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.

AN EVENING WITH ANTHONY PATERAS
THIS SUNDAY 16th @ THE TOFF IN TOWN

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

THE TOFF IN TOWN - TUESDAY 11th MARCH

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

When my last girlfriend dumped me, I joined two bands playing the drums, because she hated drummers. POW! Now having finished my PhD, I’m going through another severe 20s crisis, so I decided to start a couple of new bands to dull the pain…brutal crises call for brutal music!

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!

And yes I gave in to the overwhelming demands of cyberspace…
BE MY FRIEND

Pateras/Baxter/Brown will continue their successful Empress residency every Saturday afternoon in February. This time however, the trio will be joined by some both local and international extra special guests in quartet formation in their 2nd set.

FEB 2nd: P/B/B with Mathieu Wechowski - Violin (FRANCE)

FEB 23rd: P/B/B with Robin Fox - Computer (MELBS)

Where: Empress Hotel, cnr of Nicholson and Scotchmer Streets Nth Fitzroy.
When: 4-6pm every Saturday afternoon in Feburary (2,9,16,23)
Cost: $5/7AUD

Happy new year folks…thanks to all the people who put Chasms on their top records of 2007 list. You rule.

SOOOOO…first Pateras/Baxter/Brown shows in Melbs since September…

This Sunday: Pateras/Baxter/Brown with Xavier Charles (FR)!!!

After our quartet in Nancy earlier this year for Musique Action, Monsieur Charles will be bringing quite possibly the best extended clarinet stylings in the world to Melbs this Sunday for a re-match.

Who: Pateras/Baxter/Brown in quartet with Xavier Charles
Where: Empress Hotel, Cnr of Nicholson and Scotchmer Sts.
When: 4-6pm.
Cost: $5/7AUD

This is a kind of pre-cursor to our February residnecy at the Empress, which will be on SATURDAYS! YES! Every Saturday afternoon in February the trio will be performing with a special guest in quartet, preceded by a straight up trio set:

Sat 2nd Feb: PBB w/ Matthieu Werchowski - violin (FRANCE)
Sat 9th Feb: PBB w/ Scott Tinkler - trumpet (MELBS)
Sat 16th Feb: PBB w/ Kim Myhr - nylon acoustic (NORWAY)
Sat 23rd Feb: PBB w/ Robin Fox - computer (MELBS)

More details to come….

Some stuff on the web about yours truly just suddenly popped up all at once…since I don’t have a manger its my job to point this shit out…yeah that’s right baby, MEDIA BLITZ.

Interview with Matthew Westwood in the Australian

Pateras & Fox go opera for ABC Classic FM- free download kids!

Photos of solo concert in Nantes organised by the good folks at Cable

Video of Chasms in Lisbon by Nino Moita

And on boxing day, when you have a hangover the size of your stomach, tune into RADIO FRANCE and listen to my recent gig at Instants Chavires after eating the MOST KILLER SHEPHARDS PIE I HAVE EVER HAD cooked by the man Phillemon (filling above)….

Pateras on Radio France December 26th!

If you haven’t noticed, there is a new, super convinient audio page on this site that has many lusicous goodies for your ears from all of my projects…so go listen because i spent all day coding the fucker.

Also heaps of new galleries…still working on the links and discography but they will come…

DO NOT FORGET BETA ERKO DECEMBER 16TH AT TOFF IN TOWN!!!!

Thank you to all who came my European shows…champions! Big thanks to all the promoters who care!

Something special for you folks…BETA ERKO LIVE IN MELBOURNE!!! Yes some people actually think this is the best hip-hop band in the world. Fried electronics, spitfire delievery, sonic alchemy, ridiculous stupidity.

We only play once a year, and this year its on home turf at Maximum Arousal at The Toff in Town. The good Dr. Ng is taking time out from creating human flesh from scratch, the Fox is ceasing to fry people’s eyeballs and the Vulk has risen again for ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Where: Maximum Arousal @ Toff in Town, Curtin House, Swanston Street, Melbs.
When: Sunday 16th December 7:30pm.
Who: Beta Erko, Agents of Abhorrence, and Royskopp!@!!
Damage: $10

Soul in the Back of The Net

After the ACO premiere, Pateras will be heading directly to Europe to perform his solo prepared piano set entitled CHASMS, just released on Sirr-Ecords.

TOUR DATES

Oct 21st - DE: Berlin: Ballhaus Naunystrasse (w/ The Necks)
Oct 23rd - SI: Ljubljana: Kinodvor
Oct 29th - CH: Geneva: L’Usine (w/ The Necks)
Oct 30th - CH: Zurich: talk at ZHDK
Oct 31st - CH: Zurich: WIM
Nov 2nd - PT: Lisbon - Fabrica Braço de Prata
Nov 4th - PT: Porto: Passos Manuel
Nov 6th - PL: Jaslo: JDK
Nov 9th - PL: Warsaw - Ad Libitum (duo with Thomas Lehn)
Nov 11th - UK: London: ICA (quartet with Carniero/Holterbach/Kirschner)
Nov 13th - FR: Nantes: APO33
Nov 15th - FR: Paris: Instants Chavires