Corporate Manifestations

Ritual the Fifth

Samuel Bruce — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:35:16 +0000

Ritual the Fifth by Black Math This Ritual was conducted for ‘the Best of Electrofringe’ at Campbelltown Arts Centre in July 2010.

Liquid Architecture 11, Sydney

Lucas Darklord — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:00:47 +0000

Liquid Architecture presents sound. Sound as the starting point for the active practice of listening. This is not to deny the conceptual or the abstract, the metaphorical or the representational, the expressionistic or the meaningful. But rather this is to restore the emphasis on the primary act of listening. Liquid Architecture is in effect then [...]

Black Math – Ritual the Fourth

Samuel Bruce — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:45:20 +0000

Ritual the Fourth by Black Math Before this Ritual took place, new and terrifying upgrades were made, adding more gain and expressive control to the Black Math feedback network. This Ritual was conducted at High Reflections #10 at Serial Space, Sydney in June 2010.

Some Kind Of Announcements

Mother Eel — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:42:50 +0000

We’re happy to announce the title of our Doom release, hints of splitting with various artists can be talked of later, anyway, the title appears to be “Total Fucking Svalbard“. This title cements how Avant Garde and Metal we truly are. We’re also trialling some drummers out over the next period of time. Here’s (below) [...]

Disturbing Extreme Music and Sound Art: The Importance and Function of Disturbance

Lucas Darklord — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:31:38 +0000

[Abstract for a paper, by Thomas Knox Arnold] Discussing a selection of musicians and sound artists that produce music or sound art that is disturbing, often both disturbing to the listener and disturbing in various other ways. Arguing an aesthetic, cultural, social and critical position from which to assert the importance of disturbance in music, [...]

Francisco Lopez interview summary

Lucas Darklord — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:08:17 +0000

Lopez sees his work as being different to most music, not just in how he makes his music and how it sounds, but also because of his expectations of the listeners. His focus is on “dedicated profound listening experience”. He also specifies that he works “with sound matter” as opposed to instruments, which he equates [...]

Dave Philips interview summary

Lucas Darklord — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:06:39 +0000

Dave Phillips does not regard his work as being radically different from that produced by other like artists, but does consider that there is a lot of art and music to which his sound and practice is very different. He considers his work and practice to be activism on a number of levels. For him, [...]

Grist interview summary

Lucas Darklord — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:05:19 +0000

Grist does not see his music as being specifically different as it draws from a broad range of styles of music and from sounds that can often be recognised by listeners. He recognises that it is different in the sense that combines a lot of genres of music and is, as a result, “not really [...]