Saturday 18 December 2021

BatchVirus 4 Release



For bleeding hearts, woke mother-fuckers and future punks who listen to more than HC – Batch Virus 4 is a small edition tape and digital download release of experimental sounds by female and non-binary, culturally diverse artists living on Darug country (Western Sydney). It will be released for one month only from13 January, 2022 on Bandcamp. This label is brought to you by Nicola Morton (Breakdance the Dawn, New Age Noise, Club Weld, Club Sound Witches).

Media Access is here.

1 minute Audio Preview Here

 

Break in 2022 by remembering how fucked 2021 was. Buy Batch Virus 4 and safely let it go 😊 Recorded in 2021 during Western Sydney’s ‘tougher restrictions.’ These releases contain no shouting - just 19 minutes of regret, distaste for government crackdowns on youth, sadness and attitude – sentiments we can all relate to in the last year.

Let’s listen to something that dared come out of the mould. These 4 artists breakdown stereotypes of their locality, cultures and genders.

·         BV4.1 – Okuesha Kills – interspersing guitar licks with ambient sounds, chords and vox pops. She provides an aural snapshot of the opposing feelings of isolation and community. Okuesha Kills is also an emerging media artist and has a residency at PACT in 2022. Think Laurel Halo…

·         BV 4.2 – Wytchings – An up and coming dark electronica artist. On this release she makes the simmering mind audible, putting to rest the subtle insults we push past each day. She has released tracks on Urban Cowboy, Lazy Thinking Records and New Weird Australia. Think Arca, Jlin…

·         BV 4.3 – Tru’ – More than princesses believe in pop, and pop stars still have punk attitudes. The emotive pop experiment of Tru’ sits between these noise offerings, as a symbol of the supportive, multi-faceted community, New Age Noise Collective. When you take the Northern Beaches pop sound (Julia Stone et al) and place it in Parramatta.

·         BV 4.4 – Sol Yoga – Sol takes us on a dystopian walk during lockdown featuring a recording made of a modular jam made in Blacktown Arts Centre and themselves cutting sick on Sol Show on Radio Skid Row. Attitude level = Peaches, 100 gecs.

Put these tapes on your dystopian future shopping list. With design by affordable minimalist fashion label, Chainmail (Gillian Kayrooz and Natalie Huifen) – you are buying in to a digital future throwback. Won’t digital and viruses look nostalgic when we are all ‘meta!’

 

Contact:

nicolaisgreat@gmail.com

Insta: @nicolaisgreat

Friday 24 September 2021

Kid's You Tube Poop: Southern Cross News, Nickelodeon, Wiggles, Muppets

Kate and I have been watching lots of TV during lockdown. 

Mostly like the rest of you we have been watching lots of TV and for us in regional NSW that means Southern Cross 10 News Regional. Here is Kate's tribute..



We also made some YouTube Poop featuring Nickelodeon cartoons, Wiggles, Sponge Bob and Beaker the Muppet.



Friday 3 September 2021

RUOK Karaoke by Club Weld 4pm Thursday September 9

 In honour of the challenging circumstances for neurodiverse artists in lockdown in NSW. Our music studio, Club Weld is holding a Karaoke Afternoon for RUOK Day.

You're invited to RU OK KARAOKE!

Join the wonderful Club Weld musicians and their special guests The Motel Sisters for an afternoon karaoke party in your living room.

We’ll be singing Club Weld songs plus some classics. Lyrics on screen. Bad voice? Can't wait to hear it!

Get the Zoom link for RU OK KARAOKE! by registering through this Eventbrite page.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ru-ok-karaoke-tickets-169196281633


Here is us having a go at 'Fall At Your Feet' by Crowded House.






Wednesday 25 August 2021

You Tube Poop Update: Kate Field Collaborations

 I've been working still with Kate Field on YTP and singing.

We have made an original 'Simpson Bay'



And a couple of music video mash ups of Kates favourite cartoons


And more..
Skinner Boys Sing Sometimes by Anthony Callea - https://youtu.be/q-WqDTduoA4
Teenage Fairy Tale Dropouts Sing La Da Dee by Cody Simpson  - https://youtu.be/kkzfFOW95vw
 
And for more...

Monday 12 July 2021

Club Sound Witches Cassette on Knotwilg Records (Belgium)

 




For Physical Orders:

https://www.knotwilgrecords.be/product-page/club-sound-witches-i-speed-st-cass


For Digital

https://knotwilg.bandcamp.com/album/steep-st


Club Sound Witches are an Australian outfit bursting out music the last couple of years regular as a clock. The equivalent of Mosquitoes in a techno matter if you want. That is: if you take the deconstructivism into a techno level. It's like bubbling into a 16rpm Chain Reaction party. A haze of vocals buried deep in a wavering fields of electronics with a beat which is obliterated into a kind of ambient-drone but way to sharp to keep it safe for purists.


Monday 31 May 2021

Up Close and Personal: Nicola Morton and Matt Earle

Thanks to Lucas Abela for organising 10 of Australia's most creative musicans for these 3 hour long shows!! It was very honouring to be in amongst such a diverse range of musicians I know and admire, such as Phantom Chips, Laura Altman, Papaphilia, Loosey Cruche, Monica Brooks and Shoeb Ahmad. I was also happy to become acquainted with Eric Avery and Graham King. Thanks to Nick Dan for this Live Pic of me, using the EEG and theremin and Push.

https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/up-close-and-personal



Wednesday 10 March 2021

Bad Internet Video Series

A blinking smile – a face frozen in time. That moment where you know you missed something or caught something that was not meant to be seen…

Our frustrations with the fallibility of the internet play out in Nicola Morton‘s Bad Internet. In this series of video and audio recordings, Morton uses Zoom to document performances by artists Kate Brown and Mark Brown. These disjointed records ask the viewer to find beauty in the degraded artefact.
Bad Internet furthers Morton’s process of modifying performance documentation based on the strength of the Wi-Fi connection at the scene of capture.

