MIBEM

Music:

Member Since: 2/5/2008
Band Website: mibem.net
Band Members:
CHRIS ABRAHAMS (SYDNEY)
Chris Abrahams is one of the most distinctive keyboardists Australia has produced. Best known for his work as pianist with the improvising trio The Necks, Chris has been an active member of the Australian improvising scene for many years. As well as being an instrumentalist, Chris has released five albums of songs co-written with singer Melanie and, as a composer, he has contributed many sound tracks for Theatre, Film and Television including the Rowan Woods’ film The Boys (with The Necks) and, more recently, the SBS series The Two Of Us. Chris is based in Sydney but performs at many international music festivals as both a member of The Necks and as a solo pianist.

NATASHA ANDERSON (MELB)
Natasha is a Melbourne musician and installation artist who creates works in which the source of sounds, images and gestures - whether electronic, instrumental or bodily - become tangled and confused. Variously using the contrabass recorder, electronics and mixed media she is interested in creating works that foreground the musician as a framed and gendered bodily presence. Rapidly shifting between extreme frequencies, between digital and acoustic sound, and abject and processed gestures, she creates for the audience multiple and conflicting points of focus.Natasha regularly performs multimedia, improvised and classical contemporary music throughout Australasia, Europe and Japan. Recent performances include Musique Action Festival, France [2007], Liquid Architecture and Now Now Festivals, Sydney [2007/08], the Festival de Musiques Innovatrices, St Etienne, OFF Film Festival, Brisbane, the Melbourne International Arts Festival and Alt.Music, Auckland [all 2006].Natasha has also composes music and sound design for dance and theatre, including The Stirring, Tess de Quincey Co’s 2007 production at Carriageworks in Sydney and the Sydney Theatre Company’s current production of “The Year of Magical Thinking”, directed by Cate Blanchett.

SEAN BAXTER (MELB)
Sean Baxter is a drummer and percussionist who specialises in extreme forms of improvisation. He focuses on the use of extended techniques applied to the conventional drum-kit and an arsenal of metallic junk and other percussive detritus. His performance aesthetic evokes a range of sonic practices, ranging from extreme metal and punishing noise to free jazz and Modernist abstraction. He performs regularly with the Pateras/Baxter/Brown trio, the brutal free-jazz-grind quartet, Embers, and in frequent ad hoc collaborative and solo incarnations. A founding member of pioneering Melbourne experimental groups bucketrider, Lazy and Western Grey, Baxter has been an active presence in adventurous,improvised music in Australia for 18 years, and has performed nationally and internationally at numerous prestigious avant garde music festivals.

BEN BYRNE (SYDNEY)
Ben Byrne is a Sydney based musician, curator, radio producer and writer whose work traverses musical performance and improvisation, composition, installation, radiophonics and sound theory. Currently working at the University of Technology, Sydney as project coordinator of the Music.Sound.Design project, he holds a Bachelor of Communications in Media Arts (Honours First Class & University Medal) from UTS and has just begun work towards a doctorate. Aside from his academic studies and work as a writer, he practices extensively as a sound artist and musician, performing regularly both solo and improvising with others as well as presenting works in gallery and radio contexts. Performances include sets at Disorientation, 1--4 Inch, If You Like Improvised Music We Like You, Impermanent Audio, the Make It Up Club, Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Arts, the Now Now Festival of Improvised Music, and the What Is Music? festival as well as in Auckland, Wellington, Helsinki, Berlin and New York.

DAVID CHESWORTH/SONIA LEBER (MELB)
Most recently in Melbourne, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth created Almost Always Everywhere Apparent, an ambitious sound, video and structure project for the vast exhibition space at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.Their collaborations include a series of multi-channel sound installations for public spaces which use everyday human vocalisations to stimulate and arouse a passing audience. Passersby might be plunged into a field of sighs, grunts and groans (5000 Calls); be cajoled or harassed by unseen masters (The Master’s Voice) or find themselves beckoned by shrill voices rising from below (The Gordon Assumption).Leber and Chesworth have long been fascinated with the acoustic texture and the dynamic range of the human voice - beyond the speech content - its rhythms, sounds, shape, tone and frequency. They are particularly fascinated with ‘proto-linguistic’ vocalisations, the sounds we make prior to - or instead of - articulating through language.

