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Black Sun at the Granary Theatre ~monthly weirdo music night in Cork ~

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  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    Hey all,

    A limited 50 crappy handmade Black Sun tickets will be dropped into Plugd today at 12pm. Each one is unique. Astound your friends, amaze your family etc etc. Pick yours up in advance.

    Just giving ye an excuse to be seducin' Tombstone at the counter...


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    Sound artist and photographer Harry Moore will be taking special pinhole photographs of our last Black Sun of 2009. See more of Harry's work here:

    http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID=343047517


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    Black Sun is an almost monthly outer limits weirdo music event that first erupted onto the Cork music scene in May 2009. It plugs in to the city’s vibrant mix of ‘alternative’ music scenes, bringing them together in an authentically all-embracing event – the response has been phenomenal, and its return eagerly anticipated. Curator Vicky Langan (with co-organising assistance from Paul Hegarty) has brought many renowned makers of strange sounds from around the world to play for the first time in this country – performance artist Jean-Louis Costes, Oblivia and Ju Suk Reek Meate from free music pioneers Smegma, lute player Jozef van Wissem, Blood Stereo’s mix of avant-garde art and DIY, and now sound cutters Sudden Infant and Family Battle Snake. Black Sun has also presented a host of artists based in Ireland (its opening event was headlined by Rest). More than a concert, its ambience is completed by an array of independent distributors of music and zines, vegan cakes, and, since the move from the Granary to the Pavilion, experimental films selected by Max Le Cain from the Cork Film Centre. Black Sun is a space where the adventurous can gather, whatever their musical preference, to find something new, strange and fantastic; a space where the experimental is not something clique-ish for the afficionado, but precisely the opposite – an opening of possibility.


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    We've joined up with this year's Cork Midsummer Festival and the Pavilion, Cork to present our most exciting Black Sun yet.

    This June 22nd, we're presenting Sudden Infant, Family Battle Snake, Black Sun DJs and a rare screening of some experimental short films from one of the UK's greatest experimental filmmakers, Jeff Keen, some work by a Hungarian pair (also musicians) who call themselves the Buharov brothersand a centrepiece that has yet to be revealed. As usual, Paula Larkin will be on site, selling an array of stunning vegan cupcakes and treats.


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    SUDDEN INFANT / JOKE LANZ

    Born in Switzerland and currently operating out of Berlin, Joke Lanz is a prolific artist working with sound and performance since 1986. His activities in various solo and collective guises (for music groups, radio projects, theater and dance endeavors) have included Sudden Infant, Schimpfluch-Gruppe, WAL, Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather, Jaywalker, Opposite Opponents, MK Selection, Psychic Rally, The Eye of Arghhh, Tell and countless others. He has also toured the world over with various acolytes and has released his works on some of the most prominent record labels in the noise underground (Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Entr'acte, Artware, SSSM, Klanggalerie, Some Bizarre, iDeal Rec and many more).

    Sudden Infant is Lanz' longest-running and most enduring project. Its inception in 1989 was borne out of Lanz' urgent drive to combine sound art and performance into one visceral whole -- by doing so, his performances frequently bring forth elements and influences from Dada, actionism, Fluxus, noise, and punk, as well as some of industrial music's most trenchant performers.

    A Sudden Infant performance will typically be anchored by two main characteristics: the use of minimal electronic equipment on one side, on the other a strong focus on the human body, its reduced essence, and the sound-worlds it contains and spews forth. Sudden Infant is a vehicle for Lanz to run acoustic and psychic elements to their end by focusing on their bare essentials. Thus doing, he establishes an extremely tense aesthetic of performance, and tears down any preconceived barriers between noise, performance, improvisation, and electronic music.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCx11CMd6o

    http://www.suddeninfant.com/
    http://www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise

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    Family Battle Snake

    Family Battle Snake is Bill Kouligas, Greek born, currently residing in Berlin. Bill runs his own Label (pan-act.com) with releases so far by Mark Durgan, Andy Ortman, Astro, Joke Lanz & Rudolf Eber. Family Battle Snake has shared stages with Alan Licht, Aki Onda, Cluster, Merzbow, William Bennett, Ex-Cocaine, Usurper and many more. He supported Sonic Youth in Berlin last October. A hardcore trip into tape loops/analogue synth research...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ubUH9ZKZo



