Blog : Audiopollen

Audiopollen broadcasts on 4ZZZ 102.1FM in  Brisbane Australia every Wednesday night at 11pm.  We play Noise,  Esoterica, Outsider POP, Psych, Sound Art, Babble, Minimalism, Volk, Heavy Shit,  Shambles, and much more. Playlists are posted regularly to the half/theory blog.  Feel free to cut, paste  and mail it around. Your hosts are Lloyd Barrett and  Joel Stern.

contact us -  skon[at]halftheory[dot]com
send us music  - Audiopollen, c/o 4ZZZ, PO BOX 509, Fortitude Valley, QLD AUSTRALIA,  4006

Audiopollen Social Club is a weekly  off-the-wall, dada improv, noise folk, sound performance social club that  happens here in Brisbane, Ausralia, usually on Sunday's. APSC is helping to  revitalise the Brisbane sub-underground avant-community and also provide  opportunities for habitually reclusive noise artists to socialise themselves in  a non-judgemental environment.

book yourself in -  joel[at]otherfilm[dot]org

DJ OLIVE + Audiopollen Social Club #7

both events at THE FOREST 124 boundary st west end, BRISBANE
both events  free entry / donation   wednesday frebruary 7th at 7pm......

DJ OLIVE (NYC)   infamous brooklyn mover and shaker, member of  seminal 'illbient' group WE, producer of audio 'sleeping pills', concrete  turntablist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Olive
+
GYANISM (Tokyo, Hiroshima, Malvern  = yusuke, daiji, joel)
unfamous brisbane sensitive power noise trio,  members of seminal moronic dirge bands, producers of phonostatic migraines,  totally wired / unplugged
http://myspace.com/gyanism (nothing to  see here, do not befriend us!)  

and then this sunday 11th february 2007,  7-10pm......
audio pollen social club #7

T.A.D. -... Read more

Added by joel on 5 February 2007

audiopollen social club #6

Hi Brisbane friends....

  feel like something strange and  wonderful this coming sunday evening?? AN EVENING OF INCREDIBLE EXPERIMENTAL  MUSIC.  

concrete  forest..... sunday 28th january 7pm-11pm / $5 donation c
oncrete forest space behind forest  cafe,
124 boundary st west end,  BRISBANE  

audiopollen social club in association with room40 and collage  planning presents........  

JAIME FENNELLY  (USA) AND WERNER DAFELDECKER (AUSTRIA) World Premiere (!!) imrovisation meeting  between brooklyn harmonium/electronics explorer Fennelly (member of such  excellently creative and bent bands as Phantom Limb,  Peeesseye, and  Pee In My  Face With Surgery) and legendary Vienna bass/guitar experimentalist and composer  Werner... Read more

Added by joel on 24 January 2007

Audiopollen Social Club Sunday 14th January

Sunday 14th January 2007
The Forest Cafe and Bar - 124 Boundary St West End -  Brisbane - 7pm to 10pm - Free

Audiopollen Social Club
Audiopollen is a  radio show on Brisbane's 4ZZZ that plays a frankly mind-blowing mix of noise,  sound art, psych, and the unclassifiable. Audiopollen Social Club is the face to  face outgrowth where you can meet and greet and prick your ears and drink  organic beer.
http://www.halftheory.com/audiopollen

this  week:
Emma Ryan - sampler and vocal half-songs for the past and the  future
Hetleviker and Secret Killer of Names - defenestration not  deforestation
T.A.D - all the way from Japan. will he entertain us? yes he  will
Kahl Monticone - mellow messed up blues on electric guitar and  loops
MC Jamie Hume - make this man an official cultural ambassador.  

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Added by joel on 10 January 2007

Audiopollen Social Club#2

AudioPollen Social Club #2
experimental, improvised, unusual, and other music.
This Sunday 10th December from 7pm - 10pm, Free
The Forest, 124 Boundary St, West End, Brisbane, QLD, Middle of Nowhere.

Featuring:
+ Dollface performing chiming pop deconstructions on keyboards and percussion
+ Marek Rygalski and Emma Ryan's world premier duo for electric guitar and harpsichord
+ TAD making a triumphant return to entertain you and himself.
+ Blank Realm bringing the noise, electricity and love
+ Charles Curse riding in from Toowoomba with his guitar and baked brain.

Added by skon on 10 December 2006

Audiopollen 04 oct 2006

A brief update cos the hour of sleep draws near!

01) music for remote viewer - teknosadist (SCAR)

A new millenium project for Steve Carter who is responsible for the Fistfunk Futurists and other works alongside Bryan (MIA) Bird and with Antoinette Ryder make some of the most reprehensible comics available - check them out at http://users.tpg.com.au/arydyr/ComicsCat.htm
Teknosadist is deeply lemurian looping torture and comes highly recommended.

02) in the last hour - janek schaefer (ROOM40)

New release from local label and i'm happy to announce that it's great.  Janek has moved away from the turntable stuff towards a kind of installation composition with lots of phonography mixed in with site specific organ manipulation.

