AZIZ & YANDSEN scheduled for

Oh Seven! Gone To Heaven

31st December, 2007 @ The Annexe, CM

Goh Lee Kwang, Good Vibrations

Album Launch – Video Installations – Retrospective concert

Internationally respected sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, who recently returned from a 10 city tour of Europe, has a new album! His first album in three years, it is called Good Vibrations – selected solo improvisation with stereo dj mixer, released on his own label, Herbal. Recorded from concerts and studios in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Stuttgart, Rotterdam, Krems and Kuala Lumpur, the tracks were selected for their closeness to the original sound (of the mixer) without any treatment. For this launch, Lee Kwang performs different sounds every night, with materials from all 8 years of his mercurial career. There will be two video installations (world premier) and a sound installation (" Internal Pleasures" 4th Edition).

Dates: Nov 29 (Thu) – Dec 2 (Sun), 2007

Time: 8.30pm nightly

Venue: The Old Cinema, The Annexe, Central Market, KL.

Entry: By minimum donation of RM15 (Adults), RM10 (Students)

For 4 nights: RM40 (adults), RM25 (students)

Booking: 03 2274 6542, 03 2070 1137

Boon and Tham Kar Mun are scheduled to play at this gig on the

1st of December
2nd Floor, CM Annexe, KL

GOOD VIBRATIONS 2nd solo exhibition
in Kuala Lumpur, malaysia.

site 1, REKA Art Space, NOV 15th - 28th.
Reka Art Space is located at
GL29 Block C Kelana Square,
17 Jalan SS7/26, Kelana Jaya.
Tel. no: 03-7880 5982
The gallery is open by appointment only.
Contact: Sek Thim
H/p: 017-872 7721, Email: sekthim@gmail.com

site 2, ANNEXE, Central Market Nov 29th - Dec 2nd (with live concert).
ANNEXE is located at
2nd Floor, Central Market,
Jalan Hang Kasturi,
Kuala Lumpur.
Contact: 03-2070 1137

Both sites will show 2 new video works by Goh Lee Kwang, and the 4th
realisation of the sound installation ""Internal Pleasures""
(http://www.geocities.com/internalpleasures/si.html).
Exhibition at ANNEXE includes 4 nights of live concert.

http://www.geocities.com/crosssitp/

"Crossing Over- from here to there, from there to here" from the Evolutionary Girls Club

Gallery Talk: 17 November, 3:00pm

Opening Night: 17 November, 7:30pm; local performances; light refreshment.

Exhibition: 17-19 November, 11am-7pm

Venue: Central Market Annexe, top floor, Gallery 1.

ALL FREE ADMISSION

The EGC is a collective of artists, activists, writers and scholars, who make art that deal with issues around voice, access and privilege through the making and exhibiting of art. They have exhibited in USA, Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, Croatia, Japan and more since 2001.

"Crossing Over- from here to there, from there to here" will be EGC's first appearance in South East Asia, where three representatives: Pamela S. Booker, Tara Smelt and Colleen Merlisz (USA) will be here in person. All artwork in this exhibition were created especially for this South East Asian tour to Malaysia and Singapore! You can check out the show catalog for this exhibition at:
http://www.lulu.com/content/

Art exhibited in this exhibition include digital prints, photographs, paintings and video installations. There will be an experimental video screening on the opening night. And don't miss the local performances on the opening night! Performing musicians and artists include Azmyl Yunor, Nyoba Kan (Lee Swee Keong, Ceacar Chong and Kuan Nam), Jerome Kugan, Estrella and DizzyFirefly.

Come check out the opening event on 17 November at 7:30pm with art, discussion, experimental video, music and performances!

http://www.evolutionarygirls.com/
http://evogirlscrossingover.blogspot.com/

This event is kindly supported by DA HUANG PICTURES and MATAHATI ART FUND and co-organized by SiCKL, RAP and The Annexe Galleries.

A collated list of recent releases by EMACM-ers
(either by way of their own music or recordings released through their self-run labels.)

Goh Lee Kwang and Kenji Siratori
BACTERIUM SYNDROME (CD, Herbal Records)
http://www.geocities.com/gohleekwang/bs.html

Eric Cordier
OSOREZAN: Selected field recording 1993 - 2006
(CD, Herbal Records)
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords/eo.html

Eric Cordier and Emmanuel Mieville
DISPOSITIF: CANAL SAINT-MARTIN
(CD, Xing-Wu)
http://www.xingwurecs.com

Furniture
THE TWILIGHT CHASES THE SUN
(CD reissue, Herbal Records)
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords/

Goh Lee Kwang
GOOD VIBRATIONS
(CD, Herbal Records)
http://www.geocities.com/goodvibrationscd/

Klangmutationen
WEIßE MESSE (Vinyl LP, Holy Mountain)
http://www.midheaven.com/artists/klangmutationen.html
http://www.holymountain.com/klangmutationen.html

You should be able to mail-order most of these recordings
via the labels themselves or Orient-Occident

Projek Wayang is proud to announce our latest public performance, almost in conjunction with Hari Raya festivities: Wayang Rakyat @ The Curve. Featuring Aziz Ali, Azmyl Yunor, and Fahmi Fadzil, with puppets by Fahmi Reza.

