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SOUNDS UNUSUAL FESTIVAL

NORTHERN TERRITORY FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC
ALICE SPRINGS 8 – 20 SEPTEMBER
DARWIN  25 – 28 SEPTEMBER


Jason Kahn
Robin Fox
Anthony Magen
Sumugan Sivanesan
Robert Curgenven
Katie Hepworth
Tanja Kimme

Gigs / Workshops / Soundwalks / Installations / Screenings

http://www.soundsunusual.com/

Added by Sumu on 28 July 2007

OV and Abject Leader

Roadshow in auckland and wellington with abject leader, loren chasse, christine boepple. FPS Festival as part of Auckland Film Festival
26th July 2007
Abject Leader, Loren Chasse and Christine Boepple

Happy, Wellington
29th July 2007
Abject Leader, Loren Chasse and Christine Boepple, Throats as Fine as Needles, and friends

Added by joel on 27 July 2007

Back in Black

Hi all
there is a whole bunch of Black Petal titles new in the Half/Theory shop:

new stuff
#8 ray off - nothing like a ribbon round a parcel  cdr#9 vodka sparrows - death a thousand times over   cdr#10 dj white pimpernell - lovedjwhitepimpernellxxx  cdr#11 muura - el dorado  cdr#12 the north sea - on the endless golden skyway cdr
old stuff still available
#1 anthony guerra - empty kingdoms cd#4 antony milton - guitar has strings cdr#5 mattin - songbook 3 cdr
coming soon
the impromptulons, matt earle, muura, city peoples farmers music, geodesic domes of the eastern seaboard
all titles are handmade and extremely limited.

www.blackpetal.com

Added by anthony on 25 July 2007

Whirlwind Fox Tours

I'm guessing this is part of QMF which is why I can't find a listing for it anywhere but...

The Fox's Myspace will deliver

6pm sharp Tos Mahoney // Ross Bolleter (ima foyer, unamplified)
6.15 robbie avenaim (ima screening room)
6.35 robin fox (ima screening room)
6.55 atsuhiro ito (ima screening room)

Thursday 26 July 6pm sharp
IMA, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

Also Robin will be doing a laser demo in the screening room at 12:15pm on Wednesday 25th (for school groups i'm guessing!)

Added by skon on 21 July 2007

+breakdance the dawn+ many titles now available as cdr!!!
winter catalogue 2007
contact  b.d.t.d@hotmail.com
*= out of stock ^=now available as cdr.  all  titles $12au including postage anywhere in the world.
01. the minerals - 'the gem' c60  *^
02. nylstoch - 'housing project c60'  *
03. SBA - 'muura' c60 ^
04. mosweintraub band-'mossaisly mosseisley mosseisly'c60* ^
05. xnobbqx - 'sunshine of your love'-c30 *
06. antipan - 'live c30' *
07. tofu tron - 'we are your djs' c60
08. stasis duo - 'whitenoise & burnouts' c40^
09. mac tempel- 'rollin'- c40
10. mosweintraub band - 'still photos melting on ice' c60^
11. your intestines- 'live'  c60
12. antipan- 'live2c90'  *
13. james heighway- 'polyunsaturated'c90  *
14. the white petunias- 'the last resort' c60
15. xwave-'wasted'-c40
... Read more

Added by matt on 20 July 2007

Co.Fuck / Sgure UK tour

Hailz!

Digigrind barely hanging together by a saliva strand of binary soundbits with laptops running off the sweat from a fat grannies g-string...

See the Half/theory Calendar for details on the tour.

http://www.companyfuck.com
http://www.myspace.com/sgure

Added by company fuck on 20 July 2007

Audiopollen Social Club #26

Sunday July 22nd 2007
Audiopollen Social Club  #26
THE FOREST 7pm–10pm, $5  donation
124 boundary st west end,  BRISBANE
www.halftheory.com/audiopollen

PSYCH-NOISE-DADA implosion....too much happening in this town. another very special meeting of minds crossing tracks, taste, borders, seas....  

with....  

Buttercup Metal Polish  (Switzerland) Alex Babel and Nicolas Field hatch spontaneous  explosive improvisations built from harsh abuse and loving tenderness applied to  two drum kits with an array of preperations.  

6Majik9  (Kyogle) Musicyoumindwillloveyou psychedelic juggernaut  bigband makes its Brisbane return to confuse, inspire, and spread sweet  nonsense.    

Blank Realm  (Brisbane) Fresh from slaying in... Read more

Added by joel on 19 July 2007

Felix Werder - Composer behind barbed wire

##Artefacts Communique 6##

Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: 1930 – 1973 is a landmark  compilation CD documenting the forgotten pioneers of Australian music.  After a hugely successful Melbourne launch, the CD is now available in select record stores in Melbourne, Brisband and Adelaide, or from http://ShameFileMusic.com


Felix Werder – Composer Behind Barbed Wire

In the face of the continuing conservatism of Australian music audiences and administrators, Felix Werder was a constant champion through the 1960s and 1970s of new and avant-garde music (Fox, 2002).  Born in Berlin in 1922, he and his father fled the Second World War to Australia in 1940, where he initially spent time in an internment camp.  Behind the barbed wire, Werder first began to compose.

Since the 1950s,... Read more

Added by shamefile on 15 July 2007

Let's Hear It For The Vague Blur - Extra Blurry Youtube Edition

Diaspora's DVD Let's Hear It For The Vague Blur has been uploaded to youtube, for your perusal & approval.  Here's one chapter now.


the rest of the chapters are viewable here, and the DVD can still be purchased in the shop.

Added by jpeatt on 13 July 2007

Bruce Clarke - The Jingle Workshop

##Artefacts Communique 5##

Artefacts of  Australian Experimental Music: 1930 – 1973 is a landmark  compilation CD documenting the forgotten pioneers of Australian music.  For full  details, track listing and audio samples, go to http://ShameFileMusic.com

This Wednesday night  from 10pm, myself and Warren  Burt will appear on 3RRR-FMs Symbiosis  programme to chat about the Artefacts project.   Stream from http://www.rrr.org.au  .  

Bruce Clarke – The  Jingle Workshop

A major landmark in the history of  Australian electronic music was not the result of an extensive research project,  but of a musicians strike.

In early 1960s  Melbourne, Bruce  Clarke discovered the electronic works of Stockhausen, and was inspired... Read more

Added by shamefile on 8 July 2007