Artists

Fugal Quease

::: FUGAL QUEASE aka Michael Norris :::

Fugal Quease aka Michael Norris is a popular name in the Brisbane and Australian sound art/noise/experimental music community. He has performed at many festivals, clubs and sound art performances including Small Black Box, Mantra, Zen:Warehouse, numerous outdoor parties and most recently at the Powerhouse in Brisbane where his main piece involved screeching chalk on a blackboard over a soundscape of farts and giggles. (!!)

Michael Norris has curated many events such as the Gratings performances @ Angry Mime Space, which hosted both local and international sound artists.

Michael's music in some forms is typically quite extreme and sometimes difficult to listen to for long periods of time, but to watch him perform live is a sight to see! His performances are imaginative and it is virtually impossible to predict which inanimate object will be used to create the sounds he massages. His passionate percussive skills are well known and he has been known to frequent the live drum jamming sessions held at Spin&Jam where local percussionists whip the room into a frenzy of improvised beats and rhythms which take a life of their own as they flow from the hands of the drummers - if you haven't seen or played in one of these sessions, mark it in your diary to check the next one out! Michael has also collaborated under a few other names such as the Hutt River Space Agency & Flew Creeking.

Michael Norris has dabbled in various performance styles over the years including: junk percussion (banging things [Bachiatari]); multimedia performance poetry (shouting at people [Bunweasel/Schtonk]); experimental DJing (playing too many records at once [ZZZ/Spin&Jam]); noise collaborations (turning things up to eleven [Flew Creeking]); electroacoustic soundscapes and eclectic electronica (making bloopy screechy noises [Fugal Quease]). Previous Fugal Quease live sets (at Zen Warehouse and Woodford) have ranged
from hard noise to easy listening via flamenco, synth tweakage and brass band music, and have featured odd-meter beats and home-made electroacoustic instruments.