ELEVENELEVEN :: 11 NICK WISHART

Guest Programmer
Nick Wishart (Sydney)
www.toydeath.com

Nick Wishart is a Sydney based sound artist, musician and chronic circuit bender. He creates interactive multi-media installations and circuit bent instruments that form the basis of the all toy band Toydeath. The MIDI controlled pneumatic orchestra CeLL, developed in collaboration with Miles van Dorssen, is also a big part of his life.

Nick Wishart will be performing with Toy Death on 30th August at the Sound of Failure (main event), and as part of the Sound of Re-use (group show) opening 3rd September. 

Sound of Failure 2008
The Sound of Failure is sound art festival based in Sydney, begun in 2007, that explores notions of organised and indeterminate music/sound/noise as conceived and experienced in this, our post-digital era. It is both an inclusive and critical exploration of a broad spectrum of audio experience that includes everything from experimental cabaret, to granular synthesis-derived microsound. This year, the Sound of Failure is a multi-sited event centred around the main performance night at the Factory Theatre in Enmore, which will include some big names and some exciting emerging performers.

For full festival details visit http://soundoffailure.com

Playlist
1. Toy Death - Vtech
2. Nick Wishart - Cleared For Landing
3. Nick Wishart - Sine Stab
4. Nick Wishart - Starbase
5. Nick Wishart - Big Stab Comp
6. Nick Wishart - Snowy Mountains Scheme
7. Nick Wishart - Frog Intro
8. Nick Wishart - Iron Lung
9. Pyrolator - Cassiopeia [Ausland / Ata Tak]
10. Nick Wishart - Low
11. Pyrolator - Bacano Brothercito [Ausland / Ata Tak]
12. CeLL - Super Rattle Mastered
13. Nick Wishart - Bubble Stab 2
14. Nick Wishart - C011
15. Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time [Soothing Sounds For Baby / Basta]
16. Raymond Scott - Domino [Manhattan Research Inc. / Basta]
17. Mark Mothersbaugh - Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op [Original Soundtrack The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou / Hollywood Records]
18. Nick Wishart - Huge Noise
19. Casionova - a - d This Is Not The Future
20. Horror Horse - Toy Death remixed by Horror Horse
21. Nick Wishart - Huge Crack
22. CeLL - Red Rattler

Liquid Architecture 9 :: Festival of Sound Arts

Liquid Architecture 9: Festival of Sound Arts
Sydney 11 –12 July 2008
@ The Factory Theatre
105 Victoria Rd, Enmore

TICKETS: $12 (including booking fee)
From The Factory Theatre box office (02) 9550 3666 or online at www.factorytheatre.com.au

Liquid Architecture, Australia’s premier national sound-arts festival celebrates its ninth year with live performances, surround sound presentations, audio-visuals and recorded work, screenings and installations, featuring our most imaginative musicians, composers, sound designers and media artists in a sense-specific feast for the ears.

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SYDNEY PROGRAM
Friday 11 July – 7:30pm
$12
TOY.BIZARRE (Bellac)
ROBERT NORMANDEAU (Montreal)
LAWRENCE ENGLISH (Brisbane)
NAT (Melbourne)
JACQUES SODDELL (Bendigo)
KUSUM NORMOYLE

Saturday 12 July - 7.30pm
$12
ANDREW PEKLER (Berlin)
MARCUS SCHMICKLER (Köln)
METALOG (Sydney/Melbourne)
KAZUMICHI GRIME
NICK WISHART + HIROFUMI UCHINO
HEIL SPIRITS
IVAN LISYAK
TOECUTTER

An international screening program featuring new A/V works. Plus an installation program exclusive to Sydney, featuring:

CÉDRIC PEYRONNET (Bellac)
JODI ROSE
RENE CHRISTEN
MELISSA HUNT
MARK BROWN
JASON SWEENEY
JESSICA TYRRELL

The first TEN people through the door each night will receive an ERIKM cd - Stéme (Room40). Giveaways courtesy of Room40 .

GIVEAWAYS
Listen to 2SER to win a double pass to both nights plus a festival cd.

FULL PROGRAM AND TICKETING DETAILS: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au

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Pre-Liquid Architecture Listening Party @405
Wednesday July 9, 9pm
Hybernian House
405/342 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills
$10 donation

Sydney siders have a chance to catch our German guests Andrew Pekler and Marcus Schmickler in one-off duo sets with locals in an intimate pre-festival setting and meet them face-to-face. Lyndon Pike will spin some tunes before and after.

