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Make It Up Club

Live avant-garde improvised music every Tuesday

About Me

The Make It Up Club is committed to nurturing, presenting and promoting avant-garde improvised music and sound performance of the highest conceptual and performative standards, regardless of idiom, genre, or instrumentation.

Whilst traditional forms of avant garde improvisation are welcomed, MIUC programming policy gives priority to projects which challenge the boundaries of current musical trends and which are predominantly, though not exclusively, improvisational in nature.

In doing so, the principal aims of the Make It Up Club are:

i) To provide performers with a stable and supportive environment in which to publicly exhibit recent explorations in improvised sound.

ii) To curate a regular performance program dedicated to exhibiting local and interstate artists and, whenever circumstances allow, facilitate collaborations between international artists and their Australian counterparts.

iii) To cultivate and maintain a healthy, vibrant and diverse scene for avant-garde improvisation in Melbourne where performers and devotees alike actively contribute to a sense of community.

iv) To promote the quality and diversity of Melbourne's unique improvised music scene locally, nationally and internationally.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/21/2007
Band Website: makeitupclub.com.au/
Band Members: Derek Bailey, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Evan Parker, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, John Coltrane, Iannis Xenakis, Paul Lovens, Squarepusher, Elliot Sharp, Pierre Schaeffer, * The A Band * Susan Alcorn - pedal steel guitarist * Maarten Altena - Double Bass * AMM * NOW Orchestra - Saxophone, Acoustic Bass, Trombone, Trumpet, Voice, Electric Guitar, and Drums * Thomas Ankersmit - Saxophone and Synthesizer * Linda Gale Aubry - Harp, Synthesizer, Electronics * Ab Baars - Saxophone * Derek Bailey - Guitar * Conny Bauer - Trombone * Burkhard Beins - Percussion * Samm Bennett - Percussion and Electronics * Han Bennink - Percussion * Steve Beresford - Piano, various other instruments * Birdyak (Bob Cobbing and Hugh Metcalfe duo) * Raleigh Booze - Electronics, various other instruments * Borbetomagus * Anthony Braxton - Saxophone * Ian Brighton - Guitar * The Brotherhood of Breath * Peter Brötzmann - Saxophone * Michele Buirette * John Butcher - Saxophone * Michael Bullock - Double Bass, Electronics, Video * Captain Beefheart - Saxophone, Clarinet * Cat's Craddle * Genevieve Cabannes * Guenther Christmann - Trombone, Cello * Graham Clark (violinist) * Company * Tom Cora - Cello * Lol Coxhill - Saxophone * Chris Cutler - Percussion * Wilbert de Joode - Double Bass * Tobias Delius - Saxophone * Les Diaboliques * [email protected] * Michel Doneda - Saxophone * Axel Dörner - Trumpet * Kevin Drumm - Guitar and Synthesizer * Paul Dunmall - Saxophone * Phil Durrant - Electronics, Violin * Karlheinz Essl - Electronics * European Women's Improvising Group * Simon Fell - Double bass * The Feminist Improvising Group * Michael Fischer - Saxophone * Colin Fisher - Tenor Saxophone * G F Fitzgerald - Guitar * Lori Freedman - Clarinets * Fred Frith - Guitar * Joel Garten - Piano * Georg Gräwe - Piano * Mats Gustafsson - Saxophone * Barry Guy - Double Bass * Keiji Haino - Guitar, Voice * Robin Hayward - Tuba * Ig Henneman - Viola * Katt Hernandez - Violin * Wiek Hijmans - Guitar * Killick Erik Hinds - H'arpeggione * Tim Hodgkinson - Saxophone * Tristan Honsinger - Cello * Michael Hoshall - Keyboards * Fred Van Hove - Piano * Iskra 1903 (trio led by Paul Rutherford, with Barry Guy and either Derek Bailey or Philipp Wachsmann) * Theo Jörgensmann - Bassett-clarinet * Michael Keith - Guitar * Peter Kowald - Double Bass * Caroline Kraabel - Saxophone * Steve Lacy - Saxophone * Kathryn Ladano - Bass Clarinet * Last Exit (1980s group) * Lê Quan Ninh - Percussion * Joëlle Léandre - Double Bass, Voice * Thomas Lehn - Synthesizer * George Lewis-Trombone and electronics * Modisti (Belma Martin & Pedro Lopez)- Dúo by Voice & Electroacoustics instruments interpretation vampirization & design * Paul Lovens - Drums * Paul Lytton - Drums* MATH * MEV * M.I.M.E.O. * Radu Malfatti - Trombone * Joe Maneri - Saxophone and Clarinet * Massacre - trio of Fred Frith, Bill