Found Sound # 3 ROD COOPER AND ROSS MANNING
Wednesday March 18
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie Street Carlton, Melbourne
7:30-8:30pm
$5
Together for the first time! Ross Manning, down from sunny Queensland, in collaboration with Rod Cooper. A performance of sound sculptures, re-purposed objects and original instruments. All welcome!
Performance at Tape Projects 1/81 Bouverie St Carlton
Wednesday 18th February 2009
Collaborative performance by by DALE GORFINKEL on prepared vibraphone, modified trumpet, inventions and ping pong balls and JOE TALIA on heat sinks, bowed cymbals, inside reverb tank and prepared percussion!
Clip courtesy of Drew Roberts
About Joe and Dale:
JOE TALIA is a drummer, avant-garde percussionist and sound engineer based in Melbourne, Australia. He studied improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1999-2001, where he began to develop a highly unique style of drumming that blends driving melodic and rhythmic invention with textural and sonic exploration. Joe has always immersed himself in all aspects of music including improv, musique concrete, rock, contemporary classical and film music, and draws influences from many places. He has performed, recorded and toured with a massive range of musicians and ensembles in Australia and internationally including Ned Collette Band, Thembi Soddell, David Shea, Francis Plagne, Marco Fusinato, Andrea Keller Quartet, Post, The Bartok Project, City City City, Rand and Holland, Erik Griswold, Anita Hustas, Adam Simmons Toy Band, New Blood and countless others.
DALE GORFINKEL is a musician, instrument builder and installation artist from Sydney, currently living in Melbourne. Dale’s automated mechanical sculptures are based on his unique approach to the vibraphone. He creates wondrous sonorities using continuous bowed inventions on aluminium bars, swinging tin resonators and ping-pong balls. He has also developed a quirky approach to the trumpet, using additional plastic tubing, shower roses, balloons, and various mouthpieces which invoke an 'electronic' sound world. Dale is an active member of Australia’s exploratory music communities and is an integral part of many ensembles including the composer/improviser collective Farfinkel Pugowski, Metalog, Jim Denley’s West Head Project, SSL with Robbie Avenaim, Prophets, Splinter Orchestra, and trio with Peter Farrar and the sound poet Amanda Stewart. Other musical collaborators include Ernie Althoff, Rosalind Hall, Alan Lamb, Clare Cooper, Jon Rose, Rod Cooper, Wadada Leo Smith (USA), and Cor Fuhler (Netherlands).
Found Sound has moved to new digs! We would be most delighted if you could join us at a new location for this Wednesday's Found Sound performance #2 featuring Joe Talia and Dale Gorfinkel
Where: Tape Projects warehouse upstairs 1/81 Bouverie Street Carlton (near CBD) When: This Wednesday Feb 18th 7:30pm - 8:30pm Who: Joe and Dale on vibraphones, prepared percussion, ping pong balls, modified trumpet, heat sinks, reverb tank and inventionssssss
The next Found Sound performance: Joe Talia and Dale Gorfinkel!
Following on from our fantastic launch last month, Found Sound is thrilled to present the second performance of the year. Please join us for a collaborative performance by by DALE GORFINKEL on prepared vibraphone, modified trumpet, inventions and ping pong balls and JOE TALIA on heat sinks, bowed cymbals, inside reverb tank and prepared percussion! This is the first public collaboration between Joe and Dale and it's sure to be an absolute stunner – all welcome!
Feburary 18
Performance from 7:30 - 8:30pm
Tape Projects warehouse space
1/81 Bouverie St Carlton, Melbourne $5
Excerpt of Ros Bandt & Albert Mishriki performance at the the Found Sound launch on January 28th, 2009.
About Ros and Albert:
DR ROS BANDT is an internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, researcher and scholar. Since 1977, she has pioneered interactive sound installations, sound sculptures, and created sound playgrounds, spatial music systems and some 40 sound installations worldwide. She has curated many sound performances, exhibitions and events. She is an honorary senior research fellow at the Australian Centre, Melbourne University, where she directs The Australian Sound Design Project, the first online searchable sound art database in Australia (see http://www.rosbandt.com/)
ALBERT MISHRIKI is an artist and sound designer who builds sound sculptures and creates musical compositions featuring flutes, guitars, synthesisers, harps, kitchen junk, bicycle bits, bells, pieces of cars, springs, plastic pipes and umbrellas. He regularly collaborates with Ben Bourke on the music project Howling Mound (www.myspace.com/howlingmound), has worked as a sound designer on various theatre and dance productions and recently completed his BA (Sound Design) at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Excerpt of Ros Bandt and Albert Mishriki performance, featuring numerous sound sculptures by Ros Bandt and Albert Mishriki, including: Flagong, Ros Bandt, 1978.
An original microtonal glass percussion instrument consisting of a three-tiered wooden frame with 31 suspended glass objects. Apart from the ‘found’ glass lampshade and insulator, all items are cut glass containers, mainly flagons. They are arranged in constellations based on compatible pitch and timbral formations. This instrument was originally designed and built by Ros in 1978 - a pioneering moment in the development of 'fragile music' (featuring glass and clay instruments) in Australia.
Cycolospoke, Albert Mishriki, 2007.
A playable sound sculpture constructed from recycled and found items including a bicycle wheel, a d-lock, strings, springs, one polystyrene head, one light fitting, an umbrella and a hat stand. Designed to be played collaboratively.
Clang Tangle, Albert Mishriki & Ros Bandt, 2009.
A multi-timbral, original instrument assemblage collaboratively designed by Ros and Albert. Featuring PVC pipes, bells made from plumbing reducers, and experimental reverberating percussion instruments on a 2.2 x 2.4 metre frame.
Found Sound: The Experimental Instrument Project is a series of musical and sound art events featuring experimental instruments designed and built by Australian artists and musicians.
Each event takes the form of an improvised collaboration between at least two participants who do not usually perform together. All sounds are to be generated by hand-made and/or found elements that can be welded, wired, stuck together, collaged or otherwise assembled into “playable” forms, including junk objects, springs, bicycle wheels, bits and bobs, kitchen gadgetry, string, circuit boards, bells, rubber bands, plants, car parts and custom-made music machines.
Found Sound is curated by Amelia Douglas and Albert Mishriki.
Video documentation by Drew Roberts. Photography by Helen Metzger and Timothy McNeilage.
If you are an instrument maker and would like to get involved in the Found Sound program, please send us a line!
Found Sound 2009 is a six month program of performances.
Jan 28 Ros Bandt and Albert Mishriki Feb 18 Joe Talia and Dale Gorfinkel Mar 18 Ross Manning and Rod Cooper Apr 15 Dylan Martorell, Nathan Gray and Dave Nelson May 20 James Hullick and Pia van Gelder June 17 Open workshop and collaborative group ensemble
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