Two talented young men, aged 12 and 13 respectively present a mindblowing electro-acoustic, percussion-based work that recalls the innovations of both Xenakis and Milford Graves. Featuring Michael Avenaim & Louis Peak

Wed Feb 21 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

sidereal project by DJ#2 from ARH
 started late last centuary in the year of the rabbit. 2rabbits is a means to explore ideas that have more to do with sculptural concepts than musical ones. For the WiM events the use of prerecorded sound sources will be the point of departure,withfx-{[loops]feedback} as the vehical, Chance controls the autopilot,the destination is no longer the {goal[/gaol]}
all muSIC references are:-
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to be listened to/experienced not described/explained
join us on this sonic journey down the RabBit whOLE & through the listening glass_-~#^*

"...LIKE 2 RABBITS..."

Tue Feb 27, Planet cafÈ, 386 Brunswick st, Fitzroy
Tue Mar 6, Planet cafÈ, 386 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

From the city that brought you the Eureka stockade and Bushrangers that bit noses off (true!), comes an anal look at the delicate love between modern history and ancient mystery. Bottoms up!

Sun March 4 the Storeroom, upstairs at Parkview Hotel, cnr St George's Rd & Scotchmer St Nth Fitzroy

43rd century blues act

Wed Feb 28 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

This three piece from Riga, Latvia have often been referred to as 'Maskackas spelmani ', 'Skamba, skamba kankliai ', 'bushka pantomime' or 'idiot concrete' by the critical establishment of their own country. They are at turns daring, funny, sad and poignant. A real treat for all music lovers.

Sun March 4 the Storeroom, upstairs at Parkview Hotel, cnr St George's Rd & Scotchmer St Nth Fitzroy

primitive layered shimmer & hum- the lagging endorphins followed by the searing macurachrome

Wed March 7 Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson st Nth Fitzroy

Netherlands-based Cor Fuhler works in the improvised field of electronic and contemporary music scenes. Piano is his main instrument, and he seeks to take it (and many other keyboards) musically beyond usual perceptions. Fuhler also manipulates sounds through turntables, Mbiras, strings etc. and also filters them through a PowerBook (the latest tool of choice for the underground improviser) or through analogue synths. He often builds his own instruments/instalations such as the Keyolin. "Fuhler, an Amsterdam-based musical inventor surrounded himself with traditional and original instruments. Among them were grand piano (played in unconventional ways) and "keyolin" (a cross of keyboard, stationary violin and a two-sided bow loosely modeled on a hacksaw). Even casual listeners probably have encountered pianists who pluck strings inside the instrument or play "prepared" pianos that have been altered by mechanical devices. Fuhler's experiments, however, audaciously updated these techniques, the musician using mallets, bottles and found objects to create other-worldly sounds (often with astonishing speed and dexterity). Fuhler's keyolin playing, meanwhile, rendered him a Paganini of 21st Century experimentation." Cor has had several releases including the acclaimed solo piano cd "7 CC IN I0", the piano trio release "Bellagram" featuring legendary percussionist Han Bennink, and he is a member of Keith Rowe's MIMEO.

Mon Feb 19 Harbourside Brasserie, Pier One, Hickson rd, Millers Point (+ collab w/Amanda Stewart & Rik Rue)

Mon March 5 Rechabite Hall, 157 Westbourne Grove Northcote (+ collab w/Oren Ambarchi)

David Tolley is a well respected mentor of improvised music making and art creation in Melbourne. He is known for his masterful command of the bass violin, as well as a deeply rooted sensibility in real time music making, culminating in many uniquely orchestrated collaborations, and cross media projects. He is also a practicing artist, with output in both sculpture and painting. He sees no boundary between known mediums of artistic expression, and has developed a comprehensive language and approach which is both earnest and definitive.

Ren Walters is a Melbourne based guitarist who has been active in refining his own musical language which has developed through experimentation and non-conventional use of sounds alongside the guitar. He has incorporated projected video pieces and visuals into his live improvisations which have broadened the scope of his performances . Ren has collaborated with a long list of national and international artists in his musical career.

