Art Bootleg's

I have been working on a sound project for a while now.
Thinking about what it means to consume Art and the desire to own stuff. This project is in the spirit of the Thief. I see something that I want, why not take it? Participation in Society at any cost.

Dropping a Line

So I have been as busy as ever, since my last post I have been over seas and had another show. This slight distraction is just an update because what I should be doing is, updating the music page. I want to make it a little more sophisticated with pictures and sounds of all the shows I have done. I have been told that I should apply for a Masters in Sound which is kind of what I was doing but was going to try and incorporate sound into a Masters in Visual Art.

black market 6/7/11 gasometer

black market 6/7/11 gasometer by mwallus01

Today's show at Winter Contempt in Brunswick playing as "modern viking" :)

 Wintercontempt2011 by mwallus01

Winter Contempt Show

I am going to be performing Tomorrow at a show called Winter Contempt. Fun low key day gig! will be making noise from 2pm till we have to stop!
52 Hope st Brunswick

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214257288612925

You may notice some changes to this site

Hi every one. Yes I have been incredibly lazy with this blogging thing and there's no excuse for it. What's going on in my world at the moment is;

1. I have been playing a few Gigs this year using new gear and sounds.
1. this has involved using a Roland s-760 sampler and my MPC 2000
2. I have been using a Fostex VF-16 for a mixer/effects and longer backing sounds
3. In addition to this, for my last Gig I used a Netbook and a program called Moonster, to control video clips through the MPC 2000.

I will upload some video and pictures when I get them.

Another exciting thing I have started doing, is offering audio copies of the performance straight after as an MP3 for anyone interested with some kind of storage on them. This has been a really nice way to talk to people after playing and get some feed back.

I have also been asked to be in a show later in the year. Its a group show and has a theme of "Erasure", which should be fun.

As my practice has evolved since completing university I have gravitated more and more toward a performance based practice and am enjoying myself. This seems like a fairly natural progression and I feel I am still engaging in a lot of the same concepts etc..

I am also heading over to Europe for the first time in July this year to see the Venice Bianalle and generally submerse in some Art culture.

There is going to be a bit more audio content going up in the next couple of days. I look forward to sharing this and assigning these as done as much as they are going to be to make room for new things.

A couple of Images from 2 Gigs Last Year

A colaborative Performance at Loop Bar with Cameron Brew
on the 29th of November 2010,
for the Bene Gesserit House Nursery Rhymes.



Me Performing at Loop Bar on the 25th of October 2010,
for the Bene Gesserit House Nursery Rhymes.

These are 2 gigs I’ve played recently. I was asked to play a gig on the 25th of October last year which was 1 day after I returned from a trip to Cairns. Just before I left to go, I had been playing around making tape loops and sampling them. What I was using was the high frequencies and hisses from the tape and modulating the sounds using a combination of filters to manipulate the texture of the sounds, creating a howling gale and moaning soundscape. I went from being in the Daintree Rainforest to performing in a bar in Melbourne in a day.

The second performance was a colaborative experiment with Cameron Brew. We had performed earlier in the year at the Library Art Space in North Fitzroy. Cameron had been talking about the ceremonial aspect of performing. For this second performance I had taken several samples from found vinyl records from a Japanese Temple and another of Buddhist Chanting and manipulated them live layering, reversing and filtering them. Cameron played using a feedback loop through a mixer using the mixers Aux sends to add distortion and delay.

I will be uploading the recordings from the gigs and putting them on the music page soon. I would like to thank Shane Reynolds for taking photo's and recording these events!!