Graduating WAAPA Composition & Music Technology students launch their combined album at ECU’s Spectrum Gallery on Thursday 10 November. Listeners can expect to hear a diverse mix of sounds from the cohort – there’s something for everyone!

Fans of Aletheia should be sure to check out UTS’s Ethernet Orchestra, who feature the live stream of their recent performance with Aletheia from the 9th of May on their website

Aletheia are set to launch their concoction of sound mass goodness at their album launch on Thursday 16th of June @ Manhattans Vic Park. Entry is free so be sure to keep your diary clear for some delectable electroacoustic treats.

The Slow Release Staff has some exciting events coming up in the next couple of weeks. The music technology students have their  recitals coming up on the 15th and 16th of November.

The recitals will be a mixture of max/msp processing, live instrumentation, electro-acoustic sounds, soundscapes, as well as a hip-hop symphony. The staff will also be releasing an album based on these styles to sell on the recital nights, called Collateral Parallels.

Collateral Parallels is a graduate compilation CD of artists Mark Bradstreet, Ellie Cumming, Mikaela Davies, Jarryd Bird and Jake Steele. Mark Bradstreet’s work Raw, is an electronic tribal orientated piece, based on a contemporary dance collaboration. Run was composed with electro-acoustic sounds, including electric guitar and live drum samples, generating an immersive electronic soundscape. Ellie Cumming’s works consist of a mixture of cultures, exploited using a saxophone quartet. Mikaela Davies’ pieces “In The Darkness We Shall Fall” and “Chordal Sinewaves” utilise the emotions that we go through in life circumstances. They are a blend of using Max/MSP processing and using live instrumentation to harp on emotions such as; hope, despair, sadness, depression and manic states. Jarryd Theodore Bird has created two pieces based around the manipulation of guitar tracks through time. The works are intended to create a melancholic and gloomy affect. Jake Steele has composed a ‘hip hop symphony’ utilising live instruments that merge the classical style with modern grooves of hip hop. These tracks are remixes of elements from the symphony.

If you like the sound of this, we invite you to join us at WAAPA in the Music Auditorium, starting at 5pm on Monday the 15th, and Tuesday the 16th. Hope to see you there.

Wednesday the 19th of May is the premier release of Kouhei Harada’s “Augapfel” EP on Slow Release Music.

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.

New music electro-acoustic ensemble Decibel, formed in 2009 under the musical direction of Cat Hope and performing a wide range of new music compositions from Alvin Lucier to Brian Eno and emerging Western Australian composers, is set to release an album of original works in the new year on Slow Release Music. Stay tuned for more developments!

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