Just so you know, this month’s OUTPOST has been delayed by a week to make way for a special STUTTER show at Horse Bazaar. If you haven’t been to a STUTTER show (curated by new music impresario powerhouse, Annalee Koernig) then why not take this chance to absorb the impact that Melbourne’s thriving underground and new music will have on your brain box.

This means that OUTPOST #23 for 29th October has been pushed back to Wednesday November 5th.

Stay tuned for more details on feature artists for Outpost #23.

For the netcast we’ll be using the free Mogulus software. The event will link up with other performances around Australia and overseas as part of this special Digital Fringe event.

You can either watch this event from the comfort of your preferred browser, or come on down to Horse Bazaar around 8pm on the 9th October to be a part of it.

Participants in this event are also uploading audio content for remixing in any way they see fit. We have started uploading some audio to the A.B.C.’s new collaborative on-line project Pool. Head over to our page where you can download the material to use freely under a Creative Commons license. There is more material to come and we are tagging it melb2008digitalfringe. Enter this as a search term to find any material that has been uploaded for the event.

Great to see some more people down last night for the jam. Be great to see even more of you down there tonight for one big old blast before the end of a top festival!

For all of you that are up here for this awesome festival and feel the need to let loose after a days worth of information and inspiration, please come on down with your gear in to join in on the jam session. The PA is ready and so are the projectors! Come armed with a few trusty plugs and adaptors and you’ll be on your way! Just approach anyone on the table to find out how you can get started.

Thanks to all that came down to listen and participate in last nights event. We hope to see you there again tonight!

We start the first of 3 nights of jamming tonight as part of Electrofringe in Newcastle tonight.

If you’re in town, or driving down from Sydney to check out some the great events lined up over this weekend, remember to bring along your synths, laptops and whatever other electronic sound/video making devices. Come on down from 6 to 10 pm and plug that stuff in to join us in these special impro sessions!

If you’re looking for us during the day, we’ll either be hanging on the beach or taking in some of the awesome art events and shows packed into this killer weekend!

See you there!

We are very pleased to have a solo set from Jason Hearn (a.k.a. Jase from Outta Space) for OUTPOST #17. Formerly based in Perth, Jase has just finished prep for his new live show after spending 5 years engaged purely in studio projects. The new show has a very hands-on approach to on-the-fly, improvised live sequencing. Jase’s music spans anything from downbeat glitch-hop, deep-n-fruity electro house, through to dark breaks and hyper-tempo drum’n'bass so we are eager to hear what he has in store for this months event.

Sammy Counihan is also coming down to do a mashed up set with decks and FX which will be fun!

NEWS ON THE JAMS FOR OUTPOST

Everyone did some fantastic interpretation of last months themes for the jams so we are going to explore a couple more for OUTPOST #17.

1. One Sound Jam. Use only one sound and develop.

2. BPM shift. Using a random number generator, we are going to set a couple of tempos and morph between them throughout a jam.

Next OUTPOST will be pretty tasty with 2 feature sets that should inspire an eclectic night of music and video. Stay posted for details closer to the date.

Also, I’ve been able to find the time to get it together to go thru the recordings for both OUTPOST #15 and OUTPOST #16, so there will be 4 new podcasts following this post! If you don’t know about the podcast you can subscribe via iTunes here.

Our secret and special guest was Robert Henke (aka Monolake) who was very generous with his time and played a great 1 hour 15 min set using his amazing Monodeck II interface (video), Ableton Live* and a MacBook that is on loan to him from Arck after his own laptop suffered a completely terminal motherboard failure. Big thanks again to Robert for coming down to be part of OUTPOST.

We also had a fab set from Evil Jed who bought his multi-pedal and laptop combo down to Horse Bazaar to lay some some tight breaks and great atmoses. Thanks to Jed for making it down as well.

And as always thanks to all the jammers – especially a strong turn out from our VJ’s: Matt Gingold, Projector Obscura and Jonty Burton among others.

Our audio jams will be up on the podcast and site in the next few days so stay tuned!

NEXT OUTPOST #16: Wednesday 27th February

* for those of you that may not know, Robert has been a key member in the development of Ableton Live from the outset and still is key member of the software development team at Ableton. See more here.

We may have a special surprise guest performing, so there is a very good reason to come to the first Outpost for the year! Do not miss this one… seriously.

We are also very pleased to have regular Outpost jammer, producer and sonic landscaper Evil Jed (a.k.a. Gerrard Jenner) doing his first feature set. Jed has been sculpting environments for listeners to cohabitate for the last 12 years and his musical output runs the full gamut from pop to experimental, with his latest works having a dub techno/haunted house flavour. Jed also employs home built electronics and programmed devices into his live sets so expect an exciting performance.

Gerrard also runs Beats and Bleeps, a night showcasing local producers and also the monthly sound production workshop iNPuT.