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

Wolflinge

Anyone curious about Black Sun oughta take a look at this new innerview by Aoife B on her Sweet Oblivion blog. Click on the fangs y'all.

Incoming:
Sat 26th Sept: Jean Louis Costes [FR], KFDS [IE], Over [IE]
Sat 7th Nov: Oblivia and Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma) [USA], Jozef Van Wissem [NL] and Laura Sheeran [IE]
Sat 5th Dec: Blood Stereo [UK], Hereharehere [UK], Gryn Brvs [UK] (more guests to be announced)


see www.myspace.com/solnigerire for more details


Vx

John

Nice interview.

Ghost Rider

Lazybird is badly missed in Dublin so it's great to see more out-there stuff happening... well, out there!

Wolflinge

Thank you drudes, any traveling folk are very welcome to come too.
Aircoach Dublin to Cork is €22. Bus Eireann site does my head in so I can't say I know how much it'd cost to come down on that service. This is a show Costes has been specifically working on for Black Sun and is his only Irish date so it'd be well worth the trek.






Jean-Louis Costes is a controversial, ecstatic and extreme performer. Since 1986 he has worked primarily with music, releasing over 40 albums on cd, and others on cassette. He has also made several full-length and short films (and appeared in Irreversible and Baise-Moi). All of this work comes together in his performances, such as Little Birds **** (2007) a two person drama about a repressed couple who ‘look for more’ in S/M, or in The Holy Virgin Cult (2008). The shows are highly physical and also highly-charged, this is an interaction that stamps all over social networks and wants to break things down. His work is a physical meditation that cannot live with the everyday. He loves ****, sex, the body as tool, the body as object, the body as something more and less than a person. He also has fun with fears of racism, with an album called Nik ta Race (**** your Race). There can be no borders for Costes, no demarcation lines, as we all come together, immersed through fluid, ranting and black (or brown) humour. If this all sounds too serious, it’s not – Costes is always humorous, nothing is sacred – and that means all can be made funny. The word ‘uncompromising’ if often used and rarely lived-up to, but the author of the novel Viva la Merda! (Long Live ****!) is just that. Highly theatrical, but shunned by official theatre, we have sneaked him into one - he is fierce and joyous as he pulls down social taboos, and he will prise open your ears, eyes and head with this first ever performance in Ireland.



KFDS are collaborative artists Not Abel and performance artist Alex Conway. They deal in brooding, darkly vibrant atmospheres, where treated vocals, tapes and bass swarm around rogue trance beats and the remnants of disco pulses. Combining music and performance, they build on prepared materials and texts through improvisation. Combining from these sounds is a physical performance that is intimately touching, maybe too intimate.

http://www.myspace.com/kunstfds



OVER -based around the duo of JG and AD with a revolving collaborators and assistants, OVER is an entity dedicated to encapsulating dread through sound.Inspired by horror films,creaking doors, haunted houses and the moment where TV static takes on a sinister life of its' own. Bring a blindfold.On this occasion,OVER will be augmented by VL, BC and SG.
http://www.myspace.com/oovveerr

A selection of Costes' short films will be screened during the night. Vegan cakes and records/tapes/cds from distro's Bold Lump (Dublin) and Rimbaud Records (Cork) will be available for purchase throughout the night.




... weird ...
People on boards.ie aren't allowed to talk about s h i t ?
www.myspace.com/solnigerire

Wolflinge

DotDotDot will be selling stuff at Black Sun alongside Bold Lump and Rimbaud Records.

Releases available:
New 7"s by Merzbow (a double 7"), Prurient, Charles Hayward, Circle, Jackie O Mother****er, Guapo.
CDs by Safe with Dennis Cooper, KK Null, Safe, PKD.

For more info see: http://www.dotdotdotmusic.com/releases.html

http://www.myspace.com/dotdotdotmusiclabel

Wolflinge

Myself and Paul are off to check out the No Fun fest this Thursday in Sweden. I gots my eye on some people there I want to invite to Black Sun in the new year. If anyone's innerested, we're doing a stopover at Resonance fm tomorrow where Paul's doing a noise show and I'm lurking in the background.


9pm Wednesday 16th September
http://resonancefm.com/

Vx

Wolflinge

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After Party in the Quad!!
Weirdo DJ sets/visuals from Brian Conniffe and Black Sun DJs midnight-late

sounds like:

Wolflinge

Jean Louis Costes will be doing an in-studio interview on Cork Campus Radio's ArtBeat this coming Friday between 4.30 and 5.30pm. Tune in on 98.3fm. Listen online here:
http://www.ucc.ie/ccr/


Jamie Grimes (Drainland, Over) will be playing some wreckchords at the after party too. Buses to Cork aren't too expensive. PM me for details about setting tickets aside for traveling volk.

Vicky x

Wolflinge

Interview with Costes on ArtBeat on Cork Campus Radio 98.3fm.
Sometime between 4.30 - 5.30pm today.

