NGC 1275 debut gig @ MIUC - 06/03/2012

This week, we travel the sonic spaceways density and duration with some abstracted ambience, and some ferocious, classic free jazz. First up, a new duo from Nik Kennedy conceived as “otherworldly ambient atmospheres” with venerable guitarist Phillip Holquinn. And, Rory Brown’s return performance, this time leading a quartet of some of the fiercest and fieriest purveyors of the classic, post-Coltrane free jazz tradition.

• NGC 1275, featuring Nik Kennedy (voice/synths/electronics) and Phillip Holquinn (guitar/electronics)
• Kris Wanders (tenor sax), Brett Evans (baritone sax), Rory Brown (bass) Damian Ellis (drums)

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

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Pony - 02/02/2012

"DUMBSHIT is touring to Brisbane at the end of feb this gig is in 


melbourne to launch the tour 

if you like muzic loud strange weird and that breaks all barriers of muzic come to a night of bizarre muzic special guests, UMBILICAL TENTACLE ,WHITE VEINS , MATT BLEAK, ORRYELLE.
plus Lousy With Mines"

Hurray! UxTx finally play the delightfully trashy Pony bar! Small room, should be bruuuuutal.

Pony

68 Little Collins St. Melbourne

8:00pm / $8 entry

SPASMOSLOP @ The Prague - 19/01/12

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 9th January 2012

+ NINJA GAIJIN
DJ set of the filthiest cybergrind, digicore and metal infused breakcore, darkstep & brokencore.

+ GALACTAGOGUE DUO
Skelton & Kerrie shredding very brutally.

+ HEX ON THE BEACH
Symbols of ritual carved in the sand.

+ A.S.P.S.
Solo synth, singing & other good stuff.


@ Discobeans
238 High St. Northcote
7pm / $5
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UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Stutter, Gasometer - 12/01/11

+ Tetras (CH) - Jason Kahn - drums, percussion// Christian Weber - contrabass//Jeroen Visser - organ, electronics

+ Lucas Abela - glass noise

+ Umbilical Tentacle - Yuka Discobeans - vocals// Brad Smith - drums// Nik Kennedy - electronics

+ Oranj Punjabi - cassette, live samples

+ Casey Moir - extended voice

@ The Gasometer Hotel
484 Smith St. Collingwood

more  info here: CLICK

SPASMOSLOP @ NOISEBBQ - 21/01/2012

Crikey!

Marco Fusinato, Stitched Vision (NSW), Mshing (QLD), Cock Safari (NSW), Unique Oil Free Air (QLD), The Mermaids (NSW), Mitchell Brennan & Sean Baxter Duo, Oranj Punjabi, Junk Sick, Tim Coster, VDO, Galactagogue, Nic Tammens, Spasmoslop, Wife, FTRG, Radical Creation.

$15
NOISE from 1pm - late
Intermission / BBQ 5:30 - 6:45
BYO BBQ foods

RCKTSRGRY / NGC 1275 combo @ Tina's Studio - 17/12/11

Tina's having another party at her studio where two of my bands are coming together for a planet-moving spacey noise collab extravaganzaaaaa!

RCKTSRGRY MISSION TO NGC 1275
Tina Douglas - Wiimote/Laptop
Phillip Holquinn - Guitar/Electronics
Nik Kennedy - Vocals/Noisemakers/Electronics

Also playing: Mathew Greentree; Heitong singing traditional Chinese mountain songs; jamming; "open mic" and more to come.
It's a "private party" so I've blacked out the address, but if you wanna come, or possibly even play a set, email me or leave a comment here or something.

SPASMOSLOP playing @ Brunswick Beach - 28/11/11

 

MONDAY 28th – SPASMOSLOP [a.k.a. Nik Kennedy]: A NOISE VORTEX for the end of the world concocted out of a potent beach cocktail, a mike and who knows what else. (7:30pm, dur: 30 mins)

http://brunswickbeach.wordpress.com/ 

I'll be donning my finest summer tourist wear and relaxing on the beach while drinking/playing an apocalyptic hydrophonic cocktail, with an esky full of pedals. Thanks to Sonja Hornung for the invitation!

