music artist biography

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music artist biography

Sarah McLeod - Aussie Going International Status

Sarah McLeod has landed. Finally. It has taken this raven haired, bright eyed girl from Adelaide one solo studio album, one live album, an EP, two dance releases and an international tour de force to get here but there is no doubt that she is here with a sparkle in her eye and a tale to tell. This is an artist who – fresh from the clubs of New York City – is the embodiment of what happens when you mix a little dance, a little pop, a strong serving of driving electro beats, a personal journey of gigantic proportions.

She has been involved with that famous Hook 'N' Sling song "She Doesn't Love You"

Check out her fan page on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sarah-McLeod-New-Dance-Music-Songs-and-Albums/173191204429

What does everyone think of the track?

Super Massive perform a free live show for electro/dance/rock lovers in Port Macquarie area

Award-winning, upcoming Sydney alterna-pop/electro/funk/rock band Super Massive will be touring the Port Macquarie area for the first time next weekend, bringing their funky, uptempo show to the Laurieton Hotel on Saturday 23rd May.

Entertainment starts at 8:30pm and entry is FREE.

Super Massive is a creative band, lovingly crafting evocative pop songs with their own unique blend of multi-layered synthscapes and live instrumentation.

The shared musical vision of singer/songwriter Malina Hamilton-Smith and drummer/composer Glenn Abbott (best known for his work with Machine Gun Fellatio), Super Massive was awarded ‘Best Alternative Artist” at the MusicOz Awards (Australia's premier national music awards for unsigned and independent artists), and released a self-titled debut EP through MGM and iTunes to rave reviews mid last year.

A SHIMMY SHAKIN' NIGHT OF LIVE ELECTRO/DANCE-POP WITH SUPER MASSIVE & YEN

A SHIMMY SHAKIN' NIGHT OF LIVE ELECTRO/DANCE-POP WITH SUPER MASSIVE & YEN

Award winning Sydney dance/rock band Super Massive team with fellow electro-funksters Yen for a very special night of electro/dance-pop at the Excelsior Hotel Surry Hills on Saturday 7th March. Newcomers Life Bitter Soul support.

The night showcases three of Sydney's best up and coming electronic/dance rock bands. With all bands on the bill sharing a love of deep rhythm, shimmering synths, poetic pop, not to mention lights and lasers, it's set to be a spectacular, shimmy-shakin' night, if not an outright dancing frenzy, if both Super Massive and Yen's previous shows are anything to go by.

The show is at the Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux St, Surry Hills. The night starts at 8pm. Tickets are $10- at the door.

Jax Panik: crazy new electro-pop prodigy!

Hailing from the creative hub of Cape Town, South Africa, Jax Panik has risen from obscurity to being one of the country's most promising new acts. What started out as an online-only release less than a year ago now enjoys high rotation play listing on some of the country's best known radio stations.

Fresh from a 2008 MTV Africa Listeners Choice Award nomination, this staunchly independent artist has gone from strength to strength. Jax is principally a virtual performer who started his career on the internet; putting out tracks and videos online-only. He enjoys thousands of views and fans from around the globe on Facebook, Youtube and Myspace and has become one of the most downloaded performers on the popular mobile chat application MXit.
Since the success of his first single, Cigarettes & Cinnamon, Jax has been featured in many of South Africa’s top print publications and TV shows, and his music has dominated the South African radio charts (including a no. 1 hit on 5FM – the country's most popular youth station). So it’s time to get him heard in Australia!

His signature sound is a sexy mix of pop, rock, and electro, with catchy hooks, clever lyrics, and sing-along choruses. It's got heart and loads of dance appeal, and the viral videos he's been putting out are so wacky they're unlike anything you've seen before.

His debut album, Cigarettes and Cinnamon has just been released in South Africa.

Check it out:
www.facebook.com/pages/Jax-Panik/7847305237
www.myspace.com/jaxpanik
www.jaxpanik.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA2dwSGMmpE
www.rhythmrecords.co.za/music/781/Jax-Panik/Jax-Panik
www.mxitmusic.com/music/search.seam?pattern=jax+panik&cid=95

Super Massive To Play At Electro Glam Rock Friday The 13th Party & Show At The Junkyard Maitland

What: A ‘Glam Friday The 13th‘ party night with live show by dance rock band Super Massive
Where: The Junkyard (Grand Junction Hotel)
88 Church St, Maitland.
When: Friday 13th February
Time: 8:30pm
Entry: Free
Info: Ph: (02) 4933 5242 or www.myspace.com/supermassivesounds

Maitland and Newcastle area music fans who prefer their entertainment on the more theatrical side - and particularly those that like to dress up and party - are in for a treat Friday 13th February, as The Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland, takes a ‘Glam Friday The 13th’ theme, with a live show by award-winning, upcoming Sydney dance-rock band Super Massive, whose style draws from disco, electro, glam rock, pop and funk. It starts at 8:30pm and entry is free.