Laswell and Fred Maher (Fred Maher later replaced by Charles Hayward) * Matt Matheson - Electronics, various other instruments * Shawn Meehan - Percussion * Misha Mengelberg - Piano, toys * Robert Menzel - Saxophones, Flute and Bass Clarinet * Hugh Metcalfe - Violin, Guitar, Drums * Phil Minton - Voice * Louis Moholo - Drums * Thurston Moore - Guitar * Butch Morris - Cornet and conductor * Jamie Muir - Percussion * Mujician * Toshimaru Nakamura * New Phonic Art * nmperign- Duo of soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley * Tom Nicholson - Guitar * Maggie Nicols - Voice * Tony Oxley - Percussion * Evan Parker - Saxophone * People Band * Pied de Poule * poire z - Electronics * Lee Ranaldo * Red Square * Hans Reichel - Guitar * Ernesto Rodrigues - Violin, Viola * Guilherme Rodrigues - Cello, Trumpet * Keith Rowe - Guitar * Olaf Rupp - Guitar * Paul Rutherford - Trombone * Frederic Rzewski * San Agustin * Shaking Ray Levis * The Sisterhood of Spit * Skeleton Crew - Fred Frith and Tom Cora (and Zeena Parkins later) * Gary Smith - Guitar * Grant Smith - drums, percussion * Roger Smith - Guitar * Sonic Youth * Spontaneous Music Ensemble * Howie Stelzer - Electronics * John Stevens - Percussion and Trumpet * Taku Sugimoto - Guitar and Cello * Supersilent * Trevor Taylor - Percussion * Keith Tippett - Piano * Julie Tippetts - Voice * Taku Unami - Laptop and Banjo * Mariette Rouppe van der Voort - Flute, Saxophone * Peter van Bergen - Saxophone * Vapori del Cuore * Voice Crack - Electronics * Voice Over Noise - Laptops, Electronics * Jean-Paul Vivini - Guitar * Philipp Wachsmann - Violin * Jane Wang - Double bass * Trevor Watts - Saxophone * Veryan Weston - Piano * Kenny Wheeler - Trumpet * Alan Wilkinson - Trombone * Joe Williamson - Double Bass * Wired * Wolter Wierbos - Trombone * Chris Worden - Voice, Guitar, various other instruments * Jack Wright - Saxophone * Otomo Yoshihide - Guitar and Turntable * Wolf Eyes - Guitar, Drums, Vocals * Carlos Zingaro - Violin and Electronics * Zoochosis * John Zorn - Saxophone * Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra* Tetuzi Akiyama * Big Picture (band) * Haco * Shoji Hano * Junji Hirose * Ryoji Hojito * Yoshimitsu Ichiraku * Kazuo Imai * Incapacitants * Atsuhiro Ito * Utah Kawasaki * Kyoko Kuroda * Brett Larner * Sachiko M * Toshimaru Nakamura * Takehito Nakazato * Mitsuru Nasuno * Masahiko Okura * Aki Onda * Yasuhiro Otani * Yoshihide Otomo * Tetsu Saitoh * Michihiro Sato * Skist * Taku Sugimoto * Tamaru * Yumiko Tanaka * Tsuguto Tsunoda * Kazuhisa Uchihashi * Michiyo Yagi * Seiichi Yamamoto * Tetsuro Yasunaga * Ami Yoshida * Yasuhiro Yoshigaki * Laurie Anderson - electronic music * Animal Collective - Noise rock, Indie Rock * Aphex Twin - electronic music * Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Avant-rock, surrealist imagery, use home-made instruments made by band member Dan Rathbun. * Autechre - electronic music * Robert Ashley - totalist television opera * Derek Bailey - guitarist * Conny Bauer - free improvisation, trombonist * Controlled Bleeding - Paul Lemos * David Behrman - live electronics * Burkhard Beins - percussion and objects * Black Dice - noise rock, ambient * Boards of Canada - electronic music * Boredoms - noise music * Pierre Boulez - serial music * Björk - electronic music * Graham Bowers - avant-garde, ambient, sound theatre * Glenn Branca - guitar, noise ensemble * George Brecht - performance art * Gavin Bryars - indeterministic orchestration * Buckethead - guitarist * John Cage - aleatoric music * Neil Campbell * Can - 'Krautrock' pioneers * Cornelius Cardew - British composer * Eugene Chadbourne - guitarist, shockabilly * Coil - sidereal sound, scrying, hallucinogens, ANS, etc. * Nicolas Collins * Clayton Counts - noise, electroacoustic composer * Henry Cow - Rock in Opposition * Alvin Curran - found sounds * Current 93 - coined the term "apocalyptic folk" * Stuart Dempster - reverberant spaces, just intonation, extended trombone techniques * Delia Derbyshire - pre-synthesizer electronic music pioneer * Arnold Dreyblatt - just intonation * Kevin Drumm - guitarist * Judy Dunaway * Trevor Dunn - bassist * Earth - drone metal * Leif Elggren * Einstuerzende Neubauten - German industrial music * Brian Eno - ambient music, algorithmic composition * Experimental Audio Research - ambient, synth/noise * Morton