Forenzics

My apologies if you’ve been trying to access forenzics.net today, I had some issues linking this new blog to the also brand new Forenzics site. I’ll hopefully resolve these issues in the next couple of days but for now you’ll have to make do with this blog. Click on the links to the right to access all our content; music on bandcamp, video’s on vimeo, images on flickr, news on twitter etc. I will be bringing all this content together again in a new forenzics.net site – I just need to work out some of the web tech stuff that I am (obviously) crap at.

This new blog does allow us to have posts by the other members of Forenzics now, and is also comment enabled should you feel the urge to engage us outside of the realms of facebook. Give it a few days, then feel free to let us know what you think of the new blog and site design, features, function or whatever.

Flyer for seminal UK free improvisation collective The A Band. Featuring supports Forenzics, Violence in Action and Hinterlandt. Tone, 16 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia. 5th April 2011

Thanks to the wonderful guys over at Bird’s Robe, we are proud to support seminal UK free improvisation collective The A Band.  More info to come…

…a night of improvised, experimental or just plain weird music featuring Forenzics, Jusgo Mosh, UND and Espadrille. Tuesday January 25th 2011 at The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux St Surry Hills. Doors open at 8pm. Tickets are $10 on the door.

To listen and download free tracks by the artists click this link.

For more info including running times, details of the bands, and to RSVP go to the Facebook Event Here.

Tour may be a slight exaggeration but it is our first time playing out of Sydney metro, inner city scumbags that we are. So we’re heading down to Austinmer on Thursday the 11th November to play a gig for the 1/4_inch crew at The Headlands Hotel along with P.A. and Clocks and Clouds. Doors open at 8pm, only $5!

From 1/4_inch…

Audio and Video in one seamless feedback loop. Phil Williams and Andrew Gaddow return to 1/4_inch to give Wollongong another amazing show of light and sound. The beautiful melodies, purpose built instruments and haunting tones of Clocks and Clouds will take you to another dimension and 1st timers Forenzics an improvised musical collective from Sydney play psych, drone, art/post-rock, and post-punk leanings make their debut at 1/4_inch with VJ Shahane Bekarian.

We’ll be playing with Finn Ryan on drums, Joe on Trumpet on Kaoss, Dirk on who knows what , me on the usual assortment of pedals connected to my guitar, and Red Cell on visuals, all together for the first time. Check twitter or facebook for late breaking news.

Please RSVP on the Facebook event here!

Okay loads of news to catch up on….

We’ve played two gigs since my last post. Hopefully you’ve all been keeping up to date via twitter, myspace and facebook. If not – my apologies. We supported the excellent Duchesses at the Excelsior Hotel on the 21st October as part of Bird’s Robe Collective’s Menagerie 2010. Check them out – they a great blend of Mogwai, Sonic Youth, Interpol and even a bit of The Church in there. Joining us on stage for that gig was Finn Ryan on drums who did an awesome job.

On Saturday 30th October we played as part of Electric Brain, a group show consisting of some 15 print, ink, photo and paint artists. We played for the very first time with improvised visuals, provided by Red Cell, projected on a massive translucent screen in front of us – way cool. Video of the show to come…

We’re headlining once again, this time at a gig presented by The 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival at the Sandringham Hotel, 387 King St Newtown, NSW, 2042. We’ll be joined on stage once again by regular collaborator Joe Cummins (The Splinter Orchestra) on trumpet and Kaoss, and Aemon Webb (Varlets, Nhomea) on drums.

Sharing the bill will be Violence in Action, a massive John Zorn inspired, improvised yet conducted game piece collective founded by Lachlan Kerr and featuring members from Godswounds, Darth Vegas, Squid, Ebolie, Shanghai, Slimey Things, Telafonica and more.

Also supporting are the enigmatic folk rock and punk act The Effing Seas, and psych pop 4 piece from Wollongong Ye Luddites.

We’re headlining at the Gladstone Hotel, 115 Regent Street, Chippendale, this Sunday the 5th September, from 5pm – 10pm. Supporting are Helpful Kitchen Gods, Special Patrol Group, and The Far Canals. Best of all it’s free! We’ll be joined on stage by regular collaborator Joe Cummins (Splinter Orchestra) on trumpet/kaoss, and Aemon Webb (Nhomeas, Varlets) on drums once again. We’ll be aiming to play for an hour from 9pm sharp so don’t be late!

I’ve finally got around to reworking this site to reflect our latest release – Static and Silence. I had planned to get this happening for the release date but was too swamped at the time to complete it – and figure out all the insane workarounds that come with the iweb territory. I believe things are better in the latest version, though I don’t have it yet.

I’ve also completely redesigned (can you redesign it when you didn’t design it in the first place?) our myspace page along similar lines, complete with a live shot of us at the album launch – courtesy of hopliteandpackhorse. I used one of the templates and followed the instructions available from myspace band support, a great resource for the html challenged like me. So if you’re sick of your current site give it a go – if I can do it almost anyone can.

In the near future I’ll be replacing the image and video pages with feeds from our flickr and youtube (or possibly vimeo) pages, saving much double handling and also allowing access to great looking and sounding HD videos right here.

Should be lots more posts coming in the next week or so, including the sounds unsound festival wrap up, our latest gig at the Excelsior Hotel, drummers and more…

The Sounds UnSound Festival is a one-day event held on April 2nd 2010 focusing on the
experimental, improvised, noise, and left-field musical fringe of Sydney and beyond.

Curated by Forenzics’ Matthew Syres and Dirk Kruithof, and presented by Cadence Commotions, 12 unique acts will be appearing throughout the festival. Artists playing on the day are Japanese noise maestro Defektro, Forenzics of course, Chippendale improv group The nHOMEas, local circuit-benders Toydeath, the infamous broken glass vocalist Justice Yeldham, audio-visualists Infinite Decimals, bass/drum duo The BZNZZ, the ramshackle Prehistoric Fuckin’ Moron(s), the computerised Scissor Lock, ambient guitar of The Not Too Distant Future and guitar and sax wrongness of Baad Jazz.

It’s on at The Wall (The Bald Faced Stag), 345 Parramatta Road Leichhardt NSW 2040, 2pm to 10pm, and is $15 on the door. The event promises to be filled with sounds, surprises, experimentations, and a collaborative free-for-all performance entitled The Sounds UnSound Trainwreck taking place at the end of the night and featuring whoever we can fit on the stage, improvising together for the first time.

The Sounds UnSound Festival, for people who don’t ‘do’ Easter.

For more info visit the offical site.

Forenzics are curating a mini festival on the 2nd of April at The Bald Faced Stag Hotel, 345 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt NSW 2049. It’s from 2pm in the afternoon to 10pm, features about 10 acts – including Defektro, Toy Death, Forenzics, Infinite Decimals, Nhomeas and Baad Jazz with more to be announced. It’s a festival of experimental, improvised or just plain weird music. Go to www.myspace.com/thesoundsunsoundfestival for more info.