Sunday, 30 September 2018

MIUC 021018: Tommy Gun presents - Stroker (US) + guests



THIS WEEK:
• STROKER (US) 
• TOECUTTER (NSW)
• PSYCHWARD + NIIBOY
• PORPOISE TORTURE
• BETTY 

COMING UP:
9/10: S.L.Á.T.U.R.(ISL); Shoshana Rosenberg(WA)/Sam Dunscomb/Aviva Endean/Michiko Ogawa; Dan O’Connor(WA)/Sage Pbbbt; Jim Denley(NSW)/Noel Meek(NZ)
16/10: Rogue Three; Hot to Rot; Shit to the Spirit(Erkki Veltheim)

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The Make It Up Club
Avant-Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start $5/$10

The Make It Up Club is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri as the first owners of the country in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.

Friday, 28 September 2018

Blindfold Test - The Burrow - 5 Oct 2018

Blindfold Test: a showcase of instrument builders

 
Friday 5 October, 7:30pm
The Burrow (formerly Aeso), 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
$10
 
 
 
A showcase of Melbourne instrument builders - new, developing and established - performing with their creations in three duos:

Clinton Green & Ernie Althoff - perform their back-to-back prepared turntable work 'Blindfold test' - https://shamefilemusic.bandcamp.com/album/blindfold-test

Tina Douglas & Michelle Nguyen - Michelle builds reactive audio sculptures and sound-triggering slime pots. Tina uses conductive painting and objects to trigger sound - https://www.tinadouglas.net/sound-video-performance/. This is their first time playing together.

Jen Tait & Zela Papageorgiou - Zela is a percussionist who has been mentored by Speak Percussion in instrument building and worked with a variety of unconventional objects. Jen (of Squirrel Pancake, Is There a Hotline? and many more) builds electronic thumb pianos and makes music with odd household items - https://squirrelpancake.bandcamp.com/album/mental-detective . This is a first-time duo as well.

There will also be an opportunity for informal discussion about the instruments used, approaches taken, etc.


Monday, 24 September 2018

Sound and Vision with The Man From Atlantis and Slow Glow




The Fitzroy Pinnacle presents a mid-week night of experimental sound and vision with The Man From Atlantis (duo) and
Slow Glow.

The Man From Atlantis returns to the surface for a rare intimate duo performance of improvisation and Fahey-inspired acid psych jams.

Suitably joined by Slow Glow who will rise into the arc of the heavens crafting meditative, deep dream state sounds; performing an episode from 'This Is Not A Wave Particle Duality'. Yoga mat optional.


HARAAM - THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

 
thoughts and prayers
 
two new noiseworks dedicated to all the sufferers
 
and those who make them suffer
 
 
 
 

Leagues of Breaking Light: Performance and Exhibition: Melbourne Fringe


Sit amongst beautiful flowers drinking Yunnanese tea or a Sunday tipple (byo). Hear data as music and see scores as visual art. Watch a video-link with the ecologist who traipsed a Himalayan mountain collecting plant-flowering data for climate change research.

Emerge with all your senses activated and the sound of flowers in your ears. Naima Fine merges composition, activism and ecology in this unique and immersive world premiere event.

Featuring Robert Macfarlane on tenor voice (Australian Bach Society), Kim Tan on Chinese flute (Forest Collective), Matt Horsley on percussion (Trioc), Mirren Strahan on violin (MeatBrain), Katherine Philp on cello (Kupka’s Piano/Camerata), and Miranda Hill on double bass (Homophonic!/Octave Pussy).

Kids welcome. Accessible venue. 
Kids $10
Concession $20
Full $30
Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au/event/leagues-of-breaking-light/
03 9660 9666
No-one turned away for lack of funds - please pm Naima Finest to arrange.

NOTE: THIS PERFORMANCE INCLUDES THE RELATED EXHIBITION OF WORKS. If you can't make the performance but would like to check out the exhibition, come along between 10:30am-3pm, donation entry.
Exhibition event link: www.facebook.com/events/699246487090747/

This event takes place on stolen Wurundjeri land of the Kulin nation. Sovereignty never ceded.

