Julian Knowles, Trumpmanis (David Trumpmanis) and The Dead Sea (Tim Bruniges) will collaborate to compose a 45 minute audio-visual music set for live performance and touring. The work will be composed for an ensemble of two laptop computers, two electric guitars, drums, and video projection; and will explore the nexus between experimental electronic music, post-rock forms and experimental audio-visual practices. The new work will form the basis of subsequent recording and touring, targeting local, European and North American territories.
All three collaborators possess skills in studio production as well as in composition and performance. The project sees the team taking the musical and performative elements of popular music and experimenting with these in a hydridised musical process that draws upon techniques and concepts from a wide range of musical and production traditions. The team is developing work which retains the gestural and instrumental language of popular music in performance, that is the instruments (guitars, bass, drums) and the associated visual aspects of the popular music line-up. Real-time computer signal processing of the live instruments will be employed, but the computers will not be visually foregrounded in performance.
The objectives of the project are:
The outcomes of the project will be:
The project will take place in Brisbane, Australia at the Independent Music Project facility, QUT Gasworks Studios.