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New on Shame File Music: Cat Hope/White Drummer “Surface Noise Vol. 2” CDR

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 Cat Hope/White Drummer Surface Noise Vol. 2 CDR – “Fetish 25” sees Perth’s Cat Hope in bass guitar noise mode, screaming into pickups and coaxing deep frequencies from the strings with radios and whips. White Drummer takes subterranean noise literally, playing solo drumkit whilst being lowered into the icy waters of the Derwent river at MONA FOMA in 2013, not missing a beat as she continues to play assisted by breathing apparatus, all recorded live here. Ltd edition of 50 hand-numbered copies, split release with Iceage Productions.

Available from Shame File Music

Quiet Noise IV – this Saturday

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Paul and Ren

Quiet Noise IV

Saturday 28 February, 3pm.
House Show
15 Neil Street, West Footscray
THIS Ensemble
The Paul Kidney Experience

The Quiet Noise house/backyard show tradition of unamplified experimental music and jumbo veg biriyanis enters its fourth year with an unprecedented battle of two of Melbourne’s most out-there large form improvising groups.

The Paul Kidney Experience is a raging psychedelic beast who routinely destroy eardrums and blow minds with their high volume jams, but on this occasion they have accepted the Quiet Noise challenge to perform sans-speakers, unplugged for the first time. But do not expect introspective acoustic guitars played seated on bar stools…The PKE on this occasion will feature Don Rogers, Matt Gleeson, Lloyd Honeybrook, Ben Butcher, Nell Day, Peter James, Rodney J Cooper, Dave ‘The Hitter’ Bullock, and Paul Kidney.

THIS Ensemble is a constantly-shifting improvising organism manifested by Ren Walters. The line-up is never the same, and has incorporated dancers, actors, visual artist, puppets as well as some of Melbourne’s most adventurous musicians, often performing over long periods of time.

Free entry/free music (you may want to kick in a few dollars for a share in a jumbo veg biriyani afterwards).

‘In Situ’ limited edition CD out now.

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Photo: Todd Anderson-Kunert
Photo: Todd Anderson-Kunert

Clinton Green ‘In situ’ CD – OUT NOW: Composed from turntable manipulations of Todd Anderson-Kunert’s ‘The situation we’re in’ seven inch vinyl. Available in an edition of 30 CD’s, each with an individually hand constructed collaged cover made by Jessica Anderson-Kunert (using visual source material from the same release). Available from Shame File Music and nonlinear.

‘In Situ’ CD launch this Sunday

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This Sunday afternoon I’m launching my brand new CD ‘In Situ’ at Strange Neighbour gallery in Fitzroy.

‘In Situ’ is composed from turntable manipulations of Todd Anderson-Kunert’s ‘The situation we’re in’ seven inch vinyl. Available in an edition of 30 CD’s, each with an individually hand constructed collaged cover made by Jessica Anderson-Kunert (using visual source material from the same release). Available on the day, or afterwards from http://www.thisisnonlinear.com and Shame File Music.

Facebook event

Strange Neighbour

More Talk, Less Action – Improvisation: How To Win.

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More Talk, Less Action

Improvisation: How To Win

Thursday 19 February, 2015 – 7:30pm

West Space, Level 1, 225 Bourke St, Melbourne

$10

Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/348222642011620/

MTLA 2014

Panellists/performers:

* Lloyd Honeybrook (Make It Up Club, Overground Festival, hate saxophonist)

* Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (experimental vocalist, teacher/workshop facilitator)

* Adam Simmons (Festival of Slow Music, teacher, saxophonist, reeds)

Moderated by Clinton Green.

What is the purpose of improvisation? Traditionally improvisers were supposed to serve the song and the music, but is “free improv” too often a free-for-all, with the loudest and most dominating voice “winning”? What principles should a good improviser be guided by, and what bad habits should they avoid? Audience members may want to share their personal horror stories …

In addition, the panel of sage improvisers will perform Clinton Green’s game piece Good Improv/Bad Improv – this involves individual performers in a group receiving incompatible instructions like “be the loudest” and “follow the person on your left”, designed to explore group dynamics and create hilarity for the audience.

 

This is last in the current series of More Talk Less Action, and probably the last one for some time.

Adam and Clinton were interviewed about winning at improv on 3RRR – you can hear it here http://www.moretalk.org/preparing-to-win/