1/4″

Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
8:00 pm	to	11:00 pm

at Music Farmers.
5 Crown Lane Wollongong 8pm
$10 and $5
www.1-4inch.com

Aaron Hull takes inspiration from urban environments, machinery and film, moving you from sublime sonic plateaus to gritty, shattered electronic landscapes. Recently returned from Europe this will be a rare opportunity to catch this artist live in his home town.

Metalog was founded by Jim Denley (originally from the Gong) in 2007, bringing together six unique artists from Sydney and Melbourne (mainly from Melbourne now), in an attempt to reflect on and extend our experiences of ‘the electroacoustic’. Each member is deeply involved in creating their own ‘Meta’ instruments and our aim, as a group, is to create a ‘metaband’. This band is about how bodies and a group of bodies interact with the world, now.

Natasha Anderson – although her practice began to some extent with notions of the recorder, where it is now is so far removed from this that she has completely invented a new way of thinking about instrumentalism, (with some serious hardware and software additions).

Robbie Avenaim’s concepts of percussion continue to astound. His use of automated electronic devices for hitting make us all rethink our assumptions of ‘playing together’.

Ben Byrne performs with a revox reel-to-reel tape recorder and other electronics. He explores the act of recording sound and operating electronic equipment as a a gestural and performative musical practice which foregrounds the materiality and potential of recorded sound while at the same time adding a meta musical level in which the temporality of the performance itself comes into question.

Jim Denley’s uncompromising creativity emanates from a radical approach to improvisation. He works with mutated percussion on his sax, throat mikes, contacts, computer and triggering devices - exploring the acoustics of his respiratory system.

Dale Gorfinkel - is an instrument re-designer, on the vibraphone. His idea of ‘play’ involves automated inventions, spatialised sounds and an approach to the trumpet that never knew convention.

Amanda Stewart’s voice isn’t just a voice, she uses amazing technique, amplification and diffusion to collide it’s smallest particles - she is as much an electronic musician as any laptopper. In the sense that a Metalanguage is a language about a language, this allows her to comment on notions and perceptions of voice.

Peter Newman is a time-based artist living in Sydney, New South Wales. He composes highly textural sound-driven audiovisual works for live performance, installation and screening/playback. These works explore the musical qualities of composed sound in a symbiotic relationship with moving image, often in a multi-speaker, multi-screen environment. His music is often concerned with drawing a sense of musicality from non-musical sources (such as field recordings and sound captured from video). In a performance context, he utilises a software-based framework for structured improvisation which he has been developing for several years. He has performed and exhibited widely within Australia (and occasionally overseas) for the last four years.