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Film and music rarely coincide like this: UNDIVIDED gives local musicians a platform to create unique cinematic scores to the work of Melbourne filmmakers, visual artists and animators.
It sets the task for an eclectic range of featured performers – sound artists, bands, singer/songwriter, classical soloist/group, score composers – to demonstrate their abilities to explore, disregard, or intensify the media-relationship between sight and sound.
Musicians are followed during the creative process, and documentary shorts of this will screen throughout the evening. Performers will be playing from their own back catalogue, as well as presenting their individual music scores live on the night.
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PAST
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
Undivided - Launch Night - Presented by PBS
with special guests:
QUA +
Geoffrey O'Connor (Sly Hats) +
Philip Brophy.
+ featuring a short film by Sarah Tamara Kaur.
QUA
Cornel Wilczek, otherwise known as Qua, enjoys nothing more than making electronic music. His debut album "Forgetabout' was released in 2002, on Surgery records. When he dropped Forgetabout on an unsuspecting public, the response was near rapturous acclaim.
Fast forward to the late 2008 and Qua is back with 2 new offerings. Sitting between the improvised/experimental and pop worlds has defined much of Qua's unique sounds. Qua separated into 2 projects: "Silver Red", on Someone Good Records, is an improvised live recording with Drummer Laurence Pike. It continues the process based electro-acoustic work that was developed from 2004-2007. "Q & A" is a pure beat based, electronic, danceable, ecstatic frenzy on Mush Records. Joining Cornel on the stage in these crazy adventures is Bongo Legs on percussion.
Foreget about folktronica, kiddietronica, or even pigeonholetronica as Qua is operating in his own league. In fact some aspects of it don't even sound all that electronic, drawing upon elements of world music, folk, and even rock in this incredible fusion. Qua's work uses field recordings as much as guitar, homemade, noisy software as much as the sound of delicate acoustic instruments, rich spatial environments as much as the digital frenzy of an array of sound-plugins.
http://www.quamusic.com
GEOFFREY O'CONNOR (SLY HATS)
Formerly known as "Sly Hats" (but now working under his own name), Geoffrey O'Connor writes ornate, wistful pop songs that are finely decorated with an array of swampy guitars, wood blocks and cosmic synthesizers. He is currently finishing a follow up to his debut album "Liquorice Night" (released in 2007 under the moniker "Sly Hats").
He has been lucky enough to play alongisde such acts as: Little Wings (US), Calvin Johnson (US), Jens Lekman (Swe), Mt Eerie (US), Kath Bloom (US), Camera Obscura (SCO) The Brunettes (NZ), Micah P. Hinson (US), New Buffalo and Dear Nora (US). GOC has performed in America, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, England and Germany.
http://www.myspace.com/slyhatsmusic
PHILIP BROPHY
Melbourne-based artist Philip Brophy is known as a musician, composer, sound designer, filmmaker, writer, graphic designer, educator and academic. He has directed and produced countless films, and has performed at Liquid Architecture. In 1977, Brophy formed the experimental group → ↑ → (pronounced tsk tsk tsk), and over ten years the band produced experimental music, videos, films, and live theatrical performances.
As a writer and speaker on film, music and sound, Brophy is widely published internationally. He has also contributed numerous art essays and articles for journals and catalogues, and edited books to accompany major exhibitions held at the MCA, Sydney and the NGV, Melbourne.
http://www.philipbrophy.com
GET INVOLVED
FILMMAKERS/VIDEOGRAPHERS/ANIMATORS
If you would like your film/visual to be considered to feature at Undivided, please submit it by email to info@undivided.com with a video link.
Your film can be anything your heart desires - one extended scene, include dialogue or not, be animated, be fictional or fact, have no story, have several stories, include everything or nothing - its only requirement is that there is no music and it must be between 3 - 5 minutes long.
MUSICIANS
If you would like to compose for and play at Undivided, please email info@undivided.com with the following:
• short bio
• myspace or music player link