Feldman * Henry Flynt - violinist, guitarist, inventor of Electronic Hillbilly Music * Fifty Foot Hose - pre-synthesizer electronic rock pioneers * David First - drones and interference beats * Robert Fripp - guitarist * Fred Frith - free improvisation, Rock in Opposition * John Frusciante - avant-garde, stream of consciousness * Ellen Fullman - long string Instrument * Bernhard Gál - sound installation, multi-media, composer and artist * Diamanda Galás - vocalist, composer * Pierre Henry- musique concrète * Katt Hernandez- violinist, microtonalist, improviser * Lejaren Hiller - first computer composition Illiac Suite (1957) with Leonard Issacson * Christopher Hobbs - experimental and systems music composer * The Hub - interactive real time computer network: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle * Don Joyce - sound collage * Led Zeppelin - noise rock, psychedelic rock, experimental rock * Annea Lockwood - environmental sounds * Alvin Lucier - acoustical phenomena * Melt Banana - noise rock * Merzbow - noise music * Moondog - composer * Mr. Bungle - disregard of genre * Gordon Mumma - live electronics * Muslimgauze * Ben Neill - sound installations, mutantrumpet * Phill Niblock - minimal music composer * Nihilist Spasm Band - noise music * Nocturnal Emissions * Nurse With Wound - collaborative solo project of artist Steven Stapleton * Michael Nyman - composer and former critic and musicologist * Obsil - electroacoustic music * Pauline Oliveros - meditative music, just intonation, reverberant spaces, Expanded Instrument System * Yoko Ono - happenings * John Oswald - plunderphonics * Nam June Paik - "happenings", action music * Paul Panhuysen - string and other sound installations * Harry Partch - just intonation, drama, opera * Mike Patton - experimental rock, various genres, noise music, experimental electronica, experimental vocals * noCore - noise music, live electronic music performer * Steve Reich - multimedia documentary opera * The Residents * Roger Reynolds - multimedia, spatial * Boyd Rice - noise music, ambient music * Terry Riley - multimedia Minimalist composer * Ernesto Rodrigues - composer, free improvisation, free jazz * David Rosenboom - biofeedback (human) * Keith Rowe - British guitarist * Ruins - Japanese avant-punk, worked with Derek Bailey * Jessica Rylan - home-made analog synthesizers, voice * Pierre Schaeffer - musique concrète * Raymond Scott - em pioneer; pioneer of the music sequencer * Shaking Ray Levis - free improvisation * Elliott Sharp - multi-instrumentalist * Sonic Youth - American post-punk/noise rock band * Karlheinz Stockhausen - multimedia, musique concrète, electronic music * Morton Subotnick - multi-media, electronics * Sun Ra- keyboards, free jazz, arkestra * Sunn o))) - drone metal band * Swans - style-shifting No Wave-based art rock * Richard Teitelbaum - electronics, extended technique, improvisation * James Tenney - alternate tunings, perceptual phenomena * Throbbing Gristle - industrial music, noise, shock lyrics * Vladimir Ussachevsky - electronic music pioneer * Edgard Varèse - musique concrète * Jozef van Wissem - composer, lutist * The Velvet Underground - drones, taboo subjects * Carl Michael von Hausswolff * Whitehouse - noise music * Iannis Xenakis - stochastic * La Monte Young - just intonation, minimalist, drone music * Richard Youngs - postmodern minimalist * Frank Zappa - experimental rock, psychedelic rock * Captain Beefheart - experimental rock, psychedelic rock * Evan Ziporyn - gamelan, Bang on a Can * John Zorn - postmodern, various genres
Influences: Melbourne Improvisers Association (Melbourne), Articulating Space (Melbourne), Melbourne Jazz Fringe (Melbourne), Black Lotus (Melbourne), Bus Gallery (Melbourne), Undue Noise (Bendigo), the NOWnow (Sydney), What Is Music? (Sydney), Lanfranchi's Memorial Discotheque (Sydney), Space3 (Sydney), Impermanent Audio (Sydney), Jazzgroove Association (Sydney), SIMA (Sydney), Wagga Space Program (Wagga Wagga), Small Black Box (Brisbane), Audiopollen Social Club (Brisbane), Club Zho (Perth), Happy (Wellington), Cave 12 (Geneve), Dachstoch Reitschule (Bern), Instants Chavires (Paris), La Malterie (Lille), Cable (Nantes), Stralau 68 (Berlin), Soopa Crew (Porto), DNK (Amsterdam), WORM (Rotterdam)...
Sounds Like: Kewti
McNelis-Teicher-Reynolds
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