Listen online at http://www.ucc.ie/ccr/

KCAccidental

really enjoyed this the other night. certainly nothing like i've ever seen before, but excellent!

and the cakes were great too

Wolflinge

November 7th
Black Sun at the Granary Theatre
www.myspace.com/solnigerire

Debut Irish performance by Oblivia + Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma)**This is the only Irish date**
Jozef Van Wissem
Laura Sheeran


Oblivia and Ju Suk Reet Meate!!!


Jozef Van Wissem


Laura Sheeran ((Fovea Hex))

Wolflinge

Facebook event page for Black Sun Nov 7th
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143122838201

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+ SMEGMA + ((only Irish performance))
http://www.myspace.com/smegmatheoriginal
Blasting out of Los Angeles in the early 1970s, Smegma took the logic of Captain Beefheart, the Velvets and free jazz to new places: an improvising troupe that thinks it’s a rock band, a weird folk band that plays free jazz, a garage band that plays experimental noise music, they have influenced generations of the best and strangest artists. Freaks rather than hippies, they recorded with ‘outsider’ artist ‘Wild Man’ Fischer, they found like minds in Portland’s punk and post-punk worlds, and collaborated in the late 1980s with the Butthole Surfers. They have inspired American and European industrial artists, they have played with free jazz musicians and the even freer. Their monstrous sound is driven by combining the energy of rock with the power of noise, and all this through an array of homemade instruments that make their music unique. Ever-strange, they have continued to draw the most creative of musicians to them, making records with Japanese noise legend Merzbow and the pin-ups of the American noise scene of today, Wolf Eyes. Members of Smegma have worked with Earth, Chris Corsano, John Fahey. If this seems like a roster of the great, then this is due to Smegma’s position at the top of the heap of free and noise music-making. Noise music finally caught up with them. Now it’s your turn.

+ JOZEF VAN WISSEM +
http://www.myspace.com/vanwissem
Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the Renaissance and Baroque lute, probably the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary music. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings The unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard amalgam of contemporary folk and early music Van Wissem has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century contemporary music Although he uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. He deconstructed existing compositions, for instance by playing them backwards. He also composed his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. His music therefore does not have a traditional linear progression, nor leads to a climax, it rather stays on the same level of intensity. His music is not so much demands concentrated listening, as it will bring the listener in a state of concentrated listening. He runs the Incunabulum label, and performs extensively around the world. He also works with M.B. / Maurizio Bianchi, James Blackshaw, Tetuzi Akiyama and Gary Lucas. With Blackshaw he formed the duo “ Brethren of the Free Spirit’ which has two releases on Important records.

+ LAURA SHEERAN +
http://www.myspace.com/laurasheeranmusic
Originally from Galway, Laura Sheeran is an emerging young talent who's music continuously refuses to be placed within the boundaries of any one genre. Her recordings span endless musical fields, crossing the acoustic with the electronic, a'cappella with synth trash and lush string arrangements with music made with hardware tools! Her solo live performances frequently fuse elements of theatre, musical improvisation, pedals and laptop, along with a sea of other instruments and leave audiences inspired, awakened and always wanting more!

Laura has already explored the musical worlds of theatre, film and the avant-garde. As a singer with 'Fovea Hex', she has appeared throughout the "neither speak nor remain silent" ep collection and has performed with FH all over europe. She has also written music for three plays and performed her compositions live for each show while touring.

Wolflinge

Black Sun at the Granary Theatre is an independent 'weirdo' music night that takes place on an almost monthly basis. It is curated by Vicky Langan (Wölflinge, Female Orphan Asylum, United Bible Studies) and co-run with 'Noise/Music A History' author Paul Hegarty (Safe, Working With Children, Dot Dot Dot Music record label). It aims to celebrate the outer limits of music and performance both internationally and locally. Present on the night are stalls from independent distributors Bold Lump (avant Dublin-based distro),Rimbaud Records (DIY Cork-based label and distro), and experimental record label Dot Dot Dot. There will also be vegan cakes from the beautiful Paula Larkin.

Black Sun receives no funding and relies solely on you the adventurous listener for support!
Here are some photos from the previous Black Sun at the Granary Theatre from controversial and ecstatic French performer Jean Louis Costes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflinge/sets/72157622553665790/
(*warning* Images are graphic and contain nudity. Not suitable for work)

Wolflinge

some smegma wreckchord reviews from boomkat ...

