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feedback driven trumpet. not even remotely by Joel Stern, but not entirely unlike something he might do...
blowing joel ('s trumpet)
A nice piece of work for trumpet & electronics by Joel Stern can had for the asking courtesy of Mattin's website: http://www.hecanjog.com/mattin/Joel_Sern_DDtrumpet.ogg
(his name's been spelt wrong in the file name, poor love, but I'm sure he's coping.)
there's lots of other interesting music here too, including tracks by Mattin (both solo and in various collaborations including Sakada, with Eddie Prevost), Anthony Guerra & Billy Bao to name but a few...check all this free shit out here: http://www.mattin.org/desetxea.html and for more free shit courtesy of Mattin, including works by Julien Ottavi, Bruce Russell, Lionel Marchetti & Jerome Noetinger, plus more, go here: ... Read more
Added by jpeatt on 7 April 2006
Beware the ides of......april
Soon (15th of april), the stars will be right, and the 1st stages of half/theory's quest for total world domination comes to fruition, however briefly, as half/theory artists destroy minds, bend ears & break hearts on two opposite sides of the world on the same day! Go Team!
Those of you in Brisbane will want to haul yourselves down to Fat Louie's karaoke bar for the 4zzz raffle benfit gig, with Gyanism, Impromptulons, the debut performance of Baka Tatakau as well as Casionova, Collapsicon & MATgoesPOP. It's free, so the only excuse most of you will have for not turning up is that you suck. Don't suck.... All the information and links you'll ever need regarding this gig can be found here: http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=calendar&id=76
Those of you in sunny Newcastle Upon Tyne in... Read more
Added by jpeatt on 6 April 2006
the cover for the new urblooten cd. real ones have numbers on them
new in the shop
new cd by urblooten "irradiant luminance" is now available in the shop. A single long track of dense, chromatic digital noise blur. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies, in paper sleeve with full colour print. check it out here: http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&id=30
there are also a few copies of the incidental amplifications compilation released recently on room40, featuring dzo, joe musgrove, le grand jeu, camilla hannan & more....be fastish
more info & further related links here: http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&id=29
links have also been provided for half/theory related downloads.
here:http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&id=31
and here: ... Read more
Added by jpeatt on 6 April 2006
Another Shameless Diaspora Collector Scum Alert
Synaesthesia have the original, limited to fuck-all, hand-painted version of the Vague Blur DVD for $15! It's not listed on their website (seems a common thing for Melbourne shops to withold their true inventories - bastards!) but they had a copy on the DVD shelf last Saturday.
Added by skon on 5 April 2006
we love you (even though you're cheap...)
In other Diaspora related 'news', it's worth mentioning at this point that Diaspora's 2003 album "Ohmwyrld" is available for free download from archive.org here:
http://www.archive.org/details/SHAM024
Please disregard the one star review it has recieved, the person who wrote that is a house dj, so if we gave them nightmares, that counts as 5 stars - understand? Plus, neither of us is tragic enough to write a review of our own album.... Unless Shame File is sitting on copies, the cdr version of this album is long gone. Collector scum could try hassling them to see if they still have any here: http://shamefile.tripod.com/
Half/theory artists Diaspora, Scott Sinclair & Kettle are also featured on the fine Austrailan compilation "The Undertow"... Read more
Added by jpeatt on 5 April 2006
digitalis thinks we're foxy (& a competition! woo!)
Following from featuring half/theory in their monthly label spotlight, http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/label_spotlight.php?id=33 , the following review of diaspora's "let's hear it for the vague blur" has been posted at the foxy digitalis website:
"Brisbane-based label half/theory specialise in material by local artists with intriguing approaches to DVD technology as a medium for avant garde multimedia. Diaspora consist of Lloyd Barrett and Joe Musgrove. The title of this disc is a rather offhand yet appropriate description of the visuals, which consist of fields of random, diaphanous colour patterns drifting over one another. It's very suggestive, and the viewer is likely to perceive faces, human figures, landscapes and so on, swimming into view, only to dissolve back into randomness. It's carefully... Read more
Added by jpeatt on 5 April 2006
foxy digitalis label spotlight
Half/theory features in foxy digitalis' label spotlight column for April. The following transcript is from
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/label_spotlight.php?id=33
Who started the label and why?
Scott Sinclair (moi) initially started halftheory.com as a collective webspace for noise artists in Brisbane (Australia's poor cousin of Sydney/Melbourne). A lot of my friends had websites documenting some great DIY projects hosted on commercial free webhosts, which as a web developer I have a kind of irrational religious contempt for, so I brought these websites together under one roof as a first step towards representing Brisbane noise. Previously Andrew Kettle had a great label with lots of Bris-noise (http://listen.to/kettle) but he stopped and there is too much... Read more
Added by company fuck on 3 April 2006
Incidental Misspelling and Career Advancement
The Incidental Amplifications cd compilation receives a review from Vital Weekly(below)
Worth pointing out that Joe's surname is Musgrove not Mushgrove (Mushroom Grove...mmmm tasty!) and that I have not risen in the ranks of Room40 to become a co-owner with Lawrence - merely a co-curator of the CD and Installation.
INCIDENTAL AMPLIFICATIONS (CD compilation by Room40)
Day and night we are surrounded by sound, and most of the time we don't
want, or at least: we wouldn't choose this to be. Worst of all sounds
is music that we hear in the supermarket: muzak. Muzak tries to hide the
unwanted sounds, or what the owner of the supermarket thinks to be
unwanted sounds. Room40 owners Lawrence English and Lloyd Barrett invited a
whole bunch of sound artists to provide them with a piece of music that
was used in a spatial sound... Read more
Added by skon on 30 March 2006
George Lucas Abela
Hi All
Things to do over the coming days around Beislin which won't find developing a sudden attraction to Jabba The Hutt.
Thursday the 30th sees the return of the longstanding BrisNoise suicide squad The Perfect Lovers(!),who are as subtle as the Serbian army in Bosnia, with Incursion 21 at the opening of Datum:Smorgasboard from 6-11PM at Metro Arts,Edward St,free! They will be playing in the large room on the groundfloor with Anal Cookie,Have No Name(bloody hell,I've got amnesia again),No Guru,Hydatid,The Moon Trio,Molliger & OK Teddy. The mixed media exhibition(curated by Victoria McDonell & Kate Foran) with works by the like of Sarah Ashton,Tim woodward,Erena Mercer among... Read more
Added by jamie on 29 March 2006
