Maximum Arousal Sun Dec 9


Maximum Arousal presents:

BEN FROST (Iceland)
'THEORY OF MACHINES' CD LAUNCH

+ GRAND SALVO
+ HELMET HEAD (Rod Cooper + Anthony Magen)

Sun Dec 9
The Toff
Level 2
252 Swanston St
Melbourne
8pm

Maximum Arouasl is proud to present the CD launch for
Reykjavik-based composer/producer Ben Frost's "Theory
Of Machines", a challenging and invasive sonic experience of
digitally manipulated litany via minimal,
guitar-oriented compositions. The scale of Ben Frost’s
music is enormous, exploiting every extreme of pitch,
volume and timbre, recalling the unbounded enormity of
the natural world. The changes in the music sometimes
seem as gradual as changes in the weather—and
sometimes as violent.
As the music changes it changes only in texture, color
and intensity so that the sense is not of something
being created, altered or even developed, but of
something already present being slowly illuminated.
This will be Frost's only Melbourne performance!

Also appearing:

Helmet Head - an audio visual live performance
featuring Rod Cooper & Anthony Magen, where expanded
cinema, noise and body art transmute. Hand held images
and found objects are combined with a
relentless stream of dvd driven stills. Cooper's
costume combines a
helmet with a projection screen and he provides a fast
chaotic blanket of audio. Not to be missed!

Grand Salvo - Melbourne songsmith Paddy Mann creates
quiet and soulful odes to broken bones and sorrowful
homes, played and recorded with a beauteous aesthetic
and filled with a lamenting sense of heartbreak and
loss.

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Upcoming Arousals:

Sun Dec 16 - BETA ERKO + AGENTS OF ABHORRENCE +
ROSKOPP

Sun Dec 30 - MANI NEUMIER (Germany) of GURU GURU

Sun Jan 13 - Hi God People/Zond 12" launch with:
Hi God People
+ Zond
+ Mutual Loathing (Adelaide)
+ Kynan Lawler (Adelaide)

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