Pigs For Lepers

Smegma are one of those bands that nobody heard, but everyone who heard them seemed to start a band... I have to be honest with you, maybe it was the name or something but until recently I'd never heard the band (other than the blistering collaboration with Wolf Eyes), and on listening to this I'm really wondering why. Amazing! Influential! Weird! Freaked-out! Visceral! I may as well not bother listing any more words like this as truly my jaw was on the table, drool escaping from the lip-line as I listened to 'Pigs for Lepers', an album which although originally came out in 1982, was started in the early 1960s. Shocking... they were there before anyone, and even more worryingly this album still sounds totally futuristic, totally groundbreaking. Sure they've had their sound re-appropriated by a blossoming noise scene (Wolf Eyes, Hair Police, Prurient, The Skaters et al) and the New Weird America crew are desperately trying to out-weird the Portland originators (and not succeeding by the sounds of it) but Smegma sounds only like Smegma. Distorted tape loops, dirty percussion, looped vocals and screams, plucked strings and flute all fired through the grimiest sounding processes you can imagine - this album is like being kicked head-first into a parallel dimension, a dimension that lost the plot so long ago it can barely remember what the plot is. How these guys came into being is totally beyond me, but the fact that CD evidence exists is a modern marvel... do records come more essential than this? It's not just an essential purchase, this is modern music history... BUY.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=33500



Nattering Naybobs of Negativity

Holy headf*ck Batman... it's another Smegma re-issue and yet again I am dumbfounded by the sheer creative force on offer here. I'm not sure whether this is free-jazz, improv, noise-core, tape music or all of the above, what I am sure of is that it's absolutely bonkers and recorded evidence of one of the most singular and important acts in experimental music history. Okay so they might not be as universally acclaimed as say, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band (possibly one of the closest comparisons...) but that's just because hardly anyone has actually heard them, it's just that everyone who has heard them ended up making records. That's the power this kind of music has on people, that's the sheer force of Smegma - this particular album for instance bears a striking resemblance to No Neck Blues Band, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Vibracathedral Orchestra and all of those weird, wonderful bands. Of course, Smegma were bashing out preternatural weirdness way before these kiddles were even apples in their parents' eyes, and the fact that this record (originally issued in 1987) still sounds fresh, still sounds totally contemporary is a testament to the band's shocking skill. I must say I'm still reeling from hearing this stuff, to one day be totally unaware of the band and the next day feel like I've been his with a concrete block of inspiring noise - it's something that's difficult to explain and even more difficult to get over. Let me just say that you need to buy this record and probably anything else by the band that you can get your hands on, killer doesn't even begin to explain it. You want something unusual? Well you'd better buy this and pretty #### quickly - the cd is limited to a measly 1000 copies for the world. So, so good.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=33501



33 1/3

The fourth crucial Important release this week, and blow me down it's by Portland's finest and one of the most influential experimental acts ever to spew out of the 20th century - Smegma. Their latest album interestingly is touted as being a tribute to their 20th century influence - free jazz and the world of the avant garde, but they have neatly brought this into the 21st century by proving to all the young noise makers that they still have what it takes to produce something shocking, demonic and visceral. All the core members are here too and the band are on blistering form blending their signature free jazz noodling with crushing tape jams and synthetic noise to create something that sounds like you've fallen off a cliff and woken up on another planet, dazed and slightly drugged. It's almost frightening how forward thinking this band are and how pivotal their work has been to the evolution of the noise scene - I mean Wolf Eyes worship them, what more evidence do you need of their ultimate power? Whether you just hear it as folk clumping and clanging about, or whether you hear this as the logical progression of outré sound from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in all its surreal avant-beauty it doesn't matter, you should listen to '33 1/3' and listen up good, because here's a band that really know the meaning of the word 'punk'. #### yeah, just invest.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=34202



Ju Suk Reet Meate at No Fun 2007


Oblivia + Ju Suk at PDX Pop Now! festival 2008

Here are some Smegma tracks for any curious ears out there...
Enjoy! x

Difference (1979 - Glamour Girl 1941)
Mutant Baby (Live 29/10/79 - Pigs For Lepers 2006 CD Reissue Bonus Track)
ID-O-MATIC (1982 - Pigs For Lepers)
Happy Baby Rhumba (1988 - Nattering Naybobs Of Negativity)
Limp Dynamics (1988 - Nattering Naybobs Of Negativity)
Hoedad (1993 - Ism)
Jungle Nausea (1993 - Ism)
Walkie-Talkie (1993 - Ism)
I'm Pooped (1996 - The Mad Excitement, The Barbaric Pulsations, The Incomparable Rhythms of Smegma)

Wolflinge

+ LAURA SHEERAN +
http://www.myspace.com/laurasheeranmusic

Laura Sheeran is a 22 year old solo artist based in Dublin.

Her musical path began at the age of 15 when asked by Clodagh Simonds (Mellow Candle, Current 93) to sing for a then embryonic project later to be known as Fovea Hex. She has continued to sing with Fovea Hex (also playing accordion and bowed saw) alongside Cora Venus Lunny, Kate Ellis and Michael Begg. Other contributors to this project include the likes of Roger Doyle, Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Robert Fripp, Percy Jones, Donal Lunny, Andrew Mckenzie, Matmos and Steven Wilson.
Throughout the summer Laura has been putting the finishing touches to her debut double album, experimenting with instruments such as harp, flute, cello and the accordion. This on top of writing for strings, vocal experimentation and using appliances like old and new sewing machines, fans and broken pens (thanks to Cicely Irvine). Entitled 'lust of pig and the fresh blood' the album is due for release early in the new year.
At Black Sun Laura will be previewing material from the album and also including some improvisational work. Her set up on this occasion will include laptop, 6 string ukulele, flute and bowed saw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgBVscDdkGY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqu9S_6yCY&feature=related

