the NOW now Festival 2009

Thanks to everyone who was part of the 2009 NOW now Festival - it was another great weekend of music in the Blue Mountains. Keep your ears to the ground, the NOW now series will be back soon - for now check out some of the other great gigs happening in Sydney.

To contact us: series at thenownow.net

the NOW now would like to thank Arts NSW, The Australia Council and ABC Classic FM for their support.
We would also like to thank the technical people, John Basset and Christian Malejka - sound, Kathy Ohara and Marcia Jane - lights, and Somaya Langley documentation and trouble shooting.

Afternoon concert @ Lhamda Books
5pm : THE PROPHETS : drums, saxophones and masks : Dale Gorfinkel / Peter Farrar / Rosalind Hall / Sam Dobson / Finn Ryan / and more
5:30pm : Inge Olmheim / Aemon Webb : Electronics

Evening concert @ Wentworth Falls School of Arts
7:00pm : PIN PIN PIN TRIO : Clare Cooper (guzheng) / Magda Mayas (piano) / Steve Heather (percussion)
7:30pm : THE SPIDERS : James Heighway (everything)
8:00pm : Adam Sussman / Martin Kirkwood : Acoustic Guitars
8:30pm : (small hall) TAD to AKAI no Pleasure Treasure
9:00pm : Eugene Chadbourne : freely improvised country guitar and banjo http://www.eugenechadbourne.com
9:45pm : Pateras / Baxter / Brown + Louise Curham : prepared piano / prepared guitar / unprepared drums / performative film (respectively)

Late concert @ Akemi
from 11:00pm :
Clayton Thomas (double bass) / Dale Gorfinkel (vibraphone / inventions) / Finn Ryan (drums and cool blue hat)

Cinemusic (1972) : a film by David Ahern, made with Phil Noyce : introduced by Geoffrey Barnard (if he can stay awake)

Lloyd Honeybrook / Robin Fox : feedbax and computer

Unscheduled jams

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Saturday 17th January 2009

Morning concert @ King's Cave
6:00am : Steve Heather : percussion

Sound Walk : with Anthony Magen : from King's Cave midday

Afternoon Concert @ King's Cave
2:00pm : Inge Olmheim (electronics) / Ian Pieterse (baritone saxophone) / Rosalind Hall (prepared alto saxophone)
2:30pm : Sam Dobson (double bass) / Jon Rose (violin)

Afternoon talk @ Wentworth Falls School of Arts
5:30pm : Birdsong : The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music : Hollis Taylor

Evening Concert @ Wentworth Falls School of Arts
7:00pm : Clayton Thomas / Clare Cooper / Robin Fox / Martin Ng: strings, turntables and computer manipulation
7:30pm : Joe Derrick / Simon Ferenci : trumpets
8:00pm : Kusum Normoyle / Aaron Clarke / Rivka Schembri / Bonnie Hart : voices
8:30pm : HELMET HEAD : Rod Cooper and Anthony Magen : Audiovisual madness
9:00pm : Laura Altman / Magda Mayas / Monika Brooks : clarinet, piano and accordion
9:30pm : BOTBORG : audio visual feedback web

Late concert @ Akemi
from 11:00pm :
Pilgramage from Scattered Points : a film on the Scratch Orchestra by Luke Fowler

Doc Chad (Eugene Chadbourne) Left Wing Country Jam

Unscheduled Jams

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Sunday 18th January 2009

Midday in PITT PARK, next to WFSA : KITE MUSIC : Jon Rose and Robin Fox

Afternoon Concert @ Wentworth Falls School of Arts
2:00pm : THE SPLINTER ORCHESTRA : the NOW now's very own house band
2:45pm : Anthony Pateras : solo piano
3:30pm : THE LOOP ORCHESTRA : Australia's longest running experimental music project : John Blades / Richard Fielding / Manny Gasparinatos / Hamish Mackenzie / Juke Wyatt
4:00pm : Mike Majkowski : solo double bass

Evening concert @ Akemi
from 7:00pm :
- Dave Brown / Joe Musgrove / James Heighway/ Reuben Derrick : sax, guitars and electronics
- THE UNAUSTRALIANS
- Hosebeast : Jon Hunter / Ivan Lysiak / Peter Newman : guitar and drums and computer
- Lucas Abela / Sean Baxter

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Laura Altman (clarinet)
Aemon Webb (electronics)
Rory Brown (bass, etc)

Joe Talia (spring reverb tank/metal objects) melb
James Rushford (prepared violas/autoharp) melb

Dale Gorfinkel (modified trumpet, etc) melb
Peter Farrar (sax, misc)

...yet another location!