This event is part of the awesome Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Sunday, 23 September 2018

MIUC 250918: Cooper Engineering Noise Orchestra



THIS WEEK:
• BRAD SMITH (Drums)/NIK KENNEDY (Bass)/ROD COOPER (Vocals/Mechanical Strings/KERRIE FARNSWORTH (Noise Toy)/YUKA MIKAYAMA (Vocals/Toys/Prepared Microphone)/GARY BUTLER (Electric Guitar)/NAT GRANT (Percussion)/GEAROID BRINN (Electric Guitar)/TOM SULLIVAN/SAM FILMER (Sound Sculpture)/CONEPUNCHER (Handmade Electronics)/RORY BROWN (Bass Sound Sculpture)/TINA DOUGLAS(Electro-Conductive Sound), RAFAL KACZMAREK(Percussion)/MATT SKUEUE (Electronics)

• ANTHONY COOLEY (Electromagnetic Device)/UBOA (Electronics/Vocals)

• ROD COOPER (Electric Auto Snare)

COMING UP: 
2/10: Stroker (US); Psychward + Niiboy; Porpoise Torture; Betty; Toecutter (NSW)
9/10: S.L.Á.T.U.R.(ISL); Shoshana Rosenberg(WA)/Sam Dunscomb/Aviva Endean/Michiko Ogawa; Dan O’Connor(WA)/Sage Pbbbt; Jim Denley(NSW)/Noel Meek(NZ)
16/10: Rogue Three; Hot to Rot; Shit to the Spirit

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The Make It Up Club
Avant-Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start $5/$10

The Make It Up Club is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri as the first owners of the country in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.

Saturday, 22 September 2018

STROKER (USA) & PSYCHWARD (AUS) Tour Dates

21/9 @ Secret Location (Melbourne):
Stroker (USA), Psychward, Mshing, Solvent Cage, Noematic Oblivion.

2/10 @ Make It Up Club (Melbourne):
Stroker (USA); Psychward + Niiboy; Porpoise Torture; Betty; Toecutter (NSW).


6/11 @ Alexandria Warehouse (Sydney):
Stroker, Psychward, Mensch, Ebola Disco, Evil Heat, Cockdriller, Eyra Jinx, Visuals by LIVING SCIENCE Dept.

STROKER: 
https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/alb…/the-bitch-c-26-nrr26
EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/262717727701856/



Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Five Years in the Making: The Rise and The Fall by BOK DARKLORD

two albums of digital plunderphonic glitchnoise 
from Buttress O'Kneel and Lucas Darklord

"Immediately after the blazing success of their ridiculous 2012 double ruinmix album LULU (labelled by media blogger Mark Whitby "a visionary masterpiece" and "one of the best, and most original, albums of 2012"), Buttress O'Kneel and Lucas Darklord wondered what to destroy/recreate next. Both huge Bowie fans, they decided to ruinmix The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, very quickly opting for a double album, with one volume being The Rise, and the other The Fall.

The procedure was simple: O'Kneel and Darklord would destroy/recreate the album one song at a time, in two different ways, and then their independent pieces woud be brought together in a masterclash of dadalayers and oblique strategies. Both artists did what they do best: O'Kneel looped and glitched and collaged with her usual absurdist gay abandon, while Darklord granulated and fedback and distorted and burst and stretched with his vast array of multi-level destruction/reconstruction networks.


Early on in the process, the duo decided that they would always keep one version of the songs the exact same length as the original (though not always on the same volume of the double album), so they ended up with one version of the songs that was identical (lengthwise) to Bowie's own, and one version that was an extended noise freakout with no limits. While they were creating these multiple versions of the songs, they released a "sneak preview" of the double album as a "Double A-Side Virtual 7" Vinyl Record" (Moonage Daydream and Suffragette City) in January 2013, although, it must be noted, these versions are actually also different versions to anything that actually appears on either The Rise or The Fall. But the album, both volumes of it, was almost ready for release! 

Exciting!

