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FREE DOWNLOAD: Grace Anderson - Still

This is Grace Anderson's first solo release, recorded in her bedroom in Footscray.

Grace is a Melbourne musician involved in various projects including Repellant with Evelyn Morris (True Radical Miracle), First Response with Dan Lewis (Aktion Unit), GRACE with Stuart Grant (Primitive Calculators) and VDL Witches with Danica Davis and Sharmayne Grace McLean.

Grace has recorded vocals with the Primitive Calculators for their recent split with Chinese noise outfit Torturing Nurse on Genjing Records and appears on the latest Primitive Calculators album, as well as performing live with Pocket Calculators.

Free Download

MYSTIC EYES // RADICAL CREATION // EVES // SOLVENT CAGE

Facebook event: MYSTIC EYES // RADICAL CREATION // EVES // SOLVENT CAGE

Peter James - Otoño / Invierno

OUT NOW:

Peter James' new album is now out as a limited edition CD (25 copies) or download. Otoño / Invierno was created using reel to reel tape recorders and computers.

Get it here: Peter James - Otoño / Invierno

Surface Noise Vol.1

Surface Noise is a new series of limited edition (50 copies), hand-numbered CDRs documenting live performances of experimental and noise artists. Each volume features live performances from two different artists; the first initially invited by the curators, and the second then chosen by the first artist. Co-released by Melbourne labels Iceage Productions and Shame File Music, the series will consist of ten volumes.

Surface Noise #1 kicks off with a Melbourne double, featuring the modular synthesis noise of cleaninglady and a subterranean performance of unique handmade instruments and electronics from Rod Cooper’s Klunk.

Hand numbered yellow paper cover, plastic sleeve, individually hand printed disc art.

Purchase here: Shame File Music or Iceage Productions

Bereitschaftspotential by Automating

Bereitschaftspotential by Automating

Mastered by James A. Dean at Electric Sounds.

Design by Sentinel Media. Artwork by Ieva Arcadia.

Avaliable from: Iceage Productions Bandcamp

Review: Vital Weekly

Solvent Cage - Ceremony

Peter James - Computer

Mastered by James A.D. at Electric Sounds

Ceremony is Solvent Cage's fifth album.

Available from: Iceage Productions Bandcamp

Originally released through Australian label 'Smell The Stench' as a limited edition album with a hand numbered transparent paper sleeve and unbranded chrome disc which is now sold out.

smellthestench1@yahoo.com.au
www.smellthestench.net

Peter James - Sun Circles

Sun Circles is a nine minute plus drone piece by Peter James (Solvent Cage/Monolith) released in 2013. Sun Circles was created using synthesizers, oscillators and effects, building layers of spacial minimal drone inspired by the works of Eliane Radigue, Warren Burt and Carl Vine.

Available from: http://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/sun-circles

Night Soil - Desecration 1

Night Soil are a new Melbourne industrial drone duo consisting of Mark Skelton (Galactagogue, Last Days Of The Sun) and Peter James (Solvent Cage, Monolith).

Their album 'Desecration 1' is a recording of their first live set at Disco Beans in 2013 and is available as a free download via Iceage Productions bandcamp.

Get it here: http://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/desecration-1

Monolith/Solvent Cage European Tour

For all details regarding the Monolith/Solvent Cage European Tour visit the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/551265541597138/

Solvent Cage - Atom

Recorded live on the 9th March 2013 at Pender Street, Thornbury VIC, Australia. This piece was performed at a house show one autumn afternoon in Melbourne.

Limited edition CD of 15 copies or download. 7" record cover, b&w print on card, plastic sleeve, foam hub, 'replica black record' CD and two b&w postcards.

