NWA Podcast #9. Collarbones, Live-to-air Performance & Interview

Posted on Jun 30, 2010
NWA Podcast #9. Collarbones, Live-to-air Performance & Interview

(June 2010) Well known experimental musicians in their own right, MARCUS WHALE (also known as SCISSOR LOCK) and TRAVIS COOK (who performs as CYST IMPALED) moved into unique territory in 2010, recording as alternative pop duo COLLARBONES. With a debut album shortly to be released, Marcus and Travis joined Stu Buchanan on NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA ...

Video: Kusum Normoyle at New Weird Australia vs Refraction, June 2010

Posted on Jun 29, 2010

Kusum Normoyle is an artist and musician working in the area of extended vocal techniques and noise for both performance and installation. Core to Kusum’s practice is the idea of intervention, displacing normal expectations of female body and voice. In performance these incursions are brief, extreme and physical. The female scream takes a much heavier ...

Video: Horse MacGyver at New Weird Australia vs Refraction, June 2010

Posted on Jun 29, 2010

. Horse MacGyver (formerly known as ///▲▲▲\\\) released his debut cassette ‘Void’ on Dream Damage in June 2010. This live performance was captured shortly thereafter, at New Weird Australia vs Refraction, Tuesday 29 June 2010 at Serial Space, Sydney. Horse MacGyver info at dreamdamage.com

NWA Podcast #8. Clan Analogue & Actual Russian Brides, Live-to-air Performance & Interview

Posted on Jun 24, 2010
NWA Podcast #8. Clan Analogue & Actual Russian Brides, Live-to-air Performance & Interview

(June 2010) Formed almost twenty years ago, CLAN ANALOGUE remains one of the most prolific and interesting collectives in Australian electronic music. ANT BANNISTER and ADRIAN ELMER (Telafonica) join Stu Buchanan on this NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA Podcast to talk about the Clan’s new career-spanning retrospective album, and its launch party in June 2010 in Sydney. ...

Refraction, Curated by New Weird Australia

Posted on Jun 20, 2010
Refraction, Curated by New Weird Australia

REFRACTION feat. Tom Hall, Horse MacGyver, Kusum Normoyle and Jordan Dorjee Tuesday 29 June 2010, 19:30 – 21:30 Serial Space, Chippendale, Sydney Entry by donation Curated by New Weird Australia, organised by the UTS Sound Collective and proudly supported by Sound Travellers. TOM HALL (Only show in Sydney!) Tom Hall is a media artist based ...

NWA Podcast #7. Kate Carr, Live-to-air Performance & Interview

Posted on Jun 19, 2010
NWA Podcast #7. Kate Carr, Live-to-air Performance & Interview

(May 2010) Sydney artist KATE CARR has been making music since 2007, developing a pallate of drones, soundscape, glitch, opera and pop. In this podcast edition of the ‘New Weird Australia’ radio show (recorded in May 2010), Kate talks about her work to date, including her 2009 album ‘First Day Back’ released via German label ...

New Weird Australia – (Re)Made By Heath Killen

Posted on Jun 4, 2010
New Weird Australia – (Re)Made By Heath Killen

We’re on the cusp of celebrating our first birthday at New Weird Australia, and thus we felt it was a perfect moment to stare lovingly at ourselves in the mirror for a few hours.  Alas, our reflection was not all that we’d hoped for, and so we decided to get under the butcher’s knife and ...