Robbie Avenaim (wOg, What is Music? Festival, Phlegm, etc) has organised a collaborative sound instalation/performance series at Bus Gallery, 117 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne, next month:
Vaucanson’s Duck * Vaucanson’s Duck brings together, for the first time, three unique instrument builders and sonic thinkers to construct a special sound installation and series of concerts at Bus. *Ernie Althoff, Robbie Avenaim and Dale Gorfinkel will provide a site-specific collaboration utilising their diverse array of wondrous automated music inventions,continuously challenging and mesmerising audiences both sonically and visually.
Evening concerts will featuring Ernie, Robbie and Dale along with guest performers:
- 9/11 Opening 7pm Dale Gorfinkel, Robbie Avenaim, Ernie Althoff
- 10/11 Dave Brown
- 11/11 Closed (S.S.L - Dale Gorfinkel & Robbie Avenaim @ the Toff)
- 12/11 James Wilkinson & Rosalind Hall
- 13/11 Oren Ambarchi
- 14/11 Robin Fox
- 15/11 Erick Mitsak
- 16/11 Sean Baxter
- 17/11 Paul Wain
- 18/11 closed - (WOG - Ray Ahn & Robbie Avenaim @ the Toff)
- 19/11 Graeme Leak and Rod Cooper
- 20/11 Anthony Pateras
- 21/11 Dale Gorfinkel, Robbie Avenaim, Ernie Althoff
- 22/11 Natasha Anderson
- 23/11 Phillip Samartzis
ALL performances (10/11 - 23/11) 8pm, $8
The Gallery is open Wed-Fri 12-6 and Sat 12-5.
Jacques Vaucanson (French, 1709-1782).Vaucanson’s Duck is perhaps the most famous automaton that has ever existed. Vaucanson wanted to construct moving anatomical figures which could be used by doctors and surgeons to demonstrate bodily operations. Arriving In Paris at age 26, he lacked money for these experiments and decided instead to produce “some machines that could excite public curiosity.” In 1738 he presented before the Academie Royale des Sciences three automata - a drummer, a flute player and the duck. They met with an immediate and enormous success - not only among the public but with savants as well.The duck was exhibited with great acclaim throughout Europe,fell into ruins, was repaired, lost, and rediscovered, and was last sited in the 1860s.
this looks like it'll be amazing!
is bus gallery inside a BUS?
cool.. will have to check this out.
Erick Mitsak is a brilliant composer
lucas/swerve, it's not alas. but that would be so sweet.
looking forward to checking this out.
bump
fuck, just realised how much stuff there really is in this series. will have to be selective due to the whole cash / needing sleep / other things on dealies, but want to see as much as i can, hoorah!
Fuck - looks like an exhausting schedule.
fuck. i just wanted to say fuck.
Opening night tonight!
Erm, pretty sure it's opening Friday night? Today's the 7th.
surreptitious bumping strategies.
that's some duck
And the same with music.
Shit looks tight yo.
Is there a bar there?
Yep. 3 buck stubbies of Boags.
Opening night was great. Raucous!
Dave Brown gig was very poorly attended, but the collaboration between him and the contraptions of the other 3 was amazing.
Tonight: James Wilkinson & Rosalind Hall
bumpos for this tonight
Hopefully tomorrow!
This was amazing yet again!
The dual horn attack of james and rosalind was so completely empathic to the installation contraptions and their manipulation by robbie and dale.
Tonight: the Ambarch!
\m/
Nice! Hoping to get along tonight....
What's the deal though?
Do the guests do something on their own as well as with everyone else? Or what happens?!?!
Peltsy, basically its the guests collaborating with the the artists manipulating their many sonic sculpture/extended instruments for a live, real-time, in the moment, spatially displaced, sonically focussed, totally fucked up, sounds inyrface, improv brutality, 40-mins-to-an-hour performance in a gallery space.
The installations play themselves in aleotoric/stochastic glory before and after the performance, but.
Nice!
yet again, amazing!
Fox tonight! I urge you all to come along, at least to say you've seen Fox before he sold out to play with the Eagles.
Looks like I'm going to miss all of these... lame :[
That is trooly lame fasty. but John Butler Fucks Kidz is still the most political band in Australia (next to Midnight Oil, of course).
I think my car will be fixed today!!! I can drive to see Robin!!! I wish Robin was my older brother. That'd be sweet
I knowz.. work and study.. its that time of the fuckign year again. That said I'm sitting here with 39 pages of material to plunder and have just opened a beer instead. Cramming assured very soon.
Midnight Oil have the mines to play with, we've only hippies.
Fox tonight!
Stellar last night. Hope to make it down again to another show. Child like wonder too at all the homemade contraptions.
bumpos for tonight.
missed the fox due to fucked coughing splittering sickness.
anyone go for the fox?
Mitsak t-night!
extreme mayhem from mitsak last night. fire trucks and all. we sent him off to hospital.
tonight baxter with the machines.
more info pls
Well basically, mitsak bored everyone into a stupor with a retardedly non-sensical story whilst rob and dale were playing, and then he set off a couple of bombs which literally shocked the audience into extreme sonic awareness.
Everyone raced into the street.
Then the gallery was filled with smoke that was billowing out of all the windows and didn't dissipate for over an hour.
Pure genius!
Really enjoyed last night. was fun to play.
Tonight DJ 2 Rabbits antediluvian Paul Wain.
Coolio!
The 4test with paul wain was killer. ernie was making brutal shortwave radio sounds out of a 2b4 with a screw in it dragging it across the concrete, and paul was making brutal lump of wood sounds out of a shortwave radio!
Monday, the genius who is rod cooper!
Pateras is back from europa and is performing at this tonight.
coops was ace last night.