    Jeff Keen:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfpYkaKRYtA


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    Bill Kouligas is a Berlin based artist who runs the label Pan and also Family Battle Snake, his long running solo experimetal music project. He has collaborated with the likes of Sudden Infant, Christian Weber, Mark Durgan, Chris Corsano, Ashtray Navigations, Stellar OM Source, To Live And Shave In L.A., Anla Courtis, MV Carbon to name but a few.
    Family Battle Snake floats on a plane ebbing and flowing between early psychedelia, tape music, and gluey entropicalia. Lava shifts of analogue synth warm cold industrial. Definitely more in the "noises" than "noise" camp.
    Family Battle Snake is like a cloak of whispers, ominous.


    Black Sun, Cork is now on Twitter. Follow us for Black Sun related updates, videos, articles and info... x
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  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


    * * *DUBLIN DATE * * *

    Black Sun is on the road! Joining forces with Pissbow, Dublin, Sudden Infant, Family Battle Snake and more tbc will be performing in the Joinery on Wednsday June 23rd. We may also be bringing our experimental film programme on the road too so those of you who don't make Black Sun in Cork can still get an opportunity to see works from the amazing UK experimental filmmaker Jeff Keen. We might also make arrangements to have the same vegan cupcake set up as down south. Really hope a lot of you get to come along to the night. The two lads are excited to be doing an extra show in Ireland.

    Black Sun, Cork is now on Twitter. Follow us for Black Sun related updates, videos, articles and info... x
    http://twitter.com/blacksuncork
    http://www.myspace.com/solnigerire
    Facebook group
    Dublin date Facebook page


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    SUDDEN INFANT / JOKE LANZ


    Born in Switzerland and currently operating out of Berlin, Joke Lanz is a prolific artist working with sound and performance since 1986. His activities in various solo and collective guises (for music groups, radio projects, theater and dance endeavors) have included Sudden Infant, Schimpfluch-Gruppe, WAL, Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather, Jaywalker, Opposite Opponents, MK Selection, Psychic Rally, The Eye of Arghhh, Tell and countless others. He has also toured the world over with various acolytes and has released his works on some of the most prominent record labels in the noise underground (Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Entr'acte, Artware, SSSM, Klanggalerie, Some Bizarre, iDeal Rec and many more).

    Sudden Infant is Lanz' longest-running and most enduring project. Its inception in 1989 was borne out of Lanz' urgent drive to combine sound art and performance into one visceral whole -- by doing so, his performances frequently bring forth elements and influences from Dada, actionism, Fluxus, noise, and punk, as well as some of industrial music's most trenchant performers.

    A Sudden Infant performance will typically be anchored by two main characteristics: the use of minimal electronic equipment on one side, on the other a strong focus on the human body, its reduced essence, and the sound-worlds it contains and spews forth. Sudden Infant is a vehicle for Lanz to run acoustic and psychic elements to their end by focusing on their bare essentials. Thus doing, he establishes an extremely tense aesthetic of performance, and tears down any preconceived barriers between noise, performance, improvisation, and electronic music.


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    FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE

    Bill Kouligas is a Berlin based artist who runs the label Pan and also Family Battle Snake, his long running solo experimetal music project. He has collaborated with the likes of Sudden Infant, Christian Weber, Mark Durgan, Chris Corsano, Ashtray Navigations, Stellar OM Source, To Live And Shave In L.A., Anla Courtis, MV Carbon to name but a few.
    Family Battle Snake floats on a plane ebbing and flowing between early psychedelia, tape music, and gluey entropicalia. Lava shifts of analogue synth warm cold industrial. Definitely more in the "noises" than "noise" camp. Family Battle Snake is like a cloak of whispers, ominous.

    JEFF KEEN SCREENING

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfpYkaKRYtAJeff

    Keen began making films at the age of 37 when his art school film society needed things to show. And so began over forty years of unique, imaginative, irrepressible filmmaking. Fiercely independent and working for the most part outside of the mainstream and avant-garde circuits, Keens prolific output has embraced collage, live action, diary film and animation - often played out as expanded cinema performances where chance and accident are vital components.

