It seems like there has been some mis-communication with the venue.

The scheduled Friday 16th performance, is now on Saturday 17th July.

It will still take place from 7:30 – 9:30 at Sentido Funf (243-245 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy) in the front bar.

Sorry again for late, last minute changes!

Big thanks to everyone who came down to the Next Wave Festival Club for the last OUTPOST – it was a cracker!

The next event will be at the Gertrude Street Projection Festival on Friday the 16th of July.

It will take place from 7:30 – 9:30 at Sentido Funf (243-245 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy) in the front bar.

The theme for this years festival is Me. You. Us. – we will leave some information on the prescribed stimulus jam for this event a week before at shareoutpost.org so please check in.

As always, bring your gear and have no fear!

Wednesday 26th May, 2010
@ 8 p.m.
the Next Wave Festival Club
1000 £ Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne (map)

Visit Bleep’s myspace site to check out some audio

Prescribed Stimulus Jam: The topic for extemporization by performers in one of the jams.

THE THEME FOR THIS MONTH’S P.S.J. IS LOOK BEFORE YOU LISTEN – see below for game parameters.

Often VJ artists are jamming along to audio artists (which we love) – for this jam however, we are going to flip it..

VIDEO ARTISTS – In brief consultation with each other, put some work up on the Tetris screens.

AUDIO ARTISTS – Sit in silence (it’s okay) and reflect on what the video artists are presenting. Interpret and present audio accordingly.

More Impromptu Shorter Sets: whether you want to give a tasty snack sized version of something you are working up or if you just feel like performing something more spontaneous – this is the arena for you.

Variation In Performance: We love it when things are less predictable, lets mash up different numbers of players, maybe try a round robin tag team type of affair?

GET INVOLVED…
To get involved in an OUTPOST performance on the last Wednesday of the month

Make your way to our new venue TETRIS – 36 Phoenix St, Brunswick (2 minutes walk from Brunswick Railway Station) – the last Wednesday of the month around 8 p.m.

Bring any cables you need to connect your rig to the OUTPOST/Tetris system
(audio = quarter inch jacks/XLR, video = s/video or composite)

Meet up with one of the OUTPOST volunteers and let them know when you would like to play and in what context (solo or in a group) and they will help get you set up

Rock the house… tell your friends… re-Rock the house

WHERE AND WHEN?

WEDNESDAY MARCH 31 @ TETRIS
36 Phoenix St, Brunswick
(2 minutes walk from Brunswick Railway Station)
8 p.m. till Midnight

As always, entry is free, and it’s a great opportunity to meet some like-minded artists, see/hear/participate in some great new work and even try out some of your own new material.
So…BRING YOUR GEAR AND HAVE NO FEAR!

THIS MONTH’S FEATURE ARTIST AND Q’n'A IS..
Spoonbill (a.k.a. Jim Moynihan) … an elegant and quirky symphony of honey-scented grooves, jovial humour and joyous beat trickery, melding an ever-evolving array of styles into a distinctive ozzie blend. Call it quirk-funk or downbeat with bite, Spoonbill takes the listener firmly by the scruff of the ear and leads them into a shady forest of rhodes, horns, and deep double bass, then back out into an eccentric wonderland of glitched-out grooves infused with talkback radio and rowdy bush cobbers.

Prescribed Stimulus Jam: The topic for extemporization by performers in one of the jams.

THE THEME FOR THIS MONTH’S P.S.J. IS LABORED OF LOVE: SLOW MOTION – see below for game parameters.

AUDIO – Only play for 25% of the time, only work on one sound at a time.

VIDEO – Only work on one image at a time or concentrate on slow motion of images.

More Impromptu Shorter Sets: whether you want to give a tasty snack sized version of something you are working up or if you just feel like performing something more spontaneous – this is the arena for you.

Variation In Performance: We love it when things are less predictable, lets mash up different numbers of players, maybe try a round robin tag team type of affair?

GET INVOLVED…
To get involved in an OUTPOST performance on the last Wednesday of the month

Make your way to our new venue TETRIS – 36 Phoenix St, Brunswick (2 minutes walk from Brunswick Railway Station) – around 8 p.m.
Bring any cables you need to connect your rig to the OUTPOST/Tetris system
(audio = quarter inch jacks/XLR, video = s/video or composite)
Meet up with one of the OUTPOST volunteers and let them know when you would like to play and in what context (solo or in a group) and they will help get you set up
Rock the house… tell your friends… re-Rock the house

The first jam from last months Outpost, 24 February 2010. 35 megs large.

Download Jam 1

Download audio file (OUTPOST 240210 Jam 01.mp3)

The second jam from last months Outpost, 24 February 2010. 16 megs large.

