TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

2:59 PM
Posted by jodi rose

feeling starved of alternative culture, music and media art?
here's some gigs, films and events in a range of places to get you away from the reality tv, off the computer and out into the world. have fun!!

SYDNEY

MU-MESON ARCHIVES

Friday 29th September
From the Avant Garde to the Electronic: Music from the fringes
Rare 1966 documentary on John Cage jazz and experimentation New Tempo. Rare clips of the Theramin from 1930's to present day featuring Japans Yoko Onishi and Russia's Messa Chups. Interviews with Robert Moog and a look behind the scenes of a synthesiser museum. The way of the future is analogue. Mu-Meson Archives $10 doors 7.30pm for 8pm start with light supper

Monday 2nd October
Invasion of the Star Creatures (1963)
A pair of comical soldiers (Robert Ball and Frankie Ray) investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and discover several beautiful alien vixens (Dolores Reed and Gloria Victor) who plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Yes sounds preposterous and it is so don't miss it. 16mm Due to Public Holiday we are screening at the Mu-Meson Archives 7.30pm Donation

Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase.

MELBOURNE

Melbourne Filmoteca: Latin American, Spanish & Portuguese Film Group
presents....

AMAZON DOCUMENTARIES

Thursday 28 September 7.30pm
ACMI - Federation Square

THE SHAMAN'S APPRENTICE (Miranda Smith, Surinam/USA, 2001, 53mins)
+ BETWEEN MIDNIGHT & THE ROOSTER'S CROW (Nadja Drost, Canada/Ecuador,
2005, 66mins)

Spanish with English subtitles (both films)
Admission 18+ (unclassified)
SHAMAN'S screens at 7.30. MIDNIGHT at 8.30

Two fascinating documentaries about the struggles for today's Amazon.

Set in Surinam, The Shaman's Apprentice looks at one man's quest to
preserve the ancient wisdom of the Amazon. For more than twenty years ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin has studied the relationship between
indigenous people and plants that heal. In the Amazon it is the
shaman - a tribe's doctor and spiritual leader - who preserves the
knowledge of the whole tribe. But the shaman is also the most
endangered species of the Amazon. Without an apprentice, when a
shaman dies they their knowledge goes with them. It is these shamans
that Mark seeks out, hoping to save their precious knowledge.

From Ecuador, Between Midnight & The Rooster's Crow examines the
fight to preserve Amazonian land and its people in the face of
powerful oil-companies who have laid waste to a fragile environment
that is a critical to all life on Earth.

MELBOURNE (2)

crazy sweet shows aka Shit loads of brutally nice shit

on sunday the 1st of october at horse bazaar:

dj double decker (aka rod cooper) - double gramophone/contact
mics /LP's. using handmade stylus' and incorporating soundeffects, pop music and sandpaper, cooper re-invents the wheels of steel with a steampunk's ears.

greg kingston (hobart) - guitar, toys, vocals and sean baxter -
drumkit, junk. two drunks meet on a park bench, necking their longies from brown paper bags, whilst meditating on the nature of communicative action.

anthony pateras and robin fox - electronics
"Far from the lifeless plague of spacebartronica, they execute an
electrified real-time homage to some of their favorite obsessions:
breakneck pacing, vocal hysterics, blistering textures, bodily
functions and dysfunctions."

djs janette howard and nina

where: horse bazaar, 397 little lonsdale street
start: 7pm
door: $5

Later That night...

Buckets at Spanish Club @10pm
(with lotsa other Adrock projects including Legends of Motorsport, to keep the tassie theme going)

Oct 3rd:

The Melbourne Fringe Festival inconjunction with the Make it up Club proudly presents 2 nights of improvised music, running on 2 consecutive Tuesdays - the 3rd and the 10th of October.