    Jeff Keen homepage: http://www.kinoblatz.com/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


    Latest releases from Bill's (Family Battle Snake) label:
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    joseph hammer:
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    Line your jackeen pockets with gold, they'll be bringing merch... x

    Family Battle Snake interview on the Wire Adventures in Modern Music radio show here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3715/ Starts about 53 minutes in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    * http://www.corkmidsummer.com/2010/events/sudden-infant-family-battle-snake-experimental-films

    *http://www.suddeninfant.com/
    http://www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise

    *http://www.myspace.com/familybattlesnake

    *http://www.pan-act.com/

    *http://lecain.blogspot.com/


    Black Sun Film Programme for June 22nd and 23rd dates
    Curated by Maximilian Le Cain.

    Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers, 2008)

    Maverick British filmmaker Ben Rivers made a name for himself with a series of films documenting the lives of contemporary hermits, existing ideologically and geographically apart from today’s society, stubbornly forging their own ways of life in remote rural landscapes. Yet his films are not documentaries so much as impressionistic portraits strongly characterised by his distinctive, rough-hewn aesthetic. Rivers shoots on a wind-up 16mm Bolex, which allows a maximum shot length of just thirty seconds. He processes his own films in his kitchen sink, welcoming the beautiful blemishes this produces. Widely considered his masterpiece, Ah, Liberty! focuses not on a single character but on a family living in the remote Scottish highlands. This almost wordless, black-and-white vision of a life of complete freedom in a harsh, near-sublime landscape celebrates ‘liberty’ without sentimentalising it, at times attaining the quality of a feverish nightmare…

    Concern For One’s Fellow Man (Ivan & Igor Buharov, 2000) & Hotel Tubu (Ivan & Igor Buharov, 2002)

    It is with great excitement that Black Sun brings the work of one of contemporary European cinema’s best-kept secrets to Ireland. Ivan & Igor Buharov were born in the early ‘70s and became brothers in 1993. Since then, in addition to separate careers as artists and musicians, they have co-created Super-8 features and numerous shorts. Today, ‘originality’ might be a much-abused, almost meaningless term. But when confronted with films as utterly extra-terrestrial as the Buharovs’, that tired word proves perhaps the only recourse… Homemade and oneiric, these darkly playful 8mm hallucinations come with the aura of having been discovered in someone’s attic, precisely revealing a world perhaps subconsciously suspected but hitherto un-describable…

    Artwar 3: Irresistible Attack (Jeff Keen, 1995)

    Jeff Keen, the British master of underground cinema whose career stretches back to the ‘50s, has recently been receiving a measure of much-deserved international attention at last. His head-on collision of diary film, pulp meltdown, war-inspired iconography and live-wire fast cutting results in work that resembles an odd but also somehow necessary (and very heterosexual) hybrid of Jack Smith and William Burroughs. The extraordinary energy and spontanaeity of Keen’s visually dense films tap into the mad joy of penetrating and subverting the magic of moviegoing with the material reality of daily life. Artwar 3: Irresistible Attack belongs to the most formally aggressive phase of his career, an all-out declaration of faith in his marvelous slogan: ‘Deep War Hurts. Art War Makes Strong’


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  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


    Black Sun is a space where the adventurous can gather, whatever their musical preference, to find something new, strange and fantastic; a space where the experimental is not something clique-ish for the afficionado, but precisely the opposite – an opening of possibility.
    Earlier this year, Arttrail approached Black Sun to curate the grand finale of this year's festival. This December 6th, Black Sun will host the debut Irish performance of New York's seminal snuff jazz legends, Borbetomagus, Dutch saxophonist Thomas Ankersmit and Edinburgh's finest junk merchants, Usurper.
    Also, for the first time, Black Sun is devoting its entire film programme to the work of a single artist, veteran French filmmaker Stéphane Marti. Although little known to Irish audiences, Marti has been active since the early ‘70s, creating a sumptuous yet intimate series of baroque, homoerotic cinematic gems on Super-8 that focus on the relationship between the camera and the body. His gracefully intoxicating sense of colour, rhythm, movement, composition and texture is of a force that far outstrips even the more widely recognized work of Derek Jarman.
    Cork based made-to-order vegan desserts company 'Sugar Moon' will be on site selling delicious cupcakes, cake and raw chocolate treats.


