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Allotrope at undue noise: sat 16th june

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 00:14:09 +0000

old fire station, bendigo, 8pm

Peter Knight – Allotrope

Solo trumpet, prepared flugel horn, laptop electronics, pedals, guitar amplifier

Allotrope is a solo project from multidisciplinary Melbourne composer and trumpeter Peter Knight. Peter’s solo work continues, albeit tangentially, his preoccupation with space, understatement, and long form structure and draws inspiration from diverse sources. www.peterknightmusic.com . Peter recently won the Most Original Australian Jazz album award at the 2012 Bell awards.

Supporting program to be advised.

10 year program 2002-2012

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:10:32 +0000

to celebrate our 10th birthday, we’ve compiled a list of all the undue noise events in central victoria in our first 10 years (april 2002 – march 2012). CLICK ON THE TAB at the top – we’ve listed over 70 concerts & installations in 10 years. artists from bendigo, castlemaine, kyneton, daylesford, harcourt, maldon, trentham, wedderburn & maryborough as well as visitors from melbourne, sydney, brisbane and overseas.

SONIC DECADENCE: celebrating 10 years of undue noises in central victoria.

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:29 +0000

Sonic Decadence flyer

Undue Noise Inc presents Sonic Decadence
Old Fire Station, View St Bendigo
Sat 28th April 2 & 8pm
Sun 29th April 2 & 8 pm
Admission $5 per session
(probable playing order)

Since April 2002, undue noise has presented almost 70 concerts of experimental music in Bendigo & Castlemaine, featuring central victorian, melbourne, interstate and international artists. This year we celebrate our 10th birthday with a 2 day festival in Bendigo called SONIC DECADENCE: celebrating 10 years of undue noises in central victoria. It will feature 24 acts covering many styles of experimental music & free improv. including the appearance of 3 acts that appeared on the very first Undue Noise in April 2002. For more info contact undue@cajid.com or 0421786595 (jacques)

Sat 28th April afternoon (2pm)
Dean Stanton
Forcefedsmile
.commies
Cray
Mike Conolan
Atmos Ensemble

Sat 28th April evening (8pm)
Kristian Roberts
Rotteur
Monolith
VICMOD Ensemble
The Runny Tadpole
Soft Black Stars

Sun 29th April afternoon (2pm)
JJ Bull
Primidian
Fracture
Admin Bldg
Tim Catlin
OaXface Distortion

Sun 29th April evening (8pm)
Wun Thong
Dr. Aardvarks Table O Gadgets (aka Warren Burt)
Jacques Soddell
Astrid Notarangelo
Muttboy
Rosalind Hall & David Brown

Artist bios

.commies

Admin Bldg are a sax and drums duo comprising members of Paul Kidney Experience and The Donkeys Tail. They have played five shows of faux-jazz, free-bop, post-blues, random-afro, breakdown-drone-out-electroloop-sax… They appeared on ‘Sonic Array’ compilation (Dreamland Recordings), ‘The Shape Of Sound Vol 2′ compilation (Iceage Productions) and are on the New Weird Australia/Fallopian Tunes collaborative release, ‘Moss and Gloss’. Thay are about to record for a split cassette release with Bonnie Mercer (Grey Daturas/Breathing Shrine) – this will be an edition of 9 cassette tapes, each with different hand made covers and labels. Listen to Admin Bldg on Soundcloud

Atmos Ensemble

Astrid Notarangelo

JJ Bull. Justin Bull’s freely improvised guitar with roots in Improv/Free Jazz (and more) has been a regular feature at undue noise since day 1 in various collaborations like soft black stars, planet caravan, neon mars guitars and brakhage, as well as soloing as misty ra.

Tim Catlin is a Melbourne based guitarist and sound artist whose practice centres around drone-based, immersive works primarily using electric and acoustic guitar, with a combination of different techniques, effects and mixing methodologies, including guitar preparations, customised playing devices and home-built electronic effects, electronics, and modified guitar design; and the results produce finely textured and shifting fields of sound. He has performed at What is Music, Liquid Architecture, and Articulating Space festivals and collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide, Phill Niblock, Jason Kahn, Mike Cooper, David Brown, Philip Samartzis, Rod Cooper and many others.

