Out From Under

In episode 125, Divide and Dissolve get remixed in an excellent companion package to their 2020 record 'Gas Lit'; traditional Southeast Asian instrumentation meets dark metal courtesy of Rinuwat; and we listen to debut releases from electronic experimentalist Jannah Quill and Sydney percussionist ilex.There's also dark, experimental synth wave from Melbourne duo Vacuum; Aphir gets exploratory in an improvised series of choral works; and Canberra artist Sebastian Field parks songwriting for experimentation on his new album 'Sandcastles'.Plus we take tracks from new albums by Low Life and My Disco; and Various Asses drops an unheard remix of Sarah Mary Chadwick's 'I Won't Say Goodbye'.  Featured in this episode:Divide and Dissolve - Denial (BEARCAT Remix) (from Gas Lit - 3 Part Remix)Vacuum - I'll Call You (from Vacuum)My Disco - Irreversible (from Alter Schwede)Rinuwat - Sewu (from Dua Naga)Low Life - Moments (from From Squats To Lots: The Agony And XTC Of Low Life)Sarah Mary Chadwick - I Won't Say Goodbye (Various Asses SIS Remix) (from I Won't Say Goodbye)ilex - Morning Bells (from Visions of Elsewhere)Aphir - Jelly Gun (from Plastichoir)Sebastian Field - Ceres (from Sandcastles)Jannah Quill - View of Granite (from Jannah Quill)Cover image: Divide and Dissolve

In episode 124, we take in a preview of the new EP from Brisbane electronic experimentalist Makeda; as well as the debut release from Canberra's E Fishpool and the new album from Sydney's unclassifiable quartet Tangents. We expand our genre expertise by delving into psychedelic dark wave from Ov Pain, vaporised stretched electronica from Planktan Sanquin (battling the demos of King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard) and molecular gamelan from Astasie-Abasie. We also hear two cuts from the Flash Forward project out of Melbourne, featuring releases from Female Wizard and Mindy Meng Wang; and two different tales from the world of modular, featuring Robin Fox and the various artists from Modular Theme Time Sessions.Featured in this episode:Tangents - Survival (from Timeslips & Chimeras)E Fishpool - Under Flecked Light (Emily) (from E Fishpool)Makeda - Professors, Lovers, Critics (from Venus Leak)Ov Pain - Daytripping (from The Churning Blue of Noon)King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard x Planktan Sanquin - Tezeta (Pumpking Seedle Eloping Mix) (from Music To Eat Bananas II)Robin Fox - Quarantine Variation II (from Waking Fever Dream)Female Wizard - Post Post (from TIE-EE-YIE-EEYIE-EE-YIME)Mindy Meng Wang - Activation 异变 (from Phoenix Rising)Modular Theme Time Sessions - MTTSS#005 Blue (from Sharewave Session #005 - Three Module Challenge)Astasie-abasie - Expulsion (from Molecular Gamelan)Cover Image: Makeda

In episode 123, we hear an exclusive premiere of a new track from Marcus Whale's upcoming third solo album; Shoeb Ahmad collaborates with Angus Andrew from Liars on a remix of their new single; and Melbourne's Jake Blood drops dark, moody electronics on his new release, Prix. We hear from MXMARS, blending experimental pop with power ambient; as well as two cuts from the Sydney netabel e-quarium from DBR and User754492117; and new outsider electronics from Subclavia. We also take a quiet and somewhat lo-fi detour with both Leighton Craig and HTRK; and check out new work from both Mookoid and Digital Penetration.Featured in this episode:Shoeb Ahmad - Skating On The Way (Liars Remix) (from Skating On The Way)Jake Blood - Apartment (from Prix)MXMARS - Regen (from Can't Take Me Off The Earth)Marcus Whale - Raining Blood (from The Hunger)DBR - Simple Reaktionz (from e-quarium)User754492117 - Tyrells Anode Pill (from e-quarium)Leighton Craig - Diamond Eye (from Diamond Eye)HTRK - Kiss Kiss and Rhinestones (from Rhinestones)Subclavia - Walkers Of Flesh (from Cold and Flu Meditation)Mookoid - Sentinel At Dawn (from Jungle Temple)Digital Penetration - Superimpose (from Strata)Cover Image: Marcus Whale

