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iTunes and Powderfinger

September 2nd 2010 00:21
POWDERFINGER
Last Ever Performance Available Exclusively on iTunes

Today pre-orders of Powderfinger’s last ever performance are available exclusively on the Australian iTunes store.

The live recording of their final show on 13 November at the Riverstage in Brisbane, will be available on iTunes approximately twelve hours after the curtain drops on the bands remarkable career.

Over 290,000 tickets have already been sold across 35 shows in 21 different cities on the colossal tour, resulting in a whopping 24 sold out dates so far! With only a handful of shows around the country still having tickets available, it seems that many unlucky fans missed out on their opportunity to farewell this iconic Aussie band. But while the sun is indeed setting, there are still a few rays of sunshine on the horizon. Powderfinger has recently released additional tickets to their sold out shows at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne (10 & 11 September) and Supreme Court Gardens, Perth (22 & 23 September). The ‘Sunsets Tour’ kicks off in Newcastle today.


Powderfinger
image by Jake 1

POWDERFINGER
Pre-order the final show at www.itunes.com.au/powderfinger now!


SUNSETS TOUR


September 1st - Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle (SOLD OUT)

September 3rd - Gold Coast Convention Centre, Gold Coast (SOLD OUT)

September 4th - Riverstage, Brisbane (SOLD OUT)

September 5th - Riverstage, Brisbane (SOLD OUT)

September 7th - Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre, Tamworth

September 9th - WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong (SOLD OUT)

September 10th - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – last release tickets available

September 11th - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – last release tickets available

September 13th - Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart (SOLD OUT)

September 16th - Memorial Drive, Adelaide (SOLD OUT)

September 18th - Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney (SOLD OUT)

September 19th - Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney (SOLD OUT)

September 22nd - Supreme Court Gardens, Perth– last release tickets
available

September 23rd - Supreme Court Gardens, Perth– last release tickets available

September 24th - Supreme Court Gardens, Perth (SOLD OUT)

September 26th - Gardens Amphitheatre, Darwin (SOLD OUT)

September 28th - Convention Centre, Cairns (SOLD OUT)

September 29th - Convention Centre, Cairns

October 1st - Entertainment Centre, Townsville (SOLD OUT)

October 2nd - Entertainment Centre, Townsville (SOLD OUT)

October 3rd – Showgrounds, Mackay

October 7th – Showgrounds, Rockhampton

October 8th - Caloundra Music Festival, Kings Beach (SOLD OUT)

October 9th - University Of Southern QLD, Toowoomba (SOLD OUT)

October 12th - University Of Canberra, Canberra (SOLD OUT)

October 13th - Sports Ground, Albury

October 15th - Showgrounds, Bendigo (SOLD OUT)

October 16th - North Gardens, Ballarat (SOLD OUT)

October 29th - Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne (SOLD OUT)

October 30th - Memorial Drive, Adelaide (SOLD OUT)

November 6th - Acer Arena, Sydney (SOLD OUT)

November 10th – Riverstage, Brisbane (SOLD OUT)

November 12th- Riverstage, Brisbane (SOLD OUT)

November 13th- Riverstage, Brisbane (SOLD OUT)





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Chunky Move GLOW

August 9th 2010 09:01
Seymour Centre
presents

Chunky Move

GLOW


The space where technology and the human body collide


Fresh from the 7th International Festival of Contemporary Dance at the 2010 Venice Biennale, Chunky Move bring their groundbreaking and internationally celebrated production GLOW to the Seymour Centre.



GLOW will light up the Inner West’s favourite arts hub Seymour Centre for four nights only, with two performances a day from Wed 13 - Sat 16 October 2010.

Dance and technology collide in this hugely inventive performance featuring the latest in multi media technology. A collaboration with the now legendary interactive software creator Frieder Weiss who pioneered GLOW’s innovative ‘biotech fiction’, the production won a Helpmann Award for Best Dance Work in 2008 and has been described as ’ingenious‘ with Weiss’ visuals deemed ’a marvel‘ by the New York Times in 2008.

