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p
>..........live electronics
>..impovisaton
>......anologue
>..........digital
>..oscialtor rhythmic dreaming
>...VCS3
>...........Nordlead
>.....TCElectronics
>....Jon Drummond
>.......... John Encarnacao

> .......... Performances

Electrofringe 2001
Friday 28th September
ROTOR - Mission Theatre, Bunker
Electrofringe 2001 Newcastle, NSW, September 26th to October 1st 2001.

Waveform
Live electronics and digital video remixes of Jan Svankmajer's Alice
Friday 13th July 5.00-6.30pm
Australian Computer Music Association Conference 2001
School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia

WHAT IS MUSIC 2001
Saturday 3 March 2001
Revolver, 229 Chapel St, Prahran Melbourne
with: farmersmanual

Live Wires
Saturday October 28th, 7.30 pm
Old Darlington School Maze Crescent, University of Sydney


Japan Tour October 2000

Osaka Bears
Date: Sat 7 Oct at 7-10pm
Place: Osaka Bears (Osaka)
With: Takashi Watanabe + tricky OL/Robert Duckworth

Futuro Osaka
Date: 8th October 18:00-23:00
Place: cafe/antique Futuro (Minami-Horie, osaka)
With: -
karaft takashi kojima (computer)
kazuya ichigami (computer) ,
yukinori kikuchi (computer & sampler)
duo tricky OL robert Duckworth (computer) & Rod Schrock (computer) from USA

"East" Kyoto
Date: Mon 9th October 5 pm - till late
Place : "East", Kyoto
With: UNDERCURRENT,SANSU,UNIQ, and Pi

Harajuku
Date: 15th October
Tokyo Outdoor concert in the Harajuku area of Tokyo

Hitotsubashi Daigaku University
Date: 16th of October
hitotsubashi daigaku - (University in Tokyo)


interFACES.
8pm, Saturday 8th July 2000
Pot Music Bar Petrie Terrace, Brisbane
Australian Computer Music Association Conference 2000
5th - 8th July 2000
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.


> .......... Press

v i t a l w e e k l y 214
Fri, 25 Feb 2000
Pi - IRRATIONAL (LP by Psychopyjama) I came across the name Psychopyjama before and for some reason I forgot, I associated them with plunderphonica in the vein of People Like Us, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, but maybe I am wrong. This LP by this greek sign I don't have on my computer (I believe it means 'alpha' - err. help!) is made up with synths (maybe 95%), and musique concreteish sound processing. One side has rather short tracks which are pretty much to the point. The three longer cuts on the other side reminded me more of the non-keyboard electronics of Conrad Schnitzler. Quite nice stuff. The overall feel of this record is rather 80s when people released their music on self-produced labels in these sort of silk-screened jackets and small magazines like Vital (in case anybody remembers our old paper version) supported that. Nothing changed - we still like to support that! (FdW) Address: psychopyjama@hotmail.com www.staalplaat.com

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Artist:pi Title:Irrational Label:Psychopajama (self-release) PJ3106
This truly is electronic music. It's the sound of atoms and molecules, photons and quanta, organic but at a fundamental level. Duo Jon Drummond and John Encarnacao compose with analogues old and new, with a little help from our friend Audiomulch, the software synth of choice for the discerning bleep engineer. You can download a shareware version of it from http://www.audiomulch.com/ John 1 tells us he ventured all the way to the Czech Republic to get a vinyl pressing, and he hopes that the vinyl will be a drawcard itself. I can't help but agree, because this is esoteric music, so any extra audience will be welcome. It would be fantastic material for any chillout set, the throbbing spikiness of the sounds and the tenaciousness of the rhythms providing the perfect counterpoint to your pads and reverbs. In the living room chez Plastique I find it annoying getting up and turning it over all the time - I'd prefer to have it on full repeat in the CD player. Think Kazumichi Grime, think Size. This is definitely one for the ausemusic-ers out there. Connections: psychopyjama@hotmail.com

From: "Andrew Kettle (atmospheric disturbances)" Subject: Pi Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:23:30 +1000 You are a Butch of Bloody Brilliant Chaps! What was this parcel .... a record? .... F*ck, after all this time this is the second piece of black disc that has been sent ..... But, shot me with a harpoon giun! What an excellent piece of work! You guys/gals have a great release here..... WILL FLOG IT TO DEATH!!!!


p's debut album, pressed on vinyl in the Czech Republic, is irrational. two sides offer marked contrasts, one comprised of 10 short, sharp slaps, experiments that last from 9 seconds to 5 minutes that sometimes stray into lop-sided beats. the other side consists of slow, glacial movements - erratic and disturbing ambience.

one could compare p to autechre or oval; but just as relevant points of departure might be the tape works of Stockhausen and Xenakis and the French musique concrete of the '40s and '50s.

p is Jon Drummond, an authority on computer music and 3D sound modelling and John Encarnacao, a self-confessed technophobe with an ear for inspired noise, as expressed on a previous psychopyjama release under the name St Crustacean - Fantastique.

p's debut album, pressed on vinyl in the Czech Republic, is irrational. two sides offer marked contrasts, one comprised of 10 short, sharp slaps, experiments that last from 9 seconds to 5 minutes that sometimes stray into lop-sided beats. the other side consists of slow, glacial movements - erratic and disturbing ambience. title: irrational cat #: PJ 3106 MP3 clips from the album cornfed.mp3 snuffie truck.mp3 croak.mp3 mingmong.mp3 io.mp3 enside.mp3 for more information and orders email: psychopyjama@hotmail.com smail: p.o. box A682 Sydney South 1235