In this episode, NWAP 122, we listen to ritual electronics from Melbourne artist Sandpit Alias; as well as new solo work from PVT's Richard Pike. Sydney saxophonist Jorja Chalmers unites with David Lynch collaborator Dean Hurley on her new album; and we hear new work recorded in Korea from interdisciplinary artist Melanie Eden.  We also check out the new release from Little Songs Of The Mutilated collective, featuring Nat Grant and Michelle Nguyen; as well as the first album from visual-art duo Snawklor in over a decade; and a piece taken from the new retrospective collection by Adelaide's Panoptique Electrical.  And to round out the episode, a preview of the new album from Megan Alice Clune on Room 40 and the latest ‘decolonial ambient' work from Amby Downs.Featured in this episode:Sandpit Alias - Gawl Mountain (from Spinal Data)Richard Pike - Goodbye, Good Luck / Xerust (from How To Breathe)Jorja Chalmers - Underwater Blood (from Midnight Train)Melanie Eden - Dreaming (from 공 空)Nat Grant - Slow Motion Storm Roll (from A Tightfisted Molten Sellout)Michelle Nguyen - Baby Fog (from A Tightfisted Molten Sellout)Snawklor - Language Laid Bare (from Perfumed Ground)Panoptique Electrical - Never Sleep Again (from Decades 2001-2021)Megan Alice Clune - The Swirl of the Void (from If You Do)Amby Downs - Quietly Quietly Catchee Monkey (GUK) (from Liminal)Cover Image: Michelle Nguyen

The New Weird Australia radio-not-radio show returns in its original form, for the first time since 2012, with sixty minutes of new mutant music from the upside down, presented by Stu Buchanan.In this first episode of the rebooted show, we hear the new single from agitprop synth-punk duo Laughing Gear; plus two cuts from a new compilation from Oxtail Recordings from Loose-y Crunché and OVRSCN; experimental jungle meets dark and delirious storytelling courtesy of Jobfit; and Altered States Tapes gives us something old and something new with releases from Carnage and Low Flung.We also listen to a wild brand of apocalyptic art-music from Melbourne's Omega Point; beautiful broken piano and dismembered electronics from London based ex-pat Laila Sakini; a cut from the new album from violinist and vocalist Happy Axe; and we take a journey into alt-pysch and freak-disco on the debut release from Glass Beams.Featured in this episodeLaughing Gear - New Estate (from Freak Lemons)Loose-y Crunché - It's Got a Groove (Industrial Murk) (from Undercurrents)OVRSCN - Chromium (from Undercurrents)jobfit - Strike Pneumatic Tension (from Longer Form Cat Calls)Carnage - Lung Cancer (from Untitled)Low Flung - Stub (from Reflections From The Campsie Centre For Electronic Music Research)The Omega Point - High Rise (from High Rise)Laila Sakini - Into The Traffic (from Into the Traffic, Under the Moonlight (Vinyl Edition))Happy Axe - The One That Remembers (from Maybe It'll Be Beautiful)Glass Beams - Mirage (from Mirage EP)Published on 24 July 2021

Stu Buchanan talks with artist Bridget Chappell - raver, musician, writer and organiser - who makes frenetic and febrile electronic music as Hextape, and has been organising parties in drains, observatories, and other fascinating locations for many years. In 2020, they released their debut album under their own name titled Undertow, which blends sonified data from the City of Melbourne's Open Data Platform with Melbourne's public sound sculpture, the Federation Bells.Brought up in Canberra, now resident in Melbourne; Bridget has a diverse practice that also encompasses writing, teaching and curating, as well as sound art for installations and performances; most recently for their first solo exhibition No Comment, which investigated the science of phase cancellation and its potential role as an act of sonic resistance.Music featured in this episode:Hextape - I Just Wanna Race (Friendships Remix)Hextape - YubabaHextape - 200 Fast 200 Furious (Corin Remix)Hextape - Revenge (Gabber Modus Operandi Remix)Bridget Chappell - Elizabeth StreetMark Temple - The Sound of the SARS-CoV-2 GenomeBridget Chappell - Freshwater Fallshttps://www.bridgetchappell.com/ 