This performance is a remix of there own and appropriated matiarial-(unspecified)_or not.

Tue March 6 Planet café, 386 Brunswick st Fitzroy

Its hard to know how these two spontaneous sculptors of gestural sound will approach this performance. They don't know, they choose not to. But expect an intimacy that comes from deep mutual respect, and a speed of thought and response that comes from years and years of working as sonic particle accellerators.

Melbourne Tue Feb 27 Planet café, 386 Brunswick st Fitzroy

half parmentier, runs sigma editions label, conceptual minimal electronics.

Mon Feb 26 Pony 68-70 Little Collins st, Melbourne

The Kevorkian of the krotchet

Sun March 4 the Storeroom, upstairs at Parkview Hotel, cnr St George's Rd & Scotchmer St Nth Fitzroy

Dworzec are a Melbourne based quartet concerned with both the process and product of free improvisation. Utilising an array of instrumentation including analogue and digital electronics, guitar, saxophones, tapes, accordion, percussion and sampler, Dworzec produce what can be descibed as 'textural improvisations'. The fields of sound created reflect an immediate concern with the dialogue, mutual trust and interdependence of the improvising ensemble. This is Dworzec's second appearance at the What is Music ? Festival.

Sun Feb 18 Impermanent Audio, Imperial Slacks Gallery, level 2, 111 Campbell st Surry Hills

Wed March 7 Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson st Nth Fitzroy

2work@once brings together two players (Ernie Althoff and Eamon Sprod) of different age groups, backgrounds and record collections, who make a seamless blend of these diverse elements. Or is it the audience that blends it in the listening? Ernie has been involved in new-music since events in the 70's at the Cliffton Hill Community Music Center. Eamon left Hobart for Melbourne where he formed canine harvest and ran the Hardlistening new-music/sound series.

Mon March 5 Rechabite Hall, 157 Westbourne Grove Northcote

He broke his little finger on the tra-pees attemting the impossible triple back double summer-salt. This is his first live show since the accident.

Sun March 4 the Storeroom, upstairs at Parkview Hotel, cnr St George's Rd & Scotchmer St Nth Fitzroy

Farmers Manual (FM) - a seminal electronic group which ambitiously explores the interface between live digital audio and video synthesis. FM constructs complex digital networks which utilise data streams to trigger hypervirtuosic digital audio and video transformations which are in themselves a potent allegory for the information age.

Their albums No Back Up (Mego), FSCK (OR) and Explorers We (OR) have met with international critical acclaim.

FM were awarded the grand prix at the 28th International Festival of New Media (Montreal) 1999. In awarding the prize the jury noted :

'The Jury would like to honour the pioneering work of Austrian Internet artists, FARMERS MANUAL, who have succeeded in making the cybernetwork into a Net Work of awe and beauty. Self-reflective and transparent, they mixmaster soundcollage, streamed video and interNetional automation. Connnecting in realive time to the wiredworld, this collective has expanded the true democratic impulse of the internet, allowing public intervention and contribution at all levels, from software to content. Although working on the outer bounds of New Media, they evoke the mesmerising energy and wonder rarely seen since the earliest days of the invention of cinema.'

'Points of comparison are completely elusive. Frenetic beats jostle with shards of blistering electronic noise and all manner of high strangeness...... a lot of artists have a great deal of catching up to do if they are to remain relevant. Awesome.' (John Everall, The Wire Magazine (UK))

Tue Feb 20 Chauvel Cinema, Paddington Town Hall, cnr Oxford st & Oatley rd

Sat March 3 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

Oswald Berthold is proudly supported by the Austrian Embassy Canberra and Austrian ministry for foreign affair

2 way 3 way 4 way needle and chaos turntable tumble... subtle shade and harsh grey come face to face (no lips) in a highbrow/lowbrow, art vs street type scenario.

