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!!

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

Last weeks' gigs

Forgot to post about these last week... good gigs! Thanks to everyone involved!

Photo by Carey Knight

The final Make It Up Club for 2015 features a motley crew of fourteen fine representatives from the myriad of Melbournian musicians who have bestowed the Club with aleatoric delights this year, congregating from their respective corners of the sonoverse to mutually revel in the splendour of spontaneous collaboration. Drawing on Annalee Koernig’s curatorial tactic for the Stutter Big Band of smashing together disparate improvisers adept at sensitive auditory engagement, participants from the new garde to the OG MIUC posse will utilise string, skin, wind and things to transmute slivers of mangled jazz, exquisite contemporary classical, brutal shitcore, lush drone, delectable noise, ecstatic psychedelia and boyzIImencore into a capriciously complex sonic entity attesting to the rich intricacy of our fertile local sonic terrain. There will be three sets of approximately 20 minutes length and no further imposed parameters, because improvisation and sonic liberation are awesome. 

• MIUC Big Band featuring:

Dave Brown (Strings)
Alex Garsden (Strings)
Lizzy Welsh (Strings)
Sean Baxter (Percussion)
Joe Talia (Percussion)
Maria Moles (Percussion)
Aviva Endean (Reeds)
Lloyd Honeybrook (Reeds)
Lisa MacKinney (Organ)
Carolyn Connors (Voice)
Peter Hyde (Voice)
Llara Goodall (Electronics)
Nik Kennedy (Electronics) 

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DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 19/10/2014

+ PASSENGER OF SHIT
Erotic speedcore. Trendy breakcore. Sadcore.
www.passengerofshit.com

+ OVE-NAXX
Eclectic breakcore/raggacore/IDM/music of the universe.
https://soundcloud.com/ovenaxx

+ EVES
Sine-wave based melodic hum-drone, slipping pitch-sliding harmonies, octaving loops, field recordings and vocal works with projection.
https://eves.bandcamp.com/
http://vimeo.com/eeves/lands-line

+ CIARAN & D.M.O.A.
Blackened dystopian noisescapery courtesy of Shane Van Den Akker & Ciaran Geoghegan.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RvK3i4YuZHg

+ THE DRUNKEN BOAT
The Drunken Boat is Dale Chapman and Tim Panaretos playing an assortment of instruments and electronic devices, some of them handmade. The sounds they make wander about (not aimlessly) on a continuum from spacey ethno-drone ambience to shit-core rock n' roll minimalism to spastic noise cacophony and not always back again.
https://soundcloud.com/the-drunken-boat

+ BÆDAN
fffvked up indulgent cello loop distortion yyyyah

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Doors/Food from 6:00pm
$5 entry
539 Plenty Rd. Preston

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Also here's the flyer from last month which I forgot to upload at the time...

It was a good one!

LOCATION SERVICES @ DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 10/08/2014

+ BLEACH BOYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKt1tbzebnM

+ LOCATION SERVICES
Stevie Richards - DIY Modular Synth -//&//- Nik Kennedy - Vocals/Electronics
https://soundcloud.com/supreme-overlord
https://soundcloud.com/cleaninglady
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/spasmoslop.html

+ DRACOPEDE (NSW)
https://soundcloud.com/dracopede

+ DOTABATA
http://dotabatadirt.blogspot.com.au/


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

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Looking forward to making some more noisemusics with Stevie! Previously just called cleaninglady/Spasmoslop, now called LOCATION SERVICES. What does the name mean? Dunno man... up to you!

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/

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)

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 5th September 2011

+ QANTASS

Bush doof prog/cybergrind gamelan by 3 lads engorged by morph sports. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUlEgnw9QTo

+ CULM

 Improvised techno that is influenced by grime, juke and noise

+ WRONG ROOM

Early morning longing for the night before. Dark beats, dual drones, noise and the voices of ghosts. http://soundcloud.com/wrongroom

+ HEX ON THE BEACH

Invoking spirits amongst frostbitten palm trees.

+ WANK BANK

Bludgeoned toilet noise porngrind.

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 4th July 2011

+ BISCOTTI

Baking wonky beats that will break your knees and groove lines that will simmer until you are boiling. Kooky, colourful cocktail of sounds and dance with recipes from around the world and special home secrets.

+ SPASMOSLOP

Bruce McDarryl: Demented voiceboxisms, blown-out beats, mondo manic static, subsonic gut massages, malfunctioning cyborg errors and fuck knows what else.

+ PORPOISE TORTURE

Dark tape sounds, manipulation and grimisms of the voice from Christopher L.G. Hill (KRYSTOFFKRVSTOFFISTON, MOFFARFARRAH, GUGG, GAUNTLET etc.) No porpoises will be harmed during this performance.

+ ERNIE ALTHOFF

Ernie Althoff has been performing experimental music in Melbourne for 33 years. The fact that some of his audience aren't even that old themselves indicates some kind of perseverance and/or survival skillbase that he sees as a good thing! He may bring some electrically powered music machines, and other assorted bits and pieces with which to do sonic things at table height.