CAROLYN CONNORS (MELB)
Carolyn Connors is a vocalist, performance maker, instrumentalist and teacher. She has been absorbed in the extreme possibilities of the acoustic voice for many years. Her recent solo work for theatre, Material Mouth, was awarded Outstanding Female Performance of the 2005 Melbourne Fringe festival. Other original theatre shows for voice include Absolutely Ukulele, Mirabilia, Through the Hearing Glass and Greetings. Carolyn has worked with Jill Orr, Moira Finucane, Warren Burt, John Adams, David Chesworth, Liza Lim and many others. Her bands have included The Pluckin’ Beauties (ukulele trio); Un Petit Purr (French music duo); The A to B of Accordion and Banjo; Friends of Moira (comedy cabaret duo); The Pitt Family Shovel Team (shoveling quartet); The Great Melbourne Accordion Orchestra (accordion quartet); The Ukulele Ladies (ukulele trio); and the Melbourne Ukulele Kollective.

CLOCKED OUT DUO (BRISBANE)
Clocked Out Duo use percussion, prepared piano, found objects, and toy instruments to create works which are at once playful and serious. Over the years they’ve moved from San Diego to Melbourne, Adelaide, Chengdu (China), and now Brisbane, collaborating with many musicians and artists along the way. “Perhaps Clocked Out Duo’s music is experimental — but if so, it is an experimentalism steeped in tradition, in an appreciation of the multiplicity of voices that the musics of the world have to offer, and in the fundamental concepts of melody and rhythm.”- Splendid E-zine (USA)

JIM DENLEY (SYDNEY)
Jim Denley is an Australian artist whose music combines wind instruments and electronics. An emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration has been central to his work. He sees no clear distinctions between his roles as instrumentalist, improviser and composer. Jim is working towards a paradigm shift in the notion and perception of the saxophone; to establish its relevance to ancient and current traditions in Australian music. He has played throughout Australia, Europe and the US with musicians such as Burkhard Beins, Clare Cooper, Derek Bailey, Chris Abrahams, Keith Rowe, Otomo Yoshihide, Adam Sussman, Phil Niblock, John Butcher, Chris Burn, Matt Earle, Trey Spruance, Annick Nozarti, Robbie Avenaim, Axel Doerner, Oren Ambarchi, Tony Buck, Martin Klapper, Ikue Mori, Clayton Thomas and Annette Krebs.

EMBERS (MELB)
Embers is a brutal, free-jazz/grind-noise quartet from Melbourne, Australia. The group is made up of bucketrider members, Adam Simmons (various saxophones), Dave Brown (electric microtonal bass) and Sean Baxter (drum kit and junk) with Globe Unity Orchestra alumni, Kris Wanders (tenor saxophone). Their music is freely improvised jazz-noise with echoes of blasting grind and heavy, free rock.

COR FUHLER (AMSTERDAM)
Amsterdam-based Cor Fuhler works in the field of electronic and improvised music. Piano is his main acoustic instrument, and he seeks to take it musically beyond usual perceptions, specialising in sustained sounds with use of various string stimulators: 12 ebows, rotating threads, spinning disks. Fuhler also manipulates sounds from turntables, linguaphones, springs etc and filters them through an analogue synth: the EMS Synthi AKS, his main electronic instrument. Curently he is working on a new analogue set up: the NIGLO 1. He often builds his own instruments/ installations/ modifications such as the Keyolin: a violin with keys.

MARCO FUSINATO (MELB)
Marco Fusinato (guitar/electronics) explores noise as music. He combines disregarded electronic detritus into sheer amplified shards and walls of free-noise ecstaticism.

JEFF HENDERSON (WELLINGTON)
Jeff Henderson is New Zealand’s leading exponent of free improvisation and free jazz saxophone. He is founding director of HAPPY (formerly The Space), an independent performance venue in Wellington dedicated to the presentation of new music, theatre and experimental performance. As well as his work in improvised music and jazz, Jeff is a composer who has written for theatre, dance and collaborative arts projects. He has performed with internationally renowned musicians Steve Lacy, Marilyn Crispell, William Parker, Evan Parker, the Birchville Cat Motel and others. Current projects include Urban Taniwha with Richard Nunns and Marilyn Crispell, the Ortiz Funeral Directors, the Ecstasy Trio, Deconstruction Unit and numerous others. In addition to his work on reed instruments, Henderson also performs on piano, electric bass and assorted other instruments. Henderson has toured and performed internationally and has been invited to perform this year in Australia, Europe and New York. Currently he is Artistic Director of the Wellington International Jazz Festival, Artistic Director of the Bomb the Space festival and runs two record labels: Spacecds and Open Music Envelope (with Tim Nees).