Mon Feb 26 Pony 68-70 Little Collins st, Melbourne

Turntablism is atomised and radically re-articulated in this duo featuring Martin Ng (decks) and Mathias Gmachl (computer based real time nano-sorcery).Viral nano-sonic recombination and molecular skratchaphonics combine to transcend the DJ into a new realm of sonic impossibilities. The vinyl-silicon axis rules.

Fri March 2 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

A man smells a flower and thinks of funerals, while another smells the flower and thinks of vaginas. What should the flower do? A show about the triumph of vegetation.

Sun March 4 the Storeroom, upstairs at Parkview Hotel, cnr St George's Rd & Scotchmer St Nth Fitzroy

Following a successful performance at Carols by Candlelight 2000(shell harbour), Gary proves once again that he can read music if he concentrates. Solo guitar recital work's by Derek Bailey,John Duarte etc. "Gary's intelligence is completely wasted by his ridiculaus behaviour in class" (1979 school report).

Mon March 5 Rechabite Hall, 157 Westbourne Grove Northcote

Tue March 6 Planet café, 386 Brunswick st Fitzroy (with Greg Kingston)

In an attempt to outdo his previous record of producing 3 litres of sweat in the first 5 mins of his last WIM performance, (can he get past 7 Mins?) Greg has been incubating his tourettic frenzy in the rarefied Hobart improvised music scene. There is something fundamentally interesting about twitches, they can tell us something profound about humanity. This man feeds his diseased basil ganglia with outrageous musical and theatrical gestures and then waits for his random twitch mechanism to spit it all out in the way you, or he least expect. It can be outrageous, poignant and also deeply revealing. Don't get too close, expect some new toys.

Fri March 2 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

Tue March 6 Planet café, 386 Brunswick st Fitzroy (with Gary Butler)

The rebirth of the stool? The cool logix, and razor tight arrangements of conductor Oren Ambarchi with a disciplined band of stars pitted against one small dark Tasmanian, twitching/playing on a very small stool. If this were therapy, (perhaps it is) then it could be seen as an attempt to force structure into Kingstons musical life, a sort of fugue shock therapy. Well it hasn't worked yet.

Sun Feb 25 Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson st Nth Fitzroy

Australia's legends of punky power-pop take a swift journey on a laptop collision course. A one-of-a-kind performance not to be missed!

Thu Feb 22 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Hecker is the enfant terrible of the audio file and boy genius of Vienna's Mego clan. Influenced by computer linguistics as well as his autodidactic view of contemporary music, his albums to date (I T iso 161975 [5' cd, MEGO] and [OT] xackpy breakpoint: [5' cdr, OR]) have helped redefine the contemporary sound culture by creating perverse (and astounding) relationships between volume and silence and, by articulating new visions of sonic beauty .

As part of the Mego collective he was awarded a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Digital Musics (1999).

Wed Feb 21 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Thu March 1 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

Hecker is proudly supported by the Goethe Institute, Australia

New visions of interconnection from 2 composers in the fields of computer music. PC and G3s will lock ports and never be the same again. Promising to munch through their data paths then excrete what they cannot digest.

Sun Feb 18 Impermanent Audio, Imperial Slacks Gallery, level 2, 111 Campbell st Surry Hills

The Hi-God People are a four-piece live-improvisation group playing middle eastern hookah borne descents into freeform noodling, freeform jazz excursions into fiery esoteric tombs, drone inspired chanting searching for the overtones of our sacred sphere, and driving two note autobahn exorcisms.

Mon Feb 26 Pony 68-70 Little Collins st, Melbourne

A compelling and unusual trio of three sonic autodidacts JD (woodwinds), MG (computer) and MN (decks). Be prepared for improvisation delivered with exquisite textural finesse.

