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Transitory Life - A Retrospective, Songs and Stories. By Laurie Anderson
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/laurie_anderson_a_transitory_lif...

'This is a great chance for me to put together a couple of decades of my favourite stories and songs. They tell a whole different story.' Laurie Anderson

Transitory Life is a solo retrospective performance by Laurie Anderson drawing on her life’s work. The collection of songs and stories includes pieces from Anderson’s acclaimed solo shows The Speed of Darkness, Happiness, The End of the Moon and Homeland.

In an intimate evening of voice, electronics and violin, Anderson spins offbeat adventure stories with her characteristic wit and poignancy. The evening also features her solo violin pieces, which have become increasingly complex and symphonic. It promises to be a uniquely personal and compelling opportunity to experience Anderson’s world-renowned performance work.

I received a last min ticket from @artsdigitalera (tx!) so didn't arrive until about 10pm. rob hall was playing. I liked his set - thought it was quite varied, so there was something for everyone. it seemed to be a mixed, older crowd so I liked that too. I thought he was playing tracks going backwards in time. dubstep -> tech -> breakbeat -> acid house etc so I liked that too.

went downstairs to the side of the stage to hear Autechre. I found myself standing, swaying more like it, in the spot where all the speaker air aligned and it was sending electric shocks through my arms, legs and face - cheeks & nose. lips were vibrating. base of my throat was constricting - I could feel this when I moved to other places, but not the feelings in the rest of my body. I could feel puffs of air going up my jeans and jumper sleeves, and with every beat of the heavy bass it was giving me a shock. it felt like a tens machine had been hooked up to the line out and was sending pulses into the floor & conducting through my shoes with every beat. I showed a few other people the spot and they felt it too. one girl told me it sounded better up the front, in front of the speaker, but that was too loud so I moved back to the other spot where it was less loud (if that's possible). at times it made me feel a bit sick. my nose was running. I had to keep moving away, but I had to keep moving back too. it was the most physiological reaction to a music performance I'd ever felt at a gig (& prob in my life, let alone at a gig) I was thinking that some of those frequencies must be borderline legal?? my friend's dave & murray mentioned there was a band that plays tones/frequencies that cause adverse bodily functions. I just kept thinking of an old Get Smart episode where they'd played tones to blow up or interrogate one of the russian spies - or something like that, I forget the actual details, but I remember seeing an old ep like that when I was a child and wondering how sound could do that.

http://blip.tv/file/3686967 has a video taken throughout the night. ~ 1min of rob hall & ~ 5mins of autechre. it's from my phone cam so not the best quality, and autechre played in the dark, except for the lights of the bar, which I filmed to get some focus. it seemed to me like they were doing a southern cross constellation tour - playing under the constellation glow of the apple logos and desk monitor lights. from the side I could faintly see one of the guys from the glow of light from his mac book pro.

so, for a performance I didn't think I'd get to see as I hadn't pre-planned getting a ticket, it was a great night - a very physical performance/experience for me. I slept & dreamt so well afterwards too.

I had hoped to make it to Graham St John's book launch in st peters though I missed that. there were so many things on last night - it was one of those nights with too much choice so I almost stayed home, except for the ticket offer that made me leave the house.

I have some of Autechre's early albums (1990s vintage) - might need to check out their new one too

-- posted as an email reply to autechre thread on clan-l

TOY DEATH
performance art / experimental music

Re-purposing children’s electronic toys and assuming toy-like characters, Toydeath create live music with sounds coerced solely from tortured electronic toys and accompanied by hilarious costumed antics. Using circuit-bending techniques, each instrument is a hand-crafted modified toy capable of extraordinary sonic possibilities. Audiences are exposed to a barrage of hyperactive hootenanny as Toydeath unleash the contents of a toy box six year olds would kill for. Formed in 1995, this Sydney-based trio have appeared at major Australian music festivals including the Big Day Out, Field Day and The Great Escape, and performed in Japan, China, South Korea, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Also playing | DJ Manila Vice

Website: www.toydeath.com

Event Information:

The performance space in association with dualpLOVER invites you to Auraltered State #3 the third of a series of eight free concerts to be conducted across 2010 focussing on the music of New South Wales as heard through the ears of Lucas Abela. These performances will cross a wide spectrum of music from the state, focused on presenting evenings of contrasting music’s from some of our more irreverent, innovative, unusual and original artists from now, then and the future. All shows will be held at the new Performance Space Clubhouse, situated in bay #12 which has a limited capacity of 100 patrons so please come early. This series has been kindly supported by the NSW ministry of the arts.