Wolflinge

+ JOZEF VAN WISSEM +
http://www.myspace.com/vanwissem
http://ubu.com/sound/van-wissem.html

"Once some music dropped through my letter-box; let's summon their sounds into our world now, and deliver their names as Roses or Stations. The picture they imagined was both clear and cryptic: the certainties of the 17th century holding tight the ugly beauty that we now see scattered around us. I loved these CDs by Jozef van Wissem, A Rose by any other Name and Stations of the Cross. And then I received a new album, A Priori, and I immediately played it and heard its stark and repetitive intensity, its stately and glacial march. There is nothing quite like it that I have heard before - it is timeless, breathing deeply and exhaling showers of snow, endless circles, mirrors, spirals, the sea. When Jozef plays the lute, he pours out endless space. What can I say but let the rain come, close your eyes and watch the stars fall and rise and fall again." - David Tibet (Current 93)

Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual take on the Renaissance and Baroque lute, probably the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary music. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings This wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an absolutely original amalgam of contemporary folk and early music, where seventeenth century lute and twenty-first century contemporary music meld. Whilst using subtle electronic sound manipulation, he stays faithful to the timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. He has deconstructed existing compositions, by playing them backwards. He has also composed his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. His music is not so much about linear progression, more about an unfolding intensity, which brings the listener in a state of concentrated listening. He runs the Incunabulum label, and performs extensively around the world. He also works with M.B. / Maurizio Bianchi, James Blackshaw, Tetuzi Akiyama and Gary Lucas. With Blackshaw he formed the duo “ Brethren of the Free Spirit’ which has two releases out on Important records.

On other records, Van Wissem has re-contextualized the lute by treating its sounds with electronics, juxtaposing it with field recordings of large public transit facilities, using it to improvise with Tetuzi Akiyama, or enlisting Mauricio Bianchi to transform its resonance into grim noise. A Priori offers his unadulterated take on the instrument, performed without accompaniment or outboard effects. Its sonorities, articulated in unhurried cadences, may sound ancient, but the language of dissonant harmonies, tone clusters, and rare bluesy flourishes to which he applies them is rooted in the 20th century avant-garde, not the time of bards in tights. The way Van Wissem traces and retraces A Priori's seven palindromes, denying the listener any resolution or catharsis, is also pretty contemporary in its attitude of refusal; has there ever been a time besides now when more musicians refuted the expectations of audiences and authorities?

A Priori does not reward casual listening. Its slow cadences and well-proportioned tones feel contemplative, but the lack of pay-off makes the music potentially maddening; it actually stymies linear thought. If you want easily approachable Van Wissem, try his album he and James Blackshaw made as the Brethren of the Free Spirit. This record is best approached as obsessively as it was played. Spin it over and over and eventually the pieces really do lose beginning and end, seeming instead to hover in a timeless now.

By Bill Meyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4KVFX5XhhI

Wolflinge

Ju Suk Reet Meate:
..."like a one person tank filled with a million whacked-out sounds but driven by one maniac....I think after hearing [his solo lp] you can make more sense to the human racket of knucklehead sound of the Smegma camp. Maybe Ju Suk is the man of the crew? No way in that anarchy unit but his vision def. looms huge shadows over the group's output. The world would be a duller place if this Ju Suk dude never decided to call off his public service gig for a year and tend to his goats in his pink house and concentrate rough and long on laying down a soundtrack to his amazing wacky scattered Barnum and Bailey via bottom of the sea sound world....an inspired and inspiring listen. They should launch a thousand copies into the Earth's atmosphere just to see what the outcome would be. A generation of horrible children with scratchy vinyl skin? Eyeballs for teeth? Molten lava for Language? Carpet for Brains? Pigface Forever!!!

-John Olson/Ypsilanti reprinted from liner notes to Ju Suk Reet Meate "solo 78/79" CD reissue put out by the good folks at De Stijl


Oblivia:
Portland based experimentalist Jackie Stewart (a.k.a Oblivia) started working with sound as a medium in 1979. After early experiments involving electric guitar and vocals, Jackie Stewart found her voice on the turntables when she discovered the link between her visual collages and her sound work. Usually found performing with avant/psych/folk pioneers Smegma, her recent solo project entitled "uncracked" reveals a playfully disturbed sound world where toys and turntables are manipulated to conjure sound as faded memory, familiar to all, yet just beyond the far side of recognition.

In 1979, Stewart started performing live improv pieces, inspired by the so-called "punk" music" scene, joining Gumby Antichrist with X.J.Elliot and Jerry A. (later known as Poison Idea), where she played guitar and performed experimental vocals. In 1983 she joined joined Smegma where she also played guitar, saxophone, cow bell, tape loops, Casio, electronics, Drums, Bass, turntables and vocals and has been known under such assumed names as, "rock and roll Jackie" and "Oblivia."