June 2008 Program

MIUC Program June 2008   June 3rd Alex Masso (percussion) Peter Farrar (saxophone) (Sydney)Anita Hustas (double Bass), Joe Talia (drumkit), Adam Simmons (reeds) and Phil Bywater...
Posted by Make It Up Club on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:48:00 PST

May 2008 Program

May 6th Untitled Project featuring: Kohta Burgess and Angus Tarnawsky. With special guests: Kevin Mcdowell, Kain Borlase, Nathan Liow and more!Gatvol featuring Gearoid Brinn (electric and fretle...
Posted by Make It Up Club on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:01:00 PST

MIUC 10th Birthday Festival April 2008 Program

The MIUC has been presenting challenging improvised music to Melbourne every Tuesday night since 1998!This year we celebrate our birthday with 4 consecultive nights of killer performers from around Au...
Posted by Make It Up Club on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:59:00 PST

April 2008 Program

April 1st Peter Harper's Blow: Ted Vining (drumkit), Simon Kent (trombone), Peter Harper (alto saxophone), Mick Meager and Lyndon Gray (basses), performing free interpretations of...
Posted by Make It Up Club on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:56:00 PST

March 2008 Program

March 4th:  Boy Brightlulb: AKA Josh Santospirito (avant-guitar) (Northern Territory)  Tom Fryer (guitars) and Adam Simmons (saxophones) and Joe Talia (drums)  LCD_ci (featuring Elr...
Posted by Make It Up Club on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:38:00 PST

February 2008 Program

Feb 5th:  Matthieu Werchowski - violin and viola (France)  Ben Byrne and Natasha Anderson - laptop and contra-bass recorder (Sydney and Melbourne)  Free Music Ensemble (Melbourne) Fe...
Posted by Make It Up Club on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:57:00 PST

So youve got a gig at the Make It Up Club...

Congratulations ! You're part of one of the most creative nights of music anywhere in the World. We want to keep this gig going forever, so there's a few little things you can do to help!1. Provide t...
Posted by Make It Up Club on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:30:00 PST

What Is The Make It Up Club?

The artists represented in this site originate from diverse musical backgrounds, age groups, and stylistic influences. They share a common interest in pushing the boundaries of their own music making ...
Posted by Make It Up Club on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:53:00 PST