Also of note: while the double album was being worked on in the early days of 2013, the actual living artist David Bowie had not released an album of new material in ten years, and was not expected to any time soon. But of course, as history will tell us, he had actually been secretly working on a new album, The Next Day, which he released in March of 2013, surprising O'Kneel and Darklord, and suddenly (and completely accidentally) making their ruinmix double album culturally relevant.

Poised for release, O'Kneel finished the artwork, referencing the artwork for The Next Day (itself a detournement of the "Heroes" album cover, defaced with a white square), and the album was ready for exposure to the masses...

And then...

Well, they sat on it. Rumours circulated in the noisewave underground that Lucas Darklord was not completely happy with it, and wanted to change a few pieces here and there - other rumours said it was O'Kneel who was dissatisfied, and who wanted to make the alterations. Either way, and whatever the truth may be, the duo sat on the album, making their tiny tweaks as they saw fit, for nigh on THREE FUCKING YEARS.

By which point, of course, David Bowie released ANOTHER surprise album, Black Star... and then promptly died.

Now Darklord and O'Kneel were in a quandary. Although their double ruinmix album was finally 100% completed, it seemed somehow disrespectful to release it straight after Bowie's death - the pair were worried that it would look like some kind of disrespectful cash-grab grave-robbing capitalist venture, when really it was a love-letter to a musical hero. So they sat on it again, and waited for a more appropriate time to release it.


That time, more than two years after the passing of David Bowie, is finally with us. That time is NOW.

Is it still relevant? Is it even any good? Were all those minor tweaks worthwhile? As in all matters of art and culture, we're afraid that the only person who can decide such matters is, unfortunately, you."
 
Department of Historical Explanations and Memetic Archeology 
IWML
2018

Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Surface Noise Vol. 7 + New titles on Shame File mailorder

Out Now on Iceage Productions/Shame File Music:

 
 
Club Sound Witches/The Mermaids ‘Surface Noise Vol. 7’ CDR – No survey of strange and confounding Australian music, such as the Surface Noise series, would be complete without a visit to Newcastle. For decades now, it’s been a hotbed of odd amalgams of lo-fi electronica, field recordings, deconstructed rock, and disturbing snippets of old records and radio broadcasts; often issued on cassettes with ‘print runs’ you can sometimes count on one hand, accompanied by hazy or downright misleading details about the identity of the culprits. ‘Surface Noise Volume 7’ all comes from a one gig featuring a visit to Newcastle by Brisbane’s masters of lo-fi not-quite-beats Club Sound Witches (Matt Earle of xNoBBQx and Nicola Morton of Bad Intentions), which then bleeds into a set of processed/bludgeoned samples from local duo The Mermaids (alumni of Cock Safari, Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts, and probably countless others).

The Surface Noise series so far:
 
Vol. 1 – cleaninglady/Klunk
Vol. 2 – Cat Hope / White Drummer (sold out, download available)
Vol. 3 – Joe Musgrove / Makro & Hetlev
Vol. 4 – Ben Byrne & Rosalind Hall / Anthea Caddy & Matthew Davis
Vol. 5 – Dotabata / Llara Isabell Arena
Vol. 6 – Jenny Barnes / Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, David Brown, Nigel Brown, Tim Catlin, Rosalind Hall, Michael McNab.
Vol. 7 – Club Sound Witches/The Mermaids
Vol. 8 – Snacks/Laura Altman & Monika Brooks (out soon)

Now available on Shame File Mailorder:


Todd Anderson-Kunert “A Good Time To Go ” cassette[Anderson-Kunert’s] releases so far are conceptually strong and musically interesting…In the past I compared it to the likes of Joe Colley and Francesco Meirino, but here Anderson-Kunert continues to progress and leaves out overtly harsh tones and rough cuts; not that he used many of those before. The element of sound collage is something he does keep around, but sounds move around in a gentler way…The music is quite personal, especially a piece like ‘A Moment To Have’, which seems to be using voice as well, mumbling, sighing and slightly altered, but which comes also across as a bit sad. In his sound treatments that melancholic aspect is also used quite a bit I think with a soaring, ringing organ tone sound. This is another beautiful release from this fine composer. – Vital Weekly. Cassette comes with download code.


