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

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LIQUID ARCHITECTURE (SYDNEY) is calling for submissions for sound-based installation works and video-based short screen works to be presented at Liquid Architecture 9, Sydney 2008.

VISIT THE LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 9 SYDNEY WEBSITE

Liquid Architecture is Australia’s premier sound-arts festival that celebrates the diverse methods of sound making and sound theory. Occurring annually since 2000, Liquid Architecture is a sense specific festival that focuses upon sound practice in all its manifestations. Due to the cross disciplinary potential of sound, the artistic content of the festival encompasses many art practices, presented in the form of live performances, exhibitions, installations, AV presentations and recorded works. A key objective of the festival is the promotion of artists practicing on the periphery of music and sound culture, particularly those with an experimental aesthetic and a critical approach to media cultures. Liquid Architecture is held annually in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and features performances and works by Australian and international artists.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

1. Installations
Liquid Architecture Sydney is calling for submissions for sound-based installations. We are seeking discrete sound works that are “over-spill” sensitive or that utilise headphones. Installation sounds should be brief, soft or otherwise non-competitive with other installations. The selected art works will be presented in a medium size room alongside the main performance space, over two nights during Liquid Architecture 9 (Sydney) 11-12 July 2008. Submissions are due by 1st April, 2008.

2. Screen Works
Liquid Architecture Sydney will be screening a curated reel of short video works in 2008. We are seeking works that explore intrinsic sound and video relations. These can be narrative, abstract or anything in-between but must include sound as an element front and centre. Submissions are due by 1st May, 2008.

GO TO THE LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 9 SYDNEY WEBSITE FOR FULL SUBMISSION DETAILS

Email all enquiries to liquidarchitecturesydney[at]gmail[dot]com

Jennifer Teo & Alex White
Liquid Architecture Sydney Directors
Festival Dates 11-12 July 2008
www.liquidarchitecture.org.au

Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)

This fortnights show begins with avant-rock, mutant guitar virtuoso Buckethead, followed by Nurse With Wound and two tracks by The Lappetites. We also hear three intense tracks by Defektro from the album Destructive Reconstruction. Self-described as a “three human, many machine noize unit,” Defekro are Hirofumi Uchino (Japan), Ayako Honda (Japan) and Laura Oyaizu (Australia). Hirofumi Uchino, who currently resides in Sydney, is the creator of the noise machines used in Defektro.From Australia, we hear from Machine Death (Ben Byrne / Ivan Lisyak) with the track You Ruin Everything, and two tracks by Ivan Lisyak, Sleepless and Afterdark, from the album Traces. Music by these artists can be found on the Alias Frequencies netlabel. From a CD released as part of the Sounds Unusual festival 2007 (Northern Territory) we hear from Sydney-based artist Sumugan Sivanesan with the track Mono Is The New Black. We end the show with some delectable sounds from Lawrence English & Ai Yamamoto with their track Longing from the album Plateau.

Playlist
1. Buckethead - The Slunk, The Gutter, And The Candlestick Maker [ Kaleidoscalp / Tzadik ]
2. Nurse With Wound - Man is the Animal [ A Sucked Orange / United Dairies ]
3. The Lappetites - Avoiding shopping [ Before the Libretto / Quecksilber ]
4. The Lappetites - Tzungentwist [ Before the Libretto / Quecksilber ]
5. Defektro - Running Water Doesn’t Stagnate [ Destructive Reconstruction / Lastgasp Art Laboratories ]
6. Windfahnenamt - NF 69-1 b [ Listen To Something Different / Ars Macabre ]
7. Nurse With Wound - Musical Bovine Spongiform (The Mad Cow Two-Step) [ A Sucked Orange / United Dairies ]
8. SPK - The Doctrine Of Eternal Ice [ Zamia Lehmanni / Side Effects ]*
9. Lapsed & Non Non - Z Crazy Eyes [ Adnoiseam 2001-2006 (CD 2) / Ad Noiseam ]
10. Von Südenfed - Family Feud [ Tromatic Reflexxions / Domino ]
11. Defektro - System Conflict System [ Destructive Reconstruction / Lastgasp Art Laboratories ]
12. Machine Death - You Ruin Everything [ Alias Frequencies ]*
13. Ivan Lisyak - Afterdark [ Traces / Alias Frequencies ]*
14. Defektro - War For Peace? [ Destructive Reconstruction / Lastgasp Art Laboratories ]
15. Sumugan Sivanesan - Mono Is The New Black [ Sounds Unusual ]*
16. Ivan Lisyak - Sleepless [ Traces / Alias Frequencies ]*
17. Death Ambient - Synaesthesia [ Synæsthesia / Tzadik ]
18. Lawrence English & Ai Yamamoto - Longing [ Plateau / Phonostatique]*

* Denotes Australian Made

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