Thursday, 19 September 2013

Equalizer 24K - new release


Magpie Season from nicola morton on Vimeo.
the end of the einternal year

a new equalizer 24k CDR.. email me to get one.. nicolaisgreat@gmail.com

made with my new korg ms-20!!




Thursday, 15 August 2013

MAIL ORDER DVD-R - "S&M'

I have been asked by Simbi Dare to take down all our works together. I have compiled a 2 hour DVD of edits of our performances. $AU25 plus postage nicolaisgreat@gmail.com

RITUALS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR WORLD

--> This is a 2 hour DVD sampler of the works between Simbi Dare and Nicola Morton. They met in 2006 in Berlin and were discovered by Japanese-German Musician and artist, Hanayo, their works featuring in her books "MAGMA" and "hanayo's saugeile kumpels." Simbi Dare (from Bruno Wizard & the Homosexuals (NYC), yoga guru) and Nicola Morton (from Club Sound Witches, award winning film 'Remote Viewing Experiment #1') channel the puzzling traumas of dream and desire for social transformation.
 Here are two previously published photographs

film still from "12 Ways to Masturbate with a Melodica" published in Pipeline Jan/Feb 2012, Hong Kong


 photo by Gato Susilo from "How I Survived a Kunitlanak Attack" published for ICAN Catalogue (Indonesian Contemporary Art Network), 2011


 This is the original drawing/collage for the cover.. exhibited at Substation Gallery and hopefully sold for 4A Fundraiser - Contemporary Asian Art Gallery.

 

Thursday, 8 August 2013

Open Declaration on the Universal Song

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Sirius Aliens. It’s serious. Paranoid Schizophrenia, we can all believe the voices.
I have been making music, singing songs since I was born about nothing in particular. It’s become my practice, it’s what I value, it’s my job.
As I age it becomes clear this is what I will do until the new beginning. Am I playing a universal song, obtaining universal credit from prayer? Am I trying to contact and communicate with aliens? A new music, the avant garde? My universal song is from Mars. An eternal, infinite song, you can sing it too. Reawaken the alien inside you.

Thanks for encouragement and inspiration from Labanna Babalon, Goodiepal and Matt Earle.
It’s my job. Money. Money. Money. It’s so funny. Please donate to my practice via paypal: nicolaisgreat(AT)gmail.com

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Equalizer 24K and others in Melbourne

morphing in melbourne between different forms, hopefully making friends and selling some cassettes and cds..

starting tomorrow
Thursday 1st of August - The Old Bar, Electric Cultures III - Club Sound Witches - $5

Friday 2nd August - Tote - xnobbqx

Saturday 3rd August - Gasometer - love chants

Sunday 4th August - Discipline 3 launch - kitchen's floor solo, love chants, xnobbqx, equalizer 24k (my solo), Shebeen cafe

36 Manchester Lane
Melbourne
 
Pic: equalizer 24K - what will be my winter look?
 

Sunday, 28 July 2013

Bad Intentions et al on Blanket Canvassing

http://blanketcanvassing.blogspot.com.au

Blanket Canvassing is a great photo blog of the underground music scene. Glenn's film camera and one-shot style is distinctive and better than a Britannica Encyclopedia.

Please help his developing film costs by buying records from Per Purpose or I'm trying to find out another way..

As I am in a few bands, I took it upon myself to make an almanac of me

Bad Intentions - Rebecca Hlodich and myself - 2 girl punk/improv/noise




Wardenburger - big quiet jam band - Henry Mills, Rohan B, Dylan J, Skye MacNicoll, Jule Vincent, Alex Cuffe etc








Nicola Morton and Nhomea (Anthony Guerra and Aemon Webb)

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Co-directing EXIST-ENCE 5: international festival live art action art performance art

http://existenceperformanceart.wordpress.com

Conversations and work that makes you think about what constitutes our existence, work that spiritually inspires you and anti-'work' are the three streams I see in the fifth actuation of existence. As Labanna Babalon says 'the time of the 5th dimension is coming' an indescribable sensation, but one which we can ALL experience. The mystical challenge of dimensional portalling is what drives me, the inspired, spontaneous work happens organically, it's all good for the soul.

Live art has relied on the experience of the body and mind that exists in front of you, but for centuries we have been playing with portalling from this existence. In the 21st Century we have emerging artists Alrey Batol's 'Aggregates'  and Holly Childs' 'tweet2exist' question the singular reality of our bodies and minds, augmenting our material existence by portraying digital bodies in perceptible and imperceptible realms.

As live art has relied on the body, existence has relied on an inspired belief in a universal, metaphysical truth. Jade Boyd and Labanna Babalon are inspired by their technological mediums. Jade Boyd's 'VHxiSm' and Labanna Babalon's 'House of Muse' channel and project their beliefs in 'other beings' being trapped in our consumer technology. The signal spectres in Jade's VHS and the muse me muse in Labanna's 'tree of knowledge' internet embody the form of their works but their experience is other worldly.

While we make work we protest against it, live art has an extensive history of grass roots provocation against the ruling industry and politics. Eric Rossi in 'I.T.2' exorcises his demons of working in the IT industry while Dhana Merritt  in 'Untitled (Marina & Ulay)' and 'Untitled (Gilbert & George)' provokes the art industry as while working at an Institution she could not obtain a loan of these works, so made them herself. Eric and Dhana humorously provoke the industries that employ them, pulling the viewer in to 'see' the effects and layers of the current hegemony.

Thinking, inspiring and provoking - the works in exist-ence 5 are for the viewer and for the soul.
-Nicola Morton

Our photographer volunteer Alan Warren took some great photos Click Here

Video of Labanna's Performance Here:
EXIST-ENCE 5 international festival live art performance art action art - Labanna Babalon from nicola morton on Vimeo.