As a member of Smegma, Stewart has performed live with the Dead Kennedys, the Butthole Surfers, Perry Robinson, 1/2 Japanese, Merzbow, the Boredoms, Wolf Eyes, Tom Recchion, Steve Mackay, Aaron Dilloway and Joe McPhee/Chris Corsano with many performances resulting in recorded collaborations.

Smegma is a frequent headliner at international festivals recently appearing at K(RAA)K3 Fest (Hasselt, Belgium,2005), Subcurrent Festival (Glasgow, Scotland,2006) and No Fun Fest (New York, 2006 and 2007) as well as being feature at End Times Festival (Minneapolis, MN, 2006) and Three Million Tongues Festival (Chicago, 2006).

As a member of Smegma, Stewart has appeared on more than sixty recordings including Wolf Eyes/Smegma (De Stijl Records, 2003) Smegma with Steve Mackay - Thirty Years of Service (Radon, 2004) and Rumbings (Hanson Records, 2005). Recent years have seen the re-release of several early Smegma cassettes and Lps on CD including Pigs for Lepers (Pigface, 1982/Harbinger Sound, 2006), Live 1991-1993 (Pigface Mojo 1994/ Resipiscent, 2006), and Acnode One (Poo-Bah Records 2007).

Working solo, Stewart recently performed as Helen Blazes 1904 at the Color Out of Space Festival in Brighton, UK (November 2006). She also appeared at the 7th annual High Zero Festival in Baltimore, performing alongside Jenny Graff (US) and Fuyuki Yamakawa (Japan) as well as performing solo. Other live collaborators have included The Beast, Replicock, Alessandro Bosetti, Dave Smollen, Joseph Hammer and Caroliner among others.

Her current projects include compositions for Smegma, Replicock and Rodney Forest and collaborations with Nate Young of Wolf Eyes and John Weise.

Stewart was featured on the cover of modern music magazine The Wire in conjunction with a feature article on Smegma.

Wolflinge

Anyone interested in composition ought to read up on musician Jozef Van Wissem who's playing at the Granary Theatre as part of Black Sun this November 7th.



Jozef will also give a lecture on the lute as part of the night in the studio space of the theatre at 8.15pm.
Tickets for the night are Eur10 and will be available from Plugd closer to the time. Limited capacity.

He has lectured at Wesleyan Universtity, Mills College and Cambridge University on ‘the liberation of the lute”. Van Wissem has received numerous commisions and grants, most recently from National Gallery, London Van Wissem performs around 80 lute concerts per year and has performed at prestigious festivals and venues like Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain, Kr-aa-k Festival , Belgium, ZXZW Festival, Holland, Sonorités Festival, France, Serralves em festa Festival, Portugal, Seattle Improvised Music Festival, Suono Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal, Sintra Music and Dance Festival, Portugal, Byzantine Fresco Museum, Texas, I.C.A, London, and Glasgow, Schindler House, Hollywood.

Jozef being interviewed:
YouTube - In Conversation with Jozef Van Wissem

+ + + Watch this beautiful excerpt from a concert at Schindler House: + + +
YouTube - Jozef van Wissem / sound. at the Schindler House pt. 1/4

Some press clippings:
“In “The Mirror of Eternal Light,” the Dutch lutist Jozef van Wissem catches his own reflection in tender, minimalist picking and gold-spray overdubs.”- - Rolling Stone Magazine

"Hypnotic minimalist figures seem to breeze across musical boundaries with effortless fluency" -Pitchfork

"Jozef van Wissem has been slowly reinventing the lute for the last three decades. Among the slew of fast-picking, fancy-fretting guitar players so prevalent today, his lute’s voice is a quiet oasis, and Stations of the Cross a small masterpiece”.
The Wire

"The way Van Wissem traces and retraces denying the listener any resolution or catharsis, is also pretty contemporary in its attitude of refusal; has there ever been a time besides now when more musicians refuted the expectations of audiences and authorities? The lack of pay-off makes the music potentially maddening; it actually stymies linear thought On an even more symbolic level, by constructing pieces that begin where they end and are therefore potentially endless, he subverts the march of time" – Dusted Magazine

Wolflinge

mp3s are up now from Tenses (Oblivia and Ju Suk), Smegma, Jozef Van Wissem and Laura Sheeran!! Get ready for Black Sun #3 at the Granary Theatre -Sat Nov 7th x

Listen at www.myspace.com/solnigerire





Browsing through Bold Lump distro...

Nervous audience...

Smoking area

Costes at September Black Sun


Pm me for details about cheap hostels in Cork.

Wolflinge

Tickets on sale in Plugd as of this morning.