Stu Buchanan talks with Sia Ahmad, one of Canberra's most prolific experimental artists, curators and producers, and relentless advocate for the local independent, DIY and underground music scenes. She discusses her recent body of work including 2018's ground-breaking "quiver"; the 2020 albums im/modesty and A Body Full Of Tears; and the upcoming remix collection Realignment.Music featured in this episode:- flaw, featured (Remix by Dijit) - from Realignment- im/modesty (with Australian Art Orchestra) - from im/modesty- "mask-ed" - from "quiver"- double checks against the corner (b) - from A Body Full Of Tears- team pressure - from A Body Full Of Tears- blown out / trace out (Remix by Lorraine James) - from Realignment- deficit - from A Body Full Of Tearsshoebahmad.bandcamp.com

Jessica at Birth is the solo outsider art project of multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter and performing artist Hanna Jenkin. Fusing vintage tape loops with in-the-box electronic production, Hanna blends spoken word stories with guitar, bass loops and experimental indy-punk percussion. Music featured in this episode:- Paperdaisy In The Spring Rain- To The Teeth- Waterburds- Speedway Queen- Windy Louvrejessicaatbirth.bandcamp.com

Having dedicated much of her early career to the electronic duo The Golden Filter, Penelope Trappes released her solo debut Penelope One in 2016 on the Optimo label; a release she described as "percussion-less, reverb-heavy haunting atmospherics with dystopian themes". She signed to Houndstooth for Penelope Two, which mixed field recordings, meditations and guitars with synth drones, piano and layers of reverb.Earlier this year, she released Gnostic State, a commissioned sound work for Longform Editions, and this month released a new four-track EP, Eel Drip.Music featured in this episode:Gnostic StateMaeveSilenceBurn On (Mogwai Remix)Eel Driphttps://penelopetrappes.bandcamp.com/--New Weird Australia on Buy Music Club: https://buymusic.club/list/newweirdaus-new-weird-australia-selects-or-spring-2020

Laurence Pike is a Sydney-based artist who for the last twenty years has been investigating the worlds of electronic music, jazz and leftfield rock; initially as founder and drummer of Pivot (latterly PVT); through various collaborative projects including Szun Waves and Triosk; and more recently as a solo artist, release three albums in as many years.  Using this new album 'Prophecy' as a backdrop, Laurence reflects on the place and purpose of art amidst apocalyptic events; how underlying shifts in culture and society are impacting on the future of music; and his upcoming collaboration with Angus Andrew as the newest member of Liars.Music featured in this episode:- Laurence Pike - Nero (from 'Prophecy')- Laurence Pike - Ember (from 'Prophecy')- Laurence Pike - Rapture (from 'Prophecy')- Szun Waves - Stutter (from 'Three')- Laurence Pike - Dance Of The Earth (Liars Remix) (Original version from 'Holy Spring')laurence-pike.squarespace.com

Sumn Conduit is the duo project of Indigenous Australian improviser and experimental vocalist Sonya Holowell , and modular synthesist and composer Ben Carey.  Their debut release 'Track' highlights the unique marriage of their two worlds, and in this episode we embark on a wide-ranging discussion that covers the 'oneness and multiplicity' of their approach; using visual stimuli in improvisation; the meaning and contradictions of 'experimental music'; and Sonya's recent long-form article, 'Decolonising the High Arts'.https://sumnconduit.com/Read Sonya's article at https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/opera-summit-decolonising-the-high-arts-part-aWatch Art Gallery of NSW 'Together in Art' performance https://youtu.be/wuxbHQImksQ 

