Inventions in Time + Marco Cher-Gibard

Inventions in Time and (Stream kid) Marco play the Boite!

Kate Adam (marimba) and Ariel Valent (vibraphone) play captivating sound sculptures that reflect the Australian landscape.

Marco Cher-Gibard has a loong name and will be reflecting performance landscapes/sound sculptures/et all.

Together in performance for the first time, expect an unworldly combination of [de]tuned tinkling, tension, clicks + sheets of sound/image.

August 30 at 8pm
Boite World Music Cafe
1 Mark Street, North Fitzroy, Melbourne

Stream kids do gigs

This week sees Stream people Rosalind, Marco and Lewis AV-gigging around town.

First up Rosalind Hall + Marco Cher-Gibard bring their brand of Live Videophonic Sax Rash to Stutter at Horse Bazaar:

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Next Wednesday the 20th of August @ Stutter…

* Chris Summerlin aka Last of the Real Hardmen (UK)/ Troy Peter James Naumoff
* Rosalind Hall/Marco Cher-Gibard
* LCD
* Dj Dr Anthony Pateras RSA

Nottingham guitarist Chris Summerlin, aka Last Of The Real Hardmen – ”…With subliminal nods to late period John Fahey, Loren Connors and Neil Young’s Arc…feedback, minimalism and distortion are skilfully employed to create sounds that are texturally rich and perfectly structured…”
Joining Chris will be Troy Peter James Naumoff – De-tuned guitar, prepared guitar with mobile phone and will be dynamically very quiet to VERY LOUD.

Rosalind Hall and Marco Cher-Gibard – Live Videophonic Sax Rash

LCD – Lowest Common Denominator have been pushing their version of Nu-Flowtonic Baroque Beet since the end of the previous millennium. Ennio Swaggart and Elron Mancini provide soundscapes to scape sounds to, improvising as well as making it up on the spot. Expect precision machine tooling and experimenial annoytainment. Rated PG (for Pretty Good.)

Dj Dr. Anthony Pateras R.S.A will be spinning Balkan turbofolk, 20th century avant-faves, Irish drinking tunes and sound poetry classics between the sets!

$5 on the door, starts 8.30pm
Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St Melbourne
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Then Thursday night sees DJ Lewis Cancut in appearance at regular AV art night Plug N Play at Kent St:

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Thursday August 21, 2008

[ 8-9PM abre ojos : http://www.abreojos.net/ ]
[ improvised sound and vision for dystopian mediation created using
modular synthesis, temporally warped video and death metal vocals.
"sonic/visual-landscapes that express an ancient mystery in the heart of the mind/nature"
but set firmly in these dark days of the 21st century. ]

[ 9-10PM jean poole : http://jeanpoole.blip.tv ]
[ one hour AV slow-fi set : sludgy music, lazy animations, short film snippets ]

[ 10-11PM Audio : DJ Lewis Cancut http://www.myspace.com/paradisemontage ]
[ Video : VJ Nosis http://www.nosis.com.au ]
[ Tropical / Hip Hop / Korean Pop. Lewis works in isolation from deep inside the congo. music is made on turntables with a few extra synthy bits, drum machines and field recordings. Hip Hop+Ska+Electro+Disco+Jazz+Breaks. Made to let your legs wiggle. Layered pixel universe, ebb and flow of light by Nosis. ]

[ plug n play ::: Kent st Cafe, 201 smith st, Fitzroy ::::: http://plugnplay.skynoise.net ]
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Next Wednesday @ Stutter – Horse Bazaar – 13/08/08

Next Wednesday the 13th of August @ Stutter…

Miles Brown/Christina Tester
Agonhymn
Bum Creek
Eyeoff

Miles Brown/Christina Tester – Miles Brown - theremin + Christina Tester – voice, tapes, loops

Agonhymn are a sludged-out power duo who marry big jazz chords and extreme downtuning to ‘’stretched-time” doom rhythms. Mostly instrumental, but these cats don’t let you get sleepy, and constantly change up tempos, moods and soft/loud dynamics, and incorporate elements of black metal, droner post-rock, stoned fuzz and flat out crushing doom. Heavy.

Bum Creek…”We want the future in sound like a childish engagement with science fiction. We fear normality of the frontman…Freaky sonic freaks give you a musical play and some treasure…. We are Bum Creek” – Bum Creek.

EYEOFF (Simon Taylor of CollapsedToiletVietnam/KrvstoffKrvstoffiston) – description REVERB

@ Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street,
Melbourne
8:30 PM
$5 on the door

FAV = Electric Cinema Invitational = August 12 2008

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Electric Cinema Invitational
Tuesday August 12, 6-8pm
Pit Theatre, Footscray Arts

Combining the A/V energies of local and international artists, FAV’s night of audiovision turns the industrial pit theatre into an electrified sensory space. Presenting light-emitting modified projector equipment,
cinematic guitar drones, glossy neon video projection and broken beautiful things. New collaborations. Unexpected recombinations. Live and direct performance cinema.

