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Sound Series #15 Review

12 November 2011 by , No Comments

Live Performance of Forenzics at Hardware Gallery, Enmore

Closeup of Dirk Kruithof at Hardware Gallery, Enmore

Realtime Arts have posted a review of Sound Series #15, as part of their look into Sydney’s experimental music scene.  We played this gig back in July at Hardware Gallery, Enmore alongside Textile Audio, Secrets and Toydeath, who were in fine form.  On the night we played with Alex Slater on drums for the second time and Joe Cummins on trumpet as usual.  I feel that we may almost have a regular line up now at long last with these awesome players.  Anyway here’s an excerpt from the review.

Forenzics have been around since 2005 but I hadn’t heard them play. With Matthew Syres on guitar and way too many effects pedals, Dirk Kruithof on lead guitar, Joe Cummins on trumpet and Kaos pad and Alex Slater on drums they play loose yet utterly cohesive improv inflected with jazz, rock, drone and psychedelia. Joe Cummin’s trumpet loops and soaring melodies are a particular highlight creating a smoky, sensual atmosphere and the rhythmic interplay, pushing against the metre with loping rubatos, gives the sound an intriguing elasticity. It occurred to me that music is best when it picks you up and takes you somewhere you didn’t know you wanted to go, and Forenzics did just that.

Gail Priest, Realtime Arts, Issue 104, Aug-Sept 2011

For the full review of the entire gig and also a look at The Now Now’s show from round about the same time, go to Realtime Arts website here.  The images from the gig are taken by Lucien Alperstein, Sound Series’ official photographer.

Forenzics Play Sound Series #15

21 July 2011 by , No Comments

Just a quick one, we’re playing this Friday night at Hardware Gallery, 263 Enmore Road, Enmore, with Textile Audio, Secrets, and the circuit bent madness of Toydeath. Our line up for this one will be Dirk Kruithof on toy guitar, Alex Slater on drums, Matthew Syres on guitar, and Joe Cummins on trumpet/kaoss. Awesome visuals once again provided by RedCell.

Doors open at 7.30pm.

Running Times:

8.15 – Textile Audio
9.00 – Secrets
9.40 – Forenzics
10.20 – Toydeath

It’s also the last chance to see Lucien Alperstein’s exhibition ‘Water and Music’ which features some stunning ocean photos alongside a photographic retrospective of the last 18 months of Sound Series.

Free beer, wine and soft drink!

More info and RSVP on Facebook here.

Build Ruins Released

21 July 2011 by , No Comments

Our new album Build Ruins was officially released on the 13th June 2011 on New Weird Australia‘s, New Editions Label.  You can purchase the album as a limited edition CD or pay what you like digital download here.

Thanks again to Michelle Barry, William Bowden and Ryota Yamamura for helping us make such an awesome sounding record, and Stuart Buchanan for releasing it.

Build Ruins Album Launch

6 June 2011 by , No Comments

We are proud to announce the imminent release and launch of our third album, Build Ruins, recorded back in 2009 with Japanese artist Ryota Yamamoto on electronics and Joe Cummins on trumpet. The album was recorded and mixed by Michelle Barry, mastered by William Bowden, and is being released by New Weird Australia’s New Editions label.  The album and poster artwork was created by Heath Killen, New Weird Australia’s resident designer and looks great.   Without a doubt this is our best album to date, both sonically and visually, thanks so much to everyone who’s helped to make it so.

Anyway come help us celebrate at FBI Social, Level 2, Kings Cross Hotel, 248 William Street, Kings Cross, Thursday 16th June, 8pm.  $10.

Supporting will be Domeyko/Gonzalez, Jusgo Mosh and Robot House with visuals supplied once again by RedCell.  It’s also being simulcast on FBI Radio from 9pm, thanks FBI!

For more info check out the facebook event here.

Forenzics Live at Tone, 5th April 2011 – Video

6 June 2011 by , No Comments

Forenzics gig at Tone 5-04-11 from Shahane Bekarian on Vimeo.

Forenzics Recorded Live at Tone, 5th April 2011

19 April 2011 by , No Comments

If you missed our intense gig with Louis Burdett a couple of weeks back, here it is in it’s entirety for your listening pleasure. Also available for free download if you just can’t live without it…

Forenzics to support seminal UK act – The A Band

17 March 2011 by , No Comments

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…

The Sounds Unsound Presents….

18 January 2011 by , No Comments

…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.

Forenzics on tour!

1 November 2010 by , No Comments

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!

The Sounds Unsound Festival Complete Details – April 2nd 2010

20 March 2010 by , No Comments

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.