Ascension Engine Melbourne – 26th March Loop Bar

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Straight from the Rainbow Serpent Festival comes the Ascension Engine
for an exclusive Melbourne event. Ascension Engine is an audio/visual
cornucopia of meditative sound and vision from some of Australia’s
finest audiovisualist experimenters.
With the killer sound system and massive screen at Loop, sit back and
connect with the universe that these visionary artists will weave for
you.
Be prepared for sacred frequencies, audio reactive mandalas for
meditation, binaural beats and alchemical transformations through
sound and vision.
Ascension Engine comes alive from 2pm on Saturday 26th March.

Tickets on the door are $10 full or $5 conc.

Loop is at 23 Meyers Place Melbourne 3000 VIC, check it online:
http://www.looponline.com.au/

Artists:
Truant is a audiovisual project using hand crafted analogue circuitry
to create ambient textures and tones to match landscapes of composed
pixels.

Siilt
Dusty atmospheres, drones and post-dub subsonics.
Siilt layers looped chords, voltage-controlled tones and low-end sonic
detritus into minimalist dub-inspired soundscapes.
http://antisound.net

GRIST is shamanic improvised black zen non-genre occult minimalism -
no instruments, no composition – channelled by post-pagan chaos-
audiomancer A Demon Sheen (GNAUMGN / The Horn / HAARK / Dead Ants
Rainbow / Merge into Stripes / RAKSHASA / Forgotten Cairns / etc),
using 100% Found Sounds – this is the musick from the collective
unconscious. the self is dead – long live the self!
http://www.myspace.com/thegristproject

Electronic Shaman
Taking inspiration from the works of Lovecraft, Romero and the
mystics, Electronic Shaman takes inspiration from the sciences, both
real and unreal. Stygian vistas of distant worlds give way to intimate
moments of the psyche. A fascination with conspiracy and fact merge to
deliver ambient soundscapes of worlds unknown.
http://electronicshaman.com

Steve Law/Zen Paradox
Steve Law has been producing electronic music in Australia since the
early 1980′s. During that time he has gained a reputation as one of
Australia’s foremost electronic artists, creating and performing music
in almost every sub-genre that has been spawned over the past couple
of decades.
After exploring many areas of electronic experimentation with the
groups Guild of Fire, Foil and various solo projects, Steve formed the
techno project Zen Paradox in 1992. The debut album “Eternal
Brainwave” was immediately signed to Ollie Olsen’s new Psy-Harmonics
label, and licensed to KK/Nova Zembla in Europe and Restless in the
U.S. to critical acclaim, and was a huge success. Steve went on to
release further material under the Zen Paradox banner during the
nineties, backed up with extensive and successful overseas tours. He
was named best live electronic act at the 2000 Australian Live Music
Awards.
In the meantime, Steve Law continued to explore other areas of cutting
edge music, and was awarded the inaugral ABC classic FM computer music
award in 1996 for his electro-acoustic composition “Urbania”. He has
composed music for film, dance and various multi-media works, and has
contributed to the Fringe, Next Wave, Experimenta, Electrofringe,
Liquid Architecture, Articulating Space, Make it Up Club and
Melbourne International Animation festivals.
Steve has collaborated with many other local and international
artists, both live and in the studio, and has continued to release
music on various labels around the world. He is an inspired live
performer, regularly doing impromptu live improvisations with many of
Melbourne’s underground musicians. He is also a member of the
Melbourne band Black Cab.
http://www.solitary-sound.com/

Abre Ojos
Deep drones, sacred frequencies and sacred geometric animated visuals
combine to create a psychedelic visionary meditative experience. Abre
Ojos is the improvised audiovisual project of Scott Baker fusing
analogue modular synthesis and digital vision into deep listening
experiences touching on the work of Alan Lamb, Steve Roach and Robert
Rich. “Abre Ojos” was a constant saying by the Spanish and Portuguese
sailors while navigating the dangerous reef infested waters
surrounding Australia’s coastline meaning “Watch Out” or “Open Your
Eyes” there is danger all around.
http://abreojos.net

Zero Point aka Darren Curtis
Australian musician & artist that weaves eastern and western
influences to reveal the mystical soundscapes of supernature. via Live
Laptop, controllers and mapping.
Through years of research his speciality of music works on the unique
frequencies of supernature, through research found in many of ancient
structures like the great pyramid in Egypt & Mayan pyramids. Through
mapping new music patterns and chord structures a whole new electronic
synthesis is created that is in harmony with the body.
He travels around Australia doing live music and visuals performing at
festivals i.e. Rainbow Serpent 2010/2011, Reconnect 2010.
His wider style draws from the GOA Ambient, Chill, Techno, Electronica
& New Age fusing these elements into new style of Electronic Future
Chill .
Co-director of Sacred Resonance – Darren Curtis <BA.Hon.MUS.Tech> &
Bradley Pitt are visual and sonic immersion experts with full dome
projections, animation, and installations.
http://djzeropoint.blogspot.com