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://soundcloud.com/katecarr
http://www.myspace.com/nhomea

hope to see yous there!

Sunday 13 May 2012

Aurora Festival: Merzbow + Oren Ambarchi

– festival finale party at Campbelltown (Campbelltown Arts Centre)

http://www.auroranewmusic.com.au/NoiseDuo/670/n/3/0/0/

7.30pm (party from 6.30)

+ a free performance of Greg Schiemer’s Pocket Gamelan (mobile phone) music project in the gallery beforehand (4.30-5.30)

Friday 11 May 2012

Aurora Festival: Merzbow solo performance

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta

http://www.auroranewmusic.com.au/Merzbow/663/n/3/0/0/

8.30pm

$35* full / $30* concession^ / $28* under 30# / $10* student

Thursday 10 May 2012

Aurora Festival: Oren Ambarchi solo performance

Penrith (Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre)

http://www.auroranewmusic.com.au/OrenAmbarchi/667/n/3/0/0/

7pm

$20* full / $18* concession^ / $10* student

+ a free outdoor electric guitar quartet performance beforehand in the square outside the centre led by Zane Banks at 5.30pm.

Wednesday 9 – Friday 11 May 2012

Aurora Festival: Chamber Made Opera

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta

http://www.auroranewmusic.com.au/MinotaurTheIsland/661/n/3/0/0/

A seriously intriguing approach to contemporary theatre and music-making, with music based on a beautiful pictorial score and text instructions interacting with the spoken and sung text.

7.30pm

$40* full / $35* concession^ / $28* under 30# / $18* student

SPECIAL OFFER to NOW now subscribers – 2 for 1 Deal

OFFER CODE: ‘FRIEND’

Bookings: 02 8839 3399 or http://riversideparramatta.com.au/performance.asp?pID=1819

Saturday 5 May 2012, 8:30-9:30pm
Casula Powerhouse
1 Casula Road Casula NSW 2170
Price: $20 full / $15 concession / $10 student (booking fees may apply)
3 Events (Synergy & Clocks and Clouds & Forum $40/$30/$20)
Bookings: Online, http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/booknow/
Information Ph: 02 9351 1939

Well now, this wee piano concert will be of the utmost enjoyment to those of you keen to hear the largest of furniture items being played on its own. For those less inclined towards something that sounds hideously traditional through its definition, fear not, there is no Mozart, no Mendelssohn nor Billy Joel to be heard. This is an evening of three solo experimental innovations with the piano by Chris Abrahams, Hermione Johnson (NZ), and Monica Brooks.

Chris is best known as being the piano player in The Necks Outside of the group Chris is very busy with numerous other projects, not least of which is performing solo piano concerts. Over the years Chris has performed solo piano concerts in both Australia and Europe - he most recently played at the Bath Festival in the UK. He has released four solo piano albums and hopes to release a fifth later this year. This will be his first solo performance in Sydney for a couple of years and his last Australian gig for a few months.
www.thenecks.com

Hermione is a composer and pianist living in Wellington, New Zealand. In recent times she has improvised with Cor Fuhler, Dave Brown, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and Sean Baxter, appeared solo at Exploritorium in Berlin, the Adam Art Gallery’s Designs for Living Exhibition in Wellington, and Auckland’s Tea Party. She’s also played at the NOW Now, Fredstock, and iiii Festivals.
http://soundcloud.com/hermione-johnson

Monica is a Sydney-based improviser, mostly known for her accordion performances with Great Waitress, Altman/Brooks duo, and Splinter Orchestra. Monica’s piano approach is heavily influenced by daytime soap-opera sound tracks, Australian piano heavy-weights, Alice Coltrane, and large, resonating buildings.
http://soundcloud.com/monica_brooks

COME ALONG COZ THIS WON’T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN AYE!
It’s 15bucks at the door, 10 for concession. But if you’re skint, I’m happy to haggle.

8pm!
Paddington Uniting Church
Oxford St, Paddo

p.s. because it’s in a church, they don’t want you to get pissed outside and getting up to strife, so just have a glass or two inside if that’s ok. Thanks heaps.

Sound Series is a monthly evening of sound-based performance.
The first event at our new venue will feature:

Anthony Guerra + Matt Earle

Black Cracker

Sex Tape

http://vimeo.com/20700402
http://itllbeawesome.bandcamp.com/album/incisions
http://www.facebook.com/readpalmmusic

Friday 4th May
The AV Union
365 Parramatta Rd
7:30pm

Thursday 3 May 6.30pm
Clocks and Clouds - Kraig Grady and Terumi Narushima with Finn Ryan.

Pump-organ and custom-tuned metallic percussion instruments hand built by Kraig Grady for his original compositions. These unique instruments – with their pure harmonic tuning – explore the beauty of room resonances via ancient sacred scales and multi-dimensional geometries.

Performing excerpts from 97 Fossilized Blossoms
for Meta-slendro Vibraphone l & ll, Meta-slendro Harmonium and The Meru Bars

Meta Slendro refers to the tuning shared on all the instruments. Slendro is a common tuning family found in java and on other Indonesian islands under similar names. This tuning invented by Erv Wilson is tuned to a pattern of harmonics up to 200 but can be extended further.

The patterns of harmonics resembles the Fibonacci series that when played, results in in the reinforcement of tones and beats in the scales that interact with the environment producing standing waves and phantom like resonances that can shift around the room.

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.

@ Bon Marche Studio 755 Harris Street, Ultimo
University of Technology, Sydney
UTS Broadway – Bon Marche Building CB03.01.05

Admission by donation at the door
Enquiries: Jon.Drummond

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.