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26/12/2010 // 9:00 – 11:00 pm
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It has been a good and busy couple of weeks – playing at The Bird for the first time with Ben Vanderwal and Callum G’Froerer, Warp Chamber II at the Bakery and seeing Tujiko Noriko and Lawrence English at Club Zho. Many more things in the works – repeat performances of lucidity, friends visiting from Japan, more shows playing with great musicians and more! Stay tuned.

Review of Warp Chamber II by Nic Owen can be found here on fasterlouder.

“Warp Chamber II was a momentous sensory overload; but not for the weak minded. This was challenging viewing, even more challenging listening, yet the rewards were immense”

“..while all of this was taking place….Kynan Tan was sending the audio into different realms of the surround sound set-up defying your ears into a complete chamber like experience”

obscotch

salamander

Tomorrow evening (Thursday 02/12/2010) the 2nd Warp Chamber takes place. The live performers Brules Rules, Solar Barge, Salamander and Obscotch are seriously some of the best experimental/electronic acts in Perth at the moment. Also included in the package are live visuals and octophonic surround sound. I’ll be using a custom built maxMSP surround sound patch to spatialise the live performers. Check out the facebook page for more info.

WARP CHAMBER is an ever-changing and fully integrated audiovisual performance space for experimenting musicians. In this edition of Warp Chamber, several speakers will form an enclosing ring around the audience (specially engineered by sound artist Kynan Tan), creating an interior chamber of sheer sonic immersion. In addition to this, three projection screens will be set up which will broadcast live and pre-recorded visual material devised especially by each act.

BRULES RULES is Steven Aaron Hughes (Injured Ninja) and Carl Properjohn (French Rockets) combining forces to create a monolithic wall of rhythmically overdriven sonic energy, pooled in a trance-inducing stroboscopic field of lasers and lights, for your health. (www.soundcloud.com/brulesrules)

SOLAR BARGE was conceived in 2009 as a musical representation of the mythic journey of the Egyptian sun god Ra and his crew aboard their celestial boat. Each Solar Barge performance or recording is a unique permutation of this concept, embellished and reimagined through improvisation and fluctuating arrangements. Musically, the project evokes epic krautrock jams, interspersed with abrasive noise interludes, guitar-loop ambience and minimal polyrhythmic grooves. WARP CHAMBER presents a setting for Solar Barge to expand into its intended form – as a venture that conflates experimental rock music with performance art and sonic installation (www.myspace.com/solarbarge)

SALAMANDER is two brothers, Alex and Chris Last, fusing laptop synthesizers, midi-controllers, digitally-imported ruined pianos, field recordings, fx pedals, tectonic bass, sample pads and other bizarre creations with live hallucinatory visuals, breeding a mixture of organic and utterly inorganic sounds to create a viral mesh of evolutionary deranged creatures and environments, evoking realms of altered consciousness, intraterrestrial unknowns and transmuted cosmic radiation. (www.myspace.com/salamander85)

OBSCOTCH is the moniker of underground experimental musician Jake Moore. Abandoning the ambient electronica of his previous incarnation Orions Belt, Obscotch began as an experimenal noise project, tackling a plethora of styles and influences that would ultimately culminate in the 2005 release Counter Consumate. Post-2005 Obscotch has been creating increasingly complex and meticulously programmed electronic music that has drawn comparisons to Autechre, Upland and Ricardo Villalobos. (www.myspace.com/obscotch)

Sound arrangement and design by KYNAN TAN (www.kynantan.com)

Doors open at 8pm. The show will begin SHARP at 8.30pm. The audience area will be entirely seated, so get in early for the best spot.

PRESALES: $10:
http://www.nowbaking.com.au/ticketing/SessionCapture.aspx?SessionGuid=28f496cb-90f6-4d9a-ad80-8d40ecb0458f
DOOR: $15