GENESIS BREYER P ORRIDGE CANCELLATION
dear friends, It’s with great regret Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE announces the cancellation of their Australian tour with Edley ODowd. Here’s a little official word from me about it …
2018
Dear Friends….may it be so.
SHIPPING NOTICE
Dear friends, any orders placed between October 19 and November 3 won’t be shipped until the 6th of November.
ROSS MANNING’S REFLEX IN WAVES
Ross Manning is a magician of sorts, at least that’s how I often find myself thinking of him. Over the past few year’s Ross has …
LE CO 2017
Friends in the European climes, I’ll be glad to see this month and into November. I’ll be performing Cruel Optimism and my new work The …
NICOLA RATTI – COLLECTED
Nicola Ratti’s The Collection is a series of relational works that test his studio practice of the past 18 months. Working deeply with a range …
RAFAEL TORAL’S MOON FIELD
Rafael Toral came to visit us at Room40 in the mid 00s. His concert remains firmly in my heart. It was an evocative and explosive …
UNEARTHING TONY BUCK
A few years ago, The Necks were scheduled to play in Brisbane. An accident effecting Lloyd’s family meant for that evening Chris Abrahams and Tony …
MONO 25 : UMEDA + MANNING
Some of the most provocative performative installation work I have ever experienced came care of Osaka’s Tetsuya Umeda. I once had the pleasure of wandering …
JANEK SCHAEFER’S GLITTER
The better part of a decade ago, Janek Schaefer sent through a wonderful recording ‘In The Last Hour‘, a highpoint for the label that year. …
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA’S MIRAGE
There’s times where I have listened to the music of Chihei Hatakeyama for hours on end. He creates, without question, some of the finest ambient …
MAY ACTIONS
In May we are very pleased to welcome some fine folk from the Northern Hemisphere here in the south. John Chantler, one of the original …
NORMAN WESTBERG ON JASPER
Norman Westberg is presently touring with SWANS around Europe. Between tours, he fills his time with many things, including making some of the most elegant …
LPE USA 2017
I’m excited to be visiting y’all in the Northern Hemisphere in the coming weeks. These will be the first Cruel Optimism presentations. I also have …
Emporium Shipping
All orders at the emporium as of March 23rd have been shipped. The emporium will not be shipping between March 24 – April 10th, as I’ll …
HEXA – FACTORY PHOTOGRAPHS EU/UK 2017
This February Jamie Stewart and myself are headed to the UK and EU for the first tour of HEXA’s Factory Photographs. Originally commissioned as part of the …
Live Electronic Music
Well that was quick. Less than 4 hours after we announced Spyros Polychronopoulos – LEM all of these special objects were spoken for. Here’s a little note …
MIRKO LP1
London resident Mirko might be familiar to you as a long term collaborator and former member of Cut Copy, or perhaps as the drumming backbone …
HEXA Track By Track
HEXA’s auditory response to David Lynch’s Factory Photographs has gone live. You can read a track by track published via our friends at Self-Titled Magazine
This Is You
Over the course of Room40’s history I am often struck by the provocative and individual statements that artists bring to the label. Recently I was …
HEXA meets David Lynch
Last year, José Da Silva curated the powerful David Lynch : Between Two Worlds exhibition at the Gallery Of Modern Art in Brisbane. The exhibition explored …
Mike Cooper – Autumn Hibiscus Tour 2016
Mike Cooper, the man I once described as post-everything, is on the road in Europe these next few months. He is a force of nature, elegantly …
BNE: Liquid Architecture
Our good friends at Liquid Architecture are headed north and we’re joining together for two evenings of sound at the Institute Of Modern Art August …
Always Pale Earth
Our dear friend Benjamin Thompson AKA Pale Earth has, as always, been busy. Currently residing in Tokyo, he has put together an astounding collection of …