MILITARY POSITION/SPASMOSLOP @ State of Decay - 10/09/11

CHAPMAN & BAILEY GALLERY - JOINTHASSLES & HELEN HUGHES - STATE OF DECAY

10 September – 1 October

A group show curated by Helen Hughes & Harriet Morgan
Opening Saturday 10 September 3:00-5:00pm

STATE OF DECAY looks at the literal and metaphoric concept of deterioration within life and imagery. The ever-impending feeling of both existing and ending, and the effect we have on the all the elements that go together to make the world we live in. The artists involved all differently communicate this aesthetic or ideology, displaying their thoughts on decomposition, mortality, decay and adverse experimentation within their visual and audio practices, whilst also simultaneously communicating how a human might feel, operating on a day-to-day basis- within this decaying and rotting earth.

STATE OF DECAY embodies the conscious & unconscious impact of living, the outcome of death, the emotional mindset associated with it all & the visual effects that fading, ageing, rotting, wear, time or hand can have on an image and the mind.


The exhibition runs from 10th September to 1st October 2011

Stewart Cole / Marco Fusinato / Mark Groves / Blake Hesken / Christopher L G Hill / Luke Holland / Tom Miller / Harriet Morgan / John Nixon / Alex Vivian

Opening Performances from MILITARY POSITION/SPASMOSLOP + MSHING + DEAD BOOMERS

Reflective written responses from Christopher LG Hill / Helen Hughes / Harriet Morgan / Simon Taylor

Chapman & Bailey Gallery

350 Johnston St. Abbotsford

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Very stoked to be playing this! The gallery at Chapman & Bailey is a large room with high ceiling, big windows and a concrete floor ie. the sound will be bruuuuutal!!

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Make It Up Club - 06/09/11

 September sees a month of shows featuring Nik Kennedy, one of Melbourne's most exciting and inventive noise improvisers in four unique combinations. For his first performance, he is joined by long-time collaborators, Yuka Mikayama and Brad Smith in a chaotic, ecstatic and joyfully stupid project of partynoisecoremania. Sam Dunscombe convenes a trio of very recent group explorations into the “labyrinthine dungeons” of MaxMSP audio coding language (as he refers to it). Along with Jess Pinney and Kim Tan, the trio juxtaposes the warm and the cold, the fake and the real, the abstracted and the empathic, the clinical and the emotional potentials of this amazing digital tool. And, with immense pleasure, we welcome cornetist Felicity Provan back to Melbourne for a brief visit from her home in the Netherlands. A champion of abstract improv, free and modern jazz in Melbourne during the 80s and 90s, she is joined by Dutch colleague, improv legend and current Australian resident, Cor Fuhler. 

• Umbilical Tentacle featuring: Yuka Mikayama (vocals and electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals and electronics) and Brad Smith (drumkit)
• Doom Cube, featuring: Samuel Dunscombe (MaxMSP), Jessica Pinney (MaxMSP), and Kim Tan (MaxMSP)
• Felicity Provan (cornet and voice) (NL), Cor Fuhler (keyolin) (NL)

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

Make It Up Club - September 2011

I'm playing every week!

 

September 6th

• Umbilical Tentacle featuring: Yuka Mikayama (vocals and electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals and electronics), Brad Smith (drumkit)
• Doom Cube, featuring: Samuel Dunscombe (MaxMSP), Jessica Pinney (MaxMSP), and Kim Tan (MaxMSP)
• Felicity Provan (cornet and voice) (NL), Cor Fuhler (keyolin) (NL)

September 13th

• Nik Kennedy (sub bass processed voice, homemade instruments, electronics and effects) and Dave Brown (macrosonically effected electric guitar)
• Axximilation, featuring: Pandie Panther and Battle Pussy (drum kit, voice, tapes, laptop and distortion)
• Ben Byrne (laptop and electronics) and Sam Pettigrew (SYD) (bass and electronics)

September 20th

• Military Position vs. Spasmoslop, AKA: Harriet Morgan (bass/electronics) Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics)
• Wank Bank, featuring: Stewart Cole (pitch shifted vocals), Tommy Miller (drumkit) and Michael Bugsy (abused guitar)
• Robbie Avenaim (extended percussion)

