Sistere! Solritual
Friday 21st December
Doors open at 7:30 for a twilight start
Entry $10
As the red dust continent of the Southern Hemisphere slowly thaws itself yet from another cycle of dismal winter, we open the gates to the new Sun that will soon illuminate itself in all of its life-giving, infernal light. Seven evokers of the night. Seven evokers veiled under the Southern nightskies, in the spheres of primal ritualism, isolationism and primordial noise. Seven evokers will partake in this unique gathering of Time & Space that will unhurl and unfold itself across two rituals in two nights in two different locations.
Abre Ojos - A dense sound and video ritual evoker, the world of Abre Ojos collapses on the meditative and the dystopia.
Animalspirits - Thrust from the chaos and turmoil of a deep disconnection and born of a yearning to replenish a kinship with the primal self. Totems of wild nature spirits, harnessed through ritual, we call to the primordial spirits and hearken the energy of our land. Animal Spirits become us.
Grist - Apocalytic minimalism - voidmusic for the death of Ego. Improvised gnostic abyss - for Grist is the Adversary!
Eko Eko Azarzk - EKO EKO AZARAK EKO EKO ZOMELAK EKO EKO ARADIA EKO EKO KARNAYNA BAGABI LACHA BACHANTA LAMACH KAHI ABRAKANTA KARNANLYOS KAHI ACHABANTA LAMACH LAMACH BACHARAS KARBAHAJI SABALYOS BARYLOS LAZOS ARTHAMEE KALYOLAS SAMAHAC ET FAMYOLAS HARRAHYA.
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St.
Carlton VIC
Tlaotlon, Angel Eyes, Default Jamerson, Eves, Tim Coster
7:30, Saturday 15th December
Entry $5
Tlaotlon - is the solo electronics project of Jeremy Coubrough. Tlaotlon makes psychedelic sound world of swirling vortexes and convoluting loops, taking a side-step down the rabbit hole of post-detroit techno and new-age deep listening sessions.
Angel Eyes - is simple really, two drum machines, two keyboards, some sequencing, pedals and a voice.
Default Jamerson - currently is focused on the exploration of the voltage control of plundered sound effect libraries and stretched visual memories. The aim of these efforts is the cherishing of moments longer than physics currently dictates.
Eves - develops elaborately minimal layered, looped and sampled oscillator tones; shifting impromptu one take dis/chordance, accompanied by Guangzhou aural & visual field recordings. Edie Eves is also in a number of groups from Dunedin like the Aesthetics, Not Even Owls, PQRST, and Pro Team.
Tim Coster - performing textural synthesiser music. Recent releases include solo cassettes on the Albert’s Basement & No Kings labels, and he is currently working on a series of full-length solo recordings; plus collaborative projects including Houseplants, Vogue Forums, Velvet Hour, and Currer Bells.
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St.
Carlton VIC
Avantwhatever Presents …
8pm, Saturday 8th December
Entry $10
Ernie Althoff - Accentuate the positive. Voice and two manipulated vari-speed cassette recorders.
Nigel Brown & Zoe Scoglio - Transducer table, dancing rocks, sonic vibration.
Ross Bencina - Particle Music.
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton
Chronicles of the New Human Organism
6:30pm - 8:30pm, Thursday 29th November
FREE!
Chronicles of the New Human Organism is the first co-presentation from Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival and Speakeasy Cinema, a collab you’ll be hearing much more about next year. So just before 2012 closes its doors we’re teaming up for a screening of Ian Haig’s epic, long-form, straight-to-DVD mash up of video emissaries from the outer fringes of Sci-Fi-new age-consumer culture. For one night we will be presenting the full 50-minute cut of Chronicles in the (somewhat) theatrical setting it truly deserves at Bouverie Studios.
Ian Haig’s body of work is sprawling, irrepressible, earnestly deranged and defiantly grotesque. As his website puts it, his work “explores the strangeness of everyday reality and focuses on the themes of the human body, devolution, abjection, transformation and psychopathology, often seen through the lens of low cultural forms.”
In addition, we will be screening a selection of short video works by local and interstate artists which similarly approach the themes of spirituality, mortality, corporeality and existence via visceral, vivid aesthetics, and humorous, vernacular and surreal sensibilities.
Shorts program will include work by: The Holy Trinity (Tricky Walsh, Mish Meijers & Alicia King), Zoe Scoglio, and Benjamin Ducroz. Babes on Grill will be present for all your dining needs.
