6/7: PATERAS/FOX @ THE TOFF IN TOWN (W/RAFAEL TORAL), MELBOURNE

16/7: POLETOPRA @ HORSE BAZAAR, MELBOURNE

20/7: PATERAS/BAXTER/BROWN CD LAUNCH @ EMPRESS HOTEL (4PM)

26/7: ELECTRONICS SOLO @ BUS GALLERY, MELBOURNE

31/7: TRIO W/ XAVIER CHARLES & WILL GUTHRIE @ FESTIVAL NPAI, NIORT, FRANCE

1/8: PATERAS/FOX @ FESTIVAL NPAI (w/KTL), NIORT, FRANCE

2/8: PREPARED PIANO SOLO @ FESTIVAL NPAI, NIORT, FRANCE

31/8: PATERAS/FOX @ FCAC, MELBOURNE

2 years after our live disc Gauticle was released, Pateras/Baxter/Brown are proud to be presenting album no.3, released by the good folks at emd.pl records in Poland!!! Check out this deluxe packaging!

Available from June 2nd…PREVIEW LISTEN HERE

We will be hitting the Continent (that is, the other one) in October/November this year…possibly with our good buddies The Necks! Stay tuned for EU tour dates….

Meanwhile you can read an extensive interview with P/B/B here by Piotr Tkacz.

In the next 12 months I will be writing FOUR new pieces in the notated realm. Ouch. Lots of time looking at this thing and less time drinking with Sean.

The winners are:

Vanessa Tomlinson (solo percussion)
Speak Percussion (percussion sextet and 6 channel surround)
The Song Company (vocal sextet & electronics)
Ensemble Integrales (small ensemble)

For those of you who like this aspect of my work, some time later on in the year, chamber album number 3 will be released by the amazingly supportive folks at Tzadik! News to follow….

Fox and I were recently in Estonia for a little shinding called Cabaret Derrida…what does it mean? No idea. What does it have to do with Derrida? We don’t know!!! But we got to wear these ridiculous outfits and we look SHIT HOT. We also ate moose for breakfast and I now have the proud title of the first guy to ever play prepared piano live at a dance party. Challengers?

After that we hit the Moers Festival in Germany and my gear finally worked…we played every morning with fellow Orstraylians Steve Heather, Anthea Caddy, Clare Cooper and Clayton Thomas….

Yes!

Prepared piano finally gets the doom/drone metal treatment.

Bonus track featuring moi on Southern Lord’s vinyl version on Ambarchi’s acclaimed LP from last year…looks so good I’m gonna retire on this shit…

From the Lord:
2LP limited vinyl version includes “Intimidator”, an exclusive LP only side-long composition for electric guitars & prepared piano featuring Aussie maverick Anthony Pateras.Cut by Rashad Becker at Dub Plates & Mastering in Berlin for added low-end depth. Stunning gatefold design by Jon Wozencroft of Touch. Mailorder customers will recieve the limited Blue/Green (Aqua) 180 gram vinyl version of which 500 were pressed. each

Pressing info:
500 Blue/Green (Aqua) 180 gram
1000 Black 180 gram

Weekend of April 12th and 13th, Pateras comes to Sydney to unleash two new projects:

12/4: MAXXIMAL PATTERRORIST @ WHAT IS MUSIC
ALL DETAILS HERE

13/4: POLETOPRA @ THE HOPETOUN HOTEL
ALL DETAILS HERE

If you miss MIBEM already go HERE for sound and HERE for images.

As part of the Yamaha Felt Hammer festival at The Toff in Town, I’ve been invited to present two new projects plus an old favourite….

MAXXIMAL PATTERRORIST: free grind duo with Max Kohane (piano)
THE GOOD DOCTOR: electronics solo (Doepfer A -100)
PATERAS/BAXTER/BROWN: Melbs-style prepared real-time compositon (prepared piano)

The Toff in Town
Level 2, 252 Swanston St
8pm
$15

You can hear what you’re in for here

FRANCIS PLAGNE BIG BAND
POLETOPRA
THE ANCIENTS
CHRISTINA TESTER

FRANCIS PLAGNE BIG BAND
Melbourne based ‘fractured kaleidoscope pop sound artist extraordinaire’ Francis Plagne’s work combines electronics, field recordings, instrumental improvisation and ’sweetly awkward psych-pop’. While his recordings on Synaesthesia, Mistletone and Nervous Jerk are solo affairs, in this performance he will appear alongside Connal Parsley, Joe Talia, Ned Collette, Anthony Pateras, members of Snawklor and others, in a set swinging between the accessible, the awkward and the adventurous. ‘Plagne is a ripping Art Party dude with historical smarts to rival your local library.’—Mark Gomes, Three Thousand ‘Imagine Panda Bear cutting up the songs of Brian Wilson and Olivia Tremor Control and pasting the pieces into colourful musical collages.’—Alex Fregon, Mx

POLETOPRA
Poletopra is visual artist and extreme noise practitioner and enthusiast Marco Fusinato and prepared piano/electronics experimentalist Anthony Pateras. Appearing respectively on electronics + guitar and analogue synthesiser, this promises a set of carefully nuanced brutality (or not).

THE ANCIENTS
The Ancients is the child of Mum Smokes members Jon Mitchell, in which full reign is given to his ability to craft charming and formally experimental pop miniatures, accompanied by full band.
CHRISTINA TESTER
Christina Tester is a young sound artist who explores everyday materials and the human voice. At the Toff she presents a work for highly amplified kitchen materials.

Tue Mar 11 8pm
The Toff Level 2
252 Swanston St
Melbourne
$10

MAXXIMAL PATTERRORIST
Immaculately conceived in the womb of Melbourne’s insanely diverse underground, MAXXIMAL PATERRORIST is a new and uniquely brutal free-grind duo featuring wunderkind Max Kohane (Agents of Abhorrence) and experimentalist Anthony Pateras (Pateras/Baxter/Brown & Pateras/Fox duo)

Combining relentless grind drumming and free jazz brutality, MAXXIMAL PATTERRORIST unleash a rhythmically charged onslaught of superhuman proportions, violently destroying borders between Discordance Axis, Cecil Taylor, Corrupted & Xenakis.

POLETOPRA

UPCOMING SHOWS FEB-APR

The Good Doctor (Pateras electronics solo)
Bar Open, 26th Feburary, 8:30pm
Poletopra (Pateras & Marco Fusinato analogue duo mayhem)
The Toff in Town, 11th March, 8pm
Maxximal Paterrorist (Pateras & Max Kohane) + Pateras/Baxter/Brown
The Toff in Town, 16th March, 8pm
The Good Doctor (Pateras electronics solo)
Horse Bazaar, 9th April, 8:30pm
Maxximal Patterrorist
Carriageworks, Sydney, 12th April, 5pm
Poletopra
The Hopetoun, Sydney, 13th April, 8pm
Maxximal Patterrorist
Iwaki Auditorium, 24th April, 8pm
Prepared piano solo
Northcote Town Hall, 27th April

-Fox and I have been recording a new album based on material that we were performing on our tour last year, plus some new goodies…should be out 2nd half of the year if the label gods permit.

-Pateras/Baxter/Brown have a new album coming out on emd.pl records soon…home to some damn fine artists…

-Hopefully, the Pateras/Abrahams surround DVD will see the light of day in the 12 months…

-AND maybe a new chamber music record….5 years in the making!

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