Cray abstract laptop & electronic sounds from Ross Healy, co-founder of the VICMOD label which features Australian and International experimental music.

Dr. Aardvarks Table O Gadgets Warren Burt’s music toys include netbook, Android Pad, Kaoss pads, iPhone, Android Phone, and his little hardware board instruments http://www.warrenburt.com/

Forcefedsmile is the sporadic sound art of vocalist Tim Townsend. Consisting of stolen loops, field recordings, moans and groans and improvised vocal’s the artist/ mental health social worker Tim Townsend will articulate beauty disgust in this mad world.

Fracture are a improvisation/sound manipulation group with members from both Bendigo and Melbourne. They’re interested primarily in sound manipulation. Regular concepts of progression, time and melody are set aside in favour of textural and timbrel sonic manipulation, which are, most of the time, composed completely in the moment.

Rosalind Hall and David Brown revisit their prepared saxophone and prepared guitar duo. One: Small amplifiers exude resonant tones on the periphery of feedback, gently coaxing light, metallic oscillations from foreign bodies inserted and dangled in brass bells, all held afloat by percussive clacks and vibrations Adolphe Sax always secretly envisioned. Two: Weird intonations ring from purposely shortened strings while tiny motors create their own lightly amplified siren-tones. Tiny chains interfere with the doings of Lilliputian, magnetic microphones that join discarded street-sweeper bits to agitate everything. One and Two dance a blind dance of hope.

Monolith began in the winter of 2011 creating walls of industrial space drone occasionally utilising beats and vocal cut ups. Releases include two albums and tracks on New Weird Australia’s “Unpopular Music 2011″ compilation and Iceage Productions “The Shape Of Sound Vol.2″ compilation. Facebook
bandcamp

Muttboy has recently arrived in Castlemaine from Byron Bay. He will be performing music from the upcoming CD release “Wave Generations (Dog Is Life)” out on the Sound Crucible label, as well as totally new pulsing electronic improvisations.

OaXface Distortion Members of OaX and Blankface Distortion team up for a noise/drone jam.

Primidian is 3 Future primitives banging pots and bending circuits. A truly improvised experimental project, zero rehearsal ensures a genuine exploration into unknown sonic territories. Moments of complete cohesion and unity, punctuated with the awkwardness of the search, PRIMIDIAN challenges nearly everything normal. Dean Stanton, Bohdan Dower and Old World Sparrow

Kristian M. Roberts is a composer who uses field recordings and found sound. He has written, exhibited and performed pieces for dance, multi-channel installations, and a number of film and video art scores. He has also exhibited nationally and internationally as part of MIFF (2010/2011), written for the Magnetic Traces/Parisonic festival (Paris 2011), performed in the INA-GRM Multiphonies Concert Series (Paris 2011) and recently the What Is Music? festival.

Rotteur. A dark ambient project evoking freezing, desolate soundscapes, haunted by echoes of dying machinery and corrosive bursts of noise. Now Melbourne-based Darcy Long performed at the very first undue noise as sig.int http://soundcloud.com/rotteur

The Runny Tadpole new Bendigo experimental 3 piece improv group with Theramin, Kaossilator, home made instruments, drums & effects

Jacques Soddell is a microbiologist turned sound artist producing electroacoustic music by manipulating field recordings to produce new textures. He’s also passionate about promoting experimental art through undue noise, liquid architecture, possible musics, punctum & record label cajid media. He also dabbles in algorithmic music, making fungal music with wife Fran. A mini cd Frozen Moment was released last year on French label kaon as part of its La Riviere series. http://cajid.com/jacques-soddell-cv.html

Soft Black Stars Free improv group from Bendigo appeared at the very first undue noise. A special reunion for this special occasion.

Dean Stanton has been a working sound experimentalist since 2000. He has exhibited and performed at various galleries and venues throughout the state, and has performed at several undue noise’s since it’s inception. Surrounding himself with home-made electronic instruments and circuit bent toy collections, the familiar gets minced in the Absurdifier.

