On Friday 26 August Montano (Michael Upton and Shanan Holm) played music from their upcoming album on Capital Recordings. In support were their good buddies Group Five and Aquaboogie, along with sets from Michael in his Jet Jaguar avatar and Shanan playing Octif material. Rob (Section GFX) provided some nice visuals. In all, it went very well, and since Jet Jaguar is heading back to his homeland (Monster Island, somewhere of the coast of Japan, to teach English to bored middle-aged Japanese housewives), it is unlikely that the monster nite buddies will be playing together for a while.

In May performances by members of While_you_were_Sleeping were held at the Wellington City Gallery. These performances, by Frey and Aquaboogie (6 May), Seht and Peel (27 May) coincided with the exhibition of British abstract minimalist painter Bridget Riley. The music complemented the art pretty well, and both events had a very good turnout.

In a fit of creative commons fervour, Stuart (Aquaboogie) stuck his set for the gig up on archive.org.

A further Late Night Session will be performed at the City Gallery in October. Group Five and Dirac will be playing.

Jet Jaguar headlined a night of electronica madness at the Bodega in early January. Making up the five-headed monster were JJ, While_you_were_Sleeping regulars Group Five and Aquaboogie and While_you_were_Sleeping first-timer Octif, who also teamed up with Jet Jaguar as Montano. Montano have an album release on Capital Recordings later in the year.

VJing for the event was another newcomer, Yetimon.

You can read the press release for the event (PDF 39KB).

It was generally agreed that this was one of the best While_you_were_Sleeping nights yet.

While_you_were_Sleeping VJs performed with participants of Australasian Computer Music Association conference held at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Music, on July 3. VJs Razordoll, SectionGFX, MoneyTree provided beautiful visual accompaniments to some diverse and often very strange music. The oscilloscope also kicked arse.

The lineup:

• Ryan Cockburn (turntablist) accompanied by his own visuals,
• Emile De La Ray (electronics cymbal and vocals) with SectionGFX,
• Joseph Waters (percussion and electronics) with Rayzordoll,
• Simulus (VR gloves and electronics) with SectionGFX,
• Signer (guitar plus tape) with MoneyTree and James.