The Audio Foundation presents Alt.Music Festival
Pauline Oliveros (USA) head lines this festival of new music in Auckland.
Featured is the handgun and theremin toting performance group Schimpfluch-gruppe
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Influenced by martial arts attack patterns and the notorious actions of the Viennese performance artists of the 1960s and 70s, Schimpfluch is a loose collective of bruitists and performers dealing with “psycho-physical tests and trainings“. At the core of the group are Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips and Joke Lanz (absent). Using sound, their often brutal performances challenge their audience’s responses using anything from voice and handguns to a theremin and dead fish. Sharing the Shchimpfluch sensibility and joining them for their NZ tour is Australian glass performer Lucas Abela aka Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device. Also joining them in Auckland is one of NZ’s most prolific recording artists, Matt Middleton aka one-man-band Crude.
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By omhoge - 6/30/2007 -
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""The Cat and the Canary, 1927 film directed by Paul Leni, with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and theremin player Glyn Evans at Civic Theatre, Sunday 6pm
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Welshman Glyn Evans plays the theremin in the 12-piece band playing Neil Brand's specially composed music. With both hands waving over what looks like a Sky decoder with two stubby aerials, he lets me hear the theremin's quivering, wavering tones.
Even in broad daylight the skin prickles and you half expect a nasty creature from a 1950s sci-fi film to be lurking beyond the door. But when he plays a few strains from Somewhere over the rainbow, Judy Garland herself could not sing them more sweetly.
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[i]Sinister sounds fill the silence[/i]
by William Dart
New Zealand Times
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=200&objectid=10453800