For week 6 of Vitalise, four of the five live acts will be joining us from the 'Gong:
LIVE:
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BATTERIE
Virus Installer
Lime Volts
Jondent
Ed K
resident DJ Chris Mountford
resident VJ ATMM
A subset of the minds that brought you 'interesting music' night Frigid have joined forces with some more interesting people and GOOD SPACE to create a nine week run of Thursday evenings of interesting live electronic music featuring live acts, deejays and veejays from 6pm til midnight for only $8 at the door.
Expect modular synthesisers with masses of blinking lights and tangled patch cables, performers playing obscure objects like panes of glass or hurdygurdies, drums played without sticks, eye bending visuals, DNA being turned into music, drones, dubs, noise, sub-bass, cut up vocals and beats alike. Improvisation, collaboration, sonic exploration. Genres being blurred, bent and re-invented before your ears.
Come down at 6pm for five live acts, DJs and live visuals. $8 at the door.
BIOs:
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BATTERIE
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BATTERIE is the brainchild of Jared Underwood; award winning musician, composer, percussionist, experimentalist and graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and AFTRS (Australian Film Radio and Television School)
BATTERIE combines improvised live drums, synthesizers, sampling, live looping, and electronics that interact with visual projections in a unique live solo show that pushes the boundaries of what a solo performer can do
BATTERIE performs instrumental electronica inspired by IDM, electro, chip tune, breakbit, experimental rock and post rave music genres.
Some highlights have been supporting New York art rock band Gang Gang Dance at the Sydney Opera House, opening for cult Japanese group CIBO MATTO, performing at ART BAR at The Museum Of Contemporary Art and most recently playing SQUARE SOUNDS festival in Melbourne (Australia’s only Chip tune music festival), SUB SONIC dance music festival 2018 and curating the music and headlining PLAY FARE a indie game festival held at 107 Projects Redfern in early 2019.
Over the last few years BATTERIE has been busily composing music for indie games including : OTTTD, One More Dash, PLATO, One More Jump, Thumb Drift and One More Line. The games he has worked on have been downloaded more that 24 Million times . The music is available on Apple music, Spotify, Soundcloud, BandCamp and more.
In other musical guises Jared was the winner of TropScore 2013, he performed his winning film score live to picture at TROPFEST to an audience of 80,000 people in the Domain.
He has been nominated for 2 ARIA awards as a member of Cinematic art pop group CODA who have played Vivid Sydney, Woodford Folk festival, The Big Day Out and more. Jared was a founding member of Sydney post rock band PROP whose members went on to form The Presets and Boy & Bear. Prop supported Tortoise & Sonic Youth. Their album ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ is available on Spotify and Apple Music.
https://batterie.com.au/
https://soundcloud.com/batterie-1
www.instagram.com/batteriemusic
https://youtu.be/CwnrHiyVbGo
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Virus Installer
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Virus Installer is the electronic music project of Andrew Gilholme from Wollongong, NSW.
The Virus Installer project covers multiple genres which have branched from morning psytrance to melodic IDM, 70s space prog to experimental, techno & Drone & uplifting trance. With his latest release an all modular, bleak, eerie and dystopian IDM.
For Vitalise Virus Installer is bringing a new, all modular set called Poseidon's Tales which uses some of the best sampling modules in eurorack. The Vitalise set uses 250 individual sounds over 40mins and is truly a journey through a sound universe.
https://virusinstaller.bandcamp.com/
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Lime Volts
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Lime Volts is a solo project looking to create dark and uneasy soundscapes through use of guitar, effects and synthesizers.
Influences of music range from industrial to psychedelic, from the 60's through to today.
Most recently those soundscapes have looked to incorporate physical tape and visual accompaniment.
https://www.instagram.com/lime_volts/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i7jiCFrE7r9R0QMGD6kl9...
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Jondent
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Jondent has been DJing for many years but crossed over to the dark side of modular synths about 15 years ago.
https://djjondent.blogspot.com/
https://www.instagram.com/dj_jondent/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQl1kdSkkq15KJPQsBmbXVw
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Ed K
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Classical roots, transitioned to synthesized electronic sounds with a focus on atmospheric sounds.
https://www.instagram.com/elk_elektronik/
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resident DJ Chris Mountford
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Chris Mountford is a Sydney-based DJ and producer with a strong connection to the experimental music, Burning Seed and queer party communities.
Having hosted several of Sydney's most loved warehouse parties of recent years including Orchid Funstorm, he's also summoned dancefloor enthusiasm at the occasional festival and club night.
With a performative approach to DJing, his selections strike a sophisticated balance of rhythms from the Middle East, South America and naturally, Africa, with a sonority that blends traditional instrumentation with the purely synthetic.
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resident VJ ATMM
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Our resident VJ is ATMM (Automatic Teller Machine Machine)
'the buttons we push are not very clean'
ATMM provides organic and architectural visuals spanning from the analogue to the digital, adding colour and movement to the sounds of Anomie, Borgore, various Clan Analogue acts, Datsik, MarkN, MonkFly, Ribongia and was the resident VJ for the notorious Channel parties.