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Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
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Happy New Year folks and welcome to the first show for 2009!!

Several new releases are featured this month including the opening track Untitled #175 by Francisco Lopez & Lawrence English, from the album HB on French label Baskaru. Also new from Baskaru is Live Journeys, a selection of live performances by mixed-media band Symbiosis Orchestra.

The podcast title, Mistress of Ceremonies, is a track from the new Joe Frawley release Ritual Research.  An extremely enjoyable listening experience, the album is available for free download through the Clinical Archives net label.

From our friends at The Agriculture we have two exciting new releases to look forward to in February. Rich Panciera under his Lloop moniker explores elements of dubstep, hip hop and drum & bass with the album 60 Hertz. Kacy Wiggins aka quiet personal electronics (aka qpe), releases the one true constant, a new album with a downtempo ambient hip hop groove. Also from qpe we hear a track from the album Boolean Logic, which I refer to as my all-time-favourite pre-cyclone music.

From Australia, we hear a track from Rhythmic Movement Disorder (Room40), the long awaited debut solo release from Robbie Avenaim, a luminary figure in the Australian experimental and improvised music scene.

We also hear a golden oldie, That That Revolves, a Severed Heads track that features on the companion CD to a new book release entitled Experimental Music: Audio Explorations In Australia. Book chapters have been written by ‘artists, producers and participants in alternative music-making’ in Australia including contributions from Julian Knowles, Shannon O’Neill, Ian Andrews and Jim Denley, to mention a few, edited by Gail Priest. A definite must have for those interested in the history of experimental and electronic music in Australia. I was thrilled that Punos rated a mention. Enjoy!

Playlist
1. Francisco Lopez & Lawrence English – Untitled #175 [ HB/Baskaru ]
2. Severed Heads – That That Revolves [ Experimental Music: Audio Explorations In Australia ]
3. Lloop – ODB Scripta Elegans [ 60 Hertz/The Agriculture ]
4. Benga – Go Tell Them [Diary Of An Afro Warrior/Tempa]
5. Benga – 26 Basslines [Diary Of An Afro Warrior/Tempa ]
6. qpe – Degrees of Freedom [ the one true constant/The Agriculture ]
7. Lloop – 22 Degrees (Sun Dogs) [ 60 Hertz/The Agriculture ]
8. Symbiosis Orchestra – Live At Fabbricaeuropa, Florence 1 [ Live Journeys/Baskaru ]
9. Joe Frawley – Mistress of Ceremonies [ Ritual Research/Clinical Archives ]
10. Robbie Avenaim – Bodyrocking [ Rhythmic Movement Disorder/Room40 ]
11. Joe Frawley – Inquiry [ Ritual Research/Clinical Archives ]
12. qpe – Fulcrum [ Boolean Logic/The Agriculture ]
13. Bai Tian – In [ Ya Ji/Kwan Yin Records ]

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Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
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Last week Melbourne, this week Sydney. Much has happened.

Highlights from the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music
Night 1. @The TOTE – Daniel Menche is someone to experience, totally wild; Valerio Tricoli & Sean Baxter make for a great duo. Night 2. @ABC Studios – Chris Abrahams solo performance was by far my favourite experience for the evening. Night 3. @The TOFF – Jerome Noetinger (I TOTALLY LOVE THIS GUY!!) what more can i say really; Lukas Simonis is fun and quite a gestural performer; Post were very entertaining as well providing some comic relief and a quirky country music vibe – a lot of fun. I was feeling rather tired by Night 4… such a great festival Fox & Pateras – Nice one!

Sydney highlight – Chris Abrahams and Mike Cooper @The Seymour Centre
Two musicians I really admire coming together in a duo. Such great improvisers. Their performance takes you on a journey. Their CD Oceanic Feeling-Like is available on Room40.

Coming up on 12 April Sydney – What Is Music?

1. Shelley Hirsch – So Tender! [The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch / Tzadik]
2. The Chadbournes – Pitter Patter Panther [Hallelujah, Anyway - Remembering Tom Cora / Tzadik]
3. Von Sudenfed – The Young The Faceless And The Codes [Tromatic Reflexxions / Domino Recording Company Ltd]
4. Bruce Haack – Haackula 4 [Haackula / Omni Recording]
5. Von Sudenfed – Jbak Lois Lane [Tromatic Reflexxions / Domino Recording Company Ltd]
6. Pimmon – Tener a Mar Callado [Orquesta Del Arrurruz / Staalplaat]*
7. (etre) – Naturalist Tokyo 3.0 [A Post-Fordist Parade In The Strike Of Events / Baskaru]
8. Alva Noto – Bit [Transspray / Raster-Noton]
9. Phonem – Mainframe (1040 ste) [Hydro Electric / Morr Music]
10. (etre) – What Are We Doing Here? [A Post-Fordist Parade In The Strike Of Events / Baskaru]
11. Chris Abrahams & Mike Cooper – Memory Of Water [Oceanic Feeling-Like / Room40]*
12. Sonmi451 – Pearl Jet [A Phosphorus Spot / U-Cover Transparente]
13. Mileece – Tridi [Formations / Lo Recordings]