Wed Feb 21 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

'from one moment to the next, his violin might sound like a subway car screeching to a halt, the wailing of jimi hendrix's guitar, or a gently gurgling mechanical toy. from the cacophony arose memorable jazz riffs and paganini style virtuosity' the new york times

'jon rose put c&w, power tools and socio-political parody into a blender and out poured many inspired moments, hearing history being made on the spot - like nothing else on the face of the earth' downbeat magazine

'a process began by which the very being of the violin - physically, musically, and historically - would be taken apart and reformed piece by piece. today, when so much contemporary music is just so much con, the music of Jon Rose seems to cut through the layers of musicological schlock with impunity' ear magazine

'jon rose kicked off with an intense and highly charged performance, on a violin played with a bow equipped with a pressure sensor.....Rose triggered cello samples, conjured up sounds by waving his bow in the air, and even used it to play another bow. His high precision playing demonstrated to stunning effect how electronics can enhance the capabilities of a traditional instrument.' the wire

Mon Feb 19 Harbourside Brasserie, Pier One, Hickson rd, Millers Point (with Chris Abrahams and Tony Buck)

Wed Feb 21 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown (with Dave Brown)

Wed Feb 28 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

Two members of the great Australian trio The Necks join forces with one of Australia's greatest improvisers. Don't miss out!!

Mon Feb 19 Harbourside Brasserie, Pier One, Hickson rd, Millers Point

'laptop navigations, sonic processes, dsp constructions...'

Julian Knowles is a composer/performer working with samplers, synthesisers and digital audio processing. His work spans studio and live performance, composition, and sound design for film, exploring the inherent (im)possibilities of various digital media, and synthesizing elements from an eclectic range of sonic practices such as new music, film sound, location recording, rock music production and audio dsp. As a solo performer, Julian has toured the UK, USA, Latin America and Korea and is a member of the group Social Interiors (Extreme Records). Recent performances include the Seoul International Performance Art Festival, Sonic Residues 02 and guitar work with Phill Niblock on his recent Australian tour.

Julian Knowles presents a solo set of auditory cinema, granular vocals and deep dsp-scapes

Mon Feb 19 Harbourside Brasserie, Pier One, Hickson rd, Millers Point

The Loop Orchestra performs 'son of not overtly orchestral', a limpid foray into the recondite world of chamber music, undermined through the filters of mechanical reproduction.

Mon Feb 19 Harbourside Brasserie, Pier One, Hickson rd, Millers Point

Rasmus B. Lunding (Aarhus, Denmark) postpunkcomposer and freestyle-musician, has had pieces performed and/or published within various electronic music circuits in Japan, Australia, USA and Jutland. Used to play with Picnic, Encore + Grande, P. O. Jø,rgens, Pierre Dørge a.o. When not composing or performing, heos teaching music and computers for kids and work as a consultant at the multimedia department at Aarhus University, dealing with robotic behaviour and sound as a gestural phenomena.

Philip Samartzis (Melbourne) is into Musique Concrete, Surround Sound and Improvisation. Has Cds on Dorobo and currently has separate collaboration projects with Sachiko M and Yamamoto (Boredoms).

Lunding and Samartzis' debut CD should be completed sometime soon.

Sat March 3 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

Vocal acrobatics from Japan Makigami Koichi is the leader of one of Japan's longest running underground bands, Hikashu, which has evolved from an electronic pop band to embrace world music, improvisation, noise and other styles. Makigami has recorded two previous albums on his own, including the star-studded, John Zorn-produced Koroshi No Blues, a much sought-after import on Toshiba-EMI Japan and has recently released two cd's on US label Tzadik. He has performed with Derek Bailey and Yamatsuka Eye, and is also the organizer of the monthly Tokyo performance of John Zorn's improvisational game piece, Cobra. An accomplished film and stage actor, Makigami is an incredible vocalist and performer, employing creative and versatile techniques blending Tuuvan throat-singing (which he studied in Mongolia) and Japanese traditions with rock and avant garde. Creative, humorous and utterly delightful.