Adrian Klumpes (leaf) + Andrew Pekler (kranky / staubgold / scape)
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Kusum Normoyle (LA9) + Marcus Schmickler (A-Musik, editions Mego, Häpna)
+ DJ Lyndon Pike

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ELEVENELEVEN RADIO PODCAST
ELEVENELEVEN :: 10 CEDRIC PEYRONNET (FRANCE)  IMPROVISED RADIO PIECE

ELEVENELEVEN :: 10 CEDRIC PEYRONNET (FRANCE)

IMPROVISED RADIO PIECE
Cédric Peyronnet (Bellac/France)
www.ingeos.org

Title: kdi dctb 209 [a]

"A totally improvised radio piece dealing with the relationships I can draw between some of the works I’ve done these last 10 years. I revisit the archives 1998-2008. My work is always "site" based: a place is explored, recorded, played, then becomes a matter for the studio work; a piece is always about a place, and is always composed only with sound material gathered in - a really very important point to me. It is never a ‘phonography’ of the place but an interpretation of the place. " ~ Cédric Peyronnet

Cédric Peyronnet (aka toy.bizarre / ingeos) is a sound artist working since 1990 with phonography and soundscapes, using the principles of concrete, acousmatic, electroacoustic music. Peyronnet’s  practice of “sound mapping”, the exploration of places by sound recording, listening and sound sculpting, take form in compositions and sound pieces, concerts, sound screenings and sound installations.

Cédric Peyronnet is performing at Liquid Architecture 9, Australia’ s premier sound-arts festival throughout July 2008.

Liquid Architecture , Australia’s premier sound-arts festival, celebrates its ninth consecutive year with concerts, surround sound presentations, audio-visual and recorded work, exhibitions and installations. Featuring our most imaginative musicians, composers, sound designers and media artists in a sense-specific feast for the ears.

International highlights include Robert Normandeau (Canada) , world renowned electro acoustic composer, in Australia also for the Australian Computer Music Association conference; Cedric Peyronnet / toy.bizarre (France) whose works focus on phonography and field recordings, and who will spend time mapping on location prior to performing; Marcus Schmickler (Germany) who will present experimental and electronic compositions from his Altars of Science release 2007; and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Pekler (Germany) , well known for his atmospheric soundscapes.

Festival Dates

| BRISBANE | Friday 4th - Saturday 5th July 2008

| SYDNEY | Friday 11th - Saturday 12th July 2008

| BENDIGO | Tuesday 15th July 2008

| MELBOURNE | Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th July 2008

| CASTLEMAINE | Sunday 20th July 2008

| CAIRNS | Friday 25th July 2008

| PERTH | Saturday 26th July 2008

Full program details visit www.liquidarchitecture.org.au

ELEVENELEVEN :: CEDRIC PEYRONNET (FRANCE)

Next show is by… Cédric Peyronnet (France)

“A totally improvised radio piece dealing with the relationships I can draw between some of the works I’ve done these last 10 years. I revisit the archives 1998-2008.”
~ Cédric Peyronnet

Cédric Peyronnet (aka toy.bizarre / ingeos) is a sound artist working since 1990 with phonography and soundscapes, using the principles of concrete, acousmatic, electroacoustic music. Peyronnet’s  practice of “sound mapping”, the exploration of places by sound recording, listening and sound sculpting, take form in compositions and sound pieces, concerts, sound screenings and sound installations.

Cédric Peyronnet is performing at Liquid Architecture 9, Australia’ s premier sound-arts festival throughout July 2008. Full program details visit www.liquidarchitecture.org.au .

Image: Cédric Peyronnet

ELEVENELEVEN :: 09 KAZUMICHI GRIME

Guest Programmer
Kazumichi Grime (Sydney)
www.kazumichi.com

Kazumichi Grime is a Sydney based sound and visual artist. Recently he has been incorporating video art into his live sets which have been performed at events such as The Big Day Out, eScapes, Disorientation, The MCA and Liquid Architecture. The focus of the video imagery is often of intense studies of simple concepts that work in collaboration with the sound to create a resolve. Dense textural drones are drawn from field recordings, analogue synthesis and acoustic recordings.

