Make It Up Club 10th Birthday Festival April 2008

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and yes to me in may

Who's on at the festivities bucketgroper?

Over 4 nights from Monday April 21 to Thursday April 24 2008, the Make It Up Club 10th Birthday Festival presents over 50 performers from around Australia representing some of the most exciting and innovative improvisers this country has to offer.

Each night of the festival focuses on a different facet of contemporary improvisation and is presented at a venue that uniquely caters to this focus.

All nights start at 8PM. Tickets available at the door.

Daily Tickets: $10 conc. or $15 full.
Season Passes: $30 conc. or $50 full (available on opening night).

that means I'll be missing it all... sad smiley faced thingo

Monday April 21st at Horse Bazaar (397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne)

Co-presented by Stutter @ Horse Bazaar, the festival’s opening night explores the interface between sound and vision with a focus on immersive listening and engaging moving image.

• Adam Simmons (sound) and Marlo (paint) and Steve Werner (dance)
• Erkki Veltheim (stringed objects) and Sabina Maseli (visual performance)
• Ren Walters (guitar) and Dur-e Dara (tabletop percussion)
• Rosalind Hall (saxophone) and Marco Cher-Gibard (realtime a/v editing and manipulation)

Melbourne saxophone legend, Adam Simmons begins proceedings with an interactive collaboration featuring spontaneous image creation and physical movement. Virtuoso violist Erkki Veltheim and video artist Sabina Maseli promise an audacious performance to test the limits of the audio-visual. Then, a rare appearance by the astoundingly sensitive duo of Ren Walters and Dur-e Dara, whose intricate sounds and expansive palettes are truly mesmerizing. And to conclude, the amazing audio/video deconstructions of Rosalind Hall and Marco Cher-Gibard. Tonight will also include video projections from the MIUC’s archives, curated by Ren Walters and presented on Horse Bazaar’s unique, multi-projector system.

Tuesday April 22nd at Bar Open (317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy)

Bar Open has been home to the MIUC since 2004 and has provided an ideal space for exploring some of the more extreme dimensions of avant-improv. Tonight is dedicated to one of those areas: Shitcore.

• Terror Arsetralis featuring: members of Bum Creek and the Melbourne noise underground.
• The UnAustralians performing RITUAL 125: Chris Nylstoch (visceral terror) and Bonnie Hart (visceral terror)
• Lloyd Honeybrook (saxophone and bass rig) and Robbie Avenaim (drumkit)
• True Radical Miracle with Passenger Of Shit featuring: Evelyn Morris (drums), Leith Thomas (bass), Scott O’Hara (guitar), Mark Groves (vocals) and very special guest Swift Treweeke (vokills)

Featuring luminaries from Melbourne’s new-noise scene, Terror Arsetralis combine field recordings of the bizarre sounds of Australian nature with the raw energy of fractured punk-noise. Outsider visionaries, Bonnie Hart and Chris Nylstoch (AKA the UnAustralians) will be performing an extreme, new improvised work, Ritual 125. From Sydney, What Is Music? co-founder, Robbie Avenaim returns to Melbourne with a brutal new duo with noise-grind saxophonist Lloyd Honeybrook of Happygohatefuck notoriety. And to peak the sonic destruction, a severe improvised collaboration between infamous screamo band True Radical Miracle with the dual vokill attack of Grover and POS. Selections from Timothy Pledger’s extensive MIUC video archives will also be presented.

Wednesday April 23rd at The Toff (Level 2, Curtain House, 252 Swanston Street, Melbourne)

Co-presented by Stutter @ Horse Bazaar, tonight’s concert features performers who push the boundaries of electronic power and audiophilic detail through amplification in the ideal environment of The Toff.

