On an unusual, beautiful whim, Nights at Tempe have decided to host an event midweek, on Wednesday 25th January, featuring some international and interstate guests.
• WHISTLE-BITER (NZ/VIC)•
Hermione Johnson: piano and prepared piano.
David Brown: guitar and prepared guitar.
• DALE GORFINKEL/JIM DENLEY/PETER FARRAR TRIO (NSW/VIC) •
Airdrums, flutes, stove-tops ...
7pm Doors, 7:30pm Music
$15 concession, $20 full, or what you are able / willing to offer - all for the artists
We acknowledge that this event takes place on the unceded Aboriginal land of the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation.
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Whistle-biter, born of sunken regions separated by the Tasman, where lakes are the doors to cardboard and strings. Where small motors grow the tones of polished wood and cats dream under pianos. Our perorations like phantom wires rust at express pace, conjoined by white cloud, salt and the Southern green moon. Our stinking rivers and marshlands filter the singing of windblown felt-hammers while strained, creaking veneer over wood cracks in solitude.
David Brown has been involved in the Melbourne avant-garde, art rock/punk rock scene since the mid-seventies. The focus of his solo project “candlesnuffer” has increasingly centred on the development of composing techniques which meld opposing streams like conventional electroacoustic methods with noise and rock and also the development of a vocabulary of tiny acoustic sounds enlarged outside their normal context. He has continued to develop a vocabulary that runs the gamut from rock bassist through experimental guitarist to sound artist and has recently completed a PhD project researching the use of electroacoustic compositions in a public hospital Emergency Department.
Hermione Johnson is a pianist and composer from Tamaki Makaurau. Her performances center largely on extended and prepared piano techniques, focusing on the timbral qualities of the instrument, and drawing out a range of voices with contrasting patterns and phrases in different registers. Her prime focus is free improvisation, and with this she has been a significant force in the New Zealand experimental music scene.
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Peter, Dale and Jim have been musicking together and witnessing each others' new forms of expression for over 15 years now. Nothing 15 years ago would have led them to predict where this new trio music would have led. Each of them is materializing sound in totally unexpected ways. Membranes, heat and pneumatic pressure systems are employed to create a new world of sound. Over the last few weeks they have been recording together, and they are as surprised by the collective music, as the individual signals.
For this performance Peter Farrar will be playing fried water gel balls and submerged bathroom tiles. the sounds created seem to conjure up both the natural world and the out of this world.
Dale Gorfinkel is a musician, artist and facilitator whose stylefree improvisational approach informs his multi-instrumental performances, instrument-building, kinetic sound installations, videos and animations. Dale’s work aims to reflect an awareness of the dynamic nature of culture and the value of listening as a mode of knowing people and places. He is interested in finding fresh ways of presenting and making music, bringing creative communities together and shifting perceived boundaries of scenes and artforms.
Jim Denley - There is an commitment to eco-musicality, spontaneity, and co-creation with musickin (human and more-than-human) in his work. He sees no clear distinctions between his roles as instrumentalist, improviser, producer/recordist and composer.