abre ojos - sound and vision for dystopian meditation

An Afternoon With Maya

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:05:15 +0000

Five of Melbourne’s best experimental acts have organised for you the opportunity to see them play new soundtracks live to the films of Maya Deren.
Maya Deren was the first lady of avant-garde film making in the 1940’s and 1950’s, not only a filmmaker in her own right but also collaborating with the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Antony Tudor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren Her films are a wonderfully textured and moodily lit black and white and deal with themes such as ritual, movement, violence and beauty.

On 4th September Occult Blood, Rottuer, Siilt, Electronic Shaman and Abre Ojos will play their own unique soundtracks to her films, including improvisations between Occult Blood and Rotteur, – Sillt, Electronic Shaman and Abre Ojos.

The films screened are:

Occult Blood: At Land

Rotteur: Ritual in Transfigured Time

Electronic Shaman: Meshes of The Afternoon

Siilt: Meditation on Violence
Abre Ojos: The Very Eye of Night

With collaboration performances to:
Witches Cradle and an edited version of Divine Horsemen- The Living Gods of Haiti

Saturday 4th September
Doors open 2.00pm at Loop Bar 23 Meyers Place Melbourne, Tix $10 full/ $5 Conc.
http://www.looponline.com.au

Occult Blood: noise wall degrading tape loops vocals to resurrect Maya herself http://www.myspace.com/occultblood
Rottuer: Rotteur makes cold, desolate soundscapes, haunted by droning machinery and sparse abstracted electronics. http://www.myspace.com/rotteur
Electronic Shaman: follower of the left hand path delivers resonance from the forgotten tombs of the old ones and stygian vistas of distant worlds http://electronicshaman.com
Siilt: siilt is dusty voltage-controlled atmospheres and loops by s.klein, also of Terminal Sound System (Extreme Music, AU) and HALO (Relapse Records, USA). www.antisound.net
Abre Ojos: is improvised sound and vision for dystopian meditation http://abreojos.net

Bene Gesserit is a regular thang!

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:46:19 +0000

Good news for Melbourne lovers of the noisy dark- Bene Gesserit is now a regular feature on the last Monday of the month at Loop Bar. This opens the way for it to be not only the stage for some of melb’s finest experimenters, but also as a forum for everyone to come discuss, collaborate and experiment. The next one is:

MONDAY 30 August – 9pm – BENE GESSERIT HOUSE NURSERIES

Bene Gesserit House Nurseries presents another night of chilling dark ambient cinema featuring regular artists Abre Ojos collab set with Bene Gesserit founder B.Taylor. Shanie Reynolds returned with his project ‘Czura’ along with the dank resonance of Rotteur. The laptop manglings of Illuminoscilate as well as new to the House Nurseries bill ‘Electronic Shaman’ and MV. Promises to be a good night in Loop’s engine room. Free Entry as always \m/

Really looking forward to the collaboration with B.Taylor!

Bene Gesserit @ Loop Tues 6th July

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:37:53 +0000

Bene Gesserit turns it on again for a night of dark experimental goodness this Tuesday at Loop Bar. This month features six artists paired up and set head to head in an improv showdown:
ROTTEUR vs MANTICLE
BEN TAYLOR vs SHAUN SOUTH
ILLUMINOSCILLATE vs ABRE OJOS
CZURA

Free entry!
Tuesday 6 July from 8.30pm at Loop Project Art Space & Bar
23 Meyers Place Melbourne CBD

Spiral Galaxy @ Fed Square

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:30:56 +0000

The Spiral Galaxy tracks were recently featured as a part of ‘AUSthetic – Artists Uncovered Showcase’- an ongoing compilation of new and emerging Australian video artists and filmmakers playing at Federation Square.

Here are some pics. I have to say thanks to Jody and the team at Circus for making this happen!

Live at Bene Gesserit

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:48:55 +0000

It was a great gig at Bene Gesserit Nursery at Loop last week. Met some great people and got to play with some amazing artists. Definitely check out Rottuer who played a complex chain of pedals and created a thick warm blanket of sound punctuated with the cold winter wind turned into sound. Hunt Hunter was perfectly balanced between almost danceable synth lines and processed out of control vocals. Shane Reynolds not only kicked out a wicked set but also recorded all of us on his Zoom H4 MkII. Below is my recording which is a mix of the desk and room audio, a nifty trick of the new H4. Also pics are by Ben from Hunt Hunter.
NGC2835 in Hydra Live at LoopBar June 2010

Spiral Galaxy DVD

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:14:05 +0000

The project using the images of Marek Dobiecki is completed and is sealed with the DVD release of Spiral Galaxy. The DVD has 3 tracks giving just over 66 minutes of sound and vision. The three tracks are:

Hydra and Reticulum are new videos while the live video was recorded back in November of last year at the Electundra Festival at Loop Bar. The DVD gives you all three tracks in full screen 16:9 DVD quality with full uncompressed audio to let the entire frequency range loose. As usual if you pop the DVD in your computer you’ll find 320khz MP3 versions of all the tracks for your fav audio device.

The DVD is a hand numbered limited edition of 50.

Cost is $15USD including postage to anywhere in the world via Paypal. For the first 20 orders I’m also including some limited edition postcards of the Geometers print series.

Bene Gesserit

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:13:47 +0000

The esteemed Bene Gesserit Nursery is back!

Bene Gesserit House Nurseries collective returns this year with another in a series of nights of dark ambient/Avant garde live film score. The marriage and interaction of film to music. This time featuring the improvised sound and vision ‘for dystopian meditations’ of artist Abre Ojos alonside the vast dark of Rotteur, the audio/visual artist Shane Reynolds and new collaboration/hunting party of Ben Taylor and Luke Dyball. ‘Hunt Hunter’ (featuring hunt footage by artist Eliza Dyball) Presented for the first time at Loop – the house nursery opens it’s incubators to public once again on the 2nd june in it’s third year of gestation/conception – 2010.

Wednesday 2 June from 8.00pm at Loop Project Art Space & Bar
23 Meyers Place Melbourne CBD

NGC2835 in Hydra

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:42:47 +0000

The final piece in the Spiral Galaxy series still using the imagery of Marek Dobiecki.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Mp3 file:

NGC2835 Spiral Galaxy in Hydra

NGC1313 Spiral Galaxy

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:38:46 +0000

The vision here is again made using the amazing astronomy photographs of Marek Dobiecki . The photos were built into a series of audio reactive Quartz Composer animations and the sounds are inspired from space recordings and low frequency atmospheric sounds of the earth built on the modular synthesizer. As always the track is recorded in one pass with no overdubs for sound or vision.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Mp3 File:

NGC1313 Spiral Galaxy in Reticulum

Geometer Series

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:37:41 +0000

Based on sacred geometry and crop circle formations Geometers is a series of five A4 prints. These were extremely fun to make and have triggered off a load of new ideas for new video imagery. Click them for a larger size or they are available for purchase from the print in demand service ImageKind. With a variety of sizes and paper and either framed or unframed available.

Go here to purchase or for more info: http://abreojos.imagekind.com/geometers