He has released numerous recordings since 1994 on cd, vinyl and online and has performed extensively. As well as his own solo practice, Grime has collaborated on a number of projects with artists such as Kim Cascone, Gary Bradbury, Anthony Guerra, Andy Polaine and has also developed a number of pieces as a sound artist for video artist Shaun Gladwell, including the 2007 Venice Biennial piece, ‘Storm Sequence’

About this playlist. The music I have chosen is music and sounds that I find engaging and beautiful. It also happens to be all of Australian artists whom I have followed for some time over the years and have found their music an inspiration (though I did sneak a new track of mine in as well as a remix I did). Having grown up on a diet of Severed Heads in the 80s, I naturally find Bradbury’s work wonderful, unexpected and humorous. I have always enjoyed releases by Ambarchi, Minut and lesser known artists like Daniel Whiting whose track here is a cdr he handed to me one night and is heard here in its entirety, quite an epic. Enjoy.

Kazumichi Grime will be performing at Liquid Architecture 9 Sydney
Festival of Sound Arts 11-12 July 2008.
www.liquidarchitecture.org.au

Playlist
1. Ben Frost - Theory of Machines [Bedroom Community]
2. Size - 1000 Bambis [Actual Size / Zonar recordings]
3. Severed Heads - A Relic of the Empire [Since the Accident]
4. Pretty Boy Crossover - Mystery Sentence (remix by Kazumichi Grime) [Clan Analogue]
5. Kazumichi Grime - Parlour [Liquid Architecture 9 Festival CD]
6. Minut - Winged Life [Jukebox Buddha compilation]
7. Bradbury - Theatre tracks [unlisted / cdr]
8. Bradbury - Theatre tracks [unlisted / cdr]
9. Daniel Whiting - What becomes of the wooden hearted [cdr]
10. Oren Ambarchi - Stactedit [Variable Resistance compilation / 23FIVE]

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ELEVENELEVEN :: 08 JEPH JERMAN (USA)

Guest Programmer
Jeph Jerman (USA)
www.jerman.littleenjoyer.com

Jeph Jerman is a musician, improviser and sound-maker from the US. Jerman first began recording and performing in 1986, under the name Hands To . Most of his early sound work was sampler and tape loop based. Over the course of ten years Jerman’s music evolved into environmental recordings, with very little to no manipulation or electronic processing. In 1996, Jerman embarked upon a weekly series of concerts in Seattle at Anomalous Records , which brought him into contact with the city’s improvised music community. During this time he began performing solo, using only natural found objects (stones, shells, bones, driftwood, pine cones, etc) as sound-makers, a practice which continues today. In 1999, the Animist Orchestra was founded, original members are Jeph Jerman, Eleanor Gallagher, Dave Knott, Mike Shannon, Jeffery Taylor and Robert Millis.

Most of Jerman’s previous work could be interpreted as being ‘idea-based’. He finds that most of his work nowadays is sound-based, and believes it is due to his growing interest in listening, in what happens when one listens, and his concomitant disinterest in contextualizing sound

Photo by: Julie Schubert
Text : www.kaon.org/jeph_jerman

Playlist
1. Doug Theriault - Orange (excerpt) [Fargone Records]
2. Tac - Out Of Context (excerpt) [Pure]
3. Eric Lanzillotta, Mike Shannon & Dave Knott - Untitled
4. Greg Davis - Auckland Pier Hydrophone
5. Dave Knott - Rondo #3
6. Climax Golden Twins - German [Climax Golden Twins (The Rock Album)/Fire Breathing Turtle]
7. Mike Shannon - Lex-O [Raido/Oxglove]
8. Leny Puksar - Reeds 1
9. Leny Puksar - Reeds 2
10. Jeph Jerman - Metal Drift (excerpt) [AARC]
11. Giancarlo Toniutti - Ura Itam Taala’… [Ferns Recordings]
12. Steve Peters - Delicate Abrasions [Pianíssimo]

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ELEVENELEVEN :: JEPH JERMAN

Next weeks show is by… Jeph Jerman (USA)

“…most of my previous work could be interpreted as being ‘idea-based’. i find that most of my work nowadays is sound-based. i believe this is due to my growing interest in listening, in what happens when one listens, and my concomitant disinterest in contextualizing sound…” ~jeph jerman

ELEVENELEVEN :: 07 GLITCH HOP WARRIOR

Guest Programmer
MusSck (UK)
www.myspace.com/hypnoticmelodies

MusSck is London-based artist Valence Drakes. For this fortnights playlist, MusSck has prepared the Glitch Hop Warrior mix, made up mostly of original tunes but also featuring Australian cult band Toydeath. MusSck has re-mixed a number of Toydeath tracks, some of which can be heard on his myspace.

