Jon Hunter is a musician living in Sydney. He performs plays guitar for The Holy Soul & Delirium Tremens and performs a combination of guitar, spring reverb and computer in Guarde Compartmente as well as solo. He co hosts Song X on 2ser and he co runs a small label & recording studio Magnetic Recording Council.
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Sam Dobson says, “I’ve been playing music for the last ten years. I first became interested in experimental music after visiting the now now festival in 2006 and am currently a member of the splinter orchestra. While I have experimented with some small handmade instruments, electronic devices such as dissected clock radios and some found objects I am fundamentaly a bassist and enjoy exploring its possibilities as an acoustic instrument. I am also a member of a band called the prophets which is an improvised ensemble where all members play saxophones and percussion.”
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Aemon Webb is a postmodern schizophrenic man. He makes glitch music via digital splicing and microwaved compact discs, plays arhythmic appear-like-I-have-no-sense-of-time drums, screams his lungs out for cosmic noise improv collective Nhomea, and performs subdued electronic soundscapes as a splinterer. Influences result from meeting Mr. Attali at the crossroads, who informed him to continue making decentralised music. Aemon currently and sleeplessly resides in roadwork-infested Chippendale, Sydney.
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Brendan Walls at the 2008 Now now
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Borce Markovski – of renegade Melbourne hiphop crew Curse Ov Dialect – can’t help but laugh as he relates some of his more expressive live outings with the group. “I used to mainly wear dresses and wigs onstage,” he says, flashing a wide, almost mischievous smile. But for the 28-year-old rapper more commonly known by his stage name, Vulk Makedonski (meaning Macedonian Wolf) – there has always been a sense of gravity behind his apparently frivolous antics. “It was about just going onstage in a dress and completely rebelling against all the judgements I see in society and hiphop, the homophobia and prejudice, and just getting up there and saying ‘Ha, I’m wearing a dress! Say something now!’” For Markovski – brought up as a proud Macedonian in Altona – it was his own ethnic folk music that sparked his affinity with rap. “My parents used to play it a lot when I was a kid,” he says. “There were a lot of sad stories in those old Macedonian songs; stories, I guess, of hard times and oppression and stuff. And I think I’ve always connected that with understanding hiphop, because they were talking about hard times and oppression as well. Even as a young kid I understood that.”
“Me and Adam are doing this program at the moment where we’re mentoring young rappers and helping them make tracks,” explains Markovski enthusiastically, before breaking into a sheepish smile.
“My kid’s a gangsta rapper called M.O.B. It stands for Money Over Bitches,” he pauses, as Adam cracks into a giggle. “So I’m pretty sure he doesn’t think I’m very cool.” From and interview in Cyclic Defrost.
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Adam Sussmann, Born 1978 Sydney Australia, is a guitarist, electronic musician and composer who seeks to take singular conceptual approaches to extremes. “I am interested in the complex behaviour of simple systems”. Adam has composed/produced sound for the disciplines of Dance, Film and Theatre. His compositions were performed by the Splinter Orchestra at the innaugral and subsequent NowNow festivals, and have since been performed internationally to critical acclaim. Recently he completed tertiary studies in electronic arts, where he established a practice as a painter and installation artist. Adam is a member of the Bands: Stasis Duo, Xwave, SSS and 2779. He has also collaborated with Artists such as Peter Blamey, Toshimaru Nakamura, Louise Curham, Oren Ambarchi, Mattin, Takefumi Naoshima, Tetuzi Akiyama, Martin Ng, Mattin, Chris Abrahams, Anthony Guerra, Amanda Stewart, Jason Kahn, Arek Gulbekoglu, Nylstoch, Jim Denley, Annette Krebbs, Joel Stern, Brett Larner and Will Guthrie.
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CHRONOX - Lachlan Con and Michael Prior
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Adriana de los Santos, piano / objects – Argentina
Born in Entre Ríos, a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region, where she made her first music studies. Since 1978 she has been deeply involved in shaping new music throughout Latin America. In 2004 formed el Trío El Otro Tango and in 2006 el Dúo Adriana de los Santos-Zypce.
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Laura Altman has been an important young voice on the Sydney impro scene for a couple of years. Her delicate clarinet suggests a new way of thinking about the instrument - after her performance at last years festival one didn’t have the impression of ‘the clarinet’, more a set of frequencies and ambiguities from her direction. She’s been studying and playing in Holland and accross Europe the last few months.
