What’s Cool and Unusual – 7th August 2013

Call out!

for Saturday, 21 September 2013 midday

+STALLS, LIVE ART, MUSIC, FOOD, , JUMPING CASTLE+

ART MARKETS ARE BACK:::

:::Want to have a stall?
Well book it in then…::….:::: LiMiTeD SpAcEs

THINK: ART/ CRAFT/ ZINES/HAND MADE/JAMS/PICKLES/TAROT READING/PALM READING/DISTRO/ MIX TAPES/SING/ PERFORM/LIVE ART/FOOD EATING CONTEST/PHOTO BOOTH/PORTRAITS…….do it do it/……book it in..

OR COME HANG TUFF AND HAVE A RAD DAY.

CONTACT
MUSIC + STALLS >>>> HUCKLEBERRY SPIN
huck.luck****@gmail.com
0424****
OR
WILLUREI >>> STALLS monstermousestudios@gmail.com

OR
LIVE ART >>>>> ANDROS androsone@gmail.com

Cheap stalls, easy to book in a stall drop us a line.

Its a fun casual day of showing off your hand made thingys sharing and interacting or just hanging tuff. MARKET LIFE!

(Stall holders can set up from 11am) TAKES PLACE MONSTER MOUSE ART STUDIOS , MArrickville inside indoors wearhouse vibe.

We all help promo it stall holders and performers + Artists.

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Fri 9

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES

CHARLES BUDDY DAABOUL
http://charlesbuddydaaboul.bandcamp.com/track/karanga

EDWIN SHEATHER (Dead China Doll)
http://edwinsheather.bandcamp.com/track/aint-no-more

LOVELY HEAD
https://soundcloud.com/lovely-head

PHANOSLAND LITTLE BEAR
https://www.facebook.com/PhanoslandLittleBear?fref=ts

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Fri 9

The Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville
$5 7pm

Honi Soit presents HONI SOIRÉE with:

ƒriendships (MELB)
The Townhouses (MELB)
Reckless Vagina
Moon Holiday
Mere Women
Bad Ezzy

Plus, two great USyd student bands:

Milkk
The Dharma

$5 on the door
7pm, AUGUST 9
RED RATTLER FUNDRAISER at THE RAT
6 Faversham St, Marrickville

For the first time ever, Honi Soit is bringing you HONI SOIRÉE: a night of debauchery and redemption, music and (probably some) silence. In simpler terms, it’ll be a showcase of the best in independent, local music as well as up-and-coming student talent.

All proceeds from the SOIRÉE will go back to the Red Rattler, one of the coolest community arts spaces in the inner west. While the Rat has technically already been “saved”, we think they deserve all the love and money we can afford to give them.

So, come dance with us! You’ll be helping keep the local arts and culture scene alive with every hip thrust and head nod. But it’s not like you needed a reason to party, right?

FRIENDSHIPS
https://soundcloud.com/friendships

THE TOWNHOUSES
https://soundcloud.com/thetownhouses

RECKLESS VAGINA
http://recklessvagina.bandcamp.com/

MOON HOLIDAY
https://soundcloud.com/moon_holiday

MERE WOMEN
http://merewomen.bandcamp.com/

BAD EZZY
https://soundcloud.com/bad-ezzy

MILKK
http://milkk.bandcamp.com/

THE DHARMA
http://thedharma.bandcamp.com/

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Sat 10

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm $5 ALL AGES

Lenin Lennon (Newy) / Ted Danson With Wolves / Hence Therefore

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Sat 10

Red Rattler, 5 Faversham St, Marrickville
8pm $12

Repressed Records 11th B’day: CONSTANT MONGREL, WOOLLEN KITS, BWBBs, YES I’M LEAVING, DESTINY 3000

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Sun 11

NEW GROUND – Klangberg/Tea Factory EP launch
2PM / BYO / VEGAN FOOD BY DONATION

Klangberg and Tea Factory present their debut split cassette EP release on 3BS Records. With special guest Oscillateur.

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Sun 11

Red Rattler, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville
7pm

SEX CHANGE #1
Sunday 11 August
The first in a series of regular female/queer focused experimental punk parties,
collaborating with ‘BABES GET WEIRD’ IN NEWCASTLE.

DROWN UNDER:
SLUDGE GOTH SCUM DEATH PUNK SEX ROCK.
R U MY DADDY?
TREAT ME LIKE A DOG.
MANNIX/ADAM/HUNT/DAVIS/NEV
SYDNEY SUPERGROPE
“IN MY WILDEST DREAMS I SAY ‘NO!’ TO SEX”

KNITTED ABYSS:
LUCY NOTV/ANNA BALM
AXE SHREDDING, DARKNESS MELTING.
WITCH’S BREW OF DOOM AND BEAUTY.
LONG-AWAITED RETURN OF THE OG SISTERS.