VICMOD Ensemble VICMOD is a group of modular synth enthusiasts that meets monthly in Melbourne to build and discuss modular synthesisers. Tonight you’ll hear their ensemble, The VICMOD Ensemble, who recently had a great show at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. VICMOD is also Kyneton based Ross Healy’s record label that features great Australian and International experimental music.

Wun Thong (aka Carolyn Teo) 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, Victoria, 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.

Speak Percussion nightclubs/concerthalls Sun 4th March Old Fire Station Bendigo 8pm

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Tickets at door $15/$10
Enquiries 0421786595

Speak Percussion presents a unique program of works, from concerthall pieces to music inspired by underground genres. An all-Australian program of our finest composers for percussion, nightclubs/concerthalls reveals some of the hidden connections between electronic and acoustic music, pop and art music through a rich musical landscape of layered rhythms and shifting timbres.

ARTISTS

Speak Percussion has for over a decade presented refined new music and hybrid-arts projects nationally and internationally. In 2011, Speak Percussion was the headline act for MONA FOMA (Hobart) and the Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth). Speak received 3 standing ovations in its two MONA FOMA performances, and its premiere performance of Anthony Pateras’s Flesh and Ghost was chosen by ABC Classic FM as the best performance of all ABC recorded performances for 2010-11, to represent Australia at the International Rostrum of Composers in Vienna.

PROGRAM

Thomas Meadowcroft – The Great Knot for percussion trio and tape

Eugene Ughetti – Syncretism A for three drumkits

Anthony Pateras – Hypnagogics for miniature percussion and tape

Terminal Sound System/Speak Percussion – City Jungle for two percussionists and tape

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Thomas Meadowcroft is one of Australia’s most innovative composers writing for percussion. Based in Berlin since 1998, Meadowcroft has startled Europe with his distinctive sound and unorthodox performance techniques. His new trio The Great Knot, was specially written for Speak Percussion. Inspired by the lo-fi sounds of a Casio keyboard, The Great Knot layers delicate rhythmic textures that evoke a forgotten sound world.

Eugene Ughetti is the Artistic Director of Speak Percussion. His new trio for three drumkits was written for especially for users of cochlear implants, as part of a research project initiated by the Bionic Ear Institute. Syncretism A leads the audience towards ways of listening and ways of imagining by presenting time-bending familiar grooves blurred with wayward sounds.

Anthony Pateras is Australia’s most talented young avant-garde composer, who has gained international acclaim for his visceral and genre-defying musical language. Hypnagogics explores a miniature world of tiny inflections that is inspired by the permeable border between wakefulness and sleep.

City Jungle is a collaborative project between Speak Percussion and Melbourne’s leading experimental electronica producer, Skye Kleine aka Terminal Sound System. The music pitches intricate drum programming against live percussion in a cutting-edge take on nightclub ‘breakbeat’ genres.

Undue Noise at Summer in the Park, Fri Feb 10

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:43:48 +0000

Undue Noise in the Park?

Yes, This year we are part of the City of Greater Bendigo’s Summer in the Park Series and will present an evening of live sounds and video by some of the best innovators in Central Victoria.

Friday 10th Feb at the Conservatory in Rosalind Park Bendigo.

(for those new to Undue Noise: we are a collective of Central Victorian sound and video artists interested in the more experimental side of their artforms. More Information 0421786595 or our blog at http://undue.cajid.com/blog)

8:00-8:20pm JJ BULL

Justin’s freely improvised guitar with roots in Improv/Free Jazz (and more) teams up with Janis’ exotic voice. Expect the unexpected. “Magic makes an exit when doubt enters the picture”

8:25-8:45pm PRIMIDIAN

Deano, Sparrow and Bohdan will drum up a storm with their junk percussion and electronics. Great energetic fun.

8:50-9:05pm JACQUES SODDELL

A new abstract sonic narrative from local laptop composer. Gentle and Noisy.