This series was commissioned by Our Neon Foe and presented as part of No Show.

















Thursday 25 February 2021

STSTARI Opening Show

 Club Sound Witches playing premiere show at STST.ARI, Katoomba, Blue Mountains.

Flyer by @cdandco



Saturday 20 February 2021

Soft Pedal II: #Electricpulses Workshop with Nicola Morton



Funded by Create NSW, and in partnership with I.C.E, Blacktown Council and The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre.

SOFT PEDAL II – #ELECTRICPULSES

NICOLA MORTON Masterclass


Discover the nuts and bolts of experimental electronic music in this one-day intensive Masterclass, exploring the theremin, and using Ableton, keyboards, and sample packs.

Suitable for emerging sound artists and sound enthusiasts, this Masterclass offers experimental music makers in greater western Sydney the chance to expand their skills, connect with other like-minded music-makers and upgrade their production skills.

Electronic artist Nicola Morton (Equalizer 24K) and synth genius Faith Chaza explore how electric pulses affect the pitch and velocity of sound to create frequency rhythms, guiding participants through the process of creating their own piece of sound art that they can take home.

Cost: Free
Facilitators: Nicola Morton and Faith Chaza
Age: 15 and over
Materials: Equipment provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops/computers/equipment
Dates and times:
Saturday 13 March
11 am to 5 pm
At the Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre

Book here:

Wednesday 10 February 2021

'Bad Internet' Video Series @our_neon_foe IG FB SC

 A blinking smile - a face frozen in time in our Zoom meeting. That moment where you know you missed something or caught something that was not meant to be caught...

PREMIERING ON:

16 February: @our_neon_foe Instagram

18 February: @ourneonfoe Soundcloud

19 February: @ourneonfoe Facebook







In "Bad Internet," a series of video and audio recordings, we see our frustrations with the fallibility of the Internet played out. The audience is asked to find beauty in the stillness and/or degraded artefact rather than FOMO. My previous work series "Wireless Psychics Experiments #1-10 " also arose out of bad internet frustration. For example, one of the performances was a challenge to pick the spot in the room with the strongest Wi-Fi signal. And within that performance,  I found a love for the chance of glitch in performance documentation.


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Nicola Morton. WPE (The Photos) (iii), 2015. Digital photo print, 12” x  8”. Photo by Alan Warren.



 Nicola Morton. Wireless Psychics Experiment #5 (2015-10-13). hyper-Linked video, 1:29 (left), text (right). http://moonpsychics.com/content/pages-newmoon/20151013.html.

In 2020, video conferencing has entered the everyday and most of us have experienced a frozen face from time to time..


The first two video and/or audio artefacts in the “Bad Internet” series will come from recordings of performances by Kate Brown and Mark Brown at Carriageworks for Our Neon Foe.


Monday 8 February 2021

Curated Live Streams at G-u-m-m-i.net

 I've curated a few nights for g-u-m-m-i.net


Video Archive available (click on live pic for link to video):

Club Sound Witches:










DJ Mutable Karat





Video archive available at (click on pic for link to video on g-u-m-m-i.net): 














Friday 22 January 2021

2020 Live Stream: Make It Up Club

 Club Sound Witches: Live Streamed improvised club/head music/video art for Make It Up Club, Melbourne



Wednesday 6 January 2021

2020: YouTube Poop Collaboration with Kate Field

 During 2020, I've been collaborating with Kate Field, a fantastic singer that I work with also in Club Weld (pictured below, photo by Lyndal Irons), but this time making YouTube Poop. Kate has an amazing sense of humour and I've had a complete blast making this YTP with her.


This is our first.


and then we did a special 2020 news broadcast of how it feels to be Kate in 2020!


And here are some other food -cartoon and song inspired YTPs

https://youtu.be/ckoP5g3J1vg - Spaghetti Bolognaise

https://youtu.be/tB6VEPJ7qio - On my pond - a song about litter bugs..

https://youtu.be/-UmAjrLbDLA Barefoot Bandits Cartoon takes over Pasta Song




Saturday 2 January 2021

2020 Music Physical Releases and Digital Recap

Breakdance The Dawn
  • BDTD 275 - Bogweed Tape Club - highlights of our weekly COVID ZOOM Jams
  • BDTD 269 - Club Sound Witches


(contact breakdancethedawn@hotmail.com for mail order)

Club Sound Witches
  • https://shamefilemusic.bandcamp.com/album/freakinmeout



Equalizer 24K
  • https://equalizer24k.bandcamp.com/ - Owned By Facebook



Compilation
  • https://icemusic.bandcamp.com/album/new-age-noise-constellation-2 - Nicola Morton

Youtubes
  • https://youtu.be/jjwwbQGkHio - Without Doors Live - January 2020, Matt Earle, James Heighway, Nicola Morton
  • https://youtu.be/7uCZBbwoQRQ - Club Sound Witches - Live at the Bowlo - April 18, 2020
  • https://youtu.be/Ez4ReODdflE - MIUC Online Concert - Club Sound Witches - November 24, 2020

Soundcloud
  • https://soundcloud.com/nicolaisgreat/sets/romantic-grasses
  • https://soundcloud.com/water_closet/club-sound-witches-live-wc-4