'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!

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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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!

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!

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...

LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO @ The Evelyn - 17/01/2014

First official gig for LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO - Dan Tucceri on piano, Brad Smith on drums, me on vocals/noise...

Here's a video from our last gig, playing as "Denial De Monic vs. Holy Boner", thanks to Jules for putting it up!

Denial De Monic vs Holy Boner from Jules Dazzle on Vimeo.

Hopefully we'll play some more gigs in the near future!

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.

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!

BLACK MARKET June 2011 program

Black Market continues at a new venue with more excellent line-ups. Most of the shows for this month have been "guest-curated", including the 29th which I put together, eyyyyyy. I'm fuggin stoked for this line-up so here's some more info:

- HOLY BONER + ROBBIE AVENAIM - ultra blastbeat mania improv noisecore set with Brad (drums), Nik (vocals/electronics) & Robbie (drums and robo-drums)

- DIE PIGEON DIE - disgusting, filthy, ultra-heavy goregrind with Jack (guitar/gurgles), Leo (bass/gurgles) & Christoph (drums)

- NATASHA ANDERSON - spine-tingling noisescapes using computer manipulation of custom-made block flute/periscope of dooooom

- WANKO SPECIAL - debut solo performance of Yuka Discobeans! I have no idea what to expect, except that it will be cool as

Can't wait!

BLACK MARKET May 2011 program

 

Psychward Cult playing tonight!

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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FUCKED @ MAKE IT UP CLUB 03/05/11

Fucked will be playing this very cool line-up at Make It Up Club in a couple of weeks:

• Morten J Olsen (percussion) and Sean Baxter (percussion)
• Fucked! Featuring: Nik Kennedy (voice and noise), Lloyd Honeybrook (alto saxophone and noise) and Robbie Avenaim (drumkit and noise)
• Carolyn Connors (voice) and Judith Hamman (cello)
  
  
  
  
  Nice!

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.

FUCKED @ The Tote 20/03/11

"Many in Melbourne first witnessed the power of Defektro Live at KTL (Featuring Stephen O'Malley of SUNN O))) in June 2008. And it has been a long long wait for his return.
In the time between, "Metal_And_Bone_Servitude", a studio collaboration between Defektro and The Bastard Noise was released, selling out almost instantly and becoming a cult hit with lovers of noise worldwide.
Formed in Tokyo, Japan in 1995 as a three piece industrial/noise unit, Defektro is currently the one man operation of Hirofumi Uchino and based in Sydney.
Hirofumi is known and respected worldwide as much for the instruments and effects pedals he builds as the extreme forms of music he creates with them.

Live performances from this truly unique artist are all too rare. It is with great honour that WeEmptyRooms is able to present this event with such a quality lineup at one of Melbourne's greatest live venues.

Also WeEmptyRooms will be doing some killer deals on all label stock and distro at the mercy desk so vinyl lovers bring ya dosh."

FUCKED

Lloyd Honeybrook - horrendous blown-out saxophonics

Robbie Avenaim -ultrablasts and robodrums

Nik Kennedy - oral gymnastics

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!

Holy Boner with Yuka @ Tape Projects 12/03/11

Holy Boner have another collab gig with Yuka Discobeans this weekend!


MYCETOZOA SOUND MARINADE

Please join for Das Butcher & Chronox tour-warming wing wang...

DAS BUTCHER..............................Diabolical Dirge Donut
HOLY BONER with YUKAAA................Wukka wukka wukka!
CHRONOX....................................Light, dope, locked grooves
+DEE JAYS....................................Ecstatic/ Esoteric type

8PM.. TAPE PROJECTS 1/81 BOUVERIE ST. CARLTON
SATURDAY 12 MARCH 2011.. $FIVER

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!

HOLY BONER @ IDGAFF

"Shane Van Den Akker and Corey Keem's Improvised noise duo "I Do'd It" perform their second gig as part of this event. Kicks off early, 5pm. "I Do'd It" are on first, experimental noisecore act "Holy Boner" on second and the almighty rock gods and godess "Fred" to take it home. Bring your earplugs! Bruta-ful noise!"

Early! 

Be early!