On Saturday November 7th, Black Sun welcomes Oblivia and Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma) [USA], Jozef Van Wissem [NL] and Laura Sheeran [IE]

Oblivia and Ju Suk Reet Meate from Smegma are the core of an improvising troupe that thinks it’s a rock band, a weird folk band that plays free jazz and a garage band that plays experimental noise music. They have influenced generations of the best and strangest artists. They have continued to draw the most creative of musicians to them, making records with Japanese noise legend Merzbow and the pin-ups of the American noise scene of today, Wolf Eyes. Members of Smegma have worked with Earth, Chris Corsano and John Fahey.

Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual take on the Renaissance and Baroque lute, probably the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary music. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings . He will also present a talk on ‘The Liberation of the Lute’. Completing the bill is Laura Sheeran of Fovea Hex. At Black Sun, Laura will be previewing material from her next album 'Lust of Pig and The Fresh Blood' and also including some improvisational work. Her set up on this occasion will include laptop, 6 string ukulele, flute and bowed saw.

Vegan cakes and records/tapes/cds from distros Bold Lump (Dublin) Dot Dot Dot and Rimbaud Records (Cork) will be available for purchase throughout the night. Tickets (€10) are on sale now in Plugd Records, Cork City. Capacity is limited so it is advised to purchase tickets in advance to avoid disappointment on the night.

On December 5th, Black Sun celebrates our last show of 2009 with very special sonic ghouls Blood Stereo [UK], Hereharehere [UK], Gryn Brvs [UK] (more guests to be announced). Black Sun are also delighted to announce a collaboration with The Cork Film centre for this event. Maximilian Le Cain and Black Sun will be working towards a programme of experimental film for the night. x

See www.myspace.com/solnigerire for more details.

Wolflinge

Hey all, just letting you know that Sweet Oblivion is back on air.
The first show will be on RTE 2XM - http://www.rte.ie/digitalradio/twoxm/index.html - which is a digital radio station, this Wednesday at 8pm. It will be repeated on Sunday at 10am.
Aoife mentioned that the first show will feature some Cork-related stuff - two tracks and some info on the next Black Sun event on 7 November and music by Toby Kaar.
Do tune in!

Wolflinge

Black Sun feature in this weeks copy of The Cork News.

Wolflinge

The upcoming Black Sun got a mention (and Jozef Van Wissem was played) on Nova (Lyric Fm) on Sunday. The show is available to listen to here:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/

Wolflinge

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NEXT BLACK SUN: SATURDAY DECEMBER 5TH 2009

Thanks so much to all y'all who came out to support the last Black Sun. We were delighted to find ourselves a few tickets short of it being sold out!! The were loads of new faces too which was a real surprise. Was a pleasure to meet so many of ye. Special thanks to Eoin from Bold Lump who carted his records across the country to be part of the night. Big shout out to Eamonn Rimbaud Records who will be joining us again on the 5th of December. A huge huge thank you to Andy Ferreira who stepped in at short notice and provided us with stunning shots of the night. I got a whole new cd of shots from the night last week and I'm almost finished uploading them onto my Flickr account (which you can check out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflinge/ )



Black Sun is a one of a kind event in Ireland at the moment. We don't receive any funding so every penny of what you pay in goes towards paying back flights, fees and overheads. Because of the limited capacity in the Granary, all we can ever hope for with these gigs is that we break even at all. This is why we are relying upon your curiosity and ultimately, your support for the DIY ethos that runs through the event. Inviting this caliber of artists over without a financial security net is risky but exhilarating at the same time. Everyone involved, from the Cork Film Centre to Paula (who makes the cakes) to the distro lads, are all part of this night because we all share the same belief that this ought to be happening in Ireland right now and that we can do it ourselves. So, a huge thanks to those who came out to the previous shows, especially those who traveled from outside Cork. We hope to see you at many more in the future.



Some sad news:
Running Black Sun has been a financially pressured affair and we might have to scale things back a bit to keep from running ourselves into debt. Black Sun will no longer be an almost monthly event, we'll check back with you to see what form it'll take. It may just have to be a seasonal thing or if we get the support we need, it may turn into the full blown Irish experimental music festival I've always dreamed it could be.

So,

The next Black Sun will be our end of year bash, and we're tremendously excited about it.
December 5th's event sees us welcoming a large portion of the Brighton 'out' fambly. We welcome the hugely influential and unclassifiable duo, Blood Stereo. Also travelling are Gryn Brvs (pronounced 'Groin Brothers) and HereHareHere! I'm thrilled to announce that we will have the debut solo performance from the staggeringly talented Anne Marie Deacy (whom some of you might know from the Irish band Mirakil Whip). To complete this line up, I've asked filmmaker and cinephile Maximilian Le Cain to curate a programme of experimental film to be shown at the beginning of the night.

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http://www.ubu.com/sound/nyoukis.html


Listen to loads of Blood Stereo mp3s on Ubuweb here!
http://www.ubu.com/sound/blood_stereo.html

ubuweb.com wrote:

Dylan Nyoukis's work exists on the fringe of contemporary avant garde art and underground DIY insurrection. As a leading light in the UK's tape/CD-R scene, Nyoukis has long functioned as a rallying point for artists working to clear a space for original, non-idiomatic sound and feral performance modes. Alongside his sister and long-term collaborator Lisa (Dora Doll), he founded the Chocolate Monk label in 1993, an early experimental music imprint that combined hi-jacks of outmoded media - cassette, CD-R, pen and paper - with cutting edge investigations of the limits of form, while functioning as a home for Nyoukis's own projects, Prick Decay, Decaer Pinga, Ceylon Mange, Blood Stereo and countless one-off collaborations.

