Wake Up and Listen

WUAL will be DJing at this.

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Friday 16th June
8pm – 12am
Hermann’s Bar
Cnr City Rd & Bultin Ave (opp. Sydney Uni Main entrance), Darlington

$7/$5 concession

feat:
TOYDEATH
RIK RUE and FOLD
LECTER MACABRE
KAMUSTA
FUNKMEISTER G AND THE JOHN RA BENDERS

+ WAKE UP AND LISTEN DJ’S

Presented by the UTS Sound Collective
www.disor.org

TOYDEATH
Formed in 1995 Sydney band Toydeath use children’s electronic toys to create music you have never heard before! That’s right we only use toys! We have collected an arsenal of toys to make any kindergarten green with envy.

You will hear talking Barbie Dolls, Speak and Spells, Rock Guitars, Sax-a-booms, Toy Telephones and lots of other fantastic Toys! Toydeath have also collected toys from their international tours and use Chinese, Dutch, German and Japanese language toys in our set. Many of the toys have electronic additions (circuit bending) to turn them into wild and unique instruments

We also assume toy like characters with colourful costumes as part of our stage show. On stage you will see GiJoe, L’Booby, Nursey and Trailer Trash Barbie!
www.toydeath.com

RIK RUE AND FOLD
RIK RUE
Throughout his 30 year career, Rik has been involved in many multi-faceted areas of audio works. He is a founding member of internationally renowned experimental improvisation group the Machine for Making Sense with whom he has performed extensively. He has constructed atmospheric soundscapes for dance/theatre groups such as Gravity Feed, and is a founding member of electronic trio Social Interiors.

Rik’s radiophonic compositions have been broadcast in Australia, Europe, UK, USA, Canada and Asia and he has regularly performed both solo and with other musicians locally and internationally, as well as releasing numerous recordings of his own works.

For this performance he will be collaborating with John Jacobs on Things Change, Things Remain the Same.

FOLD / JOHN JACOBS
John Jacobs has been making improvised collaborative electronic poems for
about twenty five years. He’s a long time fan of Rik Rue’s associative collages.

John’s video work began with home brew RF oscillators, magnets and modified televisions. His work with video Subvertigo was characterised by unwieldy analogue mixer/VHS/camera feed back rigs at underground techno parties.

Currently he is in a ‘free-jazz’ laptop VJ mode, researching aleatoric modes of visual expression with Fold.
www.fold.chaos.org.au

LECTER MACABRE
Lecter Macabre are the music of the spheres, ambient astral reconnaissance, extreme noise terror, nocturnal emmissions from the heat death at the centre of the universe, psychic turmoil at the edge of sleep, unknowable and primal reaching into the reptilian brain buried deep within us all. Their live perfomances become cathartic experiments in high volume free form sonic mesmerism, not for the faint of heart or weak of bladder, become spherical nubile little minkies………become spherical.

Mark Selway (ex-Music For Big Game Hunting) – Theremin
Josh Shipton (TRIANGLE, Marquis De Sound) – Voice

KAMUSTA
Kamusta is a collaboration between Sydney based video artists Chris Caines and Jessica Tyrrell.

Jessica Tyrrell is an emerging experimental filmmaker, video artist and writer. Fusing a cinematic sensibilty with a love of poetic text, she creates elusive and abstract video pieces.

Chris Caines is a filmmaker working in shorts, documentary, locative &
wireless media. His work has been commissioned, screened and broadcast internationally & includes screenings/exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery, the MCA, ACMI & the Cannes, Berlin & Venice film festivals.

Testing the filmic possibilities of VJ performance, Kamusta creates live visual and audio pieces that aspire to a kind of “live cinema”.

Disorientation will see the debut of, ‘A Place You Can Never Go To’, a “live cinema” experiment that creates a world of suggested narratives, fragmented characters, half-heard words and takes the audience on a haunting visual and sonic journey to a place they have never been before.

FUNKMEISTER G AND THE JOHN RA BENDERS
The John Ra Benders are a loose group of Funkmeister G’s mates, who when
not playing music, like to do this.

No performance is rehearsed & instruments may be decided upon at the last minute. Funkmeister G acts as conductor for the John Ra Benders, as well as doing his own thing…however, some or all of the Benders may choose to ignore him [or maybe not even show up].

We love music/sound with passion, it’s our life & that’s why we feel it should never be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

Here’s the full version of the Wake Up and Listen track that was used on Four Corners a few weeks ago:

Wake Up and Listen – Creased Anxiety (192kbps, 21?32?, 29.5MB)

WUAL’s track Creased Anxiety (edit) was used repeatedly on last night’s Four Corners. More info, including a podcast of the track, over at Shannon’s blog.

Several gigs coming up for WUAL, Adrian and Shannon:

Wake Up and Listen at Disorientation, The Abercrombie, Sydney, June 29 (with Alex Davies and others).

Wake Up and Listen at Liquid Architecture, The Public Office, Melbourne, July 2 (with Thomas Brinkmann and others).

Lieutenant Colonel Spastic Howitzer (Adrian) at Liquid Architecture, The Performance Space, Sydney, July 13 (with Severed Heads and Beta Erko).

Splinter Orchestra (incl. Shannon) at Liquid Architecture, The Performance Space, Sydney, July 16 (following film screenings).

Shannon O’Neill at Liquid Architecture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, July 23 (with DJ Olive and others).

DJ Time Being (Shannon) at Disorientation, The Abercrombie, Sydney, July 27 (with others TBC).

Shannon O’Neill at Radio National event, Studio 22, Sydney, August 27 (with others TBC).