YOU CAN FIND A SPLATTERING OF PHOTOS FROM THE FESTIVAL HERE
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MONDAY OCTOBER 6: COLLABORATING, WORKSHOPPING, and GETTIN WILD WITH Wii
Monday morning started off with pancakes, tongues and a look at some of the production practices of collaborators. These included The Herd deconstructing their tracks, ApSci showing us how they use Wii and vocal programs to create a more interactive live electronic scenario and Matthew Hopkins from Naked on the Vague and Vincent over the Sink showing how he works in an analog space to create the sounds he makes.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 5: WE LOVE LUCKY D
Here’s Luke and Sara from Lucky Dragons kicking off an exploration of games and ritual last night at a workshop held as part of Sound Summit.
Lotsa noises. Lotsa awesome.
Paper, scissors and rockin with Lucky Dragons
SATURDAY OCTOBER 4: HOW’S YOUR HANGOVER?
Hopefully you made it to our brekkie panel with Phil Elverum, Woody McDonald, Chris Hearn and Anna John. That chilled oj certainly helped my head…
The panel looked at building a touring network, or perhaps adopting some of the principles of Ian Mackeye’s network utopia. Call to arms? Maybe. If you’re interested in space, performance and maybe developing a space in your home (NSW) town then come along in an hour to RAISING THE BAR: SPACE, PERFORMANCE AND LEGISLATION IN NSW. We’ll be looking at the changes in legislation, public space and the impact that space has on performance. Maybe we’ll also look at setting up more shows in Albury.
Maybe.
PS here’s our pancake recipe:
* 1 cup flour (whichever kind you prefer)
* 1 tablespoon sugar (I used organic cane sugar)
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup water
* 1 cup soymilk
* 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
* 1 tsp cinnamon
* 1 tsp nutmeg
Mix n’ fry. Douse with lemon juice & sugar/ maple syrup. Eat. Enjoy.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 3: WE’RE ON…
Yesterday TINA officially started. The ginger beer is flowing, the music is loud, and - most importantly - the thoughts are raw and wild. It kicked off all over Newcastle yesterday and officially opened at our brand new festival club, down on the beautiful Honeysuckle drive.
(L-R) Marcus Westbury, Luke Dearnley, Patrick Jones, Fiona Maxwell, Julian Knowles, Lawrence Leung
The opening panel, chaired by comedian Lawrence Leung, dealt with some really interesting ideas centred on Australian cultural communities, and dealt with a lot of the issues raised and not raised at the 2020 summit earlier this year. Ideas on hope, possibility and opprortunity, particularly those attached to public space, funding and concepts of validity surrounding art were all covered, and covered brilliantly. I know we’re only a day in but I reckon it could be a highlight.
If you’re keen to engage with some of these concepts as they relate to licencing in the music industry - not so much in funding but in the opportunities available and afforded to artists and general music peeps, head along to the TPI house today at 2pm as Key representatives from APRA, the PPCA & Creative Commons join artists & industry to discuss the latest on artist copyright, licencing, downloading & legislation. In particular, addressing the impact & implications for local music communities.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 2: BUY TICKETS, SAVE MONEY
We’ve set up presales for the two TINA gigs (the only events you’ll have to pay for throughout the whole This Is Not Art festival program). Buy your tickets in advance and save $10 over both nights with a festival pass.
Plus, download the entire festival program here.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1: Come Meet the Analogue Clan
Electronic music in Australia was defined by Clan Analogue, and the community that formed around this collective has informed how electronic music was conceived and is perceived in a contemporary context. Come join us this Saturday when we talk the intricacies of electronic music more than a decade after the fact - we’ll reflect on where it’s come from by watching this brand new doco (clip below) but we’ll also be pointing our star studded panel towards a discussion on the significance of current electronic music communities, and the idea of electronic music specifically, when most if not all music touches on electronics. Come explore to sonic and sociological obsessions of electronic music with us, and panelists Martin Koszolko, Luke Dearnley, Alex Crowfoot, Cotti (UK), Rhyece O’Neil and Julian Knowles.