Greg Jenkins - composer and performer

greg jenkins - composer and performer

greg jenkins composes directly with the inherent musicality of sounds, making harmony, melody and rhythm subservient to sonic texture and spatiality. He will often extrapolate sonic minutiae into whole compositions for example by "zooming in" on a tiny fragment of recorded voice then using this as the basis of a droning musical weft.

greg also likes to hit things; things such as suspended arrays of inverted flower pots; things such as beer kegs; and things such as midi percussion controllers which allow him to subversively remap non-percussive sound objects to percussive performance gestures. He frequently makes use of "micro-gestures" - subtle physical manipulations of computer hardware which control software synthesis engines allowing him to perform directly on the software in real time. greg is also known as "cactusman" due to his penchant for using a cactus as an amplified acoustic instrument.

Speak Beats- 21st Century Visualised Triphop

Four of Melbourne's finest purveyors of lush sounds ranging from smooth liquid triphop, dub and sample based beat landscapes to squelchy, 8-bit glitch unite to deliver a night of synaesthetic delight for your auditory and visual pleasure. V.J. accompaniment by Shower Screens (Gertrude Projection Festival) and Siadatz (Uber Lingua) will be augmenting the multimedia experience of fresh local producers of organic electronic music, White Minus Red, Ionic, Editer and Paranym.

White Minus Red combine elements of triphop, dub and jazz, live instrumentation with Ableton powered technology and soulful vocals. Fronted by Sarah McDonald (ex Symbiosis, Bois et Charbon), with Liam O'Connell (Agency Dub Collective, 30B), Ben Ganley (Agency Dub Collective), Jon Hopkins (Agency Dub Collective, Malicine) and Leigh Hegg (OffBeat@Horse Bazaar, Plankton), White Minus Red have graced many a festival stage (Falls, Renaissance, Folk Rhythm + Life, Sustainable Living Festival) and are ones to watch.

Expat Novacastrian duo, Ionic have been getting many a party started since relocating to Melbourne with their unique and tasty blend of sample based, beat laden electronica, as well as gracing venues, galleries and festivals (Gertrude Projection Festival, Icicles and Raindrops). To follow up their latest release, Prototype 2.0, the Ionic lads, Stu and Div are in the process of recording a new album, so keep your ears open.

Editer is the latest project of Soup, a.k.a Thomas Campbell (of Miso fame), and he is joined by Dave Williams (Miso), Willow Stalhut (violinstress extraordinare), Richard Burns (trumpet slinger from the Red Eyes, The Snappers ) Thom Mitchell on percussion (Monsoon Moon, Kate and the Vigonaughts). Smooth, lush, deep and dark dub-scapes peppered with crisp beats and tasty instrumental melodicism is the result of this collaboration, so be sure to come and check them for yourself- they're most likely to be one of your new favourite bands.

Armed with an MPC, a synthesiser and effects, Paranym layers loops live, playing beats and melodies on the fly.. sometimes gritty and funky, sometimes soulful and heartfelt , Paranym delivers a live show that encompasses a myriad of styles-from crunchy hiphop breaks to 8-bit electronica to smooth dub.. It's a sampleadelic trip that will keep crowds moving and leave their minds reeling. Be sure to check him out.

At Northcote Social Club, Sunday 20th of July. Doors open at 7:30, music starts at 8pm.
Hope to see you on the D-floor!!!
Ten dollar.

Ionic+WhiteRed-PRmontage-pi

SPOOL

NEW COLLABORATIVE WORK

SOUND/ Jerome Noetinger (Rives, France)
VISUALS/ Liz Racz (Melbourne)

It's 3.14 a.m. In darkness, the audience armed with torches gather to experience the outcome of residency collaboration between visual artist Liz Racz and Jerome Noetinger, an internationally recognised improviser using electroacoustic devices.

The artists' work is connected across distance by the idea of erasure; sounds being erased from tape by magnets and images rendered by being erased from the blackened walls.