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Somaya Langley is a sound and media artist (www.criticalsenses.com). Her work has been presented and performed in festivals and conferences throughout Australia and internationally. In 2005 she completed commissions for Experimenta’s New Visions and the National Film and Sound Archive’s Ten Minutes of Passion, for which her piece Passion in the Protest also received a finalist’s award. Highlights over the past few years include surround-sound compositions for tele path, a trilogy of video works by media artist David McDowell and sound for the solo theatre work The Minutiae of Inertia, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 2007, she attended the Australian Network for Art and Technology’s re:skin Media Laboratory. Subsequently, she travelled overseas to attend the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference in New York, the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) in Montreal plus a collaborative residency at STEIM in Amsterdam. Current projects include solo live performance. In addition, from 2002 to 2004 Somaya was a member of the Australian sensor-based trio, HyperSense Complex and from 2005 to 2007 one half of the live multi-channel audiovisual duo MetaSense.
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Clayton Thomas is a double bassist and grass roots organiser working in the broad spectrum of improvised and experimental music. He is Australian, but lives in Berlin. “I’m trying to work out a physical activity equally engaged in electronic and acoustic music aesthetics, while maintaining the kind of transitional and transformative energy of the music that changed my life. I draw inspiration from creative music of all eras, happily learning from and engaging with improvisers, sound artists, composers and thinkers alive and kicking in the 21st century. I have been inspired and pushed by many great musicians, but would especially thank my first teachers Wilber Morris and Peter Kowald, and Jon Rose, Jim Denley, Andrew Meisel, Cooper-Moore, Tony Buck and Hollis Taylor for doing some real work on the topic.”
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Sam Pettigrew is an emerging musician, sound and performance artist from Sydney. His main instrument is the double bass, and he performs regularly within the jazz and experimental scene. Sam is a current member of the splinter orchestra and has recently played gigs with Jim Denley and Kim Myhr, Shoji Hano and the Eco Group, Aemon Webb, Sam Dobson, Peter Farrar, Mike Majkowski and John Rose, he is also working on an ongoing duo project with Mike Majkowski, as well as being part
of Tony Gorman’s Current band. Sam is a committee member of the Now Now organisation in Sydney, and is currently busy organising the now now festival in January. Sam studies a combined Bachelor of Music/ Bachelor of Arts (major in Theatre and Performance Studies) at UNSW, which he will complete in 2010. Sam is also actively engaged as a theatre maker and performer, having been through the imPact ensemble in 2008 and studied various body training and dance techniques such a Body Weather, Suzuki and Feldenchrist. As a performer sam has worked with Clare Grant, Benjamin Winspear, Ashley Dyer, Ti Kim Pok, Martin Del Amo, Victoria Hunt, Tony Osborne, Tess De Quincy, and Chris Ryan as well as many other collaborations with members of the Sydney theatre scene.
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ALISTER SPENCE is one of the most outstanding pianists and composers in contemporary jazz in Australia. Alister co-leads internationally acclaimed group Clarion Fracture Zone. He is a member of Wanderlust and The Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Alister’s playing is featured on more than 30 CDs, several of which have won ARIA Awards. Over the years he has played with many of the finest musicians in Australia including Bernie McGann, Sandy Evans, Don Burrows, Dale Barlow, Peter O’Mara, Tony Buck and Phillip Slater, and overseas artists including Mark Helias (US), Andy Sheppard (UK), and Phillip Johnston (US). Alister has toured extensively in Europe and Asia with Clarion Fracture Zone, Wanderlust and AAO, and has performed for radio broadcasts for ABC, BBC, and WDR (Germany). He is a graduate of the Jazz Studies course at the NSW Conservatorium and has studied in New York with Cedar Walton and Andy La Verne, and also Mulgrew Miller (USA) and Benny Green (USA).
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Martin Ng has been involved in Sydney’s experimental music scene for the past 20 years. A one-of-a-kind turntablist / heart surgeon, he sees a genuine microscopic level relationship between his two specialities, and consistently pushes the boundaries of improvised performance. Martin has collaborated locally and internationally with the likes of Tetuzi Akiyama, Otomo Yoshihide, Oren Ambarchi, Robbie Avenaim and Jim Denley. Martin has also been hosting experimental music radio program ‘Song X’ for the past 15 years.
