OPEN FRAME - DAY #2

Tujiko Noriko, Lawrence English, John Chantler (trio)
Dolphins into the Future
Tomasz Bednarczyk
Makino Takashi film screenings

Tujiko Noriko / Lawrence English / John Chantler (trio)

After a sold-out show at Cafe Oto last year, Tujiko Noriko, Lawrence English and John Chantler reconvene for a set of analog electronics, laptop interjections and brushed rhythms, ushering in the rare and exotic reality Tujiko Noriko evokes through her curiously dream-like songs. The trio released 'U' on ROOM40 in 2008. Following on from the acclaimed ‘Blurred In My Mirror (ROOM40, 2005), ‘U’ is a record of phases and exchanges between Paris and Brisbane over a three year period It is also by far one of Noriko’s most affecting records. It’s also one of her most eclectic, littered with songs that tell of moments of absolute loss and unrelenting ecstasy.

www.tujikonoriko.com | www.room40.org/releases-u.shtml

Dolphins into the Future

Amazing, new-age-no-fi ocean jams and odd echolations, Dolphins into the future is a one-man tape-loop blue-age ambient project executed by Belgian Cetacean Nation ambassador Lieven Martens. We've had trouble taking his stuff off the stereo. In someway aligned to the skaters/hypnagogic pop axis, Dolphins have an LP on Not Not Fun and a bunch of CDr/tape murk that is only generally available from sites with 4 kazillion pop-up ads. Come and catch it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jeQ1Gj2OQQ

Tomasz Bednarczyk

Tomasz Bednarczyk is a young artist from Wroclaw, Poland. His music is a fragile, considered exploration in minimalism. Bednarczyk relishes the intimacy of his sound world, taking the most restrained compositional actions and allowing them to unfold with a hazy stillness that blurs time.

www.room40.org/releases-paintingsky.shtml

Makino Takashi

MAKINO Takashi belongs to the new generation of Japanese experimental film makers. While studying at the Nippon University he made several Super-8 films. In 2001 he served his apprenticeship with the Quay Brothers. In Japan in 2007 he had his breakthrough with his film No is E, which received the Tereyama Shuji award at the Image Forum Festival.

We'll be screening 'Elements of Nothing' with music by Jim O'Rourke and 'The Low Storm', soundtracked by Lawrence English.