Noetinger was a guest of the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music and the Liquid Architecture Festival. The collaboration with Racz being conducted by email, letters and photographs of sketches will extend her practice of ‘memorable large dark works’ (Penny Webb, The Age, 17 August, 2007).

LUPA/ art: A new space in Northcote hosting collaborative residencies with happy cross-disciplinary outcomes.

Robin Petterd phone chat - sonic objects, art practice, water and built instruments 23/10/2002

The phone chat is split into two parts & hosted on archive.org

part 1 archive.org page, where you can select the format to listen or download the mp3 via direct link

part 2 archive.org page, where you can select the format to listen / download or download the mp3 via direct link

I had written a profile for Robin on www.pulseradio.net years ago, but unfortunately I don't have a copy any more.

blue (play) list 20080120

I love music by bluetech and have been listening to it a lot whilst in Israel having bought a few of his cds from the music stores here and ripped them to my laptop. his music is available on aleph - zero label and he's remixed other great artists such as Shulman & Pitch Black.

his website says "my name is evan. i make sounds. rivers of music ancient & delicate flow through me.". he has 3 myspace pages for the different artist names he uses : bluetech, evan bartholomew, evan marc

Electro-Rock Night At The Step Inn - Super Massive + Elation + Dance In Circles DJs

Expect a steamy summer evening loaded with slamming, dirty-groove, electro-laced, beguiling tunes, as award-winning Sydney band Super Massive bring their unique blend of rock and dance music to Brisbane over the Australia Day long weekend, as part of their first Queensland tour.

Mutant sheeps

Paral-lel's album Upgrade to mutant sheep is a new step in blending and mutating styles: electro, grime, drum’n’bass, electronica, techno, 8-bit music, hip hop… An album with a strong thematic, seeking to break the genres by proposing 12 tracks of fusion and mutations of electronic music.

Erik Davis' Techgnosis site

Erik Davis is an award-winning journalist, independent scholar, and "performance lecturer" based in San Francisco. He is the author, most recently, of The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, with photographs by Michael Rauner. He also wrote Led Zeppelin IV and TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, the latter a cult classic of visionary media studies that has been translated into five languages. His essays on art, music, technoculture, and contemporary spirituality have appeared in over a dozen books, including AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man, Zig Zag Zen, The Disinformation Book of Lies, 010101: Art in Technological Times (SFMOMA), and Prefiguring Cyberculture. Davis has contributed articles and essays to a variety of publications, including Bookforum, ArtForum, Salon, Blender, the LA Weekly, and the Village Voice. For many years he was a contributing writer at Wired, and he is now the editor-at-large for Evolver magazine.

A vital speaker, Davis has given talks at universities, media art conferences, and festivals around the world. He has taught workshops and seminars at the UC Berkeley, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the New York Open Center, and Esalen. He was one of the original minds behind Planetwork, an organization devoted to cross-fertilizaing information technology and global ecology, and continues to bring these passions to bear on the Evolver Project. He has been interviewed by CNN and the BBC, and appeared in Craig Baldwin's underground film, the SciFi media critique Specters of the Spectrum. He occasionally plays guitar in front of microphones.

-- bio from the techgnosis website

phone interview with Mark from NZ KOG label - 30/10/2003

KOG 30/10/2003 phone interview with Mark from KOG label.

http://www.kog.co.nz/

this is the full transcript for reference. so excuse the ums & ahhs & spelling / transcription errors and incoherency on my part.. I had a shorter, edited version on Pulse Radio site a few years back but I've lost the copy and the content's changed on their site now.

Kog=Mark
K.=Kath/AliaK

Kog Yes we are just running around – meeting people day and night
– having meetings – looking forward to getting home and having some
sleep

K. Yes it takes a lot out of you a bit doesn't it

Kog Yes it does

K. Pretty draining

K. Have you been having fun and going around to all the festivals and that?

Kog Oh yes we've been having a blast – only thing I'm bummed about
is we missed the 4ZZZ thing up in Brisbane

