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The Borderline Ballroom @ The Media Club
22nd June 2007
Framed by the evocative decaying grandeur of the Media Club's Blue Room, once the ballroom of the historic Winter Gardens, the BORDERLINE BALLROOM is 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. Be at the Media Club, 191 Armagh St on Thurs 28 June to see unique performances from Greg Malcolm, Jenny Ward, Pumice (AKL), Cegeste and Stanier Black-Five.
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The BORDERLINE BALLROOM #2
Thursday 28 June 2007
7:30pm - $5, doorsales only
A collaborative fervour including a double one-man-band extravaganza with:
PUMICE (Auck)
"The struggle between sinking and swimming, swallowing water either way since 1991"
Pumice is the open ended solo vehicle of Stefan Neville. Stefan performs one man band compositions and improvisations for small silver guitar, drums, voice, buzz-box, intercoms, endless cassette, and spring reverb. Pumice triumphantly touredthe USA in 2006 playing 26
gigs and culminating in a month-long artist residency at multi-faceted arts centre AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island where Stefan performed, recorded and collaborated with local artists. Similarly in 2005 Stefan was artist in residence for two months at the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria, which was followed by a European tour in 2006. This is the first comprehensive NZ tour for for PUMICE since 2004 when the RAFT CD was launched. PUMICE Recordings have been released on small labels the world over from NZ to Belgium, to USA and Finland.
This performance is part of the PEBBLES CD release tour, on Soft Abuse records, and is the first PUMICE gig in Christchurch since 1998! www.myspace.com/pumarse www.softabuse.com
GREG MALCOM and JENNY WARD (ChCh)
Greg Malcolm has been around for ages performing unusual music in a variety of contexts and combinations. His current obsession is solo simultaneously played multiple guitar performances. The result of this is releases such as Homesick for Nowhere (Corpus Hermeticum 2002), Swimming In It (Kraak 2005) and Hung (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon 2006).
Greg Malcolm has toured regularly and participated in numerous festivals including Belgium's Pauze Festival 2005, 'Densites Festival in France 2005, Full Pull festival in Sweden, Safe as Milk in Norway 2006.
Jenny Ward is a vocalist with a theatre background; she uses toys, walkie-talkies and extended vocal techniques in her performance and has been working with Malcolm for many years.
www.myspace.com/gregmalcolm
homepages.ihug.co.nz/~malcolmg
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And aural eclecticism from your resident DJs, CEGESTE and STANIER BLACK-FIVE
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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, 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)
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