03) one plus one - phil samartzis/lawrence english (ROOM40)

I'm sure that this is edited material from the handful of... Read more

Added by skon on 12 October 2006

Audiopollen 20th and 27th September 2006

Hello half-theorists.

I'm missing Joel - I'm sure he's having lots of fun making friends with security guards but I need some to help me do the playlists dammit! ;D

Not that i'm lonely mind...

On the 20th I had the pleasure of Bec Cunningham's company.  We discussed Fluxus, Flux-Us (the recent controversial event she curated at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art,) where she has been and where she is going.

Unfortunately I've lost the actual playlist but I can assure you that included in the proceedings were...

Joe Jones - Solar Music (30th Anniversary excerpt) - amusing me no end that solar powered bongos end up sounding like hippie powered bongos!

Joseph Beuys Stuka Bomber Piece by Al Hansen

Liebe Und Kleine Haustiere but Tibor Mack Rinus Van ALebeek

and an interview with George Macunias as well as Ben Vautier's "Some Ideas for Fluxus"


On the 27th I had the... Read more

Added by skon on 29 September 2006

Audiopollen 13 September 2006

Tonight we played a mixture of releases from the last 1/2 of the year.

Starting with David Shea's Art of Memory suite which has recently been released on his own Metta Editions label from Melbourne.  Those who have seen his most recent performances will make more sense of this with sample collages of film and audio, composed and broken sound.

I then moved onto Warren Burt, mr Old School who moved from San Diego to Melbourne in 1975 and immediately set about stirring up the local experimental musicians assisting in the setup of the Clifton Hill Community Arts Centre from whence the likes of Phillip Brophy and Ernie Althoff hail.

Tonight I played a selection from his recent release for Phil Niblock's Xperimental Intermedia label, "The Animation of Lists and the Archytan Transcriptions".  Over two sides this disc features expansive compositions for tuned metal bars and can be listened to as both modern serial music and ambient drone. ... Read more

Added by skon on 19 September 2006

Audiopollen 06 September 2006

Tonight we played a mish mash of electro-acoustic, concrete and esoteric musicks.

We opened with 3 tracks from Tod Dockstader's recent Aerial#3 (Sub Rosa) entitled "dissent", "howl" and "wheeze".  These tracks come from about a decades worth of Shortwave scanning and are quite startling and evocative.  Mutated choirs, agressive robot drills and electronic chanting.

Lionel Marchetti's "Visions Nocturnae" followed up from his recent, charmingly packaged 3 x 3" cd set Red Dust set (Crouton).  Marchetti approaches musique concrete with a sense of humour and modern technology and the result sounds far less stuffy than ye olde skool.

Irr App Ext's "A Confluence of Trivialities Coagulate Into an Unspeakable Whole" from "Their Little Bones, Becoming Sharp, Find Repose but Fail to Avoid Worrying a Breach in the Ghostly Skin, the Which Separates That Above from That Below (this being The Last and Final Seal) and Whereupon All Light... Read more

Added by skon on 13 September 2006

Audiopollen August 30nd 2006

hello friends and acquaintances,
audiopollen is a weekly radio program exploring experimental, avant-garde, outsider, noise and other forms of music. it broadcasts in brisbane on 4ZZZ 102.1fm on Wednesdays at 11pm and will eventually stream to the world in one way or another...

tonights edition of audiopollen is hosted by joel stern and lloyd barrett.

track - artist - disc - label
SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH - murrinh kulerrkkurrk - murrinh kulerrkkurrk - double CDR on The Rhizome Label
JON DALE - son d'or - son d'or. CD-R EP on The Rhizome Label
SAKADA - askatuta - askatuta - CD-R on on The Rhizome Label
http://www.therhizomelabel.blogspot.com/
Unaustralians - we played lots of tracks - Unaustralians - LP on Pulled Out
Antipan - sideA - Antipan Pink LP on Pulled Out
http://pulledout.org/
Pinkenba - Day Will... Read more

Added by joel on 11 September 2006

Audiopollen 23/08/06

Tonight I soloed with a bunch of recent releases from Last Visible Dog - a fantastic label who provide quality AND quantity!
Aside from releasing the epic Invisible Pyramid set (a requiem to the extinction of a variety of animal life) they have continued to pump out multi-volume sets of interesting clatter and drone.
For this broadcast we focused specifically on:

Peter Wright - Pariahs Sing Om - a reissue of the original release adding the Catch a Spear as it Flys album, extended tracks and a 3rd disc of unreleased material.  Peter to me is 50% into the Jonathan Colelough / Andrew Chalk style of drone while the other 50% is firmly embedded in the New Zealand lo-fi scene providing thick droning walls of ambience that aren't content to be smug or wallpaper pretty but constantly flickering, shifting and evolving.  If Mirror is a glistening lake then Peter Wright is the campfire.  I played "5mins, 3seconds" and "Catch a Spear as it Flys"

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Added by skon on 29 August 2006