SicKL Open Lab 002: 30 August 2008

Dear friends,

SicKL Open Lab (SOL) is advancing to its second art laboratory session in August! In this season, our friends from Singapore, IRON EGG and KULTURKAMPF will be conducting a few experimentations in music. Moreover, two young local short film directors: Lim Chee Yong and Chua Seng Shen will be joining the fun.
Come out for a night of art instead of watching wasteful fireworks... lah!
Come out to support the true independent spirit in your neighborhood, such as Cheras!

cheers,
Siew Wai

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SicKL Open Lab 002- August 08 Lab

Date: 30 August, 2008 @ 8pm

Venue: Studio in Cheras, KL (SicKL)
75, 3rd Floor
Amber Business Plaza,
Jalan Telawat 1,
Cheras, 56100 K.L.

(You can take Star line LRT and stop at Cheras Station. SicKL is just a minute walk from the station!)

For driving directions: Yandsen 012-9198031

Admission: By donation

http://emacm. blogspot. com

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MUSIC:

**IRON EGG**

is an electro-acoustic improvisation group based in Singapore featuring Darren Moore (laptop/percussion) , Tim O'Dwyer (saxophone) and Brian O'Reilly (electronics/ visual).

Darren Moore is an Australian musician currently based in Singapore. He is involved in various projects as a drummer and as an experimental laptop artist. He has performed and collaborated with musicians such as Jon Rose, Chris Abrahams, Scott Tinkler, Eugene Pao, Tim O'Dwyer, Will Guthrie, Eric Boeren, Wilbert de Joode, Micheal Vatcher to name a few. He has toured throughout Europe, Australia, South East Asia, Japan and the USA. Currently in Singapore, he leads his own jazz quintet featuring the leading lights of the singapore jazz scene, he also is involved in Iron Egg - an electro/acoustic audio/visual experimental trio featuring Tim O'Dwyer and Brian O'Rielly and performs solo experimental laptop music with percussion. www.myspace. com/darrenmoorem usic

Brian O'Reilly is the creator of various works for moving images/live cinema, electronic/noise music, mixed media assemblage/installa tion, and is a contrabassist, focusing on the integration of electronic treatments and extended playing techniques.

Timothy O'Dwyer: is a composer, saxophonist and educator working between the general areas of music known as jazz, contemporary notated music and improvised music. He has been a member of Elision Contemporary Ensemble since 1994 and was a founding member of the Melbourne cult punk-jazz group bucketrider. Following studies with Evan Parker and composer Richard Barrett in 1995 he has had the privilege of collaborating with many artists that he greatly admires including: John Butcher, Liza Lim, Bobby Previte, KK Null, Chaya Chernowin, and conceptual artists Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, and Katsushige Nakahashi. He is currently programme leader of music and lecturer in jazz at the School of Contemporary Music LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and is a PhD candidate at Queensland University of Technology studying the phenomena of identity in improvised music. His current projects include his jazz group The Tim O'Dwyer Trio and the electro-acoustic
project Iron Egg.

**KULTURKAMPF* *

Since 2006, Mark Wong (b. 1982, Singapore) has been developing and refining his own vocabulary for the kazoo, a simple musical instrument traditionally considered a novelty toy. In addition to conventional humming techniques, Wong has germinated blowing, rasping and other vocal scrawlings. Playing off the feedback purity of a no-input mixer, Mark's kazoo becomes the production centre of a certain textural beauty and nervous energy.

myspace.com/ kulturkampf

SHORT FILMS:

**Chua Seng Shen- "A Young Man with No Name" (15 minutes)
**Lim Chee Yong- "My Nostalgia" (19 minutes)

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SicKL OPEN LAB (SOL) is a bi-monthly art laboratory where artists come together to show individual’s work and form new collaboration. SiCKL will provide the environment for artistic expression, improvisation, experimentation, learning and collaboration. In each lab session, we encourage artists from different backgrounds to experiment with each other to create new work. This open platform is free to perform, to exhibit, to experiment and to collaborate. We welcome artists from all disciplines.

Dare to experiment! Surprise us and surprise yourself!
SOL happens on the last Saturday every other month at 8pm.

For inquiries, please contact:
Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo. com / 012-6957987
Sow Yee : truely_au@hotmail. com / 012-2661579
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