GLOW is a solo performance by phenomenal dance forces Sara Black and Harriet Ritchie, taking alternative shows. Utilising a sophisticated video tracking system a digital landscape is generated in response to the dancers’ movement. The bodies’ gestures are extended by and in turn manipulate the video world that surrounds it, rendering no two performances exactly the same.


“In GLOW, light and moving graphics are not pre-rendered video playback, but rather images constantly generated by various algorithms responding to movement,” says Chunky Move’s Artistic Director, Gideon Obarzanek.

“In most conventional works, employing projection lighting, the dancer’s position and timing have to be completely fixed to the space and timeline of the video playback. Their role is reduced to the difficult chore of making every performance an exact facsimile of the original. In GLOW, the machine sees the performer and responds to their actions, unlocking them from a relationship of restriction and tedium.”

Australian composer Luke Smiles created GLOW’s soundtrack, with additional music from Ben Frost. Throbbing guitar-based textures emerge from nothing and slowly coalesce into huge, forbidding forms that are felt as much as heard. The soundscape enhances the dance/ digital relationship and sets the sonic tone pushing comfort thresholds, and exploiting the extremes of pitch and volume.

GLOW will form part of SEAM 2010: Agency & Action run by Critical Path, Sydney’s choreographic research centre, and the University of Western Sydney. Held at the Seymour Centre on 15 and 16 October 2010 this two-day symposium will focus on interactive digital technologies in performance, underpinned by groundbreaking artist and academic research from Australia and around the world.

The program will feature public talks, workshops, performances, and installations including the “Articulated Head”, Australia’s first thinking robot by Australian performance artist Stelarc.

GLOW’s opening night on Wednesday 13 October also offers a very special treat, with the show’s renowned choreographer and Artistic Director of Chunky Move Gideon Obarzanek set to present a free post-show discussion with Margie Medlin from Critical Path, as part of the Seymour Centre's Enquiring Minds talk series, after the 8.30pm performance.

Catch the remarkable and ephemeral GLOW at the Seymour Centre before it disappears.



WHERE: Seymour Centre, Cnr Cleveland Street and City Road, Chippendale, 2006
WHEN: Wed 13 (7pm & 8:30pm) Thurs 14 (12pm & 2pm), Fri 15 (7pm & 8:30pm), Sat 16 (7pm & 8:30pm) October
BOOKINGS: Box Office P: 02 9351 7940 W: www.seymourcentre.com
PRICES Adult - $25, Concession $20, Groups (8 ) - $18
OTHER: Not suitable for children under 6 years old
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Internet Censorship Victory!

August 7th 2010 01:29
Late last night the Australian Coalition announced it won't be voting for an internet filter that censors the web. This comes after the Australian Government responded to the Get Up! campaign by deferring the filter until 2012 (with the likelihood that the filter will never come back in its current form).

With independent Senator Nick Xenophon, the Greens and now the Coalition all walking away from the ineffective policy of censoring the internet, there is now no way for the Senate to pass this scheme


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Artist registrations Adelaide Fringe

August 7th 2010 00:19
Artist registrations now open for Adelaide Fringe 2011!


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Mouse on Mars

August 2nd 2010 05:05
Mouse on Mars


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REGURGITATOR

July 16th 2010 08:18
REGURGITATOR


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Win a trip to LA with Future Entertainment

July 13th 2010 02:10
Future Entertainment

More dance. More music. More news. More everything!
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The Dead Whales

June 17th 2010 13:25
In one week, the International Whaling Commission will hold its final vote on a proposal to legalize commercial whale hunting for the first time in a generation.

The outcome rests on whose voices are heard most clearly in the final hours: the pro-whaling lobby - or the world's people?
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WINTERLAND

June 12th 2010 01:22
THE SOUNDS OF WINTERLAND HEAT UP CARRIAGEWORKS’ NIGHTS

A series of 18 free live music events featuring over 100 local and emerging artists
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MATINEE WORLD TOUR IS COMING TO NYC

June 12th 2010 00:20
Rob Fernandez, Tommy Marinelli, Benny Soto, Josh Wood & Jake Resnicow
present

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