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Monday, Feb 19th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Flyer for Northern Void.
Last night I attended the second (and last, for now) screening of Philip Brophy’s 50-minute film Northern Void, billed as a “live cinema performance” accompanied by the real-time sonics of Ph2 (Brophy and Philip Samartzis). Northern Void is set along Plenty Rd, in the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston — specifically a […]
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Saturday, Sep 2nd, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Interview by Simon Sellars
John Foxx live at Shrewsbury, 1998. © Extreme Voice.
This is part 2 of my interview with John Foxx, former lead singer of Ultravox before the band’s Midge Ure era, and an on-and-off solo artist for the past 25 years. Foxx’s Ultravox purveyed a damned, dreamy, paranoid — and often playful — weave […]
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Monday, Oct 25th, 2004 at 7:43 pm
Newton Armstrong is a composer/performer, ex of Melbourne, now ensconced in research at Princeton University in the US. His recent project for kids, SPACE MONKEYS, focused on interaction design and performance. It involves rethinking and reconfiguring generic game controllers as tools for facilitating alternative forms of conversation.
In its first incarnation, SPACE MONKEYS was the work […]
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Sunday, Sep 5th, 2004 at 6:20 pm
photo: Michael Shaw
Melanie Chilianis, a Melbourne flautist, has sallied forth in recent times with a successful union between the instrument she made her name with, the flute, and technological mixes, patches and crunchy electronic treatments.
Melanie has an honours degree in music performance from Monash University and shares a close working relationship with notable Australian composers […]
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Sunday, Aug 1st, 2004 at 3:44 am
review by Andres Vaccari
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One of the most exciting things about the digital age is the close collaboration of art and science in areas like the visual arts, animation, architecture and music. It is true that art and science have always been sisters (look at Leonardo DaVinci, for example). But with the arrival of the modern […]
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Sunday, Feb 1st, 2004 at 7:45 pm
Interview by Mikelangelo
all images © Toydeath
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Imagine a hyper band of aliens channeling through a broken AM radio, and someone’s playing with the speed control. But the Hendrix-worthy feedback wails are actually the sirens of toy fire engines, the spastic beats courtesy of model helicopters. Toydeath proves that punk ain’t dead, it’s just moved into a […]
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Sunday, Nov 2nd, 2003 at 10:40 pm
Do-it-yourself soundproofing. Photo: www.g4noise.com
It begins with a slow cycling noise, the heavy drone of massive turbines gearing up to complete some Herculean task. This sonic undertow – insistent and full of ominous bottom-end harmonics – ensures that writing my notes is a horrendous, teeth-gnashing exercise. Disorienting stress extends to nausea at the root of my […]
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Thursday, Oct 30th, 2003 at 10:21 pm
Report by Symon Brando
Photography by Michael Shaw
Sleepy Brain lifts the lid on a sick new musical youth cult: “Bent Hop”. Originating in the suburb of Bentleigh, it has spread like cancer throughout the neighbouring southeastern municipalities…and beyond. It could be coming to a suburb near you.
The cult centres around a horrifying designer drug, “Senility”, used […]
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Monday, Sep 29th, 2003 at 10:03 am
screenshot from Untitled 2003, by Camilla Hannan & Cassandra Tytler
360 Degrees: Women In Sound was held as part of Liquid Architecture 4, the national sound art festival run by the ((tRansMIT)) collective. 360 Degrees was inspired by the need to address a perceived gender imbalance within the sound art community. It consisted of two […]
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Wednesday, Aug 20th, 2003 at 1:28 pm
Interview by Alan Bamford
Photograph by Konrad Winkler
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Re-sound, a Melbourne-based contemporary music ensemble, formed seven years ago at Monash University’s School of Music. Guided by artistic director, composer Thomas Reiner, re-sound are bound by neither traditional ‘academy’ values nor transitory fashions of contemporary music composition and performance.
Re-sound’s first (self-titled) CD, from 1998, captures them in no-holds […]
