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next gig:
July 12 2006 : Looney Tunes @ HORSE BAZAAR, 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. DJ2 from Antediluvian Rocking Horse creates random, improvised soundtracks for animation/claymation/machinima
next release:
ARH will be releasing their new album on Start Transmission Special Projects in late 2006.
about arh:
Antediluvian Rocking Horse have been "Letting the Left Hand Know
What the Right Hand is Doing Since 1994."
ARH are two dada -influenced artists who are quite adept at sewing together
a funky little ditty out of the delicious slew of global sonic detritus
we're swimmin' in.
ARH became the first international act on Negativland's Seeland label with
their album "Music for the Odd Occasion". It was named Best
Electronic Album in the May 1997 edition of Electronic Musician magazine and
scored four out of five stars in Alternative Press magazine.
Since then, they've managed to put out a record every four years or so,
which means we're due for a new one some time very soon. They've released
music in the USA, UK, Japan, Finland, Greece, Italy, and Russia.
But they've been busy, ARH has played over 750+ gigs, from clubs and pubs in
Australia, the US, and Japan to regularly appearing at events like Earthcore,
What Is Music? Festival, Vibes on a Summer's Day, The Falls Festival, and
The Big Day Out. They have also performed/appeared at numerous sound art
events and conferences with a platform of intellectual property reform.
random feedback:
“a kind of surreal technology poem, encompassing the rhythms and
noise of our everyday experience….” (CMJ May 12, 1997)
"ripping the stuffing out of the underground scene and borrowing cues
from the irreverent humour of Coldcut, ARH is the promising face of
Australia's dance future...if their intelligent barrage of editing-room
sweepings and pelvis-friendly grooves can upset the clubland hedgemony of
disco rejects and clunky house castoffs, then Wain and King- and programming
magus Ollie Olsen - can join Jack Dangers in storming the studio."
(Magnet, Vol 5 No. 29, Jul-Aug 1997)
"If confusion is sex, as Sonic Youth once posited, then Odd Occasion is
an orgy.....kookiness that doesn't grate - amazing." (Alternative Press
Sep. 1997)
random performances:
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“Critical
Twig Pt.17” Performance
2004
Terre Thaemlitz Love Bomb,
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“Harmed Response” Improvised performance with
Video Artist EZ (Emile Zile), Kaleide Theatre, Royal Melbourne Institute of
2003
Brakhage Memorial Screening,
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Live
improvised soundtrack to Stan Brakhage film, “Night Cats”
Red River New Media Event,
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Live
audio feed from
2001
Electrofringe,
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“The Political and the Absurd: Humour in Sampling”. Examining
dadaist and humorist roots in appropriation and the current state of the
'discipline'. Workshop/performance.
2000
This Is Not Art!/Electrofringe,
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Performance “Test
Pattern: Aural Experiments in Public Spaces”
1999
Eep,
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Collaboration/Performance with Micro AOA and VJ
Third
Culture,
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Collaboration/performance with VJs Ukawa J. Naohiro and Jim Jarmusch
1998
Festival of the Forgotten,
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Curator,
performance. Examining methods of presenting lost and obscure Audio and
Visual cultural artefacts in a live context.
1997
Melbourne Fashion Festival
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“Style
Surfing”: performance / slide exhibition
1996
Melbourne Fringe Festival
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“Hed”
performance, installation, film and sound
1996–2005
What is Music? Festival Sydney/Melbourne, Australia.
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Annual
performance and collaborations with Australian and international sound and
visual artists
1994
– current Radio program
- “Rude
Future”, part sonic sculpture part sonic obscurities broadcast on 106.7
PBS FM