New on Shame File Music & mailorder

Order the items below and more from http://ShameFileMusic.com 

  • Chun-liang Liu ‘Friction’ (online/ltd edition CDR) – This debut release from the Taiwanese performing artist is a selection lo-fi recordings Chun-liang makes as she moves through the world in both Australia and Taiwan, a travelogue and soundscape overlaid with vocalisations and song. A very limited edition of 30 beautiful handmade CD covers designed and constructed by Kuan-Chiun Chuang on exquisite French paper stock. Each disc has an individual Chinese character hand-written by Chun-liang. Pre-orders are now available and moving fast, get in quick to secure your copy (shipping late July).

Friction

  • The Instrument Builders Project ‘Hits From the Gong’ (230 x 300 mm full colour softcover book) – Years in the making, this printed monster of an edition comes in a specially designed cardboard box and features eye popping full colour images and descriptions of The Instrument Builders Project; an Australia/Indonesia collaboration of experimental instrument makers that took place across three editions in Yokgyakarta, Indonesia and Melbourne, Australaia in 2013 and 2014. The book features essays and conversations by Helen Hughes, Antariksa, Wok The Rock, Serena Bentley and Edwina Brennan, and curators Kristi Monfries and Joel Stern. Limited edition of 400.

 

  • Peter Farrar ‘Avocado’ (LP/CD) – Debut solo release from Sydney alto sax monster, who uses plastic bags and bottles as mutes to create an astonishing array of textures. From the extreme vibrating shronk of the title track, to “Light Green” which sounds not unlike a field recording of squawking jungle birdlife, this album is riveting listening. A punk Jim Denley, perhaps? LP is limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, also available on CD.

 

  • Various Artists – ‘All My Sins Remembered: The Sonic Worlds of John Murphy’ (3CD + booklet) John Murphy was at the cutting edge of Australian underground music since the 1970s, and later a key player in the forging of European industrial music. His influence and collaborative reach is extensively documented in this beautiful 3 CD set, spanning 40 years of musical output (from 1975 to 2015, the year of Murphy’s death). The bands and projects here of which Murphy was a member are a veritable roll call of the dark/noise/industrial canon, including NEWS, Whirlywirld, Orchestra of Skin and Bone, SLUB, SPK, Whitehouse, Lustmord, Browning Mummery, KnifeLadder and countless others. The CDs are housed in a lavish full colour cardboard foldout box, which also includes a 32 page booklet with photos and notes by several Murphy collaborators and friends. Limited edition of 750, but only a handful available in Australia.

Hits from the Gong

hitsfromthegong-web

I wrote about The Instrument Builders Project exhibition in Melbourne in late 2014, and this piece is included in the new book documenting the project Hits from the Gong, along with full colour documentation of artists and instruments, as well as other writings by Joel Stern, Helen Hughes and more. Copies are available from Shame File Music.

Upcoming performances (June-August 2016)

Saturday 18 June 2016 – Waranga Film Festival, Rushworth

Performance of “If I Am A Musical Thinker” by Carmen Chan, Llara Goodall & Clinton Green + street improvisations.

Monday 25 July 2016, 7:30pm – La Musica, La Mama, 205 Faraday St, Carlton

Solo performance for multiple turntables and remote-activated percussion. Also performing is Michiko Morita.

Facebook event

Friday 29 July 2016, 8pm – Aeso Studio, 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

‘Friction’ – with Moe Chee (first performance for 2016, and last performance probably for a long time) + Jenny Barnes, Tim Catlin.

Facebook event

Friday 5 August 2016, 8pm – Cross Street, 16-22 Cross St, Brunswick

THIS Ensemble – first public performance for 2016.

Facebook event

‘RPMs 2’ cassette now online

My 2011 ‘RPMs 2’ cassette was released in 2011 by Altered States. Now sold out, it’s been reissued online for free streaming/download by Shame File Music. This is the second in a series of albums I released on various labels from 2010 to 2012 documenting the RPMs series of compositions for turntables (see Discography for details).

Performances – May 2016

GAIP ‘gather’

GAIP in conjunction with TESTING GROUNDS presents gather  a 24 hour performance event on May 14/15, 2016 at Testing Grounds, 1 – 23 City Road, Southbank, Saturday 6:00 pm. until Sunday 6:00 pm.

From the GAIP website:

gather will function, in part, as a closing ceremony, marking the end of a chapter for Testing Grounds (which will undergo a major upgrade over winter).

There will be no programmed performances, instead, spontaneous, adhoc, on-the-spot collaborations, and an improvisational approach to performance of any material will be the predominant mode of relation, forming a constantly negotiated improvisational ecology.

Video from a GAIP event at Testing Grounds in 2014 below:

Avantwhatever Monthly

  • Clinton Green (solo performance)
  • Tim Coster
  • Todd Anderson-Kunert

Wednesday May 18, 2016, 7pm at The Alderman (upstairs), 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East.

Avantwhatever website

Facebook event

Intersection 2

Thursday May 19, 2016, 11am-1pm, cnr of Swanston and La Trobe Streets, Melbourne.

Event orchestrated by Ren Walters, following on from last year’s Intersection event (video below).

Carmen Chan’s “Do You See What I Hear?” wins second prize

chapelst
Photo: Carmen Chan

Carmen Chan has taken out second prize in the Chapel Street Art Town awards. Carmen’s work drew on a four hour street performance earlier this year with myself and Llara Goodall, and incorporated video, audio and visual art work created during this time into the resulting multi-media piece. Congratulations, Carmen!

Carmen’s and other works are being exhibited at Chapel Off Chapel until 14 May 2016.