AUDIO FOUNDATION PRESENTS AN ALT.MUSIC EVENT
DANIEL MENCHE
WITH BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL
AND GOLDEN AXE
Sat April 12th , 9 pm
420, Karangahape Rd
$15.00
“If music is like blood - then make the speakers bleed" Daniel Menche
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. Subtle and patient compositions
rely on long, dense layers of droning sounds, while abrasive pieces
rely on sounds amplified and processed to extreme levels, pushing the
full spectrum of frequencies to the most threshold of limits.
Menche's music is never just "noise", but focused explorations of
sonic structures that provoke and stimulate the listener's
imagination and emotions through the generation of intensely powerful
sounds.
This is dedicated music that expresses the undisciplined purity of
emotion. Characterized by forcefulness of sound, music that strives
for one goal: vehement beauty.
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Birchville Cat Motel is the music of New Zealander Campbell Kneale.
“An ever-changing, gently unravelling ball of pure sound, sometimes
beautiful enough to make you weep, sometimes ferocious enough to rip
the gravel off your driveway”
Moved among other things by '60s minimalism, musicological field
recordings, religious music, doom metal, and Appalachian music, and
crafting his ecstatic blur-scapes from delicately caressed pieces of
electronic junk, Birchville Cat Motel has gained international
recognition as one the bright shining lights of what music journos
have dubbed 'drone-music'
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Golden Axe are a sound-performance trio from Auckland, known equally
for their make-shift aesthetic and the visual “ZAM” of their
performances, as the synthy lo-tech music they create. From humble
beginnings busking the streets of Auckland, Golden Axe has gained
popularity with both sound-art and rock crowds alike. Golden Axe play
and exhibit regularly throughout NZ with recent highlights being a
residency at Christchurch's High Street Project gallery.
These no-fi mystical genies are now joined by an A.D.D five year old
on drums and have resurrected into a phoenix of epic new age
interstellar5555 proportions.
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Links:
Daniel Menche
http://esophagus.com/htdb/menche/
http://danielmenche.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VATJlMm57s&feature=related
Birchville Cat Motel
http://www.cpsip.co.nz/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HX2BR3WLS4
Golden Axe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHIVf-tD2K8
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Organised by the Audio Foundation, Alt.music is an ongoing series of
audio events, regularly bringing a vital injection of contemporary
and avant-garde sound art from around the world to New Zealand.
Previous Alt.Music artists include The Necks, Keith Fullerton
Whitman, Pauline Oliveros, Voice Crack, Francisco Lopez, Oren
Ambarchi, Metamkine and the Dead C.
The Audio Foundation and Alt.music is supported by Creative New
Zealand and ASB Trust
http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz
http://www.myspace.com/altmusicfestival
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