DJ JANETTE HOWARD (MELB)
DJ Janette Howard (AKA Annalee Koernig) has performed at What Is Music, the NOWnow, Articulating Space, SOOB, the Make It Up Club and at various other events in and around Australia. Her musical selections run the gamut of popular and unpopular music, fusing outsider music with rarefied classical modernism, noise, grindcore and breakcore with 70’s soul, hip hop and r’n'b, with nods to dub, scuzz, free improv and all things avant-tard along the way. An active curator in Melbourne as well, she is a key organiser for Black Lotus (a Melbourne music collective specialising in the nexus between experimental breakcore and electronic noise) and co-ordinated the infamous Grind/Scuzz soundclash in 2005 which saw prominent Melbourne grindcore musicans collaborating with the cream of the Australian breakcore and noise-improv underground (a world first!). She curates the weekly program of experimental music at Horse Bazaar called Stutter, and has been a regular guest curator for Articulating Space and the Make it Up Club, where her annual MIUC Fringe Fest has become an underground institution.

GREG KINGSTON (HOBART)
Greg Kingston is Tasmania’s most iconoclastic, Tourettically-inspired, modern virtuoso guitarist. His performances are augmented by the use of toys, gadgets, vocals and home-made instruments. Greg was born in Tasmania in 1954 and has lived and worked in Adelaide, Oxford, England and Benissa, Spain. He is now resident in Hobart and is one of the great performers in improvised music from anywhere.

PETER KNIGHT (MELB)
Peter Knight is a Melbourne based composer and trumpeter well known for the eclecticism of his musical output. He is a highly regarded jazz performer and has toured extensively with his quartet whose second album, All the Gravitation of Silence, has just been released on the Jazzhead label. Peter also leads acclaimed cross-cultural ensemble Way Out West and the 5+2 Brass Ensemble. He has worked with Erik Griswold, Adrian Sherriff’s Oynsemble, Hugh Fraser Quintet (Canada), Quinsin Nachoff (Canada), Nigel McLean, Belinda Moody, Allan Browne, Ren Walters, Stephen Magnusson, and rock groups including The Violent Femmes, Spiderbait and You Am I. Peter has also composed for theatre, short films and created sound installations, and recently composed a chamber work for Dead Horse String and Wind Ensemble. He is co-artistic director of sound-art company, Double Venturi, which presented The Current at the Melbourne Town Hall in 2006.

MAX KOHANE (MELB)
Max Kohane is a 23-year-old drummer who has played in bands for over ten years. His various projects have seen him tour and release music around the world, including Japan, Europe, UK and the USA. Max’s current projects include Melbourne grind-core trio Agents of Abhorrence, hyperactive thrash outfit Cut Sick, and the piano/drum duo with established composer Anthony Pateras. In addition, Max can be found producing/composing music under the CRUMBZ moniker. Current projects include production for Melbourne Hip Hop artist Macromantics, and Sydney singer Cat Call . He has collaborated with the likes of Oren Ambarchi, Lucas Abela, Robbie Avenaim, Stephen O’Malley (SunnO))), Robin Fox, Marco Fusinato, Matt Skitz (Damaged), Peter Rehberg,Grant Johns and Benjamin W Andrews.

DANIEL MENCHE (PORTLAND, OREGON)
Daniel Menche has established himself as a musician with a sense of focus and determination uncharacteristic in a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure. Rather than creating “noise,” he strives for order and cohesiveness. His work originates from the idea that there is no restriction to the potential sound sources and especially sonic energy. Any sounds - all sounds are used and exploited to create the music. Menche has amassed a sizable discography on some the most discerning independent labels in the world. Constantly performing live extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan with performances that are intense and powerful. Characterized as both extremely loud and patiently subtle, Daniel Menche’s live performances define its own sonic presence, an entity that gives form to an emotional rawness with highly textural and dominating sounds.

