"Investigating the structure of acoustic and electronic noise: an analysis of 'Volumina' by Gyorgy Ligeti and 'Canaanda' by Merzbow" Now Available

My Honours thesis from 2012 is now available for download from the ECU library. The work, titled "Investigating the structure of acoustic and electronic noise: an analysis of 'Volumina' by Gyorgy Ligeti and 'Canaanda' by Merzbow", is the largest body of research i've undertaken thusfar, and constitutes what I hope to be the first part of an ongoing research project that seeks to investigate, document, and analyse the compositional undertones and structures of contemporary noise music.

New Commission "Warning Tones" To Be Broadcast on ZED Digital's Back Lick Program

For the last couple of months i've been working on about an hours worth of new marterial entitled "Warning Tones". This work was commissioned by the 'Back Lick' program on Brisbane digital radio station ZED Digital. They will be broadcasting the new work on Wednesday (10th April, 2013) and you can check the program out here.

Alternatively feel free to stream and download a copy from my bandcamp account:

"Warning Tones" came about after I had finished a substantial program of chamber music works at the end of 2012 and a tour through Japan with my piano/laptop duo Cycle~ 440 in early 2013. Returning to Perth I wanted to work again with the medium of field recordings, something that had been absent in much of my work in the last 8 months or so. The result is "Warning Tones", the first of several extended works that seeks to connect with ideas of time and place primarily through environmental recordings.

"Warning Tones" is a return to a narrative idea that I was exploring around 2008 primarily through a more visual medium. I would take snippets of conversation and interviews relating to different stories and recombine them to create the impression that they are related to one another. In "Warning Tones" the conversations and interviews relate to natural disasters and events that have happened in a number of different places and attempts to re-frame them as a commentary on a single event, stripping away the event itself and focusing on the human reaction to any given disaster.

Many thanks to Adrian from ZED Digital for the opportunity to create a new work for the program.

"The Days When Crows Would Watch Us Play II" to be exhibited at Drawn From Sound

The score for my original work 'The Days When Crows Would Watch Us Play II' (2012) will be exhibited at Drawn From Sound, an exhibit that brings together a variety of Australasian graphic music scores in the first survey of its kind to be held in Western Australia.

Drawn From Sound is curated by Perth composer and sound artist Cat Hope, and will showcase Australian contemporary graphic notation practice in a variety of possible forms – as objects, videos and films, websites, interactive programs or images. Supported by a program of performances and artist talks, Drawn From Sound celebrates the graphic score not only as a valid form of musical notation, but also as a unique source of visual expression.

The exhibit runs until April 12 and, aside from my work, features graphic scores by Philip Brophy (VIC), Percy Grainger (VIC), Lee Harrop (WA) Anita Hustas (VIC), David Kim-Boyle (NSW), Ron Nagorka (VIC), David Young (VIC), Lindsay Vickery (WA), Freya Zinovieff (NSW), and Christopher de Groot (WA). And while you can see my contribution to the evening in this post, its so much bigger at the Sound Spectrum Gallery!

Cycle~ 440 Japan Tour Announced

For the first two weeks of February, Cycle~ 440 will be touring through Japan, playing shows in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo, alongside very good friends Té (Kynan Tan and Andrew Brooks).

OSAKA
02 Feb – DOCKGAVOTTE @ Yuno Museum – Té + Cycle~ 440 + Kanchen Junga + psych-F&PSYCHOLONICA – http://yunobi.blogspot.com.au/

03 Feb – Miniatures @ MIIT House – different improvisational groups – members of Té + Cycle~ 440 + Jerry Gordon + Yangjah (dance) – http://miit-house.blogspot.jp/

04 Feb – @ Hokage – Té + Cycle~ 440 + 毛羽毛現(KEUKEGEN), 馬車馬(BASHAUMA) – http://www.kaguraenterprise.jp/hokage/schedule2_2013.htm

05 Feb - @ Nu Things - Té + Cycle~ 440, Honmachi, Osaka-shi

KYOTO
08 Feb – Minamo Tour @ UrBANGUILD – Té + Cycle~ 440 + Minamo (12k/room40), ASUNA (ao to ao) / Sonir(Yuta Uozumi aka SjQ) w dobames(Akinori Yamasaki / Yuki Nakgawa) – http://sukimaindustries.blogspot.jp/

TOKYO
09 Feb – a(n) arrangement(s) @ Kosmos Lane Studio and Gallery – Té w Kouhei Harada + Cycle~ 440 + DURHA – https://www.facebook.com/events/474517489260987/

11 Feb – bliss in the dark @ Next Sunday – Gargle + Yusuke Kamijima + 關伊佐央, Té + Cycle~ 440 – http://nextsunday.jp/info.php?selectyear=2013&selectmonth=2

12 Feb – Test Tone @ Super-Deluxe – Kynan Tan AV + Cycle~ 440 + Peter Knight / Yoshio Machida / Andrew Brooks – http://www.soundispatch.com/ttsnews/

We will also be giving out free copies of our touring release 'On Distant Shores With Friends' during this tour, recorded by Laurie Sinagra from the Foodchain Real to Reel recording studio, late-2012. If you can't make it, feel free to grab a copy from our bandcamp!

Cycle~ 440 featured on New Weird Australia, Broadcast four compilation

First post of 2013 and it's to announce that Cycle~ 440's live performance on Sydney radio station's fbI program New Weird Australia in mid-2012 has been included on their fourth compilation album. 'Broadcast Four' draws on a whole host of amazing Australian music recorded live by New Weird Australia between 2009 and 2012, and best of all, it's free!