Bandcamp: http://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/atom

Monolith - The Lust Branch

Monolith has taken a 1951 recording of one of Grainger's Free Music experiments (created using a modified reed organ microtonally tuned to 48 tones per octave equal temperament, reading hand-cut paper rolls pianola-style), originally only two minutes in length, and stretched it out to just over an hour, allowing us to explore the deep microtonal worlds between notes that Grainger sought to reveal. Clinton Green 2012

Iceage Productions Sampler No.1

Shane Fahey - Port Mouth In Communication
Monolith - Bleak
The Dadacomputer - Module
A Cloakroom Assembly - Eventual Realignment Of Organs
White Tiger A:. A:. - Deaths Grey Milk
Zac Keiller - Search Party
Undecisive God - RPMs 6
Wolf 359 - The Machine
Paul Kidney Experience - Phospheniac
Solvent Cage - Swallowed By The Sun

Listen here: Iceage Productions Sampler No.1

 

THE DADACOMPUTER: 1981 UK Synthpunk

The Dadacomputer was created as an experiment in long-distance collaboration, well Cardiff and Bristol, about 40 miles apart, separated by the Bristol Channel. The recordings were made in the Autumn of 1981. MAP and I had met about 6 months earlier in Bristol due to me putting an ad in a record shop looking to work with similar musicians quoting TG, Kraftwerk, Chrome etc as influences. We did a few recordings together but then I decided to move back to Cardiff where I had come from. I had spent 3 years in Bristol struggling to do a philosophy degree all the while getting into improvised and electronic music and collaborating with various Bristol musicians. So when I went back we wrote a lot to each other, both releasing solo music on our own cassette labels MAPtapes and Quick Stab Music Products. Then we got going on The Dadacomputer. I created the initial backings using a Korg MS20, various Akai reel to reel machines, which I did half speed and double speed manipulation with, I also used a Dr. Rhythm drum machine and various vinyl ie: Stingray (a children's marionette television show, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson from 1964–65). Once these original backings (which to my knowledge no longer exist) were completed I posted them to MAP and he then added all the overdubs using a double cassette machine. Guitar, vocals, keyboards (Casiotone and Stylophone) and sawing wood on one track. Once this was done we both released the finished recording on our respective cassette labels. The Dadacomputer title came from me saying in a letter "What shall we call it, something crazy like dadacomputer maybe", and MAP saying "YES that will do great".

Rob Lawrence

Cardiff 2012

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The Dadacomputer CD is available now through Iceage Productions.
Australia: $10 (AU) + $2 (AU) postage
Rest Of The World: $10 (AU) + $7 (AU) postage
 

Undecisive God (Clinton Green) & Sean Baxter

Clinton Green (turntables) begins in a duo with Sean Baxter (drums), playing warped and broken copies of Baxter's LP, before finishing in solo mode. This was filmed (by Jenny Green) at the CD launch for Green's (AKA Undecisive God) new CD "RPMs 5,6,7", available from http://ShameFileMusic.com. Conduit Arts, Melbourne, 9 June 2012.



 Video of performance: Undecisive God Album Launch

Shane Fahey "Twin Korg - Water Drip Code".

"Recorded 1996-7, Fahey mans two Korg MS-20 synths triggered by a dripping tap and contact mics secured to the sink, for a double-barrelled analogue attack that ranges from industrial to noise to organic sound pieces". Clinton Green 2012.

Liner notes from "Twin Korg":

Physical acoustic phenomena tracked into Control Voltage.

Analogue oscillators & filter frequency cutoffs triggered & guided by the cluster of events from a water tap dripping into a laundry sink.

Variable valve settings on faucet range from single, isolated drips; clusters; turbulence & streams.

Tactile & percussive properties of the pieces are achieved via contact mics secured to the to the inside walls & bottom of a laundry sink. This sink also acts as a resonator & reverberation plate.

No water sound or vibration is audible in the recording!

The other aspect of these behavioural pieces is its twin/binaural nature. One of the main ideas of this recording was to use a matched pair of analogue synthesisers with the focus on trying to make their signal outputs identical. The analogue settings on the synths were not calibrated to each other and because the synth threseholds & modulators were being manipulated by hand the degree of accuracy between the two was poor. This created interesting cross-correlations in the resulting stereo field. A stereo enhancement system was the only outboard insert in the audio chain. Sometimes the two synths seem to come together as a stereo sound field and at other times are identifiable as two distinct mono streams.

