In No Particular Order!

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12 Dog Cycle

Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (Taiwan) and Nigel Brown (Australia) work as 12 dog cycle, extending the voice through extreme unconventional technique and the accordion through modifications and pickups.
In performance, the accordion defines and modulates the performance space, whereas the voice is the event; the tour guide through time that provides an entrance and an exit.
They have performed in East Asia, Europe and Australia at festivals including Vozes de Magaio, Portugal, Santander Art Sonoro, Spain; Elsie Else, France; Kuandu Arts Festival, Taiwan; tranSonic, Taiwan; 2pi, China and Liquid Architecture and Electrofringe, Australia.
http://www.huishengchang.com/12dogcycle.html

Aemon Webb

Aemon Webb is a glitch musician, producer and lo-fi video artist. His practice explores divergence and convergence in rhythm, using confounded and affected electronics, and altering and limiting the levels of control inhabited by the physical body in performance. Last year Aemon performed with Japanese psychtrance group Boredoms for the auspicious 111 drummer ssssssshow on 11/11/11 in Byron Bay. This is his fourth consecutive festival appearance.
Etchmusic.bandcamp.com

Toshimaru Nakamura

Toshimaru Nakamura has been producing electronic music on self-named “no-input mixing board,” after long unhappy years with the electric guitar. The name describes the method of his music. “No” external sound source is connected to “inputs” of the “mixing board.” Mostly an improviser, occasionally a composer for dancers, an instrumentalist for compositions.
http://www.samadhisound.com/toshimarunakamura/
www.japanimprov.com/

Thembi Soddell

Thembi Soddell is a sound artist and electroacoustic composer from Melbourne, Australia. Her volatile sonic worlds morph, shift, rupture and dis-rupture into filmic atmospheres with a distinctly disquieting edge. Contorted into unreal environments and luscious masses of sonic textures, her sound palate sources field recordings, instruments and electronics to be suggestive but often unidentifiable. Her compositions exploit the dynamic extremes, toying with the listener’s sense of expectation by generating anticipatory suspense. The key element underlying her work is the exploration of psychological and emotional intensity.
http://cajid.com/thembi

Geoffrey Barnard

Geoffrey Barnard was a member of the new music organisation AZ Music between 1970 and 1972, performing in compositions by John Cage, Terry Riley, Alvin Lucier, Cornelius Cardew, Roger Frampton and others. He was also a member of the electro-acoustic improvisation group Teletopa during this time. By the mid-1970s his musical orientation had become primarily theoretical, and in 2003 he completed a Masters dissertation at UTS on the music of Cage, Cardew and Christian Wolff. In 2007, he and Laurie Scott Baker (ex-Scratch Orchestra and Peoples’ Liberation Music) formed the Baker-Barnard Duo.

Christine Abdelnour

Born in 1978, Christine lives in France but is of Lebanese origin. She has developed a unique personal language, producing sounds that are close to those of electroacoustic music but on a purely acoustic instrument. She approaches sound as a malleable material, rich in concrete textures which combine breath, silence and countless acoustic distortions. She has developed extended techniques and complex patterns of sound production, exploring the microtonal aspects of the saxophone and its high-pitched tones. She employs subtle tonguing techniques, unpitched breaths, spittle-flecked growls, biting, slicing notes and breathy echoing sounds from the bell of her horn. Far from any narrative effects, her music addresses the relation between listening and concepts of perception, time and space.
www.christineabdelnoursehnaoui.jimdo.com

Ryan Kernoa

Composer, Ryan Kernoa maintains numerous collaborations with the domain of live
performance, in particular with “Ecrire un mouvement ” managed by the choreographer
Thierry Escarmant as well as ” le cercle nombreux” managed by director Emma Morin. He
shares regularly the scene with musicians of improvised and experimental music in solo or
with numerous collaborations. He is also the guitarist of the group of heavy noise Kourgane.
His music, very incisive, feed a complex and powerful sound mass with hypnotic and lyric
rythms.
http://ryankernoa.jimdo.com/home/

Peter Blamey
(installation)

Peter’s work revolves around notions of what might be called ‘open electronics’, where recovered and re-deployed electrical components (such as computer motherboards, copper wire) are used to make simple open-, short-, and long-circuit schemes in order to explore ideas of connectivity, feedback, recycling and re-use, and of electricity in general.
http://pblamey.wordpress.com

Emily Morandini
(Installation)

Emily Morandini’s practice incorporates homemade and domestic elements into the audio production process. Creations include fillet-lace embedded circuits, handmade magnetic tape, live razor blade audio mixes, and bobbin-lace ground-loop microphone cable.
interlaps-overlaces.tumblr.com

Charles and Orsola

Archaeoelectric resonance, ectoplasm inducing acoustics, and pantaloons.

Chris O’Connor

In Auckland I scratch a living as a freelance musician. Performing, recording sessions, workshops, composing, teaching… Most recently I’ve been playing old timey blues w Storehouse, freejazzy things with The Spoilers of Utopia and Fritterhead, and more, well, songs I guess w Don McGlashan, Neil Finn, Andrew Keoghan and Sjd. I recently finished a stint of rhythm and improv workshops with John Bolton and his actors, where I worked with material from John Stevens wonderful book Search and Reflect.