There will be two performances over four dates, with two workshops on introductory puppetmaking for kids.

30 September, 4.30pm - Sang Kancil and Sang Buaya
7 October, 4.30pm - Pak Pandir and the Bowl of Honey*
20 October, 2.30pm - Sang Kancil and Sang Buaya
21 October, 2.30pm - Pak Pandir and the Bowl of Honey*

(*title might change)

Synopses

Sang Kancil and Sang Buaya
One day, as he was walking around the jungle, Sang Kancil spots a grove of fruit trees across the river. As he tries to cross the river, he encounters the fearsome Sang Buaya, who is intent on eating the little mouse deer. What will Sang Kancil do to get at those fruit trees?

Pak Pandir and the Bowl of Honey
Mak Andih has grown tired of Pak Pandir’s loafing around the house, so she sends him out to gather things from the jungle that they could sell. Pak Pandir finds some honey, and bringing it home decides to eat it instead of selling it, against Mak Andih’s wishes. What becomes of Pak Pandir and his greedy ways?

HERBAL RECORDS
Bunch of old and new releases from Lee Kwang's Herbal Records.
Here are the new ones:
Eric Cordier - Osorezan
Furniture - The Twillight Chases The Sun (reissue)

Websites:
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords
http://www.myspace.com/herbalrecords

Yandsen, Kok Siew Wai, Aziz and Donna Miranda @ Annexe Central Market, Sound Riot

Notthatbalai Art Festival 2007 & SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur) Presents:

Sound Riot!
Date & Time: 5th August, Sunday, 3pm
Venue: The Annexe Galleries, Lot 4.01, 2nd Floor, Central Market Annexe, Jalan Hang Kasturi, 50050 Kuala Lumpur.
For inquiries, please contact: Razman at 017.371.5641 or Yandsen at 012.919.8031

Showcasing some of the hottest local indie bands, expect rock, pop rock, rap, grunge, electroacoustics, experimental and a lot of noise! Participating bands include Shock System, Zealot Bulletin, Silent Scenery, Meteor Feather (Singapore), Bintang Bendehara, Dian Bang, Klaronika and Goh Lee Kwang (sound artist).

Notthatbalai and SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur) presents:

MusicWorksplus-Live in Kuala Lumpur, a video-music concert by KojiTambata
Date & Time: 4 August, Saturday, 8:30pm
Venue: Central Market Annexe
Guest sound artists: Tham Kar Mun, Yandsen, Kok Siew Wai

Artist’s Talk and Sharing “Random Thoughts On My Art-Video and Music”, by Koji Tambata
Date & Time: 2 August, Thursday, 8pm
Venue: SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur)

Born in Tokyo, Japan, video artist Koji Tambata will
present his Video-Music Performance series "Music
Works" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will collaborate
with Malaysian musicians from the EMACM/SiCKL
collective. It will include the screening of "Music
Works", "Pre-Music Consciousness" and new works in
video and performance.

"Tambata’s work concerns about process and execution,
in other words, of what is happening at the moment.
This is similar to the practice of meditation. As a
music lover, Tambata finds that his philosophy and
methodology in art making is very similar to the
process of improvisation in music. Also interested in
the physical reality of energy flow, he has found a
way to apply this understanding in art and music.
Tambata shoots live music performances, then
re-arranges the images and adds new footage,
visual/sound effects during editing, and finally
creates a new audio-visual composition in video. He’ll
then incorporate the pre-edited video in his live
video-music performance. This is “MUSIC WORKS”, his
long-term video-music project since 1996.

Tambata regards the act of video shooting as a
meditative activity where he is witnessing and
documenting another meditative activity by the
musicians who are performing improvised music. Video
shooting is a very quiet and minimal act. It involves
movements, but they are very subtle, almost unnoticed.
It is like the silent moments in music. Tambata
appreciates this quietness as something essential to
reach a kind of spiritual awareness. In his
multidisciplinary work, video shooting, editing and
screening run parallel with one another, and
simultaneously they give birth to a holistic piece of
artwork."

