Bionic
Blue Bubblegum Slurpee
Original
programme notes
"You
could be in the centre of the city or the heart of the suburbs. 7-11
stores surround you like a halo of flourescent light. They're so near
that your eyelids are never dark. Your brain is always turned on. The
slurpee machine calls you through a haze of insomnia as dried trails
of slaiva form at the side of your lips.You
get up. 3am. Can't sleep. Wired, weak, whacked. Too much of this; too
little of that. You're either wide asleep at night or in a dream at
work. Everything you touch is a drug: Taiwanese vinyl; German rubber;
French jam; Indonesian wood; Melbourne air. Your bones contract as air-conditioning
changes pressure; your nostrils flare astraffic lights change. You hum
uncontrollably.
What
was that movie you saw last night playing silently in a deafening club?
What was that song you heard in a cab last week as you came back from
somewhere you forget? Jennifer Jason Leigh. Dolph Lundgren. Dario Argento.
Did you really fuck them all? The attendant swipes your food at the
cash egister. The high-toned beep slowly cuts into your temples like
a spanner resting on a block of bean curd. Cash. You need some cash.
There it is. In your pocket. Wake up, man. You've been looking at the
videos to hire. You hate Andi McDowell and her curls. You've been listening
to Phil Collins on the radio.
Time to go. Time to get to bed. Time to go to work. You take your slurpee
in hand and wonder yet again: what the hell is the flavour of a Bionic
Blue Bubblegum Slurpee?"
Titles
1.
Dolph Lundgren
2. Jodie Foster
3. Fred Willliamson/Michael Mann
4. Dario Argento/John Carpenter
5. Jennifer Jason Leigh
6. Toru Takemitsu
7. Mike Post/Gyorgy Ligeti
8. Paul Verhoven
9. Roger Corman
10. Linda Fiorentino
Frail
Plastic Animal
Titles
1.
Asphalt Gallery
2. Chinotto Express
3. Deep Heaven
4. Feral Aspirin
5. Fuzzy Tongue
6. Incredible Stomach
7. Marshmallow Telegraph
8. Osaka Curry
9. Pretty Suicide
10. Robo Breakfast
11. Tangerine Exhaust
Janet
Leigh (Dead)
Titles
1.
2.43pm
2. $40,000
3. ANL-709
4. $700
5. Cabin 1
6.
NFV-418
Secret
Acts Within Four Walls
Score

Duration
of this single work is about 20 minutes.
Silence
& Cry
Score
Duration
of this single work is about 15 minutes.
Heat
Original
programme note
"Heat expands
Ph2's base to include video artist Dominic Redfern. Both in solo
capacity and as part of Ph2, the two Phils have previously supplied
live scores to various short videos by Dominic. Heat capitalises
on their sympathetic sensibilities to produce a key work which extends
their joint pursuits in audiovisual presentation. The concept of
Heat obliquely references the trio's take on the
Australian landscape - not
as a glorious heroic vista of beauty, but as a flat, rural emptiness
that evokes memories of spending Christmas holidays with the family
in cramped tents in sweltering heat. The sounds and visions for Heat are sourced from the sprawling asphalt haven of the so-called great
escape, where bees terrorise, magpies attack, grass stings and the
sun endlessly tortures."
Phil
S focussed on collating and processing a set of field recordings
(crackling fire, bees, flies, crickets, birdsong, etc.) while Phil
B performed live with a single large roto tom and a single ride cymbal
(using hands, fingers, brushes and sticks). The tom and cymbal were
also miced and Phil S simultaneosuly diffused the sound into 4-channels
while doing the same to his banks fo field recordings.
Score
| Sound
(Phil S) |
Music
(Phil B) |
Vision
(Dominic Redfern) |
birdsong
sine tone
German
radio
electronic buzzes
crickets & cicadas
sine tone beating
fire crackling
electrical noise
crisp tree crackling
high-pitched pulsing
blow flies |
fade-up
cymbal rubbing cymbal
tings ///
nail rumbling & skin pitch shifts
drum low-end rumbles
brush scrapes on rim
deep cymbal drone
metal-rim rubs /// fade-out
cymbal zings w/
cymbal rasping drum edge
finger prodding drum-skin w/ bass thumps
cymbal nail-trilling w/
cymbal wah-wah fingering
low finger rumbling fade-out |
white >>> car
window POV
3 cuts to roadkill
travelling trees >>> black stick forest
travelling POV of wasteland
static black forest trees
forest >>> sky
yellow grass fields
twin wires
plastic bag man
fox hair & bugs
fox
feet and bodies >>> black |
Northern
Void
(For
full information on this project see Northern
Void)