Forenzics

As part of Sydney’s Fringe Festival, the awesome folks at Glebe’s premier Jazz venue, Colbourne Ave have asked us to push the audio/visual boundaries into free synesthesia once more.

We’ll take you on a dark, noir-ish journey of sound and vision, with our sonic instincts and improvisation styles transforming post-rock, noise, jazz and electronic influences into an absolutely unique and engaging live experience. All enhanced by the intense yet atmospheric large scale live projections courtesy of RedCell Disorder.

The band’s line up for this show will feature, Dirk Kruithof on Guitar/Bass, Matthew Syres on Guitar, Joe Cummins on Trumpet, and Evan McGregor on Drums.

We’ll be playing two sets in this intimate and comfortable BYO venue.  Doors open at 8pm, advance tickets available through The Sydney Fringe Website or on the door.

Forenzics will once again play their completely improvised, post rock influenced, experimental music at the Gladstone Hotel, 115 Regent St, Chippendale, Sydney.  This time we’ll be playing alongside Helpful Kitchen Gods, Honey Buckets and Curb, Sunday 27th October.

Our lineup for this show will be Matthew Syres on Guitar, Dirk Kruithof on Bass, Joe Cummins on Trumpet and Mystery Man on Drums.

Doors open at 5pm, entry is free, and the beer is cheap.

Forenzics play an intimate two set show in Macleay Bookshop, 103 Macleay St, Potts Point, Wednesday 22nd May from 6 – 8pm. Featuring Dirk Kruithof and Matthew Syres on guitars, and Joe Cummins on trumpet, Forenzics’ free improvisations will draw on post-rock, free jazz and soundscape influences to produce a unique experience in sound.  This show is likely to see the quieter, more introspective and abstracted side of Forenzics’ sound as suited to the intimate nature of the venue. For more info and updates check out the facebook event here.

Been a bit slow on the blog posts but just had to post about this great all-improvised gig coming up.

It’s a Sounds Unsound Presents gig so you know it’s going to be something special!

Featuring a brand new guitar duo comprising Matthew Syres (Forenzics, Strange, Jekyll Switch) and Pete Jones (Whore, Psychic Date, Axis) to open the night, followed by the incomparable Louis Burdett doing a solo set on drums and electronics, then finishing up with Forenzics featuring Joe Cummins on trumpet, Dirk Kruithof on bass, Matthew Syres on guitar and a Special Guest drummer.

Visuals will be supplied by RedCell Disorder – not to be missed.

Doors Open at 7pm, Saturday January 19th 2013.  Tickets are $10 on the door.  Town and Country Hotel, 2 Unwins Bridge Road, St Peters, NSW.

Forenzics are playing a free gig with Psychic Date, Galaxy Fuzz Band and Helpful Kitchen Gods, Sunday 18th March 2012, at The Gladstone Hotel, 115 Regent Street, Chippendale.  We’re on first, a little after 5pm.  Dirk (guitar), Matthew (guitar), Joe (trumpet), will be joined once again by Forenzics regular yet quite extraordinary Alex Slater (drums).  We’ve also got the awesome RedCell Disorder doing visuals for us once again.  Come along for some cheap beer and even cheaper live music.  We’ll also be selling our latest CD Build Ruins released on the New Weird Australia’s New Editions label.

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.

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…

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 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.