FREDSTOCK 2010
FREDSTOCK 2010
October 27-30th, Wellington.
Welcome to Fredstock 2010, four days of brain fertilising music, sound, art and performances brought to you by the
Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society.
Times and places
Wednesday 27th 7pm at Fred’s
Thursday 28th 7pm at Fred’s
Friday 29th 7pm at Fred’s
10 pm at Happy
Saturday 30th 2-5pm installation at Fred’s KOHA
6pm at Fred’s
9pm at Happy (Alt Music)
FRED’S - 46 Frederick St, Wellington
HAPPY - Corner Tory and Vivian St, Wellington
Tickets
Day passes $10 (on Friday and Saturday this gets you into both the Fred’s and Happy shows.
Festival passes $30
Thanks to Wellington Creative Communities for funding.
WEDNESDAY 27th 7pm
Peter Wright (Christchurch)
Peter Wright has invested a significant chunk of the last 20 years investigating ways of deconstructing the guitar. He uses a combination of environmental recordings and found sound in tandem with an open tuned 12 string electric guitar.
Schtick Buddies
An augmented puppet show featuring Jake and Reginald, two puppets living in a whimsical land. Jake finds great pleasure in ruining Reginald's day until he finally snaps and seeks revenge.
Reuben Derek (Christchurch) and The Doubles
Soprano saxophonist Reuben Derek meets the intricate improvisations of Chris Prosser (violin) Isaac Smith (cello) and Noel Meek (voice).
Atsushi, Erika Grant, Chris Prosser
Mesmerising sound poetry set against droning strings.
IMBOGODOM (album release)
IMBOGODOM are the duo of Daniel Beban and UK's Alexander Tucker. Formed back in 2008 Tucker and Beban began exploring the other-worldly effects of tape manipulation, working through the night deep in the basement of the BBC World Service. This is the NZ release of their LP, The Metallic Year, on Thrill Jockey Records. Alexander Tucker will be here in spirit, though sadly not in person!
THURSDAY 28th 7pm
David Long (guitar) Tom Callwood (bass) Anthony Donaldson (drums) Alphabethead (turntables)
Improvised set from members of The Muttonbirds, Eru Dangerspiel, Little Bushman, Ecstasy Trio, Flower Orphans and Primitive Art Group.
Gerard Crewdson The People of the Golden Oriole.
DIY fable and mythology on the triumph of the demiurge.
Radio Cegeste
Handmade, low powered Mini-FM transmitter broadcasts site-specific sound events to an array of radio receivers. NOTE: Please bring a radio to participate.
Urinal Bulldogs
Covers band playing Douglas Lilburn’s electronic music.
The Kickoffs
A malfunctioning and schizophrenic Ferris wheel of big beat 80s synth/guitar with the pathos of a steamy action romance flick.
Simon O’Rorke, Peter Daly, Hermione Johnson
Intense percussion, viola and prepared piano improvisations.
FRIDAY 29th FREDS 7pm
Reuben Derek, Lucien Johnson, Nell Thomas, Anthony Donaldson
Cosmic soundworlds with saxophones, voice, gramaphone and a whole array of assorted instruments.
The Winter
"A strange sonic brew that includes dissonant rock textures, rough outsider folk-blues mysteries”
- The Broken Face
Unknown Rockstar
Rippled and whorled sound tapestries that distort and fragment.
Gerard Crewdson / Noel Meek
Improvised voice duets
Seth Frightening
Avant psych folk guitar maestro with Thomas Lambert (i.ryoko) on electronics.
FRIDAY 29th at HAPPY 10pm
Idle Suite
Six piece improv-rock from members of Sferic Experiment, MarineVille, Dress, King Loser, Cloudboy and Bad Statistics.
Cartoon
Ryan Bennett’s solo drum project - like a washing machine on spin-cycle holding drum sticks.
Full Fcking Moon
Pulling into its sphere eurovision ecstacy, heavy repetitive riffing, volcanoes erupting, distant radio transmission, cosmic droning and supernatural disco. Feel the magnetic force!
Sign of the Hag
Duo of adapted spinning wheels, one making pulsating flickering images, the other spinning whirlpools of rhythms and sound.
SATURDAY 30th at FREDS
Douglas Bagnall installation with performances by Mr Sterile Assembly and Starcruzer Destroyer
2-5pm Libsparrow installation`
6pm performances with the installation
Douglas Bagnall is a computer programmer and artist. His previous works include the Cloud Shape Classifier, Music Industry Simulator, Filmmaking Robot, Random Geographical Survey, Te Tuhi Video Game Machine and Mimetic Television. His artworks traverse the borderland of human and machine intelligence and interaction.
Libsparrow is a work consisting of two projectors each competing for control of the same projected space. Whatever each projector shows is almost instantaneously cancelled out by the other, whereupon both projectors try to correct for the other's new output.
Starcruzer Destroyer
The reincarnation of Masters of Electronica
Mr Sterile Assembly
Bursting with sound energy, political songs and anarchic theatre.
SATURDAY 30th HAPPY 9pm
Alt Music presents...
Richard Youngs (UK)
Claypipe
MING
Richard Youngs is one of the most acclaimed explorers of modern music. He has recorded with an array of collaborators, including Jandek, Vibracathedral Orchestra and Acid Mothers Temple.
“A gentle manipulator of English hymn-notics and religious incantations; protégé, challenger and radicaliser of folk, blues, rock, minimalism and improvisation’ – Melody Maker
Claypipe is the duo of Antony Milton (Christchurch) and Clayton Noone (Dunedin).
Frequently recording out of doors, they have something of a folk-pop take on the improvised psychedelic noise sphere - they are as likely to drift into broken songs as they are to encompass the listener in shimmering drones.
MING is the'deep listening' musical project of Campbell Kneale and Ellen Rodda.
Lodged somewhere between chanting oneself into religious epiphany and a genuine waste of time, Ming evokes timeless infinities and energizes full-bodied silences with the merest of instrumentation, namely two large cymbals.