K. Oh market day! Yes I heard it was really good

Kog. Yes, one of our acts, Shapeshifter, played. I was going to go

StringTunes

artist / project name:
name
bio:
Composer of classical/orchestral instrumental music primarily utilizing the stringed instruments. Flowing melodies creating a so
group members:
Don Rath Jr
city:
Rockford
genre:
Classical/Orchestral - New Age/Ambient
are you a currently active artist / project?:
yes
releases / projects:
Heart Strings - 2007
Dawn of a New Day - 2007
bio - full:
Biography - Donald Rath Jr. – Composer, Arranger & Guitarist
On January 14th 1956 in a small suburb of Cincinnati Ohio a healthy lad was born to this world. He would later become a Composer of instrumental music. The road to his success was long and contained many detours and rest stops.
Donald Rath Jr. was raised on a Dairy farm in Illinois. As a toddler, he would sit in awe listening while his Mother created amazing sounds on the organ. It was from this early impression that he began to pursue his interest in music. During his fourth year of Grade School, Don began to play an instrument known as the Flute-O-Phone and later the Cornet. During his freshman year in High School he was introduced to the Guitar by one of his close friends. After a few Guitar lessons, he began to pick out some basic musical ideas that were to become his first compositions. It was from these beginnings that music became his prime passion and interest for personal expression.
Any favourite artists, labels, projects?:
I enjoy all types of music however my favorite performers are Christopher Parkening for classical guitar, Mozart for strings and orchestra, Beatles for creativity and fun, and a variety of modern artists such as; Melanie Safka, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Yes, Queen, Reich, Williams and Alex Shapiro.
Are you documenting / archiving your music / performances / project. If so, how?:
Yes, by publishing CD's, file backup system and notation to ensure both continuity and long life to my musical work.
How did you become interested or involved in writing music / DJing / your project?:
It has always been a part of me.
How would you describe your style of writing music / musical / artistic policy?:
I have put together an approach to music composition that mixes a shorter musical form or "tune" structure such as ABA or ABAC and using the digital sound samples of classical orchestral instruments for sound generation. The entire creation is digital in nature from the notation to the finished product.
What are your thoughts on the internet & music / filesharing / DRM etc?:
Although I see the Internet as a fantastic avenue for public display, distribution and social interchange, it does come with risks when exposing music.
In general, I think it is about time that Composers get their just rewards for their work. Noone else is expected to work without adequate compensation and I think Composers deserve to be paid fairly and equitably for their efforts.
What excites you now?:
Making music.
Where can we see or listen to you playing / your project?:
Please visit my website at http://www.stringtunes.com
Which directions do you think your style of music / project will take in the future?:
I am on a continuous learning curve leaning towards a more structured classical approach to composition.

Synth/Dance Rock::: Super Massive @ The Bridge, Rozelle + The Annandale Hotel

Candy lips, gyrating hips - Two SUPER MASSIVE shows in Sydney in April

Ben Byrne

artist / project name:
Ben Byrne
bio:
laptop musician, curator, radio producer & writer
city:
sydney
are you a currently active artist / project?:
yes

Bek Howe

artist / project name:
Bek Howe
bio:
Belladonna DIY festival organiser, What Do We Do When zine editor
city:
woolongong
are you a currently active artist / project?:
yes

Barrie Barton

artist / project name:
Barrie Barton
bio:
group publisher of Right Angle Publishing, Large magazine & Triple J's Beat the Drum
city:
melbourne
are you a currently active artist / project?:
yes

Abagash (Dr Ashley Baker)

artist / project name:
Abagash (Dr Ashley Baker)
bio:
vlogger, zine maker, noise maker & CEO of 2kk records
city:
newcastle
are you a currently active artist / project?:
yes

Spinach7 Magazine

artist / project name:
Spinach7 Magazine
bio:
culture, issues, art, technology, Asia Pacific
city:
melbourne
are you a currently active artist / project?:
yes
releases / projects:
Spinach 7 Magazine

Anna Poletti

artist / project name:
Anna Poletti
bio:
zine maker, co-founder of project doubt2
city:
sydney
are you a currently active artist / project?:
yes

Andrew Johnstone / Design is Kinky

artist / project name:
Andrew Johnstone / Design is Kinky
bio:
creative director of RSC, a sydney communications firm. runs Design is Kinky conference (sydney, auckland, new york)
city:
sydney
genre:
design
are you a currently active artist / DJ / project?:
yes

Allan Giddy

artist / project name:
Allan Giddy
bio:
ERIA (environmental research institute for art) at College of Fine Arts, UNSW. builds "Time based sculpture"
city:
sydney
are you a currently active artist / DJ / project?:
yes

Alison Spence

artist / project name:
Alison Spence
bio:
comics / zine maker, photographer. researching how important the Octapod Zine Collection is to Australian culture
city:
newcastle
genre:
zine
are you a currently active artist / DJ / project?:
yes
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