Forenzics

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.

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.

Just a really quick one to announce The Sounds UnSound Festival. It’s a mini festival we are curating featuring improvised, noisy, ambient, left-field experimental or out-there rock acts. We’re still in the process off lining up acts – if the above sounds like you get in touch before the bill is full.

It’s happening on the 2nd April 2010 at The Bald Faced Stag Hotel in Leichhardt, kicking off at 2pm. We’ll have around 8 acts so it’s sure to be worth a look if you’re into the weird stuff.

More info to come…

Thanks to everyone who made it down to the Static and SIlence Album Launch, we had a blast! Defektro started off the night in great style with his solo noise show – moving from ambient to drone to full on noise with the aid of bizarre hand crafted instruments played through his huge array of effects. Very very impressive. Check him out if you get a chance!

Following up we had the experimental noise pop of Newcastle’s Crab Smasher, definitely a band after our own hearts, playing an intense and almost punk inspired (post-punk anyone…) set with drums, guitar, bass, keys and occasional vocals.

Varlets were next and made a hell of a lot of noise for a two piece playing a very short crunchy crowd pleasing set with drums, guitar and mixing desk (yes mixing desk…).

We were last up and I could not be happier with our show, I felt we really gelled and were as together as we’ve ever been playing experimental improvised music in Forenzics. Thanks to everyone who hung around to the end of our set, I know midnight is pretty late on a school night.

Also thanks to Sue at the Excelsior for booking us, Dylan for mixing us, Tim for his lighting wizardry, Ed for his video work, and Michelle for the thankless task of selling our stuff on the night.

I’ll be posting some video and possibly a link to a review over the next few days.

Once again thanks for making it such an excellent night!

We’ve finalised the line up for the album launch with the addition of the excellently noisy Defektro from Japan, founding member of the infamous Defektro Noise Army. He’ll be starting at 8.30pm sharp so don’t be late! Also adding to the mayhem will be Crab Smasher from Newcastle, local lads Varlets and of course Forenzics, for this performance consisting of Matthew Syres – guitar, Dirk Kruithof – guitar/vox, Joe Cummins – Trumpet/Kaoss and Evan McGregor – Drums.

All the other details are still the same: Wednesday 17th February, The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, 8pm to midnight.

So if you like noise/drone/improvised/ambient/experimental or just plain f**ked up music then this is the gig for you.

Check out the new tracks from static and silence on our music page and also www.reverbnation.com/forenzics. Here’s a tasty one to get you started – Womb 1.0

We’re pleased to announce that Forenzics will launch our new album Static and Silence on Wednesday the 17th February, at The Excelsior Hotel (64 Foveaux Street Surry Hills) with supports Crabsmasher (Newcastle) and Varlets, with more to be announced. Come along, we’ll be selling the new disc on the night for a special discount price to celebrate!

Today Forenzics are proud to announce Forenzics Radio – a streaming audio player containing all sorts of weird and wonderful offcuts from the improvised musical process that is Forenzics. Full of unreleased, demo, live and poorly recorded improvisations we’ve recorded over the years with many more to come.

Shoji Hano rocks out during his Now Now show on Sunday night in The Big Room, Newtown.

Japanese drummer Shoji Hano completely blew me away last night at a Now Now gig in the Big Room, Newtown. Playing a blistering solo set, his intensity, passion, power and technique left me a little deaf but happy. Check out his website www.shojihano.com. Two laptop acts followed him – one a duo comprising Ben Byrne and Ivan Lysiak playing choppy crunchy sounds, the other Gilles Aubry from Berlin playing field recordings overlaid with some pretty harsh and torturous drones. Check out upcoming gigs at www.thenownow.net.