MIUC 21st Birthday Festival Program Announcement!

In January 2019, Make It Up Club turns 21!

To celebrate this, we are organising an extra special month of concerts each Tuesday from the 8th - 29th of January

A key aim of MIUC is to facilitate inter-regional collaborations between diverse performers and idioms with a focus on enabling established and emerging artists to develop musical relationships and experiences by performing in adventurous improvised contexts.

This curatorial philosophy is at the heart of the 21st Birthday Festival and we are now excited to announce the lineup for this very special occasion!

8th
• Robbie Avenaim/Joe Talia (JP/AU)
• Petr Vrba (CZ)/Shoshana Rosenberg (WA)/Sarah Byrne
• Uboa/Mark Groves
• Tryptocrampoline - Nik Kennedy/Alowishes Falcon w. Scud Viney/Bonnie Hart (QLD)

15th
• The Body (US)/Diploid
• Occult Blood/Marco Fusinato
• Shit to the Spirit/Blarghstrad Noisesmith
• Maya-Victoria Kjellstrand

22nd
• Birgit Ulher (DE)/Amanda Stewart (NSW)
• Sage Pbbbt/Romy Fox
• Hammers Lake - Judith Hamann/Carolyn Connors w. Nat Grant
• Cat Hope/Karina Utomo/Éric Normand (CA)

29th
• Lori Goldston (US)/Chloë Sobek/Rory Brown/Vijay Thillaimuthu
• Freya Schack-Arnott (NSW)/Matthias Schack-Arnott
• Hi God People - Penelope Trotter/Sophie Perillo/Jen Callaway/Dylan Martorell/Greg Wadley/possible other visitations.
• Robbie Thorpe & guests

FIRST ACT ON AT 8:30PM SHARP!

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

Artwork by Brent Stegeman

The Make It Up Club 21st Birthday Festival is supported by the City of Yarra, Bar Open and 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.

SeenSound: January 2019 Edition

SeenSound launches into 2019 with a fresh set of A/V improv pieces and fixed media works from Megan Kenny, Eiichi Tosaki, Brigid Burke, Steve Falk, Dan Senn, Roger Alsop, Jutta Pryor and Mark Pedersen. Grab a drink at the bar and join us in the back room from 4:30 for an audio-visual adventure.

SeenSound Saturday, January 5 Loop Project Space & Bar 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne Entry $10/$5 Doors open at 4:00pm, with screenings and performances to start at 4:30pm

Anthony Cooley - Behind the Branches (out now on sombre soniks)

https://sombresoniks.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-branches?fbclid=IwAR3nDtvA0OkHDmoiTo-7X9upD-1b4sNZrqEL7aV3lKbIK-AHGFqZOy02rS4

recorded in 2017 at ant’s nest studio in the outskirts of Melbourne victoria. A big warehouse style space. This resulted In around 10 hours of reed organ/ms-20 drones which were wittled down over the next 8 months into a single 60 minute piece. 

On the release you will hear me playing around with the phasing of 2 microphones that help to create unique sounds and movements around the reed organ. 

You’ll also hear the sound of a ms-20 synthesiser, which was played through a guitar amp that was wheeled around a microphone and also different points in the room. 

new TARAB release : HOUSEKEEPING : sonicrubbish.com

 

I am quietly pleased to announce the release of my new TARB cd:  HOUSEKEEPING.

HOUSEKEEPING was originally conceived as a project to finally put to use some of this amassed junk, and then to discard it all once again. It first took shape as an installation work for 8-channel audio, found objects, speakers, transducers, desk, chair and room; presented at Blindside, Melbourne, August 2017.

Since then it has slowly shifted itself into this CD. However rather than a documentation of an installation, this iteration has been arranged from the debris collected during the process of making one. Sound was gathered together from various raw audio materials; object manipulation; rehearsals, studio tests and failures; recordings of both installation and de-installation; the final composition files ; recordings of the installation in-situ; the empty gallery space; the Nicholas Building (the home of Blindside); a performance made with Clinton Green enacted to close the installation. All collected materials were then cut up, tumbled around and de-arranged into the current form it finds itself in here. 

