FREDSTOCK 2011
5-8th October, Wellington
Four days of mind expanding ... musicsoundartperformancesprojections.
Tickets
Day passes $10 (this gets you into both the Fred’s and Happy shows)
Festival passes $30
Fri and Sat afternoon shows at Fred’s are KOHA
Venues
FRED’S - 46 Frederick St, Wellington
HAPPY - Corner Tory and Vivian St, Wellington
Thanks to Wellington Creative Communities for funding, Altmusic for the C.Spencer Yeh gig.
WEDNESDAY 5th
Freds 7pm
Gerard Crewdson cardboard cinema and the Terminal Moraines (Anthony Donaldson / Daniel Beban) Artist Gerard Crewdson’s cardboard cinema presentation, Fortification Road, is a psycho geographical journey down the highways and byways of old Wellington town.
Glitter Ears Sound artists Matt Whitwell, Samin Son, and Daniel Boobyer will take listeners on an examination of highly complex and twisted sonic structures. (Thanks to the Met Shop for the wind chimes)
Lucy Slow Lucy Fast Keiran Monaghan (drums) Hermione Johnson (keys) Atsushi (vocals)
Szilard Ozorak A light and sound sculpture performance using slide projectors and mirrors.
Tristan Carter / Erika Grant Improvised string duets
Bingodisiac: Snakebeings Visuals with Kaosphere Orchestra sound (UK/HAMILTON) Super 8mm Film: Alchemical Pilgrimage filmed by Snakebeings between 1990 and 2011, edited by Karen Karnak,with improvised/number cued sound from the Kaosphere Orchestra.
Originally from the UK, Emit Snake-Beings is a multi-media visual artist and sound artist who works in kinetic art, sacred art, sculpture, tuned noise music, and underground film.
THURSDAY 6th 7pm Fred’s visuals by The Ghastlies ectoplasmic projections
Birdcatcher Bill Wood (1/3 Octave Band) and Antony Milton (Nether Dawn, Stumps) embark on a glacially paced expedition to the slow beating heart of the dark eyed uber-drone.
Eves (Dunedin) Edie Stevens (None Gallery) solo noise tones
Big Flip the Massive Reece McNaughten and Bridget Kelly: splattered drums and stretched sax
Snowfield Wellington’s Alex Mitcalfe conjures up dark synth horizons.
Ben Knight and St Cosmos High energy drums / voice duet from members of the All Seeing Hand
9:30pm Happy visuals by Chris Connolley
Tapioca Dragon Guitar and drum improv from Mark Williams and Andy Wright
Mischancerie Power electronics/drone/noisepop.
Mongo Skato Experimental house music
Candlesnuffer (David Brown, Melbourne) David Brown has been involved in the Melbourne experimental, art rock/punk rock scene since the mid-seventies. His projects include punk jazz band Bucketrider, improvising trio Peteras/Baxter/Brown, improv/sound art group Western Grey, psychedelic electronic duo Terminal Hz (with KK Null from Japan) and the electric free jazz group Embers. Brown has developed a vocabulary that runs the gamut from rock bassist through experimental guitarist to sound artist. His solo project, Candlesnuffer, melds electro-acoustic methods with noise music, often utilising tiny acoustic sounds which are massively amplified. Currently Brown is undertaking a PhD research project investigating the use and benefits of electronic music and field recordings within a hospital Emergency Department.
Dead Ringers with Steve Roche Jeff Henderson (alto saxophone), Gerard Crewdson (tuba/trombone) and Anthony Donaldson (drums) with multi-instrumentalist Steve Roche. ...cosmic golden rays of infinite dimensions the flight patterns of birds the elegant underwater journeys of dolphins wind blowing leaves on an autumn day filled withbluster a boiling jug and many quardle ardles crushing nuts and splitting atoms spitting ducks...