29th May
PERFORMANCE SPACE CLUBHOUSE
CARRIAGEWORKS 245 WILSON STREET EVELEIGH
DOORS 7:30PM MUSIC 8PM SHARP – 11PM
FREE ENTRY *LIMITED CAPACITY*
ALL AGES (BAR SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR 18+ IN CARRIGEWORKS FOYER STRICTLY NO BYO)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=393176710916

read more for artist bios

JULIAN KNOWLES, FUKNO, HINTERLANDT
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:::::::::::::: SATURDAY THE 29TH MAY 8PM ::::::::::::::::

:::::::::::: IC CAMPUS NORTH WOLLONGONG ::::::::::::::

:::::::::::::::: THE DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER :::::::::::::::::::

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::$10 @ the Door:::::::::::::::::::::::::::

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=122122994479489

A strange location for a gig, but hey who's complaining. A seriously diverse line up, a kick ass PA, free bus to the door and probably the most left of field event in Wollongong you'll find on a Saturday night. Are you ready to go nuts!!!!

Julian Knowles (QLD), Hinterlandt (GER, SYD), FUKNO (GONG)

$10 on the door. 8pm till late.

Get on the guest list by hitting the attend button and receive discounted entry. Everyone likes a bargain. Sign me up SGT. Cycle!

How do you expect me to get to the gig? Directions on how to get to the IC Campus:

http://www.innovationcampus.com.au/getting-to-ic/

and a map here in PDF format of the Innovations Campus.:

http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@bg/documents/doc/uow07...

::Julian Knowles:: [ QLD ]

Julian Knowles is an Australian composer and performer, specialising in new and emerging technologies. His creative work spans the fields of composition for theater, dance, film and television, electronic music, sound and new media arts, popular music and record production. Since the mid-1980s, he has established himself as a prominent artist in the area of electronic and new music, achieving significant critical recognition for his performances and recordings.

His current musical output seeks to hybridise popular music structures in experimental electronic music contexts.

http://www.myspace.com/julianknowles

::FUKNO:: [ Wollongong, NSW ]

Cut and paste electronics, harsh noise, gabba, and karaoke.
FUKNO aka Guy Sterling is/has been banging his head against harsh noise, cut and paste/sample based electronics, performance and a variety of print based art forms including self publishing/zines for about 15 years. Working in collaborative groups and independently under pseudonyms including 7U?, Rank Sinatra, Dj Rainbow Ejaculation, rev777?, someguy, Count Zoloft, YSL, FUKNO, System Corrupt, Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society, no frills and Victime de Mode. And will continue to so until he either falls over or starts receiving arts grants

http://www.667u.com/
http://www.667u.com/fuckno/htm
Contact:sevenuy[at]hotmail[dot]com(replace [at] with @ etc)

::HINTERLANDT:: [ SYD ]

Hinterlandt was founded by Jochen Gutsch in Australia in 2002 as an experimental music project. It relocated to Germany in 2004, before re-relocating to Sydney in 2010. Hinterlandt is known for long compositions that swing back and fourth between beauty, noise, rhythms, ambiances, melodies, silence and guitar feedbacks.

Hinterlandt has taken on many guises and is known to constantly change shape and colour. Live performances were played in various formats in Cologne, London, Rome, Sydney, Hamburg, Melbourne, Lisbon, Helsinki, Berlin, Amsterdam, and many other places.

www.hinterlandt.net

::News:: for anyone that reads this far down... well done :-)

August - Alex White and Anna Chase
September - 2 Very Special Guests!

ARKS - BRISBANE SHOW, DIGGIN' RELATED
Arks & DJ Sheep - SPECIAL SHOWCASE

"one of Melbourne's finest DJs goes head to head with Brisbane's own DJ Sheep to bring you the best in soul, funk and hip hop on 4 turntables and 2 mixers! ONE SHOW ONLY!"