This is the first release in a new self releasing venture, which depending on how this one works out...may lead to a slow but hopefully stead trickle of works from me ... and who knows what else ... ?? It is a terrible time of year to visit the post office ... so I have posted it as a pre-order for now ... but if you would like a copy I should be able to start sending them out very soon!

Available via https://sonicrubbish.bandcamp.com/releases ... or if you prefer to bypass BC altogether ... shamefile will hopefully soon have some copies in stock (alongside other TARAB works) or send me a message tarab AT sonicrubbish DOT com.

sonicrubbish.com

MIUC 181218: End of Year Party!

THIS WEEK: 
• KANGAROO SKULL (Drum Machine/Synth)/MORGAN WRIGHT (Drum Machine/Synth)
• WILL GUTHRIE (FR/AU)(Drums)
• BADIES - ROMY FOX(Malfunctioning)/WET KISS(Electronics/Voice)
• VIDEO EZY - NINA BUCHANAN (Electronics)/DEL LUMANTA (NSW)(Electronics) 
• FIA FIELL(Synths)/SIMON KARIS (Samples)
• TCHAKE - JOSTEN MYBURGH (WA)(Electronics)/MICHAEL MCNAB (Percussion)

Artwork by Lou Ellen Cormick

This is also going to be an informal album launch for duo 'Tchake'. The album is called 'Both and Net' out on Tonelist Records, Perth based label run by Josten Myburgh and crew.
CD's will be available on the night! 

FIRST ACT ON AT 8:30PM SHARP!

Details for our 21st birthday festival in January to be announced next week!
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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 8pm for an 8:30 pm start $5/$10/First Nations people free.

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.

Abstract Paradigms Podcast - December 2018 w/ Jonathan Griffiths + Gig Guide!

The end of another year is upon us, but don't fret. There's a whole slather of new music to get you through the silly season, plus an interview with close friend Jonathan Griffiths - an emerging composer and percussionist experimenting with using compositional techniques from Balinese Gamelan in Afrobeat. There's some hot exclusive tracks here - don't miss out.

Get it here: http://podcast.abstractparadigms.com.au/e/edition38/
Get Jonathan's recital here: https://jonathangriffiths.bandcamp.com/album/jg-honours-recital

Tracklist:
J. McFarlane's Reality Guest – Do You Like What I'm Sayin? [Hobbies Galore, 2019]
Hemm – Skin [Self-released, 2018]
Big Yawn – Anthem X [Self-released, 2018]
I Nyoman Kaler – Tari Margaparti (Performed by students of the S.M.K.I Institute) [Bali Records, 2005]
Jonathan Griffiths – K.P.P. (Korrupt Power People) [Self-released, 2018]
Jonathan Griffiths – Transmutation [Self-released, 2018]
Time For Dreams – Newscene (Various Asses Remix) [It records, 2018]
HTRK – Dying of Jealousy [Self-released, 2018]
Tchake – Base [Self-released, 2018]
Gas – Ebb of Image [Tenth Court, 2018]
Robin Fox – Unsquare [Self-released, 2018]
Vintage Crop – Company Man [ANTI FADE records, 2018]
Shrimpwitch – Leerers [Self-released, 2018]
Vertigo – Hammer [ANTI FADE records, 2018]
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience (BJX) – Mulatu [2018]

Gig guide:

Saturday 15/12:

>Big Yawn, Empat Lima, Horse MacGyver, Match Fixer – Secret Location, Collingwood

>Bench Presstivus: A Fundraiser for WIRE – The Old Bar, Fitzroy

>The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra - Album Launch – Howler, Brunswick

Sunday 16/12:

>Footy 'Flora Fauna' Album Launch w/ SaD and Yffer – Northcote Social Club

>Thigh Master play two shows at The Retreat Hotel

Tuesday 18/12:

>MIUC 181218: End of Year Party! – Bar Open, Fitzroy

Wednesday 19/12:

>Will Guthrie/Erkki Veltheim/Prime + Maria Moles/Jenny Barnes– The Brunswick Green

>Ahm (Polyester Records in-store) – Polyester Records, Fitzroy

Thursday 20/12:

>MESS Presents: Spectral Resonance – Howler, Brunswick

Friday 21/12:

>Hysterical Records at the Coburg Night Market – Bridges Reserve, Coburg

Saturday 22-23/12:

>DICK DIVER descend on Tote. 2 Nights in December. – The Tote, Collingwood

Tuesday 1/1:

>Mildlife NYD – The Espy, St Kilda

Saturday 5/1:

>Unveiling the Parsnip burger at The Tramway Hotel w/ Primo!– Tramway Hotel, Fitzroy

>Hooper Crescent//Champion Racehorse - Instore at RecordParadise – Record Paradise, Brunswick

Friday 11/1:

>The Body w. Whitehorse, Diploid & Uboa at The Tote11/01/19 – The Tote, Collingwood

New Exquisite Corpse Music from Melbourne Surrealist Collective

Little Songs of the Mutilated, a surrealist music collective headed by multi-instrumentalist Justin Ashworth (Glasfrosch, Kungfuepilepsy, etc), creates unpredictable dream-like soundscapes using the old Surrealist Exquisite Corpse technique: six players create 40 seconds of sound, then pass the last 10 seconds on to the next player, who then responds to that 10 seconds with 40 seconds of their own, and so on, until all six players have had a turn on all six pieces.  

Usually curated by Ashworth, recently the project has experimented with guest curators.  The most recent effort, "They Were Lifelessly Melding In A Pool Painted with Little Songs of the Mutilated", was curated by none other than the reclusive aging audiomancer known as A Demon Sheen (The Horn, Gnaumgn, Intrinsic Light, Stinky Picnic, Undead Magic User, Grist, Haark, Haraam, etc), and features an all-star cast of magickal and non-magickal practitioners of sonic deviation:

Sage Pbbbt (Digital Penetration, solo, etc)

Gelareh Pour (Mnmn, Garden, Zöj, solo, etc)

Jen Tait (Squirrel Pancake, Torrential Brain, Is There A Hotline?, etc)

David Prescott-Steed (Realms, Gnaumgn, Le Vide, solo, etc)

P23 (Akoustik Timbre Frekuency, Plaguewielder, etc)

A Demon Sheen (as above)

From field recordings to kamancheh to exended vocal techniques to synth to the amplified rubbing of hand-skin, this release uses the Third Mind of the cut-up technique to dictate a bewildering tale from beyond the Realm of the Conscious, utilising the Surrealist's techniques to access unrefined Surreality itself.   Available for streaming, or purchase (we recommend purchase and download, because then these ritualised pieces of telesonic chronoplasty can be further randomised into larger-scale shuffle-plays, increasing and enhancing the 'chance' elements therein, a feature more likely to align one's own Path with the desires of the Earth Coincidence Control Office, and benefit one's Bobward Slide along the Luck Plane).

STREAM OR PURCHASE HERE. 

  

as a special bonus treat enjoy a different Little Songs of the Mutilated lineup performing John Zorn's Cobra in Melbourne earlier this year.

MIUC 111218: Maria Chavez (PE/US); Mary Doumany/Philip Brophy; Rayhan Sudrajat

THIS WEEK:
• MARIA CHAVEZ (PE/US)(Turntable) - http://mariachavez.org/
•“Trials and Torments” - MARY DOUMANY (Harp/Vocals)/PHILIP BROPHY (Drums/Sounds)
• RAYHAN SUDRAJAT (Sape/Kacapi/Suling - from Bali, Sunda, and Kalimantan)

COMING UP:
18/12: End of year party feat: Will Guthrie (FR/AU); Kangaroo Skull/Morgan Wright; Fia Fiell/Simon Karis; Badies; Video Ezy; Josten Myburgh (WA)/Michael McNab

Details for our 21st birthday festival in January to be announced next week!
-
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/First Nations people free.

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.