Todd Anderson-Kunert “Live at Magnet” download card – Live recording at Magnet Spatial Studio in Melbourne, exploring the reverberating space via bass-heavy feedback and rumbles. The package includes a download card and individually numbered/signed screen print card in an origami envelope. Limited edition of 50.


A.S. “Two Floor Toms, Two Kick Drums and a Cymbal” cassette – Allanah Stewart (of Melbourne’s Snacks and Propolis) issues her first solo percussion release, and it’s just as the title describes. Working with the basic materials of drumming, Allanah’s unmatched gentle, textural deconstruction of the drumkit is perfectly captured her in this intimate recording, where the smallest gesture means so much. Limited edition of 30 copies, hand-inscribed chrome cassettes, with small watercolour painting, all wrapped in recycled paper

Order these and more from http://ShameFileMusic.com


Monday, 17 September 2018

MIUC 180918:Burt/Schieve/Janssen; Way/Edwards; Papageorgiou/Griffiths



THIS WEEK:
• WARREN BURT (Electronics)/CATHERINE SCHIEVE (Harmonium)/BERNI JANSSEN (Sound Poetry)
• KAMA WAY (Vocals/Bass)/EDDIE EDWARDS (DM100/Guitar)
• ZELA PAPAGEORGIOU (Percussion/Found Sounds)/Jonathan Griffiths (Percussion)

COMING UP:
25/9: Cooper Engineering Noise Orchestra 
2/10: Stroker (US); Psychward + Niiboy; Porpoise Torture; Betty; Toecutter (NSW)
9/10: S.L.Á.T.U.R.(ISL); Shoshana Rosenberg(WA)/Sam Dunscomb/Aviva Endean/Michiko Ogawa; Dan O’Connor(WA)/Sage Pbbbt; Jim Denley(NSW)/Noel Meek(NZ)
16/10: Rogue Three; Hot to Rot; Shit to the Spirit

-
The Make It Up Club
Avant-Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start $5/$10

The Make It Up Club is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri as the first owners of the country in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.

Sunday, 16 September 2018

Moe Chee 默契/Is There A Hotline?/Baby Roy - Night Heron - 28 Sept 2018



Taiwanese/Australian duo Moe Chee 默契 play their only Australian show for 2018 at the Night Heron on Grand Final Eve (public holiday!). With support from Is There a Hotline? & Baby Roy.

Friday 28 September, 2018 - 8pm
The Night Heron, 228 Nicholson St, Footscray
Free Entry
Facebook event

Moe Chee 默契 (pronounced ‘Moe-chee’ or ‘Mo-Qi’) is a phrase in Mandarin that has no direct English translation, but can variously be interpreted as ‘silent bonding’, ‘unspoken agreement’, ‘mutual understanding’, ‘tacit’, ‘in sync’. Chun-Liang Liu and Clinton Green are artists working together with dance, music, movement and sound. Their performances, often unofficial and in public spaces, seek engagement and interaction with audiences and passersby. 默契 describes their connection in performance - https://moechee.com

Is There A Hotline? - Avid 'flow' practitioners and DIY enthusiasts Jen Tait (Gwenhwyfar Cheerful) and Jennifer Callaway call out to the cosmos using an assemblage of percussive objects and electronica, evoking transportive atmosphere, psychic storms and quiet retreats.

Baby Roy - Michael and George McNab. Sarcy subversive anti-performance duo. Special debut show on this 28th day of September, Name Of George's 24th Baby Birthday. Boring acapella numbers, pathetic stage tricks, props, costumes... in short, idiocy hitherto unsurpassed... one awkward moment after another, for the sake of brotherly indulgence.

Last Moe Chee performance in Australia (2016):



CURRENT 2017-18 video documentation



CURRENT 2017/18 took place at Aeso Studio, Melbourne, on 17-18 February 2018. Performers were placed into new ensembles each day, covering a range of disciplines, and asked to create an improvised performance.

