TRIPTYCH: An ongoing itinerant soundclash presenting the work of independent labels and collectives - 3 labels : 3 acts : 3 perspectives.

#002
The Golden Age Of Steam (Loop Collective)
Philippe Petit (feat. Mia Zabelka + Jono Podmore/Kumo) (Bip Hop)
Ollie Bown / Peter Hollo Duo (Not Applicable / hellosQuare)

THE GOLDEN AGE OF STEAM 

The Golden Age of Steam’s music is a kaleidoscope of sounds and textures traversing a musical landscape that veers between the psychedelic and the serene. Featuring James Allsopp (Reeds) Kit Downes (Keyboards) Tim Giles (Drums) Ruth Goller (bass) and Alex Bonney (Electronics).

"they sculpt progressive aural explorations of space that range in character from avant-garde classical to deconstructed blues" - Metro

PHILIPPE PETIT (FEAT. MIA ZABELKA AND JONO PODMORE/KUMO) 

A journalist for various magazines/radios since 1983, as well as a musical activist, Philippe Petit has celebrated 30 years of activism, sharing musical passions… He is the man behind the cult labels Pandemonium Rdz. and BiP_HOp. Since the early 2000s he has been performing the world, playing festivals all over Europe, Canada, USA, Mexico, Australia & Asia... Various Sprawl events in London... Lucky to release on several international labels such as Aagoo, Southern UK, Monotype, Alrealon Musique, Beta Lactam Ring, Sub Rosa, HomeNormal, Important, HelloSquare, Public Eyesore, Utech, Staubgold, etc... Interested in soundtracks; even if he creates original music he'd rather be introduced as a "musical travel agent" than a composer. 

miazabelka.com 
www.psychomat.com


OLLIE BOWN / PETER HOLLO DUO 

When Ollie Bown arrived in Sydney in 2011 he had already made acquaintance online with Peter Hollo through Hollo’s FBi radio show Utility Fog. The pair’s shared interest in electronica and improv led them into an immediate collaboration bringing together mashed up electronic drums, live looping and soundscapes-verging-on-noise. Their live sets take the form of long structured improvisations, built around collaboratively developed custom software hacks that loop, layer and resample the cello. Bown and Hollo also play together as part of the Sydney-based quintet Tangents, an ensemble that bring them together with the wildly diverse improvisational style of Shoeb Ahmad, Evan Dorrian and Adrian Lim-Klumpes. 

Ollie Bown is a researcher, programmer and electronic music maker. He creates and performs music as one half of the duo Icarus, and performs regularly as a laptop improviser in electronic and electro-acoustic ensembles. He has worked with musicians such as Tom Arthurs, Lothar Ohlmeier and Maurizio Ravalico of the Not Applicable Artists, and Brigid Burke and Adem Ilhan of Fridge. Icarus' 2012 album Fake Fish Distribution was released in 1000 unique digital variations, questioning the concept of ownership and uniqueness in digital media artefacts. The band have produced remixes for electronic music pioneers such as Four Tet, Murcof and Caribou and recently produced software for an experimental live performance by Aphex Twin, premiered at the Barbican Hall in London in 2012. Ollie has performed at international festivals such as Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), the Sonic Arts Network Expo (UK) and AudioVisiva (Milan). He has designed interactive sound for installation projects by Squidsoup and Robococo, at venues such as the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, the Oslo Lux, the Vivid Festival, Sydney, and the Kinetica Art Fair, London. 

Peter Hollo has played cello in FourPlay String Quartet since its inception in 1995. He creates experimental music as raven using cello, piano and electronics, and recently formed two new ensembles: post-everything improv group Tangents, and indietronica trio Haunts with Greg Stone and Matt Furnell of Underlapper. Live, he sometimes performs with live laptop processing, but just as frequently uses a primitive looping pedal, and while he adopts every extended technique available to coax unusual sounds out of his cello, the aesthetic qualities of melody, harmony and rhythm the instrument makes available are never far away.
He has recorded and played live with many artists including Oren Ambarchi, Neil Gaiman, the Hinterlandt Arkestra, Sophie Hutchings, Jimmy Little, Manyfingers, Monsieur Camembert, Ollo, Part Timer, Mark Pritchard. Peter hosts a long-running show on Sydney's FBi Radio called Utility Fog, which explores “postfolkrocktronica” (a term he's created to cover music from post-rock to experimental electronica, especially music on the cusp between digital and acoustic). He also writes music reviews for Sydney-based electronic music magazine Cyclic Defrost.