Blog : Things To Do, See, Make & Think Part 23

things to do, see, make & think part 23

you will be doing some, none, or all of the following things if in brisbane this weekend.

on friday the 16th of june you will be going to celebrate the first anniversary of the whitehouse.  you will dress in appropriate costume, to celebrate both the fact that the whitehouse is one, and the fact that it is the whitehouse.  all those who come in costume of george w bush, dick cheney, karl rove or various/ nondescript american political attaches will be forced to fight to the death for the amusement of those brave souls who come wearing only nappies.  those who come clad in 'normal' attire will dance to the music selections of dj's jichael mackson & lovehandles, or alternatively, snatch their last chance to take in the sights of the current exhibition, of japanese street art. you should also rememer the whitehouse sells objet d'art to only the most discerning of customers during the day on fridays 11am - 6pm. the whitehouse is entered physically by the corrugated iron door between the dendy cinemas & the military bookshop on george st, brisbane. or virtually via http://whitehousespace.net/

on saturday the 17th of june, you will attend the launch of the lost domain's new cd "palace" at jamie's espresso bar from 5pm.  To quote one of the local street press rags, the lost domain have been plowing away with their blend of freeform blues/ folk influenced improvisation since nirvana's "nevermind" was released, regardless of public interest or lack thereof, winning a larger audience internationally than locally - as evidenced by the fact that some of their more recent releases (including the one being launched on saturday) were released through lables in the usa (digitalis) & nz (pseudoacrcana).  impromptulons support. in the meantime, you can check out some tracks by the lost domain & assorted family members courtesy of www.thenewhumanities.net here http://www.thenewhumanities.net/shytone/Shy%20Tone.html

don't forget lost domain member eugene carcheiso still has visual works on show at the ima, as part of a group exhibition.....

alternatively, the monster "greatest hits of classical music - with lazers & shit" craptacular robin fox mentioned as a 'how not to go about things when using lazers in a performance context' pointer in the interview we conducted with him here http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=blog&id=40 hits town.  so if you've got a lot of money to throw at some cheap laughs, that might be your go. brisbane entertainment center.

shows on the horizon in the next couple of weeks include another installment of listen up little man, featuring the return of flew creeking to action after several years absence due to geographical seperation, in what promises to be a no holds barred set with hetleveiker, plus more...

look out also for wolf eyes (impromptulons support) and liquid architecture (featuring faber castell)(go team!!) in the next two weeks or so...

in things you might like to read news, jim knox (maker of the fantastically titled films "fuckwit is a cunt" & "cortical landlord after compost" which both screened at other film festival earlier this year) has written a lovely, completely non-partisan review of off for realtime.  it can be found in the latest issue, which i picked up today, or viewed on the net here http://www.realtimearts.net/rt73/knox_off.html if the rest of the contents of realtime are of no interest to you, and you wish to save some trees.  the image at left was taken at off, and comes from the realtime page with the review

we said some nice things about CLaudia a few days ago, and we're not alone in thinking they're pretty choice, as digitalis takes it upon itself to big up some CLaudia product, namely the compilation "procession". choice quotes include "one of the best, yet the shortest, tracks is "Amber Roses", Coster's offering of tone tapping & highly manipulated recording of untraceable field recordings and laptop fun. The more of his stuff I hear the more of a fan I become. I'd love to see him perform at the Send + Receive festival if I could only figure a way to get him to North America on the cheap".  nice eh? the item in question is your for a pittance here http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&id=49 or see the 9/10 review in full here
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/review_detail.php?id=1507 and any ideas on how to get tim over to winnipeg on the cheap? sounds like they'd love to hear 'em: http://www.sendandreceive.org/main.html i also henceforth promise to stop using the word "choice" whenever i mention anything to do with new zealand.

india bharti is still plying his trade around town, so keep an eye out for him....

those of you who will be stuck at home this weekend might find some consolation if the following items...

it has come to my attention recently that burmese classical percussion music is one of the greatest things ever.  for the 2 or 3 of you who aren't going "well, duh" at me right now, let me explain very briefly.  the percussion music of burma is a little like gamelan music from indonesia, but seems a lot looser, and freeer, it has a sense of time that shifts suddenly, and dramatically, in a way that seems almost random, but never clumsy. the sound is a beautiful chromatic dissonance - a glorious cacophony (in the most complimentary sense of the word) of gongs, drums, other metallic percussion & reed instruments. the playing is mindbendingly dynamic, flashy & joyous, with astonishing rushes and swellings of sound & totally unperedictable twists, turns & rhythmic shifts. somewhat like a mixture of the strident tonalities of chinese opera, the fluidity of indian music and the clustered density of the sound of gamelan orchestras, this is something totally different to all of them again.  at times it sounds like a steel drum band taking on the percussion works of xenakis, but still trying to rock a carnival crowd.  amazing, and utterly exhilerating at its best.... if you've heard "princess nicotine" on sublime fequencies, you've had a  little taster of this stuff, but i think if you all have a listen to sein chit ti's astonishing album "new arrangments for hsiang ensemble", that'll make the point a bit better than i'll be able to, for all my eloquence (observant readers may notice my straining for appropriate superlatives..). it was never available outside burma, and is long out of print, so you might have a little trouble tracking it down to say the least. of course, if you're a child of the ipod or myspace generation, or whatever they're calling you crazy kids today, and you're happy with mp3's, you can, and should, get this utterly essential music from www.asianclassicalmp3.org here http://www.asianclassicalmp3.org/seinchiti.htm

we got a nice email from clinton green after our most recent mailout, saying thank you for saying such nice things about him. seems he thinks we're so nice he wants in... keep any eye out here http://shamefilemusic.com/ for clinton's new virtual homebase.  he also said we should just post a link directly to the nma tapes, rather than mentioning them, and linking to his frontpage.  fair enough. here they are folks. http://shamefile.tripod.com/nma.html just by way of a little info, the nma tapes were released throughout the 80's & early 90's in conjuction with nma magazine.  the tapes feature works by folks like warren burt, essendon airport, rainer linz, ernie althoff, amanda stewart, jim denley, jaz h duke and on and on, including works by a whole bunch of folks you've probably never heard of.  in other words an utterly essential piece of australian experimental music history. more details about the magazines themselves can be found via rainer linz's site here http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/magazine_index.html for starters, check out this fantastic article on sound poetry by jaz h duke http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/repr/Duke.html or this piece of history you've probably never come across before, detailing the activities of australian new music groups "az music" & "teletopa" in the early -mid 1970's.. http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/repr/Barnard.html there are also articles on percy grainger, keith humble, scores & more posted, so check some of it out, and get your arse edumactaed.

Added by jpeatt on 15 June 2006