Gary Butler (Wollongong) - guitar, toys and noise with Dave Brown - bass guitar
Greg Kingston (Hobart) - guitar, toys, vocals with Carolyn Connors - ukelele & voice and Clayton Thomas (Sydney) - double bass
Woodwind ensemble featuring: Kate Neal - recorder, Martin Mackerras - clarinet, Belinda Woods - flute, Tim Pledger - saxophone and Phillip
Greenlief (USA) - saxophone
Rod Cooper - handmade sound sculptures, Mark Harwood - "the shudder" and Natasha Anderson - contrabass recorder
Armyish - Marcus Griffin, Justin Fuller and Emile Zile - evil kid's keyboard drone with vocals and visuals
Visuals: Emile Zile

DJ: It's Is

Oct 10th:
Anthony Pateras - piano, Lucas Abela (Sydney) - glass noise and Max Kohane (Agents of Abhorrence) - drumkit
Passenger of Shit - laptop, vocals, Xian - desktop, vocals and Sean Baxter - drumkit
Errki Veltheim - viola and Anthea Caddy - cello
Robin Fox - electonics, Adam Simmons - saxophone, James Wilkinson - trombone, Mat Sanders (Damaged/Terrorust) - drumkit, James Ludbrook (Damaged/Terrorust) - vocals

Y35.3 - Sasha Margolis and Mark Skelton - Synths on input, pedals, Am radio, violin, consumer advice cassettes, pint glasses, voice

Visuals: iCandy

DJ: Nina

Where: Upstairs @ Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Start: 8:30pm
Cost: $10 & $8 concession.

SYDNEY (2)

CYCLIC DEFROST GIGS

Thursday Oct 5 at Bar Broadway, a night of global microgenres and
blogosphere music from Ghislain Poirier (Canada), DJ Gorky (Brazil),
Nick Catchdubs (Fader mag NYC), and Lemon Red.

Sunday Oct 8 at Phoenix Bar, dubstep pioneer and thinker Kode9 plays
his only Sydney show. Just $10 at the door supported by Sydney
dubstep legend Moving Ninja who was recently interviewed in Cyclic
Defrost. Maybe you caught Kode9 when he played at Frigid back in 2002 - if you didn't then you need to catch him - he is the man behind the Hyperdub label (www.hyperdub.com). He is also writing a book on
metaphors of war and infection in sonics.

Friday Oct 13 at Club Kooky, Montreal-based producer Deadbeat plays
his only Sydney show. Deadbeat has always been a Frigid favourite
making warm rich dub techno on the Rhythm & Sound and Pole tip.
Deadbeat has been working with Monolake designing new software and
also collaborates with others under various pseudonyms including
Crackhaus. (rather rare) Sub Bass Snarl set as support. $10 at the door.

BERLIN

BLAST THEORY

Blast Theory will premiere their new work, Day Of The Figurines this September as part of the Trampoline Festival in Berlin.
Date: 28th September 2006 to 22nd October 2006.

Location: Hebbel Am Ufer, Hallesches, Ufer 32,10963 Berlin, Germany

Day Of The Figurines is part board game, part secret society. The game is set in a fictional town that is littered, dark and underpinned with steady decay.

It lasts for 24 days beginning from Thursday 28th September. Each day represents an hour in the life of a small English town that shifts from the mundane to the cataclysmic: Scandinavian metallists play a gig at the Locarno that goes horribly wrong as Middle Eastern troops invade the town from the west.

How you respond to these events and to each other creates and sustains a community during the course of the 24 hours of the town.

From the Gasometer to Product Barn, the Canal to the Rat Research Institute, up to 1,000 players roam the streets, defining yourselves through your interactions.

The centrepiece of the game is a model town housed in the foyer of HAU2 in Berlin. Each of the 1,000 players is represented by a small plastic figurine which is moved by hand every hour for the duration of the game.

To play, players are invited to create a figurine to enter the town: to name it and answer questions about its past. Thereafter participation in the game is via SMS on your mobile phone.

You can join in at any time during the game by visiting HAU2 at the Hebbel Am Ufer.