Rumpus Room (Cnr. Boundary Rd & Russel St, West End)
Saturday 29th May 2010
Free Entry. 8pm - 2am.

*Arks will also be the special guest at Weird Gear on Sunday 30th May @ Rumpus Room playing dusty gems sourced from his worldwide travels...

ARKS - MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Hailing from Melbourne, Arks has been DJing for just under a decade, and is recognised locally as having mastered the ability to mix, scratch and blend hip hop with soul, funk and disco without ever missing a beat. He has accomplished the following milestones during his career;

DJ'd and held down residencies at some of Melbourne's most prestigious venues including; Honky Tonks, Revolver, The Croft Institute, Bimbo Deluxe, First Floor, The Espy, Hi-Fi Bar, Laundry and more!

Did a 1 year stint in Tokyo which included gigs in Tokyo's nightclub hub, Roppongi and residency on the top floor of Tokyo's Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Shared the stage alongside Mr Thing, DJ Spinna, Cut Chemist, ?uestlove (The Roots), Steve Spacek, Harmonic 313, The Beat Junkies (Rhettmatic, Shortkut, Melo-D), DJ Revolution, Rahzel, Tim Dog, A-Trak (Kanye West), Klever and loads more!

A long-time vinyl collector since his teenage years, Arks is widely respected as an authority on vintage vinyl, and has travelled the world in search of elusive dusty gems; Europe, UK, Asia and all over North America including Canada.

Founded MOTIF (Melbourne Open Turntablist InFluence) with DJ Selekt (Australian DMC Champion); a monthly turntablism showcase that saw Australia's best turntablists perform during the peak golden years of DJ battles in this country - past performers included Staen-1, Finatik, DJ Sheep, J-Red and more!

Produced beats and mixed down tracks for Terntable Jediz debut album "All Out War".

Collaborated on a series of battle records with Australian hip-hop legend, John Idem.

Supplied beats for the Liquid Pixel skateboarding video series.

Arks currently holds down monthly residencies at First Floor, The Croft Institute and Dirty Secrets, and is a monthly guest on cult Melbourne radio show "The Breakdown" with DJ Manchild on PBS 106.7 FM. Having accomplished his goals locally in Melbourne, he has set his sights around Australia in 2010 as well as returning overseas!

-- via http://stealthmag.com/board/viewthread.php?tid=14765

Sydney Book Launch May 28 : Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures

Sounds, Images and Readings from Sydney's Techno-underground
Guest Speaker: John Jacobs
DJs: Zeitgeist, Mashy P, Al Corrupt, Franko
Live: Rob Joiner
Refreshments and snacks available
Books sold at discount - signed by author

A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave culture. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics.
"Beautifully written, with a genuinely international perspective on electronic dance music culture, Technomad is one of the best books on music I've read in some time." Professor Will Straw

More at Facebook events page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126183260725813

For those who cant make it and would like to buy a copy , AFAIK the cheapest option is via the Book Depository - free global freight : http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781845536268/Technomad

*** NOTE NEW VENUE *** (same street - different # though)
Friday, May 28, 2010
6:00pm - 11:00pm
The Hutch
12 Hutchinson St, St Peters, 2044

the next edition of bandwidth is now all locked in and will also double as the official sydney launch of re:cognition. there's 15 different acts playing. entry is only $10. there's a facebook event over here - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119943508036268
feel free to spread the spam far and wide....

what: bandwidth - launching re:cognition - the clan analogue legacy collection
where: red rattler theatre, 6 faversham st, marrickville, sydney
when: saturday, june 12
doors: 5pm
entry: $10 - all ages welcome
who: live - bleepin' j squawkins, lunar module, m.o.r., loopsnake, telafonica, actual russian brides, kate carr, valley forge, swingin' tasty bag, bloodloss vegas, aeriae, data transmit
djs - andy rantzen, dj tigerlilly, dj foxbat
visuals by morph

“a ludic, tactile experience of noise art your grandmother would queue to have a go at” - Dan Mackinlay, Realtime.