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“The Splinter Orchestra’s music is like quicksand: it can suck you in, just as each of the 27 musicians relinquished his or her sense of self within this monumental improvising ensemble. Listening to it is like looking down on a jungle from above, with infinite layers of foilage making for an image without surface. Behind every sound lurks another sound, and then another. The result is eerie and weirdly beautiful; more diaphanous then dense, which is a tribute to both the subtlety of the interaction and the sophistication of the recording. Remarkable.” John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald Jan 12 2008.
Martin Kirkwood (electronics), Adam Sussman (guitar), Milica Stefanovic (bass guitar), Clare Cooper (guzheng), Clayton Thomas (double bass), Simon Ferenci (trumpet), Mira Peart (violin), Laura Altman (clarinet), Daniel Whiting (laptop), Rory Brown (double bass), Finn Ryan (percussion), Monika Brooks (accordion), Jim Denley (sax, flute, balloon), Peter Farrar (sax), Matt Ottignon (flute, clarinet), Mike Majkowski (double bass), Alex Masso (percussion), Joe Derrick (trumpet), Grant Arthur (sousa-bone), Rivka Schembri (cello), Heather Shannon (violin), Alex Spence (clarinet), Sam Pettigrew (double bass), Sam Dobson (double bass), David Green (shakuhachi), Tim Cunningham (guitar), Ian Petersie (barry sax), Nadene Pita (viola), Joe Cummins (trumpet), Tim Wall (clarinet), Tony Osborne (voice)
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S.I.M.S., the SMS Interactive Music System is a live interactive musical performance. SIMS brings together some of Sydney’s finest noise artists and musicians to perform with audiences. No that is not a typo, performing with audiences is exactly what will happen. We have developed a system for audiences to control the texture and effects used by each musician during the performance. Audience members can send any of a pre-defined set of text messages to our computer system, which will then trigger that effect on our effects processor.
Claire Herbert (laptop), Fred Rodrigues (laptop), Abel Cross (bass guitar), Adrian Klumpes (keys), Hirofumi Uchino (electronics) and Tony Osborne (vocals).
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Alex Masso is drummer, who got through a degree in Jazz Performance at Sydney Conservatorium and is currently keeping busy playing music he finds interesting. Most of the music is jazz, improvised music or something along those lines. He co-leads Trio Apoplectic, which has toured extensively in 2006-09 and released two albums, “Trio Apoplectic” through Jazzgroove Records and “Sofia” through Rufus Records. Other projects include The Splinter Orchestra,The Vampires , Marc Hannaford Trio, and Chiba. Alex has also been fortunate to work on odd occasions with some of his favourite musicians, including Australian jazz legends Bernie McGann and Warwick Alder, Sudanese musician Asim Gorashi, saxophonists Kris Wanders, Jeff Henderson and Peter Farrar, and guitarist Dave Brown.
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Mike Majkowski born august 16th 1983, is a double bassist from sydney, australia. he began his musical activities as a jazz bassist, and has since developed an active interest in a wide spectrum of contemporary music. mike has had the great fortune of working closely with some wonderful musicians in australia, including: jon rose, chris abrahams, jim denley, hollis taylor, clare cooper, clayton thomas, james ‘pug’ waples, dale gorfinkel, peter farrar, martin ng, robbie avenaim, and laura altman. in other parts of the world, mike has performed with other wonderful musicians, such as: han bennink, paul lovens, wilbert de joode, eric boeren, michael moore, and toby delius. he has recently been focusing on solo playing, and is currently exploring how the use of refined techniques develops the sound and style of the work.
“Last monday there was a double bill featuring the young Australian bass-player Mike Majkowski. His playing is stunning and subtle. In both the solo performance and in the group with Laura Altman (clarinet), Yolando Uriz (piccolo) and Angel Faraldo (computer) he focusses on textures, mostly playing with the bow, though he is capable of producing a full bodied bass sound too… Good concert. I don’t know many bassplayers with such a command of extended and alternative techniques.” Review of DNK concert Amsterdam.
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nhomea from GIFTPROJECT on Vimeo.