Saturday 4th October
Plug In and Switch On (Screening & Discussion):
Electronic music in Australia with a focus on Clan Analogue
TPI House – Auditorium
(Downstairs, The Octapod, corner of 231 King and Auckland Streets)
4.00 - 6.00pm
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1: MI DISCO ES SU DISCO
If you’ve not yet had the pleasure of spending an evening with My Disco then mark tomorrow night in your diary. Quite unlike any other group of people making music in Australia (or, rather, much better than anyone attempting this type of music in Australia), My Disco play with rhythm, sound and energy to create something akin to detailed minimalism. It sounds a little contradictory, huh? I promise we’re not lying.
My Disco - You Came To Me Like A Cancer Lain Dormant Until It Blossomes Like A Rose
See My Disco live, for free, at the Festival Club:
Wheelshop, Honeysuckle Railway Sheds (behind Civic Station)
8.00 - 10.00pm
FREE Entry
My Disco (Melbourne)
Splinter Orchestra
Pascalle and Ghostboy (Brisbane)
Nathan Curnow
Also see Ben Andrews from My Disco and their label, Numerical Thief, talking cottage industries alongside Unkle Ho (Elefant Traks), Nathan McClay (Future Classics / IODA), Adam Kane (Shogun Distribution) with Julian Knowles facilitating. If you’ve ever wondered who to exist in a world of microbusiness then make sure you’re at the TPI House Auditorium (underneath the Octapod) from Midday on Friday as we talk Cottage Industries Presented by AIR POCKET
NB: Ben has replaced Michael Kucyk (Nervous Jerk) on this panel.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29: Righteous, informed and totally bugged out
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29: What’s an APRA?
Dealing in music and not quite sure how APRA (The Australasian Performing Right Association) fits into what you’re doing? These guys exist to represent you in collecting licencing fees for public performance and communication, but it can sometimes be a bit rough keeping tabs on everything you’re meant to know and do for this to work effectively.
Lucky for you APRA are coming to Sound Summit as well, bringing Connect @ APRA to Newcastle THIS Thursday October 2. Held at the Civic Arcade in Hunter St, Newcastle, Connect Meetings are APRA’s way of introducing you to APRA and some of the things you need to know in order to get the most from your APRA membership.
There’ll be light refreshments provided (sweeeeet) but YOU MUST RSVP BY WEDNESDAY.
Help the world make a tiny bit more sense and connect with APRA.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29: Rhythm and Poetry
Sorry for the pause. We’ve been bunkering down and doing all of the exciting festival stuff. Like making sure everyone gets there and gets a bed. Hope you’ve been taking care of yours — accom is quickly filling up.
So we’re only a couple of days away from the fest and in the time in between we want you to ponder: what is Australian hip hop? What does it mean?
Particularly, for a culture built on being heavily underground how does hip hop locally cope & counter against the commercial heavyweights? Including a screening of Rhythm & Poetry, a doco about the Aussie hip hop vernacular, we’ll explore where & how hip hop develops a counter culture against its own clichés.
Here’s a little teaser:
PS did you know Rap stands for rhythm and poetry? Call me a dunce, but I didn’t.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24: Dj Baku
Got a spare hour that you don’t need your mind for? Allow it to be blown, courtesy of Japan’s Dj Baku. He’s made us a mix so we can get waaay excited about his set next week.
You can too - get it here.
Sounds a bit like Krush? Yeah, we think so too. It’s about time turntablism re-entered stepped outta the background and made its way back into the spotlight. See him live next Friday night at the Cambridge alongside Fabby D’s, Naked on the Vague, Mount Eerie, Domenico Scijiano and a billion more.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23: Lucky Dragons
How often is it that you get to participate in a communal music performance? About as often as Lucky Dragons play and you’re in the same town. Members of LA’s experimental art scene Luke Fischbeck and Sara Rara embody psychedelic art with an inquisitiveness towards communal and ritualistic practices. Okay, we could’ve taken a short cut and just left it at psychedelic art, reconfigured for an electronic age.