Artists include Paul Rodgers (UK/AU), Mat Tierney (AU), Barnaby Oliver (UK) and special guests.

READ ME:
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FAVSC is a meeting place for artists, noise makers, sound-designers, electronics
boffins, installation artists, film freaks, VHS geeks, performers, programmers, DIYers, phonographers, photographers, holographers, circuit benders, laptop musicians, curators, producers and anyone with an interest in lo/hi-fi new/old-media art.

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Take Williamstown/Werribee/Sydenham train from city, alight at Footscray, turn away from the shopping centre on your right, go left over the rail bridge, down Bunbury street until you hit Moreland st, look for the white shipping container.

Footscray Arts is located on the Maribyrnong river bicycle path, which crosses the Footscray Road bicycle path from the Melbourne city.

Limited on-site parking available

Electric Cinema Invitational
Tuesday August 12, 6-8pm
Pit Theatre, Footscray Arts

FAVSC is produced by Emile Zile and co-curated by Tim Webster and Lindsay Cox.

BEFRIEND FAVSC: http://www.myspace.com/favsc
KNOW MORE: http://www.footscrayarts.com

Stream / MIFF / Otherfilm fun!

Wow what a week of MIFF / Otherfilm fun!

Thanks to those who made it along to Horse Bazaar to meet Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo and to witness the talk / performance / screening.

Stream member Christina Tester and our good friend Anthony Magen had the honour of performing ‘Vowels and Consonants‘ live with Guy and Lynn at the MIFF / Intermission session on Saturday.

Then came a wonderful workshop day of making optical sound + image loops, working directly on film and playing with 16mm projectors. Thanks to Guy and Lynn for their generosity in sharing their knowledge.

And congratulations to Stream members Marcia Jane and Christina Tester who both had works screened in the MIFF Experimental Shorts Program.

Review of Stream’s Horse Bazaar event: Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo

Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo – Vowels and consonants

Here’s a preview of one of the performances Guy and Lynn will be doing on Saturday afternoon – 4.30pm at 45downstairs as part of Intermission. Tickets from the MIFF box office.

Vowels and Consonants

Otherfilm events at MIFF

OtherFilm Events at
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

OtherFilm presents…

From the UK…
Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo – Australian / NZ tour 2008

Like a blast of cinematic conceptual art, film artist Guy Sherwin’s hand-crafted films explore the elements of film’s grain, tone, flicker, sound, light and space. Beautiful, enigmatic, and sensual, these experimental films question our perception of ‘light moving in time.’ Together with partner Lynn Loo, Guy creates cinematic environments of incredible purity and beauty. OtherFilm regulars will be familiar with the awesomeness of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op, where Guy’s filming began. We are so excited to be presenting Guy’s visit to Australia! If you’re into artists’ film – do NOT miss the opportunity to see one of the great film artists on his first Australian visit!

Guy Sherwin Optical Sound DVD and Book available through OtherFilm Bazaar.

And from the UK and USA…
Ben Russell (USA) and Ben Rivers (UK) Australian / NZ tour 2008

Ben Russell is an American experimental filmmaker and curator whose work has screened in places as far a field as the Museum of Modern Art (solo), the London Film Festival, and a punk warehouse in Latvia. Ben Rivers is a rather remarkable British artist whose recent 16mm cinemascope film AH, LIBERTY was awarded the Tiger Prize at Rotterdam this year; he founded the Brighton Cinematheque in 1996, and his films have been seen in galleries and theaters across the globe. http://www.dimeshow.com

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Guy Sherwin Screening
Cinema of Perception, Cinema of Performance
Wed 30th July 5pm at ACMI

A career spanning program of experimental work from one of cinema’s most iconic artists.

Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo are guests of the festival

Short Film Series/Animal Studies (1975–2003, 30 mins, silent, 16mm)
Flight (1998, 4 mins,16mm)
Filter Beds (1998, 9 mins, 16mm)
Views from Home (2005, 12 mins, miniDV)
At the Academy (1974, 5 mins, 16mm)
Optical Sound (2007, 1 min, 16mm)
Night Train (1979, 2 mins, 16mm)

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/guy_sherwin

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Ben Russell (USA) and Ben Rivers (UK) Screening
We Can Not Exist In This World Alone
Thursday 31st July 915pm at ACMI

Ten visionary cinematic dispatches from two of contemporary experimental film’s most uncompromising artists. Ranging from mind-blowing psychedelia to trance film documentary to Scottish hermit ethnography (in Cinemascope!), these films sketch a portrait of a modern world in increasingly hopeful disarray.

