Two nights of less likely listening
STATIC MANSION presents two nights of less likely listening, live at the Wunderbar, 19 London St, Lyttelton
Thursday 12
October 2006
8:30pm - $5
SAM HAMILTON (Auck)
Sam
Hamilton organises events, performs, and releases limited
edition CDs on his own Tumbling Strain label as well as
those of other sectors of the current Auckland audio
community (CLaudia, a binary datum, the Wine Cellar label,
Acroma/CMR). He has lent his abundant enthusiasm and skills
as multi-instrumentalist to a plethora of groups and
improvised collaborations.
Hamilton's cross media
and curatorial projects include the co-curation (with Phil
Dadson) of the fps live cinema festival, part of the 2006
Auckland International Film Festival. Hamilton also
programmes Auckland's annual Alleluya noise festival, the
Wine Cellar's Borderline Music Club, has appeared in the
cross-sensory media arts performance series Trans Acoustic,
and will be performing in both the Dunedin Fringe Festival
and Lines of Flight.
While in Christchurch Sam is
additionally performing on the 11th October at the Physics
Room as half of the expanded cinema duo Transubstantiation
Loops, alongside filmmaker Eve Gordon. for more details:
www.physicsroom.org.nz/events/2006/TransubstantiationLoops
www.audiofoundation.org.nz/sam_review.html
BEN SPIERS
(Wgtn)
Ben Spiers is an improvising guitarist who started
out in the cultural wastelands of Tauranga and Hamilton
before settling in Wellington in 2003. His recording debut
came in 1999 with a split cassette on Celebrate Psi
Phenomenon (NZ) shared with label head Campbell Kneale
(Birchville Cat Motel). Subsequent solo releases have
appeared on Transient Recordings, PseudoArcana (NZ) and Last
Visible Dog (USA). While primarily a guitar player, his
recordings are also dotted with violin, alto saxophone,
organ, electronics and tape loops. His work draws on
"classic" NZ free noise, drone minimalism, Japanese
psychedelia and free jazz, while also incorporating a highly
personal, abstracted take on the most moody and atmospheric
elements of certain 1980s "haircut" bands.
His primary
collaborative projects are Empty Mirror (with multimedia
artist Karl Willis), Seen Through (with Antony Milton of The
Nether Dawn, A.M, The Stumps, PseudoArcana label, etc.),
Glory Fckn Sun (with Milton and pioneering Anglo-NZ improv
percussionist Simon O'Rorke), and a guitar duo with NZ-based
US improviser Andrew Weeks
www.myspace.com/transientrecordings
www.darcy.co.nz/transient
ANDREW
WEEKS (Wgtn)
Andrew Weeks is an American
guitarist/all-rounder based in Wellington. In addition to
his guitar duo with Ben Spiers, Andrew is involved in the
New Zealand School of Music's gamelan group and plays
regularly with many of the key players of the Wellington
jazz/improv scene such as Isaac Smith, Leila Adu, Taylor
Taylor and Simon O'Rorke
TIM COSTER (Auck)
Last seen
in Christchurch with his collaborative installation with
Gaelen Macdonald at the High Street Project, Auckland based
sound artist Tim Coster makes audio works involving the use
of environmental field-recordings and computer
editing/processing, encompassing self-released CD-Rs,
gallery installation and live performance. These are all
presentations of processed field recordings and faint
musical mistakes. Fragile sound narratives are mixed with
approximate fragments of structure and musicality, shifting
spatial density and forming mysterious geographies.
Tim
is also the brains behind the CLaudia label, which combines
subtle aural sensibility with conceptual acuity, meticulous
design aesthetics and an appreciation of the "3 CD as an
aural and physical object (not so much contra file sharing,
as cohabiting peacefully with it).
He curates the
occasional Audio Pocket sound series at Auckland project
space RM 103 and elsewhere, and performs with Auckland sound
supergroup
Plains.
www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&string=Tim+Coster
www.hsp.org.nz/index.php?PageID=22&Exhibition=126
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also:
Wednesday 11 October, 2006
11:00pm -
1am
Tim Coster, Sam Hamilton and Ben Spiers live on
RDU98:5FM's experimental sound show the SOUNDMINE.
The
SOUNDMINE is experimental radio presented bi-weekly by
Stanier Black-Five, on air from 11pm-1am. The programme will
be guest-hosted by STATIC MANSION on the 11th and 18th of
Oct, and the 1st
Nov.
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