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Electronic explorations & new media manifestations, Racket showcases Melbourne's finest audio and visual talent, first
Thursday of every month.
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Sense
Steve Law
Jean Poole
Mark N
Barbarian Streisand
James Wright
Jordan Lacey and Jeffrey Hannam (Hidden Hollows)
Merri Hietala
Ben Byrne
Jayson Haebich
Lloyd Honeybrook & Nic Tammens
James Annesley
Netzair
Hellisnt_Lo_Naumoff
More info coming soon Rx
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*Sense - Electronic emotional music.
Neural networks are formed when we allow ourselves to feel.
Sense is Adam Raisbeck, musician born on the 25th of June 1974,from Melbourne, Australia.
Since, purchasing his first synthesiser from the trading post in 1992 , the Roland JX-3P , adam started making sounds and music.
Acquiring next some drum machines Roland . TR series.. and then some more and even more synths . Roland, Korg, Kawai, Yamaha,Sequential Circuits.
Learning along the way the concepts and applications of computer and synth based music was and still is his way of life.Establishing himself under his Soulenoid alias early in 1995, Adam Raisbeck has performed live numerous times in his native city of Melbourne at Club Filter, Global Warming and the Punters Club as well as larger one-off parties like the Omniglobe raves, Technofest, The Big Day Out, Be Strange and Earthcore – along the way supporting international drawcards Derrick May, Stacey Pullen, Aphex Twin, Biochip C,Bochum welt, Cylob , Speedfreak , Biochip C , STEEL,Monolake , Machinedrum, Dabrye , Tim koch , ComA , Sutekh and the On-U Sound posse.
Yet in spite of critical acclaim surrounding his performances and the music he’s released through Melbourne’s If? label and Belgium’s Nova Zembla imprint, Adam Raisbeck remains as unfathomable and elusive as the day he began.
More recently Adam Raisbeck is searching out new directions in both sound and the technology he uses to make that music, as Sense, for labels as divserse as:
Psychonavigation Records, Detund™, Merck, UCover, Neoouija, EEM, Defocus, SAAG, AKA ltd
Civikrecords, Neferiu, Aural Industries, Delikatessen
One.9, Cactus island, monotonik mono, Kahvi
Born from the intense need to express itself , sense emerges from within.
Inside it the feelings the sounds the emotions the decisions the mechanism the thought. Outside it the pain the struggle the hurt the disapointment. Yet his sense is both of these things .. embracing each other .. and feeling what each other does, perfect and all knowing understanding, perfect unambiguous communication.
Adam’s earlier work veers across a range of contemporary electronic flavours.
His older recordings of freestyle ‘techno’ – if you want to call it that – captures the spirit of his own development over the years as well as the style of contemporaries like Zen Paradox, Voiteck and Robert Hood.
His recent recordings as Sense are far more personal; Adam explains “When I’m actually making music I really try to express what I’m feeling. Maybe it’s not conscious; maybe it’s a totally unconscious thing, but I try to be open enough to give expression to that feeling and capture it. My ultimate goal is create an interface via my music whereby people listening to it will totally feel what’s happening and understand what i was feeling at the time i was making the music ,it’s something that is to me – beyond-sonic.
Adam Raisbeck’s live electronic music experience is something that’s both intangible and unpredictable; in in the mid to late Nineties he was one of the more consistent live performers in Melbourne
*MERRI HIETALA
Merri Hietala art - sculptures, chainsaw carvings, theatre, sounds and public art installations. At the moment she is obsessed with sanding red gum burls. For Racket 16 visuals she continues with her style of painting dripping dots, this time on living sculpture.
*JAYSON HAEBICH
Jayson Haebich is a Melbourne based programmer, VJ and new media artist who uses his skills as a computer programmer to create diverse and innovative works ranging from club visuals, site specific installations, data visualisations, film clips and much more. Constantly evolving, Jaysons work takes the latest innovations and trends in technology and aims to use these within an artistic context.During the past year Jayson has created installations and visuals for festivals such as Stereosonic, Woodford Folk Festival and Burning Man USA, he has also had his data visualisation work showcased at the 46th Symposium of Science and Documentary Films as well as collaborating on a film clip for the hip hop group The Herd.
http://www.brokenpixelproductions.com
*JAMES WRIGHT
James Wright is an artist interested in the motivations of form; deconstruction. His current work explores the immersive audiovisual experience through database cinema, generative interaction, installation and performance. He has had work shown at This Is Not Art Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Liquid Architecture Festival, Nextwave Festival, Westspace and Gertrude Projection Festival.