Ben Rivers and Ben Russell are guests of the festival

Black and White Trypps Number Four (Ben Russell, 10 mins)
The Coming Race (Ben Rivers, 5 mins)
Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russell, 11 mins)
This Is My Land (Ben Rivers, 14 mins)
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (Ben Russell, 8 mins)
Dove Coup (Ben Rivers, 2 mins)
Daumë (Ben Russell, 7 mins)
Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers, 20 mins)
Trypps #5 (Dubai)(Ben Russell, 3 mins)

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INTERMISSION
EXPANDED CINEMA AND LIVE AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE…
45 Downstairs: 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd August 2008

Artists from London, Chicago, Brisbane and Melbourne chart the extremity of analogue and digital performance, with influences including expanded cinema, noise, video mixing, and contemporary performance. Each work explores performance within cinema through various means—from the prepared screens of Guy Sherwin, the responsive environment played by Jon Pak, to the ritualised actions of Ben Russell. Intermission will leave a lasting memory of captured images in a woven narrative that brings gesture, intervention, and feedback to the fore of the cinematic experience.
greyspace.com.au/intermission2008

Program 1: Signs in the debris
Fri 1 Aug, 9.30pm–11.30 pm at 45 Downstairs 1101 – (Door/bar opens 9pm)
Performers: Vijay Thillaimuthu, SONE, Dirk de Bruyn with Sophie Brous, Ben Russell.

Program 2: The sleight of hand
Sat 2 Aug, 4.30pm–6.30pm at 45 Downstairs 1102 – (Door/bar opens 4pm)
Performers: Abject Leader, Guy Sherwin with Lynn Loo.

Program 3: And, is she here?
Sat 2 Aug, 9.30pm–11.30pm at 45 Downstairs 1103 – (Door/bar opens 9pm)
Performers: Jon Pak, Steven Ball, Botborg.

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MIFF EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM!
Tuesday 5th August – 7pm at ACMI
http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/films?film_id=11034

Selected by an esteemed panel… it’s an awesome international overview of new avant-garde work, some mind-bending stuff here!

featuring Jeanie Liotta, Marcia Jane, Christina Tester, Andrew Kotting, Semiconductor, Michael Robinson and more…

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Your OtherFilm Curators – Sally Golding, Joel Stern, Danni Zuvela
http://www.otherfilm.org

Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo – Artist Talk

Join Stream at Horse Bazaar Tuesday July 29 7pm for a very special artist talk…

Like a blast of cinematic conceptual art, film artist Guy Sherwin’s hand-crafted films explore the elements of film’s grain, tone, flicker, sound, light and space. Beautiful, enigmatic, and sensual, these experimental films question our perception of ‘light moving in time.’ Together with partner Lynn Loo, Guy creates cinematic environments of incredible purity and beauty.

If you’re into artists’ film – do NOT miss the opportunity to see one of the great film artists on his first Australian visit!

Tuesday July 29, 7pm
Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

About Guy Sherwin:

I studied painting and began working with film in the 1970s. The radical work of the London Film-Makers Co-op had a formative influence on my practice. I’m interested in form, the ways we perceive visual phenomena and film’s relationship with time.

Each work can be seen as investigating an aspect of time through form. At various stages my work has explored:

1. mechanisms of camera and projector.
2. methods of printing film.
3. live interaction between performer and film.
4. live performance with two or more projectors (sometimes including musicians).
5. physical relationships between sound and image.
6. loop projection in gallery and other spaces.
7. digital re-working of film.

About Lynn Loo:

I made a transition from a music background to filmmaking in 1997. Learnt about the experimental film genre from my studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I describe my films as compositions of images and sound that suggest narratives or convey an event without text or words. Unfinished Symphony (2001) and Floating (2004) are examples of that.

In 2004, I was introduced to films made from makers involved in the London Filmmakers’ Co-op. Works specifically from the 70s. This has influenced me which took my exploration in filmmaking to an investigation of the celluloid and presenting works in a performance element with multiple projectors. My first film from this is Vowels (2005). Letterforms printed onto strips of film that would also produce the soundtrack. Vowels is expanded to Vowels and Consonants in collaboration with Guy Sherwin. Since 2005, I have been assisting and collaborating with Sherwin in numerous film performances and projects. I support myself working as a Film Archivist.

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And be sure to check out the MIFF events featuring these artists:

Wed July 30, 5.00pm @ ACMI
MIFF retrospective screening
“Guy Sherwin: Cinema of Perception, Cinema of Performance“

Saturday August 2, 4.30pm @ 45downstairs
Expanded cinema performance
“Intermission Program 2: The sleight of hand“

Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo are guests of the Melbourne International Film Festival and Otherfilm, and their visit to Melbourne is supported by Stream, RMIT Media Arts (School of Art) and RMIT Union Arts.

Check out our photos!

Loads of photos from recent Stream events SEEING SOUND and FOLKSHOP! are up for you to see on flickr: flickr.com/photos/streamcollective