+ Espadrille album launch ‘first wave’
espadrille is - John Encarnacao (radio, guitar & electronics), Brendan Smyly (tenor saxophone, voice & electronics), Joshua Isaac (drums & noises).

+ Cleptocleptics (Tom Smith)

+ Guard compartment (Monika Brooks and John Hunter)

thursday 11th march
7:30pm
475 king newtown
5 dollar donation

T.S Elliot gave us the muscle and we put it in our muskets and will fire it upon thee. This event explores the five parts of The Wasteland as five music and live art scores. Each will be composed by a different ensemble, resituating storytelling, mythology, fragmented narrative and stylistic disorientation. Leave your cardigan & black-rimmed coke-bottle-bottomed specs on your bedside table with your copy of Gideon’s. This night will lead you into temptation, like a tele-evangelist into the school chapel.

featuring ’scissor lock’ (marcus whale) & ‘the brick ensemble’ (with musicians from the splinter orchestra)

thursday march 4th
Location: PACT theatre 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville
8pm - 10 pm
cost : $12

5 pm on Sunday February 28th at the People’s Culture Palace in Camperdown.
Admission is FREE, but RSVP is essential.
Jim Denley – solo

“I first started playing wind instruments seriously at the age of 10. Initially it was Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and Roland Kirk that inspired me, but soon enough it was also the sound itself that led. 43 years later I still feel positive and unconstrained by the search.
The flute music from the Solomons, New Guinea and the Amazon is particularly inspiring these days. In much of the music from these regions the flute signals a wormhole to that which is beyond the everyday.
But truthfully these (for me) mediated influences are smaller than the influence of the playing itself. To be playful with sound, acoustics and duration is such a powerful force in my life. Sound, the potentials of instrumentalism, and a commitment to time/site specific work (improvisation) take me to those moments where, as Chris Mann says, ‘the part that is the whole, has no analysis.’
I don’t know why, but I’m very excited to be doing this Home Concert in Camperdown. It’s the first solo I’ve done in some time and it feels like a very good time to do it.”

RSVP ESSENTIAL for final venue and concert details. Nick Shimmin nshimmin

‘SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION’

An improvised performance event at ‘Track 12′ - Carriage Works
7.30 pm
Saturday 27th February
Free entry
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Dancers/improv performers:
Ryuichi Fujimura, Nikki Heywood, Catherine Magill, Tony Osborne, Eva Papadopoulo, and Victoria Hunt
will be joined by improvising musicians Sam Pettigrew & Mike Majkowski.

a duo concert.

jim denley (woodwinds) + mike majkowski (double bass)

when ?
wednesday 24th february
7:00 pm start.

where ?
the cross art + books, 33 roslyn street, king’s cross.
(donation upon entry).

legendary australian improvising trio, the necks,
featuring:
chris abrahams (piano)
lloyd swnton (bass)
tony buck drums (drums)
will be performing in sydney on friday 19th february at the metro theatre.

8:30pm

Location:
The Metro Theatre
624 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

PricePre Book $27 / On the door $28
Bookings(02) 9550 3666
ModeGA Standing
TicketsOn sale now @ Metro Theatre

www.thenecks.com

roil:
chris abrahams (piano)
mike majkowski (double bass)
james waples (drums)

sunday 14th february @ ‘bohemian grove’
7:30pm - 9:30pm

Formed in 2007, this Sydney-based trio has been developing their own approach to jazz improvisation. There is a controlled elegance to Roil’s music — not that this precludes the energetic. The music has an eddying quality that moves between group utterance and multi–stranded counterpoint, a weaving of textures that coagulate to form unified phrases before dispersing once more into the churning invention.

“A beautifully weighted trio, full of delicacy, mesmerizing accumulations of detail and engulfing power ” (John Clare)

myspace.com/roilmeaning

‘Grod Morel (Argentina) + friends’

Grod Morel, dj & electonic musician, and member of Argentina’s ‘Quartet Experimenta’ (featured at this year’s now now festival), will be playing his final Sydney show before leaving our shores.

He will be joined by a handful of Sydney experimentalists, including:
Laura Altman (clarinet), Sam Pettigrew (double bass), Simon Ferenci (trumpet).

when?
saturday 13th february,
6:30 - 9pm.

where?
The Cross Art + Books, 33 Roslyn Street, Kings Cross
(donation upon entry)

EXPERIMENTA
Exploratory Music from ARGENTINA
Claudio Koremblit, prepared guitar + visuals
Adriana de los Santos, piano / objects
Claudio Calmens, electric guitar / objects
Gerardo Morel, computer / sampler
Zypce, percussion / sound objects
For 10 years Claudio Koremblit has been presenting Experimenta, a festival of exploratory music in Buenos Aires. In association with the Now now festival sedition will host a night of the best exploratory music from Argentina. For years we’ve been getting Euros, Japs and the odd American. Come and see what men and women from our latitude think about sound now.

donation. 7.30 275 Victoria St, Darlinghurst

Monika Brooks +guests
Rice Corpse + Dominic Talarico + X No MSG X