Justice Yeldham and Empirical - Feb 9th

Monday - Feb 9th
Cross St Studios, 27 Cross St, K Rd
8 pm - $8.00

JUSTICE YELDHAM
What's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is in fact the unique audio work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. By pressing his face and lips against the glass whist employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, he turns disguarded household windows into crude musical instruments. Resulting in a wide variety of cacophonous noises that are strangely controlled and oddly musical.

Justice Yeldham is the latest alter-ego of Australian sound performer Lucas Abela, whose past sonic experiments were conducted under monikers like A Kombi, Dj Smallcock & Peeled Hearts Paste. Initially classed as an experimental turntablist, although his early work rarely resembled anything in the field. Early feats, saw him stab vinyl with Kruger style stylus gloves, bound on electro acoustic trampolines, drag race the popemobile across Sydney Harbour Bridge, perform deaf defying duet duels with amplified samurai swords, hospitalised by high powered turntables constructed from sewing machine motors, record chance John Peel sessions with the Flaming Lips, & be Otomo Yoshihides' favourite entry into his Ground Zero remix competition; 'Consummation' even though instead of sampling the CD he destroyed it using amplified skewers!

He also founded and runs dualpLOVER (recording label, cd/dvd replicators, distributor and promoter of gigs and tours). Principally a live audio artist he’s been performing professionally for the past 14 years, ever since Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim stumbled across his late night radio performances in 1994 and asked him to play their 2nd What is Music? Festival. Since he's toured the world extensively, performing in well over 30 countries.

http://www.dualplover.com/justice.htm

EMPIRICAL AND THE EMPIRICAL SHIM-SAW ORCHESTRA

Marcel Bear and the instruments he creates are collectively known as Empirical. Best known of these are the Shimsaws: 6 instruments of stretched bands of steel and piano wire with pickups that are amplified and played by bowing, rocking, tapping and generally trying to keep them under control. An exciting development of this was the formation of the Empirical Shimsaw Orchestra, where all six instruments were played together. Currently, Empirical are turning screws and tapping threads to reconfigure ye olde tape loop machine into a moving head design, al la Echoplex (where sounds are repeated with a minute difference in timing, down to the phase level). The resulting sound morphs into something evocative of another world.

http://wwwaudiofoundation.org.nz/artist/empirical/130

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