FREE GIG SUNDAY 29 JAN

SOLO PIANO OPENING FOR MONDO CANE @ SYDNEY FESTIVAL, STATE THEATRE: JAN 16/17

First show for the year: opening for Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane, solo piano, State Theatre, 16th & 17th January as part of the Sydney Festival.

Tickets/details available here….

ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY OST TO BE RELEASED ON EDITIONS MEGO – MARCH 6

Very proud to announce the imminent arrival of my first feature film soundtrack on 2LP/CD:

You can pre-order here.

LABEL PRESS:

Errors of the Human Body is a feature film shot at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden. Written and directed by Eron Sheean and Shane Danielsen, and directed by Eron Sheean, it stars Michael Eklund, Karoline Herfurth, Tómas Lemarquis and Rik Mayall, with music by Editions Mego stalwart Anthony Pateras.

In the early 2000s Sheean met Pateras in Melbourne, and they have worked together ever since, Pateras scoring 3 of Sheean’s short films which have all been screened a numerous festivals worldwide. Errors of the Human Body OST is the musical results of their first feature-length collaboration.

Instrumentation includes strings, winds, brass and a broad arsenal of percussion performed by Melbourne’s magnificent Speak Percussion. Pateras’ distinct keyboards and electronics permeate throughout, evoking the film’s key themes of isolation, scientific intrigue, ambiguous ethics and hallucinatory metamorphosis.

This album covers a lot of ground, incorporating elements of alien synthesis, lush textures, odd, layered rhythms and wild production. There is even a club track with tape-delayed string orchestra, contrabassoon and cowbell. No one can decide whether they like it.

Quite possibly being the only record this year incorporating ARP2600 and thumb piano, it features Pateras’ electronic language with contemporary experiments with orchestration, glued together with a determination to test the edges of the film music medium.

2LP version contains liner notes…

AUDIO UPDATE

This was my 2011 in 25 mp3s or less:

JAN: POLETOPRA

Marco and I started the year with one of our best sets:

1/1/11 (i)
1/1/11 (ii)
1/1/11 (iii)

JAN: SPEAK @ MONAFOMA

Speak Percussion started the year by performing an amazing program of percussion ensemble music at MONA FOMA consisting of Xenakis, Varese, Lim, Griswold, Tenney and Grisey. They also commissioned a piece for 12 from me, some of which you can hear here:

Flesh and Ghost

MAY: US/CANADA

PIVIXKI was invited to FIMAV and one the way we stopped off in San Francisco and played trio with Patton, which was devastating. I also did my very first solo quadrophonic electronics show for Lampo at the Graham Foundation:

sllubharpo

The other reason I was in Chicago was to collaborate with Third Coast Percussion and Timothy Munro on my piece for percussion quartet and bass flute that Tim commissioned. I still can’t decide whether its one of the best things I’ve done, or a total failure, so I decided to stop writing dots for the rest of the year and think about it….Tim did an awesome job and gave it a second performance in Brisbane with Clocked Out led by Vanessa Tomlinson:

Lost Compass

JUN-SEP: ERRORS OST

My old friend Eron Sheean finally got his first feature film off the ground entitled Errors of the Human Body, and he asked me to do the music. The soundtrack will be coming out on Editions Mego in 2012 on 2LP! These are the first public samples:

At least I knew…
Humans and Mice
Burton’s Syndrome
XIJ

SEP: PIANO

Literally the day after we finished recording the soundtrack, I went to Western Australia for a week and had a lot of work featured at the Totally Huge New Music Festival. Speak played two of my pieces and I performed a piano solo at the State Theatre Centre:

Perth 1
Perth 2
Perth 3

OCT: PIVIXKI TOUR/ASTRAL COLONELS FINISH LP

PIVIXKI toured Europe with Marco opening. Valerio Tricoli and I have been working on a new record for ages and its finally coming out this year on PAN, which we’re super happy about. We did some shows in London, Koln and Zurich earlier in the year, but the record is one of those painstaking studio outings…the band is called ASTRAL COLONELS, after artist Nanetti’s nickname whose show I saw at the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne and it blew my mind:

Good Times in the End Times (i)
Good Times in the End Times (ii)
Good Times in the End Times (iii)
Good Times in the End Times (iv)

NOV: ARCHITEXURE AT THE MELBOURNE TOWN HALL

The City of Melbourne commissioned me to write a new work for the pipe organ at Melbourne Town Hall. For those of you who don’t know, its the biggest instrument in the southern hemisphere, consisting of around 10,000 pipes, and has a 64′ Gravissima pedal (which is definitely the most insane acoustic bass I have ever heard). I wrote a kind of 45′ schematic, with quadraphonic surround:

Architexture

DEC: KAYFABE

Natasha Anderson and I were asked to play the What is Music Festival at Revolt, featuring some ridiculous amount of speakers (around 140)…so we formed a band called KAYFABE.

Day 1_2
Day 2_1
Day 3
Day 4
Day 4_2

RECENT THYMOLPHTHALEIN LIVE EXCERPTS

A few blasts from our June shows for your listening pleasure…

Soaked George

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Greatest Hits

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Quince

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Jean Psycho

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PATERAS/ANDERSON @ WHAT IS MUSIC – DEC 10

Currently working on a new multi-speaker piece for What is Music this year with Natasha Anderson….

ARCHITEXTURE FOR THE MELBOURNE TOWN HALL GREAT ORGAN & ELECTRONICS – NOV 13

“Throughout this year I have spent a considerable amount of time exploring the possibilities of the Town Hall Great Organ. One of the significant idiosyncrasies of this beast is that depending on which manuals one plays determines where sound comes from – in a way, a very early articulation of modern-day surround sound sample patches in software. This piece is about an intersection between the in-built spatiality of the organ with the surround capabilities achievable in software (in this case, Max/MSP). I have recorded numerous source materials for post-production, derived from extended improvisation sessions throughout the rehearsal process, and then formalised these into an overall formal design. These materials are primarily textural – rippling ostinati thrown around the space, creating pitch architectures that travel through the audience, in some cases fashioned into psychoacoustic environments. ARCHITEXTURE also represents a hybrid of acoustic and electronic sound worlds – the potential for the great organ to meld with electronic timbres is manifold – rather than making a piece for organ AND electronics, I sought to invent an meta-instrument involving those two elements.”

Melbourne Town Hall, NOV 13, 8pm, FREE!

PIVIXKI/MARCO FUSINATO EUROPEAN TOUR 2011

In two weeks, PIVIXKI and Marco Fusinato will be doing 15 dates across France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Slovakia and Austria…dates below.  See you there?

19/10: FR – Poitiers @ Le Confort Moderne

20/10: FR – Le Havre @ PiedNu

21/10: BE – Bruxelles @ Ancienne Belgique

22/10: CH – Lausanne @ Lausanne Underground Film Festival

23/10: FR – Fresnes-en-Woevre @ Festival Densites

24/10: FR – Marseille @ L’Embobineuse

25/10: FR – Lyon @ Ground Zero

26/10: FR – Montreuil @ Les Instants Chavires

27/10: IT – Milano @ Leoncavallo

28/10: IT – Massa @ Tago Mago

29/10: IT – Bologna @ XM24

31/10: CH – Geneva @ L’Usine

02/11: DE – Berlin @ Ausland

03/11: AT – Vienna @ Shelter

04/11: SK – Kosice @ Tabacka

06/11: SK – Bratislava @ Melos-Ethos Festival

PIVIXKI and Marco Fusinato are supported by the Victorian Government through the Victoria Rocks program.

TOUR UPDATE: 2 gigs down due to natural disasters, both human and elemental.

PATERAS WORKING ON FEATURE FILM SOUNDTRACK

Pateras has been asked to write the music for longtime collaborator Eron Sheean’s debut feature as a writer/director, ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY.  The pair first worked together back in 2001-2 on the short film BING, which won the best soundtrack award at the Dresden Film Festival in 2003.  This will be Pateras’ first film music in 5 years, since collaborating with Pia Borg on When Objects Dream.

POLETOPRA IS GO

First Poletopra gig since April…and last before PIVIXKI and Fusinato hit the road in Europa Oct-Nov…great lineup!