- Guest presenters Katerina Stathis & Puscha - Box Radio Live.
Date: 10th of November, 6:30 to 9pm.
Howler Theatre room. (Back room) Entry is FREE!
First hour - Synth meet. Bring in a piece of gear, share and chat hardware. (Instructions in last paragraph).
Second hour - Guest presenters Kat Stathis & Puscha play live then we chat to them about their live hardware workflow and more.
Katerina Stathis is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Her synthesiser sound palate draws from her extensive interest and appreciation for acoustic instrumental timbes in combination with highly visceral electronic evocations. She began her journey with hardware synths when MESS opened 10 years ago, having never previously engaged in electronic music making. This life-changing discovery has since fuelled an enduring passion and practice of digging and sculpting analog sounds.
I asked Katerina if she has been working on anything special and she answered: "Experimenting with recreating baroque riffs and trying to lean into the orchestral timbres I hear. I think my main focus has been using the synth like an instrument that can comfortably sit in an orchestra and concentrating on the sound collisions that happen with acoustic and electronic sounds. For this set part of what I will play will be a solo I notated in Sibelius for modular for my folio last year called Ecdysis. It’s fairly heavily influenced by Purcell’s Dido’s lament (when I m laid in earth) and Mozart lacrimosa… amongst other works that I have spent time with in my formative years as a classical singer and violinist"
Over my untrained head but I am sure some of you muso's might be able to explain it in laymans terms for me. ;)
Puscha is an experimental electronic artist and film composer from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. With minimalist compositional approaches employed with hyperactivity and rhythmic ambiguity, they create hypnotic, post-ambient auditory spaces and musical impressions that eschew background and dancefloor prosaic. Taking wide influence from 20th century classical to psychedelic, deep global music to ambient techno and beyond, their music explores psychoacoustic and acousmatic modalities with the aim of provoking catharsis and deeper listening.
Puscha sat was one of TSP's first interviewees. More information and links to the TSP YouTube here.
Finally - Box Radio plays their debut live set.
Box Radio is an electronic artist whose influences span New Wave, indie-alternative rock, and various electronic genres. After years of exploring electronic instruments and producing music, Box Radio has created a live set that bridges the gap between these styles. The resulting tracks focus on limitation, improvisation, and sonic exploration, all contained within an instrumental pop structure. The performance centres on two keyboards, modular gear, guitar pedals, and a drum machine.
You can find out more about Box Radio here.
Note it's 'burger night' at Howler. Good quality cheap burger and a beer.
See you there.
The Signal Path synth meet is a safe space. Zero tolerance on discrimination, harassment or any other emotional or physical harm. Dickheads will be shown the door. Please notify bar staff of any discretions.
6:30-7:30pm - Synth meet & share. (instructions below).
7:30-8:30pm - Guest presenters Kat Stathis & Puscha.
8:30-9pm - Box Radio Live.
Big thanks to Kevin of Stable Music and Howler for providing us with this space.
Instructions on the synth share:
Every synth meet, in the first hour, it's 'bring a synth to share'. It can be anything from a groovebox, drum machine, synth or any electronic music making box. Feel free to play with all the synths in the room, except for the live jam setup (should be in the middle of the room). There is a strictly "no drink over synths" policy. Unless it's your synth, in which case it's at your own risk! If you do plan on bringing gear (of any description) please get in touch so we make sure there is ample table space. Bring a pair of headphones as well please. Patrons also feel free to bring your own pair of headphones if that makes you more comfortable.