the NOW now series for 2016 is kicking off
For the next six months, on the first Tuesday of the month, 107 projects will host a night of sponeanous electronic, improvised, acoustic, exploratory music for your life-changing pleasure.
This is an independant project, made possible by the artists involved, and the generosity of the community at large.
Nathan Thompson (Perth) sono-kinetic electronics
Jannah Quill, electronics
Lawrence Williams, guitar
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
“Nathan John Thompson‘s work examines the role of humans in ‘nature’ by mapping sono-kinetic territories that act as filters for understanding inhabited space. In these ‘spaces’ Thompson experiments with new possibilities for man/machine interaction, mechanical sentience and the complexities produced from these relationships. Work that uses machines (self built, analogue, lifelike in their behaviour, using custom electronic neural-type networks, simple in design but when fed through multiple systems display behaviour that is remarkably organic) to explore questions of consciousness, mechanical sentience and object oriented ontology.
He explores the possibilities of man/machine interaction, mechanical sentience and the hidden creative corners that arise from these relationships. Thompson is currently Artist in Residence at SymbioticA researching new technologies in human based IP Stem Cell Soft-Robotics.”
Jannah Quill is a sound and visual artist based in Sydney. Her artworks carve soundscapes through the amplification of everyday technologies.
Discarded LCD screens, projectors and consumer product lighting are re-circuited, shifting the focus from function to materiality. She works with the light properties of these digitally produced (and then re-produced) systems and their ability to be linked with sound as either producers or reactors. Her performances are the loud discordance of amplified strobes and synthesiser.
Lawrence Williams says:
Through sound/ music I am interested in exploring processes of transduction to mediate, but also to intimate a sense of the innate materiality of the sounding object. For this show I’ll be playing with electric guitar, vibration motors taken from mobile phones and other objects.
Three solos, exploring three very different approaches to sound and meaning.
Music starts at 7:30 sharp
Bring people you love.
$10 entry.
20% of all income will go towards the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown. They are doing crucial, day-to-day work helping asylum seekers in Sydney.
