IMMERSION REVIEW: PH2
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The Immersion Series of Surround Sound Concerts was launched 
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. 

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!!!

Ph2 performed a semi improvised piece of electro-acoustic music using  a 
keyboard sampler to trigger randomly selected samples from a laptop. 
combined with stereo signals from multi CD-Rs and was mixed in real 
time. Mr Brophy played the sampler with his trademark dry precision and 
the mixing and CD's were handled by Mr Samartzis. This was a piece that 
had me fooled as I was convinced it was rehearsed. Employing a broad 
pallette of the cheesey pad, the deeeep drone( in miniature), the slapp 
percussive keyboard thwack and a whole array of glitchy blips and farts it 
took us on a wee wander through space and time, returning occasionally 
to reprise and then move on, shifting in passage with precision and 
sensitivity and concluding with a return to the original starting point of a 
gentle pulsong drone. But no, not rehearsed but presented on the spot by 
two people who clearly know each other, their purpose and their material 
very well.

Again the use of diffusion through the gallery type space was effective, 
unobtrusive and fully integrated. Lost again.

Phillip Samartzis has a few CDs out of fairly severe E/A come concrete 
music and you can contact: dorobo@werple.net.au if your innarested

and by the way... the posters so cute...gotta love the 70's!!!!

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Contributed to the Undesirable Propagation Unit by agent AlanBamford