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Earthcore Global Carnival @ Cruiser Park (Sunshine Coast / QLD)

2nd annual
earthcore global carnival
queensland
1st - 3rd December, 2006
@ Cruiser Park, Jimna, Sunshine Coast
supported by triple j's Mix-Up

You're invited to kick off your summer in style at the biggest and best dance party experience of the summer when Earthcore's Annual Global Carnival hits Cruiser Park on the Sunshine Coast 1st - 3rd December, 2006! To be held in Queensland for the second time ever after over 13 years of festivals in country Victoria, the weekend of music, arts and dancing promises something special to be remembered.

Full international line up includes DJ Krush (hip-hop/Sony/Japan), John 00 Fleming (hard-dance/trance/JOOF/UK), Michael Mayer (electro/Kompakt/Germany), Nick Sentience (hard-dance/trance/Nukleuz/UK), Raja Ram (trance/1200 Mics/Shpongle/TIP World/UK), GMS (trance/live/Spun/Ibiza), DJ Lucas (breaks/10kilo/UK), Phony Orphants (progressive/live/Iboga/Denmark), Emok (prog/Phony Orphants/Iboga/Denmark) and Jeppe (Phony Orphants/Iboga/Denmark) across four stages.

The Monster Mainfloor features everything from dub and hip-hop, to hard dance, psy trance, breaks, electro and more with locals Slot Machine (live/Byron Bay), AB Didgeridoo (live/Byron Bay), D-Ko (live), Hired Goonz (live/Gi'iwa), Drew-id (live/Dada-Stream), Paul Abad (Subterran), CY (Zenon/Polysonic) and Cosmo Cater.

The collective energies of some of Brisbane's burgeoning techno and electro nights over the last five years, Drop and liquidBASS bring you everything from mantric tribal techno rhythms, raw jacking funky house, deep hypnotic minimal house, to breaks, broken beats, acid, glitch and booty with Scott Walker (DROP), Orinoko (liquidBASS, Melt, 4zzz ,Electronic Goodness), Fuzion (Melt), Shadrach (liquidBASS, acidfever), Nick Taylor vs Jet More a.k.a. Jet Taylor Experience (Byron Bay), Dave Basek (Junkbeats/20for7/Tza Dynasty/Byron Bay), Murray Antill (live), Si Clone (Submerged Bay Fm/Byron Bay), Fergus Alexander (Logic/BPM), G-Money (The Goodness), Valli Lee (The Goodness/liquidBASS/4ZzZ Electronic Goodness) and Schoolyard Dope Fiends.

Brisbane's leading drum & bass posse Rudebwoyz go head to head with Virus crew for three days of broken beats, electro, progressive and hard trance / dance madness with courtesy of lowkey + nude (live), Baby Gee (Family), Tranceducer (Virus), Operon vs Erther (Rude Bwoyz), Anarchy (Majex/Resonate/Mayhem), Michael Redfern (Logic), Majex (live), Sektile vs Shards (generation2K- PLEXUS/!113g@1 v@1u3), Sammy Gee (Gold Coast), De la Haye (Junglettes), Kosha D (Phat alBeats), JT Effect, Angus Gibbons and Justus.

Polysonic bring you an array of psychedelic delicacies from around the world and beyond (Friday only) including Hexadecimal (live/Brisbane), Jole (Loony Tunez/Nthrn NSW), Amaranth (Zenon), Mesq (Gi'iwa/Polysonic/Reality Pixie), Chaotic Eternal vs Tantrum (Nthrn NSW), Kaneda (Polysonic), Senoi vs Karmacuetical (Harmonize Records), Solatek (Domo Rec/Psytek/Cairns) and Dr Zaius (DadaStream).

Lighting and visual delights by Mark Hemmant (EFX Lighting), Ampt Productions, Squiffyvision, Pi-rate and OE World, roving performances by All Star Fish and aural delights by J&S Audio.

Earlybird tickets SOLD OUT. Second release $85 til end September, third release $90 til end October.

Full pre-sale tickets $99 from 1st November.

