Last Riot by AES+F group, 2005-2007 (Russia)
The virtual world generated by the real world of the past twentieth century as the organism coming from a test-tube, expands, leaving its borders and grasping new zones, absorbs its founders and mutates in something absolutely new. In this new world the real wars look like a game on www.americasarmy.com, and prison tortures appear sadistic exercises of modern valkyrias. Technologies and materials transform the artificial environment and techniques into a fantasy landscape of the new epos. This paradise also is a mutated world with frozen time where all past epoch the neighbor with the future, where inhabitants lose their sex, and become closer to angels.
The world, where any most severe, vague or erotic imagination is natural in the fake unsteady 3D perspective. The heroes of new epos have only one identity, the identity of the rebel of last riot. The last riot, where all are fighting against all and against themselves, where no difference exists any more between victim and aggressor, male and female. This world celebrates the end of ideology, history and ethic.
The Last Riot will screen in the inflatable dome cinema at all Australian cities.
For more info on Last Riot and AES+F see http://www.aes-group.org
HAND OF MAN by Christian Ristow (USA)
Hailing from the desolate deserts of New Mexico, The HAND OF MAN is an enormous and incredibly powerful human hand that YOU control! This 26 foot long (8 meter long) forearm and right hand are constructed of steel and powered by hydraulics, and is controllable by anyone from the event by way of an ergonomically accurate "glove". In other words, anyone who wishes to operate this gigantic and powerful Hand need only insert their hand into the glove controller, and any motion they produce from the elbow forward will be accurately and quickly reproduced by the large machine Hand. In practical terms, this allows event-goers to effortlessly lift, crush, or twirl objects weighing thousands of pounds! So step right up, put your hand into the controller and harness the power of steel and hydraulics to do whatever you want!
For more info on the Hand of Man see http://www.handofman.blogspot.com/
CeLL by Miles van Dorssen & Nick Wishart (Australia)
CeLL is a loud and thumping installation able to perform a variety of compositions. It can be programmed to play a set repertoire, played live through interfaced electronic instruments or programmed remotely via an internet interface. Through the later, it is possible for anyone in the world to compose music for CeLL. Tunes can be composed or arranged in MIDI for CeLL to perform at the 2009 BDO, and your contributions can be uploaded via the internet.
Image – D.V. Rogers
Externally, CeLL could be considered the epitome of minimalist visual sculpture. It is the aural elements that make it special. The mechanisms inside and, of course, the massive sound emanating from this banal steel box, make it an exciting and mysterious anomaly.
‘CeLL is an industrial strength music box making use of the voluminous acoustic boom that a 6m shipping container can offer. CeLL operates as a self-generating symphony, converting digital data into spontaneous rhythmic sequences. At times a raucous cacophony emits from the open doors, at others a rhythmical pounding evokes the universal urge to dance. Painted with motifs of clouds and sky, the box is closed off by bars running across its front, a frustrating prohibition between bodies and the thunderous machinery inside. As loud as CeLL is at its peak, there is something about the quality of this loudness that presses you to want to get right inside of it, so its rhythms can really vibrate your bones. The comic element to CeLL is in the unexpected shifts and clashes of tempo, in the way it becomes an organism with its own pulsing personality, oscillating curiously between mechanized factory and shantytown one-man band-minus the one man.’ Bryoni Trezise, Real Time Magazine.
For more info on CeLL and composing music for it see http://www.cell.org.au This time around we’re seeking your musical contributions to add to its repertoire of rockin’ tunes.
CeLL is a mechanical orchestra with an astonishing array of percussive voices that receive their commands via MIDI.
Click below to view video of CeLL in action.
Tunes can be composed or arranged in MIDI for CeLL to perform at the 2009 BDO, and your contributions can be uploaded via the internet.
Just click the link below to get all the info on ‘how to’ from CeLL’s website.
Make Music for CeLL
www.cell.org.au/compose.html
CeLL – presented by Miles van Dorssen & Nick Wishart
Bob and Jackies’ Bold-Time Ballyhoo! (Australia)
Older, indistinguishable...
Get bowled over in the nanna nook by the sounds of yore as Jack Shit and Robbie Buck wrangle a couple of custom 78rpm turntables with the whackiest collection of beetle excreta this side of strawberry hills!
Go where the wild flours blow and hear spinning shellac remnants of comedy, early rock, drug songs, rockabilly, blues, gospel, swing and all that jazz! Hawaiians, yodelers, crooners and crones; instructional records, birdsong, whistlers, and moans...
Tarry a while in style, with old-school, big day out, vaudivillian variety - away from the madding throng - and enjoy a sanctuary of silly and sumptious sound. all in glorious MONO!
be this a fever dream or the future of indie-dance?
Bob & Jackies’ Bold-Time Ballyhoo play at Sydney Big Day Out only
SPEAKER SCRIMS ARTWORK BY GEORGE GITTOES
The BIG DAY OUT is excited to host GEORGE GITTOES’ first public reveal of a new series of oil paintings. The NO EXIT trilogy will be reproduced on a massive scale to be featured on the three BIG DAY OUT main stage speaker scrims. NO EXIT reflects the 30 year long GITTOES global journey through hyper reality – which he calls “Night Vision” (also the title of his current mind blowing graphic novel- film- art series work in progress). The three panels Night Vision Soldier, Revelation and Night Vision investigate the unending cycles of war, end of the world apocalyptic dreams and the artist investigator/the soldier terminator. They zoom in, zoom out on our global reality of the moment, our sense of our times, the vast monstrous march of wars, the era of surveillance, times of super technology, chaos & horror, and music as the major voice, and our ‘saved’ moments.
An internationally exhibiting artist, photographer, and writer, GEORGE GITTOES has become something of a comic book style art super hero, prepared to take on guises, enter forbidden zones, face down bad guys, zoom around the globe, and bring back to earth mega messages about our times. His mission: intercepting reality at its most hyper charged state and dropping his ‘heightened reality checks’ into public places! http://www.gittoes.com/ (All shows)
SILENT DISCO
Premiered in Australia at the BDO in 2006, the Silent Disco returns to the BIG DAY OUT to electrify disco dancers with their mixes of dance, hard house, punk, salsa, twenties swing, alternative, world, electro, hardstyle, gabber and Dixieland, all through the convenience of wireless headphones! In the Double Channel SILENT DISCO, which features new 2-channelled digital headphones, party people can choose from DJ OD & DJ Steven Guts OR the guest DJ at the time and have a good old fashion dance off! (All shows)
THE TRONS
by Greg Locke (Hamilton, NZ): THE TRONS are a completely self playing robotic junk band! All the members are made from salvaged mechanical bits and old discarded electronics, yet they play garage rock just like a bunch of enthusiastic teenagers. Real guitars, second hand amps, original songs played by motorised limbs and trashed computer brains. Fresh from a quick gig in Paris, THE TRONS originate from New Zealand and have spent the year playing up and down the country at pubs, band venues and festivals. They've been described in the British press as "the most exciting electronic band since Kraftwerk" and their video in their practice room has had over a million hits on Youtube. On seeing them the first time the standard utterance is "what the f***?". You can go right up and yell in their faces - they don't care...they're robots! A true transformation of junk to punk. Get a quick preview at their myspace www.myspace.com/thtrons (Auckland show)
