Contact Mike - playing guerilla gigs in gutters, making a racket in public places, & generally up to noisy no-fi goodness.

"That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen" - Capitol Hill Block party-goer & general rubbernecker

"Nifty gadget, awesome noise …. somewhere between R2D2 on speed and the end of the world at 78rpm." - Cyberphobe

"noisy no-fi nerders" - Garrison Heck

"legendary local guerrilla noise group" - Marcus Price 

"creating dissonant chaotic sounds using contact mics on every surface" - Meagan Angus

Figurehead: Dave Mike
Performing Members: Wild Mike, Chops Mike, Ice Bucket Mike, Mike Surprises, Cloudy Mike, Dusty Mike, Fidget Mike, Plastic Mike, Doll Mike, Thelonious Mike, Exit Mike, Umbilical Mike, Levitation Mike, Log Mike, Box Mike, Squirrel Mike, Junkle Mike, Dull Mike, DJ Mike, Mike Mike, Be Quiet Mike, Urban General Mike, Forget It Mike, Mar Mike, Magic Mike, Transformer Mike, Dad Mike, Itchy Mike, Siked Mike, Winceyette Mike, Dead Mike, Don Cheadle Mike, Crikey Mike, Boom Mike...

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Stanier Black-Five is an Australasian sound artist and writer, who for the last two decades has been actively involved with experimental music and sound art in the UK, Europe and Australasia.

Her audio work is largely based on the manipulation of her own environmental recordings, as well as found sounds, which she uses to create dense soundscapes that use sources such as mesmerising aircraft drones to the pounding rhythms of trains and more recently the sounds of the earthquakes that have shaken her city.

Also a  wine writer, her interest in sound and taste has converged in a number of multi-sensory projects. These include the installation, Oenosthesia created from the sounds of wine sourced on an Italian artist's residency,combined with the local wines themselves, and her recent multisensory Mishearings solo exhibition.

Stanier Black-Five performs regularly both in New Zealand and internationally. She has taken her visceral musique concrète to the UK and Europe, performing alongside artists such as Chris Watson, Daniel Menche and Jessica Rylan and presented her work at festivals such as London Musicians Collective’s annual Festival of Experimental Music.

Stanier Black-Five has had her work released internationally, with recent releases including two CD albums on Belgium's Entr'acte and a track on the UK's Touch Radio. She has also hosted a number of experimental radio shows, on the UK’s Resonance FM to Christchurch’s RDU.

Actively involved with communicating about sound art and experimental music, she has contributed to the likes of the UK’s Noisegate magazine, Berlin’s Datacide and has written a chapter in the book Erewhon Calling: experimental sound in New Zealand, edited by Bruce Russell.

From
Christchurch, New Zealand

Members
Byron Crowhurst &amp; the Tinmouth Orchestra is an on-going side project of Virgil Reality of Christchurch/Dunedin band, Squirm, and Virgil Reality is in turn an on-going side project of Brett Lupton who is in turn an on-going side project of Milton's Satan...

Description
Psychedelic-electro-world-experimental-post-punk-art-glam music for elevators that will kill you without mechanically malfunctioning. All downloads are in mp3 format so that your loss in sound quality is your gain in quality sounds...

Biography
Our parents had unprotected sex, we were born, got viola lessons to avoid woodwork class at school, developed a nagging sense of otherness which evolved over time into full-blown misanthropy, began channelling that into writing music, got a dead-end job to buy a computer to record said songs and upload them into that modern Tower of Babel you call the internet, and so, thus, thusly, here we are today, spying on you right now through your own webcam that we hack every time you navigate to this page – well, you wanted to find out about us and it only seems fair we should know a few things about you, I mean, you could be stalking the orchestra (not a euphemism) for all we know...

Current Location
Blunt side of the moon

Booking agent
Ivanna Bightette for Glow in the Dork Promotions

Press contact
Um, if we have to...

Artists we also like
Goya, Blake, Bosch...oh, did you mean musicians?

Influences
Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, Brian Eno, Can, Neu, 50's Exotica, Shostakovich, The Shaggs, Capt. Beefheart, Devo, et al...

Band interests
Being willfully obscure and/or pretentiously unpretentious.

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