THOMAS MEADOWCROFT (TOOWOOMBA)
Thomas Meadowcroft works as a freelance composer and musician in Berlin. His compositions have been performed at various contemporary music festivals in Europe including Festival Présences, Wiener Festwochen and Wittener Tage. As an electric organ player he has performed solo concerts at the Holland Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival and he performs regularly with Australian percussionist Steve Heather and keyboardist Boris Hauf (Vienna/London). In 2007 he formed the duo Robin Hayward and Thomas Meadowcroft with British tuba virtuoso, Robin Hayward.

MENSTRUATION SISTERS (SYDNEY)
Menstruation Sisters are more of a natural phenomenon than a musical group. Owing more to the sound of ice melting and eggs hatching than strummed guitars and pounded drums, the Sisters keep one ear on the ground and the other towards the atmosphere. Rather than working within the lines of modern rhythm and structure, they revert towards a primal direction, cutting off the fat and oozing forth only the most natural and unfettered sounds. Naturally, such a technique can be unsettling, as it’s not something most humans are interested to hear, or have heard since upright-walking became a viable mode of transportation. This is music for those who kill their own food.
“The Sisters come from a place where there is no language and no technique. One-string, Minnie Ripperton, a footprint, intuitive chants, and two tree trunks.” Former Defense Secretary Helmut Doring

JÉRÔME NOETINGER (RÎVES)
“In my live work, I want to always remember that sound is only a vibration of the air. I try to build some kind of sound environnement or sound architecture with different strategies”.Runs the Metamkine distribution and mail order service. Part of the magazine Revue & Corrigée. Has been part of the 102 in Grenoble for 10 years (concerts, cinema, exhibition…).Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine (since 1987) with Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel. Duo Appel à Tous (1988-1989) with Richard Antez. Duo with Lionel Marchetti since 1993. Trio Marchetti / Noetinger / Werchowski (1997-1998). MIMEO (Music In Movement Electronic Orchestra) since 1997. Quintet Avant with Lionel Marchetti, Jean Pallandre, Marc Pichelin, Laurent Sassi since 1998. Duo with eRikm since 2001. Duo with Fabrice Eglin (guitar) since 2003. Qwat Neum Sixx with Daunik Lazro (sax), Sophie Agnel (piano), Michael Nick (violin) since 2007.

PASSENGER OF SHIT (MELB)
Passenger of Shit (aka Doodleinacacoon, aka Rancidshitwank, aka Poodick), is a purveyor of animation, paintings, drawings, videos and computer graphics, as well as a brand of hardcore/breakcore he describes as erotic killcore scat wanking dance music. Passenger of Shit is a frequent collaborator with Sydney artist Virya Dadura Vamana, vocal noise/visual artist Blue Pony, and many others. He started the Shit Wank label in Hazelbrook (Blue Mountains) in 1997. Now it’s totally trendy.

POST (MELB)
James Wilkinson works as a trombonist, sound engineer and composer. He has Bachelor of Arts Degrees in television and sound production (CSU-R) and music performance (VCA).As a trombonist James has performed classical and contemporary repertoire, solo and ensemble improvised music and created original compositions for theatre, film and dance.His performances and workshops overseas have included Gaudeamus Festival (Holland), World Social Forum (Brazil), Yogyakarta Arts Festival (Indonesia),Daidogei World Cup (Japan) and the Singapore Arts Festival.Current bands include bucketrider, The Twitch Ensemble and solo project ‘Post’. For 15 years James has written, recorded and performed music for snuff puppets (Footscray’s’ giant puppet company), and direct the music for their international theatre workshops. As a sound engineer James has worked for many dance and theatre companies including Chunky Move, Kage, Company B, and also provided audio post production services for Moose Mastering, TV commercials (Weight Watchers, Queensland Government), Cartoons, short films and commercial DVD releases.