1/475 King Street,
Newtown

8pm donations of $5/10/haggling permitted

jim denley - sax and electronics

rory brown - double bass

from 6pm @ Sedition
275 Victoria St Darlinghurst

Concert One @ Performance Space
Fri 26 June (7:30 - 10:30pm)
$25/$20
Thomas Koner (DE)
Garry Bradbury (SYD)
Cat Hope (WA)
Alex White (SYD)

Golden Fur is a new Melbourne-based music project comprising James Rushford (piano, viola), Judith Hamann (cello, prepared cello), and Sam Dunscombe (clarinets, laptop), who are re-imagining chamber music in the realms of experimental music and the avant-garde. Seeking to create a further dialogue with the language of exploratory music as well as that of improvisation, theatre and visual art, Golden Fur will be presenting challenging new works written specifically for the ensemble by Australian composer Kate Neal and visual artist, composer Marco Fusinato, alongside works by Australians Liza Lim and Robert Rooney. The concert will also feature a world premiere by Dutch experimental icon Jaap Blonk. Golden Fur engages with contemporary classical music in youthfully iconoclastic style, adding volume, volatility and theatricality by means of built instruments, electronics, amplification and computers. Thanks to Golden Fur, the seemingly discrete worlds of classical, experimental, improvisation an d indie/DIY music are about to collide.

Date: 5pm Sunday 6 September 2009
Where: RECITAL HALL EAST, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Tickets: $20 Full, $12 Concession
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door.

“We hear the alien quality of the non-human in our music and the humanity of music in nature.” - David Dunn.

Over the past three years this project has been presented at Ku-ring-gai National Park. In 2009 the project will continue the tradition although at a different location - Middle Head, the Southern Head of the inner Heads close to Manly and Balmoral. A weird and beautiful setting with spectacular views of the Harbour, the point offers an amazing group of abandoned military bunkers and gun positions that function as amphitheatres and weather proof areas. This is ideal for a performance where 2 - 3 spaces can be used at once and musicians and audiences can travel between the spaces. The Norwegian acoustic guitarist Kim Myhr (www.myspace.com/kimmyhrmusic), who Jim Denley has worked with extensively will be involved, as well as the Anaphorian percussionist Kraig Grady (http://anaphoria.com/).

(Kraig Grady, Kim Myhr, Peter Farrar, Monika Brooks, Jo Derrick, Adam Sussman, Jim Denley),

Date: 4pm Sunday 25 October 2009
Where: MIDDLE HEAD, Manly National Park,
See Map: http://www.newmusicnetwork.com.au/Images/Concerts/middle-head.gif
Tickets: By donation: Suggested donation $30 Full / $20 Concession
Bookings Essential: Places are limited! Phone Philippa @ NMN on 0411 606 077

A Radio Documentary about Disability and Sexuality
360 on ABC Radio National, Saturday December 12, 2 p.m.

Human beings thrive on touch, a cuddle, a back slap, a loving caress. Yet many disabled people are rarely touched in a loving way. John Blades is disabled but this hasn’t stopped him from exploring his own sexuality and being touched.

Join him on a journey through the uncharted waters of people with disabilities and sexuality. This radio documentary was made and devised by John, who has lived with multiple sclerosis for nearly 28 years. This subject has been avoided and ignored by society and the media.

As well as John's story there are extensive interviews which he has done, with psychologist, Dr Gary Fulcher from the MS society NSW and Victoria, who is disabled himself. He gives a unique insight into the great importance of sexual expression for those with disabilities. Also, two sex workers working with people with disabilities as well as two disabled people who have used sex workers as an outlet for sexual expression.

Interviews and discussions are very open, honest and at times will be quite confronting listening. Spread throughout the program are fragments from John's life with multiple sclerosis, despite having no movement below the shoulders John lives a very active life in music and the arts which we journey into through the course of the program.
It is filled with carefully chosen music, which is such a big part of John's life.

Along with the radio documentary there will be extended interviews, lists of music used in the program and links to information about disability and sexuality on the HYPERLINK "http://www.abc.net.au/rn/360/" 360 website: abc.net.au/rn/360