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Monday, November 5, 2012

Mix Tape Playstation Workshop

Lucas Abela and Hirofumi Uchino are hosting a workshop at the first draft depot on how to design and build your vey own multi tape head instrument like the ones used in the Mix Tape installation.

http://dualplover.com/mixtape/

Each participant will go home with their very own live tape manipulation instrument complete with a audio jack out so it can be coupled with effects (last gasp labs pedals will be available http://lalweb.com/effects-e.html on the day to test with your new toy)

$125 covers all materials needed to build your very own Mix Tape Playstation, this includes tape deck, metal box, power supply, tape heads, plugs, sockets and all materials.

The workshop is strictly limited to 15 places first people to reserve a spot by PMing me, These little beauties will make the perfect christmas gift so don't disappoint your loved ones and book today.

Sunday 9th Decemeber 1 - 6pm

Firstdraft Depot

13-17 Riley St, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia 2011

View map · Get directions

Mix Tape in action Video
https://vimeo.com/49968288

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Vinyl Rally @ Lueften Festival (Frankfurt)

The vinyl rally is an large-scale installation combining sound art, video art and kinetic sculpture into every kid and kidult’s dream-hybrid; an immersive participatory play-set playing off vinyl fetishism, video arcade mystique and the machismo of motor sports in a video game played within a real world setting!

Classic first person video racing is simulated as remote control cars with styli attached, race across a track constructed from a mass of disused vinyl records. Transmitting sound (produced as the styli skim along the vinyl surface) and vision (from wireless spy cameras mountedto the front of each car) to reengineered old school racing consoles with immersive 50” flat screens. Here players navigate the course from the vehicles point of view, not only controlling the cars movements, but also the parameters of the resulting sounds they create via a series of unique audio effects mounted onto the dashboard (by Last Gasp Laboratories) giving each car its own distinct aural flavour. These sounds are emitted from speakers built into the seats causing them to vibrate in correspondence with the movements on screen, producing a personally immersive experience aurally, visually and physically that can only be truly appreciated seated at the controls.

http://www.lueftenfestival.de/

22nd - 24th June 2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Pinball Pianola (showing off)

I’ve devised a Frankenstein experiment, combining the greatest musical invention of all time, the Piano; with the coolest amusement machines ever conceived; Pinball, to create an interactive sound installation like no other; ‘Pinball Pianola’, a musical device constructed by replacing the keyboard, hammers and front paneling of an upright piano, with a pinball cabinet butted up perpendicular against its exposed strings. Embracing high and low culture this instrument allows virtuosos and wizards alike to pit their skills in a game where musical compositions are created as metallic balls jettisoned into the game clash with the pianos resonating wires. This experiment the first of in a series of individually crafted instruments I’m constructing at Artspace as part of my Australia Council music board project fellowship that introduce musical elements into the iconic game of pinball, making sound generation - not scoring - the games’ main objective.

The work will be shown for the very first time* at the Artspace open studio (not gallery upstairs level 2 enter door to right as you enter) form 6pm til 8pm 25th May and all day 11am to 5pm on Saturday the 26th.

Artspace Visual Arts Centre

43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo,Sydney
Free BYO

*at time of writing the work isn't finished fingers crossed!!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

20 years of Lucas Abela

Monday, March 5, 2012

Senyawa's Second Album

Senyawa are an experimental music duo made up of Rully Shabara (extended vocal technique) and Wukir Suryadi (homemade instrument). Who create music is a combination of extended vocal technique and a homemade instrument. The instrument was handcrafted by master instrument builder Wukir out of one long piece of bamboo, it is a string instrument with guitar pick-ups—it is amplified and processed through several effects pedals but at times is played as an acoustic instrument, percussion instrument or bowed like a cello.

YNK #14: Senyawa - Pasca from Yes No Klub on Vimeo.

they are awesome and are raising money for a new album their 2nd and first LP

this isn't a dualplover project but i love these guys they played at my house last june and it was incredible and you can see a few posts down we released a live recording of that show on the freemusicarchive

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

VINYL RALLY @ Palais de Tokyo (Paris) April 2012

In conjunction with Sonic Protest, the The vinyl rally has been selected to be part of the reopening celebrations of Paris’ prestigious Palais de Tokyo in April where it will be presented from 12pm on the 12th to Midnight on the 13th for a 36 hour non-stop exhibition. However the work is only one of many filling the three story complex during this massive event and sadly our allocated budget only covers half our estimated budget to Build, Maintain and Staff my proposed track design that careers (see below) over the 3rd floor stairwell. Therefore I’m hoping to raise AUD$3000 to help cover this shortfall with a pozible crowd source. Hopefully you can help me overcome this financial hurdle so I can showcase the work in its best possible light at this amazing exhibition.

To pledge simply visit

if you already have a facebook account logging on is as simple as a click otherwise joining pozible is not to hard.
Thanks in advance and fingers crossed we get over the line.

Vinyl Rally from Lucas Abela on Vimeo.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Justice Yeldham 12" Picture Disc

dualpLOVER has decided to release a Justice Yeldham picture disc as a must have souvenir item for the upcoming Justice Yeldham tour of Europe in April. To realise this release we need to raise AUD$1500 to cover the minimum pressing of 250 units, and have decided to crowd soucre the project using a pre-sale model to make sure all copies have good homes before we even press the record. Our prices start at a little above cost for people able to pick up the discs in person during the tour. The final release will be pressed to meet our pledge requirements + 50 copies to sell on the tour after that no other copies will be made available.

Side A 180111 Sydney 10:24 (recorded live at serial space Sydney by Jon Hunter)

Side B March of the Bodypumpers 4:54 (previously available as mp3 download via Wire magazine) a third track completing side B has yet to be determined.

Available by crowd soucring pledges until 20th Feb at http://yeldham.pozible.com/

Video of Side A by Brooke Oslen