Group Five and Dirac will be playing at a City Gallery late night session on Thursday 13 October.
WYWS and City Gallery late night sessions (October 2005)
15 Thursday Sep 2005
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WYWS and Capital Recordings present Montano (26 August 2005)
26 Friday Aug 2005
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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.
WYWS and City Gallery late night sessions (6 and 27 May 2005)
27 Friday May 2005
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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.
WYWS presents Biosphere and the Catchpool Found Sound project (March 18-19 2005)
01 Tuesday Mar 2005
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It’s the biggest thing we’ve ever done. On Friday 18 March 2005 the norse god of ambient, Geir Jenssen aka Biosphere, will perform in Wellington. Supporting him is occasional While_you_were_Sleeping collaborator Andrew Thomas.
The following night, Saturday 19 March, over a dozen assembled musicians, including Biosphere, will perform music made from the sounds of the Catchpool Valley in the Orongaronga hills west of Wellington.
These gigs have been over 18 months in preparation. The sounds of the Catchpool were recorded by Victoria University electronic music students at Easter last year, and circulated amongst interested musicians. Several VJs have collected video footage from the Catchpool Valley, and will provide a visual accompaniment for the music.
Both events are being performed at the Adam Concert Room, Victoria University of Wellington Music School. The Biosphere concert starts at 9pm, and the Catchpool concert starts at 8pm.
Tickets for each night are 20+booking fee at Real Groovy, or $25 on the door.
WYWS presents Electronic Monster Nite (January 7 2005)
07 Friday Jan 2005
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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.
WYWS/ACMA Ghost in the Machine conference performance (July 3 2004)
03 Saturday Jul 2004
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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.
While_you_were_Sleeping 8 (June 5 2004)
05 Saturday Jun 2004
We performed the eighth While_you_were_Sleeping on June 5th at Happy.
The gig was very well attended, and the performances went very well, and we’re really stoked.
While_you_were_Sleeping 8 featured four audio and video collaborations between:
- Existence and MoneyTree,
- Rayzordoll and Frey,
- Billy Wilson and SectionGFX,
- Mr J and Aquaboogie.
Thanks to Radio Active, Sticky Fingers, Loop, Heliocell, and Chrometoaster for their support.
About the WYWS CD compilation:
At While_you_were_Sleeping 8 we gave away an audio CD on the door to the first 50 in (happily for us, we ran out!). The CD contained music by artists who have performed at While You Were Sleeping over the past year.
At this stage we’ve run out of CDs but we may print some more in the near future.
The tracklist:
- Existence – Never give up,
- Group Five – Little Hours,
- Fierce Angel – Live at WYWS #2 (edit),
- Panoramica – Departure Lounge,
- Frey – rmh5,
- Hummel – gate,
- Pinky and Perky – Real Need,
- SstimulusS – Mermaid,
- Billy Wilson – Mobilise,
- Little Thief – Wildflower,
- Aquaboogie – Todaiji.
