IMMERSION REVIEW: Couzinier ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Immersion Series of Surround Sound Concerts was launched tonight at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts here in Melbourne with a short and very focussed set of three pieces of 6 channel diffused music. It was bloody marvellous and heres a potted account.... First up were Thomas and Gregoire Couzinier. They presented, as did all, an improvised/programmed piece the swung from sleazy lounge breakbeats incorporating live sax and guitar (surf inflections) to abstract feedback inflected hypercolliding beats coloured with swirling dronescapes....you get the picture ( I gotta stop reading the Wire!!!). The piece utilised a sampler keyboard, sampler, instruments as mentioned, multiple stereo Cds and was mixed in real time. Music that touched lots of bases but, as did all the pieces pesented, never semed to be wandering and had an intenal consistency or continuity throughout despite the stylistic smorgasboard on offer. Thomas and perhaps Gregoire are students at RMIT here in Melbourne I believe and an excellent argument for cultural exchange and free tertiary education (What IS it with the French and this kind of music?) I once saw Thomas play a warped surf guitar set at a pub here a while back and he had a CD-R for sale then. Im not sure if he has anything else to enrich our lives with but you could enquire of: p.brophy@rmit.edu.au(Phillip) Next we enjoyed, as Melbourne people are blessed to do, the music of DaveBrown. Finally we heard from PH2 who are Phillip Brophy and Phillip Samartzis. Both are involved in the organisation of the event and are to be given a Mars bar and allowed to stay up late!!! ______________________________________________ Contributed to the Undesirable Propagation Unit by agent AlanBamford