The NOW now Series #1

The NOW now is back in the swing of things and coming at you with an international line up of improvatorial/noisy/exploratory/genre busting delights!

featuring::::::

*Emily McDaniel:::::Lappy1000

*Mike Cooper:::ITALY:::::GUITAR /LAP STEEL GUITAR/ ELECTRONICS/ VOCALS & Tony Osborne:::::::: Voice& Electronics

*MOHA:::::: NORWAY:::::: Morendu: drums & SuperCollider3 | Odintu: guitar, keyboard
MoHa! is a Norwegian somewhat loud music duo, like a breath of fresh fjord air.
Since 2004, they have released a handful of records and singles.
Sonic splatter, sharp blasts of savage composition, the remains of varied sources.
Some dense futuristic music sourced from guitar/synth and drums.
Clearly, the band can be described as “efficient”.
MoHa! is Odintu on guitar/keyboard and Morendo on drums/SC3.
www.n-collective.com/moha
www.myspace.com/themoha
www.runegrammofon.com

*HORACIO POLLARD::::U.K.:::: MIC, AMP, FEEDBACK, OTHER
Horacio Pollard is a Berlin/ London based musician working with (potentially) mind altering obscure noise creations.
He started making music in 2000 with his 3 piece band Cau_Cational Betreet who built a small following by playing fucked up music in strange places like motorway bridges, shopping centres, quarries & church roofs etc.
Since then, he has released a bunch of solo records on different labels such as Wrong Music, Adaadat, Twilight Luggage & his own Neigh%Music.
He has toured extensively around Europe, South America & the Far East & has collaborated with many artists including Anla Courtis, Anal Garden, Bbblood, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, DJ Scotch Egg, Moha!, Ove Naxx, Pokemachine, Torturing Nurse & more.
Live shows are loud, destructive and thoroughly entertaining!

“…drilling guttural splats and mic feedback spaz attacks causing eyeballs to fall out!”
Hulk Dash, London 2009

http://horaciopollard.blogspot.com/
http://neighmusic.co.uk/

$8/$10

April 26
8pm
@
Studio Impermanent
154 Victoria Rd Rozelle
NSW 2039

Get the 504, 507, 510, 515 or M50. Also probably more.
Or Ride. Or Drive. Or. Get A Lift.

It’s BYO and there is a pub across the road.

www.thenownow.net

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The New Music Network presents

Ensemble Offspring and The NOW now

Featuring sets from

*The Splinter Orchestra
(~35 strong)
Playing works by The Splinter Orchestra
^Adam Sussman, Aemon Webb, Alex Masso, Alon Lisar, Brianne Curran, Chris Abrahams, Dominic Prukinski, Emily McDaniel, Finn Ryan, Gail Priest, Grant Arthur, Heather Shannon, James Waples, Jeremy Tatar, Jim Denley, Jo Derrick, Joe Cummins, John Wilton, Jon Watts, Laura Altman, Marcus Whale, Martin Kirkwood, Mel Herbert, Mike Majkowski, Monika Brooks, Nadene Pita, Peter Farrar, Rishin Singh, Rory Brown, Sam Pettigrew, Simon Ferenci, Sonya Holowell, Tim Cunningham, Tim Wall, Tony Osborne

*Ensemble Offspring
Playing works by
^Marcus Whale
^Joanna Bailie
^Kris Tiner

and

*The Treatise Project
Playing Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise

^Claire Edwardes - Percussion, Diana Springford - Clarinets, Ollie Miller - Cello, Veronique Serret - Violin
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^Adam Sussman - Guitar+Electronics, Martin Ng - Turntable, Mike Majkowski - Double Bass, Rishin Singh - Trombone

Date: 8pm, Thursday 5 May 2011
Where: Red Rattler, 6 Faversham Street, Marrickville
Tickets: Full $25 | Concession and under 30 $15 | Tickets available at the door

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Thursday, 26 May, 2011
The NOW now Series 2011 #2

The NOW now presents three compositions by Dutch composer dude Martjin Tellinga (http://www.martijntellinga.nl/), all played by local improvisor dudes and dudettes.

Featuring
* A Situation Predominant in Bass, for 3 Modulators.
- Mike Majkowski, Sam Pettigrew + Rory Brown- Basses

*A Situation of Rumour, for 7 syllables.
- Tony Osborne, Jo Truman, Sonya Holowell, Ivan Cheng, Lachlan Hughes, Danita Harris + Laura Bishop - Voices

* An Opposition for 2 instrument groups.
- Rishin Singh-trombone, Sam Pettigrew-bass, Lachlan Hughes-accordion, Laura Altman-clarinet, Ivan Cheng-clarinet, Jeremy Tatar-flute, Mike Majkowski-pitch pipes, Joespeh Derrick-trumpert, Brianne Curran-violin, + Danita Harris-sax

Thursday 26th May
7.30pm
The Stone Gallery
395 Oxford St, Paddo
$12/$15 admission includes a drink/drinks by donations

www.thenownow.net

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The NOW now series no.3

The NOW now presents some of its killer selection from the melbourne inter jazz fest.

