JOLT!: a qui avec Gabriel, Lisa MacKinney, BOLT ENSEMBLE + James Hullick + Cal Lyall

Noge Underground and JOLT Presents
The Book of Daughters

Featuring:
a qui avec Gabriel (accordion), Lisa MacKinney (guitar/feedback), BOLT ENSEMBLE (Miranda Hill - bass; Caerwen Martin - cello; James Hullick - voice/electronics) + Cal Lyall

a qui avec Gabriel
http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~aqui

Lisa MacKinney (guitar/feedback)
http://joltarts.org/all-artists/40-artists/402-lisa-mackinney

BOLT ENSEMBLE + Cal Lyall (banjo, electronics)
(Miranda Hill - bass; Caerwen Martin - cello; James Hullick - voice/electronics)
http://joltarts.org/all-artists/40-artists/389-bolt-tour-2017

https://finefinesmallmountain.wordpress.com/miranda-hill

http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/martin-caerwen

http://www.hullickmedia.com

http://www.subvalent.com/cal-lyall

PROFILES (EN)
A Qui Avec Gabriel
http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~aqui

à qui avec Gabriel is a Japanese accordionist and vocalist. "à qui," derived from her name, Aki, is the player, with Gabriel: her trusty accordion. à qui takes a different approach than the some of the avant-gardists, including Keiji Haino and Makoto Kawabata, who grace her albums— she gravitates toward stark, ethereal sounds and whispering melodies rather than imposing dissonance and chaos. Her stylistic palette is eclectic, drawing in shades of jaunty European folk music, the elegant minimalism of Erik Satie, and uniquely lighthearted melancholia. à qui punctuates her solo performance with meaningful silence, emphasizing the humility of the lone performer. Her debut album, Utsuho was released in 2001 on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. On her most recent solo album, 2010’sItsukushimi no Ame no naka de, (Musik Atlach) she flexibly moves between pop and avant-garde sensibilities with a focused, nostalgic energy. Her following albums on Musik Atlach have found her in collaboration with varied, complementary partners including the psychedelic rock trio Majutsu no Niwa on Fifth Works II, 2012, and Makoto Kawabata, leader of the legendary psychedelia unit Acid Mothers Temple, on Golden Tree (2012) and Ame no Tsurugi (2013). à qui also formed the trio Pneuma Hectopascal in 2004.

LISA MACKINNEY (guitar/feedback)
http://joltarts.org/all-artists/40-artists/402-lisa-mackinney

Lisa MacKinney has been a leading noise guitarist and historian in Australian sound culture. MacKinney is one third of noise/electronic band Taipan Tiger Girls with Ollie Olsen (synths) and Mat Watson (drums). They released their debut album, 1, in February 2015 on It Records, an improvised live recording. The release was a limited edition of 100 vinyl LPs which sold out in a week, and was also released on CD and download. TheMusic rated it highly, saying "Their highly recommended sound is a monster kosmische grind that writhes and hypnotises". Bob Fish of Cyclic Defrost Magazine described their track, "Motion" and how they "make long and beautiful walls of noise, intricate and psychedelic; delicate and tough." The follow-up Taipan Tiger Girls album "2", was released in August 2016, also on It Records. "2" was recorded and mixed by Kalju Tonuma and received No. 1 Feature Record at PBS FM.
Lisa’s solo guitar/organ noise project is Mystic Eyes, which was the became the subject of the film Mystic Eyes (2009) by Adam Spellicy, and which continues as a conduit for Lisa exploration of ‘constructive use of monotony’. As a historian Lisa wrote a PhD on the Shangri-Las. Her academic background is situated in late medieval history, and has focussed on the relationship between devotional art, religious practice, and mysticism in England and Western Europe from 1300-1500.

