“A tenuous coexistence of fragility and density”
Saturday May 23rd – 8 pm
+ Roy Montgomery
+ Alex MacKinnon
@ Artspace , K Rd, Auckland
Level 1
300 Karangahape Road, Newton
Free lecture – 1 pm Friday, May 22nd at Elam Lecture Theatre
Oren Ambarchi is an experimental musician whose work explores the
effect of music of tremulous beauty played at brutal volume. Born in
Australia, he has a long history of challenging, absorbing solo work,
and collaborations with some of the most prestigious artists working
in the field of contemporary music: ranging from the high art
seriousness of Keith Rowe, Evan Parker, Sachimoko M, Phil Niblock and
Christian Fennesz, to Dave Grohl and the satanic majesties of
experimental metal, Sunn o)), with whom he has recently toured.
Ambarchi also played on their recent ‘Monoliths and Dimensions’ and
2005’s bleak masterpiece, ‘Black1’, plays with Greg Anderson and
Attila Csihar in Burial Chamber Trio, and released the ‘Grave Temple’
album with Stephen O’Malley. Ambarchi also co-curates the essential
‘What Is Music’, Australia’s most important festival of experimental
music.
http://www.orenambarchi.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXP3smULLL4
ROY MONTGOMERY’s discography and performance history is devoid of
conceit yet stretches with utter prolificacy from Flying Nun – with
the Pin Group – to Flying Saucer Attack, who he collaborated with in
1997 for label VHF (Astral Social
Club, Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Richard Youngs), as well as
projects with seminal psyche-ruckus act Bardo Pond and Dunedin band
Dadamah, which also included Kim Pieters and Peter Stapleton of Eye,
Terminals and Flies Inside the Sun fame. As labels Siltbreeze and
Kranky enjoy a sort of renaissance, artists such as Montgomery can
themselves revel in a renewed sort of limelight, but it’s a kind of
light that they’ll always elude, instead operating in a realm that’s
brilliant in a totally different manner. It’s thus a rare and special
occasion that provides an audience the opportunity to witness what
The Wire’s Edwin Pouncey has described as a ‘fabled New Zealand
guitarist’, a musical cousin to The Velvet Underground, Television
and Wire and a general sorcerer of some of the most other-worldly yet
agrarian sonic experiments and exports this country has ever paid
witness to.
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/dissolve.html
Alexander MacKinnon’s place in Dunedin’s current generation of
experimental sound practitioners is as multifarious as it is
catalytic. His occasional live solo appearances are supplemented with
his sound installation practice (characterised by its lo-fi take on
media materiality, as well as its careful attention to the spatiality
of sound)
He has frequent collaborative performances in the groups Khomet, Dirt
Room, the more recent PQRST, and a duo with drummer Lee Noyes, as
well as a recent stint in Matt Middleton’s rock band The Aesthetics.
Part of the celebrated Lines of Flight festival and publisher of the
“craft DIY” record label Radio Jaundice, Alex also is an event
organiser around the None studio artist collective and in the wider
Dunedin community with Alt Music’s distributed event series.
http://www.myspace.com/alexmackinnon
Organised by the Audio Foundation, Altmusic is an ongoing series of
audio events and tours, regularly bringing a vital injection of
contemporary and avant-garde sound art from around the world to New
Zealand.
Previous Altmusic artists featured are The Necks, Keith Fullerton
Whitman, Pauline Oliveros, Voice Crack, Grouper, Francisco Lopez,
Philip Jeck, Tenniscoats, Metamkine and the Dead C.
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