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 5th December 2011

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EOTFU @ DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 7th November 2011

ORANJ PUNJABI

Is a sound and performance project of Fjorn Butler using  no-input, tape and tape player sounds and found object manipulation. Psychedelic sludge mixed with library recordings of body noise.

LP HOVERCRAFT 

One man lost in the PAL cosmos, finding his way through black holes and fragmented signals, he adjusts luminance and chrominance to weave video feedback and looped radio transitions in order to try and find a new path back to earth, that is if the space madness doesn’t get him first.

END OF THE FUCKING UNIVERSE

Farewell your loved ones. Cosmos-destroying harshnoise beats, black hole subsonic voids and death bellows of the apocalypse. Libido Airbag gets arsefucked by Arse Destroyer.

EURO ZONE DEBT CRISIS 

'Video/Sonic Crisis concept
Euro Video Projection
Unstable forms
Pre Music'
'17 Euro Zone member states
27 European Union member states
17/27=0.6296
1 $US = 0.6241 Eu' 

BISON GRASS
Thoughts, rituals and meditations.

 

Discobeans

238 High St. Northcote

7:00pm / $5 entry

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EOTFU is a new project I'm doing with Jack Whitcroft (from The Swamp/Half A Head/Die Pigeon Die/Doubled Over)... ultra-processed brutal beats and monster sub-bass, goregrind gurgles and harsh screaming! Kinda like Libido Airbag meets Arse Destroyer meets Last Days of Humanity meets Passenger of Shit!!

SPASMOSLOP audio/video from Broken House gig - 23/10/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488J1JPthVg

Huge cheers to Aaron Wallace for posting up some broodle documentation from the gig on Sunday. And thanks again to the Broken House maniacs for having us, was a ripper gig!

Check it all out here: http://sonorousstrings.tumblr.com/post/11820509640/broken-house-october-23rd-2011-teen-ax-spasmoslop

SPASMOSLOP @ Broken House - 23/10/11

Thanks heaps to Cooper RSI and The Broken House gatekeepers for putting me on this sweeeeeeeeeet line-up!


Teen Ax (power electronic noise-rock from Sydney)
Reunion Sacred Ibis (loops, weirdness, Nintendo)
FTRG (Japanoise worshiping sound-violence)
Trichotillomania (brain slop + tape ooze)
Spasmoslop (parallel universe frequency vortex)


+ maybe others... details forthcoming.

Broken House, 52 Hope St., Brunswick
Enter via back alley.
Start around 2:00pm, finish around 5:00pm
Any questions, email: alteredstatestapes@gmail.com

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Black Market - 12/10/11

This Wednesday 12th October:

• UMBILICAL TENTACLE
  Harshfunking partynoisecoremania and vicious mullets with Yuka Discobeans (vocals/electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics) & Brad Smith (drums)
• VACENDAKRIZIN
  Insert description here.
• 25 DOLPHINS
  Bryce Sweatman & Ben Niiboy making dolphin noise... or something.

Gasometer Hotel
484 Smith St. Collingwood
8:00pm / $5

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 10th October 2011

THE SWAMP WITH STRINGS & PERCUSSION @ MIUC - 27/09/11

One of the most mind-blowing performances at MIUC earlier this year was The Swamp, a conceptual improvisation by Nik Kennedy featuring four grindcore vocalists utilising heavily processed voices through massive speakers. For this reprise, The Swamp is augmented by master junk percussion from Nat Grant and MV, and the grimcore cello aktions of Judith Hamann. And, a double treat from the North: No Anchor, Brisbane's finest no-core punknik's in extreme free improv mode, and the electroacoustic genius of Joe Musgrove, 1 half of internationally renowned audio-video abstraktionists, Botborg.


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


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

Coming up:
04/10/2011: Miles Brown and Matthew Brown.
11/10/2011: Ren Walters' This Ensemble.
18/10/2011: Jasmine Guffond (Ber); Tony Osborne (SYD); Oscil Ether (BRIS).
25/10/2011: Kevin Lo and Troy Naumoff.
01/11/2011: David Tolley's The Other.

