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Australian Music Links Online is a comprehensive online links directory of Australian bands, artists and musicians categorised by location and name. It also contains Australian music resources and a chat forum. visit http://ausmusic.homeip.net/ for details

Basement Tapes is a documentary film about the future of music. Speaking with a cross section of talented musicians, brilliant thinkers, kids on trial and outlaw geeks, the film will move beyond the headlines and look at how the Internet has changed music forever, and where we're going next. read more or visit http://www.opensourcecinema.com/filmprojects/index.shtml for details and to view the interviews

This is a nationwide call for works for Australian sound artists to contribute to SoundLab Channel Edition III. SoundLab Channel was launched as part of [R][R][F]2005--->XP in the Biennale of Electronic Art Perth 2004 www.beap.org. SoundLab Channel is an Internet sound gallery hosted in Cologne. As part of [R][R][F]2005--->XP SoundLab Channel will participate in all future presentations of [R][R][F]2005--->XP in virtual and physical space. Deadline 13 June, 2005. read more for details or visit http://www.nmartproject.net

For your pleasure ** THOMAS BRINKMANN and TBA in Australia ** Liquid Architecture presents Thomas Brinkmann (Germany) Live, plus Natalie Beridze aka TBA, (Germany) Live at the Public Office, Melbourne, Saturday July 2nd, 2005. Also featuring Steve Law launching his new Zen Paradox CD and a huge line up of local live artists. Plus visual artists and vj performances throughout the night. read more for details or visit http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la6-program/

Contemporary Music Review (Routledge) invites papers from writers reflecting on sound in relation to the body/technology; from anyone who attempts to define and/or crtically examine threshold conditions of instrument and performer; writers who are keen to challenge con- or discontinuities of instrument and performer, be it in the form of laptop improvisation, interactive sound environments, 3d cave installations, sonic architecture, or other performance situations.

Sponsored by backstage.bbc.co.uk, Open Tech 2005 is an informal one-day conference about technologies that anyone can have a go at, from "Open Source"-style ways of working to repurposing everyday everyday electronics hardware. read more or visit http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/ for details

Compiled, produced and mixed by Groovescooter in collaboration with the Sonic Arcana label, comes the first ever companion CD for the Sydney Film Festival - now in it's 52nd year. This is unlike any soundtrack compendium you've heard before. A seamless journey through various moods and styles, it's more like the eclectic 'Back To Mine' series, than those heavily orchestrated, emotionally manipulative soundtrack collections of yesteryear. Subtitled 'cults classics curios', the album traverses almost four decades of Australian film music; from the most up-to-date post-rock and electronic producers (Decoder Ring and Severed Heads) to the long overlooked vice-funk of cult-classic 'The Box' alongside masters like the late Brian May ('Mad Max'). As for curios, there are plenty, but how about the soundtrack that was originally commissioned for pioneering gritty Aus-Hellinic film 'Head On' starring Alex Dimitriades and Paul Capsis? The version here wasn't used in the film's final cut after Melbourne shlock-horror filmmaker, composer and author Philip Brophy was replaced by Ollie Olsen (Psy-harmonics / Max Q). read more for further details or visit http://www.groovescooter.com

"Thoughts and words ran in me that words and writing were all nothing, and must die, for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing"
-- Gerrard Winstanley, one of the English Diggers - who through exlemparary direct action demanded the abolishment of private property and encouraged the poor to reclaim the commons. (1649)

Dane Certificate will play the Vic hotel on Saturday the 4th June after returning from a tour in Albury supporting Magic Dirt. The Vic has had its wall knocked down and a new p.a in place.

Melbourne's one man band 'Dane Certificate' will play at the Empress in North Fitzroy Melbourne, with the amazing 'Talkshowboy',on the 29th June. Certificate will be launching video clip GONE on a projection that night.Starts 9pm.

Dane Certificate is going on tour beginning from Melbourne, starting with Albury/Wodonga on the 31st May,2005, supporting MAGIC DIRT, at SODENS HOTEL, playing the following night at Charles sTURT Uni's Sloshed Cod, and continuing to Sydney Venues, returning to Melbourne to plat at several venues with several supports, including TALKSHOWBOY.

www.RENEGADEPENGUIN.COM has handprinted / handpainted designs for the concrete aethete who digs something fresh, stimulating and not for everyone.

Free Play: The Next Wave Independent Game Developers' Conference, July 15-17, 2005 @ Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Flinders St, Melbourne, Australia. Free Play '05 will be Australia's 2nd independent game developers' conference. Free Play caters for independent and DIY game developers, game modders and mappers, creatively frustrated professionals, game development students and digital artists from every state in Australia. Its aim is to bring together these communities in a forum that is financially reasonable, with a programme developed by the communities themselves. read more or visit http://www.free-play.org for details

It's the Electundra second birthday and we want to welcome you to the underground alternative. Electundra 2005 is an excursion through sound and image that draws from the avant garde through garage easthetics to tech-head explorations in new technology and all the while keeping you entertained, questioning and above all exhilarated. All the artists in Electundra, no matter how diverse their vision, have one thing in common; and that is that their work is far from common. read more for details or visit http://www.electundra.com

David Thrussell's BLACK LUNG serves up a dash of global consciousness for the postmodern world via his beat laden electronic/industrial soundscape released on Psy-Harmonics. read more or visit http://www.psy-harmonics.com.au for further details