Electronic explorations & new media manifestations, Racket showcases Melbourne's finest audio and visual talent, first Thursday of every month.
This month we are showcasing one of the pioneers of Australian Electronica, Steve Law with a live analogue experience like no other. Also New Zealand Beat maker Nasty Genius takes the stage and experimental producer Unsoundbwoy will twist your mind inside out. There's plenty more and a few surprises after midnight with special guest VJ Broken Pixel.
Steve Law AKA Zen paradox
Nasty Genius NZ live
Unsoundbwoy live
Broken Pixel
Netzair
Cat Grrl
Paul Heslin
Document Swell Live
Steve Law AKA Zen Paradox live
Steve Law began experimenting with music making at the age of 15 in 1982, after discovering and becoming fascinated by electronic music. He began to record a series of cassettes, using whatever limited resources were available. The equipment for the early recordings consisted of nothing more than 2 ghetto blasters, a short-wave radio, kitchen utensils, a home-made percussion kit and various other sound-producing objects. In 1983 he obtained his first synthesizer (a Realistic/Moog MG-1 which he still uses today), and quickly learnt the basics of analog synthesis. By 1985 Steve was regularly renting electronic studio equipment, and spent many a sleepless weekend obsessively recording before having to return the equipment on Monday. After many such weekends, Steve's knowledge and recording techniques really began to develop. It's been a very gradual journey since those early days, but over the years Steve Law has developed a reputation as one of the leading exponents of electronic music in Australia, and since the early 1990's that reputation has spread beyond Australia's shores via his successful Zen Paradox project. Today Steve reserves his more personal and eclectic work for release under his own name, as well as his more avant-garde electronic compositions.
NASTY GENIUS live
Nasty Genius is sounding all the way from New Zealand and has quickly risen to the forefront of drum & bass and dubstep production. With a ground breaking catalogue featured on many independent labels such as Ammunition and Dangerous New Age, Nasty Genius has now decided to exceed forward and become part of the newly emerging and exciting Move Music.
http://www.myspace.com/nastygenius
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nasty-Genius/45491349554
UNSOUNDBWOY live
Drawing influence and melding the sounds of dancehall, jungle, breakcore and beyond, Unsoundbwoy has been carving a niche in the Australian and international experimental music scene since 2002 and as a part of CROAKINGLIZARD since 2006.
Unsoundbwoy has appeared at and promoted events Australasia wide, notably This Is Not Art in Newcastle, Voyage in Christchurch, Reggaetown in Northern Queensland and Melbourne’s first jungle soundclash. Unsoundbwoy has extensively toured Europe and has performed with General Malice, Drumcorps, Fexomat, Mark n, X&trick, Toecutter, and Stivs and many more.
Productions by Unsoundbwoy have featured on singles, compilations and mixes by ruffah-ras, killa, grindthieves, uprizing, respect, bludclot, elefant traks, illcomfort, FOE, don’t doo dat and MORE recordings
http://www.myspace.com/unsoundbwoy
http://www.croakinglizard.com/unsoundbwoy/
CAT GRRL (dj set)
Cat Grrl has been producing and Djing since 2005. You will find Cat Grrl leftfield of most Booty, Drum & Bass, Hardcore and Breakcore. Cat Grrl‘s sets consist of bass driven tongue in cheek music heavily influenced by bogan culture, old soaps and trashy porn with themes of sexuality and gender.
http://www.myspace.com/cat-grrl
http://www.facebook.com/catgrrlaus
Paul Heslin (live AV)
Paul Heslin was raised in the capital city of Australia in a dark well
of hyper-christian homeschooling, before peeling the layers off and beginning to grapple with the world of electronic sound.
In 2008, after completing a university degree in digital sound and
composition, he vanished overseas to England and France for an
extensive period of musical development, returning to Australia in
late 2010 with a spiky melange of facial hair and the trans-formative rubbernecker ep.
Solely constructed from the sounds of his Parisian apartment and his own voice, rubbernecker demonstrates Paul's extraordinary facility with Max-MSP and digital controllers; and performed live using a synchronised television array, it captures the unearthly beauty of late-night paranoia rocking back and forth alone in the dark.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/paulheslin
Broken pixel
As computers and technology pervade every aspect of our lives we are presented with the oppurtunity to create new types of art to explore the expanding frontier of life in the digital age. Jaysons creations aim to blur the distinction between artist, viewer and art piece by utilising cutting edge technology, mind bending illusions, gadets and a wild imagination to create unique immersive interactive experiences.
Drawing heavily from Glitch, lofi and minimal artforms as well as a nostalgia for the 8 bit era of computer graphics the visual representation of these works is heavily influenced by the programming techniques used to create them.
http://brokenpixelproductions.com/
Document Swell
Combination of live audio processing found sound, MAX/MSP and low slung beats.
http://documentswell.bandcamp.com/
Doors open at 7pm pm with performances starting at 730pm sharp &
finishing just after Midnight. $10 jugs and $5 pizza all night with door entry only $5.
R5, Thursday 2nd December 2010
Miss Libertine, 34 Franklin Street, Melbourne.
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