Drawn and Quatered; Mia Alexander & Levi Liauw, Mara Macdonald, Dave Brown & Carolyn Connors

EASTMINT x PIBE Presents

Drawn and Quatered; Mia Alexander & Levi Liauw, Mara Macdonald, Dave Brown & Carolyn Connors

DRAWN AND QUARTERED is the debut album from punk/improv duet Mia Alexander and Levi Liauw. Like a tempestuous maelstrom or a botched trepanation, the drums and sax scream their guts out in self-indulgent furore. Excruciatingly violent, unbearably wrathful and uncompromisingly temerarious.

PIBE (play it by ear) is the incipient record label of Mia Alexander and Levi Liauw on which DRAWN AND QUARTERED was released. While DRAWN AND QUARTERED may be its first release, the label seeks to sign more young and emerging artists in Australia and abroad who are under-represented and under-appreciated. Fundamentally characterised by a punk spirit and ethos, PIBE will hopefully inject some much needed young blood into the cloggy and coagulated world of improvised music. 

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7pm Doors

7:30pm Dave Brown & Carolyn Connors

8:30pm Mara Macdonald

9:30pm Mia Macdonald and Levi Liauw

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$5 Vegan Laksa / Bar / Card and Cash accepted

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pay what you can afford sliding scale tix $10-$60

Free First Nations tix

Free companion tix

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For a three-act lineup, we suggest $25, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10–$60. CDs and Cassettes available on the night via PIBE. 

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ACCESSIBILITY 

Eastmint is accessible via wheelchair through the non main entrance, there is a small sliding door frame that we can place a ramp over the top of. Please get in touch if you require this option via email eastmintrecords@gmail.com. Closest accessible toilets located at the Peacock Hotel 150m away. Please contact if you require any other info.

This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE

DAVE BROWN 

Dr. Dave Brown (b. 1956, Melbourne, Aust.) has been involved in the Melbourne avant-garde, art rock/punk rock scene since the mid-seventies with such groups as “False Start”, “Signals” and “Dumb and the Ugly”. The first two of these groups began from associations made around the time he was completing a diploma of fine arts in the mid-1970s.

Subsequent projects include punk jazz band “bucketrider”, “lazy” an improvising duo with percussionist Sean Baxter, improv/sound art group “Western Grey” with Baxter and Philip Samartzis, psychedelic electronic group “Terminal Hz” with KK Null from Japan, prepared improvisational group “Pateras/Baxter/Brown, electric free jazz group “Embers”, the duo “culture of un” with Sydney pianist Chris Abrahams, the prepared instrument duo “Hakea” with saxophonist Rosalind Hall, the duo “Helium Clench” with Melbourne guitarist and microtonal instrument builder Tim Catlin as well as more occasional groups “The Greg Kingston Big Band” and “The Crowded Foxhole”, the latter with son Louis Peake. The focus of the solo project “candlesnuffer” has increasingly centred on the development of composing techniques which meld opposing streams like conventional electro-acoustic methods with noise and rock and also the development of a vocabulary of tiny acoustic sounds enlarged outside their normal context for performance and composition.

In October/November 2008 Pateras/Baxter/Brown again toured Europe, this time performances in France and Switzerland were undertaken with their compatriots ‘The Necks.’ In February 2011 Terminal Hz toured Europe.

In 2005, 2006 and 2008 respectively Brown made contributions to the soundtracks of the motion pictures ‘Wolf Creek’, ‘Rogue’ and ‘The Square’ composed by Franc Tetaz. Brown has also contributed performances and live accompaniment to the soundtrack ‘Au Revalateur’, composed by Philip Brophy

CAROLYN CONNORS

is a Melbourne based vocalist, composer, pianist, and accordionist. She creates new works in the fields of contemporary music and theatre.

In 2015 Carolyn composed and performed new works for Liquid Architecture, ABC radio’s Sound Proof, and The Big West Festival; she travelled to Chengdu for the development of new work In a Chengdu Teahouse; performances included SoundOut festival, and works by Aviva Endean for Chamber Made Opera, and Andrea Keeble for the Slow Music Festival. Carolyn was awarded the 2015 Age Melbourne Music Award for Avant Garde and Experimental music.

Carolyn’s vocal work expands the possibilities of the acoustic voice.  The works with preparations extend the voice (What comes after love, 2015; Sonatas for Voice and Objects, 2010; Mirabilia, 1992;). The theatre works are designed for listening to: meaning and navigation are embedded in the sound rather than in text or visual cues (Material Mouth, 2007; Nocturne, 2010).

Carolyn’s work in ensemble settings include Hammers Lake,  a trio with cellist Judith Hamann which is informed by new classical, avant-garde, and improvisation practices. As a collaborator she has made new work with many companies including Chamber Made Opera, JOLT, Quiver New Music Ensemble, and Elision; and with many artists including Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, David Chesworth, Cynthia Troupe, David Tolley, Stevie Wishart, Warren Burt, and Jill Orr. She regularly creates real-time compositions with local and international musicians in improvisation settings.

MARA MACDONALD

Is an artist based in Melbourne Australia. She released her debut EP ‘I’m just One Person’ on JPEG Artefacts in 2023, and debut album ‘August and June’ on the Manchester-based First Light Records in 2024. She is a regular performer across Melbourne, and has worked with many local organizations including Liquid Architecture, Make it Up Club, Eastmint, Miscellania, SIGNAL, and ADM+S. Brad Rose of Foxy Digitales said of her debut: “This music creates space for those who don’t often find it … each word, each sound echoes into forever