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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)

Chronicles of the New Human Organism

Ian Haig provided Ph2 with a selection of edited sections prior to the voice-over being placed, plus the script for the text to be later intoned. Discussions centred on the alarmist pseudo-science docos of the 70, which led to approach the project almost as if they were working for the CSIRO and making an eductational film for high schools. Phil Brophy composed a suite of themes, each lasting about 6 minutes and spatialized in quadraphonic. Then Phil Samartzis sifted through his sound libraries for the project and matched sounds and textures to the theme tracks, Tweaking was then done to make space for the sounds so they would mesh with the music, as per the general approach to Ph2's work. A live quadraphonic recording was then made of each section as Phil Samartzis mixed and faded his sounds with the music themes. These mixes were then conformed as 2 stereo layers (one of the sounds, the other of the music), and passed on to Ian Haig to place where he saw fiit. The final insertion of the tracks was then mastered by Phil Samartzis for the completed video. The original quadraphonic versions will be remixed at a later stage for a CD and DVD-R audio release on Sound Punch Records.

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