SUFFERJETS (NEWCASTLE):
BUBBLESCUM PUNK GRRLS
CUM SEE SPEW CITY’S FINEST AT THEIR WORST.
BETTER THAN YOU, DUDES.

KT SPIT:
FUTURE STADIUM PUNKSTAR.
TEEN DREAM HEARTHROB
SCREAM TWEEN DANCEFLOOR MURDERER.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, THE QUEEN’S ABOUT TO SPIT.

What’s Cool and Unusual – 31st July 2013

Thu 1

Lamps, Hibernian House, 342 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
Doors 7:00 pm, first act 7:30pm $10 ALL AGES
Ears Have Ears, FBi Radio Presents #3 feat:

THOMAS WILLIAM VS SCISSOR LOCK
KNITTED ABYSS
HORSE MACGYVER

  • Ears Have Ears Djs

Ears Have Ears, FBi’s weekly experimental music program presents the third in a series of live shows bringing together some of Australia’s most exciting experimental musicians to perform in some of Sydney’s more unique venues.

Ears Have Ears Presents #3 features three acts at the forefront of Sydney’s experimental and independent music community under various guises.

THOMAS WILLIAM VS SCISSOR LOCK

Thomas William Vs Scissor Lock is the collaborative project of Tom Smith and Marcus Whale.

Tom is a mainstay of Sydney’s experimental music scene – a curator, teacher and musician, most recently releasing the highly acclaimed ‘Deccan Technicolour’ via Melbourne label This Thing and curating Firstdraft’s Night Depot as part of ISEA, Vivid.

Scissor Lock aka Marcus Whale is best known for his work in Collarbones (with Travis Cook) & Black Vanilla (with Guerre & Marseilles). As Scissor Lock he combines manipulated voice and feedback with laptop processing.

In duo mode, Thomas William Vs Scissor Lock create detailed soundscapes which fuse individual styles effortlessly, as realised on their excellent 2012 album ‘Jewelz’ via New Weird Australia and 2013 original contribution ‘Dreams Have Dreams’ made exclusively for Ears Have Ears radio last year.

Thomas William: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-William/256262611077443

Scissor Lock: https://www.facebook.com/scissor0lock

‘Jewelz’ on New Weird Australia: http://newweirdaustralia.com/projects/thomas-william-vs-scissor-lock-jewelz/

KNITTED ABYSS

Knitted Abyss is the resurrected duo of Lucy Phelan (ex NOTV, currently of Half High duo) and Anna John (Holy Balm). The pair sprung out of Sydney’s DIY scene in the 00’s – releasing small-run cassettes of unique guitar, pedal and drum machine driven audioscapes on Night People and Bumtapes before laying the project to rest some years back.

At Ears Have Ears Presents #3 Knitted Abyss play their first Sydney show in a number of years – not to be missed! We feel really honored to present this rare KA performance!!

Myspace: https://myspace.com/knittedabyss

Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Knitted_Abyss/

HORSE MACGYVER

Third on the lineup is self-proclaimed loser concrete soloist Horse MacGyver aka Tim Dwyer. Horse MacGyver’s distinctive electronic excusions have seen him billed with Witch house legends oOoOO (USA) and Butterclock (Fr) as well as Standish/Carlyon and Kirin J Callinan. Beyond his a recent cassette release, Tim is also part of Zonk Vision, an audio/visual collective making psychedelic inclusive low art.

Website: http://www.horsemacgyver.org/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/horsemacgyver

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Fri 2

107 PROJECTS – 107 REDFERN ST
8PM / $10

A DEAD FOREST INDEX (VIC) + DEVOTIONAL + BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER + SUPER GALAXIES

Unfamiliar with A Dead Forest Index? Time to familiarise yourself in an intimate show at 107 Projects with support from heart-wrenching Devotional, mind-wrenching Broadcasting Transmitter and gig debut by Super Galaxies.
Take a listen… more info below.

A DEAD FOREST INDEX – http://adeadforestindex.bandcamp.com/
DEVOTIONAL – http://devotional.bandcamp.com/
BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER – http://octopuspi.bandcamp.com/track/mandelbrots-hangover
SUPER GALAXIES- https://soundcloud.com/supergalaxies

  • music selections by Octopus Pi

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Fri 2

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES

Duck Duck Chop, Making, No Art and Lenin Lennon

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Fri 2

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
7pm $5 ALL AGES

Hey everyone, we’re throwing a bit of a party at Jura books with some lovely bands.

