TIME MACHINE Video Hits
Three musicians and three video artists deconstruct the primary artefact of popular music: the music video.
+ Marcus Whale
+ Oscar Slorach-Thorn
+ Marco Cher-Gibard
+ Jonathon Watts
+ Micheal Salerno
+ Scott Morrison
Date: 28.07.12
Time: 6.30-9pm
Location: 10-14 Kensington St, Chippendale
Free
MARCUS WHALE is a Sydney composer and musician. Under the name Scissor Lock, he has produced music using his voice and lo-fi electronics densely reconfigured by laptop processing with releases on New Weird Australia’s New Editions label, HellosQuare recordings, Sound&Fury and others. He has performed at events including Sydney Festival (2012), the Now Now Festival (2011) and Electrofringe (2010) and his compositions for chamber ensembles have been performed by Synergy Percussion, Ensemble Offspring and Chronology Arts among others. He is also a member of mashed R&B party duo Collarbones with Adelaide’s Travis Cook, releasing a full-length album, “Iconography” which was nominated for AIR and SMAC awards.
OSCAR SLORACH-THORN is a Melbourne-based artist using digital and analogue means to process sourced sounds and a variety of instruments played with a sense of the grander arrangement. His tape laden textures create rumbling atmospheres of an ethereal nature – the use of tape loops gives a mechanical yet cyclic impression. His first album was released on Albert’s Basement in 2009. Elsewhere, Oscar is known for his pop group Oscar + Martin and solo project Oscar Key Sung.
MARCO CHER-GIBBARD is a Melbourne-based sound and video artist who works with and designs software for performance, composition and installation. His current work focuses on popular culture and uses sampling techniques to explore the beautiful and the brutal. Marco has performed internationally and nationally at events including the Hand Made Music Festival (2011); Rainbow Serpent Festival (2011); and the Now Now Series (2011). Marco’s installations have been shown at galleries including: Gertrude Contemporary (2010) and the RMIT School of Art Gallery (2010). Marco has designed and collaborated on software with Robin Fox (Giant Theremin), Chunky Move (It Sounds Silly) and Force Majeure (Not In a Million Years).
JONATHON WATTS is an improvisor, musician, sound artist and technician based in Sydney, originally from the South coast town of Bulli. He has spent the past years of his life playing, collaborating and working with artists from all over the world, including: Rishin Sign, Sam Pettergrew, Will Gruthrie, Ben Byrne, Jonathon Jones, Jim Denily, Monica Brooks and Dale Gorfinkel.
MICHAEL SALERNO (aka Aspen Michael Taylor) is an artist and filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia. He now lives and works in Paris, France. He also founded Kiddiepunk in 2001; an independent label & publisher releasing limited edition publications and records, as well as serving as a film production company.
SCOTT MORRISON is a Sydney based audio-visual artist. His screen based works have been exhibited and screened extensively throughout Australia and abroad. His primary interest lies in the musicality of the image, the drama of natural occurence and how this can be re-imagined as new experience. Scott recently released Ballad(s) for Quiet Horizons through seminal label Room 40.
Image Credit: Oscar Slorach-Thorn