Party Dozen is the sonic partnering of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet. Loosely based around improvisation, the duo create a mesmerising collision that is wild, weird and well out of the park. Stu Buchanan talks to the duo about creating colour out of chaos and breathing new life into the sax.Featured in this episode:- Auto Loser- Party Dozen- Scheisse Kunst- World Prayer- The Great Ape- Auto Loser (Mogwai Remix)https://party-dozen.bandcamp.com/

All of Amby Downs’ recordings are made with a decolonial intention, and engage with deep listening and deep historical thought to explore that which lies beyond the settler-colonial surface. Her latest album “Cylical” continues the connections first explored in her debut “Kinjarling Studies”, channelling ‘place’ through ambient soundscapes, radio recordings, improvised guitar and manipulated vocals.Featuring:– tornderrup kep (time-lapse with boyu)– terraformed land– violent cops attacking protesters– yuwarra-y / dhinagarralawaa (stages of grieving)– coogal moort wattern (a burial)ambydowns.bandcamp.com

Reuben Ingall is a prolific artist, musician and maker of mischief and supports the experimental music scene in his home town of Canberra through both a long-running radio show and monthly gig series.  His latest project is ‘NIMBY2’, a second collection of recordings made with no-input mixing board, and swiftly follows on from ‘Tuft’, an album of layers and loops and lo-fi acoustic instruments.In this episode, Stu Buchanan talks to Reuben about both projects, as well as his recent adventures in sound recording and his twin passions of (very) slow music and the 1996 Hollywood blockbuster ‘Independence Day’.Featured in this episode:13 (from ‘NIMBY2’)Hyperdillic (from ‘Tuft’)Ladies Market (from ‘Hongymoon’)Forever Young (from ‘A Slowed Remix Something’)5 (from ‘NIMBY2’)www.reubeningall.com

Perth artist Amber Fresh has been making music as Rabbit Island for over ten years, blending simple songs with experimental, improvised and lo-fi approaches to production and sound design.Her latest record 'Songs For Kids' is a re-release of songs recorded direct to tape by Amber in a kitchen in Melbourne in 2013.In this first episode of a new run of New Weird Australia podcasts, Stu Buchanan talks to Amber about the story behind the record, listening to lullabies in Kalgoorlie and mixing the magical with the meticulous.Featured in this episode:- There Was A Kid On A BMX (from 'Songs For Kids')- In The Forest, Far Away (from 'Songs For Kids')- Some Days Are Harder Days (from 'Songs For Kids')- My Own Private (from 'O God, Come Quick')- The Gold Hall Beckons (from 'Deep In The Big')https://rabbitislandband.bandcamp.com/ 

Stu Buchanan talks with Cooper Bowman - musician and artist, and founder of the Australian cassette label Altered States Tapes. The label, which recently celebrated its 100th release, features music that sits across punk, industrial, experimental, electronic and noise, with a roster that spans both Australian and international artists.Cooper talks about making music and making tapes, and pulls out a selection of tracks from the label’s past, present and future - including a number of unreleased exclusives from LST, Sleep D, Yuta Matsumura (Orion), Orinokoflo and Newcastle’s Grotesque Circular Dance, as well as a number of Cooper’s solo projects.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Taking a radical detour from her early work with Sydney bands Songs and Bushwalking, Ela’ Stiles’ remarkable debut self-titled album mixed acappella folk, drones and tape loops, and she has subsequently layered dark synths, harmonium and drum machines into the mix. With two new albums due to be released soon - each representing dissimilar aspects of her work - we check out a selection of tracks from Ela's back catalogue, and listen to exclusive previews of new material.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra. 

