a relaxed space for challenging listening

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.

the BORDERLINE BALLROOM #1
Thursday 21 March 2007
7:30pm - $5, doorsales only

with:

REUBEN DERRICK (Chch)
Reuben Derrick has been developing his own unique style of improvised music, free jazz and noise art over the past few years, and enjoys exploring noise and textural soundscapes through a variety of mediums. This performance by Derrick comes soon after the completion of his solo album "Peeping Behind the Bucket" (supported by Creative Communities), a collection of recordings of acoustic noise performed on solo saxophone and clarinet.

REUBEN DERRICK and the NOISE ENSEMBLE (Chch)
Reuben Derrick will also be joined at the Borderline Ballroom by a loosely knit group of experimenters made up of students from the Christchurch Polytechnic Jazz School, where Derrick tutors.

NOMEX (Chch/UK)
With his self constructed drill turntables and uncompromising approach to 'concrete sound', Nomex has spent many years awing audiences around the world – from performances at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts to fringe venues in Milwaukee, from the Red Factory in Switzerland to the Paris catacombs. This experimental sound and visual artist, who was also cited by Peter Shapiro in his Rough Guide to Drum 'n' Bass as an influence on the developing UK breakcore scene, has made numerous and varied releases on UK and European labels, as well as his own Adverse Records imprint. Nomex will be making a rare New Zealand live performance at the inaugural Borderline Ballroom, which promises to be as eclectic and audacious as ever.

and resident DJs:

STANIER BLACK-FIVE
Audio train spotter and sound artist, Stanier Black-Five will be playing a DJ set that takes listeners on a journey through the sounds of steam.

CEGESTE
A guided tour of some of the less well known streets of NZ experimental sound practice, especially compiled for the Borderline Ballroom on the last day of New Zealand Music Week 2007. Multi format DJing which eschews the centralising and standardising function of the laptop in favour of turning an eye, and an ear, to DIY media history, layering the awkward fragility and rarity of actual artefact – limited 3" CDs, original tapes, rare Peter King lathe-cuts, unwieldily unplayable audio artworks - with raw, imperfect lapel mic recordings of live experimental performance and radiophonic archives. Like an experimental radio show, only not on the radio.

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)

thanks are due to THE AUDIO FOUNDATION, Stanier Black-Five, Simon Kong, Andrew Hensley, Helen Greenfield, STATIC MANSION, Daniel Batkin-Smith, Zita Joyce, John McCallum, Hamish Win, Greg Malcom, Bruce Russell, everyone else who has offered support, time and ideas, and most of all to the performers. Thankyou!

sally ann mcintyre // 143 clyde rd, fendalton, christchurch, new zealand //
0064 3 3518904 // 021 2106243 // staticmansion@gmail.com