Tuesday May 21st, 2013

This week at MIUC is another illustration that meaningful engagement with the traditional roots of free jazz and post-classical improv is still applicable, enjoyable, and evolving with every passing year and emerging generation of music makers (and that Melbourne aint a half-bad place to be circa 2013). Petrichor is a term coined by two Australian scientific journalists to describe the aroma that accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell; Petrichor wield strings and flute to aurally evoke the sensations that accompany said scent. The great clash of Rhodes occurs, brandished by Joe O'Connor and James Bowers, facing off with hammers, metal prongs and electromagnetic pickups in an ethereal duo of shimmering intensity. And prolific young jazz (etc). masters Marty Holoubek and Brenton Foster make their Make It Up debut to make up what they think a unique section of space-time flow should sound like, expressed via the universal language of bass and keys.

• Marty Holoubek (Bass) + Brenton Foster (Keyboard)
• Joe O'Connor (Rhodes) and James Bowers (Rhodes)
• Petrichor feat. Alexina Hawkins (Viola), Rowan Hamwood (Flute) & Jessica Fotinos (Harp)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Coming up:
28/05/2013: Gnaumgn, HAARK, Merge Into Stripes
04/06/2013: Shane van den Akker; Complexe; Heilsgeschichte

Danny Fischer is confirmed on drumkit with the Sugg/Wanders Unit.

Recently returned from many years performing in NYC's Downtown Avant Jazz scene, this is an awesome opportunity to witness some modern, fiery free jazz!

Tuesday May 14th, 2013

This week we have some classic free jazz headed up by two great and powerful tenor-men: The Andy Sugg - Kris Wanders unit presents ''The Buddy Boldon Project.'' *David Palliser* performs a rare solo show, replete with dada-esque inspiration, and sonic strangeness. And Alex Cuffe abuses the ocular and sonic potential of audiovisual feedback incorporating stereoscopic video augmented by a bricolage of found audio recordings and drone.

• The Andy Sugg - Kris Wanders Unit presents ''The Buddy Boldon Project'' feat. Andy Sugg (Tenor Sax), Kris Wanders (Tenor Sax), Tom Freyer (Guitar), Ali Watts (Bass), and TBC (drumkit)
• David Palliser (acoustics and enquiry)
• Alex Cuffe (analogue sound and VHS)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Coming up:
21/05/2013: Marty Holoubek and Brenton Foster; Joe O'Connor & James Bowers; Petrichor
28/05/2013: Gnaumgn, HAARK, Merge Into Stripes
04/06/2013: Shane van den Akker; Complexe; Heilsgeschichte

Tuesday May 7th, 2013

This edition of MIUC is certainly one not to be missed, as we are delighted to present one of the most distinct improvising performers of the past decade and two of the figureheads of the ever-strengthening Brisbane weirdcore noise scene. Basque artist Mattin is a multi-faceted frequency abuser of the highest caliber, having held his own with such sonic sparring partners as Tony Conrad, Oren Ambarchi, Dean Roberts, Bruce Russell and Taku Sugimoto; it is truly an honour to have him in Melbourne to bombard our ears and brains. Cultural instigator, film geek, musical mastermind and all-round nice guy Joel Stern is back to expand consciousnesses in all four dimensions with a quadrophonic sonoluminescent work guaranteed to alter synaptical activity. And industrial enfant terrible Andrew McLellan unleashes his noise-hell ritualistic detrituscore project Cured Pink to swell your occipital bun for maximum experiential retention.

• Mattin (BSQ) (sound)
• Joel Stern (Bris) (sound)
• Cured Pink (Bris) (sound)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Coming up:
14/05/2013: ''The Buddy Boldon Project'' by the Andy Sugg - Kris Wanders Unit.; David Palliser; Alex Cuffe.
21/05/2013: Marty Holoubek and Brenton Foster; Joe O'Connor & James Bowers; Petrichor
28/05/2013: Gnaumgn, HAARK, Merge Into Stripes
04/06/2013: Shane van den Akker; Complexe; Heilsgeschichte

Tuesday April 30th, 2013

This week at MIUC we showcase another three divergent musical projects engaged in the improvisatory arts in our fair city. Born and musically trained in Iran, Gelareh Pour represents a fairly unique voice (both metaphorically and literally) in the Melbourne avant scene, on this occasion accompanied by the tripped-out tabla of Phil Coyle and erhu of HakGwai Lau. Maka Khan rip loose with their fiery brand of free jazz, denoting a much yearned-for musical insanity in the emerging generation of VCA-moulded jazz practitioners. And The Secret Tomb, with the self prescribed aim: try to create a vision of 'what music and sound /noise are define', an evocation of some darkness in our universe in a very much synthesised world.