Channels is supported by Arts Victoria
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
Feral Flotsam Double CS Launch
6pm, Saturday 24th November
Entry $10
Altered States Tapes presents “Feral Flotsam” 2 x c90 Compilation Launch.
Mshing & Military Position
VDO
Chronox
Tim Coster
Mu
Dry Mouth
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
Fractal Shale
8pm, Thursday 22 November
Entry $5
Four beguiling new performances involving multiple projections, live audio-visual melding and experimental improvisation. Curated by Kynan Tan.
Scott Morrison (Room40) - AV Ballad(s) for quiet horizons. Recreations of the seen and heard rural landscape. http://scottm.com.au
Kynan Tan (Listen/Hear Collective, WA) - New dual-screen AV work multiplicity. Channelling the data of the masses into 3D geometry and warped synaesthesia. www.kynantan.com
Motion (Listen/Hear Collective) - 6-piece experimental electroacoustic jazz, spontaneous interaction. www.motionmusic.com.au
Reformed Sax Offender - saxy times, mashed videos. No, reformed sax offender, stop that.
Supported by Jump Mentoring, Government of Western Australia, Department of Culture and the Arts
Co-presented by Tape Projects
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
Dimanche Rouge #21 Paris-Australia
Doors 6.30pm, Sunday November 18th
FREE!
Paris-based experimental performance festival Dimanche Rouge have teamed up with Tape Projects, Exist in Brisbane and Ptarmigan in Sydney to present an evening of streamed performance and live art. Each of the four cities will present and transmit a one-hour program. Melbourne first in the line-up will be presenting 5 live acts between 7pm and 8pm with live feeds from Sydney, Brisbane and Paris between 8-11pm.
Michaela Davies with Sam Pettigrew - ‘Involuntary Duet’ is a MIDI composition created by the artist to trigger a custom built EMS device which sends electrical impulses to performers’ muscles, generating specific involuntary movements which cause the musicians to ‘play’ their instruments.
www.michaeladavies.net
http://www.sampettigrew.net
Deanne Butterworth & Michael Munson - ‘Mindset’ is a performance that utilises the previous performance and installation ‘Twinships’ as a springboard for a new event. This will combine ‘liveness’ and participation (dancer Shian Law) with the idea of the ‘document’ to explore notions of connectivity, perception and time.
www.deannebutterworth.com
www.mgmsonic.com
T. R. Carter & Arie Rain Glorie - ‘Body Communication’ is an improvised performance artwork, with video and sound elements, which explores the communicative capacity of the body in contemporary art.
Scratch Ensemble - In the tradition of Cornelius Cardew, the Scratch Ensemble will convene to perform Scratch Music. Each member of this ensemble will design their own graphic score, bringing their own instrument (in the broadest sense of the word) with which to realise their creation.
http://ascratch.blogspot.com.au
Hannah Raisin - ‘Contact’ is a performance provocation that explores surface and connection. Adorned with a bubble wrap suit, the artist invites audience to pop the bubbles encasing her body.
http://hannahraisin.com
Dimanche Rouge has become one of the largest monthly experimental performance festivals in the world with almost 600 artists from 61 different countries featured since its inception in February 2011. Dimanche Rouge is currently developing projects abroad intended to create sustainable cultural and artistic exchanges. Look here for the full line up.
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
* Image: Michaela Davies, MONA/Remi Chauvin Image Courtesy MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
The Cooking of Reality
8pm, Friday 5th October (doors at 7.30)
Entry $5
October 5th brings a collective of performance artists working in dance, theater, sound and visual art.
One theme - Four art forms - Ten interpretations
Tommy Hluchanic
Kyah Dove
Jessica Holman
Jonny Almario
Saoirse Chapman
Jazmine Rose
Andrew Duff
Coleman Pester
James Gaunt
Moo
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
Snawklor Duo, Cured Pink, Crude, Jkfx
8pm, Friday 10th August
Entry $5
Snawklor - Duo/Drumless
Cured Pink - Brisbane/Actionist/Problem
Crude - Electro-Acoustic/Clarinet
Jkfx - Zond/Tax
www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Snawklor
http://curedpink.bandcamp.com
http://crude.bandcamp.com
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
Multiplicity
5.30pm - 9.00pm, Sunday 22 July
Entry $5
Four distinct live creations that utilise moving image, sounds and the spaces between. Curated by Kynan Tan.
Jessie Scott & Alice Hui-Sheng Chang
- Vocal/ video bodies redefine each other on alternate trajectories, the outcome being an objectification of performance, and a performance of the object.