Stu Buchanan talks with Andrew Khedoori, the founder of the Sydney based project, Longform Editions. Described as a “collective for deep listening”, the project surfaces prolonged exploratory and immersive pieces, each guiding us towards a re-evaluation of the ways in which we listen to music.We’ll hear music from a number of Australian artists in the collective, such as Kate Carr, Felicity Mangan, Paul Mac and Andy Rantzen, and listen to a Longform Editions commission in its entirety - a composition from Sydney artist and musician, Del Lumanta, performing as Steam Vent.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Stu Buchanan talks with Sydney quintet Tangents, a band that collide between genres and forms, taking cues from electronic production, post rock, jazz and free improvisation and more. We’ll hear from cellist Peter Hollo and electronic producer Ollie Brown and spool through cuts from the Tangents catalogue.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

We explore decades-old Australian music, made available for a new generation of listeners via the unique archival label, Efficient Space. We talk with label founder Michael Kucyk and listen to a selection of off-kilter Australian music from the archives, exclusively curated by Michael.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

We meet Melbourne musician and composer Carolyn Schofield, aka electronic artist Fia Fiell. We’ll be listening to tracks from her two albums on the Nice Music label, and sharing an exclusive selection of rare and unreleased music.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.   

In the second episode of a two-part Out From Under special, Stu Buchanan talks to Mitchell Jones; founding member of both seminal Australian experimental band Scattered Order and the early 80s record label M-Squared which balanced the prevailing sounds of post-punk with lo-fi punk electronics and experimental explorations from a close knit community of artists.We hear from M-Squared artists Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast, Systematics and Ya Ya Choral, along with Prod, A Cloakroom Assembly and Solipsik, the offshoot of renowned Australian industrial group SPK. We also pick up the Scattered Order story following the demise of M-Squared in 1984, and hear about their journey through the 80s and 90s, heading to an unexpected reformation seven years ago.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra. 

Whilst the legacies of post-punk, DIY electronics and proto industrial are widely known and documented in the UK and US scenes, their impact in an Australian context is less widely recognised. Bonding over the discovery of Cabaret Voltaire imports in Sydney record stores, Scattered Order formed in 1979 and gorged on a wide range of inputs to create a sound and visual aesthetic that was unique in Australia at the time. Together they also formed the label M Squared and fostered an impressive roster of bands such as Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast, Systematics and Ya Ya Choral.In Part I of a two-part interview, Stu Buchanan talks to Scattered Order’s Mitchell Jones about the early years of the band and the formation and impact of the M-Squared label throughout the late Seventies and early Eighties.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Brett Thompson has been the guiding force in the Australian band Rand & Holland for nearly fifteen years, but it's been a tumultuous and often torturous ride. Widespread love for their lo-fi folk debut led to a polished pop follow up that furthered their critical acclaim whilst also setting in place a chain of events that led to the band conducing an artistic volte-face. They recorded a dark, intense and experimental third album, polarising audiences at a short series of live shows before abruptly breaking up.Four years later, in 2015, the fabled album posthumously saw the light of day, and in this episode, Brett Thompson gives a rare interview, explaining the background to the album and the breakup, and revealing that Rand and Holland is, in fact, far from over.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Andy Rantzen and Jochen Gutsch discuss their new collaborative project, which fuses Andy’s poetic spoken lyrics and Jochen’s diverse musical background, recording and performing as Hinterlandt. Highly conscious of the potential pitfalls of fusing poetry and experimental music, Andy and Jochen carve a path to an outcome that is tense and fascinating and compels you to listen close. We also hear music from Jochen’s Hinterlandt Ensemble and take in back catalogue work from Andy’s Pelican Daughters project.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Electronic artist Martyn Palmer has been recording calm and tranquil sounds as Broken Chip for many years, but in recent months something fundamental has changed – precipitating a shift from light to dark, from tranquil to anxious, culminating in a new project under the alias Hidden. In this week’s episode of Out From Under, we hear from Martyn Palmer about his new work, the impetus for the shift in direction and how it contrasts with his work as Broken Chip – taking in an exclusive mix of brand new tracks from Hidden and a walk through Martyn’s back catalogue.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