    Black Sun at the Pavilion presents:
    Borbetomagus
    Thomas Ankersmit
    Usurper
    Experimental film programme of work by Stéphane Marti -curated by Maximilian Le Cain.
    Vegan cakes from Sugar Moon.
    Monday 6th December
    8PM
    Tickets €14
    Tickets from Plugd Records and also from Former Sawmills Site, Copley Street.
    SPECIAL OFFER: Gig + 1 workshop = €20
    Gig + 2 workshops = €25
    (details on workshops to follow)

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    BORBETOMAGUS
    http://www.borbetomagus.com/
    A 30-year history has proven Borbetomagus to be a groundbreaking, seminal, and visionary group. The trio crafted a huge mass of incendiary sound ("noise") that went far beyond anything previously heard. They formed in New York in the late 1970’s at the time that radical punk rock, no-wave, free jazz, and downtown "new music" were all changing the way people heard sound. But Borbetomagus stood on its own, chiseling out an unlikely noise that separated it from what was being heard in those other scenes. The unusual instrumentation (two amplified saxophones and an electric guitar) reveals inspiration from free jazz and underground rock. But more direct sources may be the extremes of minimalism, 20th century composition and abstract art. Borbetomagus sculpt a massive wall of sound that can seem cacophonous and impenetrable on one hand, while rhythmic and beautifully textured on the other. Their 30-year dedication to this vision calls to mind great abstractionists such as Mark Rothko who spent a lifetime grappling with the intensity of a monumental and personal form. Standing on their own at the time of their inception, Borbetomagus went on to inspire everyone from Sonic Youth to Merzbow to a whole genre of music ("Noise") that would become an international force almost 15 years later.
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    THOMAS ANKERSMIT
    http://www.thomasankersmit.net/
    Thomas Ankersmit is a 25 year old saxophonist, electronic musician and installation artist born and raised in the Netherlands and now based in Berlin who combines abstract, intensely focused saxophone playing with hyper-kinetic analogue synth and PowerBook improvisation. He also creates installation pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listener's perception of the exhibition space and their presence within it. He's a frequent collaborator with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and Milan-based electroacoustic improviser Giuseppe Ielasi, and other improv partners include Gert-Jan Prins, Thomas Lehn, Keith Rowe, Kevin Drumm and Axel Dörner.
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    USURPER
    http://www.myspace.com/usurperr
    Usurper are Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff. Together they have been making improvised sound from dismantled instruments for the past 7 years. They have toured all over Britain, Europe and America. Usurper recently completed a residency in Helsinki, Finland, where they performed, hosted workshops, and created the exhibition "You're A Winner." They are currently completing their second LP for Rel Records, and recording new material for a full length CD to be released by Intransitive Recordings in 2011.
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    EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROGRAMME curated by MAXIMILIAN LE CAIN

    For the first time, Black Sun is devoting its entire film programme to the work of a single artist, veteran French filmmaker Stéphane Marti.
    Although little known to Irish audiences, Marti has been active since the early ‘70s, creating a sumptuous yet intimate series of baroque, homoerotic cinematic gems on Super-8 that focus on the relationship between the camera and the body. His gracefully intoxicating sense of colour, rhythm, movement, composition and texture is of a force that far outstrips even the more widely recognized work of Derek Jarman.
    Two of Marti’s films will be screened at the December Black Sun:
    Allegoria (14 mins, 1979) Dating from the first phase of Marti’s career, this “true concerto for body and camera [that] celebrates the worship of Eros” employs dance, elaborate make-up, water and body paint in its dynamically sensuous ‘ritual’.
    Mira Corpora (45 mins, 2004) This dazzling and hypnotic homage to Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) represents an indisputable peak in cinema’s exploration of the meeting, and melting, of light and the human body.
    An exponent of the Super-8 format, Marti has been compared to a jeweller for the finesse with which he works his miniature medium. He has said:
    “How cinema approaches the body is the most stimulating challenge that I know. I’ve given form and light to a filmed body / filming body repertoire which has developed thanks to the lightness of the cameras I use and to the instinctive exchanges I’ve established with my ‘actors’ in the infinite palette of relations of desire: attraction, repulsion, fear, hysteria, ecstasy, pleasure, sweetness, etc. Artifice, theatricality, lyricism always reinject energy into the game… I place the body like a jewel in its box, a precious object trapped in an enclosed space, and attack it from all sides with my camera…”
    VEGAN CAKES FROM SUGAR MOON
    Cork based made-to-order vegan desserts company will be on site selling delicious cupcakes, cake and raw chocolate treats.
    Look up 'Sugar Moon Cork' on Facebook.