9:10-9:40pm FOUR PLUS A SCREEN

As the sun sets, the Conservatory building becomes a screen. Featuring WARREN BURT ‘s laptop and other goodies – he’s a major figure in Australian computer music, ROSS HEALY’s laptop and home built synth, PAUL FLETCHER’s extraordinary animation and junk sounds and JACQUES SODDELL’s poetic abstracted videos (no sound this time). A group improvisation not to be missed.

Sat 3rd dec 2011 at old fire station bendigo

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:27:24 +0000

The last one for the year features a mix of analog synths, computers, acoustic sounds and noise.

Sat 3rd December 8pm Old Fire Station View St Bendigo $5

VICMOD is a group of modular synth enthusiasts that meets monthly in Melbourne to build and discuss modular synthesisers. Tonight you’ll hear their ensemble, The VICMOD Ensemble, who recently had a great show at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. VICMOD is also Kyneton based Ross Healy’s record label that features great Australian and International experimental music.

WARREN BURT is one of the major figures in Australian Computer music. Now Daylesford base – this will be his first solo performance for Undue Noise.

ATMOS ENSEMBLE is a Castlemaine/Maldon based free-improv group, led by Simon Howard, using mainly acoustic instruments AE will malso have an extended jam betwee 5 & 6pm

JACQUES SODDELL also runs a regional based record label (cajid media) which specialises in Australian sound art. His “cinematic” computer based soundscapes using mutated field recordings & other sounds are well known to Undue Noise audiences. He is also founder of Undue Noise.

THEY EAT SCUM – is a new and constantly evolving line-up of musicians and sound artists from across Victoria. Basing their sound on the concept of ‘free punk’, their improvised sound ranges from solo noise sets and sound art, through to full band psych rock, and noise jams. A very loosely structured outfit, sometimes consisting of a solo member, duo, or trio, through to a full band, their name is taken from the Richard Kern ‘transgression cinema’ film of the same name from the early 80’s New York punk scene

sat nov 5: undue noise at ICU : abstract art performance

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:06:26 +0000

Unusual objects producing unusual sounds and images: Abstract performance art at its finest.

Punctum presents Undue Noise
Sat 5th November 8pm $10
ICU 1 Halford St Castlemaine
enquiries 0421786595 or jacques@cajid.com

Utter: Threshold

Threshold is the latest in a series of evolving audio/visual improvisations by the Melbourne duo Utter. Using discarded office equipment, circuit bent toys and microscopic abstraction, Anthony Magen and John Jacobs transport you to an illuminated dream state via elemental transubstantiation, persistence of vision and the fungibility of vibration. Anthony Magen is a landscape architect, artist and the president of Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology. John Jacobs is a media designer and electronic poet who produces Radio National’s listening for pleasure program, The Night Air. Their recent performance at Westspace was one of the highlights of the gallery’s A Bunch of Twos series.

Undecisive God: acoustic turntables

Clinton Green’s Undecisive God project has been a mainstay of Australian experimental music since the 1990s. Initially concentrating upon guitars, Green’s current focus is upon prepared turntables as dynamic generators of random sound and percussive patterns. Green is also writer and researcher with an interest in the history of Australian experimental music. His Shame File Music label has released two volumes of the Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music series to critical acclaim.

Paul Fletcher: RiverOceanFog

One time drummer for legendary band Essendon Airport, Bendigo-based Paul now works wonders with animation, built contraptions & sound. Tonight he will produce an ocean of live image and sound experiments and pre-composed audiovisual performance. Permutations and mutations of sound and video footage captured in Central Vic and New Zealand may set out to disprove that a watched pot never boils.

