Guest Programmer
Lucas Darklord
corporatemanifestations.com

Lucas Darklord is the Les Hiddins of the Electro-Activist Underworld. Based in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Lucas Darklord oversees the world’s largest unlisted company and holds radical views on the future of capitalism and life both within and without cultural and social constraints.

When asked to curate this broadcast, Lucas Darklord decided to, broadly, serve a selection of sounds that Eleven11 listeners may not have heard before. After being confounded by the petty limits of time and duration, Lucas Darklord settled on broadcasting excerpts in favour of complete works. Further, Lucas Darklord found that it was not possible to simply play each selected piece.

After months of solid research, a machine was devised to play pieces of the selected works, where the machine makes the decisions about when to stop and start a work. Further, because we desired it, and as it actually gives a perspective from Lucas Darklord’s interior, additional paths were developed for the sound to travel along. Along these paths the sound picks up the prickly and sticky seeds of weeds, tangles with ghostly shadows of the source sound and generally is forced through a range of pulsing and excessive filters and devices of constraint, restraint and rewonderment. The results are not any form of destructive remix, merely the most restraint Lucas Darklord is capable of.

Note: Almost all works presented here are excerpts, and all have had additional sounds and textures (sourced from the original recordings) incorporated into the work. No disrespect is intended to the fine work originally rendered by the creating artist/s.

An addition to this broadcast can be found at http://corporatemanifestations.com

Guest Programmer
Once11 (Brugges/ Montevideo/ LA)

Podcast: All Together Wrong

What is on this podcast? Trials, plan B’s, errors and rehearsals, leftovers and whoulda-coulda-shouldas, the stuff remaining under the wet hood: the little fellas that didn’t make it. Sketches, leftovers and drafts: an amalgam of wrongs.

These 11 tracks date from 1999 til 2009, since “bounced” they are no longer editable (a couple are mis-mixes from “Smile Hunter”). They are the elaborate trials of my inner professional artistoid, working the “crashing patching and doodling of doing”, on some very nice afternoons (obviously with the intention of making of all the right mistakes) next to the roaches and fliers and the hope filled tool bags of the sleepwalking artisan. – Once11.

Guest Programmer
Jerry Mane (NZ/Barcelona)
myspace.com/jerrymane

Jerry Mane aka Pickle are the two production and performance names used by antipodean Brett Murdoch. Originally from the icy southern tip of New Zealand now living in the Mediterranean city of Barcelona. Brett has been a producer of electronic music 10 years in his native home of New Zealand as well as in Australia where he has releases on the independent label LRR. The Pickle moniker is used for Brett’s productions in the fields of electronica, ambient or sound scape work. He has worked with visual artists in various exhibitions and art installations.

Guest Programmer
DJ Corporal Leper (SYD)
myspace.com/corporalleper

Brooke Olsen aka DJ Corporal Leper is an experimental radio producer and record collector from Sydney. She has been involved in specialist music programming and experimental program making on various community radio stations for a number of years, most recently as executive producer for Sunday Night at the Movies on Fbi 94.5fm. Brooke’s varied radiophonic creations have been broadcast on 2ser, Fbi and ABC Radio National. Her alias Corporal Leper fixates on collecting (and broadcasting) the unbroadcastable: strange and forgotten musical relics of bad times long gone.

Guest Programmer
Randolf Reimann (Northern NSW)
myspace.com/tralalablip

Randolf Reimann is a sound artist and musician from Bangalow, Northern NSW. Randolf started his musical journey as vocalist for the Sydney 80′s hardcore punk band Massappeal. Recent group projects include electro-acoustic duo Kolliope, with singer /song writer Michelle Taylor, and experimental projects with visual artist/musician Darren Porter. Solo, Randolf performs live electronics as Dolfazoid.

Randolf is also the artistic director and facilitator of Tra La La Blip, an artist collective based on the far north coast of New South Wales. Their first release, Soundbeam Sessions Volume 1, is a compilation CD. All the songs were created live during jam sessions at Multi Task Human Resource Foundation in Lismore NSW. The music is created using multiple midi controllers and instruments like the tenori-on, soundbeam, kaossilator, microkorg, a macbook running ableton live software and a microphone. The project provides people with disabilities access to new musical technologies, opportunities to collaborate with other musicians & artists and opportunities to record & produce original compositions. Randolf is currently in New York doing Tra La La Blip activities with disability services and the elderly. www.myspace.com/tralalablip

About the set: When I left Australia in October I purposely did not take any music with me, no mp3 player, no CDs, no iTunes library. So this set is made up of music that has come to me on this extended stay in the USA, save for 1 kolliope tune and the TLLB songs. Most of the music I have received through connections made through TLLB on this trip . There are generations overlayed too, a grandmother talking over her grandson’s metal band. A mother singing with school children and her son (now in the metal band), and a father doing music with his son. This was not an intentional choice, nor is it entirely experimental, it’s just what has been presented to me since October 2008.

Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
plumindustries.org

Happy New Year folks and welcome to the first show for 2009!!

Several new releases are featured this month including the opening track Untitled #175 by Francisco Lopez & Lawrence English, from the album HB on French label Baskaru. Also new from Baskaru is Live Journeys, a selection of live performances by mixed-media band Symbiosis Orchestra.