Download Jam 2

Download audio file (OUTPOST 240210 Jam 02.mp3)

The first half of the Prescribed Stimulus Jam “My Favourite Waveform”, from last months Outpost, 24 February 2010. 13 megs large.

Download Prescribed Stimulus Jam 1

Download audio file (OUTPOST My Favourite Waveform Jam 01.mp3)

The second half of the Prescribed Stimulus Jam “My Favourite Waveform”, from last months Outpost, 24 February 2010. 25 megs large.

Download Prescribed Stimulus Jam 2

Download audio file (OUTPOST My Favourite Waveform Jam 02.mp3)

WHERE AND WHEN?
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24 @ DJ WASABI’S new creative space TETRIS
36 Phoenix St, Brunswick
(2 minutes walk from Brunswick Railway Station)
8 p.m. till Midnight

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As always, entry is free, and it’s a great opportunity to meet some like-minded artists, see/hear/participate in some great new work and even try out some of your own new material.
So...BRING YOUR GEAR AND HAVE NO FEAR!

SPICY FORMAT CHANGES FOR SHARE OUTPOST 2010

Feature Artist Performance and Informal Q’n'A: We have at least one scheduled feature artist each month.
This year, we thought it would be great to also have artists talk about their processes, their gear and find out a bit about what they have been checking out.
This informal Q’n'A will be hosted by our own Byron Scullin.

THIS MONTH’S FEATURE ARTIST IS..
DJsqgl (DeeJay Sqiggle) is venturing down from the serene surrounds of Lake Macquarrie, NSW to give us a mashup set and talk about his a/v set up on Tracktor.
Sqgl (a.k.a. Joe Koan) was an active part of Clan Analogue in the 90s performing with Signal-to-Noise and the improvising techno trio DoSE (Department of Social Engineering).

Prescribed Stimulus Jam: This may be a key word/style/type of material to be used.
The topic for extemporization by performers will be posted on this site a few weeks out. It will also be included in the OUTPOST mail-out the week before the monthly event.

THE THEME FOR THIS MONTH’S P.S.J. IS MY FAVORITE WAVEFORM

More Impromptu Shorter Sets: whether you want to give a tasty snack sized version of something you are working up or if you just feel like performing something more spontaneous – this is the arena for you.

Variation In Performance: We love it when things are less predictable, lets mash up different numbers of players, maybe try a round robin tag team type of affair?

GET INVOLVED…
To get involved in an OUTPOST performance on the last Wednesday of the month

the final OUTPOST for 2009 will take place this Wednesday the 25th of November @ Bar Open. On behalf of the OUTPOST Collective, I’d like to give a massive thanks to all the amazing audio and video artists who have continued to help build this community throughout the year. This week, we are going to have a massive jam so bring your gear, bring your friends and get involved!! We are hoping to get enough players to have an a/v jam round robin.. Primary school sports day style!!

The last OUTPOST for 2009 – this Wednesday 24th of November – 8:30pm – Free – Bar Open – 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

It all happens Wednesday September 30 from 8:30pm at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

Entry is free and the a/v jams are on between feature artists so bring your gear and have no fear!

Random Acts of Elevator Music make rare out-of-office-hours appearance…
Taking a break from a heavy work schedule of daytime elevator performances in Melbourne’s office buildings, Random Acts of Elevator Music bring their live muzaktronica to Outpost at Bar Open on Wednesday September the 30th. Experience these soothing oscillations and melodies and enjoy your resultant increase in productivity.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

Winterpark (solo)

Begun in 2005 as a collaborative musical studio project by Melbourne musician Matt Ridgway, Winterpark soon evolved into a live band that merged elements of sound design, pop, electronica and noise. 2006 saw the release of the debut album ‘One Night Alone’. 2007 saw the band take on the world with an adventure that saw them film a clip in the back alleys of Brooklyn, play at Iceland’s airwaves festival parties for free drinks, carry equipment on the Paris underground to play Parties, travel to Prague to play at a bookstore, and write songs in a makeshift apartment in Berlin.

2008 saw Winterpark back on home turf, independently releasing ‘Falling Men and Flying Dreams’ and a subsequent east coast album launch tour.

2009 brings a new chapter, with Matt creating melodic, ambient, layered, textural music with heavily processed guitar, vocals and live laptop. Playing at OUTPOST as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival. Wednesday Sept 30th.

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.

Jammers bring your gear and get it on…

Peaceout

Scott Baker, who after apprenticing under Alan Lamb and learning the power of the drone creates improvisations of dense tangible noise from an analogue modular synthesiser with live visuals inspired by zombies films, conspiracy theories and hidden truths. abre ojos is a Portuguese sailing term when moving through dangerous waters meaning “watch out” or “open your eyes”.