September 27th

• No Anchor (BRIS), featuring: Alex Gillies (drumkit), Donovan Miller (bass) and Ian Rogers (bass)
• The Swamp with strings and percussion, featuring: Brad Smith (vocals and electronics), Jack Whitcroft (vocals and electronics), Leo Whitcroft (vocals and electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals, bog sounds and electronics), Judith Hamann (cello), Maya-Victoria (percussion) and Nat Grant (percussion)
• Joe Musgrove (BRIS) (a/v processing)

Massive cheers to Sean Baxter for putting these rather bloody marvelous line-ups together!

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.

BLACK MARKET Aug 2011 program

More info on the 17th show which I put together:

+ CANDLESNUFFER - Solo guitar/electronics from one of Australia's most interesting and innovative guitarists, Dave Brown. www.candlesnuffer.org

+ F L A T H E A D - Terry McDermott (software) and Piers Morgan (hardware). Feedback guitar discharges textures ranging from delicate and brittle to cacophonous and dense. These sonic streams are refracted by frozen percussive interjections and granulated using custom-built software, to be projected into the void...

+ SPECTRAL GLOOM - Crawling hypnotic black noise dirge from Harriet Morgan (bass/electronics) and Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics)

+ BIG BIRD & THE SMELLY DICKS - rowdy hardcore punk from your ol' mate Big Bird and some other smelly blokes.

SFHS @ Black Goat!! 19/08/11

Super Fun Happy Slide will be playing this nifty gig @ Black Goat the night before Holocaust In Your Head. Will be our last shows for a while so come down!

+ INEBRIOUS BASTARD

+ SUPER FUN HAPPY SLIDE

 

+ COUNTER ATTACK

+ PANEL VAN HALEN

+ HEX ON THE BEACH

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 1st August 2011

FUCKED video by Nylstock

Cheers to Chris Nylstock of Venting Gallery/Unaustralians for posting this Fucked video, taken from one of our gigs at Make It Up Club... I think. Evidently this is #761 from the "1000 Short Movies About Experimental Music" project that Mr. Nylstock has been working on for several years now. Check out the other vids in his channel, including a maaaarvelous capture of my noisehomeboy Brad Smith playing solo @ Noise Bar.

THE SWAMP @ Make It Up Club - 19/07/11

 Tuesday July 19th, 2011

Subsonic timbres and gurgling textures feature in this week's concert. The Swamp, boasting a quartet of irreverent firebrands from Melbourne's internationally renowned grindcore scene (Die Pigeon Die, Holy Boner, The Kill and Internal Rot, no less), explore the limits of voice-noise and effected density. The debut performance of a new realtime processing/diatonic feedback project from Terry McDermott and Piers Morgan. And Sydney emigre, Milica Stefanovic makes her MIUC solo debut, with extended and abstracted electric bass guitar.

• The Swamp, featuring: Brad Smith (voice/fx), Jack Whitcroft (voice/fx), Leo Whitcroft (voice/fx), Nik Kennedy (bog sounds/voice/fx)
• F L A T H E A D featuring: Terry McDermott (software) and Piers Morgan (hardware)
• Milica Stefanovic (electric bass)

The Make It Up Club
www.myspace.com/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

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It kinda sounds like a scene from a horror movie where someone is walking through a spooky swamp, then gets eaten alive by swamp monsters. Pictured: my set-up, including aquarium air bubbler (of doom).

SPASMOSLOP/MILITARY POSITION collab @ VDA House - 09/07/11

Playing a house show tonight for a first-time collab with MILITARY POSITION (Harriet Morgan) @ 407 Johnston St. Abbotsford - 6:00pm!

Harriet - Blackened Axe

Nik - Voices from the Grave

Other bands/acts playing too, but I'm not sure who!

