WHAT: The Sound of Failure Festival Main Exhibition & Rococo Vortex
(as part of the Sound of Failure Festival)
WHERE: Chrissie Cotter Gallery (Pidcock St, Camperdown) & Don’t Look
Gallery (419 New Canterbury Rd Dulwich Hill)
WHEN: Opening August 19, 6pm & 20, 6pm (respectively)
WHO: Various artists & Wade Marynowsky
CONTACT: Greg Shapley, 0401 152 434, email: gshapley
WEBSITE: http://SoundOfFailure.com

a festival that involves over 40 local and international artists and six
venues, this exhibition will host a diverse range of audio, and
audio-visual installations. US based sound experimenter, Subscape
Annex, has used the potentially explosive technique of combining
electricity and water in a work that involves sound from dripping
water across the contact of an instrument cable jack.

Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda dissect and interrogate
the iconic Aussie cop drama, ‘Homicide’ (said to be the most important
and popular television drama series ever produced in the country) in
‘Homicide Rumours’ — a sound slash fiction. Like old episodes of
Doctor Who, these Homicide mashups conjure sensations of familiarity
and sentimentality, as well as disappointment and even embarrassment.
Our memories live in the original – past – moment; our hazy dream is
shattered by the harsh reality of the now.

The opening will feature a performance by renowned theatre artists
Leisa Shelton and Jethro Woodward. Other artists include: Jordana
Maisie, Vienna Parreno, Monperro (Spain), David O’Donoghue, Krzysztof
Osinski, Ashley Scott, Greg Shapley, Cara-Ann Simpson, and the 2203
Collective.

Sound of Failure Festival, Main exhibition opening:
Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Pidcock St, Camperdown
Opening August 19, 6pm (FREE), August 20-September 7

The following evening is the opening of Wade Marynowsky’s stunning
solo exhibition at Don’t Look Gallery, ‘Rococo Vortex’. This
exhibition explores 18th century European notions of the automaton,
elegance, decadence and how these have filtered down into contemporary
Australian kitsch culture.

Rococo Vortex by Wade Marynowsky,
(dresses by Susan Marynowsky)
Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill
Opening August 20, 6pm (FREE), August 21-30

The Sound Lounge
$18, $14 students & Jazz Action/Jazzgroove members, $12 SIMA members
Sydney bassist Mike Majkowski will be joined by some of Australia’s most dedicated and unique improvisers, to present two sets of original music.

Set 1 features Jim Denley (one of Australia’s most highly regarded improvisers) and Yusuke Akai (a growing force in Brisbane’s music scene). Set 2 features Alex Masso (Trio Apoplectic), James Pug Waples (Mike Nock Trio), and Simon Ferenci (The Splinter Orchestra).

It is also Mike’s birthday and his last Australian gig for 2008 as he is spending time in Europe – so all the more reason not to miss tonight!

“It’s All Been Done Before”

Ben Byrne
Anastasia Freeman
June Green
Michelle Jamieson
Peter Newman
Sean Rafferty
Soda_Jerk

Curated by Daniel Green

opens Wednesday 6 August, 6-8pm
exhibition continues to 16 August 2008

The day the music died.
Friday 15th August, 6:30pm:
Peter Blamey
Samuel Bruce
Ben Byrne
Daniel Green and
The End of Everything
Thomas Knox Arnold
Peter Newman
Kusum Normoyle
Alex White and
Monika Brooks

gameboy mayhem!

EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! Game Boy, harshnoise, with screamed vocals about nothing much at all.
TEN THOUSAND FREE MEN & THEIR FAMILIES! hard house renditions of popular old songs played with no more than a game boy

PRZEWALSKIS HORSE ON THE DECKS- Expect inappropriate use
of loop functions and probably some kaos pad action, fucking up the
tracks you worked long and hard to make sound good.
BACK ROOM OF THE CLUB, WHERE ALL THE BADASS SHIT IS AT. FOR VERY LITTLE
MONEY.

@ la Campana, 53-55 liverpool st, the spanish 1/4, Sydney.$5

A festival of new music and media arts
at Serial Space*

Doors open at 8
Why: The lucky number eight
Donation: 8

Featuring:
Peter Newman
Jon Hunter Kusum Normoyle + Monica Brooks
Abram Powell
Tara Cook
T.R. Carter
Sam Dobson Peter Farra + James Waples
ghnomia
Jess Corcoran Anna Chase + Tom Smith

Punchline: *33 Wellington Street Chippendale 2008

Curated by Jack Dibben

david rothenberg - Rothenberg’s music connects the living sounds of the natural world to the traditions of global rhythmic innovation and improvisation. Inspired by the melodies and beats of birds, insects, whales, water, and wind. http://www.whybirdssing.com

roil A new trio featuring Chris Abrahams - piano, Jame ‘Pug’ Waples - drums and Mike Majkowski - bass.
Proceeds from causes or general principles to consequences or particular instances.

kraig grady - is a compser and instrument builder from the US, who now lives and works in Wollongong. His works feature his own ensembles of acoustic instruments, including metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers and reed organs tuned to microtonal just intonation scales. Kraig has also worked as a shadow puppeteer, tuning theorist, filmmaker and world music radio DJ. He has been nominated four times for the LA Weekly Awards as ‘best uncategorizable artist’ and was chosen by Buzz Magazine as one of the ‘100 coolest people in Los Angeles.’
www.anaphoria.com

@ serial space 33 wellington st chippendale $10 + $8

Wednesday 6th
@ la Campana, 53-55 liverpool st, the spanish 1/4, Sydney.
KRYSTOFFKRVSTOFFISTON
FAMILY JEWELS
PEE WEE
http://www.dualplover.com/consolador.html

THE FILMS OF BEN RIVERS + BEN RUSSELL (UK / US)

Ten visionary cinematic dispatches from two of contemporary experimental film’s most uncompromising artists. Ranging from mind-blowing psychedelia to trance film documentary (filmed during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt) to Scottish hermit ethnography (in Cinemascope!), these films sketch a portrait of a modern world in increasingly hopeful disarray.

Chalk Horse
56 Cooper Street, Surry Hills
Entry $10
Contact: caleb.k
caleb.k

ii (melb)
Moonmilk
The Desks

ii from melbourne are heading over to Sydney to play noise, come along all.
they:
‘improvise (and sometimes plan) their way to the point where abstract sound, noise, fluttering ambience and whisps of instrumental pop collide.’

http://www.myspace.com/iitunes
dizzydonor.org/ii/index.html

What better thing to do on a cold winter’s night than come out for some very warming music…

cult Melbourne band Fangs of Satanic Soccer Mums coming to Akemi this Thursday night (31st July)

together with Magnoliaceae and Sun of the Seventh Sister

http://www.myspace.com/fangsof333
http//www.myspace.com/sunoftheseventhsister