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MESH - Upcoming Performances

Live-to-air on 2SER in Sydney
and the
WHAT IS MUSIC? Festival

"Like the soundtracks that you find in the movies of your mind", Mesh present 3 new pieces exploring the outer limits of improbable outcomes from musical gesture, The sounds produced, as timbreally remote from the players' actions as they may seem , are implicitly connected to the intersection between flesh and machine. Their compositions/improvisations, form a plexus of music, noise, humour, the outcome of which is never quite predictable.

The performers are -

David Nerlich: Guitar synthesizer driving various sound modules.
Phillip Mar: Saxophones, treated bass guitar, sundry devices.
Robert Iolini: Guitar midi controller driving sampler.

And what you missed...

1996 Performances included

'What is Music' Festival. Harbourside Brasserie
'Open Season'. Performance Space
'Ear'. Bentley Bar
'Inter sections 96 conference' (Imaging Bodies). C.O.F.A.
'2SER Audio Daze' live in the studio broadcast'
Melbourne Fringe Festival:
'Glitch'. Upstairs @ Little Riata
'Melbourne Improvisors Association' Opening Night. Bennetts Lane.

The ever-evolving
MESH SPIEL
so far....

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MESH are...

Phillip Mar David Nerlich Robert Iolini


Guitars - resonating wires and synthesis.

There are no buttons and no grid yet this is digitality. Byte streams flow encoded from the dynamic pressure of flesh on tensile steel, sliding across the mesh of the fretboard in defiance of decimalisation and into eddies of subtle turbulence.

Complex organic gesture and infinite improvised possibility transcend predictable interactivity. The 'biologisation' of the machine expanding not regimenting the human body technologically.

'The urge to transcend the body is a dominant theme in any conversation about the technological future.Virtual reality fantasies and a yearning to leave the biological prison and transmute into a cyborg state. In the fin de siècle mind, immateriality, spirituality and electronics are synonymous, the body has become dangerous'. (David Toop. 1995)

Mesh is an attempt at reconciling the body with technology through the use of extremely tactile instruments ie guitars, saxophones. The sounds produced, as timbreally remote as they may seem , are implicitly connected to the intersection between flesh and machine. Rather than transcending the body, the performance focuses on the machines' dependency on the performers physical actions.......the sophistication of the technology is demonstrated by the organic nature of the musical results, due to the non interference of the digital interface...

Mesh's music is multi-layered and non-hierarchical. Their compositions, derived from, and incorporating improvisation form a plexus of music, noise, humour. What results is a sophisticated simultaneity of sound objects reflecting the current ages environment of multiple sonic bombardment.

Listening to a piece by Mesh is like going on an adventure. The outcome of which is never quite predictable. Disparate sonic material and musical styles are superposed .......a familiar motive, the pealing of church bells, alongside the accidental and the strange........ enriching the musical narrative and transporting the listener to other times, other places.

Contact: Robert Iolini 9327 6928 iolini@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au
David Nerlich 94271875 babel@toysatellite.com.au
Phillip Mar 9698 9409 phillip.mar@pgrad.arts.su.edu.au