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Miles van Dorssen and Zai Van Dorssen. Miles is best
know for being one of Australia’s leading instrument builders and inventors. He has produced a multitude of radical works in the last decade. On the night Miles & Zai will display a dynamic synthesis of elemental forces. Most often perceived as opposites that negate each other. This work challenges preconceptions about the nature and behaviour of these fundamental forces, inciting the observer to contemplate the higher mysteries of matter and energy.
The Bad Breath Petune
This new work by Miles van Dorssen offers a sonic reinterpretation of the audiences' own verbal rhetoric.

Step right up to the mic and let the Petune broadcast it for you. Interactive assemblage, 2008.

OREN AMBARCHI

Oren Ambarchi has created a unique & utterly personal sound world that is unmistakably his own. His most recent works have explored the tenuous coexistence of fragility and density; sounds as light as air mingling
with wall shaking low-end.
Ambarchi has numerous releases on influential international labels such as Touch, Southern Lord &
Tzadik. His solo releases "Suspension" and "Grapes From The Estate" have transcended the guitar into a zone of alien beauty and sonic impossibilities to critical acclaim. In 2003 his live release "Triste" received an 'honourary mention' in Prix Ars Electronica digital musics category. His most recent works have explored the tenuous coexistence of fragility and density; sounds as light as air mingling with wall shaking low-end.

For 10 years Ambarchi was the co-organiser of the What Is Music? Festival, Australia’s premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music and has co-produced a nationally broadcasted television series on experimental music called Subsonics.
His most recent solo is release ‘In The Pendulum's Embrace’ is released on the Touch and Southern Lord labels.
Ambarchi will perform a new piece for multiple guitars.

http://www.orenambarchi.com/
ROBIN FOX

Robin Fox’s Multi laser show describes, in three-dimensional visual space, the geometry of sound. Enveloping the audience in synchronous sound and light information, the experience resembles a synaesthetic experience where what you hear is also what you see. The same electricity generated to move the speaker cones is sent simultaneously to high-speed motors that deflect the laser light on an x/y axis converting sonic vibration into light movement. The experience resembles a synaesthetic experience where what you hear is also what you see. The same electricity generated to move the speaker cones is sent simultaneously to high-speed motors that deflect the laser light on an x/y axis converting sonic vibration into light movement.
http://www.robinfox.com.au/

ROBBIE AVENAIM

Avenaim is one of the founders and current organiser of the What Is Music? Festival, The What Is Music? festival now in its 11th year since 1994. Robbie has been performing since the late 80's. He has gained a reputation as one of the Australia’s leading drummers and experimental sound artists. He has established himself in the international community of experimental musicians and improvisers and composers. Like his peers, he takes music to much more personal and challenging realms, involving spontaneous collaborations, home built instruments and electronics. Avenaim will be performing a new solo work for multiple automated instruments based on the Drum Kit.

http://robbieavenaim.com/home.html

DALE GORFINKEL

Over the past seven years Dale has developed a unique and personal musical language on the vibraphone, combining traditional and extended techniques with physical modification of the vibraphone. Modifications have included extending use of the instrument’s tremolo mechanism, the addition of microtonally tuned bars, various motorised continuous-bowing and percussive mechanisms, and amplification. In recent years, his creative approach to the vibraphone has become the basis for building new 'vibraphone deconstructions' which uses to construct installations and spatialized performances.

Scheduled times
FEUERWASSER - 10:45PM
VALERIO TRICOLI - 10;00PM
OREN AMBARCHI - 9:15PM
COR FULHER & CHRIS ABRAHAMS - 8:30PM
ROBIN FOX - 8;00PM
INTERMISSION
ROBBIE AVENAIM - 7:30PM
MARCO FUSINATO - 7:00PM
DALE GORFINKEL- 6:30PM
MAXXIMAL PATTERRORIST- 6:00PM

Additional Sydney show on 13th April

at The Hopetoun Hotel

WHATISMUSIC? PRESENTS A NIGHT OF EXTREME POP

Featuring:

THE MENSTRUATION SISTERS

POLETOPRA (from melbourne)

and WOG

8pm start

VALERIO TRICOLI(PALERMO)

Valerio Tricoli - Electroacoustic composer and radical improviser on analogue electronic instruments, sound-engineer and organiser of concerts and cooperations, Valerio Tricoli is one of the leading musicians in the new Italian music scene. His compositions bridge musique concrete and conceptual forms of sound; music, as a recorded or as a synthetically-processed sound, is always hovering between the “here and now” of the event and the shady domain of memory - distant but at the same time present, like a deja-vu experience. Tricoli plays live music with electronic instruments, however the structure of the device is ever-changing, seeking multiple relations between the performer, the device and the space in which the event takes place. He is one of the founders of the Bowindo label/collective, and of the band 3/4HadBeenEliminated, a daring synthesis between improvisation, electroacoustic composition and avant-rock sensitivity

COR FULHER
& CHRIS ABRAHAMS

A first time collaboration of two LEGENDARY Pianists - Cor Fulher and Chris Abrahams.

Amsterdam-based Cor Fuhler works in the field of electronic and improvised music. Piano is his main acoustic instrument, and he seeks to take it musically beyond usual perceptions, specializing in sustained sounds with use of various string stimulators: 12 ebows, rotating threads, spinning disks. Fuhler also manipulates sounds from turntables, linguaphones, springs etc and filters them through an analogue synth: the EMS Synthi AKS, his main electronic instrument. Curently he is working on a new analogue set up: the NIGLO 1. He often builds his own instruments/ instalations/ modifications such as the Keyolin: a violin with keys.

http://www.euronet.nl/users/fuhler/

Chris Abrahams is perhaps best known for his work in the minimalist trio The Necks. The Necks was formed in 1987 and has produced eight albums. In recent years they have toured extensively both in Australia and Europe to considerable critical acclaim. In ‘97 they composed the music for the Australian feature film “The Boys”, and in 2000 they composed the music for the three part ABC documentary series “In The Mind Of The Architect”

MARCO FUSINATO

Marco Fusinato works across various media and contexts - from installations in museums to performances in venues. His work is a series of propositions that question and re-work accepted cultural forms and concepts, laying bare their construction, re-using them in particular contexts, exploring how those worlds are made. His sound practice involves the exploration of noise as music via the use of guitar/electronics. He combines disregarded electronic detritus into sheer amplified shards and walls of free-noise ecstaticism.

MAXXIMAL PATTERRORIST

Anthony Pateras and Max Kohane
Describing themselves as ‘Gershwin meets Lombardo’ this new combination of piano (no preparations) and drumkit will have you stroking your chin and banging your head at the same time. In trying to synthesize the classical baggage of the piano with the hardcore brutality of grindcore drumkit this duo produces what can only be described as infectious confusion and mayhem!

http://www.anthonypateras.com/