Playing on the night is the amazing

Plus our friends from Tassie

Also playing is the dreamy

And kicking off proceedings (and hopefully singing songs about Skyrim and Enmore Rd)

Check out http://www.paperbagmusic.com.au for more info.

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Sat 3

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
$5 7pm ALL AGES

Ghost Talk, Angry Beige, Palmar Grasp & Stay Closed Minded

What’s Cool and Unusual – 24th July 2013

Thu 25

Forenzics, 8pm
Colbourne Ave – 37-47 St Johns Rd, Glebe

Free-improv with trumpet, bass, guitar, drums. Cinematic, hypnotic and unpredictable landscapes of sound.

They are a force to be reckoned with, taking the audiences on a journey, sometimes wild and tumultuous, sometimes soothing, fragile and hypnotically beautiful.

https://www.facebook.com/events/140602479478028

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Thu 25

Mu-Meson Archives is at the Corner Parramatta Rd and Trafalgar St Annandale, at the back of King Furniture Building in Trafalgar st up the steel staircase (OR IS IT ALUMINIUM?). Phone 9517-2010
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start $10

Meson Master Class
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: Unforgettable Characters Book Launch and Talks.
Author Michael Spann will discuss the recently republished ‘William S. Burroughs Unforgettable Characters’ focusing on Burroughs’ Mexican lawyer, Bernabe Jurado (whose work ensured Burroughs only served 13 days for the shooting of his common law wife {champion?}, Joan Vollmer) and the infamous narcotraficante, Lola ‘La Chata’ (who appears as Lupita in a host of Burroughs’ work). Author Jack Sargeant on WSB and sound. Plus: A rare and special film screening.

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Thu 25

The Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville
SAD CLUB #2 / 10 BUCKS

LIVE:
NAMINE (‘CELESTIAL LOVE’ ALBUM LAUNCH)
GOLDEN BLONDE

PLUS:
SAD TEEN POETRY (+ OPEN MIC!)
DJ UNBREAK MY HEART
THE SADDEST PROJECTIONS IN THE WORLD

Teenaged emotional house diva Namine’s debut album “Celestial Love” (Bossman Records) is a Wagnerian outpouring of pathos if ever I saw one and we are ever saddened to launch his epic trance ballads in live form.

Joining Namine are sad sacks Golden Blonde who are soon releasing their debut album, “Gwen” on Tenzenmen.

Opening up the night we have a devastating lineup of writers revisiting the saddest, most embarrassingly overwrought poetry of their youth. There’ll be an OPEN MIC section for this, post in the event or sign up on the night for the opportunity to shed the very fabric of your soul onto an unsuspecting public.

All this on a Thursday, the saddest night of the week.

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Fri 26

Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start $10

I’m totally Wired
Mark E. Smith and the History of the Fall
Would you believe that The Fall IS John Peel’s favorite band? Tonight we explore the life of Mark E. Smith and the ever changing line up of The Fall. Probably the most uncompromising act to be spawned in Britain and definitely one of the finest examples of musical outsider art.

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Fri 26

Red Rattler, 5 Faversham St, Marrickville
$10 8pm

Octopus Pi & Lost Race Records (QLD) are stoked to collaborate in presenting a night of solid, dual-city music. We don’t get Cobwebbs & Nite Fields around these parts too often so put this in your calendar!

COBWEBBS (QLD) – https://www.facebook.com/cobwebbbbs
Brisbane hypno-tsunamic of ultrasonic noise. With two 7″s and one sold out 12″ LP under their belt, they bring their psychedelic pop songs to the city of Sydney, for a rare show!

NITE FIELDS (QLD) – https://www.facebook.com/nitefields
Adultered art-rock/post-punk/ambient/electronic ala a high Roland S Howard fucking a drunk Enya!

FAMILY – https://www.facebook.com/familyaus
MILKK – https://www.facebook.com/Milkk

  • LOST RACE DJs

Presented by Octopus Pi: http://www.facebook.com/octopsupi
and Lost Race Records: https://www.facebook.com/lostrace
Very cool poster by Colin J Thompson!

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Sat 27

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES

MULTIPLE MAN (Bris) / MOB / MODEL CITIZEN / DJ DARK CLICHE (NOTV)

  • LIVE VISUALS BY CL!NG F!LM (AKA DAN CAPE)

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Sat 27

Broken Hive and Chatswood Youth Centre Present
1PM – 5PM
$10 on the door.

