Sean Baxter is an Australian improvising musician interested in extreme music forms. He focuses on the use of extended techniques applied to the conventional drum kit, utilising an arsenal of metallic junk and other percussive detritus.
26.06.2010 Concert @ ICU, Castlemaine
28.06.2010 Concert @ William St Bird, Perth
01.07.2010 Concert One @ 3RRR Melbourne
His performance aesthetic evokes a variety of sonic practices, ranging from extreme metal and punishing noise to free jazz and the Modernist abstraction of the classical avant garde.
He performs regularly with the internationally renowned Pateras/Baxter/Brown trio, the brutal free-jazz-grind quartet, Embers, and in frequent collaborative and solo incarnations.
In addition to solo percussion performance, he also appears occcasionally as DJ Arsecrack: a no-fi, plunderphonics DJ project; and has a sporadic, absurdist performance art collaboration with Erick Mitsak, founding the La Basta theatre project at the turn of the millenium, and most recently in an episode of Mitsak's The Science of Music.
A founding member of pioneering experimental groups bucketrider, Lazy and Western Grey, Baxter has been an active presence in adventurous, improvised music in Australia since the early 1990s. He is currently curating the Make It Up Club, Australia's longest running, weekly improvised music series.
http://www.myspace.com/seanbaxterimprov
Listen to Sean Baxter's Junk 2:48 and Woklids 3:53