• Marco Fusinato (guitar)
• Natasha Anderson (contra bass recorder and computer) and Jess Pinney (guitar and voice)
• Rod Cooper (homemade instruments), Carolyn Connors (voice) and Rory Brown (bass)
• Kris Wanders (tenor saxophone), Yusuke Akai (guitar), Steve Law (laptop and synths), Stephen Richards (baritone saxophone and electronics) and Robbie Avenaim (drumkit)
• Antediluvian Rocking Horse featuring: DJs Paul Wain and Susan King

Testing the limits of amplified sound, the night kicks off with the brutal guitar fracture of sound and visual artist, Marco Fusinato. Natasha Anderson has become one of the most admired improvisers in Australia for her novel approach to a very old instrument and is joined by Jess Pinney, an emerging talent in Melbourne’s diverse musical underground, for a performance where sonority and dissonance collide. Maverick instrument builder, Rod Cooper re-unites with two long-time collaborators: Carolyn Connors, whose extended vocal technique can only be described as phenomenal, and Sydney double bassist, Rory Brown, a powerhouse of both density and subtlety. The evening concludes with an exclusive meeting of some of the finest improvisers in Australia where local electronic music innovators, Steve Law and Stephen Richards, are joined by the ferocious expatriate Dutch saxophonist, Kris Wanders, Brisbane’s guitar strangler Yusuke Akai, and Sydney’s incomparable Robbie Avenaim. Legends of plunderphonia, Antediluvian Rocking Horse, will be performing throughout the night along with video selections from the MIUC archives.

Thursday April 24th at the Iwaki Auditorium (Ground Floor, ABC Southbank Centre, Southbank Boulevard)

Presented in association with ABC Classic FM and the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, the MIUC is excited to present a night devoted exclusively to the outer limits and inner spaces of the Piano.

• Monica Brooks (piano/piano accordion/electronics) with Joe Talia (electronics/percussion)
• Marc Hannaford (piano), Scott Tinkler (trumpet), Philip Rex (bass) & Ken Edie (drums)
• ** Maxximal Patterrorist** featuring: Anthony Pateras (piano) and Max Kohane (drumkit)
• Every Man 4 Himself featuring: Erik Griswold (piano), Ben Carr, (tenor saxophone) AJ Hall, (bass) and Ken Edie (drumkit)

The final night of the MIUC’s 10th Birthday festival begins with Sydney based sonic explorer Monica Brooks teaming up with local avant-percussionist Joe Talia for an effected performance of the extended potentials of the keyboard and the kit. The art of spontaneous composition, with tinges of contemporary jazz and sonic abstraction, is embodied by the combination of jazz luminaries, Hannaford/Tinkler/Rex/Edie. Combining relentless blast beats and free jazz brutality, Pateras and Kohane’s new project destroys the borders between Discordance Axis, Cecil Taylor, Corrupted & Xenakis. Every Man 4 Himself is a new group from Brisbane that boasts some of Australia’s most forward-looking instrumentalists: Erik Griswold, Ben Carr, AJ Hall and Ken Edie conjure a spiraling and climactic sonic dreamscape. Tonight’s concert will be recorded by ABC Classic FM for future broadcast on Jazz Up Late with Gerry Koster. After the show, please feel free to come back to Horse Bazaar to mingle with the performers, and enjoy some refreshment.

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True Radical Miracle with Passenger Of Shit

killer

Lazy bump to keep things in the loop.

This starts in 2 weeks kiddies!

Daytime bumps for the daytime coolsies

True Rads are playing? Fuckin' awesome!

Nighttime mumps for nighttime coolsies with a week to go

i guess i'm the only one who cares

Curse this working evenings caper!

i'll try to be at the 22nd gig

22nd will be, as they say, broodle, mulligrubs!

Tonight at the Horse!

True Radical Miracle with Passenger Of Shit tonight at Bar Open. Diseased.

Last night at the horse was great. The archival video stuff on multi projections was cool, and Ros and Marco were incredible.

what's tonight cost?

$10 or $15

I can hardly wait.

bumpos for tonight at the Iwaki with extreme piano

come along (if you can't afford it, i'm sure we could squeeze you on the door)