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
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.
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.
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 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
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
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