    Black Sun is honoured to have been invited to curate the grand finale of this year's Art Trail festival in Cork. This show would not have been possible but for the assistance of Art Trail, the Cork Film Centre and The Arts Council. Thanks also to the Pavilion and Plugd.
    Visit: http://blacksuncork.tumblr.com
    x


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    Black Sun presents: Art exhibition by Malcy Duff.
    Malcy Duff (b.1978) is a cartoonist from Edinburgh, Scotland. His work includes 'The Blackest Gnome,' 'The Heroic Mosh of Mary's Son,' the 'Rrobots' anthology, and 'The Caddy.' He has exhibited all over Britain, and in Melbourne Australia, and in 2008 he was awarded a Donald Dewar Arts Award for outstanding work in the comic book form. In 2003 he co-founded Usurper with Ali Robertson. They have toured throughout Britain, Europe and America. Duff continues to collaborate with Robertson, and contributes artwork for posters and album sleeves, including a cover and comic book set for their recent LP on Rel Records.
    http://www.missingtwin.net/
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  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


    Mmmm, Black Sun Cake Lady.
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    She's got her own Facebook page now so you can make orders and not just have to wait until Black Sun rolls around. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sugar-Moon-vegan-cakes/156306657721717
    Here are some of her amazin' cupcakes:
    Chocolate Fudge
    Gingerbread and Lemon
    Carrotcake and Cream Cheese
    Vanilla and Raspberry
    Caramel and Spiced Apple
    Lemon Citrus
    Chocolate Stout (Beamish of course!)


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


    Borbetomagus featured on the UbuWeb homepage for November.
    Featured Resources: November 2010
    Selected by Peggy Ahwesh.

    Peggy Ahwesh is an artist who works in film, audio and installation. A recent retrospective program of her work, "Laugh My Darling", was held at The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. More at EAI.

    http://www.ubu.com/


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    Visit the Art Trail website: http://www.arttrail.ie/ for detail on the two Black Sun workshops that take place on Sunday 5th December.
    WORKSHOPS: DEC 5 - FORMER SAWMILLS, COPLEY ST.
    9.30 am - 1.15pm: comic drawing workshop with Malcy Duff (Usurper, missingtwin.net),
    1.30 - 5.30pm: junk instrument workshop with Malcy Duff & Ali Robertson (Usurper);
    **WORKSHOPS LIMITED TO 8 PLACES EACH.
    €8, BOOK AT FORMER SAWMILLS FROM NOV 19

    **EXHIBITION: throughout ArtTrail - FORMER SAWMILLS
    Exhibition of [URL="[URL]http://www.missingtwin.net/"]comix[/URL] by Malcy Duff (Usurper) [/URL]
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭Léan


    Definitely checking this out next month, been meaning to for ages. I've heard great things :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


    Cool, this is going to be a baptism of fire for any new audience members.
    Hope you enjoy yourself.

    I've updated our group to a page on Facebook. Check it out and do make sure to look at all the events.
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Sun-Cork/134680683253445
    There's a youtube channel up now and there's photos from previous Black Suns up there too. Been running for over a year now and there's more and more new people coming along to each show.


    x


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


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    Daniel Higgs
    The lateral lullabies and graveyard stomp of Daniel Higgs have ploughed the Earth deep for over 25 years now, be it as front man for cult DC swamp groove quartet 'Lungfish', or his hypnotic solo excursions for jaw harp. Recent performances have seen his music stripped back to long-neck banjo and otherworldly croon, as he spins his cyclical sermons on acclaimed releases from the likes of Dischord, Thrill Jockey and Holy Mountain records.


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    Raising Holy Sparks
    Drawing on the devotional musics of church, countryside & kosmische, Raising Holy Sparks is the new project of former Agitated Radio Pilot & United Bible Studies co-founder David Colohan. This will be its second performance.
    http://soundcloud.com/david-colohan/as-yet-untitled-excerpt

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    Rory Francis O' Brien
    http://www.myspace.com/roryfrancisobrien


    Sacred Harp Singers of Cork

    Here in Cork, we gather together weekly to sing American traditional music from the Sacred Harp.

