JUL 29 @ Kent St, AV: Faux Pas+ Jean Poole, Pixels: DC


Above: Faux Pas + Jean Poole getting ready to re-process some Tim Burton movies…

Jul 29, Last thu of the month = Plug N Play @ KENT ST Cafe, 201 Smith st, Fitzroy.

8-10:
Faux Pas: Also known as the man behind the recently acclaimed Noiseworks album, and braver of 4am Melbourne winter starts to deliver breakfast radio on RRR. Now comes complete with new sound card, all the better for sonic manipulations of live video clips being triggered by…
Jean Poole: Sampling from a range of spooky historical videos, assorted masked recordings and weird torrent finds. Also known as the writer of this here, in third person, text.

10-12:
(Birthday!) Pixels by DC ( Soon to take Manhattan, and then Berlin. )
Music by Double Rainbows.

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PPNP JUN 8: Broken Pixel ( Dubstep + Interactive video ), + Jean Poole

Broken Pixel aka Jayson Haebich – ‘spacey dubstep + interactive visuals ( control the visuals via laser pointer! )
+ Triple Screen experiments by Jean Poole

/Broken Pixel is Jayson Haebich, a musician, artist and programmer
who mashes up spacey dubstep beats with interactive visuals in which
the audience can interact with the live performance using laser pointers,
video cameras and tracking software which aims to blur the distinction
between performer and audience
and to immerse the crowd in a total audio visual environment./

** Followed by choons + triple screen experiments by Jean Poole.
*** Preceded by Japanese Food smorgasbord + Hip Hop MCs…

Jun 8th @ Horse Bazaar : 397 Lt Lonsdale st, Melb. 10.30-Midnight

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PNP Jun24: Faux Pas, Jean Poole + Salon Des Refuses ( aka Dr.Knievel )

Plug N Play Jun 24 / @ KENT ST cafe, Fitz!

8-10PM
Faux Pas [ Fitzroy ]
Jean Poole [ Brunswick ]

Popmeister Faux Pas takes us on a trail of 1990s sound bites, sonic hookworms and the occasional Danny Elfman remix. (Try a current taste from his noisy wok.. )
Burtonesque visual interjections by Jean Poole. ( Warning : clown buskers ahead )

10-Midnight
Salon Des Refuses ( aka Dr.Knievel ) [ Thornbury ]
Back by popular demand, mixing the mp3 barnacles that time forgot, with gleeful pop you’ll discover next year.. ( BYO dancing shoes )

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PPNP Thu Jun 10 @ Horse Bazaar : Biscotti, VJ Netzair + DJ Koda, Miha Ciglar + Nika Autor (EU)

A jam packed Plug N Play @ Horse Bazaar this Thursday…
Aside from the rolling Japanese food All-You-Can_Eat Thursday night menu, there will be a plethora of experimental acts gracing the surround screens and speakers:

8PM : Biscotti – live performance
Moog synth, bass, percussion, laptop and vocals sound like a good combo? That’d be Biscotti, bringers of the broken beat hypnotism this week at the Horse.

9.30 PM – VJ Netzair + DJ Koda
This is an exciting Melbourne based audio and video collaboration, pairing techno pixel veteran Netzair with live act DJ Koda ( IF? Records, Elektrax. ) Expect custom 2D + 3D, tightly integrated layering and sequencing and a condensed hour of choregraphed audiovisual delights. From the pixel trenches:
“Both me and koda are rearing to go, making loops now, see you at horse :) ”

11PM – Miha Ciglar + Nika Autor
Miha Ciglar is an audio engineer, sound artist and instrument developer visiting from Slovenia. His current research involves haptic feedback interfaces and real-time gesture recognition ( “sculpting sounds with your bare hands..” ). He will be accompanied by video artist Nika Autor.

Next UP:
Thu 24th – Plug N Play @ Kent st cafe, 201 Smith st, Fitzroy.

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PNP May 27: Salon Des Refuses + Jean Poole

9-Midnight THU 27 MAY
lo-fi pixels and tunes…. Plug N Play @ Kent st

Salon Des Refuses [9-10.30]

Brief bio for Salon Des Refuses*,
this month’s distinguished guest artist @ KENT ST :

- Ex-guitarist from seminal Newcastle 90s band, The Plants
- Wall of Sound Yoga practitioner
- Has hollow legs, each filled with obscure indie-rock trivia

*may or may not feature an unlit cigarette dangling,
from the performer’s lips for the duration of his set.

Music + Film Snippets by Jean Poole [10.30-12 ]
Casino VS Japan / Shlohmo / Suckafish P Jones / Bullion / Gescom /
Giorgio Moroder / Tim Hecker / Faux Pas / TTC / The Very Best /
Pantha Du Prince / Faux Pas / B+W Documentaries…

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+ 2nd Thursday of month: wrap-around screen imagery
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June 13 ::: PNP @ Horse Bazaar with European Audiovisual
guests.. a new exciting local AV combination and more..

