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MOOG-A-RAMA !! @ The Globe Theatre : : 24 November 2005, 7:39am

Moog, The Movie !!

One show only @ The Globe Theatre

Thursday 1st December !!


www.globetheatre.com.au/comingsoon.html

NEO SOUND SESSIONS 003 : Dr. Gonzo : 4 October 2005, 6:16am

NEO SOUND SESSIONS 003

Join us for a night of aural experimentation as we once again destroy the genre barrier with an onslaught of original, experimental and unwholesome electronic music. Two rooms of sonic sorcery, from chill experimental beats, to fucked up glitchy breakcore.

Featuring Modular, Broken beat maestro and founder of experimental label 'Graylands', with the best of local support.

Projections, Décor, comfy couches and atmospheric bliss come stock standard… NSS003: 3rd time’s a charm

Modular (Graylands/live)
Don Peyote (Peyote Sound System)
Chiba Bros (3rd Ear)
Oblique Industries
Dr. Zaius (Dada Stream)
Shwanger (live/NSS)
Dakini (Resonant Temple)
Dale (Oztrance)
Blinky (live)
Gonzo (NSS)

Saturday October 15th
Ace Morning Bar
791 Sydney Road, Brunswick. 9pm-6am
$10 entry on the door

Modular
With influences as diverse as download, skinny puppy, warp (label) and FSOL through to dom and roland, Hallucinogen and even hybrid, modular is a unique blend of broken beats, fixed beats, lush soundscapes and fat basslines. If you enjoy electronic music in any form you'll love and appreciate modulars original destruction/union of musical genres.

"Modular provided a brilliant example of just how good live "techno" can be... with classy beats and funky melodies...enough to make any fan worship at his feet." Xpress Magazine 12/2000

Experimental Electronica Night::Aug 20th::Melbourne : Dr. Gonzo : 15 July 2005, 6:53am

Neo_Sound_Sessions002

Join us as we mix experimental beats, dark and dirty techno, glitch and other original twisted sounds and into a truly mind-melting experience.

Featuring experimental techno veteran ZEN PARADOX, psy harmonics’ ANDREW TILL and DON PEYOTE alongside up and coming experimental producers and DJs.

Plenty of couches and beanbags, friendly bar staff, décor and visuals, all in the intimate surrounds of ACE MORNING on Sydney Road.

August 20th, 9pm at Ace Morning, 791 Sydney Road, Brunswick.
$10 on the door.

performances : miruslav foto : 28 April 2005, 6:54am

I was curious as to whether or not playing other peoples music, and remixing/restructuring experimental music live is an acceptable means of portraying a specific concept, in the context of what SBB is trying to promote.

Cheers.

compilation : andy : 24 January 2005, 10:16am

i would like to see a collection also..... apart from volunteering to assist with a SBB compilation, presuming anyone is interested i could make recordings of browning mummery live @ sbb in 04 and 02 available to interested parties for strictly personal use or review. email to request.

actually i think a dvd release would be best, with some visuals as well has more room for audio...

re: compilation reply : Prenna : 30 September 2004, 6:55pm

Thanks for the links.

Can't wait to come along to SBB when I get to Brisbane.

compilation reply : scotty : 29 September 2004, 8:00am

Hi Prenna (and world)- No, there has never been a release cd of SBB performances to date. We have preferred to concentrate on performance, however we try to record everything, so I expect that we will release something at some stage (although I have no idea how we will decide what's on it!).

There hasn't been a bris.noise.comp in a little while, but there is some stuff available from:
http://www.geocities.com/alansgottaburner/
http://listen.to/kettle/

compilation cd? : Prenna : 26 September 2004, 8:24am

Has there ever been a compilation cd of SMB performers? As someone who loves noise music and is soon to be a Brisbane resident it'd be really good to hear a compilation cd of the Brisbane noise scene.

3 unusual artists this month (as usual) : scotty : 15 August 2004, 7:33pm

It's now confirmed! 3 wildly different artists this month spanning sound (and generation) barriers.
- Idiots Avante: our debutant new guitar noise hero.
- Justice Yeldham: Lucas Abela finally plays SBB.
- Browning Mummery: giving you that soundscape quality you've come to expect from an experienced master.

DEAR : GOD : 7 August 2004, 3:42pm

Only two artists this month?

get down to SBB! : scotty : 25 July 2004, 5:10pm

hey folks. here i am at the 11th hour of sbb/la5- getting the poor guy at the internet cafe to print the sbb programs. weren't those tony conrad films great?!
very much looking forward to the gig. bring your pets.

And the devil knocked : and i answered : 22 July 2004, 1:19pm

Looking forward to this week end of lA5 + SBB.
BUT, WHY DOES LA5 get a bigger logo on the first page of the SBB site?
petty i know... all the same roll out the barrel... we'll have a barrel of fun

textMuzak(tm) : boo : 18 July 2004, 4:24am

Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom...
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links? : joseph : 25 June 2004, 9:50pm

no i just made it. which links dont work? yeah i have heard of oznoise, but its an email group right? i already get far too many emails...

Ride me : Pony boy : 22 June 2004, 10:18pm

Some of the links don't work on your glitchbeep.
prefer this style of forum here!
Did you get a grant to do it?
Have you heard of Aus_noise?

new forum (oops) : joseph : 5 June 2004, 4:22pm

Oops, helps if i tell you where to find it!

www.glitchbeep.tk

new forum : -joeph : 5 June 2004, 4:17pm

hello everyone.

i thought you all might me interested to know that there is a new experimental electronic sound forum trying to get off the ground in brisbane.