Trainwreck
“Fresh Air/Dead Lungs” Launch Tour
With Special Guests
Hearts Like Wolves
Clipped Wings
Final Frontier
Corrupt Minds
Chatswood YouthCentre

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Sat 27

62 Constitution Rd, Dulwich Hill
2pm $5 ALL AGES

School Shooting, Frame 313, Hannah Band, Ramps, Christ Fetish

What’s Cool and Unusual – 17th July 2013

Callout

Volunteering
The Red Rattler Theatre Inc exists due to the hard work and commitment of many many volunteers.

The space is always looking for dedicated volunteers, to help staff events, and assist us to maintain and improve the theatre.

If you’re interested in being part of Sydney’s much loved creative playground please email:
****@redrattler.org

Let us know how you’d like to help.

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Wed 17

Beatdisc Records, Shop 11/181 Church Street, Parramatta
5pm FREE ALL AGES

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY // YES I’M LEAVING // PALMAR GRASP

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Sat 20

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
8pm

INFINITE VOID, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, THORAX, COLLAPSO

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Sat 20

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
5pm Entry by donation.
All funds raised will go to the Bradley Manning Support Network.

‘We steal secrets’ film screening.

‘Now, I’m going to be very candid, right? We steal secrets…’ So says Michael Hayden, the head of the CIA under Presidents Bush II and Obama. This isn’t a huge surprise: States have been keeping their own secrets and trying to steal ours for as long as we’ve had to live under them. But in 2006, they suddenly faced some competition. An international, online, non-profit organisation appeared, founded by an Australian and dedicated to providing a secure and anonymous way for those of us with access to corporate and government secrets to safely make them public.

Even before the massive historic leaks of US government data in 2010, Wikileaks had released some incredible information. Financial scandals in Iceland and Switzerland, corruption in the Kenyan Government, the membership list of the right-wing British National Party, oil scandals in Peru and our own Government’s secret list of websites which are illegal for Australians to view. Then in 2010 came the biggest release of private information in human history: 92,000 reports from the frontlines of the War on Afghanistan, 400,000 more from the War on Iraq, then 251,000 written by US Embassies around the world, including hundreds from Canberra.

‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks’ is a powerful new documentary film, written and directed by Alex Gibney (‘Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room’, ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’). It takes a critical look at the organisation and the two people most closely associated with it, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. Featuring interviews with Assange, Adrian Lamo, Michael Hayden and one of the Swedish womyn who made the allegations of sexual assault against Assange, as well as current and former Wikileaks volunteers, there’s a lot here to keep us informed and angry in the age of the PRISM.

What’s Cool and Unusual – 10th July 2013

Callout

Monster Mouse rehearsal space In Marrickville near Sydenham station.
$10 an hour.
7pm-10pmish Monday to Saturday.
Cabs, drums n other gear available. Storage boxes.
Demo recording, venue, stage rehearsal and an all purpose hire space.
monstermousestudios@gmail.com
0413638668

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Fri 12

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES

No Art (7″ Launch) / Unity Floors / School Girl Report / Lenin Lennon

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Sat 13

House show, Constitution Rd, Dulwich Hill
3pm ALL AGES

BITS OF SHIT, PALMAR GRASP, FRAME 313, OBAT BATUK

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Sat 13

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm // All-ages

Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt / Face Command / Jackals / Dispolar

Art as Catharsis present a Black Wire fundraiser! First Jackals show!

http://artascatharsis.bandcamp.com/album/dys-closure
http://facecommand.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/jxckxlz
http://dispolar.bandcamp.com

What’s Cool and Unusual – 3rd July 2013

Thu 4
The Red Rattler, 6 Faversham St,Marrickville
7:30pm Tickets available at door.
$15/10

“Somewhat quite modern works & improvisation under a multimedia moon”
This is the first collaborative production by Sonya Holowell and Elia Bosshard, presenting explorative and obscure classical music in an interdisciplinary landscape. You will hear modern works placed alongside improvisation in a fresh setting that calls upon visual and movement-based experimentation.
‘Cache In Point’ delivers music freed from traditional confines to bring forth deeper dramatic possibilities.

— WORKS —

Cello solo Son. #1 | Kodály

Zyia | Xenakis

Piano Son. #1 | Vine

Jane Grey | Schoenberg

Pierrot Lunaire (1ste Teil) | Schoenberg

Tip-of-the-tongue-dance (solo piccolo) | Stockhausen

–Surge– improv duo

There will be a bar!
Underage entry permitted.

