https://goatsoundstudios.bandcamp.com/releases

Listen/download/donate to a worthy cause!

SETE STAR SEPT + SPASMOSLOP video

Been real slack with the blog for a while... so here's a fun video of a collab I did with SETE STAR SEPT when they toured in 2013... this is almost the full set - the shortest set I've ever played.
Mega cheers as always to Brendan/Kingbean for filming and uploading!

Lounge Pervert Trio & Friends @ Dane Certificate video

Some dark noisy video of a recent gig at Dane Certificate magic shop in Brunswick. Lounge Pervert Quintet? Fun gig! Thanks to Josh Cuss for filming.

Dan Tucceri - Keys
Brad Smith - Kit
Nik Kennedy - Vocals/FX
Shane Van Den Akker - Vocals/FX
David Seedsman - Sax/Noise makers

MANGIA @ DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 11/05/2014

+ GALACTAGOGUE
Deep penetration brutal noise

+ MANGIA
Dan Demonic - piano / Trent Paniflax - drums / Shane Donkey - vocals/noise / Nik Slop - vocals/noise

+ CENTREFOLD
Anxiety disorders....sludgy digital balladry and smashing beats....
https://soundcloud.com/centredfold/god-creates-man-creates-god?in=centredfold%2Fsets%2Ffolded

+ JUXTPOSE VS. JAMES ANNESLEY
Improvised Ewi/Sax courtesy of James from Virtual Proximity and beats from techno producer Juxtpose

+ PHANTOM GRAVELLER
Sax/Theremin/Feedback universe manipulation


539 Plenty Rd. Preston
Doors/Food/Coffee from 6:00pm
First act 7:30ish
$5 entry

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MANGIA should be fun! Really looking forward to playing with that combo of top-notch dudes, on another (if I do say so myself) cool varied line-up at Discobeans... should be very interesting! Also very keen to see Juxtpose play in improv mode, as he and I are currently working on a collaboration creating dark, noisy techno.

Collab with Vijay Thillaimuthu @ MIUC - 25/02/2014

This installment of Make It Up Club is a selection of brutalissimo sound purveyors lurking across thresholds of various soundworlds in the electronic crud-smeared underbelly of Melbourne's DIY noise arena. With a unifying love of suffocating densities and sublime reverberant immersion, Vijay Thillaimuthu's high-ish electrowizardry aesthetic and Nik Kennedy's low-ish scumcore sonic strategy render such descriptive dichotomies utterly irrelevant. Wikipedia defines Nathan Gray as an artistic standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and connectors capable of manipulating a variety of electronic musical instruments, computers and other aleatoric sources into connecting and communicating with one another. And the post-grim powered electronics of Ciarán Geoghegan will be wilfully smashed into the robust industrial-strength ambience borne of Todd Anderson-Kunert's electric assemblage, in a supercollision of extreme frequencies. 


•Vijay Thillaimuthu (Electronics) & Nik Kennedy (Voice, Clarinet, Electronics)

•Nathan Gray (Case Full of MIDI)

•Ciarán Geoghegan (Electronics) & Todd Anderson-Kunert (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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Feeling very lucky and stoked to be playing at MIUC again, this time in collab with Vijay Thillaimuthu doin some modular synth conjurations and whatnot... I've got some cool new tricks, processing voice and clarinet (of doom). Rock n roll...

KNIGHT/FIECK/KENNEDY @ MIUC - 11/02/2014

This Tuesday at the Make It Up Club prepare to get blasted into the electronic realm of the sonoverse as six electrifying young circuitry abusers inflict their will upon the speaker cones of Bar Open, your ears and brains. A first-time trio of epic sonic proportions, namely firebrand aural punishers Carey Knight, Samaan Fieck & Nik Kennedy, will rain molten detritus of mangled frequencies triggered by years of being called 'emerging artists'. Travis John presents a systematic and methodical torture session for guitar, wreaking intense sonic pressure on a robustly resonant body to evoke skull-splintering drones from a simple combination of string, pickup and amp. And scumcore noise brutalisers Harriet Morgan and Luke Holland channel analog scree as Armour Group, scouring the aether of the ancient occult, antediluvian war and archaic historical sources for sonic insight.


