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NOW now Series No. 2 !!! 11/3/13

Posted on: March 4th, 2013 by clare

The NOW now Series No. 2 @ Lamps

Yo,
It’s on! and it’s gonna be killa!
Monday March 11th @ 401 Hibernian House
featuring…

/// germ studies ///
–Clare Cooper (guzheng)
–Chris Abrahams (DX7)
Check out their CD at Splitrec

>>> Jaap Blonk (NL)/Jim Denley/Cor Fuhler <<<
(voice/woodwinds/piano)
http://www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/biography.html

/// Finn Ryan and Ken Allars ///
(drums and trumpet)
http://www.goodreads.com/series/60914-finn-ryan

+ it’s a welcome home celebration for ‘mama’ NOW now, Clare Cooper

7pm
Monday 11th March
Lamps (Level 4, Hibernian House, Surry Hills)
$10/8
BYO
Get there early to get a comfy sofa/arm chair.

http://www.facebook.com/events/468870389850909/

the NOW now series #5

Posted on: July 16th, 2012 by clare

Massive line up of outatowner-collaborations and a solo:

* Kim Kerze (melb) – tabletop banjo/objects
Kim Kerze is a polymath who has been known to work with drawing, painting, folk music traditions, poetic language and is currently preoccupied with the banjo. Using metal, stones, ebows, butterfly clips goblets, magnets, the banjo is reformulated as a generator of contingent textual patterns in flux and mutation.

* Wardenburger (bris) – ft. Henry Mills, Alex Cuffe, Adam Park, Dylan Jefferies, Jule Small, Nicola Morton, Skye McNicol, Rohan Bridge

* Cycle~ 440 (perth) – semi-improvisational electro-acoustic duo of Sam Gillies and Kevin Penkin that fuses acoustic piano with extensive laptop sampling and processing to create alternating soundscapes of extreme fragility and overwhelming density

http://www.facebook.com/cycle440

* Té (berlin via perth/syd) – the improvising electroacoustic duo of Kynan Tan (computer) and Andrew Brooks (saxophone). The group formed in 2011 while both Australians were undertaking research periods in Berlin and has since developed into an expression of electroacoustic and interactive language. Té explores the grey area of sound between organic and electronic, the language of communication that has been developed allows both parties to take turns in the creation of noisy, expressive or dense gestures. Here, the computer takes on multiple roles as a synthesiser, manipulator and sampler through grid routing of personalised Max/MSP patches, while the saxophone is pressed into performing textural, harmonic and abrasive sounds, filling the spectrum and creating obvious links to the synthetic glitches, whirs and noises of the computer synthesis.

http://te-duo.tumblr.com/

Monday, July 16, 2012
Doors 7pm
Music 7:30pm.
$8/$10
401 Hibernian House
byo

the NOW now series #4

Posted on: June 18th, 2012 by clare

yep, the time is approaching for the 4th NOW now series event of 2012, this time at 401 Hibernian House.

ft
Vijay Thillaimuthu (melb) – AV synthesis
Unknown Rockstar (NZ) – blues guitar
Whale+Cheng – electronics+voices

doors 7:30
start 8
$10/$8
byo

the NOW now series #3

Posted on: May 14th, 2012 by clare

The next NOW now series is just around the corner . .. . . … …. … . ..

featuring
NHOMEA
SIMON WHETHAM (UK) + KATE CARR
FINN RYAN + MICHAEL GORDON

@SERIAL SPACE
33 Wellington St
Chippendale
7:30pm doors.
8pm start.
$10/$8

http://www.simonwhetham.co.uk/

http://www.myspace.com/nhomea

hope to see yous there!

the NOW now series #2

Posted on: April 30th, 2012 by clare

It’s on!
April 30th @ 401 Hibernian House
an eclectic and awesome line up:

=== Mike Cooper (UK/IT) /Chris Abrahams (guitar+electronics / piano) *these guys have a beautiful album available on Room40: http://room40.org/store/abrahams_cooper_oceanic*
+ new exciting collaborations:
=== John Wilton / Jeremy Tatar / Andrew Fedorovitch (percussion/flute/sax)
=== Jon Watts / Ben Byrne (double electronics)
+ *just announced*
=== xNoBBQx — Matt Earle / Nick Dan (guitar / drums)

7:30pm
$10/8
BYO
Get there early to get a comfy sofa/arm chair.

The NOW now Solo Series No.3 at The Library

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by clare

Late Night Library, presented by the City of Sydney and the NOW now is excited to announce the third show in this series of solo performances.

