A live set and a chat with Cycle~ 440, a semi-improvisational electro-acoustic duo that fuses acoustic piano with extensive laptop sampling and processing. Sam Gillies and Kevin Penkin met while studying a Bachelor of Music at WAAPA. Cycle~ 440 was formed in 2009 when they […]
Perth experimental duo Solo Andata – Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco – join Stu Buchanan for a chat and a short in-studio live session. Published 19 July 2012. Subscribe to the New Weird Australia podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
New Weird Australia has been on the road over the last short while, presenting a number of gigs around the country as part of our ‘open source’ gig series, Vagrant. We’re stopping off in Brisbane this week, listening to sets recorded at The Waiting Room […]
A live session and interview with Kevin Purdy, aka Purdy, to coincide with the release of his new album ‘Illumination’. Kevin Purdy has been creating music all his life. A multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, producer whose music catalogue, dating back to the late 70’s, is enormous. […]
New Weird Australia came together with the This Thing label in Melbourne recently for the second instalment of the ‘open source’ gig series, Vagrant. In this episode, we going to hear live sets from the gig at The Workers Club in Fitzroy – first up, […]
The second instalment of our ‘open source’ gig series, Vagrant, took place in Melbourne recently, and it saw us getting together with the This Thing label for a bunch of great electronic-based sets. We’re dedicating this episode to one of those sets from Vagrant – […]
This week we feature a live set from new Sydney three-piece Gold Model. The members of the band are by no means new to music-making – lead vocalist Zed Female (otherwise known as Christina Harvey) can be found in a number of projects, most notably […]
We’re diving into modular synthesis, with a live set from Nadir – a collaboration between Sydney artist Alex White and Melbourne’s Ben Byrne – and Pia Van Gelder, co-director of the upcoming Moduluxxx Festival, described as something between “a museum, a LAN party and a […]
This week, a two-part live session from Sydney four-piece Roboter Haus. Born out of the Refraction sound collective, Roboter Haus create experimental music that moves through an eclectic mix of genres, such as post-rock, turntabalism, Indian classical and metal. Published 19 April 2012. Subscribe to […]
Sydney’s Emily Gratham is a young producer who submitted a series of off-kilter electronic demos to New Weird Australia. We loved them so much, we’re releasing them as her debut EP through our Wood And Wire imprint. In this episode, Emily plays a special live […]
Seaworthy is the musical / sound recording project of Australian Cameron Webb, whose upcoming project is released through Flaming Pines, a label run by sound artist Kate Carr. We talk to Kate about the genesis of the label and its latest releases, and hear a […]
No Anchor formed in Brisbane in 2007, playing their own unique variation of ‘sludge doom’ with two bass guitarists and a drummer. To date they have recorded three albums, most recently the acclaimed ‘Real Pain Supernova’. Ambrose Chapel is Ian’s laptop doom solo project – […]
