Gavin Bryars composed a guitar piece for Derek Bailey called "The Squirrel & the Ricketty Racketty Bridge". A piece for one guitarist playing two simultaneous guitars. Bailey ended up recording the composition with four players on eight guitars ... we wanted to treat the eight & add three more .... different instruments.
Basil Psanoudakis - Turntables & ebow bass
Paul Pax Andrews - Saxophone
Wheldon Thornley - Keyboards

"There is no doubt in my mind that my friend Derek Bailey was one of the major figures in music – and not just improvised music – over the last thirty years. I was a 19-year old philosophy student, and beginning jazz bass player, in Sheffield when I first met him in 1962. Along with drummer Tony Oxley, our trio – called Joseph Holbrooke - developed over the next four years an original and experimental approach to improvisation that led us away from jazz into uncharted areas of collective free playing."  

Gavin Bryars

Stream into Sound Quality hosted by Tim Richie to hear the third installment of Masonik's "Girl Soldering Tentacle for Steam Transmission" - Steam Punk - live - Radio National ABC.

 

A Group dedicated to the deconstruction of Jazz. Does your band, video, art pull apart the jazz genre? How far can you stretch the Jazz medium? What is Jazz anyway? Traditional, improvised & deconstructed.

Variation InStatic is an improvisation of the Decibel piece "Variations on Electroacoustic Feedback" which appears on their vinyl release Stasis Ecstatic. A live recording. No overdubs. No Post-production.
Basil Psanoudakis - turntable & bass
Paul Pax Andrews - saxophone
Wheldon Thornley - keyboards

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Tim Richie's Sound Quality - ABC Radio National broadcasts the 2nd installment of Masonik's "Girl Soldering Tentacle For Steam Transmission"... Download or listen to the stream.

Masonik created a graphic score based on variations of nylon line - cast.... we call it "notated flyfishing" We saw an instant connection with David Toop's "Do The Bathosphere" recorded 1975 & released on the classic Obscure Label & the vinyl feature here. One take No overdubs No rehearsal No editing.

Basil Psanoudakis - Turntable & Bass
Paul Pax Andrews - Saxophone
Wheldon Thornley - Keyboards

Sound Quality

Catch the Sound Quality stream on ABC Radio National hosted by Tim Ritchie to hear Masonik's live steampunk inspired piece - Girl Soldering Tentacle For Steam Transmission, Part 1 - recorded live earlier this year at the Artifactory.

ABC Pool Timeline

Masonik's key features of the ABC Pool- from the official timeline ..... All archived in the National Library of Australia...

Masonik's Collaboration with AgedMusic

Masonik's Invocation Frame

Masonik featured in Australian Music Month - Sound Quality - Tim Richie

All works archived in the National Library Of Australia

ABC Pool

Memory Loss

SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS
A collaborative work.
Written and read by James Barnes, Short Term (Memory Loss)
Soundscape by Masonik, Girl Soldering Tentacle For Steam Transmission, Part 3
Image/video animation by Jutta Pryor

MEMORY LOSS from pry on Vimeo.