The podcast title, Mistress of Ceremonies, is a track from the new Joe Frawley release Ritual Research.  An extremely enjoyable listening experience, the album is available for free download through the Clinical Archives net label.

From our friends at The Agriculture we have two exciting new releases to look forward to in February. Rich Panciera under his Lloop moniker explores elements of dubstep, hip hop and drum & bass with the album 60 Hertz. Kacy Wiggins aka quiet personal electronics (aka qpe), releases the one true constant, a new album with a downtempo ambient hip hop groove. Also from qpe we hear a track from the album Boolean Logic, which I refer to as my all-time-favourite pre-cyclone music.

From Australia, we hear a track from Rhythmic Movement Disorder (Room40), the long awaited debut solo release from Robbie Avenaim, a luminary figure in the Australian experimental and improvised music scene.

We also hear a golden oldie, That That Revolves, a Severed Heads track that features on the companion CD to a new book release entitled Experimental Music: Audio Explorations In Australia. Book chapters have been written by ‘artists, producers and participants in alternative music-making’ in Australia including contributions from Julian Knowles, Shannon O’Neill, Ian Andrews and Jim Denley, to mention a few, edited by Gail Priest. A definite must have for those interested in the history of experimental and electronic music in Australia. I was thrilled that Punos rated a mention. Enjoy!

Guest Programmer
Kazumichi Grime (Sydney)
www.kazumichi.com

Kazumichi Grime is a Sydney based sound and visual artist. Recently he has been incorporating video art into his live sets which have been performed at events such as The Big Day Out, eScapes, Disorientation, The MCA and Liquid Architecture. The focus of the video imagery is often of intense studies of simple concepts that work in collaboration with the sound to create a resolve. Dense textural drones are drawn from field recordings, analogue synthesis and acoustic recordings.

He has released numerous recordings since 1994 on cd, vinyl and online and has performed extensively. As well as his own solo practice, Grime has collaborated on a number of projects with artists such as Kim Cascone, Gary Bradbury, Anthony Guerra, Andy Polaine and has also developed a number of pieces as a sound artist for video artist Shaun Gladwell, including the 2007 Venice Biennial piece, ‘Storm Sequence’

About this playlist. The music I have chosen is music and sounds that I find engaging and beautiful. It also happens to be all of Australian artists whom I have followed for some time over the years and have found their music an inspiration (though I did sneak a new track of mine in as well as a remix I did). Having grown up on a diet of Severed Heads in the 80s, I naturally find Bradbury’s work wonderful, unexpected and humorous. I have always enjoyed releases by Ambarchi, Minut and lesser known artists like Daniel Whiting whose track here is a cdr he handed to me one night and is heard here in its entirety, quite an epic. Enjoy.

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Guest Programmer
Jeph Jerman (USA)
www.jerman.littleenjoyer.com

Jeph Jerman is a musician, improviser and sound-maker from the US. Jerman first began recording and performing in 1986, under the name Hands To . Most of his early sound work was sampler and tape loop based. Over the course of ten years Jerman’s music evolved into environmental recordings, with very little to no manipulation or electronic processing. In 1996, Jerman embarked upon a weekly series of concerts in Seattle at Anomalous Records , which brought him into contact with the city’s improvised music community. During this time he began performing solo, using only natural found objects (stones, shells,bones, driftwood, pine cones, etc) as sound-makers, a practice which continues today. In 1999, the Animist Orchestra was founded, original members are Jeph Jerman, Eleanor Gallagher, Dave Knott, Mike Shannon, Jeffery Taylor and Robert Millis.

Most of Jerman’s previous work could be interpreted as being ‘idea-based’. He finds that most of his work nowadays is sound-based, and believes it is due to his growing interest in listening, in what happens when one listens, and his concomitant disinterest in contextualizing sound

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Guest Programmer
MusSck (UK)
www.myspace.com/hypnoticmelodies

MusSck is London-based artist Valence Drakes. For this playlist, MusSck has prepared the Glitch Hop Warrior mix, made up mostly of original tunes but also featuring Australian cult band Toydeath. MusSck has re-mixed a number of Toydeath tracks, some of which can be heard on his myspace.

MusSck is the creator of sounds that illustrate an evolution of a new wave thoughts and style, his sounds promise a journey into surreal and unknown, with melodies that drag you out of your routine and generate curiosity and beats that let you get comfy then demand that you keep up this trip down the rabbit hole, wonderland styles!!! (Word by Oracle)

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Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
plumindustries.org

Last week Melbourne, this week Sydney. Much has happened.

Highlights from the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music

Night 1. @The TOTE – Daniel Menche is someone to experience, totally wild; Valerio Tricoli & Sean Baxter make for a great duo. Night 2. @ABC Studios – Chris Abrahams solo performance was by far my favourite experience for the evening. Night 3. @The TOFF – Jerome Noetinger (I TOTALLY LOVE THIS GUY!!) what more can i say really; Lukas Simonis is fun and quite a gestural performer; Post were very entertaining as well providing some comic relief and a quirky country music vibe – a lot of fun. I was feeling rather tired by Night 4… such a great festival Fox & Pateras – Nice one!

Sydney highlight – Chris Abrahams and Mike Cooper @The Seymour Centre

Two musicians I really admire coming together in a duo. Such great improvisers. Their performance takes you on a journey. Their CD Oceanic Feeling-Like is available on Room40.

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