Electundra Artists 2006
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ARTISTS
Spoonbill/Aphid
Spoonbill crafts an elegant and quirky symphony of honey-scented grooves, jovial humour and joyous beat trickery, melding an ever-evolving array of styles into a distinctive ozzie blend. Call it quirk-funk or downbeat with bite, Spoonbill takes the listener firmly by the scruff of the ear and leads them into a shady forest of rhodes, horns, and deep double bass, then back out into an eccentric wonderland of glitched-out grooves infused with AM talkback radio and rowdy bush cobbers.
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Aphid
Melbourne based artist Jonathan Chong (Aphid) produced the digital film 'interchange' that was short listed in the ATOM Awards 2002 and screened in Berlin & Tokyo. Jonathan has directed and produced several short films and promos and actively involved in live video performance. Jonathan was responsible for producing visuals and mixing live video for the theatre production 2Traverse as part of Fringe Festival 2003, and has performed live visuals for High Vibes music festival (02-04), the 2004 Fringe media launch at shed 14, Fed square and numerous clubs and venues around Melbourne.
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Barrage/Bubotic
Barrage/Bubotic are good friends that met in a Centrelink queue in 2004.Barrage makes beats. Bubotic makes pictures. Now that the Bundaberg Balaclava-Axis-Of-Evil is complete, they will perform their new stage show at Electundra with computers, colours and microphones.
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Emile Zile
Emile Zile is an Australian-Latvian media artist. A multi-disciplinary artist, his single-channel videos, text installations, live video performances and photography have been exhibited at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne, Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, Tel Aviv cinematheque and Seoul Fringe Festival. Themes of his work include the phenomena of celebrity, mass-media, fame, language, desire and death.
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President Schnitzel Head /Djak
A vampirical guitarist, laptrop slaying musical mayhemist, casting spells horrific and fruity, grotesque and glamorous. An onslaught of chemical electro Klezma, B-grade horror classics and criminal beats. Play it. Laugh at it.
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Random Acts of Elevator Music/Object State
A stereophonic aural experience direct from the office to you. Random Acts of Elevator Music can increase your productivity by enhancing the audio environment with stimulating tones and waveforms. Available now by special offer from City Frequencies.
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Terminal Sound System/ 3rd Dek
The Terminal Sound System is Skye Klein and an army of robots, keeping time for armageddon. Broken beats, free-jazz allusions and sub-bass worship.
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Isnod/Zero Dollars
Damian Stephens takes the last century of music, put it into a blender and out pours Isnod - a moody, molasses-smooth mélange of many a music - the soundtrack to the fall of the current roman empire. Isnod works hand in hand with the visuals of Zero Dollars (Dale Nason) - Action Video in Situation, remixing trash into morphing muppets who like the light of a photocopier. Expect small moments of beauty through sound and digital windows of various resolutions.
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Three Month Sunset/Andrew Yardley
Three Month Sunset is the saturated Lone-Drone project of Gabe Lewis, quenching guitar based sonic ascensions and washes with melodies that urge you towards a cathartic apex. His music takes you on minuscule journeys: soundtracks to be carried along with you on your greater voyages.
Contraptionist
As Contraptionist, Paul Rodgers and Brendan Palmer (bP) join forces with an eccentric approach to video and audio construction. Paul’s textured, structural moving image manipulations bounce off Brendan’s intricate sonic production methods that defy logical predictability.
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Apell
Anthony Pell creates eclectic left-field electronica ranging from frenetic to funky. Expect to hear live electric bass being sampled and manipulated to create unique sounds over a range of grooves including dub, breaks, drum'n'bass, funk and more.
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Because of Ghosts
Because of Ghosts are a three-piece act from Melbourne who have been performing their unique brand of instrumental, progressive, experimental, ambient 'post-rock' since late 2002.
Burning Giraffe/BSMProdukt
Burning Giraffe’s (Kent Macpherson) current work of is an amalgam of dub and noise. A somewhat bass heavy click scape. Gentle soundscapes gradually destroyed by noise. Drones and pops.
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Desert Journies
Zac Keiller’s audio visual project combines elements of experimental, drone, ambient & loop music of a slow burning, meditative nature with textured, saturated video/photography capturing an imagination of the vast openness of deserts & other isolated regions of the world.