NHOMEAS (beatles)+(japanesenoise)+(ambience)+(tribalcorrobories)+(chaos)+(cuttingandchanging)+(soultearingtrumpetsolos)+(polyrhthyms)+(whiskyandcigarrettesandavoicethatfollows)+(psychotropicsandhousebeats)+(stability)+(peoplewhohavewonARRawards)+(dooooooooom)))+(thenowNOW)+(crazymotherfuckerswithbighairjumpingaroundlikesardinefiends)+(psychedelicguitars,nonottameimpala)+(beatsthatfloat)+(geniusescuztheyareamusing)+(crackrhythms)+(minimalism)+(sludgeygoodness)+(didimentioncaptainbeefheart?)+(birthdaypartiesparticularlyoneswhichrelocatetobritain)+(thesunnandtheearth)+these are just a few of our favourite things….
Josh Isaac (drums), David Sullivan (bass), Jack Dibben (guitar), Nic de Jong (keys, clarinet), Aemon Webb (vox, elctro gadgets).
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Jon Rose gave up formal music education at the age of 15 and from then on, was mostly self-taught. Throughout the 1970’s, first in England then in Australia, he played, composed and studied in a large variety of music genres becoming the central figure in the development of Free Improvisation in Australia. In 1986, he moved to Berlin in order to more fully realise his on-going project (of some 25 years): The Relative Violin. The development of a Total Artform based around the one instrument. Necessary to this concept has been innovation in the fields of new instrument design (over 20 deconstructed violin instruments including the double piston triple neck wheeling violin, environmental performance (eg. playing fences in the Australian outback using the violin as a bow), new instrumental techniques, both analogue (built into the violins themselves) and the more recently inter-active electronics (3 bowing to Midi systems)… plus using the mediums of radio (over 20 major International productions for radio stations, live-performance-film, video and television to create a new, alternative, personal and revised history for THE VIOLIN. He appears on over 60 records and CD’s; He has worked with many of the innovators and mavericks in contemporary music such as The Kronos String Quartet, John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Butch Morris, Barry Guy, Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, Otomo Yoshihide, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Phil Minton, John Cage, Tony Oxley, Cor Fuhler, Steve Beresford, Eugene Chadbourne, Bob Ostertag, Malcolm Goldstein, David Moss, Miya Masaoka, Barre Phillips, Roger Turner, George Lewis, Misha Mengelberg, Lauren Newton, Christian Marclay, Richard Barret, etc).
Since 2001 Jon is again living in Australia: in 2005 he was awarded a 2 year fellowship from The Australia Council to research and develop The Ball Project.
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potatomasta
I just stopped jerous of people then I started to do some junk rap+ crappy dj . I also play music with Semedi soundsystem,Lao milador,Robotski,19-t records and Uberlingua crew. I just want to enjoy and have a good time & meet new people. somebody thinks I make music by gameboy but that is ”cow’p” his tunes, I can’t make any music by gameboy some of beats I made by mpc but mostly I just do junk rap+crappy dj. also I do some drawing too,if you don’t like me sorry I’m in exist in same the world where you living in but hopefully we will be good frined after death.
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Sven Hahne born 1978 - studied informatics at the university of Karlsruhe and audiovisual media at the academy of fine arts cologne. works as graphics designer, videoartist, programmer, mediaartist, producer and perfomer. His works have been shown at ZKM-Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle Muzernok in Budapest and at the Millenium Center Beijing. Founded together with Matthias Muche in 2004 Frischzelle Festival for intermedial improvisation.
played with: Garry Hemingway, Xu Fengxia, Axel Dörner, Clayton Thomas, Istvan Grensco, Kim Myhr, Eivind Loning, Espen Reinertsen, Matthias Muche, Achim Tang, Philip Zoubek, Christian Thomé, Yan Jun, Wu Na
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Matthias Muche lives in Cologne and works as a trombone player and media artist. He studied Music and Art at the conservatories of Cologne and Amsterdam, as well as at the academy of media arts Cologne.His work with dancers and multimedia artists, as well as with jazz, modern-music, and multicultural music groups at the North Sea Jazzfestival Den Haag, Moers Festival, Jazzdor Festival Strasbourg, GetItLouder Festival Shanghai/Beijing and the Cairo International Festival For Experimental Theatre - is representative of the great variety and flexibility of his artistic work.
In his Media Art projects he experiments with symbiotic, intertwined auditory and visual compositional processes, and concepts presentation formats which motivate, intensify and feedback one another.
Together with Sven Hahne he is the founder and artistic director of the interdisciplinary Festival FRISCHZELLE.
