Disorientation
is a monthly night of electronic audio-visual performance and improvisation at
the Abercrombie Hotel. The event aims to present innovative work by both established
and emerging electronic artists to
unfamiliar audiences.
Full details:
Dis_orientation
Wednesday October 5
Abercrombie Hotel (Cnr Abercrombie St & Broadway)
8pm-11pm
Entry $7/$5
featuring:
Morceaux de Machines (Canada)
Miha Ciglar (Slovenia/Austria)
Ventricle
Emily Morandini
Presented by the UTS Sound Collective and Supported by UTS Union and Bondi Intermusic
This Month's Artist Details:
The duo of Aimé Dontigny and Érick Dorion, a highly skilled pair of improvisers, who know how to drive the consenting listener on a sonic adventure which will leave them with their mouth gaping. But if this dynamism and this tension seem almost theatrical, it's a sort of théâtre de la cruauté impermeable to the false sentimentality of harmony, ferociously deconstructive of deifying systems such as Bach's.
Is it just noise? No, there is much more than just noise in these exuberant, life-affirming soundtracks. Just as there is more to the loudness of their composition than a superficial affront to musics which are too easy to like, or too modest. If their machinist acrobats make such a ruckus, it's because they are acutely conscious of the risk their acrobatics entail. That said and done, we are left with a music that is lively, highly personal and full of depth.
Miha Ciglar is a composer and sound artist currently studying at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria. Originally from Maribor, Slovenia, Ciglar now lives and works in Western Europe. Since 2001 he has performed his own compositions for saxophone, guitar, vibraphone, double bass, electro-acoustical performances, interactive dance performances, computer music and audiovisual installations at many art festivals all around the world.
His work has strong conceptual fundaments and points away from expressive values of common aesthetic ideals. A subject of high concern and priority is the problem of absolute awareness of sonic perception which is directly connected with the question of existential legitimacy of sound art. Ciglar's compositional approach and attitude towards technological solutions are very similar and rooted in a revaluation of existent "material", resulting in its preliminary decomposition, in order to absorb its originally suggestive character for an employment in the further process of creation.
An improvising comprised of pixel pushers Luke Callaghan and Ivar Lehtsalu, Ventricle creates beautiful and chaotic machine sound scapes, digital mayhem and moments of quiet beauty.
Miss Morandini is a predominantly a sound artist, occasionally straying into the sordid world of video, installation, and scarf-making. Recent sonic mis/adventures include übercube, the Splinter Orchestra and Turkish Pop Group, with tentative hopes to appease the masses with an onslaught of solo material.