Calling all racers, dualpLOVER, NIME and the Australia Council for the arts invites you to sign up for The Vinyl Arcade time-trails and compete within our participatory play-set, a kinetic sound and video installation combining vinyl fetishism, video arcade mystique and the machismo of motor sports into a in a video racing game played within a real world setting!

Imagine racing remote control cars with audio pick-ups attached to their chassis through a course constructed from a mass of disused vinyl records. Using vintage video arcade consoles and immersive video projections of the cars P.O.V. competitors will not only control the movements of the vehicles but also the parameters of the resulting sounds they create.

Harmonic Frequencies is show number 8 in The Cad Factory's 10 month program of live filming, recording and art parties

Featuring

Robert Curgenven (Europe)
Espadrille (with Ryszard Dabek (improvised Video)
Kraig Grady
Anna Chase

Sydney-based free improv trio Espadrille use traditional instruments (tenor saxophone, guitar, drum kit) and various generations of technology/electronics
(radio, 1980s effects pedals, non-keyboard synthesizers).
Their music can combine ambient, noise, groove and melodic elements. For this performance, new media artist Ryszard Dabek
will collaborate with the group, improvising with images.

Australian-born but now Europe-based Robert Curgenven uses an integrated system of subsonic feedback from ventilators, field recordings, turntables and specially designed dubplates to create a sonic environment which resonates with the acoustics of the performance space. This will be Robert’s last performance on an Australian tour which has included dates in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Victoria.

Anna Chase is a Sydney based multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who creates lush, emotive songs, weaving melodies into familiar yet dreamy pop constructions. She uses vocals, guitar and accordian to explore harmonic territories.

Kraig Grady will bring the remnants of artifacts from the visionary geography of Anaphoria Island in the forms of a retuned Metallophone and a Hammer dulcimer emcompassing the island most significant holistic tunings.

Sunday May 16th 5pm-9pm

Intriguing, don't you agree !!

http://www.cadfactory.com.au

Cad Factory
5 Handley St
Marrickville
Sydney

Binaural/Nodar (PT) announces:

MAGAIO VOICESCAPES
The rural voice: sacrality, leisure and work

Nodar Artist Residency Program for 2011
Open call for the presentation of art projects

Application Submission period:
May 1, 2010 – September 30, 2010

Artistic Disciplines:
Sound Poetry; Vocal Performance; Sound Art; Phonography; Acoustic,
Electroacoustic or Electronic Composition / Improvisation; Radio Art; Video
Performance

The application is open to art projects centred in the human voice,
which work with issues such as the origin, meaning and relationship with the
sacred (reconnected to its ancestral meaning of mystery and symbol), the
voice as a pivotal element of rituals, customs and superstitions, able to

"DJ Culture": special issue for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
Call for Participation

We are guest editing a special issue on DJ culture for Dancecult (http://dj.dancecult.net) scheduled for possible publication in 2011. This is a call for submissions for an interdisciplinary collection of original articles, “from the floor” essays, artwork, and electronic multimedia on DJ culture. The issue addresses itself specifically to the relations of pleasure and power that intersect in the space between the DJ, the dance floor and the rest of the club world. Multimedia submissions are encouraged, including copyright permitted photographs, links on Youtube, Soundcloud, etc.

Sound Series is a monthly night of sound-based performance and installation at Hardware Gallery on Enmore Rd.

#2 Broadcast will feature:
Scissor Lock
Broken chip
Domeyko/Gonzalez
Justice Yeldham
Tony Osborne
Adrian Clement
+ visuals by
Joel Burrows
Caroline de Dear

Join the facebook group if you'd like an invite to the next one! or rsvp to the facebook event

Artist in residence Call for Proposals
http://nimk.nl/eng/artist-in-residence-call-for-proposals

Funware Shared Artist in Residence:
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
BALTAN Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
Piksel, Bergen (NO)

CALL

BALTAN, NIMk and Piksel have launched an open call for proposals as part of the exhibition project Funware. We are looking for interesting new software art projects that can be developed in the period of June – November 2010 through a shared residency. The new work developed during the residency will be presented in the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010.

