Unregistered Master Builder Album Launch
Live performances - Friday 31 May, 7pm - 2 am
In an expression of energetic bliss, the full-length self-titled album by Unregistered Master Builder is set to drop in late May.
Following the minor success of "No Rego No Problem" (2018) and "Harshmallow" (2020), Unregistered Master Builder's signature sound—mountains of cascading kick drums, left-field breaks, and collapsing chord progressions—is relentlessly underscored by bass heavy drops. In this release, traces of archaic lobbycore and concrete-laden strings are intercepted by modular and time-stretching techniques. This new album creates an atmospheric sense of bricolage, that builds off previous releases while introducing while building off of over half a decade of musical exploration, listening and curation.
Full lineup coming soon
Tickets $22
Madeleine Cocolas Bodies Album Launch
Live performances - Saturday 8 June, 7pm
Bodies explores similarities between bodies of water and human bodies and seeks to blur the boundaries between them. These works incorporate sounds of water I recorded on recent trips to the Australian coastline as well as creeks and waterfalls in Far North Queensland. I have taken these recordings and other recordings of my voice and breath and heavily processed them together with synths and electronics so that the boundaries between field recordings, vocals and electronics are also blurred. These sounds together create sonic collages that move in ways to emulate rhythmic cycles that can be found in both water and humans such as waves, pulses and currents. -Madeleine Cocolas
Featuring Timothy Fairless and Unregistered Lodges
Tickets $22
DRONE Fest
Our 3rd annual festival of durational music. Featuring a line-up of artists working in the sub-genres ambience, dark-drone, performance art, ritualistic-music and audio-visual disciplines.
This is a gentle DIY and BYO Pillow event.
The event will run for 30 hours, please pre-register so we can gauge numbers. Line-up and set times will be announced this week.
MNM presents GREENHOUSE
Live performances - Friday, Sep 22nd
MADE NOW MUSIC, our favourite Brisbane-based record label, is concocting another evening of delights. With Greenhouse, MNM is launching the new album of Melbourne-based psychedelic jazz collective led by Reuben Lewis, I Hold the Lion’s Paw. They are launching Aves, their 7” vinyl.
We will also relish the premiere of “wattle”, a large ensemble of winds, brass and rhythms presenting new works by Brodie McAllister.
Event: Friday September 22nd, 7pm
Tickets 20$
MNM presents: TACET
Live performances - Saturday, July 22nd
Doors at 7pm, Music from 7:30
TICKETS HERE
MADE NOW MUSIC is delighted to be launching the debut album of the Brisbane juggernaut ensemble sooon.
Supported by the amazing Sarah Gall and Francesca Masel performing the music of Cameron Bower.
ENSEMBLE SOOON
Ensemble Sooon situate themselves at the porous boundaries of improvisation and Indie-classical experimentation, straddling open-form compositions and third-stream structures, using notation as a springboard and as a canvas to explore contemporary notions of individual and collective action through a swirling sonic palette. Martin Kay is a saxophonist and composer with an array of releases from large ensemble Forage, trio Song Fwaa, and his solo tenor sax album chronicling fantastical tardigrade migration patterns. Danielle Bentley is a versatile cellist with an uncanny talent for improvisation and a classical technique to bring the sounds. Nozomi Omote has an astonishing imagination bringing a percussion palette from the everyday object as well as the concert stage.
SARAH GALL
Local pianist Sarah Gall draws on a rich and varied musical life spanning punk to classical, bringing a unique voice to post-genre collaboration. Passionate about the DIY where music is a force for community-building, Sarah was the founder of Browning Street Studios (2008 - 2021) and continues to work as a passionate educator, advocate and champion for the grassroots. As a performer she uses the piano as a "sounding board" within emotional, human and built environments - a type of resonant and relational sonar. Sarah is most comfortable working at the edges of musical forms and notions with performers from many and varied backgrounds. She is currently stoked to be working with Cameron Bower to help realise a number of his new works for solo piano and chamber music settings.
FRANCESCA MASEL
Brisbane-based cellist and music educator Francesca Masel has a strong passion for chamber music and collaboration. She has performed extensively in Australia and overseas at events such as the 2022 Corso Internazionale di Musica in San Vito di Cadore, the 2019 Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival and frequently with dynamic ensembles including Camerata: Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Youth Orchestra. Francesca graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University with a Graduate Certificate in Music Studies and a Bachelor of Music in Performance. She is excited to be continuing her studies in cello this September at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Image: Brodie McAllister
Special K - Vacuum Energy
Live performances - Friday July 14th
Special K - Vacuum Energy ft. San and Tac + Silicon Slave
Doors 7pm
In the centre of our galaxy lurks a monster. A endless abyss of infinite density, who's unrelenting hunger consumes even the very light that strays too close. For generations, our scientists have probed its inky darkness, trying in vain to catch a glimpse of the cosmic horrors that lurk below. Only too late, they realised that the void was watching them too.
Join us Friday July 14th at for an enchanting evening of the very best underground electronic music Brisbane has to offer! Featuring a plethora of talented selectors, from all musical sectors and a very special interstate guest.
FULL LINEUP:
SAN AND TAC / TACTYL (NC)
SILICON SLAVE (SA)
UNREGISTERED MASTER BUILDER
GATSBY LOOK
ABSTRACT HUMAN RADIO
RYAN RIDDICK
TECHNO - HOUSE - DNB - GLITCH - DUB - PSY
Special K3
Live performances - Saturday May 27
An experimental audio visual showcase.
Special K3 is an experimental audio visual showcase featuring a seasoned line up of interdisciplinary artists. Hosted by KEPK and curated in collaboration with Made Now Music, this evening event will take place at the heart of in the inner South Brisbane industrial area.
Special K3 features projection based works by Kellie O’Dempsey, Unregistered Master Builder, Chris Bennie, and Abstract Human Radio. Special K3 showcases the blurred lines between jazz, dub, post classical and techno using hardware, electro-acoustic instruments and Hybrid DJ sets.
KEPK is a creative hub, gallery, studio and community located in an old plywood factory in Yeerongpilly. It aims to provide a space for developing creative projects, practice, and for showcasing art exhibitions and experimental audiovisual projects. Special K3 is a presentation of the plurality of KEPK’s creative output.
Featuring a line up of local and interstate artists including Kellie O’Dempsy and Mick Dick, Olympic Pool Maintenance League, Madeleine Cocolas and Unregistered Master Builder, Josten Myburgh (Perth) and the Brodie McAllister Trio. The event will feature the “Party Button” by Steph Piper.
Special K3 presented by Made Now Music & KEPK and is part of Brisbane Art Design 2023
7pm - 12am
Steeplejack - presented by Soap
Gig - Saturday Feb 11th 7 pm
Presented by Soap and curated by Harold, Steeplejack is a study of underground electronic music, created in unique social and cultural contexts.
Lineup:
NIGTH MAGNET
ORB
ARTEMIS
HAROLD
Visuals: DRAWNBYFREE
SPECIAL K 2.0
Live performances - Saturday Oct 15th, 8 pm
Olympic Swimming Pool Maintenance League @olympic_pool_maintenance
Abstract Human Radio @abstracthumanradio
Cyber Banshee @_cyberbanshee
Moscos @moscos.cosmos
Unregistered Master Builder @unregistered_master_builder
Rigidigital @rigi_digital
Sonny O'Brien @sonnyobrien
Jake Morton @makejorton
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