• The Secret Tomb - Carey Knight (Guitar) Ledong Kvelin (Alto Saxophone, Radio Noise Frequency Manipulation, Vocals)
• Maka Khan feat. Mitch Mollison (Electronics), Sarah Galdes (Drums) and Paris Favilla (Voice)
• Gelareh Pour (kamanche, voice), HakGwai Lau (Erhu) and Phil Coyle (Tabla)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Coming up:
07/05/2013: Mattin (BSQ); Joel Stern; Cured Pink.
14/05/2013: Kris Wanders Group; David Palliser
21/05/2013: Marty Holoubek and Brenton Foster; Joe O'Connor & James Bowers; Petrichor
28/05/2013: Gnaumgn, HAARK, Merge Into Stripes
04/06/2013: Shane van den Akker; Complexe; Heilsgeschichte

Tuesday April 23rd, 2013

This Tuesday at MIUC we present four artists dealing with the potentially impersonal nature of electronic music production and proving the cruciality of the id to pleasurable sound production. Norwegian Alexander Rishaug builds on an intimate knowledge of his technological equipment by injecting unbridled curiosity and unprocessed humanity to create richly detailed sonic architectures brimming with eloquent textures and languid melodicism, extending far beyond the usual forensic clinicism of glitch music. NyquistX manifest their spectral perception of future jazz by electronically extending a synth and drum kit in ways that will make you glad you've never heard of Saint Germain. And Robert McDougall revels in his phenomenological approach to electroacoustic music, asserting that sometimes monitoring rather than controlling one's instrument provides maximum levels of absorption.

• Alexander Rishaug (NO) (Laptop, Modular Synthesiser)
• NyquistX feat. Vijay Thillaimuthu (Modular Synthesiser, Electronics) and Sam Price (Drums, Electronics) • Robert McDougall (Sound)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Coming up:
30/04/2013: The Secret Tomb; Maka Khan; Gelareh Pour, HakGwai Lau & Phil Coyle.
07/05/2013: Mattin (BSQ); Joel Stern; Cured Pink.
14/05/2013: Kris Wanders Group; David Palliser
21/05/2013: Marty Holoubek and Brenton Foster; Joe O'Connor & James Bowers; Petrichor
28/05/2013: Gnaumgn, HAARK, Merge Into Stripes
04/06/2013: Shane van den Akker; Complexe; Heilsgeschichte

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Tuesday April 16th, 2013

This edition of MIUC draws focus to three idiomatic local groupings that feature some of the Generation Y-sters who are turning to aleatoric means to express their atypical visions for the potentialities of live music. Alice Hui Sheng-Chang and Nigel Brown extend their lush textural duo with the addition of the unpredictably angular rhythms of My Disco's Rohan Rebeiro. The Cross Brothers invoke and recontextualise the slacker minimalist approach of the trans-Tasman noisy drone aesthetic of the 90s with their fraternal guitar abuses. And Stre4m celebrate the lamentations for the passing of the fertile seasons into the inevitable cold depths of a Melbournian winter with their spiritually electroacousmatic pagan devotional music.

• Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (Vocals), Nigel Brown (Modified Accordion) & Rohan Rebeiro (Drums)
• Dan Cross (Guitar) & Patrick Cross (Guitar)
• Stre4m feat. Paddy Gordon, Scott McCulloch & Conor O'Hanlon (Guitar, Bass, Voice, Dictaphones, Drum-Kit & Fiddle)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Coming up:
23/04/2013: Alexander Rishaug; NyquistX; Robert McDougall.
30/04/2013: The Secret Tomb; Maka Khan; Gelareh Pour & Phil Coyle.
07/05/2013: Mattin (BSQ); Joel Stern; Cured Pink.
14/05/2013: Kris Wanders Group; David Palliser
21/05/2013: Marty Holoubek and Brenton Foster; Joe O'Connor & James Bowers; Petrichor
28/05/2013: Gnaumgn, HAARK, Merge and Stripes
04/06/2013: Shane van den Akker; Peter James; Heilsgeschichte

Melbourne edition of the Obscene Extreme Festival this Friday and Saturday at the Bendigo and the Tote.

Tuesday April 9th, 2013

This week at MIUC features a cavalcade of industrial-strength noise bruitistes keen on inflicting frequency punishment whilst simultaneously promulgating textural wisdom. For their first public performance since 1995, Sooterkin Flesh will revive the volatile beast that is their aethereal industrial experimental dark isolationist noise ambience on the advent of their 25th year since inception - skulls will collapse. Christopher LG Hill's Porpoise Torture is exactly as the name implies: the sonic extract of Atlantean horror, murky sub-surface din, suffocatingly drenched power electronics, red mist at full saturation. And sax pest Lloyd Honeybrook makes a rare solo appearance to commit some saxual abuse in public, filtering the acoustic architecture of the space and general sonic revulsion through the chamber of his feedback-extirpated woodwind-death knell.

• Sooterkin Flesh feat. Troy Norfolk, Jason Van Den Boogert & Kristian Schäfer (Synthesisers, samples, tape loops, cassette players, turntable, toys, radio, television, bells, metal pipes, drills, strings)
• Porpoise Torture (electronics)
• Lloyd Honeybrook (Hate Sax)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Coming up:
16/04/2013: Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Nigel Brown & Rohan Rebeiro; Cross Brothers; Stre4am.
23/04/2013: Alexander Rishaug; NyquistX; Robert McDougall.
30/04/2013: The Secret Tomb; Maka Khan; Gelareh Pour & Phil Coyle.
07/05/2013: Mattin (BSQ); Joel Stern; Cured Pink.
14/05/2013: Kris Wanders Group; David Palliser
21/05/2013: Marty Holoubek and Brenton Foster; Joe O'Connor & James Bowers; Petrichor
28/05/2013: Gnaumgn, HAARK, Merge and Stripes
04/06/2013: Shane van den Akker; Peter James; Heilsgeschichte