Thu Feb 22 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Wed Feb 28 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

"One Bass Band"
percussion and prepared double bass

Tue March 6, Planet cafÈ, 386 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

Max Nagl: alto and sopranosaxophones Josef Novotny: modular synthesizers, computer

Max Nagl & Josef Novotny have played regularly together for quite a while. They have released a duo CD called "AMen#", which was recorded in a church in `89. They also have a trio CD release with Burkhard Stangl called "Lunatic Fringe" from 1994

Josef utilises electronic instruments, sampling live from Max's alto and soprano sax which is then modified or changed to ..?*!.

Max Nagl and Josef Novotny are proudly supported by the Austrian Embassy Canberra and Austrian ministry for foreign affair

Sydney Mon Feb 19 Harbourside Brasserie, Pier One, Hickson rd, Millers Point

Sun Feb 25 Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson st Nth Fitzroy

Melbourne Tue Feb 27 Planet café, 386 Brunswick st Fitzroy (+ Nagl/Avenaim duo)

Wed Feb 28 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy (Nagl/Denley/O'Dwyer trio)

After a successful recording at the ABC studios in Melbourne, Max and Robbie will perform a series of improvised pieces from there new album entitled..."?" For sale at shows.

Tue Feb 27 Planet cafÈ, 386 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

the moby cunt of music, the red whale of this sonic universe, there she bleeds, a rose to be plucked, a shit to be shat, a jihad against music, ahmed my habibi - block your ears before you go deaf, you fuckwit

Thu Feb 22 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Thu March 1 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

If music is the lawn, Mutanté, Frequanté is the lawnmower. Described by last years guest Christian Fennesz as "the most interesting electronic musician in Oz". Blending the delta blues, country and glitch'n'bass, you have never heard music like this before

Thu March 1 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

Amiga 600 abuse from Newcastle, NSW.

Fri Feb 23 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Sat March 3 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

head of Transmit collective. an ear on the beat and a toe in bearded corridors, repetition rattles and illogical loop based live audio works.

Mon Feb 26 Pony 68-70 Little Collins st, Melbourne

Ambarchi's work to date has been rooted in the exploration and extension of the guitar's outer limits. Atmosphere and texture always plays a key role. His recent solo releases, Insulation (Touch) and Stacte.3 (Plate Lunch), have transcended the guitar into a zone of alien beauty and sonic impossibilities.

Sun Feb 18 Impermanent Audio, Imperial Slacks Gallery, level 2, 111 Campbell st Surry Hills

Wed March 7 Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson st Nth Fitzroy

Pan sonic - Finnish duo Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen have been at the forefront of international electronic music since 1993. With their Vakio, Kulma and A albums, Pan sonic have pioneered an aesthetic of minimalist rhythmic explorations with a highly developed sonic palette using specially constructed oscillators/synthesisers.

Their first tour of Australia as part of WIM 2001 coincides with the release of their fourth LP, Aaltopiri.

Mika and Ilpo are both established solo artists in their own right. They both contributed solo EPs to Carsten Nicolai's 20' to 2000 series which was awarded the grand prix at Ars Electronica 2000 (Linz) this year.

Fri Feb 23 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Thu March 1 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

is two humans from Sydney, Jon Drummond and John Encarnacao, improvise with bits and pieces both luddite and more up to date. Their playpen is a zone free of samplers, sequencers, laptops and, generally speaking, beats. The result as the title of t____ their 1999 LP has it, is likely to be IRRATIONAL. Starring the unpredictable mood swings of their early 70s VCS-3 synthesizer.

Sat March 3 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

Not just another laptop....

Carefully crafted and intricate electronics, replete with jagged harmonics and orchestras of looping hard-drive drones in dialogue with tiny, insect-like machines on a miniaturised and mirrored landscape.

Sydney Sun Feb 18 Impermanent Audio, Imperial Slacks Gallery, level 2, 111 Campbell st Surry Hills

Fri March 2 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

Hands-on, touchy-feely actions

Thu Feb 22 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

low-strung slow-floating gtr/gtr/drmns improv
assisted by the South Australian Government through the South Australian Youth Arts Board

Melbourne Wed March 7 Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson st Nth Fitzroy

ghost throat leper

Sun March 4 the Storeroom, upstairs at Parkview Hotel, cnr St George's Rd & Scotchmer St Nth Fitzroy

new_work. 'DIGITAL KITCHEN' a 'semi-academic-non-academic' composition for junk drum kit ,sampled junk kit and digitally remastered kitchen sounds.