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Kraig Grady is a US-Australian composer/sound artist. He has composed and performed with an ensemble of microtonal instruments of his own design and also worked as a shadow puppeteer, tuning theorist, filmmaker, world music radio DJ and concert promoter. His works feature his own ensembles of acoustic instruments, including metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers and reed organs tuned to microtonal just intonation scales. An important influence in the development of Grady’s music was Harry Partch, like Grady, a musician from the Southwest, and a composer of theatrical works in Just Intonation for self-built instruments.
Since 1993 Grady’s work has been connected to the activities of “The North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island”, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization promoting the culture of this fictional island, which Grady characterizes as a “metaphorical geographical locale”.
Despite the fact that the size of his instruments make touring difficult, his work has been presented at Ballhaus Naunyn Berlin (Germany), the Chateau de la Napoule (France), the Norton Simon Museum of Art, the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, the Pacific Asia Museum, California Institute of the Arts, Pomona College, Pierce College, Villa Aurora Foundation for European American Relations, the Schindler House, Beyond Baroque, the Brand Library, New Langton Arts, as well as numerous live performances on radio KPFK, KCRW, and KXLU. His work was also presented as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s American Music Weekend as well as New Music America 1985. He has been nominated four times for the LA Weekly Music Awards best uncategorizable artist and was chosen by Buzz Magazine as one of the “100 coolest people in Los Angeles”.
The Quiet Erow made its Australian premiere on the 9th of October 2009 at the Helensburgh Bushland Chapel, starring Kraig Grady (director), Terumi Narushima, Seth Harris, Mark Kennedy, Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis and Hamish Lane.
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Mani Neumeier (born December 31, 1940 in Munich) is a German rock musician, free jazz-drummer, artist, frontman (singer and drummer) of the German Krautrock-band Guru Guru.
Probably best known for his work with Guru Guru, Neumeier collaborated with numerous bands and artists, such as Dieter Möbius, Damo Suzuki, Harmonia, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Irène Schweizer. Neumeier has lived in Germany and Japan. Wax museum of Toyko has a wax figure of him.
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One of the most powerful tenor saxophonists, Kris Wanders was at the birth of European Improvised Music in the 1960’s. A member of the seminal Globe Unity Orchestra his collaborators of the time included Peter Brotzmann, Louis Moholo and Fred van Hove, Willem Breuker, Kees Hazevoet, Peter Kowald, Stu Martin, Han Bennink, Gunther Hampel , Irene Schweitzer, Joost Buis, Johannes Bauer, Dave Liebman etc… Now a resident of Melbourne, Australia, Kris Wanders regularly plays internationally
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Clare Cooper, guzheng – Berlin via Sydney
Strathfield musician Clare Cooper is currently based in Berlin, where she is developing pieces for inside pedal Harp and Chinese zither (guzheng) and working within the diverse community of artists and musicians as both a performer and organiser. Aside from solo performance Clare’s key projects are Germ Studies, LVSXY, Nevers and Hammeriver.
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Kim Myhr, guitar – Trondheim, North Norway
A young, innovative guitarist with an emphasis on a wide range of percussive, harmonic and timbral effects. He has had performances throughout Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan. His projects these days is a duo with Sebastien Roux (electronics/FR), the trio MURAL with Denley and Ingar Zach, the group “Silencers” with Benoit Delbecq (piano/FR) as as well as a piece for Trondheim Jazzorkester feat. Sidsel Endresen, Christian Wallumrød and many others.
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Michel Doneda, soprano saxophone, born in 1954, comes from the French South-West. He is a self-taught musician. In 1980 he founded in Toulouse a reed trio: HIC ET NUNC, a group that toured quite a lot in France. At the same time he founded with musicians, dancers and actors a place called IREA (Institute for research and exchange between arts of improvisation). Meeting other artists he developed a very personal approach with his music and his instrument in improvised music. During this period he played with Europeans musicians: Fred Van Hove, Phil Wachsmann, Max Eastley, Steve Beresford and Americans: John Zorn, Eliott Sharp, Elvin Jones. In 1985 he made his first record under his own name: TERRA (Nato record). At the same time he started playing regurlarly with Lê Quan Ninh, Daunik Lazro, Beñat Achiary, Martine Altenburger, Barre Phillips, Paul Rogers, Tetsu Saitoh, Kazue Sawai. More recently he developed his work with Keith Rowe, Gunter Muller, Bhob Rainey, Giuseppe Ielasi and dancers as Masaki Iwana, Yukiko Nakamura, Valérie Métivier and poets, actors. Since then, he has been very involved in the international improvised music scene, toured in Africa, Japan, Asia, USA, Canada, South America, Russia and with a lot of improvisers in Europe. As of today he recorded almost 50 records for European, Americans and Japanese labels.