Koji Tambata is a performing video artist who has been
working with video, music and performance since 1996.
He has collaborated with musicians such as Tony
Conrad, Steve Baczkowski, Jonathan Galove, Hylozoa,
Eliav Brand, King Sunshine, the Knowmatic Tribe Sound
System and more. He is currently living in Thailand.

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Artist’s Talk and Sharing
“Random Thoughts On My Art-Video and Music”, by Koji
Tambata

Tambata will share his journey as a performing video
artist: from using the video camera as a medium of
expression, to developing live video performances with
music. And how the ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism
in which he regards as “the first and the last
philosophy”, has influenced his work and his
perception of nature and the world.

“Albert Ayler has a song called Music Is The Healing
Force Of The Universe. I interpret that as the
awareness of tension (energy blockage), in which, by
letting it vibrates through its hardness and softness,
will become a powerful growing force – an energy
flow.” (Tambata)

::Notthatbalai 2007 & SiCKL presents::

SiCKL hosts one night of Sama-Sama Notthatbalai 2007 with

a video screening of “Derek Bailey Playing for Friends on 5th Street” by Robert O’Haire. The night will be opened and commemorated by olefolk of punk Joe Kidd and much later completed with performances by Eric Chenaux, The Abang Guard and free-for-all malas-improv by the residents of SiCKL.

Friday, 27 July 2007

8.00pm - midnight

admission RM3 (goes to Notthatbalai)

::at::

studio in cheras kl

No75, Tingkat 3,

Amber Business Plaza,

Jalan Jelawat 1,

Cheras 56100

(You can take Star LRT, Sri Petaling line, stop at Cheras Station.

SiCKL is right next to the Star LRT- Cheras Station.Only a 2 minute walk.)

::Screenings::

Opening Screening: Pierce Wamecke’s Selected Videos

The Video Screening of “Derek Bailey Playing for

Friends on 5th Street”

(Robert O’Haire, 51 minutes, 2004)

Playing for Friends on 5th Street catches free-improv

guitar legend Derek Bailey in an intimate concert for

about 40 friends and fans on December 29, 2001. The

single-camera footage, focused tightly on the

guitarist, is presented with few edits, nicely

augmented with various post-production effects: full

screen & letterbox, color & warm sepia halftones &

stop motion lend to the more-than-front-row intimacy

of the video. Bailey is at his best during the

51-minute set, which includes his telling a story

about working in a guitar shop in the 1960s

(accompanying himself as he does in his much

sought-after "chats") and a few moments of traditional

playing on the vintage Epiphone hollow-body he bought

on Staten Island.

::Music::

The Abang Guard

Eric Chenaux

Yandsen, Ah Tham

....free jam!??!!?!

contact Yandsen 012-9198031 / yandsen@yahoo.com

contact Siew Wai 012-6957987 / kokbuffalo@yahoo.com

NTB 2007 MUSIC DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS:

1. Sama-sama Sing Song!

Date & Time: 22 July, Sunday, 8pm

Venue: Lost Generation Space

A singer-songwriters showcase of the most beloved songwriters in town.

Musicians include: Ariff Akhir, Estrella, Jerome Kugan, Wolf, Tan Sei Hon, Imam, Paolo Delfino, ManMeng and Azmyl Yunor.

2. Video Screening: “Derek Bailey Playing for Friends on 5^th Street” (2004)

Directed by Robert O’Haire, 51 minutes

Opening Screening: Pierce Wamecke’s Selected Videos

Opening Guest: Joe Kidd

Special Performances: The Abang Guard and Eric Chenaux.

Date & Time: 27 July, Friday, 8pm

Venue: SiCKL

Playing for Friends on 5th Street catches free-improv guitar legend Derek Bailey in an intimate concert for about 40 friends and fans on December 29, 2001. The single-camera footage, focused tightly on the guitarist, is presented with few edits, nicely augmented with various post-production effects: full screen & letterbox, color & warm sepia halftones & stop motion lend to the more-than-front-row intimacy of the video. Bailey is at his best during the 51-minute set, which includes his telling a story about working in a guitar shop in the 1960s (accompanying himself as he does in his much sought-after "chats") and a few moments of traditional playing on the vintage Epiphone hollow-body he bought on Staten Island.

Eric Chenaux experiments with song forms as a guitar player, composer and singer with an affection for balladeers. Chenaux has been improvising since about 1995. He has played improvised guitar with many people including: Han Bennink, Allison Cameron, Rob Clutton, Ryan Driver, Murray Favro, Nick Fraser, Mike Kane, Michael Moore, Kurt Newman, Stephen Parkinson, Pauline Oliveros and more.