* Denotes Australian Made

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Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
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This fortnights show begins with avant-rock, mutant guitar virtuoso Buckethead, followed by Nurse With Wound and two tracks by The Lappetites. We also hear three intense tracks by Defektro from the album Destructive Reconstruction. Self-described as a “three human, many machine noize unit,” Defekro are Hirofumi Uchino (Japan), Ayako Honda (Japan) and Laura Oyaizu (Australia). Hirofumi Uchino, who currently resides in Sydney, is the creator of the noise machines used in Defektro.From Australia, we hear from Machine Death (Ben Byrne / Ivan Lisyak) with the track You Ruin Everything, and two tracks by Ivan Lisyak, Sleepless and Afterdark, from the album Traces. Music by these artists can be found on the Alias Frequencies netlabel. From a CD released as part of the Sounds Unusual festival 2007 (Northern Territory) we hear from Sydney-based artist Sumugan Sivanesan with the track Mono Is The New Black. We end the show with some delectable sounds from Lawrence English & Ai Yamamoto with their track Longing from the album Plateau.

Playlist
1. Buckethead – The Slunk, The Gutter, And The Candlestick Maker [ Kaleidoscalp / Tzadik ]
2. Nurse With Wound – Man is the Animal [ A Sucked Orange / United Dairies ]
3. The Lappetites – Avoiding shopping [ Before the Libretto / Quecksilber ]
4. The Lappetites – Tzungentwist [ Before the Libretto / Quecksilber ]
5. Defektro – Running Water Doesn’t Stagnate [ Destructive Reconstruction / Lastgasp Art Laboratories ]
6. Windfahnenamt – NF 69-1 b [ Listen To Something Different / Ars Macabre ]
7. Nurse With Wound – Musical Bovine Spongiform (The Mad Cow Two-Step) [ A Sucked Orange / United Dairies ]
8. SPK – The Doctrine Of Eternal Ice [ Zamia Lehmanni / Side Effects ]*
9. Lapsed & Non Non – Z Crazy Eyes [ Adnoiseam 2001-2006 (CD 2) / Ad Noiseam ]
10. Von Sudenfed – Family Feud [ Tromatic Reflexxions / Domino ]
11. Defektro – System Conflict System [ Destructive Reconstruction / Lastgasp Art Laboratories ]
12. Machine Death - You Ruin Everything [ Alias Frequencies ]*
13. Ivan Lisyak – Afterdark [ Traces / Alias Frequencies ]*
14. Defektro – War For Peace? [ Destructive Reconstruction / Lastgasp Art Laboratories ]
15. Sumugan Sivanesan – Mono Is The New Black [ Sounds Unusual ]*
16. Ivan Lisyak – Sleepless [ Traces / Alias Frequencies ]*
17. Death Ambient – Synaesthesia [ Synæsthesia / Tzadik ]
18. Lawrence English & Ai Yamamoto – Longing [ Plateau / Phonostatique]*

* Denotes Australian Made

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Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
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A few from the vintage vaults this fortnight including the first track Bicycle Built For Two (1961) by computer music pioneer Max Mathews. Also, Concret PH (1958) by Iannis Xenakis, Musique Concrete (1959) by Jan Boerman, and the delightful Silver Apples Of The Moon (1967) by Morton Subotnick.

A couple of people of interest to me at the moment are Asmus Tietchens and AGF, more will be revealed about this interest at a later date. We hear the track Die Liebe, Ohne Ralf by Asmus Tiechens from the compilation Listen To Something Different (Ars Macabre, 2007) and from AGF we hear Zwangsam Schwierig from her album Head Slash Bauch (Orthlorng Musork). Stay tuned…

From Australia, we have some interesting music by Time Being from the compilation VIVA [section], Shannon O’Neill from his album Minimal/Liminal, and two tracks by the fascinating John Watermann, all releases courtesy of the Alias Frequencies netlabel. Also from Australia, we hear music by Wake Up and Listen and Kazumichi Grime from the 1997 compilation Dislocations (Zonar Recordings).

