SPACE
IS THE PLACE
SVEN SIMULACRUM ON MYSPACE |
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More riddims and
such here...
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SOUNDS
UNUSUAL FESTIVAL
ALICE SPRINGS & DARWIN
SEPTEMBER '07 |
| Northern
Territory Festival Of New Music
Sounds Unusual aims
to create a true alternative to mainstream arts events, presenting
new music in conjunction with interdisciplinary arts practices,
creating a special experience for patrons and artists alike.
Dried creek bed drones, big skies, red earth...laser beams?
Strange things out in the desert... |
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GIG:
ROB CURGENVEN & FRIENDS
LAN FRANCHI'S 28|05|07 |
Robert Curgenven + Sumugan Sivanesan
Rand & Holland
Monika Brooks
Sun Of The Seventh Sister
More here. |
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WIRE
MC
SVEN SIMULACRUM MASALA MASH |
| "I
have watched with awe how the progressive lobby turned al-Qaeda
recruit
David Hicks into a relentless, irrecusable and finally triumphant
national cause...In terms of marketability, it is easier to
sell a terrorist than an Australian Aborigine subjected to ongoing
racial discrimination by the country's laws relating to native
land title."
Noel Pearson
"White guilt, victimhood and
the quest for a radical centre", Griffith Review
16: Unintended Consequences.
40 Year Anniversary of the 1967Referendum
Reconciliation
Australia |
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The
Wire
MC, please meet Mr
Bally Sagoo,
(via Phillip
Adams). |
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mp3 ] |
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SAM
SMITH + SUMUGAN SIVANESAN
PLYWOOD BOX 2006 |
Multi-channel
audio / visual DVD
Documents a series of performances that explore the spatial, physical
and resonant qualities of sound, using electronics, aocustic and
specially built objects.
More about Sam here
and Sumugan here. |
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Contact
[INFO|at|MPROV|dot|ORG]
to purchase DVD via PayPal |
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| ANTIPAN
IRAQ |
| Relentless
Free Noise Pummel...recorded sometime in 2004. More about
Antipan here & here.
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| The
Wire Magazine (Feb 2007) on the Pulled
Out Pink Vinyl...
"...Anthony Guerra, Matt Earle,
Sumugan Sivanesan and Nick Dan ruck 'n' wreck the classic bass,
drums, guitar combo into a thick, crunchy gale of righteous
off-kilter riot-groove. The piece ends with a long and beautiful
neon ribbon of feedback that carves a vivid sine-wave of blood-red
intensity across a stage scene fading to black and bleeding
carmine crimson around the after image of a group on fire."
Ha!
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SVEN
SIMULACRUM
THE BALLAD OF DAVID HICKS |
December
9 2006 marks 5 years that Australian citizen, David Hicks has
been held at Guantanamo Bay – without trial, having broken
no laws, and still having had no charges brought against him!
Hicks
has been isolated in solitary confinement, since March this year,
and according to his defense counsel Major
Michael Mori, has been subject to torture and abuse.
The military commissions which were to try him, were found illegal
by the US Supreme court in June 2006, for amongst other things,
violating the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and brought to an immediate
halt. (The new commissions which were set up in October, are currently
being challenged in the US courts, so it would still be several
years before Hicks would be
brought to trial regardless...).
The US will not tolerate having its own citizens tried via such
a system, and nor will countries such as the UK, Bahrain, Denmark,
France, Jordan, Pakistan, Russia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Spain,
Sweden and even Afghanistan, which have all sought and secured
the release of their own citizens.
According to Major Michael Mori, the Australian Government need
only ask and Hicks would be released immediately. As of December
2006 the Australian Government have still refused to do so. |
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Amnesty
International – Australia
Fair
Go for David Hicks |
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| MPROV-CAST
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| No
doubt, irregular podcasts here |
SVEN
SIMULACRUM
FIRST WORLD BLUES |
| Ragga,
Rhythm 'n Blues?...Like Hank Williams atop of the Bam Bam
Riddim if it were played by Suicide... |
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| STEFF
& SUMU |
| Postcard
from Berlin. Steph should probably tell this story... |
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| Written on a napkin,
at the cocktail bar - 207m above Berlin in the Fernsehturm / TV
tower, Alexanderplatz. Recorded and cut direct to vinyl an hour
later in the bathroom of the gallery behind the McDonald's over
looking the square for 33/99,
by a fella named Zimbo. |
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| STEFF
& SUMU STEPHANIE'S SONG |
| Break-up
blues...short and (bitter) sweet |
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SVEN
SIMULACRUM TELEFUNKEN |
| Concrete/radio/cut-up/hip-hop,
from time at the Transit
Lounge, Berlin. |
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SVEN
SIMULACRUM
ANTI–SEDITION RIDDIM |
| Horror
Dancehall – The Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005
is intended to hamper the activities of any potential terrorists
in Australia. |
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| The proposed laws
have been criticised for their ability to silence expression and
public criticism of the government, particularly in a country
that has no constitutional rights of free speech. |
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SVEN
SIMULACRUM
JIMMY SINGS MIXTAPE 12|11|05 |
| Launch
of mixtape at Sydney's finest record bar / cultural emporium Jimmy
Sings –SYDNEY |
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| Includes xclusive
track[ Yr
Fantasy mp3 ] |
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| ROSE
+ SIVANESAN SINGING BRIDGES RMX |
Jodi
Rose is
an Australian sound artist, writer and freelance cultural commentator.
She is notorious for her Singing
Bridges project - a global networked performance and series
of compositions based on the sound of vibrations in bridge cables.
I was asked to re-work her recordings of the Glebe Island (Anzac)
Bridge in Sydney. Download the result [ here
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| SIVANESAN
+ SMITH 22|10|04 |
| Live at the Presbytery
- Sivanesan + Smith try to move furniture with sound and bend
the walls instead.[ more
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| MURDER
FUCKED & WRONG |
Murder
- Pounding bedsit rock and post noodle dub from Sydney's most
evasive beachcombers.
[ promo clip ] |
| NICK
DAN GRANDE FINALE |
| Nick Dan's
sound collage, documents the incredible celebrations in South
West Sydney, characterised by it's Lebanese-Australian population,
after the Canterbury Bankstown
footabll team won the 2004 premeirship. |
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SIVANESAN
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME |
| Music evolved out
of experiments that used sound to explore the spatial qualities
of a room. [ info
+ mp3 ] |
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FEEDBACK
EPiPHANY |
Bass, boxes, mics,
speakers, desk + Neon light FEEDBACK!
[ info ] |
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SAM
SMITH + SUMUGAN SIVANESAN |
Lost
| Time - Smith and Sivanesan wind tension, realise moments
of clarity then drift further afield into unmapped sonic territories.
[ info + mp3
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| SPiTTiNG
BiTS SOUND SYSTEM TRANSMISSION |
| Radiophonic
sound collage - over driven euro pop,
radio static, animal calls, cool jazz, hard noise and the occasional
stab of Prince.[ info
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