Performers:

Juana Beltran
Georgia Bettens
Jennifer Callaway
Mick Douglas
Matt Faisander
Simon Fisher
Susan Frykberg
Cor Fuhler
Llara Goodall
Dale Gorfinkel
Clinton Green
Martin Kay
Kim Kerze
Cam Love
Scott McConnachie
Derek McCormack
Siobhan McKenna
Michael McNab
Sage Pbbbt
Amaara Raheem
Emma Riches
Allanah Stewart
Erin K. Taylor
Josh Twee
Ren Walters
Giles Warren
Mitchell Welch
Samuel Harnett Welk

Guest curators: Michael McNab & Clinton Green

UNDEAD MAGIC USER - WHILE THE LIVING SLEEP

UNDEAD MAGIC USER - WHILE THE LIVING SLEEP

 
You are interacting with the Information Superhighway on your Computing Machine, when suddenly you discover there is a new album by Undead Magic User, called "While the Living Sleep".  It appears to be completely free to stream, but, even more tantalisingly, completely free to download as well, although you can't help but notice that you are able to pay for it if you wish. What do you do?
 

Roll 1d6:

 1) You ignore the post you're reading on Experimental Melbourne and go back the way you came - you don't need to hear these synthesised drones or immersive atmospheres.  Life is fine the way it is.  You check your Facebook and forget all about it.
 
2) You're intrigued by the oddly self-referential post on Experimental Melbourne, and interested in the unusual imagery - you click on the link at the bottom of the post.  Suddenly, your browser reveals a shadowy Bandcamp page, and there, right in front of you, is the album that you were promised, in all its six-tracked glory.  With titles like "Cave of Dismal Intentions" and "Elf Stare", you enter the album, cautiously, your mouse-finger ready to release you from this website should things go awry.  Tentatively, you stream the first track...
 
3) "Undead Magic User"?  You like the sound of that!  Without any further thought, you dive straight in, letting the long-form improvised dark ambient synthscapes wash over you like some kind of Drowish Magick.  Within the first few moments of the opening track "Contemplation of the Magic User", you're so hooked that you find yourself pressing on the "Buy Digital Album" button, almost without thinking, and purchasing the album for maybe 3 or 4 dollars.  "Why not?" you wonder, "when the artist has so clearly toiled over this album's creation so very diligently?  It takes a lot of time and effort to generate art in a society so ambivalent about culture, 3 or 4 dollars is really not that much - and I do so want to support the local experimental music scene."  You download the album to your collection and enjoy the rich and warm feeling of becoming a patron of the dice-ambient role-core musickal arts.
 
4) You rush your browser straight over to Undead Magic User's Bandcamp Portal, and, in a berserker frenzy, buy not only the new album "While The Living Sleep", but every single release, from "And Upon That Terrible Throne" right through to "Encounters on the Journey"!  So overwhelmed by the magick of this dark-ambient dice-core solo project from Australia are you that you even chase down the very first album, "Master of Dungeons", released on Rotten Shape records in America!  With your swag full of improvised drones and synthesised soundscapes, you return home, your adventure an amazing success.
 
5) You buy it all.  But you don't stop there.  No, this is a project that moves you so greatly that you must share it with all your friends, your family, your workmates - you even find yourself calling up your exes and stopping random strangers in the street to share your glorious discovery!  You can hardly believe it's true, but here it is - Undead Magic User is the musickal project your soul has been yearning for all these years.  You are finally complete.

6) You give it a listen.  It's okay.  But it's got no real melody or rhythm, and after trying a few songs - if they're even actually proper "songs" - you find it all a bit samey.  Drones, drones, blah blah blah.  You shut the tab and never think of Undead Magic User again.