April 26th, 8:30pm
KRAIG GRADY (Wollongong)

Kraig will be performing two works:
** Cascades, Sundials and Constellations – Meta slendro Vibraphone
floating discreet ornamental objects between voids of suspended time
** 17 Asymmetrical Fabrics- Hammer dulcimer
delicate patterns blossoming into rapid flight

Upstairs at the Surry Hills Library
405 Crown Street, Surry Hills.
Entry is FREE and there will be drinks and nibbles provided.

www.anaphoria.com

http://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/13340-the-now-now-presents-solo-series

Kraig Grady, an Anaphorian now living in Australia, composes almost exclusively for acoustic instruments of his own making or modification tuned to just intonation. Often his work is combined with his Shadow Theatre productions.
Kraig will be performing on a two of his favorite instruments. The first is retuned vibraphone that now encompasses a scale known as Meta-Slendro. This scale, developed by Erv Wilson and likewise found among the people of Anaphoria Island, comprises natural harmonics that occur in a recurrent sequence similar to the Fibonacci series. Grady has selected out of this infinitely long series, one of those found upon the ‘slopes’ of a 2,000 year old Indian figure known as Meru Prastara. Due to the strong reinforcement and interaction various acoustical phenomenon, the music often ventures into explorations in room resonance. He will also be playing upon a large custom built Hammer Dulcimer which uses a scale informed by the Chopi People of Mozambique. Although their instruments are wooden the manner of design and form and scale represents gamelan instruments to such a degree it has sparked much speculation of a cross influence between the two.

The NOW now Solo Series at The Library No.2 – Wun Thong

Posted on: March 29th, 2012 by clare

The NOW now and the City Of Sydney present:

The second Free Late Night NOW now Solo Series in the Surry Hills Library

Featuring, all the way from Wandiligong,VIC, WUN THONG.

Wun Thong is a poet and accomplished BS artist who creates experimental music in the genre of Tropical Western Swing. Using elements of chance and improvisation, Wun Thong hypnotizes his audience with his visual aesthetic, mystical balls andexotic bird calls. Wun has spent much of his life in rural Wandiligong, Australia which has had a remarkable and original influence on his musical style. Wun was the only son of a Chinese gold miner named Tu, who tragically died in the mines while Wun was still a young child. The only memory that was left of his father was his love of poetry and a shoebox of correspondence letters from his father’s long time friend Puerto Punos. Puerto Punos became an inspiration to Wun and through his letters he could see that Puerto had already been a great BS artist before the movement even came to be. Wun Thong continues to create music and poetry in honour of Tu Thong and Puerto Punos.

FREE!!
With also some free drinks!
8.30 PM
Upstairs @ The Surry Hills Library
405 Crown Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010

http://www.carolynteo.com/?cat=25

www.thenownow.net

Supported by the City Of Sydney

The NOW now SERIES 2012 No.1

Posted on: March 19th, 2012 by clare

For the return of our monthly Series gigs, we are super excited to be presenting a triple bill of music. Exciting!

Featruing:

**JON ROSE (Violin) + MAGDA MAYAS*DE* (Piano) DUO
Now both residents of Berlin, Jon and Magda find themselves in Sydney at the same time, and decide they might play some music together. Jon is in town to receive some award for being awesome, so you can probably expect him to be awesome. Magda is generally pretty awesome too.
http://www.jonroseweb.com/
http://magdamayas.jimdo.com/

**GREAT WAITRESS
Great Waitress is the Improv Girl Super-Group of your dreams! Come and see them play Hit Tunes from their 2011 record “Lucid” such as “Drifting Needles”, “Dusted Birds On Furnished Trees”, and the dance floor classic “Grain”.
Grait Weatress is Laura Altman – Clarinet, Monika Brooks – Accordion & Magda Mayas – Piano
Great Waitress

**TONY BUCK – PERCUSSION SOLO
Tony has long been known as a pinball master, excelling especially in the multi-ball stages of the original Star Wars trilogy tables. Here, on this night, you can witness him apply these skills (which may or may not exist) on to a drumkit + percussion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW6d6DnWiJ0

Monday, March 19
Doors
Sound

401/2 Hibernian House
342 Elizabteh st surryhillz

$8/10

The NOW now Solo Series No.1 – Robbie Avenaim

Posted on: February 23rd, 2012 by clare

The NOW now and the City Of Sydney present:

The first Late Night NOW now Solo Series in the Surry Hills Library

Featuring the wild and unpredictable machines of ROBBIE AVENAIM (Melbourne) and his S.A.R.P.S (Semi Automatic Robotic Percussion System). A rare chance to see this master percussionist up close and personal as he interrogates the very concept of percussion itself and propels his art into the future in a wild mix of whirring motors, pounding pistons and bouncing junk.

FREE!!
8.30 PM
Upstairs @ The Surry Hills Library
405 Crown Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010

http://www.robbieavenaim.com/

www.thenownow.net

2012 Festival Program Launch!

Posted on: December 14th, 2011 by clare


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