Prick Decay's 2001 album, Guidelines For Basement Non-Fidel, has long been regarded as one of the founding documents of the new weird century, alongside Harry Pussy's "Smash The Mirror" and Sun City Girls Torch Of The Mystics. Nyoukis's early material paralleled international developments in post-noise syntax but his approach has become increasingly sophisticated while still retaining a refusenik energy, interrogating sound-poetry and musique concrete strategies while always working outside of their inherited strictures.

His current group, Blood Stereo, is a duo with his wife, the musician and artist Karen Constance, that explores hand-cranked 20th century technology in combination with epiglottal gymnastics and free music modes inherited as much from punk rock's mutilated aesthetic as utopian art styles. His solo vocal and tape work continues to push the envelope in terms of the expressive options offered by amplified physicality while his rejection of any kind of theoretical backdrop liberates him from servitude to any specific agenda. He remains a singular voice. Over the years he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Ludo Mich, Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Sun City Girls, Bill Nace, Heather Leigh Murray, Phil Minton, Neil Campbell, Usurper and Wolf Eyes. He lives in Brighton, England.

-David Keenan, Glasgow, June 2009

Both hailing from Blackburn. West Lothian,,, a ****sville village in Scotlands central belt, these tubes relocated and married in Brighton, England.. Lungs full of sea air and bellys full of wine fuel much of the scab sounds of Blood Stereo... Outside of this unholy union Karen performs solo as Smack Music 7, as well as leading an ever changing all female outsider noise group The Polly Shang Kuan Band. Dylan also records solo (under the imaginative umbrella of Dylan Nyoukis), previously he performed in Decaer Pinga (the artists formerly known as Prick decay) with his sister Dora Doll.
http://www.myspace.com/bloodstereo

Byron Coley wrote:

"Anal fins tucked in tight behind them, Blood Stereo look like a pair of ill-kempt roosters, fighting over a dougnut. The guy rooster is jibbering in some unknown tongue, turning his face inside out, while shoving the microphone slowly through a hole in his cheek. the girl rooster appears to be pecking at him, either that or she's picking at various trash they have strewn around the stage. Every time she ducks her head there is the sound of a jet passing overhead. But when you look up at the sky there is no sign of a comtrail. After a while you think you are starting to get a handle on what they are doing, but the guy falls down and starts doing a spazz dance so utterly convincing you begin to worry about him. Then the girls starts screaming and itseems as though something is really profoundly wrong. And it is. But it's not like they're in any kind of trouble. They're just wrong, y'know? So savagely wrong from every angle that it's really tough to imagine there 's anything you could do to really help them. As if they'd even want in. In their masks or out, they sow confussion like wheat." - Byron Coley

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Check out Karen's artwork. She is hands down my favourite artist.

http://www.myspace.com/smackmusic7

For those of you who attended Super Sonic 2008, you might remember her painting in the Creatures Of The Night exhibition...

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HereHareHere

Primitive & no-fi vocal duo from UK. Awesome free a'capella attack (throat effects, vocal incantation, ...). Somewhere between a rainbow in the African sky & a young girl singing alone behind Marty Mc Fly's future.

http://www.myspace.com/herehareherehare

Brighton duo Hereharehere’s multi-tracked male and female voices start as unnerving chants emanating from dark shadows, rising into unhinged glossolalia and cresting in a threatening purr, like a wild cat driven insane with fear. -Daniel Spicer, The Wire

www.myspace.com/grynbrvs79



Gryn Brvs

"One met Two in a chip-shop....whilst waiting talk turned to the fulk musics, cowes organs, yazz & solid state tuners......heads were nodding........an itch was scratched......a scab picked at perhaps.... they parted company......(ii) continued to beat his head against a trick wall.......years passed with little contact.......(i) royned his way to the southern hemisphere & later settled on Eire........during a return visit (ii) suggested a rendezvous with a tape recorder........this occured in september 2006 .......again in november 2006........and will happen intermittently.......for as long as (i) can maintain consciousness and for as long as (ii) can remain calm enough to do so........in the words of the renowned author Kobi Annobil:..... "G)royne Brothers rip up the speaker can't afford wax so they put it on visa.."

Cd(R) & Cassette releases available from ARCHIVO DE SANGRES DE DIOS/ DIGITALIS LTD/CHOCOLATE MONK/ROTTENSLUSHY/RURALFAUNE/PENDU SOUND/......

