For the first time, a genuine legend of the Sydney experimental arts community will join us at The People's Republic next month, in collaboration with an equally iconic Melbourne artist who is playing in Sydney for the very first time!

Ian Andrews works across a number of disciplines including film and video, sculpture, installation and collage, poetry and writing, in order to explore questions relating to utopia and modernism, technologies and the post-human. His contribution to Australian experimental music reaches back to the early 1980s, including projects like The Horse He's Sick, Kurt Volentine, Cut With the Kitchen Knife and countless others. READ AND HEAR MORE HERE

Astasie-abasie is a project of Ian Andrews which evolved out of a long running performance collaboration with Garry Bradbury. The project focuses on the amplification of small sounds generated by small objects (following the approach of John Cage, Gordon Mumma and David Tudor) by way of contact microphones, home constructed cartridges, miniature piezo microphones and conventional microphones. Various devices are used as constraints in order to distance any performing gesture of the artist from the compositional process, which is close to automatic. Much like field recording, sounds are found rather than performed or manipulated. Modified or ‘prepared’ turntables are often used to create the sounds, after which any editing of the material is kept to a minimum.

Clinton Green makes something akin to music. He has been active in Australian experimental music since the 1990s as a recording and performing artist, curator, facilitator, writer and researcher. He has worked with unconventional approaches to guitars, turntables and found objects as tools for new forms of musical expression. He also works with dancers, theatre and performance artists in improvised collaborative situations, and has developed a performance practice incorporating projections. Clinton runs the Shame File Music label and writes on/researches historical and contemporary aspects of Australian experimental music. READ AND HEAR MORE HERE

THERE WILL BE THREE SETS ON THE NIGHT:
ASTASIE-ABASIE
CLINTON GREEN
IAN ANDREWS & CLINTON GREEN

SUNDAY September 29th at 7 p.m. [doors at 6.30]

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL FOR NEW ADDRESS AND FURTHER DETAILS AND TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE

THERE IS NO ADMISSION CHARGE FOR PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC EVENTS - PLEASE DONATE GENEROUSLY ON THE NIGHT KNOWING THAT EVERY CENT GOES TO THE ARTISTS
a recommended donation is $20 or more!

NOTE THAT THIS IS STILL A CASH-ONLY EVENT
SO PLEASE BRING ALONG A FULL WALLET