Presented by Undue Noise and Punctum with assistance from Arts Victoria and cajid media.

download flyer here

Julian Day’s An Infinity Room in Bendigo Sat Oct 8

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:07:57 +0000

Sat Oct 8th at 8pm $10

Old Fire Station View St Bendigo

AN INFINITY ROOM (A.I.R)
A haunting aura of drones, a Zen-like sense of repose
An Infinity Room (A.I.R) inhabits a hazy world of harmonies driven by simple arithmetic patterns. Led by composer and sound artist Julian Day, A.I.R uses multiple synthesizers to create rich sound fields reminiscent of La Monte Young, Phil Niblock and Stars Of The Lid. An ever-evolving lineup allows A.I.R to perform in a wide array of venues including galleries, living rooms, foyers and concert halls. A.I.R has recently appeared at The Old Blue Last (London), Het Nutsuis (The Hague), Exapno (New York), Altes Finanzamt (Berlin), Grantpirrie Gallery (Sydney) and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Julian Day is originally from Bendigo, and presents New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM on Saturday Nights

www.aninfinityroom.com www.julianday.com

Astrid Notarangelo (voice) + Jacques Soddell (laptop) – Improvised drones and beyond

Force Fed Smile - the sporadic sound art of vocalist Tim Townsend. Consisting of stolen loops, field recordings, moans and groans and improvised vocal’s the artist/ mental health social worker Tim Townsend will articulate beauty disgust in this mad world.

punctum presents undue noise in castlemaine, sept 24

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:03:49 +0000

An exciting evening of rather special music – the extended saxophone techniques of Rosalind Hall, the extraordinary voice manipulations of Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, the “psychological terror” of Thembi Soddell, Catherine Schieve’s sruti boxes and Warren Burt’s computer & home-made electronics.

Saturday 24th Sept 8pm
ICU 1 Halford St Castlemaine
$10. tickets at door. enquiries 0421786595

Rosalind Hall & Alice Hui-Sheng Chang
Rosalind & Alice explore similarities between the abstract voice and the saxophone and the production of extreme timbres and textures. Rosalind makes modifications to the saxophone that radically changes the sound of and approach to the instrument. She crafts individual reeds from many materials, transforming the reed into a sensitive and volatile sound source, with ever-changing properties. She also uses objects in the bell so that the vibrations and playing techniques are altered, creating a unique dialogue between player and instrument. Alice Improvises with extended vocal technique in the hope of evoking a psychological connection to indescribable feelings. Her work explores various combinations of layering and interactivity of extended techniques via interaction with the soundscape, acoustic properties of the environment and with attention given to visual and spatial associations. cyclic defrost interview

Thembi Soddell
“the real highlight was the psychological terror induced by Thembi Soddell’s performance. With the lights turned off and a request for quiet (even the rattling fridges were silenced), Soddell, hidden from view, created an amazingly evocative soundscape of unspecified but terrifying dread coming towards us slowly from a distance. An intensifying rumble augmented by half-human, half-animal shrieks reaches its zenith and then sucks back down, vacuum-like, to a ringing almost-silence, only to begin again. With a fine balance between augmented field recording and machine noise Soddell perfectly controls this exhilarating journey into her unconscious—or is it our own?” … Gail Priest in Realtime 103 full review

Warren Burt & Catherine Schieve
Warren Burt and Catherine Schieve will be performing on a variety of home-made and custom built musical instruments. Warren will be performing on his new “Nano-board,” a small electro-acoustic percussion instrument made from off-the-shelf hardware, while Catherine will be performing with her collection of Sruti Boxes, custom-built Indian drone harmoniums. Warren’s netbook will also undoubtedly make an appearance.” Web pages: Warren Catherine

presented by punctum and undue noise with assistance from Arts Victoria’s Vic Rocks scheme and cajid media.

Experiments in improv & other noises, bendigo aug 13

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:43:10 +0000

Sat 13th August
Old Fire Station
View St Bendigo 8pm Admission by Donation

Warren Burt & Catherine Schieve
Now living in Central Victoria, Warren will use specially designed computer
Software to improvise with Catherine’s orchestra of specially built and composed
sruti boxes, Indian drone harmoniums. http://www.warrenburt.com/

Double Other
Guitar improv duo with Simon Howard & Justin Bull

The Immediatists
Free improv with Steve Marton (violin), Sam Geoghegan (drums)
& Justin Bull (guitar)

Plus
the evening will end with group improv with
Astrid Notarangelo (piano), Jacques Soddell (laptop) and some of the above

Info 0421786595 undue@cajid.com
undue.cajid.com/blog