This residency is a collaboration between three labs, based on a desire to investigate the ways and potential of working within a network of labs that support the exchange and sharing of resources and knowledge. The form of this collaboration aims to provide the most specific and relevant support to artists working on art and technology projects in residence. Knowing the capacities and competences of each lab/organisation, the residency exchange will offer targeted support (in the form of resources, space, technical support, local context and time) to be provided at different stages of the research and development of the project specific to each organisation. Off- and online dissemination of form and content via this partnership and the building of structural relationships are crucial to the collaboration.

FUNWARE

Funware, conceptualised by Olga Goriunova (runme.org), is an exhibition about the fun in software. Making and using what has become known as software is experimental, humorous, and eventful. However improbable it might sound for today’s all encompassing dullness of forms, databases, schedules and processors, “fun” has informed and guided the development of software from its very inception. The rise of net art and the changes the Internet and desktop computers brought to culture gave rise to software art at the turn of the millennia. Performed by amateurs, artists, alternative coders or professional programmers for “fun”, software art as an aesthetic practice questions, tangles and experiments with the materiality of software has subsequently lost its visibility again, as attention is turned to the social web and software applications for third generation mobile phones, which all harness some of the energies constitutive of aesthetic software. Funware reflects on the history of engagement with software, that demonstrates its non-industrial, non-professional, non-commercial, or non-academic character.

The exhibition demonstrates the trajectory of humour and affect as constitutional to software and computing. The exhibition aims to make such an ‘obscure’ technological object as software, open, palpable and approachable, bridging a gap between ‘serious’ production such as technology and ‘non-serious’ production such as different forms of art. The exhibition has a few distinct threads: games; ASCII; code art; a few vectors of AI; computers in popular culture; spyware, conceptual software, hardware modification, hacker/virus approaches, sound, software modification, pranks, participatory web. And as software is intertwined with the hardware it runs upon and the networks that construct the society in which it rules, the exhibition features a lot of projects dealing explicitly with computer hardware or the materiality of hardwareas well as engaging projects experimenting with sound.

Refraction is a sound/new media performance series, featuring students performing alongside established artists. Refraction is dedicated to the support, mentorship and development of student projects as they take their practice from the classroom to the community.

featuring:
Pimmon feat. Dappler Effect
Nick Wishart
Mailer Daemon
Dimentagon (UTS)

$5/$10 at the door

Bon Marche Studio, University of Technnology, Sydney
755 Harris St, Ultimo
Friday, 23 April 2010
18:30 - 20:30

dualpLOVER are proud to announce the French proto world punk explosion that is Vialka will be playing a FREE show at the Tokio Hotel Bar (Home nightclub front bar) on the 14th April, thats right absolutely free no strings attached free, Vialka will be onstage at 10pm SHARP for an hours set of the duo's patented drums and baritone guitar magic.

for venue details please visit
http://www.tokiohotellive.com.au/

This is there only Sydney show, Vialka will be touring nationally throughout april.

08/04 - Perth/AU-WA TBA
09/04 - Brisbane/AU-QLD @ Ric's Bar
10/04 - Lennox Head/AU-NSW @ Lennox Pub
11/04 - Lismore/AU-NSW Keen St Warehouse, East Lismore
14/04 - Sydney/AU-NSW @ Tokio Hotel
15/04 - Adelaide/AU-SA @ Crown & Anchor
16/04 - Hobart/AU-TAS @ The Brisbane Hotel
17/04 - Melbourne/AU-VIC @ The Old Bar
17/04 - Melbourne/AU-VIC @ Pony (2am)

for further infomation visit
http://vialka.com

to celebrate the tour their latest album 'Succès Planétaire International'

The People's Republic of Australasia is thrilled to announce another of the biggest names in Australian experimental music will be performing HOME CONCERT SERIES Number Three!

The show will take place at 5 pm on Sunday April 11th at the People's Culture Palace in Camperdown.

Admission is FREE, but RSVP is essential.

Warren Burt - SOLO

Warren Burt, composer, performer, instrument builder, video artist,
will present a rare live concert of his work for computer and home-made instruments,

with new and classic video works.