Cor Fuhler

Cor Fuhler has been called many things: a maverick, a chameleon, a tinkerer, innovator and even traditionalist. However, above all, he simply thinks of himself as an improvising musician and organizer of sounds, ideas and combinations of people.
Mostly piano is his choice, the instrument he fought with and against for many years before and during his studies at the conservatory in Amsterdam in the 80’s. Since then he has added an array of other instruments to his practice: the EMS synthi analogue synth, the keyolin (a keyed violin of his own invention), the guitar and various unusual (but usually modified) instruments.
http://cor-fuhler.blogspot.com/
http://soundcloud.com/corfuhler

GOOBLE GOBBLE

Gary Butler (Von Krapp Family, Wollongong Anarchist Noisemakers Kollective, Cobra etc.) teams up with Jariss Shead (of “Jethro Tull on steroids” folk metal band Troldhaugen) and Nathan Penzer (ex Vvovo) for an unpredictable set of improvised anarchy. Guitars, dolls, mobile phone, homemade instruments, kitchen sink etc.
One of us! One of us! We accept you!
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s877475.htm
http://youtu.be/t3QvlhPKVYA
https://www.facebook.com/Troldhaugen
http://youtu.be/7F7-ErYS9zI
http://soundcloud.com/nathan-penzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0

Dale Gorfinkel

DALE GORFINKEL is a creative musician, instrument builder, installation artist, & educator. He is interested in finding fresh ways of presenting and making music including outdoors, inter-cultural and inter-generational contexts. Dale builds wonderous automated sonic contraptions and radically re-designs other instruments such as the vibraphone and trumpet.
www.dalegorfinkel.com
www.outhear.com

Gail Priest


GAIL PRIEST is a Sydney-based artist with a multi-faceted practice in which sound is the key material of communication and investigation. In her live performance she is currently exploring the voice augmented by digital technology. She creates sound works for installation and collaborates with choreographers, directors and video artists creating soundscores for their works. She has curated media art and sound events and exhibitions and has edited the book Experimental Music: Audio explorations in Australia (UNSW Press 2009). She has released three CDs on her own label, Metal Bitch Recordings and her latest CD Presentiments from the Spider Garden was released through Endgame Records 2010.
www.gailpriest.net

Hermione Johnson

Hermione is a composer and pianist living in Wellington, New Zealand. In recent times she has improvised with Cor Fuhler, Dave Brown, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and Sean Baxter, appeared solo at Exploritorium in Berlin, the Adam Art Gallery’s Designs for Living Exhibition in Wellington, and Auckland’s Tea Party. She’s also played at the NOW Now, Fredstock, and iiii Festivals
http://soundcloud.com/hermione-johnson

Tetras

Tetras is an improvising trio formed in 2010 with Jason Kahn (drums, percussion), Jeroen Visser (organ, electronics) and Christian Weber (contrabass). The group is based in Zürich, Switzerland. Tetras take a long-form approach to their music, with live sets approaching one hour or more. The gradual structural development of their pieces blurs the sense of time passing, moving through various fields of improvisation which owe as much to rock (This Heat, Can), jazz (Sun Ra, electric-era Miles Davis), minimal music (Steve Reich) or drone (Phil Niblock).
Invited to play at the 2012 NOW now Festival, the last date on this tour, Tetras are also playing shows
in New Zealand, Malaysia and several other Australian concerts in Melbourne and Canberra.
In January their first release, the double LP “Pareidolia,” will appear on the Chicago Flingco Sound
label.
Jason Kahn began playing music in Los Angeles during the early 1980’s, initially releasing records on
the SST label. During the 1990’s he lived in Berlin, playing drums and percussion in many projects of
improvised and electronic music. Since 2000 he has been living in Zurich.
Getting his start in the 1980’s Amsterdam Ultra scene, Jeroen Visser has worked extensively as sound
engineer with The Ex, Tom Cora and many more. He played with The Pale Nudes during the 1990’s,
and currently tours with ./morFrom/. and Trio Kazanchis, with Ethiopian singer and krar player Mesele
Asmamaw. Swiss bassist Christian Weber is involved in numerous projects, ranging from jazz and free
improvisation to contemporary chamber music. He has collaborated with a wide spectrum of
musicians, ranging from John Butcher to Otomo Yoshihide.
This tour has been made possible with the support of the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia.
Photo credit: Christian Dietrich
http://tetras.jasonkahn.net

Jason Kahn (electronics, composition):
Will be performing a new graphical score “Open Spaces” with chris abrahams (piano), laura altman (clarinet), monika brooks (accordio), rishin singh (trombone), john wilton (percussion), aemon webb (guitar and electronics), adam sussmann (elecgronics), matt earle (electronics).

Tony Osborne

Tony Osborne has worked as a singer, actor and a dancer and has been improvising in as many contexts as possible for twenty five years with a particular interest in extended vocals for the last ten. Past collaborators in sound include Ross Bolleter, Cameron Deyell, Clare Cooper, Clayton Thomas, Adam Sussman, Matt Earle, Amanda Stewart, Ashley Dyer, Sam Pettigrew & Rishin Singh. He has been a member of Splinter Orchestra since 2009.
www.tonyosborne.net

Vijay Thillaimuthu

Vijay Thillaimuthu is a Melbourne based audio visual artist that has created a body of work that tests relationships between various technologies through experimentation with DIY electronics. His focus is on how subverting or ‘hacking’ obsolete equipment can be applied within performance and installation situations to create extreme sensory environments.
www.xenosine.com

Yuri Nezovic

Views the human voice as the most diverse, expressive and emotive instrument available to mankind and is blissfully unaware of the difference between music and film, song and story, language and sound.

Your Intestines

Guerra/Earle/Sussmann/Blamey - guitar/guitar/bass/drums. Thud rock from the very depths of Your Intestines.
http://soundcloud.com/your-intestines