THE KILL @ Bendigo Hotel 15-07-11

Making their return from a triple-pronged grind attack on the U.S, Internal Rot, The Kill and Doubled Over smash out their first shows back in Australia on the one bill, with the detestable accompaniment of Garbage Guts to (de)flesh out a devastating night of grindcore! Internal Rot are launching their new 7" out on the illustrious 625 Productions and Crucificados Records and Doubled Over are launching a split 7" with Colorado's Roskopp, not to be confused with the Melbourne band Roskopp who Doubled Over and Internal Rot share members with. If you like things ridiculously fast, preposterously heavy or sickeningly gory this show will give you the kick in the pants you need! Come and get blasted!

INTERNAL ROT (7" LAUNCH)
THE KILL
DOUBLED OVER (SPLIT 7" LAUNCH)
GARBAGE GUTS

8:30PM
$10 ENTRY

SUSIE'S GONE @ Yah Yah's - 14/07/11

 Thursday 14th July:

Caught Ship
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKftiVC7By0&feature=related

Mad Nanna
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZt5Wjsxl8&feature=related

Old Growth Cola (QLD)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Quct_PGbc

Susie's Gone
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Susies-Gone/209166115761433

@ Yah Yah's

99 Smith St. Fitzroy

Pretty sure Susie's Gone are headlining and the line-up is:

Gareth "Ginger Meggs" Thomson - Drums
Julius "The Bully" Millar - Bass
Lloyd "Llod The Hinnybinch" Honeybrook - Turntables and boogieddancing
Nic "Artfag" Tammens - Guitardom and hipster cred
Nik "Brutalboogie" Kennedy - Vokills and grindcore faces
Mitch "Digiman" Brennan - Electroacoustic Mastery/Laptoppery and Newcastlery
Lachlan "Beewee" Barwise - Vacuum Cleaner and Ladiesmannery
Trevelyan "S'Avant Garde" Clay - Vocals and Hypeman
Samaan "Wifey" Fieck - Tapes and KIPL reps

CANCELLED - SPASMOSLOP @ Catfood Press 26/06/11

This Spasmoslop gig with Muddy Lawrence etc. has been cancelled because the fun police have put a stop to gigs at Catfood Press. Cool. Good idea, dickheads.

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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SFHS playing HOLOCAUST IN YOUR HEAD 20/08/11

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Holocaust-in-your-Head/217700821589626

SPASMOSLOP @ Catfood Press 26/06/11

"It's Muddy Lawrence 3 tape, tape launch!

Line-up:
Muddy Lawrence
Diploid
Spasmoslop
Ross
Culm
Lethe
Manley Pointer

Doors open : 2:30
Cost: $2.50

All ages!"

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!

THE KILL did the USA

 The Kill have just been on tour on the East Coast of USA playing Maryland Deathfest and a bunch of sweeeet shows in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington DC and Philadelphia. There are already a few videos up on youtube:

The Kill @ Maryland Deathfest

The Kill @ The Bordello, Philadelphia

The Kill @ Strange Matter, Richmond

And photos around if ya do a bit of searching. Thanks to the people who shot these and put them up. Super huge mega thanks to our driver and "cultural advisor" Jason Wade and everyone who helped organise stuff, let us crash at their house, fed us, attended to the shows, moshed up a storm and made us feel so welcome. Extra mondo ultra-brutal grinding thanks to the other bands we played with, especially our tour-mates Noisear and Shitstorm, who absolutely ripped arse every time they played, and our fellow Aussies in Doubed Over and Internal Rot. Mad holy-fuck-that-was-good thanks to Last Days of Humanity for blowing my balls off at MDF. It was my grind nerd dream come true to see these guys play! I might post more about all this later...

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 6th June 2011

Another ripsnorter line-up, if I do say so myself. Can't wait to see Discobeans godmother Yuka's new duo collab with Mel Toxic Lipstick, and James Rushford/Jess Pinney/Simon Hanselmann's Tight Passage. "Sludgy Psych Shit" according to James. Bonza.
Couldn't be happier with how this series has been going so far. Thanks heaps to everyone that has played and attended these gigs! Onward!

BLACK MARKET May 2011 program

 

Psychward Cult playing tonight!