Works include

· an excerpt from “A Book of Drones No. 5” (2007)
A microtonal composition for multiple software Moog synthesizers controlled from the computer screen

· “Exploring Ivan's Modes” (2009)

A live keyboard work for sampled tuning forks and motion-controlled effects

· A new work for electro-acoustic percussion boards (instruments assembled with hardware from Bunnings!) and live electronics

Bvdub and Sofie Loizou are two passioned artists who have a special collaboration on this Southern Outpost offshoot! Sofie Loizou is at the forefront of the electronic music scene in Australia and Brock Van Wey (bvdub) is one of America's most prolific electronical artists known for his excellent deep house and dubby techno releases. The EP is evocative and wistful, enveloping the listener in a dream state. The two made an equisite piece of lush ambient techno with vocals of the Polish Natalia Grosiak (produced by Polish sound artist Dawid Szczesny). The combination of Natalia's enchanting vocals and exquisite textural sound beds creates a sublime experience of blissful melancholy. This is a highly limited run of only 200 copies... yeah we know.. it's crazy to have a Bvdub collaboration this limited... but its just a fun project of Southern Outpost and friends! Don't sleep!
Oz people can order from Radical Nature Records website

http://clone.nl/item17454.html
http://radicalnature.net
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=108216829201499
http://sofieloizou.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clone-records/16338319069

-- info from clone records page

CURT recordings is proud to announce that both Newcastle pop-noise-mess barons CRAB SMASHER and FourPlay cellist Peter Hollo aka RAVEN are releasing limited edition 3 inch CDs on the label. Concurrently, Victoria's Infinite Decimals are touring New South Wales in support of their latest album, 0.18232323...

The three will pile into an afternoon show at 1/475 King St Newtown on Sunday 4th April at 4pm. All releases will be available, Curt releases at the usual ridiculous price of 5 dollars a piece.

Poster art by Lizzie Nagy

8 bucks entry at the door!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110113002334515
http://www.frogworth.com/raven
http://www.myspace.com/crabsmasher

BC/DC PRESENTS: WEIRD GEAR - LAST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH w/ DJ Sheep, Bruce Highway, Len-1, Chubba, Jacquey

The Brisbane Crate Diggers Co-Op presents - WEIRD GEAR - A monthly event (last Sunday of every month) where the BC/DC crew play their favourite and weirdest records...

The event is syndicated with the Melbourne edition of Weird Gear. The focus is not on the dancefloor, so come and let your ears have an orgasm.

The Weird Gear crew dip into their record collection monthly and play a range of styles and genres including 60s and 70s Pop, Psych, Space Prog, Moog, Folk, Electronics, Jazz, Proto-Hip-Hop, Soundtracks and other eclectic treats!

STRICTLY VINYL. NO MP3s, CDs OR COMPUTERS.

It's FREE entry, and it's on at Rumpus Room, so you know it's going to be chill. LAST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH from 3pm - 9pm.

The address for your GPS: Cnr. Boundary Rd & Russel St, West End

Resident DJs, the BC/DC - DJ Sheep, Bruce Highway, Len-1, Chubba, Jacquey + a SPECIAL GUEST INVITED EVERY MONTH TO JOIN THE MADNESS!

Stylus, 45 adaptors and other record accessories proudly supplied by Rocking Horse Records.

Much love to Callum Flack for the lovely flier artwork!

facebook page @ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10150102606860118
via http://stealthmag.com/board/viewthread.php?tid=14631

Announcing the debut of the twice-yearly BC/DC RECORD FAIR in Brisbane.

BC/DC stands for the Brisbane Crate Diggaz Co-Op, a group of like minded record enthusiasts who are working towards a greater good for music in this city.

The fair is to be held on the same day as Weird Gear in APRIL, which is Sunday the 25th. You should be there if you're a vinyl head already!! But if you haven't checked it out by then, this is your chance...

The event kicks off at 3pm. And dealers will stay until 7 or 8pm. It's FREE entry, and it's a late start, so roll through whenever, it will be chill, no frantic diggin'... browse at your own leisure, in the comfort that is the RUMPUS ROOM. Portable turntables will be supplied with headphones, so if you need to listen, the gear is there... just bring yourself, your duckets and your mind.