•Carey Knight (Electronics), Samaan Fieck (Electronics) & Nik Kennedy (Voice, Electronics)

•Travis John (Guitar)

•Armour Group feat. Harriet Morgan (Electronics) & Luke Holland (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

COLLAB WITH ANTHEA CADDY @ MIUC - 28/01/2014

This Tuesday is your last chance to aleatorically party on down for the Make It Up Club's sweet 16th birthday with our final four groups, representing three continents of sonic vocabulary, further fostering intercultural collaboration via communicatory spontaneous music creation and mutual construction of transcendent textures. Melbournian diasporic cellist Anthea Caddy returns to the MIUC stage on her yearly jaunt home from Berlin to the motherland for a clash of string and vocal resonance with oral force of nature Nik Kennedy to round out a killer month of rarefied cross-cultural collaborations. It has also been two years since American modular maven Ben Vida blasted dense synthetic frequency clusters at the architecture of Bar Open, but in 2014 he's here to celebrate improvisation by affecting and reacting to the patch pin matrix, knob and joystick manipulations of Mathew Watson to co-create some layered electronic ecstasy. We also have a first time Make It Up Clubber in British vocalist Viv Corringham, a notional storyteller of lingual deconstruction and textural liberation, ably welcomed to the environs of Melbournian improv by local legend and ambassador-of-impromptu Dave Brown. And a cavalcade of free jazz firebrands corralled by living luminary Kris Wanders and featuring double bassist Slawek Janicki, saxophonist Brett Evans, drummer Damien Ellis & keyboardist Jude Russel, contextualise that the MIUC would probably be nonexistent were it not for Ornette's actions over 50 years ago.


•Anthea Caddy [MEL/BER] (Cello) & Nik Kennedy (Voice)

•Ben Vida [US] (Modular Synth) & Mat Watson (Synthi AKS)

•Viv Corringham [UK] (Voice) & Dave Brown (Guitar, Objects)

•Kris Wanders (Saxes), Slawek Janicki (Double Bass), Brett Evans (Saxes), Damien Ellis (Drums), Jude Russel (Korg)


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

https://www.facebook.com/events/198809800307572/

PAUL KIDNEY ERKESTRA @ Musikunst, GB Hotel - 25/01/2014

Paul Kidney ERKESTRA ... 

Let the freak show begin, Melbourne's premier underground - psychedelic - experimental - noise - rock - outfit meet up with a bunch of Melbourne sound merchants to melt the fun receptors in your fragile little minds! 

This concert will consist of two pieces, one by the Paul Kidney Experience (Bonnie Mercer, Matt Gleeson, Lloyd Honeybrook, Peter James, Nell Day, Don Rogers, Dave 'The Hitter' Bullock, Ben Butcher and the majestic overlord of psychedelic mayhem himself Paul Kidney).

Then the second by 'Paul Kidney Erkestra' featuring the Paul Kidney Experience and fiends (Danny Walsh, Ian Parsons, Nic Tammens, Kerrie Farnsworth, Piers Morgan, Shane Van Den Akker, Mat Blackwell, Nik Kennedy and Trent Brown).

Plus an überdelic light show!

ERK - expressing panic or dismay. "Erk! What's that?"


Great Britain Hotel Basement
447 Church St. Richmond
4:00pm start
Free entry (I think)

https://www.facebook.com/events/431587646943785/

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Can't wait to make some mania with these freakazoids in the basement! Thanks to the Majestic Overlord of Psychedelic Mayhem for the invite and Piers Morgan for organising and keeping this ripper monthly series going.

TELEPORTER @ Musikunst - 26/10/2013

This month MUSIKUNST and All Tomorrows Hangovers presents 3 sets of pshych/noise/metal inspired band brawling, featuring conglomerations of aural tentacles of shreiking and brass and guitars and electronics and stuff!!! 

1. SHUDDUHBERRY
Horrormovie soundtracks for the warm-hearted and the hard of hearing
Piers du Voisin: amplified wood/steel/brass
Shane Van Den Akker: vocals
Steven Gill: electric guitar
Shane Caeser: drums

2. TELEPORTER
Psychic time-drift ejected from the void.
Yuka Discobeans: vocals
Nik Kennedy: instruments/electronics
Matt Faisandier: drums

3. BAND-BRAWL!
All in shit fight to the death

4pm Saturday 26th October
As always, doors 4 pm, performance 4:30 pm, $10 / $5 conc.
GB Hotel Basement 447 Church St Richmond

https://www.facebook.com/events/399721613487961/

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This was gonna be an Umbilical Tentacle gig but Brad couldn't do it so hey, new band - TELEPORTER. I've been jamming various psychedelic-y, noisy sounds with Matt for a while now but for this gig I'll be playing bass/electronics and processing the drum kit in an attempt to bend time, amongst other things. The collab at the end should be huuuuuuge too, can't wait. 
Thanks once again to Piers Morgan for organising these monthly gigs. The dark GB basement on a Saturday arvo is a perfect scenario for noisemusics!!

DUALS @ Conduit Arts - 28/09/2013

DUALS is a collaboration between Conduit Arts boards members Todd Anderson-Kunert and Leo Kavanagh. It will be an evening of noise makers and improvisers coming together to perform in duo formats over the course of the night. The match ups (noise/improviser) are random and shall be selected on the night of the gig making sure that each performance is free to be as open, spontaneous and instinctual as possible.