MusSck is the creator of sounds that illustrate an evolution of a new wave thoughts and style, his sounds promise a journey into surreal and unknown, with melodies that drag you out of your routine and generate curiosity and beats that let you get comfy then demand that you keep up this trip down the rabbit hole, wonderland styles!!! (Word by Oracle)

MusSck would like to acknowledge the following groups - Compose Purpose; Global Vortex; Hypnotic Melodies.

Playlist
1. Monster ft. Toydeath
2. Every Sin Leaves A Mark
3. The Other World
4. Heart Of Gold
5. The Last Name
6. The Town Of Slaughter
7. 9 Feet Under
8. The Man With No Name
9. Writing A Love Letter
10. Worship The Beast
11. The Devil’s Own
12. City Of Angels
13. Friends Become Strangers
14. Kiss By A Angel
15. Remember Tomorrow ft. Newspeak Rasta
16. A Beautiful Feeling
17. Goddess Of Love
18. Everyday Life
19. Fatherless Child: Dedicated to MusSck Father (R.I.P.)
20. A Sign Of Weakness
21. Ask Yourself Why (Exclusive)
22. Squall Rmx ft. Rural Psychedelia

ELEVENELEVEN :: 06 SPEECH CONTAMINATION

Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)

Last week Melbourne, this week Sydney. Much has happened.

Highlights from the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music
Night 1. @The TOTE - Daniel Menche is someone to experience, totally wild; Valerio Tricoli & Sean Baxter make for a great duo. Night 2. @ABC Studios - Chris Abrahams solo performance was by far my favourite experience for the evening. Night 3. @The TOFF - Jérôme Noetinger (I TOTALLY LOVE THIS GUY!!) what more can i say really; Lukas Simonis is fun and quite a gestural performer; Post were very entertaining as well providing some comic relief and a quirky country music vibe - a lot of fun. I was feeling rather tired by Night 4… such a great festival Fox & Pateras - Nice one!

Sydney highlight - Chris Abrahams and Mike Cooper @The Seymour Centre
Two musicians I really admire coming together in a duo. Such great improvisers. Their performance takes you on a journey. Their CD Oceanic Feeling-Like is available on Room40.

Coming up on 12 April Sydney - What Is Music?

1. Shelley Hirsch - So Tender! [The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch / Tzadik]
2. The Chadbournes - Pitter Patter Panther [Hallelujah, Anyway - Remembering Tom Cora / Tzadik]
3. Von Südenfed - The Young The Faceless And The Codes [Tromatic Reflexxions / Domino Recording Company Ltd]
4. Bruce Haack - Haackula 4 [Haackula / Omni Recording]
5. Von Südenfed - Jbak Lois Lane [Tromatic Reflexxions / Domino Recording Company Ltd]
6. Pimmon - Tener a Mar Callado [Orquesta Del Arrurruz / Staalplaat]*
7. (etre) - Naturalist Tokyo 3.0 [A Post-Fordist Parade In The Strike Of Events / Baskaru]
8. Alva Noto - Bit [Transspray / Raster-Noton]
9. Phonem - Mainframe (1040 ste) [Hydro Electric / Morr Music]
10. (etre) - What Are We Doing Here? [A Post-Fordist Parade In The Strike Of Events / Baskaru]
11. Chris Abrahams & Mike Cooper - Memory Of Water [Oceanic Feeling-Like / Room40]*
12. Sonmi451 - Pearl Jet [A Phosphorus Spot / U-Cover Transparente]
13. Mileece - Tridi [Formations / Lo Recordings]

* Denotes Australian Made

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ELEVENELEVEN :: 05 WITH ANTHONY PATERAS

Guest Programmer
Anthony Pateras (Melbourne)
www.anthonypateras.com

Anthony Pateras is a musician living and working in Melbourne, Australia. His core long term projects are the Pateras/Baxter/Brown trio, an electronics duo with Robin Fox and solo prepared piano performance. He also writes for ensembles, orchestras and film.