WHILE THE LIVING SLEEP IS AVAILABLE HERE:

UMU



Wednesday, 12 September 2018

Zoltan Fecso: Shimmer Raga - Melbourne Recital Centre - 5 Oct 2018

Zoltan Fecso - Shimmer Raga: A Study of Pointillism


About: 
Zoltan Fecso is an electroacoustic composer and performer, known for his live performances on an augmented guitar built by luthier Ian Noyce. Zoltan’s compositions are created by combining small fragments of single notes repeating at varying speeds, inspired by ‘pointillism’, a painting technique using individual coloured dots to create images.
The Pointillist understanding of colour theory to create shimmering and pulsating imagery inspired Zoltan’s approach to composing. By interpreting the pointillist properties of colour to the properties of sound, Zoltan is able to explore note relationships as they are placed against one and other. Slow, sparse note cycles combine into melodic phrases and shift with each pass, as the notes intersect at different times. Fast repetitions make individual notes harder to detect, forming shimmering soundscapes.

In August 2018 he made his label debut under his own name, Zoltan Fecso. The album ‘Shimmer Raga’ is his most “honest and self-reflecting work” - critiques Alex Ruder (DJ and Assistant Music Director at the influential radio station KEXP and Founder of Seattle’s Hush Hush Records).
The title and artwork for the album Shimmer Raga were acquired from a painting by the artist Claire Lefebvre, whose work deeply influenced the creative process.

"Striking attention to detail that slowly reveals the beauty in its ambiguity..." - The Slow Music Movement

"...highly tactile and mesmerising" - Brian Housman (Stationary Travels)

Zoltan will also be launching his album at The Gorman Arts Centre on October 3rd with Marlene Claudine Radice and Reuben Ingall, and October 10th at 107 with Alexandra Spence and Marble Rain (Julien Mier + Miki Takahashi)

Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Murmurations: Experience the next generation of emerging spatial sound artists



Murmurations brings together new sound works by emerging composers, public discussion with leaders in Australia’s spatial sound art community and compositions by influential multichannel artists from across the globe.

Presented by Starlings Spatial Sound Collective (comprising artists Lisa Bartolomei, Gillian Lever and Joshua Peters) in collaboration with Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) and RMIT Art Collection, Murmurations is an opportunity for audiences to experience the physicality of sound as it inhabits space.

Held in the Black Box space in the RMIT Media Precinct, Murmurations will utilise the multichannel system to create a unique listening experience. This is a chance to hear the next generation of spatial sound artists spread their wings.

The event kicks off on October 7th with a spatial sound symposium, where leading practitioners in the field of spatial sound will give insight into their working methods. Starlings will then present four 8-channel works from the RMIT Sonic Arts Collection; Christine Groult’s Si je les écoutais (2008), Bill Fontana’s Kirribilli Wharf (1976), Daniel Teruggi’s Spaces of Mind (2004) as well as the sonic journey Into the Labyrinth (2000) by Hildegard Westerkamp. The evening rounds out with members of the Starlings Collective diffusing works live over a set of 16 speakers.

As part of Murmurations, SIAL elective students will diffuse their own compositions on 10th October for the annual Spatial Sound Composition and Diffusion (SSCAD) concert at RMIT’s new Black Box Space.

Murmurations combines talks by leaders in the fields of spatial sound, listening sessions of works by seminal artists from the RMIT Sonic Arts Collection and concerts by emerging artists from Starlings Spatial Sound Collective and RMIT SIAL students to give a broad overview of the multiplicity of practice in this exciting field.

Tickets are free and can be reserved for each concert or event separately.

What: Murmurations Spatial Sound Festival
When: Sunday 7th October, 1-9pm and Wednesday 10th October, 10am.
Where: RMIT University, Black Box, Building 14, Level 2, Swanston St 414-418, Melbourne

For interviews: Lisa Rae Bartolomei  lisaraepsychotronica@gmail.com, 0450 107 878
                      or Gillian Lever gillianlever@gmail.com 0468 829 929.

For general media enquiries: starlingscollective@gmail.com, or numbers listed above.

BOGAN WARLOCK - NOISE CURSES FOR A BETTER WORLD

BOGAN WARLOCK   bogan: unsophisticated, Australian, unrespected, unfashionable, the opposite of elite, socio-politically impoverished   warl...