Shane Fahey and A Cloakroom Assembly - MELBOURNE TOUR 2012

Shane Fahey and Michael Tee (A Cloakroom Assembly) will be in Melbourne for 3 dates. Hailing from Sydney, Fahey and Tee were at the forefront of the Australian post punk scene in the 1980's with The Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast and Scattered Order as documented in 2011's M Squared box set. Expect an array of electronics exploring experimental techniques utilising field recordings, rhythmic samples, musique concrete and minimal music. This tour coincides with the release of Shane Fahey's album "Twin Korg" and A Cloakroom Assembly's album Movement/Time out through Iceage Productions.

Saturday 30th June at The Gasometer Hotel
Shane Fahey
A Cloakroom Assembly
Justin Fuller
Cooper Bowman

Monday 2nd July at the Northcote Social Club
Shane Fahey with A Cloakroom Assembly
NUN
Young Romantix

Tuesday 3rd July at Make It Up Club - Bar Open
Shane Fahey and Michael Tee with Zac Keiller and Sasha Margolis (improvised set)

 

Undecisive God/Ernie Althoff - Dual Album Launch

:: Undecisive God
:: Sean Baxter
:: Ernie Althoff
:: Em Vécue Aquieu

:: Conduit Arts Initiative 83 Brunswick St. Fitzroy

:: Doors open: 8pm
:: Entry: $5.00

Undecisive God (Clinton Green) has been a mainstay of Australian experimental music since the 1990s. Focused for many years upon new approaches to the electric guitar as a sound generation tool, Green’s current interest is in prepared turntables as dynamic generators of random sound and percussive patterns. He has released numerous recordings and has performed live around Australia, including in festivals such as Liquid Architecture, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival and Electrofringe.

Sean Baxter is an Australian improviser who has forged an international reputation as a bold explorer of percussive possibilities both as a soloist and through his work with the acclaimed avant garde trio, Pateras/Baxter/Brown. Focusing on the use of extended techniques applied to the conventional drumkit, he utilises an arsenal of metallic junk and other percussive detritus to expand the sonic palette of the percussion tradition.

Ernie Althoff, Australian musician, composer, instrument builder, and visual artist. He was involved in the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Althoff is unique not only for the original textures and sonic elements he creates, often tempered with wry humour, but also for his practically continuous contribution to and participation in the Melbourne experimental music community for over three decades.

Em Vécue Aquieu (Sam Filmer) is a newcomer to the Melbourne experimental community. He creates an ambient, spiritual sound that builds an articulate spacial environment exploring experimentalism in classical structures. A persistent, lulling effect is translated, completely submersing everything in close proximity. Experiencing his live shows audiences become transfixed on the beauty and simplicity of his sounds.

RPMs 5,6,7

DRONESTOCK

Saturday June 2nd 2012 
This is an EARLY start show with doors opening and music beginning at 6PM.
Northcote Uniting Church - 251 High St. Northcote Victoria Australia. 

$10.00 entry

Featuring:

Grey Skies Blue is an experimental documentary about protest, power and the possibility of change. Utilising interviews and imagery from the S11/Melbourne World Economic Forum demonstrations of 2000, Grey Skies Blue documents the experiences of a community gathered at a political demonstration. Featuring an original soundtrack performed live by Seth Rees (Amplifier Machine, The Spheres) and Guy Harris (The Spheres, Winternationale) the three screen documentary is an evocative encapsulation of a shared emotional experience - the crystallisation of a time, place and community of people who believed if but for a fleeting moment that “another world is possible”.

Em Vécue Aquieu is the solo project from guitarist Sam Filmer. Creating ambient, spiritual sound, Sam builds an articulate spacial environment. Experiencing his rare live shows, his sounds rise up with texture to gently fill the negative space between a nearby coffee grinder and a murmur from the back row. Chordal sound design together with heavily effected guitar, Em Vécue Aquieu explores experimentalism in classical structures without lending too often to silence. A persistent, lulling effect is translated, completely submersing everything in close proximity.
This show also marks the official launch for his debut cassette release "Lightlike".

Ollie Olsen has amassed an incredible body of work in a variety of forms and projects: a chameleon-like artist delving into early punk/post-punk, industrial, with The Young Charlatans, Whirlywirld and NO, through to his electronic music, sound design, compositions for film and television and too many others to name.

