Stu Buchanan talks with artist Bridget Chappell - raver, musician, writer and organiser - who makes frenetic and febrile electronic music as Hextape, and has been organising parties in drains, observatories, and other fascinating locations for many years. In 2020, they released their debut album under their own name titled Undertow, which blends sonified data from the City of Melbourne’s Open Data Platform with Melbourne's public sound sculpture, the Federation Bells.

Brought up in Canberra, now resident in Melbourne; Bridget has a diverse practice that also encompasses writing, teaching and curating, as well as sound art for installations and performances; most recently for their first solo exhibition No Comment, which investigated the science of phase cancellation and its potential role as an act of sonic resistance.

Music featured in this episode:

Hextape - I Just Wanna Race (Friendships Remix)
Hextape - Yubaba
Hextape - 200 Fast 200 Furious (Corin Remix)
Hextape - Revenge (Gabber Modus Operandi Remix)
Bridget Chappell - Elizabeth Street
Mark Temple - The Sound of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome
Bridget Chappell - Freshwater Falls

https://www.bridgetchappell.com/

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Stu Buchanan talks with Sia Ahmad, one of Canberra's most prolific experimental artists, curators and producers, and relentless advocate for the local independent, DIY and underground music scenes. She discusses her recent body of work including 2018's ground-breaking "quiver"; the 2020 albums im/modesty and A Body Full Of Tears; and the upcoming remix collection Realignment.

Music featured in this episode:

- flaw, featured (Remix by Dijit) - from Realignment
- im/modesty (with Australian Art Orchestra) - from im/modesty
- "mask-ed" - from "quiver"
- double checks against the corner (b) - from A Body Full Of Tears
- team pressure - from A Body Full Of Tears
- blown out / trace out (Remix by Lorraine James) - from Realignment
- deficit - from A Body Full Of Tears

shoebahmad.bandcamp.com

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Jessica at Birth is the solo outsider art project of multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter and performing artist Hanna Jenkin. Fusing vintage tape loops with in-the-box electronic production, Hanna blends spoken word stories with guitar, bass loops and experimental indy-punk percussion.

Music featured in this episode:

- Paperdaisy In The Spring Rain
- To The Teeth
- Waterburds
- Speedway Queen
- Windy Louvre

jessicaatbirth.bandcamp.com

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Having dedicated much of her early career to the electronic duo The Golden Filter, Penelope Trappes released her solo debut Penelope One in 2016 on the Optimo label; a release she described as "percussion-less, reverb-heavy haunting atmospherics with dystopian themes". She signed to Houndstooth for Penelope Two, which mixed field recordings, meditations and guitars with synth drones, piano and layers of reverb.

Earlier this year, she released Gnostic State, a commissioned sound work for Longform Editions, and this month released a new four-track EP, Eel Drip.

Music featured in this episode:

Gnostic State
Maeve
Silence
Burn On (Mogwai Remix)
Eel Drip

https://penelopetrappes.bandcamp.com/

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New Weird Australia on Buy Music Club: https://buymusic.club/list/newweirdaus-new-weird-australia-selects-or-spring-2020

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Laurence Pike is a Sydney-based artist who for the last twenty years has been investigating the worlds of electronic music, jazz and leftfield rock; initially as founder and drummer of Pivot (latterly PVT); through various collaborative projects including Szun Waves and Triosk; and more recently as a solo artist, release three albums in as many years.

Using this new album 'Prophecy' as a backdrop, Laurence reflects on the place and purpose of art amidst apocalyptic events; how underlying shifts in culture and society are impacting on the future of music; and his upcoming collaboration with Angus Andrew as the newest member of Liars.

Music featured in this episode:

- Laurence Pike - Nero (from 'Prophecy')
- Laurence Pike - Ember (from 'Prophecy')
- Laurence Pike - Rapture (from 'Prophecy')
- Szun Waves - Stutter (from 'Three')
- Laurence Pike - Dance Of The Earth (Liars Remix) (Original version from 'Holy Spring')

laurence-pike.squarespace.com

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Sumn Conduit is the duo project of Indigenous Australian improviser and experimental vocalist Sonya Holowell , and modular synthesist and composer Ben Carey. Their debut release 'Track' highlights the unique marriage of their two worlds, and in this episode we embark on a wide-ranging discussion that covers the 'oneness and multiplicity' of their approach; using visual stimuli in improvisation; the meaning and contradictions of 'experimental music'; and Sonya's recent long-form article, 'Decolonising the High Arts'.

https://sumnconduit.com/

Read Sonya's article at https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/opera-summit-decolonising-the-high-arts-part-a

Watch Art Gallery of NSW 'Together in Art' performance https://youtu.be/wuxbHQImksQ

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Party Dozen is the sonic partnering of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet. Loosely based around improvisation, the duo create a mesmerising collision that is wild, weird and well out of the park. Stu Buchanan talks to the duo about creating colour out of chaos and breathing new life into the sax.

Featured in this episode:

- Auto Loser
- Party Dozen
- Scheisse Kunst
- World Prayer
- The Great Ape
- Auto Loser (Mogwai Remix)

https://party-dozen.bandcamp.com/

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All of Amby Downs’ recordings are made with a decolonial intention, and engage with deep listening and deep historical thought to explore that which lies beyond the settler-colonial surface. Her latest album “Cylical” continues the connections first explored in her debut “Kinjarling Studies”, channelling ‘place’ through ambient soundscapes, radio recordings, improvised guitar and manipulated vocals.

Featuring:

– tornderrup kep (time-lapse with boyu)

– terraformed land

– violent cops attacking protesters

– yuwarra-y / dhinagarralawaa (stages of grieving)

– coogal moort wattern (a burial)

ambydowns.bandcamp.com

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