Produced by Sonya Holowell and Elia Bosshard

Featuring: Elia Bosshard | Sonya Holowell | Pat Keith | Ivan Cheng | John Napier | Dean Kennedy | Jonathan Holowell | James McCaffrey | Liam O’Keefe

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Fri 5

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES

HOSTILE OBJECTS, HYGIENE, RAPTRZ, ONE TAKE…EARTHQUAKE!

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Sat 6

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES $15

ENABLER (USA)/URNS/SNAKES GET BAD PRESS/THE FEVERED/ETHER RAG

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Sun 7

Black Wire Records, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
3pm $10 ALL AGES

Corpus / Those Things! / Bare Bones / True Gentlemen

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Mon 8

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES entry by donation

Peter Black, Xiao Zhong and Mr. Beautiful

What’s Cool and Unusual – 26th June 2013

Fri 28

Black Wire Records, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
6pm $10 ALL AGES

Tired Minds
Postal
Ghosts (final show)
The Reverend Jesse Custer
Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt
Yo, Put That Bag Back on

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Fri 28

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
6.30 ALL AGES

DEQY Presents: New Boyfriend, Palmar Grasp & Everything I Own Is Broken

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Fri 28

SOUND BITES #11
Paragon Cafe, 65 Katoomba St, Katoomba.
28th June, 7 – 8.45pm 28th June, 7 – 8.45

$15 / $8 conc.
Sound Bites is a monthly performance forum of music, improvisation, poetry, spoken word and sound-art in Katoomba’s original Art-Deco Café – Paragon Café. This month ‘s event is presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institute and will feature:

BROOK & WILTON DUO:

Andrew Brooks is a saxophonist, improviser and curator creating work which draws from jazz, improvised and experimental traditions. His music explores the intersection between composition and improvisation and focuses on a ‘collective-interactive process’ between the musicians. Amongst many things, Andrew is a co-director of the NOW now series and festival of exploratory music, a co-conveyor of the Splinter Orchestra, a co-presenter of the experimental radio program Shepherd Tones on Eastside Radio and a co-founder of the independent record label and creative music network‚ Listen/Hear Collective‚ an artist-run initiative. http://www.andrewbrooksmusic.com/

John Wilton is a Sydney drummer involved in rock, jazz, and experimental music scenes. He plays in Nhomea, Yard Duty, the Splinter Orchestra, Project Collective Unit, Ur 1st Luv, and a number of collaborations with various improvisers including Rishin Singh, Andrew Brooks, and Jeremy Tartar. He performed at the 2012 and 2013 NOW now festivals and has since become a co-director of the organisation. He was also recently involved in the Australian premiers of works by Austin Buckett, Cat Hope, and Peter Ablinger on New Music Up Late on ABC Radio.

HINTERLANDT is a German-Australian solo act juggling string and wind instruments, electronic sounds, percussion and effects. Composed parts are merged with improvised sections to create one piece of music and sound. Hinterlandt has released eleven studio albums on nine underground labels in five countries. Having already played in places such as Sydney, London, Melbourne, Bangkok, Berlin, Helsinki, Rome, Brisbane, Amsterdam, Lisbon, etc. Hinterlandt is looking forward to add Katoomba to the list.

SCHNEIDER TM is a traveling sound artist from Germany sponsored by Goethe-Institut. He has been touring extensively and putting out semi-electronic indie albums on City Slang etc. but he also did more experimental collaborations with Oren Ambarchi, Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten), Pan Sonic, Damo Suzuki (Can) etc. etc. His current set Construction Sounds is an abstract body of work based on field recordings. http://www.schneidertm.net/

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Sat 29

Black Wire Records, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES

Making + Roku Music + Yes, I’m Leaving + Sour Cream

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Sat 29

The Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham St. Marrickville
8pm $15 ALL AGES

Sydney’s long-running electronic act, ollo, are leaving our fair shores, and this will be their final show. Featuring performances from friends such as Liz Martin, and a selection of DJs, ollo will be going out with a Shebang! Pow! Plop! Whizzzzzzz! (to quote Bardot/Gainsbourg).

And get your pens and paper ready as at some point in the show they’ll be improvising lyrics based on your suggestions once again…

Their third album ‘Ape Delay’, released last year, made the SMH best of 2012 list, and was nominated for the Australian Music Prize.

$15 (part of the door charge
goes to Save the Rat!)
Find out more at ollo.net.au.