" Gryn Brvs unleash a session of lucid improvised tonal scapers and oscillating drones of mixer feedback. Beautiful alchemy drawn from the collective unconscious and spilled onto magnetic tape.No edits, just pure catharsis." Pendu Sound

" Surreal stuff complete with psychical transformations and blank-slated, mind****-irrationalism for top quality assurance" Foxy Digitalis

" Absolute 'less is more' jams of strumming and catatonic tinkling, sauced up with electronic drones. We also get a live basement jam and sweet closer that whiffs of atlantis. Now put your arms up, and your brow down" Chocolate Monk



More details to come...

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Fuaimbhac

Sound Barriers -the name of a new sound project of Annemarie Deacy. Over the years she has toured with Mirakil Whip -her band with Aaron Coyne- played on stage with United Bible Studies, Agitated Radio Pilot, Murmansk , Phantom Dog Beneath the moon, so cow and played on numerous recordings..As well as running many DIY events and music nights over the years in conventional and unconventional spaces..the aim of this project is to explore sound and bring the imaginary into reality by the use of various filters/oscillators...pedals keyboards and d.i.y toys..transistors, illusions..things we can see maybe hear but possibly not touch..the effect is of many layers of drones..this is not noise art but an invitation to the listener to have an aural experience..the pallet will be based on frequency exploration..one aspect of the performance will be based on planes breaking sound barriers..samples taken from camcorders..which are limited by their capacity to record such events..never the less there memory of an event is still valid..even if sonically blurred..these recordings are then mimicked using filters and pedals..and the journey into the amazing capabilities and barriers of sound equipment, memory and science begins..there will also be a short piece on Synesthesia..music and colour.


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We got a lot of travelers from Dublin to Black Sun at the last event. Due to limited capacity at this event, tickets tend to go quickly. I'll update when they go on sale but if you're traveling from outside of Cork, throw me a message if you need me to set aside some tickets for you. There's a cheap hostel right by the venue (which is a city centre theatre).

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Here are some words from Max Le Cain on the first experimental film programme he's curated for Black Sun.




The first Black Sun experimental cinema programme consists of three short films, each articulating a different potential of the transformative perceptual processes that film and video have at their disposal.

Cork filmmaker Chris O’Neill’s Saint Francis Didn’t Run Numbers (3 mins, 2009) excavates new and surprising spaces from a famous American film of the ‘70s, abstracting a silent, hidden universe from the bustle of narrativity and causing the viewer to question how many other potential films might be concealed in any given movie.

Copy Scream (3 mins, 2005) is a breakthrough work by Oriol Sánchez, arguably the most gifted experimental filmmaker to have come out of Spain in the past decade. His films have been showcased twice in Cork this year, at Cork Film Festival and during the Avant Festival. Copy Scream is a visceral examination of the process of ‘projection’, not only projector-screen projection but also the numerous ‘projections’ a moving image undergoes as it migrates across media.

The evening’s centerpiece screening is a very rare showing of Etienne O’Leary’s Homeo (40 mins, 1967), an object-lesson in the cinematic intensification of images drawn from day-to-day reality, in which home movie footage is rendered rock’n’roll poetry through montage. This cinematic treasure is one of the very few films made by O’Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated ‘diary films’. Like the contemporaneous films by O’Leary’s more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trippily document the drug-drenched hedonism of that era’s dandies. In contrast to the back-to-origins minimalism of the Zanzibar Group (Garrel, Deval, Reynal, Bard, etc), O’Leary worked with an intoxicating style that foregrounded rapid and even subliminal cutting, dense layering of superimposed images and a spontaneous notebook type shooting style. The touchstone would seem to be Mekas and the New York underground rather than Godard. Yet even if much of O’Leary’s material was initially ‘diaristic’, depicting the friends, lovers, and places that he encountered in his private life, the metamorphoses it underwent during editing transformed it into a series of ambiguously fictionalized, sometimes darkly sexual fantasias.

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I'm really excited about Max's programme. We only recently found out that we had gotten the rights to screen the Etienne O' Leary film. I was aching to post about it for a long time but had to keep shtum. As usual, Rimbaud Records will be joining us, as well as Dot Dot Dot. Biggest shout of all goes out to Paula Larkin who's baking gingerbread cupcakes with lemon buttercream icing, carrot cake cupcakes with creamcheese icing and chocolate fudge raspberry brownies and more... All cakes are vegan... \m/

Here's an excerpt from one of O'Leary's other films, Chromo Sud.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X5tXWJxRFM

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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...

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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

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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.




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.




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



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

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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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* * *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




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.




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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Latest releases from Bill's (Family Battle Snake) label:
http://www.pan-act.com/

sewer election:


joseph hammer:


evan parker & john wiese


billy bao



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.

Wolflinge

* 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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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)


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.

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.

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…”

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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
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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/

Wolflinge

Mmmm, Black Sun Cake Lady.


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!)

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/

Wolflinge

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

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**EXHIBITION: throughout ArtTrail - FORMER SAWMILLS
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Léan

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

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.


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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.




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



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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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.



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."




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/

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

ddmurph

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:



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/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maTd4SJ2dcI

ID M Theft Able:



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

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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