Please pledge for Senyawa LP

Jogjakarta’s Senyawa uniquely manage to embody the aural flavours of Javanese music whilst exploring the framework of experimental music practice, pushing the boundaries of both traditions. In doing so their music strikes a perfect balance between their avant-garde influences and cultural heritage to create truly contemporary Indonesian music.

Their sound is comprised of Rully Shabara’s deft extended vocal techniques punctuating the frenetic neo-tribalism of instrument builder, Wukir Suryadi’s modern-primitive instrumentation. Inventions like his handcrafted ‘Bamboo Spear’; a thick stem of bamboo strung up with percussive strips of the plant’s skin along side steel strings. Amplified it fuses elements of traditional Indonesian instrumentation with garage guitar distortion. Sonically dynamic, the instrument can be rhythmically percussive on one side whilst being melodically bowed and plucked on the other.

The duo has been performing together since 2010 when Wok The Rok dared them into doing an impromptu improvisation. The unlikely combination of Wukir’s bent traditionalism with Rully’s dada-esque vocalisations was immediately arresting. Wowing not only the audience, both musicians knew then and there that they had stumbled onto something incredibly special.

They quickly began composing music together and shortly after released their debut self titled album on Wok The Rok‘s seminal label, Yes No Wave. They also started to perform together extensively, touring Indonesia several times over to become a formidable live act. Their mesmerizing live show quickly attracted considerable attention for an Indonesian underground act. In no time at all they began to receive invitations to perform at festivals in Australia and Europe including Hobart’s MONA FOMA, the Adelaide Festival, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the Glatt und Verkert Festival in Austria, Malmo Sommarscen Festival in Sweden, Oct Loft Jazz Festival in China, they even toured Australia nationally as special guests of Regurgitator.

 Dualplover and The Volcanic Winds Project are planning to co-release the band’s first vinyl LP and we need your help to raise the funds to make it a reality. You can either pledge for fun, Mp3's or a copy of the eventual LP amongst other rewards.

Justice Yeldham Tasmania Tour

justice yeldham is dusting off the glass for a two stop tour of the apple isle with Modular synth wizard and ex-Zond member, MATTHEW BROWN

+IDEAL WIVES
Local free-noisey rock.

Saturday 10th August @ The Grand Poobah
5:00pm, $8 entry.

+SPHERES
Heavy, local drone.

Friday 9th August @ Fresh Cafe
7:00pm, $5 entry.

more details
http://dualplover.com/tocome/

BALLS FOR CATHULU

BALLS FOR CATHULU “loud, ingenious and unbelievably satisfying to play” - Gail Priest, REALTIME. A pentagram shaped pinball game emblazoned with fluorescent graphics by the Rev Kriss Hades depicting the lord of the deep ones. A multiplayer pinball game with five players stationed at each of the stars five points. The outer triangular walls of the star are made from ten guitars with their fret boards facing inward into the playfield, while in the central pentagon ten pop bumpers are connected to a drum machine. These are all connected to various audio effects triggered by targets positioned throughout the game. So when the balls bounce off the strings distorted open tunings are produced while the pop bumpers accompany the din with a chaotic drum solo.

Images and Video taken @ ISEA, Sydney July 2013 Devised and Constructed by Lucas Abela Playfield art by Kris Hades Audio Processor Electronic Engineering By Hirofumi Uchino

Objet inusité @ Eastern Bloc, Montréal Starts Today

19 - 22 December 2012
OBJET INUSITÉ
International Summit on Audio Art

Eastern Bloc, in collaboration with Suoni per il popolo festival, presents Objet Inusité, an international summit bringing together 15 artists and curators from Montreal and abroad, to collectively explore and discuss the audio/visual aspects of digital art through non-screen based practices. Through exploratory workshops and site-specific installations and performances, particular emphasis is placed on audio art practices that use the "object" as interface, concentrating on objects of an uncommon/non-standard/residual nature. This 4-day event will explore how objects, imbued with a persona, may be activated by their user to take on a life of their own, in a performative or installation context. The presented works seek to examine how the activation of these objects allow for a spontaneous, accidental materialization of the hidden persona of these otherwise inanimate objects. They look at how an object, whether of a discarded or useful nature, can take on a cultural relevance, and how that cultural relevance can be reinterpreted and re-appropriated for an artistic context.

With: Lucas Abela (AU), Thomas Bégin (CA), Peter Blasser (US), Peter Flemming (CA), Gambletron (CA), Jean-Pierre Gauthier (CA), Jeremy Gordaneer (CA), Darsha Hewitt (CA), Yann Leguay (BE/FR), Maxime de la Rochefoucauld (CA) and Keiko Uneishi (US)

Performances : 19 - 21 December | 8pm
Closing event : 22 December | 9pm
Installations : 19 - 22 December | 12pm - 8pm
Workshops : 19 - 22 December| various schedules 

abela events 

Mix Tape INstallation 19-22 12pm to 8pm
http://dualplover.com/mixtape/

Performances by: Lucas Abela (AU), Yann Leguay (BE/FR) and Thomas Bégin (CA)

20 December | 8pm
$10 regular ticket

21 December 2012
MIX TAPE PLAY-STATION BUILDING WORKSHOP
Lucas Abela

This workshop will show participants how to design and build the multi tape head analog delay instruments used in Abela’s Mix Tape installation. Cost of workshop covers materials, which include tape deck, metal box, power supply, tape heads, plugs, sockets. Participants will go home with their very own live tape delay instrument.

21 December | 1pm - 4pm
$75

also have two other canadian shows coming up

22nd Toronto @Tranzac and 23rd Ottawa @ Club Saw for more details visit
http://dualplover.com/tocome.php

Balls For Cthulhu & Pinball Pianola Exhibition

Balls For Cthulhu (2012) 

Game by Lucas Abela - Graphics by Rev Kriss Hades

Additional elctronics by Hirofumi Uchino & Daniel Stocks

$2500 ono

A pentagram shaped pinball game played by five players at once, each stationed at each of its five points. All outer triangular walls of all five points have guitar necks strung up with their fret boards exposed to the play field. In the center of the pentagon has a mass of pop bumpers connected to a drum machine creating blast beats and the balls speed about the game. Legendary guitarist and artist from the Australian metal band Sadistik Exekution Rev Kriss Hades has emblazed his incredible art onto the machine.  (due to circumstances beyond our control this is exhibited as a work in progress which will be completed during the course of the exhibition, if you would like an email to inform you when the game will be available to play please provide your address on the list provided near the work)

Pinball Pianola (2012)

Game by Lucas Abela - Graphics by Keg de Souza

Additional elctronics by Hirofumi Uchino & Daniel Stocks

$2500 ono

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.

http://vimeo.com/48573912

Wednesday 28th November at 6pm to Saturday 15th December
Artist talks: Saturday 15th December at 2pm

firstdraft gallery

116—118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia 2010

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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

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

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