BORDERLINE BALLROOM 4
Fri, 24th August 2007



Framed by the evocative decaying grandeur of the Media Club's Blue Room, once the ballroom of the historic Winter Gardens, the BORDERLINE BALLROOMis a Christchurch-based initiative aiming to provide a relaxed space for challenging listening, and a regular live venue for performative audio experimentation which supports local practitioners working on the peripheries of music and sound, while offering a resource for national and international performers touring the South Island.       

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the BORDERLINE BALLROOM #4
Thursday 30 August 2007
7:30pm - $5, doorsales only       

an all-South Island improvisational freefall... with:

2 MILLION LIGHTS (ChCh)
2 million lights? It's 1 more, innit? With the addition of James Musgrave (A Flight to Blackout) a million lights (formerly the solo project of Chris Andrews) doubled itself, increasing in mass and velocity like the choicest Katamari. It is now a sumptuous beast comprised of dark and light, loud and particularly quiet, east and west, and short and tall... ish. We play organ and bass, whilst current and amplification play us. We care and hope you do too.
www.myspace.com/millionlights

KHOMET (Dun)
 Khomet are a four piece comprising the multilayered talents of Toki Wilson (amps/mics/springs/strings), Jim Currin (strings/voice), Alex MacKinnon (strings/electrons/tapes), and Aliki Boufis (dr. skins). Consistently drawing enthused local response in their hometown of Dunedin,  this is their first outing elsewhere...

"Khomet are free noise in its purest sense .... a combination of driving Krautrock rhythms and free-play electronics .... improvised textures, mysterious voices, space junk, and strange metallic rumblings. Mind-altering but constantly rewiring, all the time building in waves with a forward propulsion taking it relentlessly to some inevitable crash."  - Peter Stapleton.

"Khomet is purely and simply a whirlwind, a grand gnosis of guitar. Khomet takes the vestiges of the guitar noise tradition and single-handedly reforms and post-modernizes it with youthfull, super-energetic and flailing fury. A joy to behold."  - Matt Middleton.
www.myspace.com/khomet

CRUDE (Dun)
For this super-rare Christchurch appearance, the legendary Crude ( a.k.a Matt Middleton), hot on the heels of his recent appearace at Auckland's Alt:Music festival, will unleash a selection of new electronic works...

"The Crude set of today is a solo event with pre-prepared (usually crafted/treated the day of the performance) backing sounds, a precariously held together' juno 60' (roland) synth, primitivist percussive effects, and a crude, home-made shenai or shawm type instrument.  Crude embraces the ideas of the new 'dark ambient' electronic movement, post-post glitch , angular and sparse horns referencing the new york no-wave, the vocals a drunken mix of un-pretentious nz accented dunedin sound/waitean/cavean growl/gurgle, vega-esque howl/yipe, sweet melody, esoteric chant and the drive of a younger, less horase lemmy. Listen and learn....."
www.myspace.com/crudecat

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and your resident DJs:

CEGESTE (... like an experimental radio show, only not on the radio)
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ALABASTER CRASHES DOWN  (given the age and fragility of the blue room's ceiling, we're hoping andrew doesn't mean this one literally...)

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the BORDERLINE BALLROOM is actively seeking performers. We are cross-genre and non-hierarchical, and interested in providing an outlet for musicians, composers and audio artists investigating live sonic experimentation of any variety. We are also interested in experimental side projects, new collaborations, artists investigating the relationship of audio to other (live) media, and in people who don't yet consider they have an audience outside their own headphones. If you would like more details, or have any questions, please write to us: sally (staticmansion at gmail dot com) or jo (stanier_black5 at hotmail dot com)
http://www.myspace.com/borderlineballroom

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the Borderline Ballroom would like to thank the wonderful local audiences who are supporting us in our endeavours to ensure the viability of regular live fringe musics in Christchurch. Thankyou for listening! Thanks also to THE AUDIO FOUNDATION, as always.

www.myspace.com/borderlineballroom