POLETOPRA put Pony’s PA out of its misery on Thursday night….not our fault! Apologies to Isomer though who didn’t get to play as a result. Apologies to my dry cleaner who has to get the smell of burning plastic out of my clothes. POLETOPRA have a new show announced for the 22nd of July at Bar Open. Hope to see you there.
Thank you to all who came to the concerts at the Melbourne Recital Centre on the weekend…the concerts were sold out to an enthusiastic and supportive crowd. Stay tuned for future appearances of the program at the Queensland Music Festival and other capital cities in Australia.
For a taste of Pateras percussion music, Ear Massage Percussion Quartet from Mexico recently won the 2nd prize at the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition performing 76755 from his 2nd Tzadik album Chromatophore. Here it is below:
Anthony Pateras: Percussion Portrait
Saturday 13 June at 6pm and Sunday 14 June at 3pm
The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
PROGRAM:
Mutant Theatre Act III, for solo percussion (2008) (world premiere)
Transmutations for percussion sextet (2002)
Hypnagogics for microsounds, crotales and tape (2005)
Refractions for percussion sextet (2008) (world premiere)
Performers: Eugene Ughetti, Peter Neville, Matthias Schack-Arnott,Leah Scholes, Vanessa Tomlinson (Brisbane), Nozomi Omote (Brisbane)
Sextets conducted by Anthony Pateras
ALL DETAILS/TICKETS HERE
Lots of different performance coming up, some highlights including my WA farewell show with Lord RIDD of OCH, Francis Plagne FULL BAND, a rare Poletopra malestrom, the PIVIXKI CD LAUNCH and the Pateras/Fox laser/prepared piano/electronics duo spectacular for the first time ever in South Australia.
13/6: Percussion Portrait @ Melbourne Recital Centre
14/6: Percussion Portrait @ Melbourne Recital Centre
19/6: Pateras/Riddoch Duo @ Eden St Warehouse, Perth
25/6: Poletopra @ Pony, Melbourne
27/6: Francis Plagne Band @ Edinburgh Castle, Melbourne
15/6: Beta Erko @ Stutter, Melbourne
22/6: Poeltopra @ Bar Open, Melbourne
29/7: Lecture @ Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane
29/7: Percussion Portrait @ Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane
6/8: Electronics Solo @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
15/8: PIVIXKI CD LAUNCH @ Empress Hotel, Melbourne
21/8: Pateras/Fox @ The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Due to illness, Cecil Taylor has cancelled his appearance at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival this coming Wednesday 29th April.Â
Pateras/Baxter/Brown will not be performing at MIJF as a result.Â
Stay tuned for Pateras Percussion Portrait coming up at the Melbourne Recital centre June 13/14…
AP has a new post teaching composition at WAAPA in Perth for a semester, but is still managing to fit in some shows…including a very exciting double bill of Pateras/Baxter/Brown supporting Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley at the Melbourne Recital Centre in April….!!
FEB-APR 2009
21/2: Pateras/Malcolm Riddoch duo @ Eden St Warehouse, Perth.
22/2: Pateras/Cat Hope duo @ The Velvet Lounge, Perth.
26/3: Pateras/Resonator play Cage, Wolff, Feldman and Brown @ WAAPA, Perth.
7/4: PIVIXKI & Pateras electronics solo @ Club Zho (Ellington’s), Perth.
29/4: Pateras/Baxter/Brown opening for Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley @ Melbourne Recital Centre.
DeMEGO 006
Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox: End Of Daze CD
 Release Date: 28.12.2008
The first cabs off the Editions Mego rank in 2006, Pateras and Fox return with their third shredding album of Antipodean-blasted bliss that will get even the darkest of doomlords crawling out of their abyss of hatred, and dancing like lunatics.
End of Daze is a bulletproof testament to the Duo’s eight year history in the trenches of live electro-acoustic music – their messy, over-the top contact-miked beginnings now formed into a powerful and futuristic meta-language borrowing from the early electronic masters, bizarre sound poetry, vintage synth festishism, the eternal patch tweak and good old fashioned Melbourne experimentalist brutality, fuelled by a poisonous love affair with sonic invention.
A combination of materials forged live on stage alongside carefully considered studio mayhem, the audio contained on this disc is their finest vein-popping blend of chaos and order to date. Recorded beautifully by longtime engineer James “Wilkinsound†Wilkinson in Melbourne, combined with some sessions from WORM in Rotterdam, End of Daze promises a sonic range as wide as its genesis, complete with angry boy artwork courtesy of Clare Cooper.
Limited to 500 copies!!!
Pateras has contributed some of his trademark prepared piano to The Color of Three, a track on the latest album by Fennesz. Entitled Black Sea, the album is out now on Touch.
New project with Max Kohane of Agents of Abhorrence entitled PIVIXKI will be more active in 2009. Clusters and blastbeats together at last! Have a listen on the new myspace. Currently booking for European Autumn.