    This four-part a cappella music dates from the 16th through the 20th centuries, and is characterized by haunting harmonies, traditional modes, raucous songs, serene hymns, fast fugues, and high-energy anthems. The notation is written in shapes that correspond to degrees of the scale, making it easy to sight-sing. This tradition is democratic and egalitarian. We glory in the powerful and joyful experience of singing our hearts out together.

    All voices are welcome, all levels of experience are welcome. Newcomers and beginners are always welcome.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


    This April’s Black Sun film screening is devoted to two hypnotic films by American artist Peter Rose. Active in film, video, installation and performance since 1968, Rose’s work interrogates the nature of time, space, light and perception, often drawing influence from his background in mathematics. Although subsequently known for his work involving language used as written text on screen, the two early works in this programme are both strikingly hallucinatory explorations of space.

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    Analogies: studies in the movement of time (14 mins, 1977) has been described by Rose as ‘an intriguing series of visual riddles’. Simple camera movements taking place around a plain, institutional looking building are rearranged as multiple screens according to structuralist principles, allowing several perspectives on the same action, often with slight time delays between them. This opens space, movement and gesture to dizzying new permutations. For example, in the words of Noel Carroll, "when Rose fills the screen with twenty-five images, the experience is akin to music. An image ripples across the screen as a theme echoes across the instruments of an orchestra, giving way to complicated designs, each image an arabesque in a Persian rug."


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    Incantation (13 mins, 1970) is an ecstatic montage of images of nature- trees, plants, the sun, the moon, water- rapidly layered and intercut in a way that suggests a powerful dynamic force behind natural rhythms. Its irresistible energy is enhanced by the use of a compelling, breath-based Islamic chant on the soundtrack, which brings a prayer-like energy to the film. Astoundingly, this exceptionally visually dense, yet precise, work was created entirely in camera on Super-8 film, with no post-production work performed on the image at all. In our day of instantly accessible digital manipulation, such a technical feat appears all the more marvelous- and its results all the more gorgeous.



    Special thanks to Pip Chodorov, without whose help this screening would not be possible.

    http://www.peterrosepicture.com/


  • Registered Users Posts: 16 ddmurph


    i uploaded 'all cherished things' from 'metempsychotic melodies' here cos i pretty much haven't been able to listen to anything else all week! the gig is this coming saturday by the way

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    Black Sun presents: Crank Sturgeon + ID M Theft Able

    Sunday November 20th

    Venue: Plugd Records, Cork

    Suggested donation: €7

    ... Full line-up to follow ...


    Crank Sturgeon:

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    Ordained minister and usurper of plateau monoculture, Sturgeon has been active in the wandering peripheries of noise and performance art since 1992. Combining the foundations set forth by the Dadaists, Joseph Beuys, and Allan Kaprow, Crank’s simultaneously caustic and celebratory performances trample the lines of quasi-art presentation - whether with just solo voice and spontaneous poetry or armed with an array of busted guitars, contact microphones and the essential scrappy costume in tow.

    http://www.cranksturgeon.com/




    ID M Theft Able:

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    The current alias of Skot Spear, id m theft able, is an improvising sound artist from Portland, Maine, who primarily uses vocals combined with sounds culled from amplified/unamplified found objects, circuit bent instruments, homebuilt keyboards and modified tape machines. Theftable has an available-ist approach to audio and its creation – making intuitive use of all sound thefts - from media reappropriation, to the rhythms of passing cars, water, or 2009's obsessive reworking of Theatre Organ tracks. Theftable has been mooted as the "Best noise (??) comedy act ever!" -- Guy Montag

    http://www.kraag.org/id/

    http://vimeo.com/17004465



    Thread over in gigs forum here

    There's also a Dublin show in the Joinery on Saturday November 19th. 8pm, €8 admission. Gen 26 + David Lacey & Paul Vogel are also playing the Dublin show


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  • Registered Users Posts: 16 ddmurph


    couldn't edit previous post so here's the poster with full details ...

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    tomorrow night, 8pm, plugd records. suggested donation €7

    full line-up:

    crank sturgeon
    i'd m theftable
    wölflinge & first blood part II


    dublin show is tonight in the joinery


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Wolflinge


    Anyone here based near Cork? Don't miss Richard's debut & sole Irish performance. A lot of folks are travelling south for this show.

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