Please join us at the Audio Foundation for the joint launch of the Paraguay Press publication Everyone Knows This is Nowhere and the Audio Foundation’s new online journal SoundBleed. This double launch will be followed by a free live performance evening featuring Max Trevor Thomas Edmond, Sean O’Reilly and Marc Matchak w/ Rebecca Friedman (US).

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7pm – Everyone Knows this Is Nowhere publication launch, drinks and discussion with Jon Bywater and Louise Menzies
8pm – SoundBleed online journal launch and performance evening featuring contributors Max Trevor Thomas Edmond, Sean O’Reilly and Marc Matchak w/ Rebecca Friedman (US)

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere , featuring contributions from Tom Lax, Paul Elliman and Jon Bywater was a component of the exhibition of the same name at castillo/corrales gallery, Paris, late last year, which touched on the world’s curiosity about things from New Zealand, including underground music
(http://castillocorrales.fr/?p=2536), and sprang from the gallery’s interest in the Audio Foundation and CMR book Erewhon Calling edited by Bruce Russell.

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The booklet includes a fable, a reminiscence, and thoughts on the objecthood of recordings, alongside snapshots by French fans of their New Zealand music collections.
Jon Bywater and Louise Menzies will discuss the project, and limited number of copies will be available for sale.
http://castillocorrales.fr/?p=1893
This discussion will be followed by the SoundBleed online journal launch and performance evening

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The Audio Foundation is proud to announce the launch of SoundBleed – an online journal of writing around sound from Aotearoa and beyond.
SoundBleed features critically engaged writing, essays, reviews and more specifically around the topic of sound and sound-related activity – launching with essays by Mark Williams, Maryanne Savage, Max Trevor Thomas Edmond, Angeline Chirnside, Sean O’Reilly and Marc Matchak, with more to come! SoundBleed seeks to address the current lack of critical writing around sound in NZ/Aotearoa – aiming to create a forum for discussion around sound-related activity and practice.
http://soundbleedjournal.wordpress.com/

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Performers:

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Max Trevor Thomas Edmond (bldbcu, Lauris, Chaat-Gi, RESEARCH, Embrace Vile Predicate) will be representing Rochelle Bridges and Stephen Dennis, a recent collaboration with Ryan Bennett of Cartoon and Butt Simpson. He will perform material from their latest Monster Car Toward Politician EP, in Ryan’s absence
Sean O’Reilly will take the time to check on the health of a small cluster of songs. He will use a single acoustic guitar that his friend found in a dump and fixed up, though there is still a big crack in the soundboard. He will stand around outside to smoke a couple of cigarettes. There may also be some awkward silences. The general theme is that of ‘feelings’ in both surfeit and deficit.

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“Musical beauty is then, entirely based on form, on tonal relationships, and not on any feelings or emotions aroused or expressed by the music” – Eduard Hanslick. Inspired by Hanslick’s philosophy on music appreciation, Marc Matchak’s collaborative Delay and/then Respond performance with Rebecca Friedman examines the different communications of a narrative through a commingling of video, sound, spoken word. What is different in hearing and listening? Is one practice more active? Does each of the complimentary forms create a whole that can be digested as such? Delay and/then Respond features a recorded spoken word performance and video by New York Artist Rebecca Friedman and a live sound performance by Marc Matchak.