FRIDAY 7th
1pm Fred’s [KOHA] Mu-2 Condensed compositions, game pieces, free improvisation. New compositions for seven humans and an oscillator by Chris Wratt and co. Alex Bartley Nees- Sax Cory Champion- Drums Tim Dusto- Prepared guitar Jason Post- Electronics Chris Wratt- prepared drumset Pat Stewart- Bass/ NPC Ashton Sellers- Baritone Guitar Johnny Oscillator- sound
7pm Fred’s visuals by ... VJ Tempest John Radford and Rayzordoll
Dave Brown / Daniel Beban Fingers on strings into wires out cones
Nell Thomas / Dave Brown / Chris Prosser Fridge harp, prepared guitar, violin
Steve Wymzelico plays banjo and fingery guitar and has a big synthey muck on tape to noodle over
Memory Burn - Rory Dalley/Mike Minchington (Christchurch) Christchurch duplexicon of many free-time associations and witchuals observed. Burns holes in woven dependencies, free for all. all for none. Rugcore dialectics weave from library returns to nightwalker revelations. A tableau of auxiliary gains accumulating rust, hoarded from excoriated vocals, primordial percussives, jammed tapes, and room tone returns.
John Bell (Auckland)/Anthony Donaldson/Gerard Crewdson/Lucien Johnson John Bell’s vibraphone is a metallic whirlwind of notes and sounds, joined by three of Wellington’s precious stones on drums, brass and woodwinds.
9:30pm Happy visuals The Ghastlies Ectoplasmic Projections
ALTMUSIC PRESENTS ... C Spencer Yeh (USA) Born in Taiwan, C. Spencer Yeh is now based in Brooklyn NY. His chief modes of expression are amplified violin and voice. He is recognized for his musical project Burning Star Core and collaborates with artists such as Tony Conrad, Thurston Moore, Carlos Giffoni, John Wiese, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, Smegma and Jandek. Yeh’s diverse sound practice encompasses blissed-out meditative droneworks, fire noise improvsations and Dadaist vocalisations. "Yeh did not sing in a strict sense, but he vocalized with every part of his neck and head that could produce sound...it clearly was unsettling to much of the audience...."- George Grella - "The Big City"
Eye (Dunedin) Peter Stapleton, Peter Porteous, Nathan Thompson, Jon Chapman - longtime Dunedin psych-noise-improvisation group featuring members of The Terminals and Sandoz Lab Technicians
Tlaotlon Jeremy Coubrough (Signer, Orchestra of Spheres) solo electronics
late: Chief Miao and VuVu Doon
SATURDAY 8th
2pm Fred’s KOHA
Sendam Orchestra Almost every Friday for the past four years SENDAM have met at The Clubhouse in Newtown to explore and play with percussion and drums. The music swings from attempted structures in compositions to random and spontaneous improvisations.
Cookie Brooklyn (tape release) Cookie took a step closer to Alice and made a date for Friday night, checkmating. Rudy was furious at losing to Margaret so easily and dumped the board on the rose-colored quilt, stomping downstairs.
Bad Pharmer A homage to the Slavic mythologic legend of Poludnica - the noon demon that slayed delirious farmers and field workers in the peak of the mid day heat. Bad Pharmer plays bison grass infused garage swamp with vigour.
Dave Brown / Ant Donaldson / Tom Callwood Sure to be one of the standout improv gigs at the festival
John Radford / Rory Dalley Splatter art punk improvisations
The Scumbagz Scummyscummyscummy
7pm Freds visuals Chris Connolley and John Radford
C Spencer Yeh/ George D Angus Extended vocals and open reel tape machines
Nell Thomas / John Bell Gamelan and vibes.... shimmering tones resound, abound.
James Kirk / Nathan Thompson Two of the Sandoz Lab Technicians reunite.
Peter Stapleton / Simon Cuming / C. Spencer Yeh Dunedin’s Peter Stapleton (Eye, The Terminals, Flies Inside the Sun) on drums with home-made electronics noise-maker Simon Cuming and Yeh.
John Bell / Hermione Johnson / Dave Brown Prepared vibes, prepared piano and prepared guitar improvisations.
9:30pm Happy visuals Rayzordoll, VJ Tempest, Naomi Lamb
My, Oh (Dunedin) Awkward electro phat beat rappers
Sets (Whanganui) Multiconceptualmusic
Octopus (Auckland) Liz Matthews (Hairdos, Evil) and Beth Duckling Monster (Futurians, Maltese Falcons) cast thrash incantations and alien carols through an exquisite confusion of synth and drum smoke.
Our Love Will Destroy the World Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Black Boned Angel)
Late: Bad Spheres Part Orchestra of Spheres, part Bad Statistics... an all out bad burst of cosmic energy featuring Thebis Mutante and C.Spencer Yeh on vocals.