A huge international/interstate/intersuburb lineup of killer musics!

Featuring:::::

*NATSAT Duo (Japan)
-Satoko Fujii (Piano) + Natsuki Tamura (Trumpet)
http://www.satokofujii.com/projects.natsat.html

*Rully Shabara-Vocals & Wukir Suryadi-Bamboo Instrument (Indonesia)
http://yesnowave.com/yesno051/

*Yuske Akai(Brisbane) - Guitar, Alister Spence (Newtown)- Piano, Norikatsu Koreyasu (Japan) - Double bass & Akira Horikoshi (Japan) - Drummmssss

*Yuske Akai -Guitar & Wukir Suryadi-Bamboo
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Wukir_Suryadi__Yusuke_Akai/Untitled_Strings/

Wednesday!!!! 8th June (despite what the poster/flyer says…)
Music Starts at 8pm
$8/$10
401/2 Hibernian House
Elizabeth Street

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The NOW now Series 2011 No.4

Our second gig digesting the Melbourne Inter Jazz festival
Featuring a bunch of faces from the old days! Including Papa NOW now himself! Welcome them back to Sydney town!

Featuring

****TRIO:Black Cracker (Rishin Singh –Trombone/Jon Watts-No Input Mixer) + Will Guthrie-Drums

****SOLO:Tim O’Dwyer- Sax

****QUARTET: Clayton Thomas-Double Bass/Darren Moore-Drums/Jim Denley-Woodwinds/Martin Ng-Turntables

June 13th
8pm
Serial Space
33 Wellington St Chippendale
$8/10

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Another NOW now lineup thats as solid as a 2 by 4!

4 Killer Duos, featuring artists from across Sydney, Australia and the world.

**JON ROSE (Violin) + CLAIRE EDWARDES (Percussion)

** NADIR — New project from BEN BYRNE and ALEX WHITE — “It’s pretty much all out noise, with a bit of ambience and some thick tones thrown in for good measure. “BB

** CANDLESNUFFER[vic] (GUITAR) + LUKAS SIMONIS [netherlands] (GUITAR) — Some kind of album launch tour… presenting their new album Nature Stands Aside out on HelloSquare

** JON ROSE (violin) + LUCAS ABELA (Glass) — Brutal.

Monday 4th July
Doors Open @ 7pm
Sound Starts @ 7.30pm SHARP!
$8/10
Serial Space
33 Wellington St
Chippendale

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The NOW now Series 2011 #6

The 6th gig for the NOW now concert series.

Featuring a spattering a free jazz, noise, improv, japanese elvis impersonators and non-definable contemporary musics.

** IVAN LYSIAK - Solo - - guitar+feedbacks+awesomeness

** EREBIS vs. REUBEN LEWIS (Canberra) - BASS vs. TRUMPET —
Erebis is a shochu sippin’, unagi munchin’, dog house wieldin’
son of a what? Inspired by equal amounts of Japanese Imperial
Court Music and the recordings of Mr Presley, this 188 pound
ex Elvis impersonator takes on the trumpet of Reuben Lewis
for a musical grapple match which does not involve unitards.
BYO topknots, kimonos and facial hair.

** DALE GORFINKEL & AREK GULBENKOGLU (Melbourne) - Trumpet+Obects & Snare+Preparations –

An awesome duo from melbourne playing as a duo for the first time in sydney. Check out their avant whatever release. its incredible http://www.avantwhatever.com/?page_id=385&category=3&product_id=7

** ROIL –Mike Majkowski-Bass, Chris Abrahams-Piano, Kanye West-Drums –
Sydney power trio sitting on the blurry edge between jazz and the rest of the world. New album coming out soon, ready to blow minds.

7.30pm
Monday 25th July
402 Hibernian House

$8/10

Starting on time was awesome at our last gig. so this gig will start on time as well. make sure you are there by 8 at the latest.
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The NOW now Series No.7
three sets:

>> duet….. monika brooks + laura altman (sydney)

>>> trio….. kirtsy stegwazi + nathan robinson + marc bour (blue mountains)

>>>> quartet….. martin kirkwood + peter farrar + monika brooks + laura altman (sydney + mountains)

the usual 8 or 10 bucks.
music starts 8pm.

Monday, August 8 · 7:30pm
Serial Space
33 Wellington St
Chippendale

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The NOW now Series No.8

The 8th in our bi-monthly series

Featuring two new quartets and an installation

*** Cor Fuhler - Piano, Jim Denley - Winds, Jo Derrick - Trumpet & Laura Altman - Clarinet

***Aemon Webb - Guitar, Peter Farrar - Sax, Rory Brown - Guitar & Alon Ilsar - Drums

***Mel Herbert -Multi-speaker audio installation

Wednesday August 17th
doors @7.30
sounds @ 8
$8/10
402 Hibernian
342 Elizabeth St
Surry Hillz

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The NOW now series No-9

The NOW now series is a bi-monthly occurance. And for the first gig this september we have

**** Marcus Whale & Jordan Dorjee — Turntables, computers, vocals, microphones, and more.
-a first time collaboration between these two genre pushing strapping young lads.

