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BOX #42 - 3 December 2004

SMALL BLACK BOX at the
STRAIGHT OUT OF BRISBANE festival
3 sessions of sound - Fri3/Sat4/Sun5 December

This is your last chance to get your recommended dose of live experimental music before SBB returns in February 2005. In conjunction with Straight Out Of Brisbane (SOOB), SBB presents 3 consecutive days of sound performance ranging from instrument torture to new improvisation to audiovisual spatialisation. Each session features a line-up of stars from the Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne sound scenes. Be sure to check out the rest of the enormous SOOB program - http://www.straightoutofbrisbane.com

ALL SESSIONS
The Performance Space (SOOB festival club last year)
21 McLaughlan Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Entry $5/4 on the door

SESSION 1 - Friday 3 December 4-7pm
Anthea Caddy (prepared cello - Melbourne)
Matt O'Shannessy (amplified mouth sounds - Melbourne)
Joel Stern & Anthony Magen (field recordings - Brisbane/Melbourne)

If we had to pick a common thread between these 3 artists it would be one of 'fragile sounds', each artist improvising in the realm between quiet momentum and teetering chaos. Anthea Caddy possesses a most unusual and personal cello playing style. Matt O'Shannessy plays a combination of saliva and feedback with microphones in his mouth. Joel Stern and Anthony Magen present field recordings exploring the subtle end of subtle music.

SESSION 2 - Saturday 4 December 4-7pm
Sean Baxter (drums/junk - Melbourne)
Clare Cooper (harps - Sydney)
Faber Castell (improvised noise - Brisbane)

A session of traditional instruments used in very unconventional ways. Sean Baxter decimates the standard drum kit and adds a few 'hittables' of his own. Clare Cooper is a rare talent from a rare breed as an improvising harpist. Faber Castell usually play homemade instruments and modified turntables, however we have no hesitations in fuelling rumours of a duo for pianos and whippersnippers (no, really).

SESSION 3 - Sunday 5 December 4-7pm
The Box Orchestra (Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne)
Lloyd Barrett (spatial environments - Brisbane)
Robin Fox (laptop electronics and oscilloscope - Melbourne)

Sound in Space - sound works for three dimensional space. The Box Orchestra don't play boxes, but this near 20-person strong group will certainly be boxing the audience in sound (you'll wish you had ears on the back of your head). Lloyd Barrett's introspective approach to spatialisation blurs the lines between 'natural' environments and processed simulations. Robin Fox presents his multi-speaker works for the cathode ray oscilloscope.