Mitchell Brennan - Collage and manipulation of visual source material with tapes, mics and effects.
David Boring
- Remembering android dreams of the Singularity.
Kynan Tan (Perth)
- Digitally converting sleeping brain data into sound and image that traverses the placid to the chaotic.
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
* Image: Jessie Scott+Alice Hui-Scheng Chang
Cryogenic Egocide
7:30pm - 11:00pm, Friday July 13th
Entry $6
Sweet & messy rock n’ roll from Albert’s Basement stable: a wandering octet recently collaborating with Daevid Allen in Lismore, super fun dance/ noise duo for freestyle ass-shaking and a local mindmelder of the highest order.
Mole House - Saucy songs from the heart.
Warden Burger - Tribal Brisbane/Melbourne octet unleash tropical genius for all sentient beings.
BAADDD - What if God was one of us? BAADDD.
Glass Bricks - Fourth eye synaesthesia.
Rob Mcdougall - Mystery is a fact.
Installation by Nicola Morton, Emily Hoofkake, Rohan Halliday & Skye McNicol.
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
*Image: Warden Burger, Paddington Substation 2012
Becoming Carol Brown
6-10pm, May 19th-27th
Wednesday 23rd May 7pm-12am WAKE UP Party!
FREE!
‘Wake Up and Wait for the Sun to Rise explores diverse forms of contemporary collaborative practice. It is also the keynote project for the 2012 Next Wave Festival. Five young and emerging artist collectives will develop a variety of new artist-driven social spaces that encourage us to imagine new possibilities for being together. The project will infiltrate all corners of the gallery, turning it into home base for Festival-fans as they journey throughout Melbourne experiencing the next wave of Australian artists.’ - West Space
As a part of Wake Up, Tape Projects members Zoe Scoglio, Michael Prior, Caroline Anderson and Matthew O’Shannessy have developed Becoming Carol Brown. Step on set and cast yourself into the oblique melodrama that is the party within. Becoming Carol Brown is an eight part mini-series which upholsters Carol’s mental furniture over eight days of the Next Wave Festival. Tape Projects invites you to step inside Carol Brown’s brain and take part in the action. Check out the Episode guide here!
In Spring of 2009, Carol Brown witnessed a puzzling change within herself. The partitions of her mind fell away and she could no longer tell where she ended and the next person began. She felt connected beyond the internet’s wildest dreams and a carpet of imaginary solutions rolled out beneath her.
Wake Up will also feature works by Applespiel, Tully Arnot & Charles Dennington, Claire Finneran & Hossein Ghaemi, and Lucky PDF.
westspace.org.au
nextwave.org.au
West Space
Level 1/225 Bourke St
Melbourne VIC
Becoming Carol Brown - Episode Guide:
Episode 1 - 19th May
Anticipating Anticipation
You can also Join the Carol Brown fan page to upload images of yourself Becoming Carol Brown after your visit to the set.
Pinhead Camera 4
7:30pm, Tuesday May 15th
FREE!
New fortnightly free cinema focusing on the obscure, the obtuse, the obscene and the unseen, programmed by Dominique Czapla. This fortnight featuring:
Lunacy - Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic, 2008, 120min.
The continually inventive Czech animator/filmmaker Svankmajer is still producing excellent films after a career that spans more than 40 years. This film sees him combining his trademark stop-motion meat puppetry with live action hijinks. The plot of Lunacy revolves around a young traveller, Jean, who finds himself in a debauched asylum run by the sinister Marquis, where perverse sex rites are par for the course. Jean meets a young nurse who claims she is being held captive, and they conspire to free the real director and staff of the clinic locked in the basement. This, it turns out, is a mistake…
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
Odious Pegboard #4
4pm - 7pm, Sunday May 6th
FREE!
Fourth and final instalment of Odious Pegboard, a series of fortnightly Sunday afternoon free sound gigs at Tape Projects. This weekend should see our continuation of collected sonic eclecticism so please come down and treat your ears for the final afternoon.
Simon Whetham - field recordings and resonances captured during his travels this year through USA, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Australia formed into an immersive and meditative composition.
Jessie Scott+Alice Hui-Scheng Chang - live and video bodies will redefine one another on alternate trajectories, the outcome being an objectification of live performance, and a live performance of an object.
Tarab - carefully arranged sonic rubbish.
Tim Catlin - expect otherworldly drones, ghost harmonics and ethereal glissandi, just don’t count on hearing any conventional guitar sounds.
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St
Carlton VIC
* Image: Jessie Scott+Alice Hui-Scheng Chang
