Programmer
Jennifer Teo
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Happy New Year folks. Welcome 2010!

Odyssey Two is a mix of music we have enjoyed this summer, opening with a crazy dance track Family Galaxy by Tim Exile. We also hear from Ellen Allien, Tipsy, Krazy Baldhead, Sonmi451 and more, plus a couple of tracks from ALT, a new release by Rothkamm on independent French label Baskaru. From Australia, we hear an excerpt from Alias Frequencies Radio Metamix and a Scattered Order track from the latest New Weird Australia compilation.

Alias Frequencies has just made available Radio Metamix. Five artists interpret the idea of remix for radio featuring Lloyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord, Buttress O’Kneel, Rik Rue and Shannon O’Neill. Radio Metamix was originally broadcast on ABC Radio National’s The Night Air on July 1, 2007, as part of the Liquid Architecture festival. Listen to the entire Alias Frequencies Radio Metamix.

New Weird Australia is a free compilation series that promotes new eclectic and experimental Australian music, available as a free download every two months. New Weird Australia also has a weekly radio show on Sydney’s FBi Radio with hosts Stuart Buchanan and Danny Jumpertz.

Enjoy the show!

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!

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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Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
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This fortnights show begins with avant-rock, mutant guitar virtuoso Buckethead, followed by Nurse With Wound and two tracks by The Lappetites. We also hear three intense tracks by Defektro from the album Destructive Reconstruction. Self-described as a “three human, many machine noize unit,” Defekro are Hirofumi Uchino (Japan), Ayako Honda (Japan) and Laura Oyaizu (Australia). Hirofumi Uchino, who currently resides in Sydney, is the creator of the noise machines used in Defektro.From Australia, we hear from Machine Death (Ben Byrne / Ivan Lisyak) with the track You Ruin Everything, and two tracks by Ivan Lisyak, Sleepless and Afterdark, from the album Traces. Music by these artists can be found on the Alias Frequencies netlabel. From a CD released as part of the Sounds Unusual festival 2007 (Northern Territory) we hear from Sydney-based artist Sumugan Sivanesan with the track Mono Is The New Black. We end the show with some delectable sounds from Lawrence English & Ai Yamamoto with their track Longing from the album Plateau.

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Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
jenniferteo.net

A few from the vintage vaults this fortnight including the first track Bicycle Built For Two (1961) by computer music pioneer Max Mathews. Also, Concret PH (1958) by Iannis Xenakis, Musique Concrete (1959) by Jan Boerman, and the delightful Silver Apples Of The Moon (1967) by Morton Subotnick.

A couple of people of interest to me at the moment are Asmus Tietchens and AGF, more will be revealed about this interest at a later date. We hear the track Die Liebe, Ohne Ralf by Asmus Tiechens from the compilation Listen To Something Different (Ars Macabre, 2007) and from AGF we hear Zwangsam Schwierig from her album Head Slash Bauch (Orthlorng Musork). Stay tuned…

From Australia, we have some interesting music by Time Being from the compilation VIVA [section], Shannon O’Neill from his album Minimal/Liminal, and two tracks by the fascinating John Watermann, all releases courtesy of the Alias Frequencies netlabel. Also from Australia, we hear music by Wake Up and Listen and Kazumichi Grime from the 1997 compilation Dislocations (Zonar Recordings).

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ELEVENELEVEN is a radio show that explores sound art in its various forms. Experimental, avant-garde, improvised, noise, electronic, headphone music. Supporting Australian sound art through featured playlists and guest programming. Presented by Plum Industries.

Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
jenniferteo.net

Double Numbers is the first show of the ELEVENELEVEN series. First up we hear a collaboration between Faust & Nurse With Wound with “Lass Mich”, a 13 minute audio collage from the album Disconnected (2007), followed by “Dead Air” a track by Bloodclot, a one-off collaboration between Controlled Bleeding & Noizeclot in 1985. With that we also hear a Nurse With Wound track from the album The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums, nice. Next, the enigmatic Netochka Nezvanova (2007).

From Australia, we have Puzahki with “I’ve Seen Enough” from the album Smoking When Pregnant. This album, plus much much more, has been made graciously available for download from Alias Frequencies, plenty of interesting music from Australia to read about and listen to here, visit their netlabel. A new release by French label Baskaru, M.B + E.D.A. with the album Regolelettroniche. Soft, drone-based music. M.B + E.D.A are Italian duo Maurizio Bianchi and Emanuela De Angelis. 20 years between them, Bianchi hails from the Italian avant-garde scene and has been musically active since 1979, whilst De Angelis made her debut in 1994 as lead singer and guitarist in the noise band Joyce Whore Not. This album was mastered by Lawrence English (Room40).

Finally, we hear a recording of Sydney-based improvised music ensemble The Splinter Orchestra. First Play is one of five recordings the group made at Studio 301 in late 2006. Various members of the Splinter Orchestra will also be performing at the upcoming Now Now Festival of improvised music. Visit their site for all the details www.thenownow.net. The festival takes place over 3 nights at the Wentworth Falls School of Arts in the Blue Mountains (Sydney). If you’re driving up from Sydney you will see the old building on your right. Also, for spontaneous collaborations visit the Akemi performance space in Medlow Bath (the Now Now Festival club). It’s only a short drive up the hill from Wentworth Falls, on the highway on the left after the Hydro Majestic, they have an amazing view of the mountains.

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