It all happens Wednesday September 30 from 8:30pm at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

Entry is free and the a/v jams are on between feature artists so bring your gear and have no fear!

Random Acts of Elevator Music make rare out-of-office-hours appearance…
Taking a break from a heavy work schedule of daytime elevator performances in Melbourne’s office buildings, Random Acts of Elevator Music bring their live muzaktronica to Outpost at Bar Open on Wednesday September the 30th. Experience these soothing oscillations and melodies and enjoy your resultant increase in productivity.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

Winterpark (solo)

Begun in 2005 as a collaborative musical studio project by Melbourne musician Matt Ridgway, Winterpark soon evolved into a live band that merged elements of sound design, pop, electronica and noise. 2006 saw the release of the debut album ‘One Night Alone’. 2007 saw the band take on the world with an adventure that saw them film a clip in the back alleys of Brooklyn, play at Iceland’s airwaves festival parties for free drinks, carry equipment on the Paris underground to play Parties, travel to Prague to play at a bookstore, and write songs in a makeshift apartment in Berlin.

2008 saw Winterpark back on home turf, independently releasing ‘Falling Men and Flying Dreams’ and a subsequent east coast album launch tour.

2009 brings a new chapter, with Matt creating melodic, ambient, layered, textural music with heavily processed guitar, vocals and live laptop. Playing at OUTPOST as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival. Wednesday Sept 30th.

Jed has been sculpting environments for listeners to cohabitate for the last 12 years and his musical output runs the full gamut from pop to experimental, with his latest works having a dub techno/haunted house flavour.
Jed also employs home built electronics and programmed devices into his live sets so expect an exciting performance.

Jammers bring your gear and get it on…

Peaceout

Scott Baker, who after apprenticing under Alan Lamb and learning the power of the drone creates improvisations of dense tangible noise from an analogue modular synthesiser with live visuals inspired by zombies films, conspiracy theories and hidden truths. abre ojos is a Portuguese sailing term when moving through dangerous waters meaning “watch out” or “open your eyes”.

Check out some fine abre ojos work right here…

temptatio de evol te – abre ojos from abre ojos on Vimeo.

Just a quickie to remind you that the Gertrude Street Projection Festival launches this Friday night. There are seven days of awesome events on at a range of venues, so get down if you can.

If you are going to be in the area on opening night (this Friday), the OUTPOST crew are performing at Southpaw from 9 till 11 p.m followed by a DJ set from Soup (MISO).

Southpaw is located at 189 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.

Be sure to bring your devices down for a play or just bring yourselves for a tech perve and a tasty beverage.

Straight outta Adelaide, we are delighted to have a feature slot from v-tar wielding video and sound artist Lynne Sanderson (VJ Sustenance), who came and jammed with the OUTPOST/Plug’n'Play collectives for last years Digital Fringe webcast on mogulus.

Based in Adelaide, Lynne has been entertaining clubbers with her original style of layered visuals since 1992. From small to large shows, some of the highlights have included Dave Clarke and Aphex Twin. She has also crossed over to corporate shows such as the launch of the Adelaide Film Festival 2005 and was resident at the Adelaide Festival’s Persian Garden 2006/08. Lynne’s obsession with more fluid performative control led her to create the v-tar, a visual controller in the shape of a flying v guitar.

Over the years, Lynne also has led a parallel life as a media artist. Her artworks are interactive and involve the participation of the public. She has exhibited extensively including MTV Australia, the Museum of Modern Art NYC, ISEA95 Montreal, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Sydney Opera House, Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (BEAP) and the New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada.

After many years of collaborations and conversations with musicians, Lynne has decided to try her hand at creating audio. Over the last month Lynne has been creating dark, minimal beats using a Nintendo DS.

For her show at Share Outpost she will be triggering aspects of both the audio and visual on the v-tar. Lynne is experimenting with the live implementation and performance of these mediums. She is exploring the process of what is it to create sound from a visual perspective. This is her AV debut and a work in progress.

The Jams are on as always, new players/projectors/purveyors are most welcome so tell your friends and..
Bring your gear and have no fear!

See you Wednesday the 27th..
the Outpost Collective

The prolific master of the record players DJ WASABI, is performing a very special feature set at this month’s OUTPOST.
Wasabi is doing a live scratch video set over some new audio tracks he has been working on.
He will be rocking his Numark Virtual Vinyl set up so be sure to come and check the Don of the decks in full effect!

The jams are also absolutely on so come down and bring your devices..

It all takes place next Wednesday the 29th of April from 8.30 p.m. at Bar Open and as always, entry is free.

As always, new players/projectors/purveyors are most welcome so tell your friends and..
Bring your gear and have no fear!

the relaunch of OUTPOST at our new awesome venue Bar Open is almost upon us and we’re making it a cracker.
Get yourselves down to 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy on Wednesday March 25th from 8:30pm – entry is free and beverages are very reasonably priced.

For this month’s event, we are thrilled to have Jean Poole and Lewis CanCut performing a warm up set for their upcoming TV-inspired ACMI Synaesthesia show.

Jean Poole, aka Sean Healy, is concerned with real time audio visual performance. A founder of Newcastle’s Electrofringe
Festival, Jean Poole is regular contributor to the event’s annual program and travels Australia (and Europe) performing at
major events and festivals.