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Sat 29

Tin Sheds Spots #3 – Schneider TM (GER), Scissorlock, Steffan Ianigro
Tin Sheds Spots in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Australia.
7pm
FREE

Not actually in the tin sheds gallery

Back to the Old School – meaning that this one is back in the Darlington Old School Building, not that we’ll be playing 80s hip hop, although SchneiderTM is a guy who has been around long enough to have seen some genres come and go. We’re pleased to welcome him to Sydney and perform his Construction Sounds set. In support are two Conservatorium alumni who are pushing at the edges.

Schneider TM (Germany): electronics and recorded industrial sound from Berlin, w visuals by paniK
Scissor Lock: electronics and voice
Steffan Ianigro: gas cylinder bells and electronics

Old Darlington School (Maze Crescent, University of Sydney, Darlington)

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Sun 30

Alaska Projects (Level 2, Kings X Carpark, 9A Elizabeth Bay Road, Kings X)
6pm ALL AGES – FREE

“The power of the music – what it gives you and does to you, where it takes you – seems impossible, like sorcery or subatomic physics, considering its simplicity. It’s like the sun; and then the moon. How does it do that? It encompasses, more dimensional even than light, instantly, and not by force but sympathy. It changes everything.”

  • Richard Hell, Go Now

Contemporary music and art magazine World’s Only and Kings Cross gallery space Alaska Projects come together again in the ninth free concert in the MUSICAL ALASKA series, Tribes. Exploring the mystical and transcendent power of music and what it means to perform it as a group, Tribes will feature two very unconventional orchestras: improvised music stalwarts The Splinter Orchestra alongside the very new Alaska Orchestra in their fourth performance together.

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Mon 1

@ 401 Hibernian House
342 Elizabeth St,
Surry Hillz
doors 7pm, sounds 7:30pm
$10/8
BYO

featuring…

// Dale Gorfinkel (melb) //
modified trumpet
http://dalegorfinkel.com/

::: Té :::
Kynan Tan (perth) + Andrew Brooks
electronic and acoustic sounds
http://te-duo.tumblr.com/

Aemon Webb // Adam Sussman (bris) // Laurence Williams
double guitars + drums
https://soundcloud.com/etchmusiccarves

What’s Cool and Unusual – 5th June 2013

Fri 7

107 Projects (107 Redfern St, Redfern, 2016)
$10 at the door 8.30pm

A new sound series focusing on Sydney based fringe electronic artists. Instalment #1 features a set of artists both unified and contrasted by their use of sounds reminiscent of the oceanic and the aquatic. Undulating, submersed, expansive, dripping, deep and dark. Curated by Jeremy Lloyd

ARTISTS:

Commandant – https://soundcloud.com/commandant
Nakagin – http://nakagin.bandcamp.com/
Anatole – https://soundcloud.com/anatolemusic
Scissor Lock – https://soundcloud.com/scissorlock

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Fri 7

Carriageworks, Redfern

RYOJI IKEDA
The Australian premieres of two works by acclaimed Japanese audio-visual artist Ryoji Ikeda.

Internationally renowned for creating spectacular sound and visual environments, Ikeda’s large-scale contemporary installation test pattern [No 5] is an immersive audio-visual installation inspired by computer programming data which converts information into barcode and binary patterns. Comprising five visual projectors that will illuminate a screen measuring 28 metres high and eight metres long, test pattern [No 5] will submerge visitors in an extreme illustration of projected and synchronized data and sound. In addition to test pattern [No 5], Ikeda will perform acclaimed audio-visual concert, datamatics [ver 2.0] on Friday 7 June 2013. datamatics [ver 2.0] is part of the datamatics series, an art project that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi–substance of data that permeates our world. Using pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished work.

Born in Japan, Ikeda has performed internationally to critical acclaim at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Barbican Centre in London, Grec Festival in Barcelona and the Singapore Art Museum.

test pattern [No 5] installation 8 Jun – 1 Jul, 10am – 6pm daily

datamatics [ver 2.0] concert, 7 Jun 2013, 8pm

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Sat 8

107 Projects, 107 Redfern Street, Redfern
Doors 7:30pm, first act 8:00pm
$10

Ears Have Ears, FBi Radio Presents #2 feat:

LEGENDARY HEARTS (Mel)
HALF HIGH
COLLECTOR

  • Ears Have Ears Djs

(Ears Have Ears, FBi’s weekly experimental music program presents the second in a series of live shows bringing together some of Australia’s most exciting experimental musicians to perform in some of Sydney’s more unique venues. EHE Presents #2 takes place on Saturday 8th of June with three stellar acts from Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle. Expect everything from meditative forms of new age, audio-visual installation, synth-scapes and cosmic elevator music. Ears Have Ears Presents #2 takes place at Redfern’s recently opened 107 Projects, a Council and collective run artist space, venue and gallery located at 107 Redfern Street, just up from Redfern station.)