For six years, Nathan Jenkins was part of Australian extreme metal band The Amenta, known for their refusal to fully commit to any sense of what a metal band should be. After working within those extremities and contradictions, Nathan established the solo project titled Host, fusing dark ambient, noise and drone. In this episode of Out From Under, Stuart Buchanan talks to Nathan about this transition and his highly ritualistic approach to music making, as well as his role as curator for the upcoming two-day event, Black Mountain.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Marcus Whale has been straddling the worlds of experimental music and alternative pop throughout his career, from his early improvisational work as Scissor Lock, through the densely layered electronic pop of Collarbones to the taut, politically charged BV project he formed with Guerre aka Cassius Select. In this episode, we celebrate Marcus’ debut solo release under his own name, as he talks about his work, his personal growth, and his political intent, and reflects on the outcomes – one foot on both sides of the channel.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Brainbeau are a Brisbane-based underground electronic duo featuring Chelsey Charlton and Kat Martin aka Chelvis Chesley and Kat Martian, aka Dust Storm Jogger and X in O, aka Emotional Hoon and El Crumple Dash. There are vestiges of classic Detroit and Chicago techno in their music, riffing off Warp and Rephlex, Not Not Fun and 100% Silk, muddied with a lo-fi aesthetic redolent of a slew of North American tape labels. Stu Buchanan talks to Chelsey and Kat about Brainbeau and Brisbane, the world they’ve created and now inhabit – a place where they take fun very seriously indeed.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Sydney artist Jannah Quill works in electronic installation and performance, exploring and exposing hidden energies, predominantly through the photo voltaic process – translating light into electricity and ultimately into sound and music. Through her work she begins to “uncase electronic music for what it really is”. In this episode of Out From Under, I talk to Jannah Quill about her work and her process, and listen to her solo sound works – including a set recorded for the Liquid Architecture event, Ritual Community Music – and works recorded under her WDK project with Laura Hunt from Sydney punk band Ghastly Spats.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Andrew Tuttle is an artist who for twelve years has been exploring the relationship between the electronic and the acoustic – primarily by marrying the worlds of laptop processing with that of banjo and acoustic guitar. He has played live with artists such as Matmos, Mike Cooper, and Blank Realm, and recently released the album ‘Fantasy League’ on the Room40 imprint, Someone Good.Andrew discusses the inherent tension in his work and his relationship with his home city of Brisbane. In the second half, we hear an exclusive new recording from Andrew, titled ‘Transitory Adaptations’ – a mixtape of edited improvisations created while on the road in Europe, recorded in hotel rooms in Lausanne and Berlin and on a train from Berlin to Basel in April 2016.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Curator, musician and sound artist Lawrence English founded his Room 40 label over fifteen years ago, and in the intervening years has nurtured over 150 releases in a roster that includes David Toop, Tim Hecker and Grouper and Australian figures such as Oren Ambarchi, Chris Abrahams, and Ben Frost.In a wide-ranging interview, he talks about his long-standing relationship with the city of Brisbane, his deep commitment to opening the doors to seemingly inaccessible music, and the ways in which he considers our complex and evolving relationship with sound and listening.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Sydney label 3BS Records was originally created by Blue Mountains-based musician Jonathan Pizzay as an outlet for his Mannheim Rocket and Klangberg projects, but has subsequently grown into a home for other artists sharing their label manager’s respect for experimental techno, ambient exploration, dystopian noise and low-end sonics. In this episode, we’re guided through the back catalogue taking in fellow Mountains resident Broken Chip, New Zealand’s Borrowed cs, Simon Unwin aka Hence Therefore, and Jonathan’s confrontational noise project Extreme Misanthropy Crew.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Two Australian artists working at the fringes of popular music; both on radically different musical trajectories, but nonetheless equally compelled by a deep desire to protect their own creative freedom. We hear from Via Tania, who discusses her twenty year career, playing with artists such as Prefuse 73, Tortoise, Marcus Popp and Jori Hulkonnen, and weaving her way from nineties grunge, through alt.jazz and Finnish techno to her recent work with a Chicago orchestra; and we talk to Sydney producer Ghostgirl, as she embarks on a spiritually-rich electronic project, inspired by a chance encounter with two rookie soldiers on Chat Roulette.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Two artists pushing back against the tyranny of the machine in electronic music – capturing inputs and processing outputs in ways that rely less directly on spending face time with the laptop screen. Alex White talks about Nadir, his noise collaboration with Ben Byrne, which rejects dark, power noise in favour of a light and bright counterpoint; and jazz musician Jacques Emery discusses the wide range of electronic output on his Sounds Are Sounds label, all of which favour art over craft, and – much like jazz – focus on a constant refinement of improvisational practice.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Chris Abrahams and Tony Buck discuss their wholly-improvised live shows and their approach to studio recording, plus there’s music from ‘Vertigo’ and their 1989 debut ‘Sex’, along with unreleased music from both Chris’ upcoming solo album on Room 40 and the new album from Tony’s collaborative project, Circadia.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