CHRISTIAN PRUVOST (LILLE)
After classical, jazz and musique concrete studies at the university, Christian Pruvost joined multiple musical regroupments allowing him to build an expression at the crossroad of these influences. Active musician of the CRIME and CIRCUM from Lille-France, he now develops a proper improvised language in many groups and with many artists like Olivier Benoit, Thierry Madiot, Axel Dörner, Patricia Kuypers, Sophie Agnel…He confirms his research around circular breathing, combining pink noise, organic iterations beyond usual frequencies of “traditional” trumpet playing or granular material at the border of electronic sounds. With his own peculiar way of using the microphone, he improves a special technique based on the magnification of microscopic sounds spheres produced close to the bell. Several French festival organizers are attracted by this performance: festival “Luisances” in Brest, “Ca vaut jamais le reel” in Paris, “Muzzix” in Lille.

REINDEER & PARCHMENT (MELB)
Reindeer and Parchment is an ongoing project created by two young Melbourne musicians, James Rushford and Jessica Aszodi. They create original works and also perform music from the contemporary classical canon. Reindeer and Parchment have performed for ABC Rising Stars, Chamber Music Australia, and Cusp Gallery, as well as being involved in many independent presentations. Jess and James have worked with some of Australia’s finest musical institutions, James having had works commissioned by Speak Percussion, the Team of Pianists and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, with whom Jess has performed as soprano soloist. Jess has also appeared with the Melbourne Chorale, Lyric Opera of Melbourne and recently directed/performed a program of new works by local composers called Onomatopoeia, in which James’ work featured. They were also featured artists in Chamber Music Australia’s Melbourne International Arts Festival series. Jess and James have worked with artists from a wide spectrum of musical backgrounds; Oleg Caetani, Oren Ambarchi, David Shea, and superstar soprano Sumi Jo, to name a few. James is currently completing his Masters degree at the Victorian College of the Arts, and Jess is a developing artist with the Victorian Opera.

KIRSTEN REESE (BERLIN)
Kirsten Reese is a composer and sound artist based in Berlin. She creates experimental music for electronics and instruments, audiovisual installations, and performative works with electronic media. She studied flute and electroacoustic music in Berlin (Hochschule der Künste, 1988-1996) and New York (1992/93). Her works were presented at concerts, galleries and at national and international festivals, i.e. Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006 and Festival Rümlingen 2007. Kirsten Reese held a research position at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg from 2001-2007 and now teaches sound art and intermedia composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

LUKAS SIMONIS (ROTTERDAM)
Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical ‘activist’ in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties ( Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond). Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combos), he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. He played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk and AA Kismet whilst organising concerts, events and films for WORM (a multimedia centre for experimental art) and various festivals. Nowadays he collaborates with Apricot My Lady (with Ann La Berge and theBohman Brothers), Vril (with Bob Drake and Chris Cutler), Goh Lee Kwang (Kuala Lumpur), Jim Whelton (London). Pierre Bastien(Paris/Rotterdam), The static Tics (with Henk Bakker and Steve Beresford), Eugene Chadbourne and lots of others. In the past year he has started to play solo concerts in response to the positive reception for his first solo album, STOTS.

AMANDA STEWART (SYDNEY)
Amanda Stewart is a poet, author and vocalist. She is a co-founder of the Australian electroacoustic ensemble Machine For Making Sense (1989) and Netherlands trio Allos (1995). She has collaborated with a diversity of musicians and artists including, recently, Natasha Anderson, Louise Curham, Jim Denley, Peter Farrar, Stephan Froleyks, Cor Fuhler, Dale Gorfinkel and Jean-Luc Guionnet. Her work is available in print and on CD, film and video.

SCOTT TINKLER (MELB)
Australian trumpeter Scott Tinkler is well known for his many brilliant incarnations as an ensemble player with such groups as The Australian Art Orchestra, Mark Simmonds Freeboppers, The Paul Grabowsky Quintet and The Dale Barlow Quintet as well as with international artists such as Mark Helias, Joe Lovano, Betty Carter, Branford Marsalis, Han Bennink, Billy Harper and Arthur Blythe. His Melbourne based Scott Tinkler Quartet with Grabowsky, Rex and Lambie has been ARIA-nominated, as has The Scott Tinkler Trio with Simon Barker and Adam Armstrong. With his recent move back to Melbourne, Scott is spending much of his time composing and performing with his Trio as well as in Ellision, Hydromus Krysogast and the Australian Art orchestra. Scott is lecturing at the Victorian College of the Arts and Monash University and has received grants and invitations to perform throughout the world.

