Disorientation 16 June 2006

Presented by the UTS Sound Collective, the next Dis_or_ien_ta_tion live music event will feature: Toydeath, Rik Rue & Fold, Lecter Macabre, Kamusta, Funkmeister G & The John RA Benders, plus Wake Up and Listen DJs.

When :: Friday 16 June, 8pm-12am
Where :: Hermann's Bar, Cnr City Rd & Bultin Ave (opp. Sydney Uni Main entrance), Darlington
Cost :: $7/$5 concession

++ ABOUT DISORIENTATION ++
Disorientation is a monthly live audiovisual performance night in Sydney which has been running for just over two years.

Broadly concentrating on experimental and electronic music, as well as elements of performance art and experimental film, the event aims to present challenging new work to as wide an audience as possible.

Organised by the UTS Sound Collective, the event also makes it a priority to showcase young and emerging artists every month alongside more experienced and well known performers. Originally held at Lanfranchis Memorial Discotheque in Chippendale the night has recently moved to the Abercrombie Hotel on Broadway.

++ LINE-UP DETAILS++

>> TOYDEATH
Formed in 1995 Sydney band Toydeath use children‚Äös electronic toys to create music you have never heard before! That‚Äös right we only use toys! We have collected an arsenal of toys to make any kindergarten green with envy.

You will hear talking Barbie Dolls, Speak and Spells, Rock Guitars, Sax-a-booms, Toy Telephones and lots of other fantastic Toys! Toydeath have also collected toys from their international tours and use Chinese, Dutch, German and Japanese language toys in our set. Many of the toys have electronic additions (circuit bending) to turn them into wild and unique instruments.

We also assume toy like characters with colourful costumes as part of our stage show. On stage you will see GiJoe, L‚ÄöBooby, Nursey and Trailer Trash Barbie!

>> RIK RUE AND FOLD
Throughout his 30 year career, Rik has been involved in many multi-faceted areas of audio works. He is a founding member of internationally renowned experimental improvisation group the Machine for Making Sense with whom he has performed extensively. He has constructed atmospheric soundscapes for dance/theatre groups such as Gravity Feed, and is a founding member of electronic trio Social Interiors.

Rik's radiophonic compositions have been broadcast in Australia, Europe, UK, USA, Canada and Asia and he has regularly performed both solo and with other musicians locally and internationally, as well as releasing numerous recordings of his own works.

For this performance he will be collaborating with John Jacobs on Things Change, Things Remain the Same.

>> FOLD / JOHN JACOBS
John Jacobs has been making improvised collaborative electronic poems for about twenty five years. He's a long time fan of Rik Rue's associative collages.

John's video work began with home brew RF oscillators, magnets and modified televisions. His work with video Subvertigo was characterised by unwieldy analogue mixer/VHS/camera feed back rigs at underground techno parties.

Currently he is in a 'free-jazz' laptop VJ mode, researching aleatoric modes of visual expression with Fold.

>> LECTER MACABRE
Lecter Macabre are the music of the spheres, ambient astral reconnaissance, extreme noise terror, nocturnal emmissions from the heat death at the centre of the universe, psychic turmoil at the edge of sleep, unknowable and primal reaching into the reptilian brain buried deep within us all. Their live perfomances become cathartic experiments in high volume free form sonic mesmerism, not for the faint of heart or weak of bladder, become spherical nubile little minkies... become spherical.

Mark Selway (ex-Music For Big Game Hunting) - Theremin
Josh Shipton (TRIANGLE, Marquis De Sound) - Voice

>> KAMUSTA
Kamusta is a collaboration between Sydney based video artists Chris Caines and Jessica Tyrrell.

Jessica Tyrrell is an emerging experimental filmmaker, video artist and writer. Fusing a cinematic sensibilty with a love of poetic text, she creates elusive and abstract video pieces.

Chris Caines is a filmmaker working in shorts, documentary, locative & wireless media. His work has been commissioned, screened and broadcast internationally & includes screenings/exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery, the MCA, ACMI & the Cannes, Berlin & Venice film
festivals.

Testing the filmic possibilities of VJ performance, Kamusta creates live visual and audio pieces that aspire to a kind of 'live cinema'.

Disorientation will see the debut of A Place You Can Never Go To, a 'live cinema' experiment that creates a world of suggested narratives, fragmented characters, half-heard words and takes the audience on a haunting visual and sonic journey to a place they have never been before.

>> FUNKMEISTER G AND THE JOHN RA BENDERS
The John Ra Benders are a loose group of Funkmeister G's mates, who when not playing music, like to do this.

No performance is rehearsed & instruments may be decided upon at the last minute. Funkmeister G acts as conductor for the John Ra Benders, as well as doing his own thing, however, some or all of the Benders may choose to ignore him [or maybe not even show up].

We love music/sound with passion, it's our life & that's why we feel it should never be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

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