The Launch night will be held at the Kurongkurl Katitjin (KK) Gallery @ ECU Mount Lawley Campus on Central Ave in Mount Lawley.

Kouhei Harada’s Augapfel EP is a lush world of sound, filled with warm acoustics and disembodied environments flickering between a field of digital transmissions.

Born in Tokyo in 1983 Kouhei Harada is a Japanese sound artist who uses field recordings, acoustic instruments and modified guitar that is processed and arranged through the use of Max/MSP programming to deconstruct and re-construct new acousmatic worlds filled with beautiful layers of melodic noise. Harada see’s the concepts of Glitch not as a style or a type of sound but as moments of sound caught in time and space. Harada studied Anthropology & Philosophy in Tamagawa University, having been influenced by German philosophers Arnold Gehlen, Anti-Illusionism & French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s Mille Plateaux (1980 – Deleuze & Guattari) Harada turned to composition.

In 2006, he formed the side project “SAWADA + HARADA and by 2006 Harada Played as a closing act for the Avantgarde Festival organized by legendary German Krautrockers FAUST. 2009 saw Kouhei Harada tour Australia which led to his current signing to Western Australian Label Slow Release. http://slowrelease.waapamusic.com/

The Augapfel EP and many other great Slow Release Music Releases can be previewed and purchased online at http://slowrelease.waapamusic.com/

Slow Release is a music label based at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University in Mount Lawley, Western Australia. Established in 2009, the label releases music by staff, senior students and visiting artists to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

The label is run by third year students from the Bachelor of Music (Music Technology) overseen by an editorial board of WAAPA staff. The label structure reflects the expertise of the Music Department at WAAPA and covers Jazz, Classical, Contemporary and New Music genres.

Kouhei Harada – Abrutschen (taken from Augapfel EP) by Slow Release Music

The WAAPA Slow Release Music Label is proud to present it’s new upcoming release by Japanese sound artist, Kouhei Harada. Kouhei works specifically with the program Max/MSP to manipulate field recordings, instruments, and effected sounds. Kouhei specializes in composing, improvising, designing, organizing, engineering, and booking talent for oversea’s musicians to go to Tokyo, Japan. The exciting multi-track release is called “Augapfel” and will be available for your own personal download in the coming weeks. If you want a preview of Kouhei’s works, please click on this Myspace link.

Cat Hope – In the Cut antibody (Tape It concert, WAAPA Auditorium, September 10 2009).

Aletheia Music Ensemble 2009 – Mechinisims of Fracture aletheia-stream-96

Music Technology Graduate Album – Immersive Particles

Both works are released as free MP3 downloads under a Creative Commons licence and will also be available as a full CD album.

They are also working on a 21st century interpretation of Brian Eno’s Discreet Music for feedback tape loop. Aletheia will be performing Discreet Music live on October 30th, for the THNMF Conference.

Aletheia Ensemble’s Discrete Music is a generative composition, using live Clarinet and Piano along with two Max/MSP laptops creating a feedback loop.

discretemusic_one.mp3 Aletheia Discrete Music Take One

Stream II Aletheia Streaming Ensemble – Stream II

Where: Spectrum Project Space, 221 Beaufort Street, Northbridge

When: Tuesday 9th, June. 7:30 pm