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Keith Humble - The Mentor

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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

Keith Humble – The Mentor

Keith Humble had a major influence  on the fledgling Australian experimental music scene from the late 1960s  onward.  Humble established himself  early in life as  a child prodigy on the piano and  later as a composer, before leaving  Australia for  Paris in the  1950s.  There he ran the alternative  performance space Centre de Musique.

He returned to  Melbourne in 1966 and  set about inspiring a new generation of composers and musicians to explore new  musical ideas. ... Read more

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Added by luke on 30 June 2007

Barry Humphries' Melbourne Dada Group - Buy Kellogg's Bulk!

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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

I will be chatting to  Fenella Kernabone from The Sound Lab about the CD on JJJ Sunday night from 11pm  – tune in or stream from http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/


Melbourne Dada Group (featuring Barry Humphries) – Buy Kellogg's Bulk!

Best known for his Dame Edna Everage  character, Barry Humphries began his stage career as an 18 year-old in  Melbourne in a series  of Dada-influenced performances.  For the  first time "Wubbo Music" by Humphries' Melbourne Dada Group is officially ... Read more

Added by shamefile on 30 June 2007

New stuff on Shame File Music

Various Artists "Smell The Stench" 5CD Celebrating their 100th net release, noise label Smell the Stench put together this massive 5 CD set documenting the best of contemporary noise, featuring among the masses Fckn'Bstrds, Rats With Wings, Novasak, Mystified, Undecisive God, Sonic Disorder, XV Parowek, Bone Machine, Cripple Slaughter and dozens more. - $20ppd

r.domain  "Conscious and Dreaming"  2CD  Adelaide's  r.domain furthers his mastery of sombre ambient instrumentals and soundscapes,  with layers of guitar being the main tool   - $14ppd

Sympathetic Division CD  A  collection of this Adeladian's best electronic/ambient material of the past few  years, these tracks fill as many spaces as they leave in a balanced ambient  workout - $8ppd

Shame File Music –  specialising in Australian Experimental
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Added by shamefile on 30 June 2007

Percy Grainger - The Quest for a Free Music

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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

Percy Grainger – The Quest for a Free Music

In the early 20th century, Percy Grainger was the equivalent of an international pop star. Famed as a composer and pianist, Grainger was also a collector of folk music, as well as an eccentric interested in sado-masochism. He was also the first Australian to record a significant body of experimental music.

In the early 1920s he worked with cutting player piano rolls by hand to enable his complex compositions to be played. His work with Free Music took place in the late 1940s and 1950s, but the idea had been developing throughout his life. A young Grainger, boating on... Read more

Added by shamefile on 24 June 2007

ARTIST MAKES VIDEO : art rage survey 1994 -1998

ARTIST MAKES VIDEO : art rage survey 1994  -1998
art rage: artworks for television

Featuring over 80 of Australia's best known  contemporary artists who were invited to make a video work for TV in the 1990s;  on show during the 20th anniversary of  ABC's rage.  

With special guests;
Megan  Harding, ABC TVs Executive Producer for  Arts, Comedy and Entertainment, and  Kim Machan, originating Curator and Producer of art rage: artworks for television, and Director of MAAP (Multi Arts Asia Pacific)

and....  just so we  can get that late night rage feel, our opening night is also pizza  night!

Venue: DELL Gallery @ QCA
Date: Friday June 22
Time:  6.00 - 8.00pm
RSVP: Wednesday June 20

ALL WELCOME

Added by joel on 21 June 2007

Interview and Review of Tom Hall - Fluere @ LOOP

Some Chilean recognition for Brisbane sound artist Tom Hall with his recently released album FLUERE

http://www.loop.cl

Added by Tom on 18 June 2007

Audiopollen Social Archives - Kitten Party

Live from Audiopollen social club      #20
Sunday 3rd June 2007 in Brisbane

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Kitten Party - pedals, feedback

original recording edited and mastered by joel

Added by joel on 17 June 2007

Audiopollen Social Archives - IMO

live from Audiopollen social club    #12
Sunday 1st April 2007 in Brisbane

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IMO featuring TAD, Scott, Yusuke, John, Nick....

original recording edited and mastered by joel

Added by joel on 17 June 2007

Audiopollen social club #22

Audiopollen social club #22
Sunday 17rd JUNE
7pm–10pm THE FOREST
124 boundary st west end,  BRISBANE

Sunday comes around  again.....

YUSUKE AKAI and JIM DENLEY. Sonic explorations of the highest order from young  Brisbane guitar-gun and Sydney improviser of enduring brilliance.

Brisbane space-time  interlopers BLOON reconvene for a rare-as-hell performance as  part of the 'songs are forever' launch series. They have even attempted to tune  the forest piano for this one! Amazing.

LLOYD BARRETT and JOE MUSGROVE kick out  some quadraphonic electroacoustic jams possibly using contact mics, tapes,  granulation, an ebow, guitar and more. But who really knows?

SCREAM SHOW bring their own very special brand of  wailing banshee noise and amplified percussion.

TAD does... Read more

Added by joel on 17 June 2007