LEGENDARY HEARTS (Mel)
Legendary Hearts are the duo of Andrew Cowie (Angel Eyes) and Kieran Hegarty (Superstar). Named after a forgettable Lou Reed album, Legendary Hearts wrestle synths and guitars with the humble intention of creating “elevator music”. The pair have released one cassette on Dungeon Taxis and have a fourthcoming LP due out later on this year.
Legendary Hearts on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/legendary-hearts
Legendary Hearts live on Ears Have Ears: http://tiny.cc/xd1gxw
Check out Superstar and Angel Eyes on excellent Brisbane label Bedroom Suck here: http://bedroomsuckrecords.com/

HALF HIGH:
Sydney’s Half High are the recently formed duo of Lucy Phelan (Naked on The Vague) and Matthew Hopkins (Naked on The Vague, Four Door). Half High make a damaged form of new age music featuring meditative synth lines, atmospheric tape collages and broken voices. They independently released ‘Suspension’ on CDr and Cassette in late 2012 and have more recently performed as part of their audio/visual installation titled ‘Calling Nina’ and supported Tim Coster (Room 40).
Half High ‘Suspension’: http://halfhigh.bandcamp.com/album/suspension
Half High’s Ears Have Ears soundtrack: http://tiny.cc/hf1gxw
Half High live at Deadshits Festival, Bris: http://vimeo.com/58686939

COLLECTOR (Newcastle):
Collector, the new solo synth project of Newcastle’s Jason Campbell who previously made music as Stitched Vision, outputting small-run releases via his tape label Eternal Solitude. As Collector, Jason explores a new sonic terrain of pulsing rhythms and drenched soundscapes. This will be his very first Sydney show as Collector.
Collector on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/eternalsolitude/collector-fourth-stage
Stitched Vision’s Ears Have Ears Soundtrack: http://tiny.cc/2j1gxw

Ears Have Ears Presents #2 takes place at Redfern’s recently opened 107 Projects, a council and collective run artist space, venue and gallery located at 107 Redfern Street.
For further details head to: http://earshaveears.tumblr.com/
Ears Have Ears will continue to curate ‘presents’ nights of live music over the coming months and beyond with a host of exciting acts from across Australia. Expect familiar and not so familiar names on bills in venues that you may not have explored before.

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Sat 8

Black Wire Records, 219 Paramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES

Black Vacation (Bris),Destiny 3000, King Tears Mortuary

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Sat 8

Red Rattler, 5 Faversham St, Marrickville
Doors Open 8pm $15 $10 con – tickets on door only
http://trikone.org.au/

Bollywood Dance Party

Trikone Australasia
The South Asian gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community in Sydney (and Australia).

Presents a Queer Bollywood Dance party

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Sat 8

Temple of Din (ISEA)

ISEA presents Lucas Abela’s Temple of Din, an audio arcade where sound generation – not scoring – are the games’ main objective; featuring.

BALLS FOR CATHULU (2013)
A pentagram shaped pinball game emblazoned with fluorescent graphics by the Rev Kriss Hades depicting the lord of the deep ones. A multiplayer pinball game with five players stationed at each of the stars five points. The outer triangular walls of the star are made from ten guitars with their fret boards facing inward into the playfield, while in the central pentagon ten pop bumpers are connected to a drum machine. These are all connected to various audio effects triggered by targets positioned throughout the game. So when the balls bounce off the strings distorted open tunings are produced while the pop bumpers accompany the din with a chaotic drum solo.

PINBALL PIANOLA (2012)
A Frankenstein experiment, combining the greatest musical invention of all time, the Piano; with the coolest amusement machines ever conceived; Pinball, to create an interactive sound installation like no other; ‘Pinball Pianola’ a musical device constructed by replacing the keyboard, hammers and front panelling of an upright piano, with a pinball cabinet butted up perpendicular against its exposed strings. Embracing high and low culture this instrument allows virtuosos and wizards alike to pit their skills in a game where musical compositions are created as metallic balls jettisoned into the game clash with the pianos resonating wires to make what Wired magazine called “terrible, beautiful music”.
http://dualplover.com/pinball/

in two exciting locations (dont ask!)