BOLT ENSEMBLE
http://joltarts.org/all-artists/49-bolt-ensemble

The BOLT Ensemble is emerging as one of Australia’s leading cutting edge chamber ensembles. Led by Dr Belinda Woods, BOLT has toured to Japan and Switzerland in recent years, presenting new works created through the BOLT members and the JOLT Arts production team. In 2014 the ensemble was highly acclaimed for performances in These Compulsive Behaviours for the Melbourne Festival “…all commendable but the Melbourne Festival concert of James Hullick’s compositions from the BOLT Orchestra and Arcko Symphonic Ensemble stood out as an original, memorable, creative experience” The Age (reviewing 2014) 2015 saw BOLT collaborate with musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music at the Melbourne Recital Centre and broadcast on ABC Classic FM, as well as premiering the work Slow Riven Whirl for Ballarat’s Festival of Slow Music. These projects have extended BOLT’s dynamic exploration of music technology and socially engaged projects.

MIRANDA HILL (bass)
https://finefinesmallmountain.wordpress.com/miranda-hill

Miranda Hill is a double bassist, producer, composer and educator. After studying at the VCA, University of Michigan and the Hartt school, she is now based in Melbourne. Miranda plays regularly with Orchestra Victoria, Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, many new music ensembles, and is a core member of BOLT ensemble and the Scottish baroque quartet: Evergreen Ensemble.
In addition, Miranda is artistic director of 3 Shades Black, who perform regularly at the Melbourne Fringe and Midsumma festivals, as well as a nationwide education project in partnership with Musica Viva and ACMI. She is also one half of the collaboration “Fine Fine Small Mountain” who spent most of 2015 living and working at Lijiang Studio in China; and the theatre-music duo “the flying tapirs” with Leah Scholes; who have sold out seasons in Melbourne and Ballarat, and are heading to Perth Fringe soon!

CAERWEN MARTIN (cello)
Martin has been trained as a cellist both locally and abroad, and performs in a wide variety of groups from experimental to pop, jazz, contemporary and classical. She has written music for film, art films Artesian and Reception and a feature Lost and Found (Apra Nominated). Martin has written string arrangements for bands like Dan Brodie, Kram, Millionaire Souls, Lou Bennett and the Sweet Cheeks, Naked Raven, 67Special, Creech and Germany's Colourblind. She has toured extensively through Europe, the Balkans, Australia, South Africa and America with the David Chesworth ensemble, Geminiani Orchestra, Naked Raven, Skin String Quartet and Aphids. Currently Martin runs the Silo String Quartet - a contemporary/jazz string quartet that does a lot of new works by established and emerging composers.

JAMES HULLICK (voice/electronics)
http://www.hullickmedia.com

James Hullick is a composer, community arts worker, sound artist and producer who exists at the forefront of international sonic arts creation and presentation. James’ work is characterised by an unusual ability to use sound to engage in social issues. His projects have been presented internationally for a variety of ensembles and electronic formats. Innovative sonic terrains that James continues to work through include: recursive compositional techniques, perceptual music making, real time scores, sound making machines and community arts projects.
James founded JOLT (2008) and has artistically directed many projects since that time. JOLT projects and festivals have taken place internationally in the US, Japan, China, Europe and the UK. In 2011 James founded The Click Clack Project, a community sonic artists organisation. James recently completed a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. He was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship (2015) and received the Michael Kieran Harvey Piano Scholarship (2015-16).

CAL LYALL (banjo, electronics)
http://www.subvalent.com/cal-lyall

Involved in the arts scene in Japan for over fifteen years, Cal Lyall has organized large-scale performances involving both Japanese and overseas artists, while also remaining a key member of a number of musical groups which have toured both locally and internationally. His musical activities are documented on over 30 albums he has both produced (including three full-length compilations released on medama records in Japan) and contributed to as a writer or musician. As a curator, he established the monthly Test Tone concert series in 2005 at Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe. Featuring over a thousand distinct artists over its 9 year run, it reached its 100th installment in 2014. With an active performance schedule in Japan and past tours through Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, China, Korea, Australia and the US, he also heads up the Subvalent record label and oversees the Tokyo Hub of Jolt Sonic Arts (Australia).