Plus, interviews and music with three artists from the most recent ‘Pretty Gritty’ event – vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Astrid Zeman; Sydney sound artist Daniel Whiting and Canberra musician Happy Axe, who lulls beautiful and eerie tones from her violin and musical saw.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

This week, it’s the second of our recordings from the recent Vagrant show in Adelaide, featuring an upfront set from Holy Balm, launching their new album ‘It’s You’ (Not Not Fun / RIP Society).

We hear from Melbourne dark wave Asps who dropped her debut release on cassette last year, titled ‘So Long’; then Adelaide’s own weirdo psych threepiece Beige Abrasion; and we round out the episode with a set from Major Crimes, who will be releasing their album ‘Black Hill’ on the Adelaide label Heavy Lows later this year.

We start with beat producer Document Swell; and follow that with Call Me Professor, an 100% live collaboration between Exotic Snake and Raymond Scottwalker.  And we finish off with a slow-burn set from Speed Painters.

Sam Gillies and Kevin Penkin met while studying a Bachelor of Music at WAAPA. Cycle~ 440 was formed in 2009 when they sought to fuse Kevin’s love of Japanese game and anime music and Sam’s appreciation for the delicate ambient and extreme noise genre’s. As Cycle~ 440 they maintain a national and international performance profile while releasing a steady stream of recordings.

Perth experimental duo Solo Andata - Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco - join Stu Buchanan for a chat and a short in-studio live session.

We’ve been on the road over the last short while, presenting a number of gigs around the country as part of our  'open source' gig series, Vagrant. We’re stopping off in Brisbane this week, listening to sets recorded at The Waiting Room in July.  First off, we’ll hear from local experimental trio Feet Teeth; they’re followed by DIY electronic pop artists Scraps; and we finish with a rare head-to-head set featuring Anonymeye vs Ambrose Chapel.

Kevin Purdy has been creating music all his life. A multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, producer whose music catalogue, dating back to the late 70's, is enormous. His musical journey through many bands and LPs has led to him creating his own individual musical style, compacting his past into colorful new world of sound. He created Soft Records for his 1st release in 1999.

New Weird Australia came together with the This Thing label for the second instalment of the 'open source' gig series, Vagrant. In this episode, live sets from the gig from Naps and Kane Ikin.

New Weird Australia came together with the This Thing label for the second instalment of the 'open source' gig series, Vagrant. In this episode, a live set from the gig from Wooshie.

Producer Stanislavski operates in the orbit of the renowned Clan Analogue collective, and guitarist Snakes also features in many local improvisational projects. In this live set-up Stanislavski takes a back-seat, allowing Zed and Snakes to perform the set as a duo.Tracklisting: Morphina / Ondine / Kill Me / Sucker In Love / Beyond Belief / The Squeeze / Monkey / Flirting / Dum Dum

Pia discusses the ideas and activities behind modular synthesis in more detail – and in particular, why it has undergone something of a renaissance in recent times - and we hear a live, 20 minute set from Nadir, acting as a warm-up for their Moduluxxx experience.

This week, a two-part live session from Sydney four-piece Roboter Haus. Born out of the Refraction sound collective, Roboter Haus create experimental music that moves through an eclectic mix of genres, such as post-rock, turntabalism, Indian classical and metal.

Sydney’s Emily Gratham is a young producer who submitted a series of off-kilter electronic demos to New Weird Australia. We loved them so much, we're releasing them as her debut EP through our Wood And Wire imprint. In this episode, Emily plays a special live set written exclusively for the radio show, and chats about her work and future plans.