Recent performance highlights through 2006-07 include the ICA (London) Ad Libitum Festival (Warsaw), Festival Trama (Porto), Sydney Opera House (Sydney), Hamer Hall (Melbourne), Ballhaus Naunynstrasse (Berlin), Arnolfini Auditorium (Bristol), Musique Action (Nancy), Musica Genera (Szczecin), Neia Musik (Mulhouse), Alternativa Festival (Prague), L’Usine (Geneva), Theatro Foundameta Nuove (Venice), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam), Skopsko Leto (Skopje) and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. He was also recently featured on ABC TV’s Set program, presenting works to a national audience across Australia.

His work has received performances from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, Melbourne Symphony, Dutch Radio Kammerorkest, Flux String Quartet and Slave Pianos. He has collaborated with conductors such as James McMillan, Brett Dean and Markus Stenz, and often performs as a soloist in his own compositions.

Described by the Los Angeles Times as a “remarkable new voice”, he is in high demand as a composer and currently holds commissions for Ensemble Integrales (Hamburg), The Song Company (Sydney), Speak Percussion (Melbourne) and Vanessa Tomlinson (Brisbane). Continuously active as an improvisor a alongside his compositional output, spontaneous collaborations have included performances with Lucas Abela, Oren Ambarchi, Natasha Anderson, Jurg Bariletti, Johannes Bauer, Tony Buck, Anthony Burr, Pedro Carniero, Xavier Charles, Will Guthrie, Jeff Henderson, Max Kohane (Agents of Abhorrence), Thomas Lehn, Paul Lovens, Martin Ng, Jérome Nôetinger and Clayton Thomas.

He has published numerous albums, releasing on Editions Mego, Tzadik, Sirr, Synaesthesia and Quecksilber to critical acclaim. He is also the co-artistic director of the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music.

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF EXPLORATORY MUSIC (MIBEM)
March 28 ­ - April 2, 2008

MIBEM is a six-day exploration of new musical possibilities taking place in various Melbourne music venues from March 28 to April 2, 2008. The lineup of the inaugural MIBEM features an expansive variety of contemporary music forms including improvisation, audio-visual works, composition, electronica, surround sound works and free jazz, noise rock and classical ensemble configurations. Curated by noted local artists/composers, Anthony Pateras and Robin Fox, the Biennale will bring over 50 international and Australian musicians from the cutting and far edges of contemporary music together for a series of inspired and boundary-expanding sonic explorations.

For all Biennale details please visit www.mibem.net

This edition of ELEVENELEVEN features solely MIBEM performing artists from around Australia and the world, programmed by Anthony Pateras.

Playlist
1. Daniel Menche - Animality (radio edit) [Animality / emd.pl/records]
2. Thomas Meadowcroft - Last Names for Nationstates (radio edit) [Unreleased]*
3. Passenger of Shit - Trendy Core #13 [Passenger of Shit 7 / ShitWank Records]*
4. Chris Abrahams - Hung Out to Dry (radio edit) [Streaming / Vegetable Records]*
5. Kirsten Reese - Inyib (radio edit) [Unreleased]
6. Clocked Out Duo - Every Night the Same Dream [Every Night the Same Dream / Clocked Out Productions]*
7. Christian Pruvost - Trumpet Solo [Unreleased]
8. Cor Fuhler - Stengam part 5 [Stnegam / Potlatch Records]
9. Jim Denley - Soft Contact [Soft Contact / Split Records]*
10. Lukas Simonis - Dalver [Stots - Z63312]
11. Jérôme Noetinger - Gloire (radio edit) [Metamkine Cinema Pour L'Oreille]
12. Post - Heather [Post / Preservation Records]*
13. Menstruation Sisters - ~^<>^~ [Loose Cannon Compilation / Australia Council]*
14. Natasha Anderson - Spore (radio edit) [Unreleased]*
15. John Rodgers - St Mary’s [A Rose is A Rose / Extreme Records]*
16. Embers - Dowser [Unreleased]*
17. Valerio Tricoli - Did They? Did I? (Radio edit) [Did They? Did I? / Bowindo Recordings]
18. Juarez - Lux [Unreleased]*

* Denotes Australian Made

Link to StraightUp episode