Static MansionAt Lyttleton
STATIC MANSION presents two nights of less likely listening, live at the Wunderbar, 19 London St, Lyttelton
Saturday 30
September 2006
8:30pm - $5
ADAM WILLETTS
(Auck)
Making a rare Christchurch appearance on his way
to the Lines of Flight festival in Dunedin, Auckland artist
Adam Willetts will be piloting hacked electronics and a
laptop through their own electromagnetic fields.
http://adamwilletts.ethermap.org/
SEAN
KERR (Auck)
In Christchurch as one of the exhibiting
artists in the Scape Biennial, artist and educator Sean
Kerr's audio work has been heard in contexts as various as
the exhibition Extended Play at the Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery, as support for Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, and
providing catwalk music for designer Nicholas Blanchett at
Sydney fashion week 2000. He has curated, among other media
and sound focused exhibitions, the sound series 'music for
stairwell' for Artspace in 2003, and his ongoing series of
generative live multi-user computer music environments has
been included in Prospect 2004 at the City Gallery,
Wellington, and the 2006 Sound/Bodies winter forum at the
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. The latter, 'Music for
100Computers', was initially commissioned by
rhizome.org.
http://seankerr.net/
THE Hi-ACES
(Chc/Wgtn)
The Hi-Aces is an occasional project in which
members combine elements of percussion/rhythm, pitch, timbre
and text-based vocalisations into cohesive collaborative
pieces of between three and five minutes' duration. In this
performance, The Hi-Aces will be exploring the aleatory
potential of the use of strictures of time and geographic
separation as strategies for subverting conventional notions
of 'mastery', 'musicality', 'authenticity' and 'bare
competence'.
As well as original pieces, they will be
interpreting works by Wanda Jackson, Johnny Cash, Gloria
Jones, and The Renderers.
STANIER BLACK-FIVE
(Chc/UK)
Stanier Black-Five presents Coastal Defence
Battery (live). Inspired by attacks from the air, Stanier
Black-Five masterminds a seductive aural assault employing
experimental electronics with local and far flung sound
sources to create a visceral volley of sound.
Stanier
Black-Five is an ex-UK and recently New Zealand-based sound
artist, radio maker, DJ and writer, who largely fashions her
often aurally challenging soundscapes from environmental
recordings and found sounds. She makes sporadic releases on
her Argot Records label, and currently hosts The Soundmine
show on Christchurch's RDU98:5FM. She has performed in
London Musician's Collective's Annual Experimental Festival,
across Europe, and more recently in New Zealand, at
Christchurch Arts Festival's Bomb the Space, and in-store at
Records Records in Dunedin. During October Stanier
Black-Five will be travelling and performing in the UK,
during which time she has been invited to present shows on
UK art radio station Resonance FM, one of which will be a
showcase of NZ experimental
music.
www.myspace.com/stanierblack5.
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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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