Playlist
1. Max Mathews – Bicycle Built For Two [Early Modulations Vintage Volts / Caipirinha Productions]
2. John Watermann – Rip Off [The Denial of Cricket / Alias Frequencies]*
3. Wake Up and Listen – White Spines [Dislocations / Zonar Recordings]*
4. Time Being – Mental End [Viva [section] / Alias Frequencies]*
5. Asmus Tietchens – Die Liebe, Ohne Ralf [Listen To Something Different / Ars Macabre]
6. Hideous In Strength – Nun With A Gun [Nun With A Gun / Inner-X-Musick]
7. O.H.M. – Put Me On – Crooklyn Dub Consortium [Certified Dope Vol. 2 / WordSound]
8. Jan Boerman – Musique Concrete [Anthology Of Dutch Electronic Tape Music: Vol. 1 (1955-1966) / Creel Pone]
9. Shannon O’Neill – Trepan Nation [Minimal/Liminal / Alias Frequencies]*
10. John Watermann – Except for This [To Be Taken Seriously It Has To Be Long / Alias Frequencies]*
11. Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples Of The Moon [Early Modulations Vintage Volts / Caipirinha Productions]
12. AGF – Zwangsam Schwierig [Head Slash Bauch / Orthlorng Musork]
13. Iannis Xenakis – Concret PH [Early Modulations Vintage Volts / Caipirinha Productions]
14. Kazumichi Grime – Pinnae [Dislocations / Zonar Recordings]*

* Denotes Australian Made

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Welcome folks to the new radio series ELEVENELEVEN.

ELEVENELEVEN is a radio show that explores sound art in its various forms. Experimental, avant-garde, improvised, noise, electronic, headphone music. Supporting Australian sound art through featured playlists and guest programming. Presented by Plum Industries.

Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
plumindustries.org

Double Numbers is the first show of the ELEVENELEVEN series. First up we hear a collaboration between Faust & Nurse With Wound with “Lass Mich”, a 13 minute audio collage from the album Disconnected (2007), followed by “Dead Air” a track by Bloodclot, a one-off collaboration between Controlled Bleeding & Noizeclot in 1985. With that we also hear a Nurse With Wound track from the album The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums, nice. Next, the enigmatic Netochka Nezvanova (2007).

From Australia, we have Puzahki with “I’ve Seen Enough” from the album Smoking When Pregnant. This album, plus much much more, has been made graciously available for download from Alias Frequencies, plenty of interesting music from Australia to read about and listen to here, visit their netlabel. A new release by French label Baskaru, M.B + E.D.A. with the album Regolelettroniche. Soft, drone-based music. M.B + E.D.A are Italian duo Maurizio Bianchi and Emanuela De Angelis. 20 years between them, Bianchi hails from the Italian avant-garde scene and has been musically active since 1979, whilst De Angelis made her debut in 1994 as lead singer and guitarist in the noise band Joyce Whore Not. This album was mastered by Lawrence English (Room40).

Finally, we hear a recording of Sydney-based improvised music ensemble The Splinter Orchestra. First Play is one of five recordings the group made at Studio 301 in late 2006. Various members of the Splinter Orchestra will also be performing at the upcoming Now Now Festival of improvised music. Visit their site for all the details www.thenownow.net. The festival takes place over 3 nights at the Wentworth Falls School of Arts in the Blue Mountains (Sydney). If you’re driving up from Sydney you will see the old building on your right. Also, for spontaneous collaborations visit the Akemi performance space in Medlow Bath (the Now Now Festival club). It’s only a short drive up the hill from Wentworth Falls, on the highway on the left after the Hydro Majestic, they have an amazing view of the mountains.

Playlist
1. Faust & Nurse With Wound – Lass Mich [Disconnected / Art-errorist]
2. Bloodclot – Dead Air [Bloodclot / Inner-X-Musick]
3. Nurse With Wound – Untitled [The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums / Beta-lactam Ring Records]
4. Netochka Nezvanova – Kr0p3r0m-A9ff_Trk-38.0.5 [Netochka Nezvanova / BIN]
5. Puzahki – I’ve Seen Enough [Smoking When Pregnant / Alias Frequencies]*
6. Shenggy – Shenggy Is Space Girl [www.myspace.com/noiselady]
7. Otto von Schirach – Menstrual Dolphin Communication [Maxipad Detention / Ipecac]
8. OOIOO – Uma [Taiga / Thrill Jockey]
9. Nurse With Wound – Untitled [The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums / Beta-lactam Ring Records]
10. Rapoon – A Time Before [Listen To Something Different / Ars Macabre]
11. Women Of The SS – Feelings Ov Purity [The Call To All Women... / Inner-X-Musick]
12. M.B + E.D.A – Electronic Rules [Regolelettroniche / Baskaru]
13. The Splinter Orchestra – First Play [www.splitrec.com]*

* Denotes Australian Made

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