**** Marco Cher-Gibard (Melbourne) — Sampler & Computer
-His first set in sydney for quite some time (since NOW now fest 2008??) super nice guy Marco brings his gloriously grainy sounds and general nice-ness up from melbourne.
http://www.marcocher-gibard.net/?page_id=56

**** Jon Hunter — Guitars
- Busy man, Jon Hunter, somehow finds time between all his business to explore, subvert and problematise the ego driven performativity of his axe of choice, the guitar. Amazing aural worlds emerge as a result!
http://magneticrecordingcouncil.com/jonhunter/

**** Sam Pettigrew —- Double Bass
- Last time Sam did a solo bass set at Serial Space, he drank two litres of pink milk and didn’t throw up until afterwards.

Where: Serial Space
33 wellington st chippendale
When: Monday the 5th September
When (part 2): 7pm Doors for a 7.30pm start. Strict finishing time equals strict starting time. Who’s first? dunno!
How may clams: 10/8 you can choose.
BYO?: yes, but also available….

more info?
check www.thenownow.net

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THe NOW now series no-10

The next NOW now gig is just around the corner (!!)
At the cosy and delightful 402 Hibernian House, on Monday 19th September we shall have the pleasure of experiencing performances by:

=== clocks & clouds (kraig grady + terumi narushima)
=== percussion trio: james waples / jon wilton / finn ryan
=== rishin singh and amanda stewart - trombone and vocals/text
=== PI O - sound poet (melbourne) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_O

doors open at 7 - sounds from 7:30 - get in early to get a comfy spot. byo. $8/$10. hope you can be there. x

p.s please email series if you are unsure of the location.

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The NOW now series No.11

Presenting all the way from france/USA the legendary Barre Phillips.

come and see him up close and personal with some serious locals, in a beautiful and amazingly resonant space in leafy camperdown.

*Quartet:: Barre Phillips - Bass / Phil Slater - Trumpet / Alister Spence - Piano / James Waples - Drums

*Large Scale Bass Ensemble - showing the results of the days workshops - featuring as many bassists as possible!

*Barre Phillips - Solo

Barre will also be the guest/host of a Bass players workshop ‘On, For and About the Bass’ on the Sunday. Open to all bass players its a great chance to learn from one of the great tree masters.

Sunday(!!!!) 2nd of October, 7pm @ the People’s Republic of Australasia (email series or nshimmin for the address) $10

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The latest installment of the NOW now’s continuous concert series
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Featuring …

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***** JOEL STERN (Bris) - sound making devices & ANTHONY GUERRA - Guitar (maybe)

***** MICHAEL MUNIAK (formerly of Baltimore) - turntable feedback & NICK DAN - drums?!

***** ZHANG SHOUWANG SOLO (Beijing) [Of Carsick Cars fame] - Noise making device of some kind maybe a guitar

***** HENRY MILLS (Bris) - mostly feedback devices with other odds and ends.

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At 401/2 Hibernian House on Elizabeth Street (make sure you buzz 401 not 402)

doors @ 7.30
Sounds @ 8

$8/$10

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THIS MONDAY 21st is the last official NOW now series gig for the 2011 before our festival launch party in December:

head on down to Serial Space to check out
FORENZICS http://www.forenzics.net/
GRANT ARTHUR (banjo) + TIM CUNNINGHAM (guitar)
REUBEN DERRICK [NZ] (sax/clarinet) + JOSEPH DERRICK (trumpet) + SIMON FERENCI (trumpet)

$10/$8 entry

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Come and celebrate with a FREE gig to launch the 2012 program!

The festival will be a massive affair so it only seems fit to usher it in with an equally massive gig.

Performances by:

***PETER FARRAR (Sax) & DALE GORFINKEL -melb- (Modified trumpet & objects)
http://www.myspace.com/gorfinkelfarrar

***CAT HOPE -perth- (Bass) & AMANDA STEWART (Voice)
http://cathope.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Stewart

***THOMAS WILLIAM (Beatsmithery)
http://www.thisthing.us/tt/2011/thomas-william-a-k-a-cleptoclectics-deccan-technicolour-lp/

***OREN AMBARCHI -melb- (Guitar & Electronics) & JOE TALIA -melb- (Drums)
http://www.orenambarchi.com/
http://www.joetalia.com/

***BOTBORG -bris- (AV MADNESS_)
http://botborg.com/

FREE (buy a beer)

The night kicks of @ 7.30 Doors open @ 7

The Red Rattler
6 Faversham St
Marrickville

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