3. Digital Tool Possibilities: MaxMSP

(Presented by SiCKL)

Instructor: Ali Aziz

Date: 29 July, Sunday

Time: 11am-1pm: set-up; 2pm-7pm: hands-on practice

Venue: Lost Generation Space

Requirements: Need registration and fill in a participation form. Maximum 15 persons. Please contact the instructor by email if interested.

FREE

MaxMSP is a real-time software/programming environment, which has a broad range of artistic application ranging from electronic music to media installations. It was first developed in the 80s at IRCAM (computer music institute in Paris) by Miller S Puckette and Max Mathews. It is popular software utilized by sound/visual/new media artists interested in real-time performance and interactive installation environments.

This is a beginner’s introductory MaxMSP workshop of how to operate the software, in hope that the workshop will spark participant’s interest and provide a new door in pursuing his or her creative endeavors using video and sound. Participants are expected to bring their own laptops to attend the workshop. For further details and technical requirements, please directly contact the instructor, Ali Aziz at the following email addresses:

me@triyae.com / triyae@hotmail.com / triyae@yahoo.com

4. Solo Video-Music Concert by Koji Tambata

Date & Time: 4 August, Saturday, 8:30pm

Venue: Central Market Annexe

Artist’s Talk and Sharing

“Random Thoughts On My Art-Video and Music”, by Koji Tambata

Date & Time: 2 August, Thursday, 8pm

Venue: SiCKL

Japanese video artist Koji Tambata will present a solo multidisciplinary event with video installations, a video screening, live music and live video (capturing and mixing). He will collaborate with several local musicians from SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, KL).

Tambata’s work concerns about process and execution, in other words, of what is happening at the moment. This is similar to the practice of meditation. As a music lover, Tambata finds that his philosophy and methodology in art making is very similar to the process of improvisation in music. Also interested in the physical reality of energy flow, he has found a way to apply this understanding in art and music. Tambata shoots live music performances, then re-arranges the images and adds new footage, visual/sound effects during editing, and finally creates a new audio-visual composition in video. He’ll then incorporate the pre-edited video in his live video-music performance. This is “MUSIC WORKS”, his long-term video-music project since 1996.

Koji Tambata is a performing video artist who has been working with video, music and performance since 1996. He has collaborated with musicians such as Tony Conrad, Steve Baczkowski, Jonathan Galove, Hylozoa, Eliav Brand, King Sunshine, the Knowmatic Tribe Sound System and more. He is currently living in Thailand.

Artist’s Talk and Sharing

“Random Thoughts On My Art-Video and Music”, by Koji Tambata

Tambata will discuss his journey as a performing video artist: from using the video camera as a medium of expression, to developing live video performances with music. And how the ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism in which he regards as “the first and the last philosophy”, has influenced his work and his perception of nature and the world.

“Albert Ayler has a song called Music is the healing force of the universe. I interpret that as the awareness of tension (energy blocked), in which, by letting it vibrates through its hardness and softness, will become a powerful growing force – an energy flow.” (Tambata)

5. Sound Riot

Date & Time: 5 August, Sunday, 3pm

Venue: Central Market Annexe

Showcasing the hottest local indie bands, expect rock, pop rock, rap, grunge, electroacoustics, experimental and a lot of noise! Participating bands include Shock System, Zealot Bulletin, Silent Scenery, Meteor Feather (Singapore), Bintang Bendehara, Dian Bang, Klaronika and Goh Lee Kwang (sound artist).

"Digital Tool Possibilities: Max/MSP"

Venue: Lost Generation Space Address: 11, Lorong Permai, Off Jalan Syed Putra, Robson Heights , KL Date: 29th July 2007 (Sunday) Time: 11am-1pm (setup time for participants) 1pm-7pm (actual workshop time) Participation Fees: Free Participation Requirements: Own personal computer/laptop (See form_doc.doc and workshop_details.doc for details)

This workshop is limited to ~20 participants.

Workshop Presenter : Aziz Ali – me(at)triyae.com /
triyae(at)hotmail.com / triyae(at)yahoo.com
Notthatbalai/SiCKL Representative: Siew Wai –
kokbuffalo(at)yahoo.com

.....

A short introductory, learning, playaround workshop
culminating into a group performance using Max/MSP?
It's a realtime software/programming environment which
has a broad range of artistic application ranging from
electronic music to media installations. Some
musicians who use it are Aphex Twin, Bjork (with
Matmos), Autechre, ....

Participants need to RSVP a week before the workshop
to setup their pcs/laptops with the needed software or
arrive at the setup time on the workshop day itself.

FOLK THE SYSTEM!!
@ Annexe Central Market, 7th July 2007

Tham Kar Mun (aka Ah Tham) and Yandsen appearing
on the bill. Go to Ricecooker to learn more.