Saturday 8 -to Monday 10th June
Opening Hours: 12 – 7 PM
Shop 25 The Rocks Center (Rocks Square of Playfair st)

then
13th June til 24th July
Opening Hours: 12 – 7 PM (Closed Tues & Wed)
Shop 2.06/140 George (old MCA entrance)

part of the Electronic Art Pop-Ups Program for ISEA 2013
http://www.isea2013.org/

https://www.facebook.com/events/604788609550916

What’s Cool and Unusual – 29th May 2013

Thu 30

Lamps, 401, Hibernian House, 342 Elizabeth St
7pm $10 ALL AGES

Ears Have Ears, FBi Radio’s weekly experimental music program is launching a series of new live shows, which will bring together some of Australia’s most exciting musicians to perform in a range of unique venues across Sydney.

This show marks the first in the series with a dual-state lineup featuring primitive poppurveyors and hand-made ‘unstrument’ creators Sky Needle (QLD), featuring members of Kitchen’s Floor, Per Purpose, Unwar & OtherFilm.

Also on the lineup is Sydney’s Desert Luck, a duo made up of Anthony Guerra from the mesmerizing Love Chants / Black Petal label and Peter Blamey, who as a soloist primarily uses open electronics, previously performing at The NOW now, What Is Music? and Liquid 

Architecture festivals.

Third on the lineup is Sydney’s Exotic Dog, the solo project of Nic Warnock (R.I.P. Society, Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys, Model Citizen). A new(ish) act, Exotic Dog uses four tracks and answering machine cassettes to create disorientating soundscapes.

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Fri 31

MCA, 140 George Street, Sydney
7pm tickets: tickets.mca.com.au

Celebrate MCA ARTBAR driven by Audi first birthday this May as you experiment with the theme of weird science curated by Sydney artist Keg de Souza. From the 1985 teen sci-fi film classic by John Hughes to the literal meaning of weird science, Keg invites you to interpret the evening as you see fit. Create Kelly LeBrock out of a computer program, or ponder the vast meaning and strangeness of our modern scientific accomplishments.

Step inside an inflatable planetarium or take in some screenings from the infamous Mu Meson archives. Encounter Wade Marynowsky’s robots, Diego Bonetto’s test-tube gardens or Justice Yeldham’s unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. For our very first birthday you can expect strange things to be happening in dark the corners of the MCA. Hypothesise on the sculpture terrace for one of the most magical views of Vivid in Sydney.

It’s art but not as you know it.

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Fri 31

Paragon Cafe (65 Katoomba St, Katoomba)
7pm

Sound Bites #10 @ Paragon Cafe (Katoomba)

A monthly performance forum of music, improvisation, poetry, spoken word and sound-art in Katoomba’s original Art-Deco Café featuring: *

Alex Salter banjo skin, guitar, mandolin
Alan Lucas poet
Sleepyhedz (Syd) exploratory clarinet & sax
WeiZen Ho voice & objects

* program line up may change

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Sat 1

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
6pm $10-$15 ALL AGES

Black Wire Bday. CONATION, ETHER RAG, ACHE, CANINE, PALMAR GRASP.

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Sat 1

Repressed Records, Enmore Rd, Newtown
4pm free ALL AGES

Sky Needle, Mob

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Sun 2

Black Wire Records, 219 Parramatta Rd.
3pm start! (afternoon show!)

w/

SIMO SOO
http://www.simosoo.bandcamp.com
PS- its simos bday. BRING PRESENTS & CAKE!

MOONSIGN (sydney/newcastle)
http://moonsign.bandcamp.com/

LUNA LUK

BLACK VANILLA

Zines by Bitch Please!
http://www.facebook.com/transwomandistro

Vegan treats by Vegan Teahouse
http://www.facebook.com/TheVeganTeaHouse

CrushIN cassette/zine launch!!
http://crushinpunx.tumblr.com/ / http://facebook.com/crushinpunx

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Mon 3

LAMPS: 401 Hibernian House
$10/8 conc. 7pm BYO

Get there early to get a comfy sofa/arm chair.

featuring some fine people from the northern hemisphere and some equally fine people from the our fair city…

/// Ingar Zach (Norway) ///
Gran Casa and Percussion Solo

— Xavier Charles (France) and Laura Altman —
clarinet and clarinet

/// Ivar Grydeland (Norway) ///
Guitar and Banjo Solo

— Christian Wallumrød (Norway) / Clare Cooper / John Wilton —
prepared piano/harp/percussion

check out these european superstars in action here
http://www.facebook.com/events/194043447416585