The austraLYSIS Electroband
Creating Australian Improvised Musics
"makes music on more technology than the Navy possesses" (Sydney Morning Herald, 2000)
"those doyens of computerised music" (Sydney Morning Herald, 2008)
"one of the best improvising bands in the world" (Time Out, Sydney, 2009)
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austraLYSIS has developed unusual techniques for control of rhythmic, timbral and harmonic interaction, and since 1995 has used computer interactive and networked technology in the austraLYSIS Electroband. "Incredible interaction" said the Wire (UK); "eclectic and consummate" said BBC Radio 3. Formed by Roger Dean in 1970 as the innovative European group LYSIS, austraLYSIS has played in 30 countries, and made more than thirty commercial recordings. The Electroband repertoire is based around free and process/interaction improvisation and comprovisation, using compositions of Roger Dean, many written in the programming platform MAX/MSP. Members of the Electroband: Roger Dean (piano, computer); Sandy Evans (saxophones); Greg White (computer). austraLYSIS member Phil Slater often performs with the Electroband also. Australian novelist and poet David Malouf has written of austraLYSIS' cd 'Moving the Landscapes':
BOOKINGS and Enquiries to : austraLYSIS Productions, PO Box 225, Milperra, NSW 2214. Telephone : + 61 406 175543. email : dr.metagroove@mindless.com. Go here to find some sound samples of the austraLYSIS Electroband. |