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reworking the website, renewing plans to use it better…

This is a summary of the paper I (Zita) presented this morning at the Spectropia conference in Riga.

This paper is an archaeological excavation of this thing we call the radio spectrum, it’s a history of how the radio spectrum came to be discovered, articulated, and ultimately invented as an apparatus of power. This is an argument against treating the radio spectrum as a thing, a pregiven, natural, material object.

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So it’s time we got around to actually using this as a blog and not just an occasional gig listing… starting now, at the Spectropia festival hosted by RIXC in Riga…

Zita

Perhaps a cheerfully unwitting paean to the celebratory chaos we see flying out of Swedish record label Release the Bats right now (NO MOSH! NOCORE! NOFUN!), THIS Thursday Night at the Heritage Chapel of the Music Centre of Christchurch (140a Barbadoes Street) promises – albeit slyly – to host and deliver the type of sun-kissed nocturnal pandemonium that could only come out of such a celestially Gothic clime. Stepping right up to the sonic countenance of BLACK PHOTOSYNTHESIS itself, only to turn its closed eyes back into the coloratura rays of the HAPPY ORANGE will be a peripatetic swarm of music-makers and un-makers alike –

Sam Hamilton [Ak]

Richard Neave/Nick Harte [ChCh]

Dirtroom [Dun]

Adam Willetts [ChCh]

Silent Spring [Ak/ChCh]

Thursday 2nd October.

Music Centre of Christchurch Heritage Chapel, 140a Barbadoes Street.

9pm.

$5.

zita is really promising to update and maintain this blog…

Come to the Wine Cellar on Thursday 13 September for a night of DIY
electronics and digital noise featuring a rare line-up of some of
Auckland’s most awesome noise nerds:

Avanc
- heaviness is inevitable as Adam Willetts summons an immense
trans-dimensional leviathan from a fathomless ocean of electrosmog

Nights
- a long overdue dose of sine tone acupuncture and static trepanation
from Richard Francis and Clint Watkins

s.c. cumuna
- experience worlds unknown as Simon Cuming pilots his homemade
spaceship beyond the darkest corners of the universe

$5
9pm
Thursday 13 September
Wine Cellar
Auckland

A lovely sounding gig at the Wine Cellar this friday:

Tim Coster and Nigel Wright (computer computer)
Adam Willetts (negative computer)
isyd (14 minutes of….)
the Absolutionists (performing rites of vibration band)

8:30pm
$5, less for AF list members

something strange is up with the Sql server behind Tales from the Ether… we’re trying to figure it out, but that site might be down for a while…

Adam is playing this weekend at “s3d (ear & eye)”
organised by Phil Dadson as part of the Auckland Festival AK07:

“Seven charismatic innovators in the field of experimental musical instrument building and performance come to Auckland to join with 5 local practitioners for three intense days of public workshops and performances, where acoustical, physical, electronic and virtual worlds come together in a unique chemistry.

Akio Suzuki (Japan); Bart Hopkin, Yek koo (HelgaFassonaki), Tom Nunn (USA); Walter Kitundu (Tanzania/US); Graeme Leak, Ernie Althoff (Australia); with Marcel Bear, Sam Morrison, James McCarthy, Adam Willetts & Phil Dadson (NewZealand).”

More details on the festival website.

Sat 17 & Sun 18 March, 2pm & 7pm Mon 19 March, 7pm at Galatos Theatre, Auckland.

Each performance will feature a range of s3d artists as soloists and collaborators, and the line-up for each show will be finalised on friday.