Performers on the night will be:

Todd Anderson-Kunert
Ciaran Geoghegan
Samaan Fieck
Spasmoslop
Leo Kavanagh
Brett Thompson
Lloyd James Honeybrook
Reuben Lewis

Tickets are $10 on the door with the money going towards the musicians on the night.

NOISE FLASH AFTERPARTY @ Discobeans - 01/09/2013

Interstate and local participants of Noise Flash stick their sonics into a PA - no FM radio required!

+ SHANE FAHEY (SYD)
Analogue synth noisemusic

+ DOG ACT
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+ ENDGAME (SYD)
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+ FLASHERS x 2
Two amplified collab groups made up of Noise Flashers, including Todd Anderson-Kunert, Dave Foreman, Carey Knight, Jonathon Nokes, Nat Grant, Stephen Richards, Piers Morgan, Nik Kennedy, Valleys + more

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DOORS & DELICIOUS DISCOBEANS FOOD FROM 6PM
FIRST ACT 7:30ISH
$5 ENTRY
539 PLENTY RD. PRESTON

DEER HEAD APPARITION @ Musikunst - 31/08/2013

This month MUSIKUNST welcomes the curatorship of the Deer Head Apparition team to the basement in a collective free-for-all in their typical fashion/tradition. 

Deer Head Apparition is a no core member, no exclusions music collective that meets periodically to fill a moment in time with their combined vision of sometimes noisy, sometimes psychedelic, always experimental musically sonic forces. 

As always, everyone welcome to participate, 'talent' and 'musical ability' not necessary or encouraged. The gig will be 'electric' so bring something noisy or bangy or amped. There will hopefully be a few spots to plug in to the PA but if anyone has small mixers that we can use to expand available slots for people and spare microphones this would be very appreciated!

Performance time will run from 4 - 7 pm and entry is free this month in keeping with DHA tradition

http://wagonbroadcastservice.org/deerhead/

FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/329990547058560

Mailing list: https://tinyletter.com/deerheadapparition

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Thanks to Piers Morgan for the opportunity!

Duo with SHANE VAN DEN AKKER @ "Vocal Folds" - 10/07/2013

Thursday 11 July, 6:30 for 7-8pm: 
Performances by Christopher LG Hill and Alex Vivian, Shane Van Den Akker and Nik Kennedy, Tarquin Manek

Gertrude Contemporary - 200 Gertrude St. Fitzroy

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Revisiting my vocals/electronics duo with Shane Van Den Akker as part of an exhibition of voice art and video at Gertrude Contemporary gallery, alongside some other ripsnorter vocalisers. I've also contributed my SPASMOSLOP album to the "listening library" upstairs. Thanks to Jacqueline Doughty for organising! More info here: http://www.gertrude.org.au/exhibitions/gallery-11/current-13/

(Photo taken from Gertrude Contemporary Facebook page)

20-20,000Hz @ Musikunst - 25/05/2013

"MUSIKUNST presents 20-20,000Hz Co-operative, a real time investigation of spaciousness though sound and improvised performance with some of Melbourne's most ectoplasmic sound artists including; Nik Kennedy, Nat Grant, Vijay Thillaimuthu, Stephen Richards, Todd Anderson-Kunert, Owen Harris, Matt Refund and Richie Cyngler. This will be an evening of sound exploration, collaboration, abstraction and innovation.
As always, doors 4pm, sounds 4:30pm, $5/$10 entry
GB Hotel Basement 447 Church St Richmond"

https://www.facebook.com/events/331585723634789/

Eight players, two PA's and a bunch of amps spread around a low-ceiling basement, should be a ripper. Thanks to Richie Cyngler & Piers Morgan for organising!

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 5th March 2012

BLARGHSTRAD VS. BAXTER

Deranged, hilarious and sweaty one-man band Blarghstrad Noisesmith (Brad Smith - drums/bass/vocals) is joined by Melbourne's beloved purveyor of percussive exploration, Sean Baxter (drums)

YUKO KONO

Sweet sounds of oriental flavoured folk tunes

RORY BROWN & NIK KENNEDY
Double-bass radical Rory Brown (NSW) teams up with vocalist/fx-pedal fetishist Nik Kennedy (AKA Spasmoslop) for a first-time duo collab. Expect anything from delicate noisescapes to dense black cacophony as acoustic and electronic sound worlds collide

SOCIAL CLIMBER

Analogue harsh noise/weird noise/uncomfortable noise to make you sick and improve your life

WHITE GUILT

Robbie Watt in solo mode. Heavy synth drone with occasional guitar/tape mangling

SHIRO

Japanese Darkness Dance

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238 High St.

Northcote

7:00pm / $5

Very stoked to play with Rory Brown for this one! His recent solo set at Make It Up Club was spectacular. One of Australia's most bruuuuuutal double bass players I think!