“A Bunch of Twos”
Camilla Hannan and Eamon Sprod
30 Sept → 21 Oct 2011

A Bunch of Twos is a Today Your Love Project and a series of four evening performances curated by Eamon Sprod and Camilla Hannan featuring local sound and visual artists working in duos.

Friday 30 September: Sean Baxter (drumkit and percussive detritus) and Joe Musgrove (audio-visual processing).
For the first time, Melbourne experimental musician Sean Baxter and Brisbane A/V artist, Joe Musgrove collaborate in a project which incorporates real-time processing of sound and vision, focussing on feedback loops between analogue video and audio.

Sean Baxter (drumkit and percussion) is an Australian improviser who has forged an international reputation as a bold explorer of percussive possibilities both as a soloist, collaborator, and through his work with the acclaimed avant garde trio, Pateras/Baxter/Brown. Focusing on the use of extended techniques applied to the conventional drumkit, he utilises an arsenal of metallic junk and other percussive detritus to expand the sonic palette of the percussion tradition. His performance aesthetic evokes a variety of sonic practices, ranging from extreme metal and punishing noise to free jazz and the Modernist abstraction of the classical avant garde. http://www.myspace.com/seanbaxterimprov

Joe Musgrove is a video artist and electroacoustic composer based in Brisbane. His work combines the fractured sonic detail of musique concrete with abstract, analogue video processing. Internationally renowned for his work with improvising A/V duo, Botborg, a group that fuses and rewires raw electronic signals to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-colour synaesthesia. Using a complex array of custom electronics, Botborg create totally live multi-sensory assaults of interdependent colour and rhythm, pushing the limits of technology to invoke the maximum possible stimulation of their audience’s mind and body.

Friday 7 October: Chronox (Lachlan Conn and Michael Prior).
Chronox create hypnotic, playful environments using slowly evolving layers of rhythm, motion, shape and colour.
www.thothpress.org/chronox

Friday October 14th: Elementary – Anthony Magen/John Jacobs
This work is the latest in a series of audio visual collaborations by Melbourne artists Anthony Magen and John Jacobs, in which they will be playing with elemental transubstantiation, persistence of vision and the fungibility of vibration.

Anthony Magen is a sound artist, landscape architect and the president of Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

John Jacobs is a media designer, electronic poet and produces Radio National’s listening for pleasure program, The Night Air.

Friday 21 October: Double Trouble – Zoe Scoglio, Camilla Hannan, Cait Foran and Eamon Sprod.
Camilla Hannan and Eamon Sprod have combined their love for the wild environs and rough surfaces with a number of collaborations over the last few years. This has included installations in shopping malls, getting lost in dark gorges, and performances in Darwin emo clubs. They’ve made it out alive to combine forces in a special one off event with sci-phonic ritualist Cait Foran and transformative explorer Zoe Scoglio.

Camilla Hannan and Eamon Sprod have been working in the area of sound installation over the last decade. They have worked together on a number of projects and co-curated a number of events including some for the Liquid Architecture Sound Art Festival, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and the Tomorrow The World Festival, West Space, Melbourne.