+ ENDLESS BEAUTY

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HOLY BONER & YUKA & DXN TXCCXRX @ IRENE'S - 07/05/11

SEPTUOR NIGHTS - 7 BANDS - 7 BUCKS - 7TH MAY - 7PM

 

 7th of May

Doors open 7PM.
...
7 Dollars will bring you:::

7.30PM- (Main Room)
Niko Niko- 

Trippy prog sojourns north and south of the equator to jamsville and beyond, with added freakouts.

8.00PM- (Lounge Room)
GNAUMGN-
The sound of A Demon Sheen and Dvd Prsctt-Std condensed into aural vibrations and catatonic black metal noise manipulations

8.30PM- (Main Room)
BAADDD-
A two headed miniature beast of burden by the name of HoofKake will rear it's bizarrely shaped head for all to be enthralled by it's spastic motions and squawking

9.00PM- (Lounge Room)
Infinite Decimals-
Sonic pastiches of unfamiliarity thrown against a canvas of eardrums within a psychedelic and improvised medium

9.30PM- (Main Room)
Holy Boner w/ Yuka & DXN TXCCXRX-
The mind melting noise fuckery of Nik and Brad meet the banshee wailings and piano desecrations of past collaborators Yuka and Dan

10.00PM- (Lounge Room)
Dead Ants Trio-
The result of a young and delicate flower by the name of Troy deciding to warp minds with an incomparable brand of improv-noise-skronknastics

10.30PM- (Main Room)
disrupture-
Members have had past experience in religious vocations having preached the sermon of the Reverend Kriss Hades and the Cult of the Placenta Head. As a result, ear drums have been perforated, blackouts have happened onstage and toasters have been destroyed. You've been warned!

How to get there if you haven't been before---
Irene's Warehouse is on Pitt St, a little dead end street just before the East Brunswick Club. Trams no. 1 and 8 will get you there. Here's a Google map... http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=il

Hope to see you there- should be an awesome night!

Artwork for the gig done by the Dutch master, Shane Van Den Akker.

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HOLY BONER & YUKA @ R9 Racket - 08/04/11

R9

Sound, Art, Experiments. Transmissions from the outer limits at Miss Libertine's Band room from 6:30 pm till midnight. $5 entry.
34 Franklin St. City
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Sean Baxter
Drop Bear
Holy Boner & Yuka
Captain Satan
Inxile
Maria Rozalia Finna
Tim Catlin
Netzair
Schweinhund
cat full of GHOSTS

SWEATMAN & KENNEDY INC. @ DISCOBEANS - 04/04/11

First time duo collab with one of my favourite Melbourne drummers Bryce Sweatman (Psychward Cult/Pathetic Human/Chrome Dome/The Zingers) - sweet! We've been jamming and recording some dark vibes lately using processed percussion/vocals/keyboard kinda shit. Also really looking forward to Harriet Morgan (Psychward Cult/Murgh'terr) playing solo under the highly enjoyable name Military Position.

RCKTSRGRY videos!

A bit of a preview for our gig next week. Check out these nifty RCKTSRGRY videos put together by Tina Douglas using mashed old sci-fi movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Re-g5NNbsk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpf6pxa5ANw

RCKTSRGRY @ Make It Up Club - 15/03/11

 Breath and the occult art of the ancient XYZ coordinate radiomap feature in this week's concert. Sydney voice artist Tony Osborne returns with his extended, jumbled and reconfigured explorations of the possibilities of vocal enunciation and (in)communicative action. RCKTSRGRY make a rare appearance that expands the limits of the space/time/sound intra-dimension. And the raw power of really smooth screeching/howling by local voice-master, Shane Van Den Akker.

• MADHEAD AKA Tony Osborne (Syd) (solo vocals and electronics)
• RCKTSRGRY featuring Nik Kennedy (adapted instruments and electronics) and Tina Douglas (hacked'n'cracked wiimote)
• Shane Van Den Akker (voice)

The Make It Up Club
www.myspace/makeitupclub
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


Flyer by Tina Douglas! It's been a while since RCKTSRGRY played so I'm really stoked for this one. And we'll be playing to kooky sci-fi visual projections created by Tina, sweeeeeet!

Discobeans March!

www.discobeans.com

Discobeans monthly gig #2!! This one is looking like a cracker with another nice varied line-up. I think this will be the 2nd Ove-Naxx show since he moved to Melbourne from Osaka, and I'm especially stoked to finally see Liam Haryono's (from Psychward Cult / Pathetic Human / Flesh World etc) Tea & Sympathy Symphony solo project for the first time.

The February gig was really great - big turnout and very solid performances all round. Thanks to everyone that came down. I took this crappy pic of Clickjaw's set on my phone:

Laptops/Nintendo Wii controller/interactive visuals/voice combo was intense and had the audience completely entranced, especially during the squirm-inducing webcam transfusion finale which left everyone speechless and in a gloriously uncomfortable silence when the set ended. A magic moment!