Wed Feb 28 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

An immersive air turbulence environment designed for an 8 channel 3 dimensional speaker matrix. Chaotic rhythms and tonalities of air movement and turbulence created through an abstract composition produced from source sounds of air-conditioning, fans and winds. The work uses Lake technologies 3D sound processing and spatialisation tools.

Sun Feb 18 Impermanent Audio, Imperial Slacks Gallery, level 2, 111 Campbell st Surry Hills

For some time now lucas abela has been delving into new and interesting ways to play turntables, while most wouldn't even consider his act turntablism, as his unconventional spin on the medium has distorted it beyond recognition. Stabbing vinyl with kruger style stylus gloves, bounding on electro acoustic trampolines, dueling in the middle of a crowded room with samurai sword styli and hospitalization after a run in one of his high powered turntables are just a few examples of the feats of turntable hybridization he's performed in the past.

A past that has also included successive appearances at the what is music festival, tours of japan, the u.s and Europe, an accidental session with the Flaming Lips for John Peel and three albums on his dual plover label which is dedicated to maverick musicians and bands.

Fri Feb 23 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Fri March 2 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

local computer based musos - light and shade, beats are bent and skitter, a chance to dance, hong kong fun.

Mon Feb 26 Pony 68-70 Little Collins st, Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Dot Matrix Maestro

"..I hear music in many "noises". Started making experimental music using (tape) recorded sounds about 4 years ago Ò branched out into (rare) live performances a couple of years ago. What IS music????? Neither rhythm nor melody is essential....."

Sun Feb 18 Impermanent Audio, Imperial Slacks Gallery, level 2, 111 Campbell st Surry Hills

Mon March 5 Rechabite Hall, 157 Westbourne Grove Northcote

Notorious glam aktionist presents a selection of obliterated popular classics. In memories of a childhood steeped in pop music of the 60s and 70s, come oozing thru a field of twisted metal forming a distorted grotesque musical iconography.

Thu Feb 22 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

An all star big band event in which : Testicle Candy, the Megaton Boy Band of infernal noise rock collides head first into the sheer face unbreakable digital noize courtesy of an all star cast of silicon data krunchers. Think Gotterdamerung on nandrolone in the age of Quantum Mechanics. No scrubs.

Thu March 1 Revolver, 229 Chapel st, Prahran

Tim Catlin and David Brown play improvised guitar soundscapes using tabletop, conventional and toy guitars with live effects processing. Guitars are tickled, tormented and tweaked with a variety of gizmos and gadgets. Modified fans, sex toys, miniature radios and auto-playing constructions are amongst the devices used. These multiple guitar signals are then looped and processed creating slowly unfolding sheets of sound. Dense laminated drones, sharp sonic irruptions and glimmering harmonic filigrees are all coaxed from metal strings in a real-time sonic alchemy.

Tue March 6 Planet café, 386 Brunswick st Fitzroy

A short circuit electric shock that arches sporadically between these two produces dazzling interplay and black-outs.

Tim O'Dwyer, saxophones, hails from Melbourne. Has premiered many new works for saxophone and has developed an idiosyncratic improvisational voice for himself that engages every aspect of sound making on the instrument with a definite emphasis on multiphonic/ textural possibilities. He regularly tours with Elision Contemporary Ensemble, local outfit bucketrider and new trio pUPPy (featuring Alex Waterman cello/ laptop (NY) and Steve Heather (A'dam) perc). He has released several albums with Elision, bucketrider and his critically acclaimed solo effort 'solo sax show' --Voxaustralis. He is currently artisic director of the 'Make It Up Club' which welcomes 'What Is Music Festival' to it's home, Upstairs @ Planet Cafe. (The Make It Up Club happens every Tuesday night @ 8:30pm)

Tue March 6, Planet café, 386 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

Conceived during a residency at STEIM, Tom Fryer's Sensor-Enhanced Fretless MIDI guitar conjures images of alien landscapes. Taking the listener on a journey juxtaposing the familiar with the bizarre. Cascades of digital glitches dissolve into microtonal clouds which hang in the air like frozen ectoplasm. Unveiling the beauty in the cracks in the architecture. Man meets machine.