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Thu May 13 – Dan MacKinlay, Lauren Brown + Jean Poole : Horse Bazaar

[ Above, Dan MacKinlay + Jean Poole performing @Electrofringe 09, remixing a performance made in Indonesia
 for the 2009 OK Video Festival in Jakarta. Wrestling Model? Dan MacKinlay. Photo by Somaya Langley ]
In the city for the Next Wave Opening Launch this Thursday?
( @ 1000 £ Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St )
Afterwards, sail up the street a little further to catch
Plug N Play’s monthly night of panoramic visuals @ Horse Bazaar…
[ 397 Little Lonsdale St  ]
This months guests :

Dan MacKinlay  [10.30 - Midnight ]

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Australia’s most nomadic field recordist / gamelan splicing / mixing mutant / – is back! ( briefly )
Expect BASS, sound effects that will be really popular 2 years from now, rhythmic deviance
and  a grab bag of recent recordings from unlikely places, spaces and events in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Accompanied on video and photo-slide panoramics by Jean Poole.
http://soundcloud.com/parking-sun
http://www.myspace.com/loomismyoyster
http://possumpalace.org/

Video Art Screening by Lauren Brown [ 9-9.30 ]

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http://sheseesred.com
http://sheseesred.blogspot.com
Le art blurb:
“Ariadne’s tangled bloody mess
Anyone who owns a technogadget knows that process of having to disentangle
the mess of cords. On a daily basis we unravel our headphone cables, untwist the
laptop power cord, separate the printer from the scanner from the ethernet cable
from the toaster. It is the modern condition of having to sort out our bloody
technology.
Ariadne’s tangled bloody mess reflects this frustrating process, and sets it up as a
metaphor for other kinds of disentanglement. It is a slow tracking projection, the
unravelling and undoing a knot of red cable.
In greek mythology Ariadne gave Theseus a length of red thread to find his way
back from the Minotaur’s labyrinth. The term has become a way to describe the
methodical process by which we solve problems – a way to talk about logic and
order, integral to technology design. “
{ { {{ Plug N Play = wrap-around screen imagery @ Horse Bazaar /  2nd Thursday of every month ( Enjoy 16:9 screen ratios? Try 64:9 ! ) }} } }
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Drop a line if there’s something visually unusual you’d like to launch / exhibit / experiment with in the months to come. This might include games / illustrations / photoshop tennis / net-based collaborations //  live remixing // ‘long photos’ // ambient video // comic-book + website launches //
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June 13 ::: European Audiovisual guests..
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Recent PNP Gigs: Light Rhythm Visuals, Cyberbrothers.tv + Dom Rhys +

Plug N Play gigs happen twice a month now, curated panoramics @ Horse Bazaar on second Thu of each month, AV jamming on last Thu at Kent St Cafe. Here’s a few that’ve floated by of late..

Thu Apr 29th @ KENT ST : DC + Jean Poole

Another episode of pixel mixology..

Thu Apr 8th @ Horse Bazaar : Dom Rhys Live

( illuminated illustrations on some screens, animation and VJing on other screens, and ambient music mix – all by Dom ).

And we also had a screening of the current Light Rhythm Visuals 2010 Compilation.

[ Netzair in the foreground, in the background - frame from a new
collaborative work by Chris Allen of The Light Surgeons. ]

“The lightrhythm_currents 2010 program features new works by a collection of associated visual artists. Selected and curated by the founders of lightrhythm, this collection summarizes some of the most diverse films from the label, and some of the newest unreleased materials, wrapped and presented in a cinema screening format. From the surreal illustrations of Shantell martin to the 8bit styles of Raquel Meyers this diverse program entitles an audience to peer into the new visual cultures from around the world.”

Thu Mar 24 @ KENT ST : DPWolf + Jean Poole

David Wolf returnED from the other side of the Pacific with a Chilean treasure chest full of Cumbia + South American depth of field experiments with a sparkling Canon 7D. Plus, he saw Lady Gaga this week. Hilarity EnsueD. ( Phrase has become a cliche, but *belongs* here)

Thu Mar 11th @ Horse Bazaar: davidope + cyberbrothers.tv

Exhibition of animated loops by davidope.com, and an eclectic highlight reel of Russian animations and short films from a new online Russian portal,cyberbrothers.tv ( thanks to Ben Sheppee for the hook-up!).

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Plug N Play April 29th @ Kent st : monster pixels

Aye, aye! This Thursday – 9pm – midnight // Apr 29 / at the cosy surrounds of Kent st cafe // 201 Smith st, Fitzroy.

dc – monster pixels !

jp – collage audio / tv snippets / short films / lo-fi animation !

“le free”

Beer googles + Japanese food available upon request.

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