Blogs

AMO is an online resource for bands, with opportunities to be profiled, promoted and have the band`s music previewed by visitors to the site. Visit http://www.amo.org.au/ for details

an international festival of electronic music and media arts featuring artistic showcases, club events, workshops, discussions, installations, and interventions. held in manchester, UK in april-may 04, the festival will include many art exhibitions dealing with the theme of mobile communications & technology. visit www.mobileconnections.org for more details

UNDERGROWTH ::: {we live not underground, but in the undergrowth} ::: A nu world is growing through the cracks of the old in UNDERGROWTH, a quarterly PDF digizine being launched in early 2004, UNDERGROWTH will feature an ongoing collection of some of Australia`s cutting edge guerilla ontologists using science fiction as a medium of exploring consciousness and playing mind games with what they find. From sustainable eco-tek communities to shamanistic modes of perception on the street and the youth culture of tomorrow - UNDERGROWTH is the sprouting of a new wave of writers and artists and a new type of psyence fiction as cyberpunk becomes psyberdelic... visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/undergrowthdigizine/ for more details

australian anarchist & autonomous activist conference is being held in Perth_WA, invasion day long weekend, jan23-27.2004. lets spend a long weekend non-stop talking the anarchist talk: from staunch anarchist to hard autonomous activists - or those of slight anarchist politico persuasion - or just emotional anarchists or people interested in talking/listening/sharing ideas towards society based on active voluntary participation and respect. visit http://www.anarcon.org for more details

The Crossroads festival of electronic music, art and new media taking place in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Saturday December 6 are partnering with Pulse Internet Radio to broadcast the event live via the internet. Visit http://www.pulseradio.net or www.straightoutofbrisbane.com/crossroads for more details

Straight Out of Brisbane Festival 2003 presents JUNGLETTES - a night of Drum`n`Bass and Jungle music showcasing an all female DJ line up, starring members of Brisbane`s own vibrant Junglist community as well as an interstate guest. Friday December 5, 2003 @ The Underground Bar, downstairs Elephant and Wheelbarrow

STRAIGHT OUT OF BRISBANE presents emerging arts and culture festival - read more for gigs details or visit www.straightoutofbrisbane.com/music

Copyright: Unlucky for Some? Conference will provide up-to-date information and analysis from a range of academic, judicial, government, industry, and professional perspectives. It will be of interest to copyright owners and consumers, academics, practitioners, librarians, and policy-makers. Topics to be discussed include: the attorney-General`s Digital Agenda copyright reforms review; the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement; Indigenous community moral rights; the legal regulation of digital music; as well as updates on recent Australian and international copyright cases. 13th Feb 2004

EMP is on Saturday November 29th at the Institute of Modern Art in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. Presentations will focus on the nature and relevance of performance in electronic music making and seek to further the development of a sense of digital musicianship. Browse through the program @ http://www.smallblackbox.com.au/emp/schedule.php

Zephyr Timbre play at The Milk Bar in Brisbane Friday 29th November & NYE as well as Homebake in Sydney on December 6th http://www.zephyrtimbre.com for more info

rand[]% is a net.radio station broadcasting a unique series of artist / musician developed audio programs. rand[]% schedules sequences of constantly mutating [generative] software applications and experiments. rand[]% is entirely automated; every programme is composed in real-time by computer - http://www.r4nd.org/

Applications are being invited from Australian artists working across disciplines, cultures, and/or mediums to participate in Time_Place_Space 3. This will be the third intensive laboratory as part of Time_Place_Space, a national initiative that aims to challenge, invigorate and strengthen the areas of hybrid arts practice in Australia, with an emphasis on performance. Visit http://www.performancespace.com.au/tps for more details

On Friday 5 December at West Side Asylum 41 Moreland St Footscray from 7.00pm there will be an all ages hip hop show with Combat Wombat, Bass Bin Laden, Clearfella and MCs Elf Transporter, Raceless (Curse ov Dialect), Izzy, Lautaro, open mic. $5 admission this will be a benefit for the class action being launched against the South Australian police over the use of excessive force at the Beverly Uranium mine protest in 2000 where peaceful protesters were bashed, pepper sprayed and illegally detained.

The Advent*jah festival kicks off once again Sat Nov 29 with 8 stages of live artists and djs with music ranging from tribal, tech & progressive, trance to hard trance, drum`n`bass & hip hop, funky house, breaks & jazzy drum`n`bass, breaks, electro & electronica, hard dance, hardcore & freeform as well as a nuskool vs old school dj room

Clan Analogue celebrate the nomination of their compilation Habitat: Environmental Sound Research in the 2003 Dance Music Awards with an all-night party of electronica and dance grooves on Friday the 7th of November, upstairs at Republika, 132 Smith Street, Collingwood. Catch a mix of minimal techno, maximum electro and funky beats of all persuasions, with sets from DJ Zaziz, Zog, Fluffy T, The Sideman, Tolchok, DJ Toupee, Tiatto, DJ Bo Smiling Backwards and #955321, from 10pm until late.