The new album Yes To Fear, Yes To Desire is currently at the pressing plant in Melbourne and will be released on Sensory Projects on the 8th August 2009.
Here is a taste of the artwork, featuring the beautiful illustrations by Steve Phillips:
In anticipation of the new and upcoming Panoptique Electrical album Yes To Fear, Yes To Desire on Sensory Projects (release date 8 August), I wanted to announce the five city Australian tour dates:
August 2009
Adelaide – Friday 7 - EMU Space: Adelaide University
Mount Gambier (SA) – Sunday 9 - Varcoe’s Foundry
Melbourne – Thursday 13 – The Curtin Bandroom
Canberra – Wednesday 19 – Front Gallery & Café
Sydney – Sunday 23 - Don’t Look Gallery
Highly recommended for Adelaide audiences is this:
http://delacatessen.wordpress.com/
A series of experimental, exploratory and immersive music performances/concerts at the very beautiful De La Catessen in Adelaide.
As of today, I can proudly announce that I will be working as the composer on State Theatre Company of SA’s production of King Lear, which has a season from 31 October – 21 November this year at the Dunstan Playhouse.
Information can be found here: http://www.statetheatrecompany.com.au/kinglear.aspx
From about mid-year onwards, I am being commissioned to develop new sound work for the Belgium based performance company, SOIT. The project is called WE WAS THEM and the sound will be developed concurrently via remote correspondance and onsite in Brussels in Sept/Oct.
Project details here: http://www.soit.info/we_was_.html
PANOPTIQUE ELECTRICAL – Performing live at Spectrum Project Space, Perth WA Australia: 19 Dec 2008.
Video by Martyn Coutts.
I am currently seeking admissions and submissions from a willing public: recorded and/or written stories, sounds, noise, anecdotes, nightmares and confessionals about attempts at living a life online.
Some questions to consider:
When living a life on the internet, what kind of connections, good or bad or indifferent, do you make? Do you make real friends or imaginary ones? Do you make love online? Is there flesh contact or constant ether? Did you think you knew someone, only to find out a) they didn’t exist in the first place or b) were constantly telling lies? Do you feel more connected or more isolated when socialising on the inter-web?
This material will be gathered as a kind of sonic library to be developed into an audio-museum project called Faceless Music – http://www.faceless-music.net –
Part One of this project is entitled: Alone & Lonely. It is about building an anti-social networking environment, devoid of faces, emptied of visual stimulation.
Submit your recordings (mp3), video links, texts or any media fragments to:
admissions (at) faceless-music.net
OR
http://faceless-music.ning.com
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This project is being assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
To be researched, composed and created as part of an Inter-arts Office Self-Initiated Residency at CIA Studios, Perth WA, Australia (November 2008 – January 2009).
tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow: volume one marks the beginning of an ongoing series of loosely-themed sound&fury compilations.
features a new track by panoptique electrical ‘all that fall’ and an unreleased pretty boy crossover track ‘distant thought piano’.
more details and to purchase visit sound&fury website:
http://www.soundandfury.com.au/010.html
This article appeared in The Age newspaper in Melbourne on Monday 29 September but you can read it here at Dan Rule’s blog page
http://danrule.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/panoptique-electrical-ambient-material-sees-light-of-day/