Recent gig photos

Thanks to Carey Knight for these cool pics...

DEATH BY CONES @ Conduit Arts

Shane Van Den Akker, Jenny Barnes, Anne-Lise Ah-Fat, James Tolman

Richie Cyngler, Peter James, Stevie Richards, Jason Heller

Llara Goodall, Tom Miller, Todd Anderson-Kunert, me

HUMAN LARD @ Longplay

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.

DEATH BY CONES @ Holdings - 25/10/2014

/// DEATH BY CONES
Samaan Fieck/Mark Groves/Nik Kennedy/Mark Skelton
Quadraphonic extreme noise onslaught... 4 x noisemakers, 4 x amps... audience go in the middle and find the sweet spot

/// BLEACH BOYS
Tape manipulations and conjurations with MV

/// BLARGHSTRAD
Brad Smith - bass/drums/vocals all at the same fockin time

/// TRUST
Noise discomfort with T.G. & L.O.

25th Oct 2014
@ Holdings
492 Bell St. Pascoe Vale South
3:00pm start
$5 entry

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It's been a long time since the last DEATH BY CONES... can't wait!! Thanks to Samaan/Holdings for hosting!

DEATH BY CONES @ MIUC 15th Anniversary - 15/01/2013

7.30pm Doors for an 8pm-sharp start.

The MIUC's 15th birthday celebrations kick off this Tuesday with five suitably diverse groupings - traversing the inaudible to the deafening, the organic to the processed, the tonal to the textural - all the while celebrating the sheer joy that is improvised music! A tip of the hat to MIUC's free jazz roots with the old-and-new-garde grouping of Ren Walters, James Mclean, Scott McConnachie, Brett Evans andChristopher Young kicks off proceedings; with the speaker-shredding aural violence that is Death By Cones quickly following to ensure you know for sure it's 2013. Two of the most beautiful extended voices in Melbourne, Carolyn Connors and Emma Albury, as well as two of the most terrifyingly grimm extended voices in Melbourne, Emma Albury and the entity known as Voidhanger, team up with the terrifyingly beautiful guitar of Alex Garsden for a cult collaboration of the most brutal/beautiful/brutiful kind. Bum Creek and Wife revive their awesomely confusing and confusingly awesome battle royale/collaboration for those unfortunate enough to have missed it at MIUC in early 2012. Finally, renowned French turntablist and 'musical travel agent' Philippe Petit goes head to head with Canberran guitarist Shoeb Ahmad for a world-class set of improv that should prove to be as deep, dark and immense as the Indian Ocean that usually separates the two.

- Philippe Petit (France) and Shoeb Ahmad (Canberra)
- Bum Creek vs. Wife feat. Trevelyan Clay, Sam Karmel, Tarquin Manek, Samaan Fieck and Eric Demetriou
- Voidhanger, Emma Albury, Carolyn Connors and Alex Garsden
- Death By Cones feat. Nik Kennedy, Phillip Holquinn, Mark Groves and Mark Skelton
- Ren Walters, James Mclean, Scott McConnachie, Brett Evans and Christopher Young

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
$5/$10

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Seriously humongous and gracious thanks to Sean Baxter, Stephen Richards, Lloyd Honeybrook, Kerrie Farnsworth, previous organises, supporters and everyone at Bar Open for keeping Make It Up Club running all these years. I first experienced MIUC as a performer in 2007. Having never really played completely unplanned live improvised music before, Sean threw me into a group with Robbie Avenaim, Max Kohane and Ray Ahn and effectively re-configured my perspective on what music can be. Through MIUC, I've been fortunate enough to see countless mind-blowing performances, introduce new people to improvised music, collaborate with a variety of fantastic people, and have an invaluable outlet for experimentation and new ideas. Going to MIUC gigs as a punter, there's an atmosphere of community and respect that makes it unlike any other gig around. Always a rewarding and fun experience.
Thanks heaps dudes!!

DEATH BY CONES @ MIUC - 26/06/2012

Next up at MIUC we focus on sonic abstraction utilising density-variation from analogue sources. The 13th annual Liquid Architecture festival of sound arts is upon us again, and thanks to LA, we have one of their featured artists, visionary Berlin-based improviser and sound sculptor Werner Dafeldecker, performing in collaboration with Melbourne’s Sean Baxter. Death By Cones, a monstrous quartet exploring the physical limits of the speaker cone, featuring four experts in the field of brutal noise. And, a duo of sublime, psychoacoustic energy featuring Rodney J Cooper and Leith Thomas, employing 2 of Cooper’s hand-made creations.

• Werner Dafeldecker (Berlin) (live samper and tape delay) and Sean Baxter (percussive junk)
• Death By Cones, featuring: Mark Groves (brutal junk metal and electronic noise/Hartke amp), Nik Kennedy (brutal oral noise/Warwick amp), Tom Miller (brutal motor noise/Toilet amp) and Mark Skelton (brutal slut noise/Peavey amp)
• Rod Cooper (the lowrider and motorised strings) and Leith Thomas (leverage)

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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Nice line-up, very excited for this one! 


http://www.facebook.com/events/249214081856356/

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

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"!