. Camping is included in your ticket price! Tickets can be purchased from www.earthcore.com.au, Gooble Warming, Rocking Horse Records, Central Station, Skinny's Music, Butter Beat, Music Mania Southport, Sunflower Music Broadbeach, Toomba Records Gold Coast, All Music & Vision, Fairy Floss and Music Shop Byron Bay, Music Bizarre Lismore, Red Zoo Maroochydore and Phat Al Beats Noosa.

http://www.earthcore.com.au

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FABRIQUE 34 FEATURING FOUR COLOUR (JAPAN) @ Turbine Platform (Brisbane)

Fabrique.34
Featuring Fourcolour (Cubic, 12K - Japan) and Joe Talia (Melb)

Saturday Nov 11, Turbine Platform, 10pm

FABRIQUE 34 FEATURING FOUR COLOUR (JAPAN) AND GUEST

Keiichi Sugimoto is one of the busiest electronic musicians in Japan.

As Four Colour, he has been responsible for creating an array of beautifully sculpted contemporary electronica records that combine gentle melodic passages with processed live instruments.

http://brisbanepowerhouse.com.au

ZU-ZUSHII 2 - IF? Records party @ Horse Bazaar

On Saturday 10 February, 2007, IF? makes it’s annual (or, in some cases, bi-annual!) pilgrimage back to its place-of-birth, when the first IF? live party in 2 years is set to happen at Horse Bazaar!

ZU-ZUSHII 2 will feature a bunch of local and Tokyo-based live acts and DJs including Little Nobody (Tokyo), Isnod (Melbourne), Kid Calmdown (Sydney), Schlock Tactile vs. Slam-dunk Ninja (Tokyo), DJ Venom (Melbourne), Sleepy Robot (Sydney), label-meister Andrez, plus others to be confirmed – all for just $5 on the door, from 8pm to 3am, at 397 Lonsdale St., Melbourne.

colours of Auckland countryside


Colours of Auckland Countryside

click on the image to goto the video player page

I've been spending the Christmas break learning more about interactive quicktime, max/msp and isadora for creating music and video and publishing them on the net. Below is the first piece I've created. I went a bit overboard on the effects in Isadora but it's an original piece and I learnt from it so I'm happy with it overall from a learning experience point of view.

How I created it:
- first I took videos with my dvd camera
- then I used DVDx to convert the .vob files to mpeg2 files which quicktime could open. when I installed winamp a couple of weeks ago, I noticed it can display video now also, though strangely, sometimes the winamp videos were upside down whilst they played correctly orientated in quicktime. (perhaps I used strange setting whilst encoding?)
- then I imported the video into isadora, and patched up a storm whilst trying out some of the effects
- I can only save 5sec clips from isadora as I'm using the trial version whilst I work out if I'll use it regularly in future. I'm hoping to learn how to do similar tasks in jitter (max component) as I'll have more control of what I'm doing, even though it's very quick and easy to get things done in isadora without having to know the code. still yet to decide on this.
- once I had the processed video clips, I opened them in quicktime again and joined them together - hence the rough edits
- then I made a couple of text tracks in quicktime and added these in. I tried out the eZediaQTI app whilst learning about the text tracks but decided on doing them manually in quicktime and editing the controls with notepad.
- next, I opened the gps data music patch I made in max/msp and ran it with the soundwalk recordings I made the other week whilst at Mission Beach in Auckland. unfortunately, the mic was picking up a lot of noise from the wind blowing past the mic pickup so there's a lot of distortion. I filtered some of this out in audacity and flattened the audio into one track.
- then I added the audio track to the video with text quicktime movie
- then uploaded the finished piece to archive.org using ourmedia and viewed source on the movie's ourmedia page & copied the quicktime player code here

well, I'm sure there's a quicker way of doing it! which requires less processing and time, but this was an exercise in creating an original piece from start to finish. as you can tell, I'm not a designer or very good programmer either, but I'm happy to finish number one. here's hoping the subsequent efforts will improve and be done more efficiently. I could have used the original unprocessed videos but they seemed a little plain. need to find the right balance I guess..

here's a screen shot of the isadora patch:

S~U~N~D~E~X smoothes out Brisbanites' w/e

As the cold winter chill begins to lift and the body starts warming up, it`s time to leave the annual state of hibernation and head out and about to see what new adventures await. As Brisbane Exhibition is just around the corner, people will be looking for a place to escape from the westerly winds and catch up with friends in a cosy atmosphere. With the current shortage of club venues in Brisbane, a new one on the market, The Winery could be the next place to take off. Situated in Davies Park, South Brisbane, it has a a couple of levels and a deck which overlooks the Brisbane River - no longer do the great views belong exclusively to the city crowd!

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