VALERIO TRICOLI (PALERMO)
Electroacoustic composer and radical improviser on analogue electronic instruments, sound-engineer and organiser of concerts and cooperations, Valerio Tricoli is one of the leading musicians in the new Italian music scene. His compositions bridge musique concrete and conceptual forms of sound; music, as a recorded or as a synthetically-processed sound, is always hovering between the “here and now” of the event and the shady domain of memory - distant but at the same time present, like a deja-vu experience. Tricoli plays live music with electronic instruments, however the structure of the device is ever-changing, seeking multiple relations between the performer, the device and the space in which the event takes place. He is one of the founders of the Bowindo label/collective, and of the band 3/4HadBeenEliminated, a daring synthesis between improvisation, electroacoustic composition and avant-rock sensitivity.

ERKKI VELTHEIM (MELB)
Erkki Veltheim is a violist, violinist, composer and improviser. He is a member of Elision Ensemble, Australian Art Orchestra, gypsy band Croque Monsieur and country punk band Roadkill Rodeo, and has performed with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Ensemble musikFabrik (Dusseldorf), Twitch, Chamber Made Opera, Snuff Puppets and Black Arm Band. He has collaborated with many Australian composers, improvisers and performers including Brett Dean, John Rodgers, Jon Rose, Anthony Pateras, Robin Fox, Meow Meow and Erik Griswold, and has devised and performed mixed media and music theatre works in venues such as the Melbourne Museum and the Queensland Perfroming Arts Trust’s Merivale Street Studio.

BRENDAN WALLS (SYDNEY)
Brendan Walls made his first recordings as a teenager living in the middle of nowhere in rural Australia. Working in isolation for years before eventually moving to the city, he began building his own acoustic and electronic instruments out of discarded equipment from his depressing job in a pawnshop. His early embrace of public failure as an integral part of life and art, first established with his early Bovine tape series which presented carefully selected low points (the most inept and pathetic moments lovingly highlighted), continued for a time with his often confusing live shows in which his temperamental machines refused to obey their maker. Although he no longer performs live, he continues to record and collaborate with his closest and dearest friends. An analogue purist, Walls prefers watches with hands and tape hiss to digital silence.

STEPHEN WHITTINGTON (ADELAIDE)
Stephen Whittington s a composer, pianist, writer and music critic. A native of Adelaide, he studied at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, and has travelled extensively in Asia, Europe and the Americas, lecturing and performing.He now directs the Electronic Music Unit at the Elder Conservatorium of Music (where he is also Assistant Director - International) and teaches composition, music theory, acoustics and electronic music. With a keen interest in other art forms, he has performed several one-man multimedia shows including The Last Meeting of the Satie Society, Mad Dogs and Surrealists and Interior Voice: Music and Rodin. In June 2006 he appeared at the Sydney Opera House with Ensemble Offspring for the Sydney International Film Festival, presenting a program of live music for four classic silent movies. Last year, The Wire listed his performance of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories as one of ’60 Performances That Shook the World’ over the last 40 years.

TRISTRAM WILLIAMS (MELB)
Tristram Williams maintains a busy international career as a soloist, ensemble musician, improvisor and educator. He has toured the world as a soloist with the Melbourne, Queensland and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, and in 2004 was invited by Markus Stenz to play principal trumpet in the Guerzenich Orchester’s 100th Anniversary concert of their premiere of Mahler’s 5th Symphony in Cologne. Tristram is a member of the Australian New Music ensemble ELISION, and plays in a trumpet/electronics duo, DIODE. He is Lecturer of Trumpet at the University of Melbourne and has won many international awards, including a prize from Karlheinz Stockhausen at the 2006 Stockhausen Interpreters Course.

Y35.3 (MELB)
Y35.3 are the inevitable reality of the new Melbourne noise scene. The most gorgeous and the most ugly - in dialectical opposition. Featuring Sasha Margolis and Mark Skelton (on an array of analogue equipment: from radios to synths; pedals to wires), Y35.3 are noise improv that encompasses the history of 20th century noise and musique concrete and grind and noise and … sweet soul! No Shit!
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