*JEAN POOLE
Jean Poole is a Melbourne based artist who specialises in real-time audiovisual performance. Working solo or with other musicians, he has performed real-time audiovisual works at a large range of national and International venues including: The Australian Centre for Moving Image (with Lewis Cancut for 'A history of Australian TV', and a 'Tim Burton remix' with Tim Shiel), the 2009 OK Video festival, Jakarta, Indonesia (with Dan MacKinlay), the Meredith Music Festival, Electrofringe (2009 with Dan MacKinlay, 2005 with SuckaFish P Jones, 2003 with Anna Helme + Future Eater), Straight Out of Brisbane and the 2007 LPM ROME festival (with Synesthete). He has also VJed extensively at festivals such as Meredith, Golden Plains, Falls Festival, Big Day Out, Summer Dayze, Good Vibrations and Creamfields.
http://video.skynoise.net/
*NETZAIR
Netzair has spent years experimenting, shooting and producing his own unique content. Crosscutting live, graphic compositions to sync, his style allows you to see beyond a reel of pleasant images - you see the music. Striving to make the night's audio entertainment tangible, bringing sound to life, the visual experience is especially suited to an electronic environment where bass, glitch and snare can be translated optically. With a passion for live performance, it's not uncommon to see Netzair pushing out vision for ten or more hours straight, on festival stages alongside International and local Dj's, as well as club nights and community based video art events.
http://www.netzair.com/
*MARK N
Apart from the one of a kind turntablism, rise & fall of Bloody Fist records, multiple DMC titles and hardened values Mark n needs no write up, blurb or introduction, as a matter of fact if you were to try and interview or take a photo of him you would surely be met with a paparazzo hating swift boot to go.
*JORDAN LACEY & JEFFREY HANNAM as HIDDEN HOLLOWS
Jordan & Jeff are sound artists, musicians and sonic researchers at SIAL Sound Studios. They come together for a performance at Racket where they will be playing an ensemble of electronics and instruments through an ambisonic speaker array. On the night they will be covering genres from ambient shoe-gaze to abstract noise to electroacoustic composition...
http://www.hiddensounds.net
* LLOYD HONEYBROOK & NIC TAMMENS
Lloyd and Nic have been working at entirely demattering saxophone and guitar through electronic mastication as a unit for some time now, but tonight sees the duo becoming a single entity, with Nic turning his guitar-hero arsenal onto Lloyd's feedback saxophone for a new piece entirely based around processing and processes, as well as the usual sonic detritus.
http://www.myspace.com/lloydhoneybrook
http://www.myspace.com/nictammens
* JAMES ANNESLEY as VIRTUAL PROXIMITY
Virtual Proximity combines instrumental jazz with electronic loops, hip-hop style beats and environmental samples. The mood is often dark and introspective, with some weird surprises along the way.
Virtual Proximity’s live show features improvisations on electronically processed saxophone, DJ manipulation of loops and samples, and spontaneous VeeJaying. The three artists interact in the moment to produce live remixes of pre-composed material. The live visuals add a whole other dimension of colour and movement, complementing the music with strange and wonderful imagery.
Virtual Proximity have been playing regularly around Melbourne for the past 12 months, as well as touring interstate with shows in Adelaide and Canberra. They’ve appeared as part of the Gertrude St. Projection Festival and This Is Not Art (Newcastle).
James Annesley – saxophone, flute, EWI, effects
Tristan Courtney – laptop, Kaoss pad, bass, effects
Robert Jarvis – live visuals.
http://jamesannesley.com/Virtual_Proximity.html
*BEN BYRNE
Ben Byrne is a musician, artist, organiser, academic and writer. He has performed extensively in Australia and overseas using electronics, both solo and in various groups, and recently released a solo record, Disposition. His solo performances of visceral improvisation represent a conscious and thorough consideration of the laptop as instrument, focus on the relationship between the musician and his equipment as it plays out in any given space and ask listeners to chart their own path as music constantly emerges from and disappears into a mess of signals, actions and noise. He also makes installations, the latest of which, Tumult, was shown at Firstdraft Gallery. He is the founder of Avantwhatever, which organises shows and publishes a series of limited edition releases. He regularly contributes articles, reviews and interviews to a number of publications and teaches at RMIT. Currently he is focused on writing his doctorate, Murmur, which offers an approach to sound that emphasises multiplicity.
http://www.avantwhatever.com/bb/