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Espen Reinertsen, tenor sax – Norway

Eivind Nordset Lønning, trumpet - Norway
Streifenjunko make vigorous music with the rare instrumentation of tenor saxophone and trumpet. Espen Reinertsen and Eivind Lønning apply uncommon instrumental techniques to project a spacious sound with nothing else around. They have worked closely together for a long time to present a truly unique repertoire, but have also collaborated with renowned musicians like Keith Rowe, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshi Nakamura, Jim Denley, Christian Wallumrød, Sidsel Endresen and video artist Kjell Bjørgeengen.
Streifenjunko have recently released their debut cd “No Longer Burning” on the record label Sofa, and a track from this album was also included in The Wire Tapper 21. They have over the last couple of years toured Asia, Africa, USA and Europe. Festival performances includes Fri Resonans and Konsberg Jazzfestival in Norway, On the Edge of Wrong Festival in South Africa and Moers Festival in Germany.
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Claudio Calmens, electric guitar / objects – Argentina
Born in Bahía Blanca, 1962. He composes, and performs experimental music, electroacoustic medias, music theatre, chamber works, and pieces for electric, midi and classical guitar. He is specialized in extended technics for guitar. In 2000 he was at Cuba, under the Orquesta Sinfónica de Camagüey invitation, directed By Louis Aguirre. During 2004 he was invited to participate at the the Podewil Cultural Center in Berlin, playing solo and sharing the “Ensamble Otro” directed by Guillermo Gregorio. On february and march 2006 Claudio visited Canada, exchanging activity with artists in Toronto, Montreal and Quebec.
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Claudio Koremblit, visuals – Argentina
Experimenta Festival’s (Buenos Aires -the first sound art and experimental music festival in Latinoamérica) founder and Artistic Director between 1997 and 2009,. Creator of Buenos Aires’s FM Public Radio: “Música de la Gran Flauta ”, between 1989-1991, presenting all kind of experimental music for the first time in the country. He also writes about New Music in magazines and newspapers like Crítica de Argentina, Ñ de Clarín, Radar de Página 12, Esculpiendo Milagros, La Contumancia , El Musiquero y Perro Negro, among others. He prepares right now a first book about experimental music. He creates music and design sound for theatre directors and choreographers.
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Gerardo Morel, computer / sampler – Argentina
has studied guitar, music theory, composition and programming at conservatories, the University of Quilmes and by himself since 1986. He has formed several bands ranging from pop, techno, experimental rock and reggae, playing guitar, bass guitar, and live electronics. He also composes soundtracks for short and feature length films as well as theatre, and is involved in the experimental and free improvisation scene in Buenos Aires. For 3 years he´s been producing Niños Consentidos, a multi-aesthetic event where everything can happen, in a surrealist inspired mix of  performance-art, popular and experimental music, visual and social art.
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Zypce, percusión / sound objects – Argentina
In 1994 he released his CD “Nuevo muerto” (“New dead”) in which he and his ensemble play his own works of contemporary classical music tainted with industrial reminiscences, although these categories are in fact very dubious labels. He has also composed music for film, dance and theatre in Argentina and abroad, and has made concerts of his experimental compositions with pianist Adriana de los Santos, among others. He builds his own musical instrument and has an extremely elaborate approach.
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Rizili. “Occasional screaming, in between attempts to throw himself through a wall, a vocal sound reminiscent of a live pig being gutted. I think he should found his own religion, good for therapy, better than the new age drone, not very useful for conferences on sound art or installation art or any kind of art (I’m relieved to say). Could be employed in developing reliable, affordable, and rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases and other conditions arising from too much shaking up and down of the bodily fluids. A recent performance found him, mouth gaping wide, saliva dripping, but unable to offer a single squeak over a 40 minute improvisation - clearly a man of extremes. Rizili can also be witnessed at his guitar strummmmming best as part of ‘The Menstruation Sisters’. With dysfunctional rhythm, this start stop noise-rock duo which reminds those with a memory old enough of the ‘Slug Fuckers’ at their most incompetent and pure.” from Australia Ad lib.