Image from Judy Dunaway's Mother of Balloon Music, innova 2007

Interview on Upbeat

Last friday White Fungus editor Ron Hanson was interviewed by Eva Radich on Concert FM's Upbeat. The interview is online for seven days. In it Hanson discusses, among other things, sound art happenings in Christchurch and Wellington and the music of Judy Dunaway, whose album Mother of Balloon Music came out in 2007 on Saint Paul-based record label innova. You can listen to the interview here.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/cfm/programmes/upbeat

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A VERSAL CALL

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Deadline: January 15, 2008.

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the BORDERLINE BALLROOM #10

Friday 21 December 2007
8:30pm - $5, doorsales only

with:

ADAM WILLETTS (Auck)

Adam Willetts is an Auckland based musician and artist who makes beautiful noise with a homemade synth and a Wii remote and nunchuk that are used to play a computer as it samples its own electromagnetic fields.

FLIES INSIDE THE SUN (Dun/Chc)

A very rare live appearance by this long-running Christchurch/Dunedin free-noise group who began in 1993 as a quartet of Brian Crook, Peter Stapleton, Kim Pieters and Danny Butt. Over fourteen years they have released five CDs, along with compilation tracks on a number of European and American labels. The Borderline Ballroom show will feature the core duo of Crook (guitar, keyboards) and Stapleton (drums, tapes, shortwave radio), each with a long history of involvement in both alternative rock and experimental music in this country. This lineup featured on their most recent CD release Burning Glass (Metonymic) and the 12 min track White Walls on the Last Visible Dog Invisible Pyramid box set. Flies Inside the Sun make use of multiple sound sources with samples and electronics juxtaposed with the viscerality of rock music and real time free-play. Typically Flies music is improvised instrumental psychedelia with abstract ethereal sounds and minimalist trance elements which at times build into gigantic waves of wavering noise with Brian Crook's guitar a full-blown destructive force.

* please note last minute lineup changes which differ from those previously promoted for this event, and the later starting time of 8:30, to coincide with any artist-run-space christmas parties and PhD graduation celebrations which may be going on across town... :) Y'all have a good un, & enjoy this last and momentous BB for 2007. We'll see you in the new year. ----------------------------------------------------------

hey guys: here's that dan arps shot i promised. Brilliant show, over now but may its memory reign long. the title alone should have been lit up in lights and deliberately positioned to obscure the sun.... So easily the best show of the year and only probably eclipsed by the irrepressible Hany Armanious, whose show "Year of the pig sty" at Michael Lett's in March was a staggering triumph of d.i.y spirit. But for sheer variation and diversity Arps wins hands down. From the protuse metallic sculpture made of flimsy coreflutting to the arcane wit of the poster paintings there is a certain conservative vulgarity to Arps work that's really delivering spades into a pack of hearts. Arps seems to specialise in a kind of cross breeding being completely feral and yet absolutely formal at the same time. Gestapo Pussy Ranch was a sort of soft-porn minimalism mixed up with the humour of Frank Tashlin on crack.
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(incidentally,,,,,,, loving lost weekend... can you send some more:::::::: i know i should stream the fucker but that’s a complication i can't afford an assistant for:::

pleadingly yours
harold grieves

Here's tom enjoying the afternoon.

okay... as promised...

forestaurant photos...

pretty simple concept really but tends to work really well. take forest add restaurant and you get art that's sort of about food and nature and parks and harvesting and consumption. it was an auckland show at city rooms and now its at hsp where chch stalwarts zina swanson and justin kerr and local newbie hamish palmer have swelled the ranks. attached should be details from justin and hamish's work and in the background of justin's is a big painting by julien dyne which is kinda andrew mcleod without neurosis or people or animals. the show has outstanding work in it, possibly the best is fiona o'connor's video of auckland rock gardnes where she cycles all over stopping to film rock gardens. It makes a nice pairing with Sam Hartnett's photo of a rock sculpture which looks like an easter island statue crossed with the sphinx's missing nose... anyway more information should be on or at least updating on the hsp website www.hsp.org.nz




Now Showing: Forestaurant

A group show of artists from Auckland and Christchurch, Sam Hartnett, Julien Dyne, Fiona Connor, Conor Clarke, Anya Henis, Hamish Palmer, Zina Swanson, Jae Hoon Lee, Justin Kerr, Seung Yul Oh, Jill Kennedy and Daif King.

5 December - 21 December
HSP is open Weds, Thurs, Fri 11 - 5 and Sat 11-2


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Video From White Fungus Issue 8 Release Party

Now online is a video montage from the last White Fungus release party featuring Fertility Festival, Tao Wells and The Stumps. You can see it here.

hey here's a nice shot of miranda parkes' new painting at the 64 zero three xmas show....i forget what it's called but it's a nice painting. kind of one of her diaper paintings with mondrian grids.... she makes great paintings but this isn't one of the best but then it's not the worst.