We’re pretty excited that we’ve scored double Lucky Dragons this Sound Summit. As part of their very first Australian tour they’ll be playing at the TINA gig at the Cambridge on Saturday night (alongside Cotti, Birchville Cat Motel, Curse ov Dialect, Maruosa and more) PLUS they’ll be presenting a workshop on ritual and collaborative participation. The panel (and their work) is based largely on the interaction they develop in a iive context - particularly the Make a Baby project (2005– ) which generates sound based on skin-to-skin contact: via conductive sensors knit into tapestries or handheld tubes and wired to his computer, Fischbeck “meaningfully interprets” frequencies sent through participants’ physical interaction into a series of digital feedback loops.
I was lucky enough to see this at a warehouse in Brooklyn earlier this year and it blew my mind. Amazing loving vibes creating amazing loveable music. Like hippies, but less smelly, less cliched, and more musically relevant. You’d be a fool to miss either performance.
Warning: this clip contains spoooooilers.
Want a piece of the Sumi Ink Club for yourself?
Check out these amazing tour shirts they’ll be packing their bags with.
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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23: Fabulous
Fabulous what? Fabulous Diamonds, that’s what. Having signed to Philly label Siltbreeze internationally, and being recently returned from a tour of the Americas with Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit, these guys are blowing minds on an international scale. 2 years ago we saw them play in a kitchen and were kinda blown away. This was them then.
I once read that they were “alternative electronic indie.” Some have been known to call them “experimental dub.” We like to call them “amazing,” and appropriate synonym for the part-name fabulous.
Here’s something a little more recent. Not heaps recent, so there will be plenty to be caught-up-on when we see them in Newcastle. But less kitchen like, I guess.
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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23: New Business Model
We think Stuart Buchanan from Community Engine and FBi Radio is a brain babe. See him this year on two of our panels - Licence to Ill where he challenges the big guys on the relevance on licencing for djs with passion projects, and his own baby - New Business Models. Want to know how music business is going to evolve? This guy is the oracle.
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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23: I Don’t Give A Dub
Calm Down - Cotti
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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23: Tickets on Sale
Oh yeah, did we tell you? Most of the festival is free. Even the pancakes we’ll make for you. By most we don’t mean all - to come to the TINA gigs on Friday and Saturday night it’s recommended you pick up tickets ahead of time. This recommendation comes mostly because these shows will be awesome and you’ll definitely get to see Mount Eerie, Lucky Dragons, Cotti, DJ Baku, Fabulous Diamonds, Curse Ov Dialect, Birchville Cat Motel, KK Null and plenty more BUT if you pick up a festi pass you also save $10 on the door costs. You know what $10 saving means? $10 extra for you to spend on ginger beer.
Pick up pre-purchase tickets from moshtix. You can pre-purchase tickets to either night, natch, but we recommend picking up tickets to both in the form of a pass for bigger savings and better weekends. See you there?
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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23: Mount Eerie at What The Heck fest
This was filmed at the most excellent What the Heck fest in Anacortes, Washington state, in June of this year. Anyone else excited?
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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22: 10 Days to go
So, we made a festival. Sweet as. The internationals are packing their bags, Newcastle is cleaning its streets and you should be booking your accom. Look into Aunt Jenny’s Tent City if you’ve not yet booked and are low budget or love the nature.
PS Did you see us in the Brag last week? Geez Eliza looked like an idiot, but apart from that how awesome was it? So much info on so much stuff all throughout Newcastle over the festival weekend. Seriously great. Thanks Brag, we kinda love you.
Tune in tomorrow arvo to hear Sound Summit and Electrofringe talk to Kurt Eckardt from 2SER about TINA’s program this year. Keep checking back here to find out more of Sound Summit around town, plus any updates, changes, alterations and additions to this year’s program.
Also Western Synthetics made you this mix to listen to. It’s got heaps of unreleased dubs from he who is Western Synthetics and more. Sweet.