The dealers at the fair are hand-picked because they are experts in their own field.... we will only be selling hip-hop, jazz, funk, prog/psych rock, soul, disco and food for the SAMPLERS...

All dealers come from a hip-hop/diggin' perspective and you can ask for what you need... Any requests for certain records or artists, please post them here and the crew will check it out and try bring stuff of that vein... lots of drum breaks, loops, rap singles, hip-hop records, etc. to be found. There will be cheap records, and there will be expensive records. But all of it will be priced reasonably, not eBay or popsike prices.

SELLERS;
DJ Sheep (Tasman Connection)
Bruce Highway (Moist Wreckers)
Milesago (Rocking Horse)
Blunted Stylus (Jigsaw Geoff)
Jacquey (Worldwide Grooves)
Chubba (Phat Tape)
DJ Damage (Terntable Jediz)

+ Special guest MATTY FRESH selling a huge selection of dope NIKES from his store http://www.justforkicks.com.au

via http://stealthmag.com/board/viewthread.php?tid=14631
weird gear facebook group : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10150102606860118

Auraltered State
dualpLOVER and Performance Space
Sat 20 February & Sat 6 March, 8pm
{TRACK 12}
FREE

Performance Space in association with dualpLOVER invites you to Auraltered State #1 the first of eight free performances to be conducted across 2010 focusing on the music of New South Wales as heard through the ears of Lucas Abela. The performances will cross a wide spectrum of music from the state with a focus on some of our more entertaining, innovative, unusual and new thought artists. All shows will be held at the new Performance Space ClubHouse which has a limited capacity of 100 patrons so please come early. This series has been kindly supported by Arts NSW.

Auraltered State #1 – 20th February
Auraltered State #2 – 6th March
http://performancespace.com.au/?p=498

Elefant Traks are proud to announce Horrorshow's first national headline tour in February-March 2010.

The buzz around Horrorshow is staggering: they've swept up everyone from triple j kids to purist hip hop heads and indie hipsters. Their new album Inside Story was triple j Album of the Week and their joint launch with Urthboy sold out the Metro Theatre in Sydney.

The evocative brand of earnest, ego-free hip-hop announced by their debut album The Grey Space, earned them an ARIA nomination for Best Urban Release. Coupled with acclaimed recordings is their growing reputation for explosive live shows, most recently winning over a swag of new fans during 25 shows (over 7000 payers) on the Spitshine Tour.

If you're talking hip hop, Horrorshow are a group to watch.

-- info via elefant traks website

***W.A Dates TBC*** Tickets on Sale Dec 18!

All tickets are available from horrorshow.oztix.com.au

All Shows Are 18+ Except Sydney and Pushover (VIC)

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TOUR DATES AND TICKETS

dualpLOVER is proud to announce the return or the avant-pop queen Kevin Blechdom with her BARNWAVE show spectacular touring australia and new zealand from dec til over the new year.

04 051209 Wellington
Ladyfest
http://www.myspace.com/ladyfest_wellington

081209 Brisbane
+ Flying Scribble (Melbourne)
+ Brutal Hate Mosh
+ DJ Dot.AY
@ The Troubadour, $8
http://thetroubadour.com.au/
http://www.myspace.com/peerpressurepresents

091209 Lismore
+Professor Blix, Skeletons Of The Devil
@ Tatts Hotel, 108 Keen St
http://tattshotel.net.au/

111209 Newcastle
+ Rice Corpse, Casiogloria, alps and Liz Hurley
@ Croatian Club, Albert St, Wickham, $10

151209 Sydney
+ SINGING SADIE, Rice Corpse
http://www.myspace.com/singingsadie
@ Hermanns, cnt Butlin and City Rd, Sydney Uni, starts 8:30pm $15 /$10 Con
http://www.hermannsbar.com/
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=31870&ref=moshtix

Call for submissions. Fantasy and science fiction stories on the theme of music.
Submission deadline 30th April 2010.
£80 per acceptance.
Full submission guidelines at http://www.music-strange-fiction-submissions.info