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Koshowko
Delivering a broad spectrum of electronica and ambient textures, mixing jazz breaks and tech house sounds with underground pop and punk, Koshowko's sound rises from melodic bass lines, with live woodwind and vocals interacting throughout.
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Digit Span Test/VAGA
Think of Digit Span Test as a human-machine interface- signal processed trumpet combined with hands on electronics- simultaneously and spontaneously mixed in dub abstract.
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mousetrapreplica / Nella Combe
mousetrapreplica presents an interactive synaesthetic journey of semi-organic electronica with live painting (Nella Combe), which utilises set compositions with improvisation, drawing inspiration from artists such as Arvo Part, Boards of Canada, Ligeti, Merzbow, The Necks, Bill Frisell, Colleen and John Zorn.
Greyscale/Cass Wigley, Paul Rigby
Greyscale is an instrumental trio whose distinct sound is based on the interaction between sampled field recordings, soaring pedal steel and droning de-tuned guitar. These elements are held together by a shared love of melody and the ability to dynamically improvise complex arrangements. Greyscale's experimentation with resonant feedback to create "sonic textures" have invited comparisons with legendary instrumental acts such as The Dirty Three, guitar bands Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, and the current out-rock or post-rock genre dominated by bands such as Mogwai, Tortoise or GSYBE.
ii /Jon Tjhia
The duo Alex Nosek and Jon Tjhia combine static, tone-play and hidden melodies with heartbeat textures and flourishes of colourful instrumental pop. Inspired by a love of sound and a fear of boredom.
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Cicada
Cicada is a collection of artists– Kirsten Bradley, Nick Ritar and Ben Frost- who work with landscape….urban, natural, constructed and imagined. A combination of results occur, including site-specific installations, performances and interactive pieces. Cicada also make other bits of sound+image works for theatre, dance and performance projects.
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dpwolf
dpwolf (David Wolf) have been producing noises and moving pictures together under various names since some time in the late 20th century. Over the years the pair have developed methods for live signal processing and sequencing which allow for the freedom of improvisation. Their sounds are influenced by artists such as Throbbing Gristle, Autechre, and Merzbow.
Phoenix Lake/dpwolf
Phoenix Lake consists of composer/producer/vocalist Soul Mirage aka Simon Gorman in collaboration with other artists (see dpwolf above) and producers. Tracks span future soul, underground, RnB, neo-folk, hi-tech jazz, contemporary classical and other worldly fusions.
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Retail Fireworks
Under bustling cities lie pockets of peaceful emptiness. Tunnels, bridges and overpasses serve to divert people away from the moments of quiet that these forms themselves create. Led by Andrew Yardley (Laura), blending murmurs of beat, vocals and winding guitars, he interweaves selected field recordings captured in some of these negative spaces; juxtapositions of their above-world counterparts. Retail Fireworks redirects our focus to these places of polar opposites, caverns that seem so superfluous to the every day lives of dwellers in the commotion of the world above.
Strange Noise Sound System/David Campbell
The Strange Noise Sound System use lots of gear to create dark/ambient/kick-ass/bleepy/live/improvised A/V-scapes. The music arises from the interplay of noise v. melody, organic composition v. electronic production, visuals v. audio.
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Wind Up Toys/Pixel Reunification
Winduptoys are made up of Robert Boehm (Bo) and Jeremy P.C. Smith. Together they combine various devices, gadgets, machines and toys to create unique sonic mayhem. Add the visual genius of Pixel Reunification and the journey is complete.
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Winterville
Marcus Skinner blurs avantgarde instrumental soundscapes with field recordings and baritone guitar.
Qua
Qua sits somewhere between the lush acoustic arrangements reminiscent of artists such Moondog, Steven Reich and Krystoff Komeda and the brutally electronically processed of Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Bernard Parmegiani. Cornelius Wilczek achieves this in a live setting with two laptops and various instruments.
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Amplifier Machine/Chris Paterson
Amplifier Machine is made up of Seth Rees, James Dixon and Alex Jarvis. Using working templates from carpentry, car maintenance and the absurd, the band is an attempt at performing in the moment for as long it can.
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