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::July::

Metalog, Peter Newman and Aaron Hull

::Peter Newman, Aaron Hull + Metalog @ Music Farmers::

WOLONGONG SHOW 15th of July

1/4 inch escaped the city to spend a night at the sea where local and Sydney artists performed at Music Farmers an exciting new venue. Radical changes are afoot for 1/4_inch. New work was presented by some of Australias finest musicians and sound and visual artists in an intimate setting. Strictly limited numbers were available for this boutique show.

Artists included Peter Newman, Aaron Hull and Metalog

::Details::

1/4_inch July 15th at MUSIC FARMERS 8pm
Peter Newman, Aaron Hull and Metalog
5 Crown Lane Wollongong.

::Metalog::

Metalog was founded by Jim Denley in 2007, bringing together six unique artists from Sydney and Melbourne in an attempt to reflect on and extend our experiences of 'the electroacoustic'. Each member is deeply involved in creating their own 'Meta' instruments and our aim, as a group, is to create a 'metaband'.

Natasha Anderson – although her practice began to some extent with notions of the recorder, where it is now is so far removed from this that she has completely invented a new way of thinking about instrumentalism, (with some serious hardware and software additions).

Robbie Avenaim's concepts of percussion continue to astound. His use of automated electronic devices for hitting made us all rethink our assumptions of 'playing together'.

Ben Byrne performs with a revox reel-to-reel tape recorder and other electronics. He explores the act of recording sound and operating electronic equipment as a a gestural and performative musical practice which foregrounds the materiality and potential of recorded sound while at the same time adding a meta musical level in which the temporality of the performance itself comes into question.

Jim Denley's uncompromising creativity emanates from a radical approach to improvisation. He works with mutated percussion on his sax, throat mikes, contacts, computer and triggering devices - exploring the acoustics of his respiratory system.

Dale Gorfinkel - is an instrument re-designer, on the vibraphone. His idea of 'play' involves automated inventions, spatialised sounds and an approach to the trumpet that never knew convention.

Amanda Stewart's voice isn't just a voice, she uses amazing technique, amplification and diffusion to collide it's smallest particles - she is as much an electronic musician as any laptopper.

In the sense that a Metalanguage is a language about a language, this allows her to comment on notions and perceptions of voice.

In playing together we explore various ways of diffusing the electro-acoustic sound. Each individual approach is an installation in itself, so that each musician must negotiate a number of parallel time/space structures within the performance. This band isn't mixed together in the space, it's mixed together in your head.

::Aaron Hull::

Armed with sampler, laptop and broken cd player Aaron will be presenting his usual eclectic mismash of field recordings and studio recorded instruments. Taking inspiration from urban environments, machinery and film, Aaron moves you from sublime sonic plateaus to gritty, shattered electronic landscapes. Having performed one show in Sydney since his return from Europe this is a rare opputunity to see new work from the artist in his home town.

::Peter Newman::

Peter Newman is a time-based artist living in Sydney, New South Wales. He composes highly textural sound-driven audiovisual works for live performance, installation and screening/playback. These works explore the musical qualities of composed sound in a symbiotic relationship with moving image, often in a multi-speaker, multi-screen environment. His music is often concerned with drawing a sense of musicality from non-musical sources (such as field recordings and sound captured from video). In a performance context, he utilises a software-based framework for structured improvisation which he has been developing for several years. He has performed and exhibited widely within Australia (and occasionally overseas) for the last four years.