Live Music Safari
The ever-popular Live Music Safari will return once more for a city-wide extravaganza of free gigs, featuring over 50 local artists including Mesa Cosa, Oddisee, Quarter Street, Terrible Truths, Sleep D, Dan White, Kylie Auldist and more over 14 local venues. There will be some killer laneway parties, with Wax’o Paradiso’s Simon TK, Edd Fisher and Andy Hart taking over and transforming Westwood Pl, Boney and Magic Mountain Saloon, Section 8 and Ferdydurke collaborating once again to bring the masses in Tattersalls Ln a menagerie of extravagant proportions in ZOO, alongside Loop hosting an audio visual showdown with friendships, ALTA, Wabz, Jonny Faith and local DJs for a party that will extend into Meyers Place to bring Loop’s interiors to the exterior through music and good times. We have a comprehensive run-down on each venue’s offering right here.
Robert Henke
Berlin’s sound-art mastermind Robert Henke (of Monolake fame) will perform the Australian premiere and exclusive MMW performance of Lumière II. A presentation on the edge of concert and visual arts, Lumière II explores the limits of what lasers can do, pushing the medium to an extreme in an ecstatic performance for both performer and audience. Then tomorrow in a separate event, he will go behind the scenes to examine the history of his laser works, starting with his Fragile Territories installation, which will point a lens at the aesthetic challenges of the Lumière II project and include details of the code developed by Henke to drive the lasers and the interaction between the sound and the visual elements. Both of these events take place at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Deep Leads: The Orbweavers
Berlin-based Australian artist Lucy Dyson has joined forces with local duo The Orbweavers to create Deep Leads. Using her own vivid, technicolour collage based imagery alongside historic archival footage of Melbourne from the ACMI collections, Dyson is set to create a visual spectacular to accompany a suite of songs by The Orbweavers, drawing on stories from the city’s natural and industrial history. It’s taking place at ACMI.
Woodes
Each day of Melbourne Music Week our mates over at FasterLouder are hosting their Lunchbox Series – a full bill of free lunchtime gigs at MMW’s flagship venue the Former Royal Women’s Hospital. Enjoy lunch while a stable of Australian talent takes to the stage. Today, local singer/songwriter Woodes will captivate with her praised, enigmatic vocals.
Subculture in 1980s Germany
Geniale Dilletanten (Brilliant Dilletantes) is currently presenting a comprehensive survey of 1980s German subculture: a rich array of video, audio, photos, magazines, record covers, gig posters and other artefacts. Initiated and curated by The Goethe-Institut Australia, the exhibition showcases the work of experimental bands such as Einstürzende Neubauten, Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF), and Die Tödliche Doris, as well as visual artists, filmmakers and designers from West and East Germany. It’s open daily at the RMIT University Gallery.
