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 26
Abercrombie Hotel (Cnr Abercrombie St & Broadway)
8pm-11pm
Entry $7/$5
featuring:
Ben Byrne & Clayton Thomas
Shannon O'Neill
Peter Blamey
Thomas Knox Arnold
Presented by the UTS Sound Collective and Supported by UTS Union and Bondi Intermusic
This Month's Artist Details:
Band mates in the notorious Splinter Orchestra, as well as known for their other pursuits both solo and improvising with others, Ben (laptop) and Clayton (double bass) will be performing duo for the first time.
One word - Tough
Media artist who works across music, radio, Internet, film/video and installation. Shannon is a founding member of the Alias Frequencies electronic arts collective, an Australian organization that promotes and publishes collage-based music and media art. Solo his work employs extensive use of collage and cut up, coupled with real-time DSP and manipulation.
Sydney experimentalist Peter Blamey creates intriguing, microscopic figures of sound by manipulating feedback generated from a mixing desk. Particles of noise bound about in curious rhythms that work their way to sum up abstract melodies, encompassing drones and reverberating textures that fold over themselves in beguiling ways.
Thomas Arnold was born on the Isle of Wight, the son of an inland revenue officer, and was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. There he excelled at Classics and was made a fellow of Oriel in 1815. His appointment to the headship of Rugby, a famous public school, after some years as a tutor, turned the school's fortunes around, as his learning, earnestness, and force of character enabled him not only to raise his own school to the front rank of public schools, but to exercise an unprecedented reforming influence on the whole educational system of the country; he is portrayed as a leading character in the novel, Tom Brown's Schooldays. A liberal in politics but a zealous church reformer, he was involved in many controversies, educational and religious.
Thomas Knox Arnold differs in that he is not very interested in sport, and rather focuses much of his attention on/to sound/s. Once one half of kult radio program Dark Hours (broadcast on 2RRR throughout much of the 90s), then dark and evil corporate flunky and now studying at University of Western Sydney. He often makes lots of noise in a small studio. He would like to get out a bit.