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MARC BEHRENS (DE)

Photo by Ana Carvalho 2010

Marc Behrens (Germany, 1970) works on several cerebral and physical levels.

His works mainly consist of concrète electronic music, installations, the occasional photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest, founding an incorporated company as a social art work, and staging a rite of passage for an investment banker.

PASCAL BATTUS (FR)

Photo : M. Chamagne

Pascal Battus started out in music as a teenage rock guitarist, then studied percussion (ENM Le Mans et Noisiel) and finally focused on experimental music and improvisation, shaping his instruments to match his own gestures. He now presents a wide range of sound possibilities and experiences, including the 'surrounded' guitar, acoustic and amplified percussion, 'acoustic walkman' on rotating surfaces and guitar pick-ups.

LUKAS SIMONIS (NL)

Photo : solo in deventer, willie, 2007

Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical 'activist' in the industrial music and noise rock of the 80s. Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a Collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combos) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime and after he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk, AA Kismet, Liana Flu Winks, VRIL and Coolhaven.

ROSS BOLLETER (WA)

Photo : Rosalind Hall

Ross Bolleter is primarily interested in improvisation, both as a solo player and in group work. Although he has composed some pieces formally, he feels little interest in having pieces recreated by other performers. In the last 10 years Bolleter has explored playing with ruined pianos, that is old pianos that have been found after having been left exposed to the action of time and weather, thus acquiring novel and unexpected musical possibilities.

DAVID CHESWORTH (VIC)

photo: Sonia Leber

David Chesworth, with collaborator Sonia Leber, creates large-scale sound installations for gallery spaces and the public domain. In 2007 they were recipients of the Helen MacPherson Smith Art Commission which resulted in Almost Always Everywhere Apparent installed at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Sonia and David's installation site contains more information about their artworks including Proximities, a permanent soundscape artwork created for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

DAVE BROWN (VIC)

Photo : Randy H Y Yau

Dave Brown is a guitarist who has been involved in the Melbourne experimental, art rock/punk rock scene since the mid-seventies and current projects include punk jazz band bucketrider, lazy an improvising duo with percussionist Sean Baxter, improv/sound art group Western Grey with Baxter and Philip Samartzis, psychedelic electronic duo Terminal Hz with KK Null from Japan, prepared improvisational group Pateras/Baxter/Brown, and electric free jazz group Embers.

LIZZIE POGSON (VIC)

Lizzie Pogson's sound art practice involves the collection of field recordings and abstraction of this material to create discrete zones of aural experience. By juxtaposing natural and synthetic sound material in different combinations recorded natural spaces act as environments for the inclusion of synthetic sounds and vice versa.

JAMES RUSHFORD and JOE TALIA (VIC)

James Rushford and Joe Talia are a Melbourne-based duo of national and international renown. Performing chiefly on viola, piano, drums and percussion, the duo creates ecstatic and terrifying environments that play with the very limits of the instruments' capabilities. At times static, at times fragmented, the brooding nature of their work loosely references classical Spectralism, avant-garde improvisation and musique concrète, with a bold approach to performance and recording.

TRALALA BLIP (NSW)

Tralala Blip is a collective of differently abled artists who meet on a regular basis to create, produce and perform original electronic music.

Using a variety of midi controllers, computers, digital and analog musical instruments, Tralala Blip discover new forms of musical expression that are accessible, experimental and most of all, fun.

JON ROSE (NSW)

Photo : Hollis Taylor

Jon Rose is an Australian violinist, born in the UK in 1951. For over 35 years, Rose has been at the sharp end of new, improvised, and experimental music and media, working in over 40 countries and collaborating with many other maverick musicians and inventors such as Kronos Quartet, John Cage, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith, etc. His work in interactive electronics since 1983 is internationally recognized as innovative and exemplary.

http://www.jonroseweb.com/f_projects_k-bow.html

PIA VAN GELDER (NSW)

Pia van Gelder is a Sydney based electronic media artist. Pia teaches Media Art at the College of Fine Arts and the University of Sydney. Pia’s current practice is centered around audio and video performing machines.