Check out some fine abre ojos work right here…

temptatio de evol te – abre ojos from abre ojos on Vimeo.

Just a quickie to remind you that the Gertrude Street Projection Festival launches this Friday night. There are seven days of awesome events on at a range of venues, so get down if you can.

If you are going to be in the area on opening night (this Friday), the OUTPOST crew are performing at Southpaw from 9 till 11 p.m followed by a DJ set from Soup (MISO).

Southpaw is located at 189 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.

Be sure to bring your devices down for a play or just bring yourselves for a tech perve and a tasty beverage.

Straight outta Adelaide, we are delighted to have a feature slot from v-tar wielding video and sound artist Lynne Sanderson (VJ Sustenance), who came and jammed with the OUTPOST/Plug’n'Play collectives for last years Digital Fringe webcast on mogulus.

Based in Adelaide, Lynne has been entertaining clubbers with her original style of layered visuals since 1992. From small to large shows, some of the highlights have included Dave Clarke and Aphex Twin. She has also crossed over to corporate shows such as the launch of the Adelaide Film Festival 2005 and was resident at the Adelaide Festival’s Persian Garden 2006/08. Lynne’s obsession with more fluid performative control led her to create the v-tar, a visual controller in the shape of a flying v guitar.

Over the years, Lynne also has led a parallel life as a media artist. Her artworks are interactive and involve the participation of the public. She has exhibited extensively including MTV Australia, the Museum of Modern Art NYC, ISEA95 Montreal, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Sydney Opera House, Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (BEAP) and the New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada.

After many years of collaborations and conversations with musicians, Lynne has decided to try her hand at creating audio. Over the last month Lynne has been creating dark, minimal beats using a Nintendo DS.

For her show at Share Outpost she will be triggering aspects of both the audio and visual on the v-tar. Lynne is experimenting with the live implementation and performance of these mediums. She is exploring the process of what is it to create sound from a visual perspective. This is her AV debut and a work in progress.

The Jams are on as always, new players/projectors/purveyors are most welcome so tell your friends and..
Bring your gear and have no fear!

See you Wednesday the 27th..
the Outpost Collective

The prolific master of the record players DJ WASABI, is performing a very special feature set at this month’s OUTPOST.
Wasabi is doing a live scratch video set over some new audio tracks he has been working on.
He will be rocking his Numark Virtual Vinyl set up so be sure to come and check the Don of the decks in full effect!

The jams are also absolutely on so come down and bring your devices..

It all takes place next Wednesday the 29th of April from 8.30 p.m. at Bar Open and as always, entry is free.

As always, new players/projectors/purveyors are most welcome so tell your friends and..
Bring your gear and have no fear!

the relaunch of OUTPOST at our new awesome venue Bar Open is almost upon us and we’re making it a cracker.
Get yourselves down to 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy on Wednesday March 25th from 8:30pm – entry is free and beverages are very reasonably priced.

For this month’s event, we are thrilled to have Jean Poole and Lewis CanCut performing a warm up set for their upcoming TV-inspired ACMI Synaesthesia show.

Jean Poole, aka Sean Healy, is concerned with real time audio visual performance. A founder of Newcastle’s Electrofringe
Festival, Jean Poole is regular contributor to the event’s annual program and travels Australia (and Europe) performing at
major events and festivals.

Providing the music to Jean Poole’s visuals is Lewis CanCut, aka Lewis Gittus, a young DJ hailing from regional Victoria with a
love of vinyl. His current work examines elements of club culture such as appropriation and repetition, bound together by
dense layers of stolen sound that threaten at any moment to self implode!

Stalwart of Melbourne downtempo sweetness, Thomas Campbell (aka. Soup from MISO) is also performing a solo slot which will be sure to satisfy like a good meal.

The jams are also absolutely on so be sure to come down and bring your devices for the a/v key party..

As always, new players/projectors are most welcome so tell your friends and..
Bring your gear and have no fear!

See you Wednesday the 25th..
the Outpost Collective

Greeting friends of OUTPOST,

This to let everyone know that the the first OUTPOST for 2009 will be on Wednesday the 25th of March from 8:30pm – so no OUTPOST for February.

We are also excited to be relocating OUTPOST to the new iconic location of Bar Open. Bar Open is loacted at 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. We are currently programming for the March relaunch and we hope to see as many of you down to set it off as possible.

Specifics of the launch to follow.. stay tuned.

Due to a special event at Stutter this Wednesday, this month’s OUTPOST will not run.

Stay tuned for further information on upcoming OUTPOST events for 2009 including a performance at ACMI on Thursday April 16 as part of their Music for Moving Image series.

Thanks for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the next OUTPOST in February.