We are aiming at developing an online community for artisits interested in and producing electronic sound and music.

We are currently looking for a sponsor to host us so if you know anyone who would be able to help out please email me at dontlament_hotmail_com (replace the _ with and @ and a . respectiviely).

Also please take the time to give us some feedback on the forum as it is with this feedback that we are able to improve it for future use.

Thankyou.

Joseph Hallahan
(0408) 142 081

May SBB - 2004 : And God spat from above : 2 June 2004, 4:16pm

I have great respect for Bruce Mowson and again I completeloy enjoyed his rescital. The immense depth and tranquil levels to the grand river that I crossed in his composition was vast; my mind swam throught the subtle shufting waters of the score as I lost total focus of time and space, swimming in one of the musical great rivers of the word.

If it was not for overhearing the background of Andrew Browns performance, I may have lost the startling magnificants of his work. I thoughly enjoy the video projection of the 9 voice poly-if-ony, (on of the best videos I have seen of late); but to consider the true history and consequence of the piece gave me much to meditate on. Oh, how the decades have been cruel to technology retrospectively. Perhaps, it is only in these fleeting moments that the gigantic field that electronic music has crossed in power and size, in production and reproduction, between musician and interface. The second 'movement' of the performance I especially enjoyed as to my ears the combination of the voices their rise and fall and play was delight to my ears and enraptured heart.

Thembi Soddell was an unexpected treat, I have bought the CD and look forward to enjoying her work further. The composition had moments of familiarity that made me fell as if we shared an undefined language in sound design. Sentences and paragraphs and phrases and simalies and metaphors and quotes and emotions; I couldn't enter one word in a dictionary of this strange and ethreal language by the verbs and nouns have strength and the intentions clear.

HQppy 3rd B'day SBB and congratulation of the OzCo grant.
May you prosper!

biatch : sv : 29 April 2004, 2:17pm

horny psychobabble electrolaptopjazzmuzak, a loopy layered solo guitar crescendo, and then four records randomly rotating while a beanbag flew about the room...

kettle - you are my bitch! : luther_blissett_99@yahoo.comLloyd : 29 April 2004, 12:18pm

apart from having an awful name austraLysis seemed to be coming from a strange place - being part academic music composition part improvisation - I don't think they managed to gel the styles in their SBB performance. Last two piece were - for me - the most effective but the use of acoustic instruments seemed to clash with the max patch manipulation especially in the final piece. Roger Dean also seems a little too keen to use basic keyboard presets to play melodies which jar with the more abstract patch sounds.

Clinton "Undecided God" Green managed to totally enthrall me. I have seen him do live guitar improv before and it underwhelmed me - however 3 years on - he pulled out a crowd pleasing performance of drones and scrapes that built to epic proportions.

Finally the Beanbag Collective managed to confuse audience members with their lack of physical appearance in the space. Manipulating vinyl from a side room the first 1/4 of the performance had the audience waiting for something to happen - seemingly oblivious to the racket being generated there was much friendly chatter and perhaps this was the point? At about the half-way point I decided to throw a beanbag at Jamie - knowing that he would be likely to chuck it around the room and LO! he did not disappoint. Can't comment on the performance but the audience degenerated into a mix of happy party animals and a few grumbly people who take themselves far too seriously.
][oyd

shot me! : kettle : 27 April 2004, 4:36pm

Missed the April SBB. Oh, dear... save the petty excuses... How was it?

The TIBETAN BOOK of the DEAD - 6-8 april04, Powerhouse : Paul Cohen : 7 April 2004, 11:12am

I would class this as experimental, though given the quality of the artists it should be safe bet:-)

Meditations and Illuminations on
The TIBETAN BOOK of the DEAD

Performed by TRIKAYA featuring:
Riley Lee (shakuhachi),
Tenzin Choegyal (flute and voice),
Michael Askill (singing bowls, bells and gongs)
James Coates (spoken word)

http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/program/event.asp?e_id=258

re: gig : scott : 6 April 2004, 4:21pm

dink wrote:
"is there like an open mic anywhere in birs? where i can just plug in my laptop and start playing for 30mins, and shout people beers afterwards?"

why not shout yourself the PA hire and hold a gig instead?

wish I could have been there : Kath : 1 April 2004, 10:42pm

sounds like it was another great night.. any recordings/streams/dvds of these nights coming out. would be great to be there when I can't be there in the flesh.

hello to all. hope all is well. love the forums idea to see what's happening

Kath

March Gig : RIGEL SIRUS : 1 April 2004, 4:47pm

***read previous posts.

Thought the night had a great diversity.
Here are some thoughts/obversations:
- was able to gain a deep meditative stage during the L.D. performance that was only achieved by the elongated nature of their act. Greatly appreciated.
- Fox and Pants are brilliant. But I already knew that.
- It was crowded. But that is what is great about the venue. More people! Less space! Soon we will all be standing and toching eachother.
- Norris is very subtle, geniuos, contemplative under a screen of kaositic self-desctrucve absortion. ;) Perhaps he is Vulcan in disguise by the way he handles metal objects and makes them sing.
- this forum is great!