Seaworthy, are a three piece collective that revolves around core member Cameron Webb as well as Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird, exploring melodic and experimental approaches to the construction (and unravelling) of minimalist sound scapes from looped guitar, warm drones, piano, electronics and field recordings. The compositions often blur the lines of conventional categorisation with elements traditionally considered part of “indie” or “post” rock blended with processed musical and field recordings. Instruments and samples are looped through amps and effects pedals, giving the sound an organic feel concentrating on subtle shifts in melody, tone and texture to convey a sense of time and place.

Zac Keiller seeks to discover new and unique sonic textures from one of the most overused and unimaginatively approached instruments in Western music: The guitar. The majority of his previous releases saw him working with ambient textures or electroacoustic improvisation. Whilst more recent efforts have seen him limiting the use of pedals, attempting to find a kind of transcendence through stark purity of tone, using the entire guitar, attempting to make it breathe with no smoothing out of the rough edges or slick over processing. The compositions vary and grow to tell stories and create mood, with an atmosphere in parts epic wall of sound, while at others minimal and sublime.

Monolith kick off the evening with their own brand of industrial space drone. Monolith conjur a unique atmosphere that is at both times, expansive yet contained. Taking inspiration from John Carpenter, Minit, Grey Wolves, Tangerine Dream, and Eliane Radigue to name a few, yet still managing to exist in a terrain of their own.

White Tiger A:. A:.

ICE013: White Tiger A:. A:. - White Tiger A:. A:. (CD)

White Tiger A:. A:. are a South Australian noise act consisting of members of Grong Grong, Die Like A God, Glamville, Hack, Viva Vas Deferens, Guitar Jazz Collective and Slub to name but a few. This album incorporates elements of improvised guitar noise, electronic and drone music with occult overtones (limited edition of 100 copies). $10 (+ postage).

Levitation: Thy Beast Within II

24th May Thursday

ROTTEUR
EKO EKO AZARAK
MONOLITH
SOIL & ASH ( opening Ritual )

DJs ANNALEE KOERNIG & SEAN BAXTER

25th May Friday

BLARGHSTRAD NOISESMITH
WÖLFE
AWSK
SYMPATHIA
VON EINEM

DJ GUNJA (MAJIK CROWBAR)

26th May Saturday

ABRE OJOS ( closing Ritual )
BONNIE MERCER
URCHYN
GRIST & VOIDHANGER

TERRA AUSTRALIS DJs

Upstairs at The Gasometer Hotel (Collingwood)

Undecisive God - RPMs 5,6,7

ICE012: Undecisive God - RPMs 5,6,7 (CD)

This series of compositions for prepared turntables continues with three pieces that feature unplugged acoustic turntables, empty turntables and a live multi-performer recording featuring 6 turntables. Rounded out with an abrasive live cut. The liners also contain Green's ruminations on the evolution of his turntable project (limited edition of 100 copies). $10 (+ postage).

The Shape Of Sound Vol.2 - Melbourne Australia:

The Shape Of Sound is a compilation CD of Melbourne artists ranging from harsh noise, experimental, avant rock and electronic music. Volume 2 contains tracks by: Arthur Cantrill, Barnaby Oliver, Penguins, Galactagogue, Mad Nanna, Bonnie Mercer, Screwtape, Dark Passenger, Admin Bldg, Undecisive God, Oranj Punjabi, Monolith and Ernie Althoff.

This CD is limited to 100 hand numbered copies.

Distributed by: Shame File Music (Australia), Alberts Basement (Australia) and Smell The Stench (Australia).

The Shape Of Sound Vol.2

Monolith - live dates:

“No One Will Hear You Land”

Sunday 22nd April (8pm)

The Grace Darling Hotel [Collingwood]

Scattered Order (with Bonnie Mercer)

Matthew Brown

Monolith

"Sonic Decadence"

Saturday 28th April (8pm)

The Old Fire Station [Bendigo]

Kristian Roberts
Rotteur
Monolith
VICMOD Ensemble
The Runny Tadpole
Soft Black Stars

"Levitation: Thy Beast Within II"

24th Thursday May (8pm)

The Gasometer Hotel [Collingwood]

Rotteurr

Eko Eko Azarak

Monolith

Soil & Ash