"Startlingly original voice." - James Rotondi (Guitar Player) " ... a young mind that is unafraid." - Paul Grabowski "A pointless excercise in noise making.'' - Adrian Jackson ( The Age) "You sound like Chet Atkins." - Oscar Peterson (Ampilatwatja NT)

Wed Feb 21 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Thu Feb 22 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown (with Roger Dean)

Tue Feb 27 Planet cafe, 386 Brunswick st Fitzroy (with Steve Heather and Tim O'Dwyer)

> Tom Fryer, guitarist/processor extraordinaire duets with Roger Dean, whose laptop can emit any sound you can imagine as fast as you can hear.

Thu Feb 22 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

acoustic/textural slowly expanding sound mixing...bringing together of tembres not often associated with drumkit soloing..!!!??!!þ$%&...

Mon Feb 19 Harbourside Brasserie, Pier One, Hickson rd, Millers Point

Makes a grunt when you don't want it to.

Sun March 4 the Storeroom, upstairs at Parkview Hotel, cnr St George's Rd & Scotchmer St Nth Fitzroy

An acoustic ensemble of mechanical horrors presented by the Triclops crew. Machine generated noise and cacophony to wince by. Extreme sound pressure waves bashing your frontal lobes and reverberating your thoracic cavity. Be prepared for violent illness or at least a healthy dose of disorientation sickness. Ear protection highly recommended but not guaranteed to stem the onslaught. And yes, the PA is off. Approx.15 min.

Fri Feb 23 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Stellar digital duo featuring Florian Hecker and Oswald Berthold (co-founder of Farmers Manual). This is riveting digital crunch delivered with maximum textural and tonal hyperplasticity.

cd_slopper's first tour of Oz coincides with the release of their debut CD on OR (London).

Fri Feb 23 Newtown RSL, 52 Enmore rd, Newtown

Fri March 2 Punters club, 376 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

Oswald Berthold is proudly supported by the Austrian Embassy Canberra and Austrian ministry for foreign affairs

Lets not speak in the name of Art - even if that is only possible for a short time. This music which is sideways to the rest of what I do, is concrete and restless. It comes about at midnight, to quote an old friend, when there is no longer anything left to ask.

Sun Feb 18 Impermanent Audio, Imperial Slacks Gallery, level 2, 111 Campbell st Surry Hills

Wed March 7 Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson st Nth Fitzroy

Minit was formed by Jasmine Guffond and Torben Tilly in Sydney in 1997. Their music is minimal, ambient, electronic composition which utilizes sample technology and dub-oriented mixing techniques, resulting in ecstatic drones, pulses and intermittent beats with subtle harmonic and melodic intonations. Their music explores repetition and its slippage's, opening up an elastic perceptual relation to the passing of time. Minit are interested in pychoacoustics and the emergence of the "ghost melody" through certain harmonic relations and their fragmentation. Minit have recently returned from a Sigma Editions 2000 European Tour of the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and the UK.

Sun Feb 18 Impermanent Audio, Imperial Slacks Gallery, level 2, 111 Campbell st Surry Hills

Wed March 7 Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson st Nth Fitzroy

sq^n ch is a module for controlling parallel independent actions by jordan wynnychuk. he can set the min/max number of parallel processes to fork with an easy-to-use object-oriented interface [both parties must be intact]. sq^nch is expecting an air conditioned retainer of image and sound from multiple media pools including multinational webstreams,hip hop dsp and crack software designs.

Mon Feb 26 Pony 68-70 Little Collins st, Melbourne