austraLYSIS and SOMA ARTS
Creating, performing and publishing new sound and intermedia arts internationally.

Current/ Recent/ Upcoming /in Sydney

May 9 2013: austraLYSIS at the Playhouse, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood campus (13.00), including sound, text, av work and a premiere. ... March 2013: John Shand of the Sydney Morning Herald on our MultiPiano ablum: ‘trail-blazing’, ‘surprising and disquieting’, ‘exquisite’, ‘crystalline or tumultuous’, ‘brilliant musicianship’, ‘exploding with vivacity.’ ... June 15/16 2013 Roger Dean's algorithmic music is in the Metamusic Weekend, Sydney. ... In London Dean (piano) joins alumni of the groups of the late Graham Collier (201307), John Marshall (drums), Art Themen (saxophones), and Geoff Warren(saxes, flute, now directing) to record Graham's last two compositions; and 20130801 plays at Cafe Oto with Alex McLean, Leafcutter John and Paul Hession. ... austraLYSIS presents for the New Music Network at Sydney Conservatorium: 20131130 Netting the Nodes, novel computer-interactive sound technologies.

   
Current Work Finitude (Interactive sound for an installation by Keith Armstrong and colleagues): v03 Beijing (National Museum of Science and Technology, Nov1-30 2012); Screenspace Gallery Melbourne 3-27 October 2013. Dean also participates in an Australia Council/NBN grant (2012-13) with Keith and team to create Long Time, No See. ... Video Collaboration with US artist Will Luers ... Film of Sound (recent showings: ISEA, USA, 2012/09; Sydney 2013/03). Next at the Portland Experimental Film Festival, Oregon USA (20130520-26); also Newly released online in Cordite journal. New work in progress 2013, supported by an Australia Council Digital and New Media Writing grant to Hazel Smith. ... Luers becomes an overseas member of austraLYSIS (201303); Matt McMahon and Roger Dean formed Quadrilateral, two pianists at one or two pianos (premiere at Kinetic Jazz, 201301). Other current austraLYSIS info is here...
   
About austraLYSIS
The austraLYSIS Electroband
  Roger Dean, composer/improviser
  Hazel Smith, writer, performer
  Members of austraLYSIS
   
By austraLYSIS

Free Listening/Viewing ... Commercial Downloads .... austraLYSIS on YouTube .... SOMA releases 

New: Double CDs for purchase/download: Multi-Piano, Tall Poppies TP225 (Roger Dean solo and computer-interactive piano, released 201209); and LYSIS Reissue series compiles Cycles (1977), Dualyses (1978) and Superimpositions (1980), plus new material (SOMA 788) .... Dean's Loosely (1981) for improvisers' orchestra, on Kinetic Jazz 2011, Available online through Bamboozle. .... New(ly discovered!): LYSIS' 1987 performance of our commission, Omarama, by John Rimmer (Waiteata collection of New Zealand music, released 2008). Available from Sounz, NZ.

  Other links soundsRite, a journal of creative work featuring sound

austraLYSIS is based in Sydney and London. Contact: PO Box 225, Milperra, NSW 2214, Sydney, Australia. Tel + 61 481 309612;
email : dr.metagroove@mindless.com

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