DEATH BY CONES @ Black Market - 28/09/11

Black Market - Wednesday 28th September:

 + DEATH BY CONES
Life-shortening quadraphonic noise onslaught with Mark Skelton (brutal pedal noise/Peavy amp), Jack Whitcroft (brutal guitar noise/Sunn amp), Lloyd Honeybrook (brutal saxophone noise/Lab Systems amp), Nik Kennedy (brutal voice noise/Warwick amp)

+ AVENAIM/BAXTER/TALIA

First-time triple genius extended percussion collab from three of Australia's finest stuff-hitting blokes - Robbie Avenaim, Sean Baxter & Joe Talia

+ JOE MUSGROVE (QLD)

Visceral, synaesthetic real-time audio/visual processing, from one part of Botborg - http://botborg.com/

+ BLARGHSTRAD/NYLSTOCK
The demented one-man-band of Brad Smith (drums/bass guitar/vocals) turns full-fledged stadium rock band gone wrong with the abstract ultrashredding freakery of Chris Nylstock (guitar)


@ Gasometer Hotel
484 Smith St. Collingwood
8:00pm / $5

SPASMOSLOP (without) MILITARY POSITION @ Make It Up Club - 20/09/11

 Melbourne art-punk, Harriet Morgan, has been collaborating with Nik Kennedy for some time now, and their musical communication has become empathic. Employing sub bass drones and processes voice, the group creates whirlwinds of noise. Wank Bank is the new shitcore project started by Tommy Gunn, and promises faux goregrind, improvised toilet noise. And master experimental percussionist, Robbie Avenaim returns to Melbourne for a rare solo treat. A night of intense, shitcore inspired, avant improv.

• 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)

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
Coming up:
27/09/2011: No Anchor (BRIS); The Swamp with strings and percussion; Joe Musgrove (BRIS).
04/10/2011: Miles Brown and Matthew Brown.
11/10/2011: Ren Walters This Ensemble.
18/10/2011: Jasmine Guffond (Ber); Tony Osborne (SYD); Oscil Ether (BRIS).
25/10/2011: Kevin Lo and Troy Naumoff .
01/11/2011: David Tolley The Other.

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Unfortunately Harriet can't play this show anymore so I'm gonna be doing a SPASMOSLOP solo set instead. Synthoscillodrones/vocalisations/clangs.

SPASMOSLOP/CANDLESNUFFER collab @ Make It Up Club - 13/09/11

 This week sees the continuation of our profile of Nik Kennedy in a collaboration with Dave Brown. This performance focuses on Kennedy's use of home-made instruments, employing metal, breath, hydrophonics and effects, with Brown in full, macrosonic Candlesnuffer mode. Axximilation is a raw analogue duo featuring two young women who consistently impress with their novel deconstructions of punk-inspired improv. And Sydney-based experimental musician, Sam Pettigrew features in a duo with Ben Byrne, incorporating bass and laptop in an empathic improvised musique concrete milieu.

•  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) 

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

MADCAP MISADVENTURES

Made a little flyer for the busy month ahead, featuring one of my favourite movie characters of all time - Sardu from "Bloodsucking Freaks"!

MILITARY POSITION/SPASMOSLOP - "Spectral Gloom" CD-R on Magik Crowbar

MC046: MILITARY POSITION + SPASMOSLOP "Spectral Gloom" cdr (25x)
Blackened axe, oscillations and misanthropic howls from Harriet K Morgan and Nik Kennedy. A post-apocalyptic blizzard of isolation, evident in the fact that there were a whopping two people at this show. Recorded straight to Ken Oath's taser.

Magik Crowbar - http://mindtimedestroy.blogspot.com

Recording taken from our first gig ever/first time playing together as a duo, in Shane Van Den Akker's kitchen. No jamming/rehearsal, just straight in. Thanks heaps to Tommy Gunnnnn/Magik Crowbar for putting this out. Comes in a nifty DVD case featuring Tommy's distinctive cut-up artwork. Some copies on pure holocaust kids' party invitation paper with little party hats embossed on them, for extra darkness and grim vibes.