the NOW now Festival 2018

Over three days and five nights at 107 projects in Redfern, close to 100 musicians, performers, sound artists and installation builders will dig into the sonic architecture of the moment.

Let’s start the year amazed. 

In the gallery and performance room, a scheduled program of events will form the backbone of the festival. Upstairs in the rooftop gallery, The Splinter Orchestra will host an evolving installation and collaborative space for the duration of the festival. 

This is what we’re here for. 

Welcome to the NOW now 2018.  A festival curated by the artists. 

JANUARY 24-28, 2018 107 PROJECTS 107 REDFERN STREET, REDFERN

107projects.org

$20 per night $80 festival pass

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 24, 2018

7:00 Simon Barker, drums Claire Edwardes, percussion Bree van Reyk, drums Nat Grant, percussion

7:45 MIRROR UNIT Georg Wissel (Germany), alto saxophone & Timothy O’Dwyer (Singapore), alto saxophone

8:30 Ned Collette voice and guitar Steve Heather, drums Judith Hamann, cello With special guests

Enjoy a video teaser

9:30 NORTH OF NORTH Erkki Veltheim, violins Anthony Pateras, piano Scott Tinkler, trumpet

10:15 Mette Rasmussen (Denmark), alto saxophone Clayton Thomas, double bass Chris Abrahams, piano Sofia Jernberg (Sweden), voice

11:00 Del Lumanta, keyboards, electronics Lucy Claire, drum machines, electronics

THURSDAY JANUARY 25, 2018

7:00 BREADWOMAN Anna Holmer (AKA Breadwoman), voice & video w/ Meg Clune, electronics WITH THANKS TO LIQUID ARCHITECTURE

7:30 Jerrah Patston with Sam Worrad & Jerry Kahale

8:15 Sten Sandall (Sweden), solo piano

9:00 Jon Rose, violins Steve Heather, drums Julia Reidy, guitar

9:45 Sabine Masselli, electronics and projections

10:15 PROPAN (Norway) Natali Abrahamsen Garner, vocals & effects,  Ina Sagstuen, vocals & effects

A sample

11:00 Mette Rasmussen (Denmark), alto saxophone Paal Nilssen-Love (Norway), drums

FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2018

PLAYING IN A WARZONE.  Invasion Day.  Curated by Sass Hound

Come shuffle and dance around the poisoned water hole that has been refurbished to form the “new” Redfern. Come on the day of grieving, the day of survival and mourning that is Invasion Day….that the invaders and press call “Australia Day”

Expect a combination of music that shakes the earth, performance and spoken word that rattles the cages, video, installation and art that is mashed over and under the history of the Block. The music will not fit into a genre but will be performed by both Aboriginal and non Aboriginal Artists who make work that wants to change things.

The artworks and installations will not make you feel like your on a holiday and the images will surround you and reflect the blood-soaked truths that define this date on the calendar. Them same ones that speak to the reality of the place we share. featuring Sass Hound, Divide and Dissolve, and many others. 

Doors at 7pm. 

Announcements of acts and artists will come closer to the event though nothing will be predicted or promised only reclaimed, reminded and resounding…like an echo that is so loud you feel the impact in your sternum.. then in your skull then eventually your heart and guts.

Updates will be posted at thenownow2018.net

SATURDAY JANUARY 27, 2018

AFTERNOON CONCERTS

3:00 Joseph Tabua, solo guzheng

BATTLE AX Beatrix Čurran (Austria), viola

IGNITE (Sweden) Casey Moir, voice & Johan Moir, double bass

BLEURGH Melanie Louise Eden, voice Sam Barr, drums Clement Girault, guitar Miguel Filipe Vanezuela, electronics Jax Wechsler, visuals Scott Gorden-Gillespie, guitar Daniel Jacobson, bass

SATURDAY EVENING PROGRAM

6:00 SO PREDICTABLE?!  THE FUTILE RESEARCH LAB Ollie Bown, electronics and programming Lian Loke Kirsten Packham, Sam Ferguson, Liam Bray, Angelo Fraietta, Andrew Simpson and Nila Rezaei, movement. 

6:45 Bonnie Lander (US), voice Cor Fuhler electronics Judith Hamann, cello

7:30 Kynan Tan, Solo electronics

8:00 Sten Sandell (Sweden), piano Paal-Nilssen Love, (Norway), drums

8:45 REBEL SCUM Bonnie Stewart percussion Rhys Mottley, guitar

9:30 Sofia Jernberg (Sweden), voice Sonya Holowell, voice Freya Schack-Arnott, cello

10:15 Alon Ilsar, live processing Adam Pultz Melbye, double bass Scott McConnachie, alto saxophone (Melb)

11:00 JONO MILO Jonathan Lockhart (US), electronics

SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 2018

3:00 SPLINTER ORCHESTRA ALL VENUE PERFORMANCE

4:00: Sam Longmore (NZ), electronics

4:30 Jo Burzynska, electronics and olfactory experiences

5:15 Alexandra Spence, tapes, electronics & clarinet

6:00,  Goh Lee Kwang, (Malaysia), electronics Amanda Stewart, voice Andrew Fedorovitch, saxophones Peter Farrar, saxophones

6:45 CLUB SOUND WITCHES Matt Earle, electronics Nicola Morton, electronics

7:30 IM/MODESTY s.i.a. instruments, manipulation Kate Ahmad, Hannah de Feyter, Irfan Master - voices

9:00 NADIR Alex White, electronics Ben Byrne, electronics

PROGRAM MAY CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK WEBSITE FOR UPDATES thenownow2018.net

THE SPLINTERVERSE UPSTAIRS ROOFTOP GALLERY JAN 24, 25, 27 & 28, 2018 FROM 7PM

Is it a Multiverse? Is it a parallel world? Is it a Hologram? No - it’s Splinterverse

An installation/happening/durational-performance taking place upstairs at 107 over the 4 days of the festival.  No pieces, no movements, no showcase, no program - just a commitment to explore an ongoing socio/musical experiment that no one person can perceive in it’s entirety.  Danger, when you enter the Splinterverse a different cosmological constant means the normal laws of art don’t apply. Kid friendly!

Updates will be posted each day.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/events/191069671462046/

Source: https://www.emus.space/archive/2018/1/24/the-now-now-festival-2018