International music actionists hit Christchurch

Schimpfluch-Gruppe (Switzerland)
Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device (Australia)
Nomex (UK/NZ)

The Media Club
191 Armagh St
Christchurch

Sunday 22nd July

7.30-11pm > $5 (door sales only)

This month the Borderline Ballroom is hosting what promises to be one of the most extreme and entertaining nights of sonic performance ever to reverberate through Christchurch, featuring Switzerland’s Schimpfluch-Gruppe, Australia’s Justice Yeldam and the Dynamic Ribbon Device and Nomex from the UK/NZ.

In their first ever tour of New Zealand, the Schimpfluch-Gruppe look set to make one of their highly visual and visceral sonic sorties. Influenced by the Viennese Actionists and Dadaism, the group’s often unsettling and darkly humurous performances challenge the audience’s responses through their use of anything from the human voice to handguns, theremins to dead fish.

Schimpfluch are joined by Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device, aka Lucas Abela, who runs Australia’s Dual Plover label. In his literally cutting edge performances, Abela pushes the resonant properties of a pane of glass to the limit in an exploration of the interface between human flesh and hard physical matter.

Local flavour is added to the bill by Nomex, breakcore extremist and sonic terrorist whose numerous collaborations include work with Schimpfluch-member, Sudden Infant. The inventor of the legendary drill turntable and the force behind the esteemed conceptual noise label, Adverse Records, Nomex constantly challenges the boundaries of audio visual performance.

This event follows the Borderline Ballroom’s first two highly successful events held at the Media Club. This Christchurch-based initiative provides a relaxed space for challenging listening and a regular live venue for audio experimentation that supports local artists working on the peripheries of music and sound and offers a resource for national and international performers touring the South Island.

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