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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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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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