Providing the music to Jean Poole’s visuals is Lewis CanCut, aka Lewis Gittus, a young DJ hailing from regional Victoria with a
love of vinyl. His current work examines elements of club culture such as appropriation and repetition, bound together by
dense layers of stolen sound that threaten at any moment to self implode!

Stalwart of Melbourne downtempo sweetness, Thomas Campbell (aka. Soup from MISO) is also performing a solo slot which will be sure to satisfy like a good meal.

The jams are also absolutely on so be sure to come down and bring your devices for the a/v key party..

As always, new players/projectors are most welcome so tell your friends and..
Bring your gear and have no fear!

See you Wednesday the 25th..
the Outpost Collective

Greeting friends of OUTPOST,

This to let everyone know that the the first OUTPOST for 2009 will be on Wednesday the 25th of March from 8:30pm – so no OUTPOST for February.

We are also excited to be relocating OUTPOST to the new iconic location of Bar Open. Bar Open is loacted at 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. We are currently programming for the March relaunch and we hope to see as many of you down to set it off as possible.

Specifics of the launch to follow.. stay tuned.

Due to a special event at Stutter this Wednesday, this month’s OUTPOST will not run.

Stay tuned for further information on upcoming OUTPOST events for 2009 including a performance at ACMI on Thursday April 16 as part of their Music for Moving Image series.

Thanks for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the next OUTPOST in February.

We are also very excited to have Kelly Ryal & Matt Gingold as our final feature performers for the year.

Having worked together in the past on theater productions, Kelly & Matt will be premiering their audio visual performance collaboration at Outpost this Wednesday.
Kelly will be showing off new sounds and music developed during a hectic year of non-stop audio production, and Matt will be using new software developed in open frameworks to play HD video and stills made during his recent travels to Thailand, Singapore and Japan.
Hot.
Super Hot..

There will be lots of opportunity for everyone to get their jam on and as always, new players/projectors are most welcome so tell your friends and..
Bring your gear and have no fear!

Just so you know, this month’s OUTPOST has been delayed by a week to make way for a special STUTTER show at Horse Bazaar. If you haven’t been to a STUTTER show (curated by new music impresario powerhouse, Annalee Koernig) then why not take this chance to absorb the impact that Melbourne’s thriving underground and new music will have on your brain box.

This means that OUTPOST #23 for 29th October has been pushed back to Wednesday November 5th.

Stay tuned for more details on feature artists for Outpost #23.

For the netcast we’ll be using the free Mogulus software. The event will link up with other performances around Australia and overseas as part of this special Digital Fringe event.

You can either watch this event from the comfort of your preferred browser, or come on down to Horse Bazaar around 8pm on the 9th October to be a part of it.

Participants in this event are also uploading audio content for remixing in any way they see fit. We have started uploading some audio to the A.B.C.’s new collaborative on-line project Pool. Head over to our page where you can download the material to use freely under a Creative Commons license. There is more material to come and we are tagging it melb2008digitalfringe. Enter this as a search term to find any material that has been uploaded for the event.

Great to see some more people down last night for the jam. Be great to see even more of you down there tonight for one big old blast before the end of a top festival!

For all of you that are up here for this awesome festival and feel the need to let loose after a days worth of information and inspiration, please come on down with your gear in to join in on the jam session. The PA is ready and so are the projectors! Come armed with a few trusty plugs and adaptors and you’ll be on your way! Just approach anyone on the table to find out how you can get started.

Thanks to all that came down to listen and participate in last nights event. We hope to see you there again tonight!

We start the first of 3 nights of jamming tonight as part of Electrofringe in Newcastle tonight.

If you’re in town, or driving down from Sydney to check out some the great events lined up over this weekend, remember to bring along your synths, laptops and whatever other electronic sound/video making devices. Come on down from 6 to 10 pm and plug that stuff in to join us in these special impro sessions!

If you’re looking for us during the day, we’ll either be hanging on the beach or taking in some of the awesome art events and shows packed into this killer weekend!

See you there!

Melbourne Digital Fringe launches this Wednesday the 24th September at Horse Bazaar and coincides with this month’s OUTPOST event, it’s going to be a cracker so come on down.

To kick off MDF, we are starting OUTPOST an hour earlier at 7:30 and featuring 6 short solo sets of 25 minutes followed by our regular open Jam.

New players are always welcome so bring your gear and have no fear!

Here is the audio lineup, we will be rotating VJ’s for each solo set and then all in for the Jams

7:30 Jpak will be busting out some deep dubby flavors

8:00 Soup bringing the heavy downbeat

8:30 Welcome Dear Friend folky electronic goodness

9:00 Amanaska the world beat meister will be performing tracks from Circles

9:30 Evil Jed will provide dark and moody beats, subdued basslines and spooky sounds

10:00 MulchWerk 3.0 (a.k.a. Ross Bencina) performing deutsche proto-elektro meets breakcore mayhem, and also previewing Audio Mulch version 2.0

Intermittent textural sound events between sets to be provided by Byron Scullin.

10:30 OPEN JAM

Come and support Melbourne Digital Fringe launch, entry is free and the Horse bar is fully loaded.. awesome!