Winterpark Art Exhibition - Track 13. Your timing's all wrong

You're timing's all wrong is a quirky sonic experiment, that oscillates between a rather sweet acoustic guitar melody and the wonderfully crazy nebulaphone by bleep labs.

I love crazy musical gadgets and the idea that machines can be chaotic and unpredictable. This is i'm sure why i don't really want to fix my juno 106... because it sounds so awesome when it's just a little bit broken.

anyway... back to the track and the work in the exhibition...

Adele Winteridge teamed up with a couple of her pals at Foolscap Studio Elly Russell and Siam Pascale to create the quite beautiful balancing act of "Fine Balance". A live mobile created from timber, paint, seedlings and wool.

Adele writes of the process: "The song to me is a really happy vibrant song with undertones of a balancing act between the melody and the overriding glitches. It is reminiscent of a sunny day in a car, driving around the hills... or turning your music up really loudly and riding around the streets of Melbourne on your bike. Sun through the trees and wind in the hair.
The piece is a "Calderseque" kinetic mobile that can hang inside or outside. The plants are balanced from different lengths of dowel with coloured wool threaded through them. Each arm holds a seedling, as they grow at different rates (plant variations) they send the mobile into different balancing positions, changing the aesthetic of the piece daily."

Adele also writes about it in her Foolscap Blog.

Listen to Your timing's all wrong here:
  

and while you're at it... have a listen to a track I did about 10 years ago under a different musical project.... which i think shares the similar out of control crazy-robot aesthetic.

Winterpark Art Exhibition - Track 12. The night beetle

Track 12... The Night Beetle is the first single from Sunday Morning.

OK, I confess... i'm obsessed with the Beatles... and with Sunday Morning I really wanted to create an album that flowed like the B-Side of Abbey Road, where each track seamlessly flows into the next, despite the diversity. This track, is a homage of sorts to the Beatles, with my attempt to channel George Harrison's guitar solos.

Reviewed in the Age EG, Craig Mathieson writes: "WINTERPARK have spent several years on the periphery of the local indie-electro scene but with the lovingly crafted vintage pop of The Night Beetle (***), Matt Ridgway's project sounds ready to take the spotlight with the forthcoming Sunday Morning album.

Accomplished film maker and video artist Gavin Youngs, shows off his rather somewhat twisted sense of humour to create an awesome video work entitled "Night Light" that has to be watched in its entirety!

Gavin writes of his work: "The 1:56 mark of The night beetle sparked the real inspiration for the piece. Referencing a television ad from the 80’s the work looks at what lights your sleep."

FYI... Gavin has previously worked with Winterpark to create the amazing video clip for Cold Feet, off the first Winterpark album One Night Alone.

Watch Gavin's work "Night Light" here:

Why not check out the Montag Remix of The Night Beetle here:
  

Winterpark Art Exhibition - Track 11. Neighbours on ice

Track 11, Neighbours on ice is definitely the darkest moment on the new album. This track was written as a response to some fairly erratic and insomniac moments from next door. The beat is deliberately off-kilter and guitar noise bursting at the seams... on the edge of losing it.

Artist Trudy Moore creates 3-dimensional drawings of objects that echo an almost impulsive response within people. T

Trudy writes of her work: In response to the gritty, uneasy texture of Neighbours on ice I have used paper and charcoal to take a three-dimensional rubbing of milk crates - an object commonly associated with laneways and other unnoticed spaces of the urban landscape.
Through this work I am considering how the fragile, temporary representation of these objects might translate as a metaphor for an edgy, alternate state of mind.

Listen to Neighbours on ice:
  

Winterpark Art Exhibition - Track 10. Five times

Well, back to blogging about the gallery exhibiton! nearly there... just 4 more works to write about!

Track 10 is called Five times, and I have to admit that i have had a long-term obsession with the first Unkle project album, and love all that awesome drum programming by DJ Shadow... so this track's inspiration was to create something that was really beat driven, whilst still retaining the Winterpark 'atmos' thing.

Architect, Haslett Grounds created a wonderful sculptural work for the exhibition to go along with the track... I think the pictures (taken by Penny Lane) capture it fairly well!

Haslett writes of his work: "Shifting scale can shift perspective. The work invites you to inhabit a space both smaller and larger than the place in which it resides. The song reminded me experiencing things vast and wonderful beyond the realm of the man made. Of escapes made all the more special when shared."

 

Listen to Five times here:

  

Winterpark Art Exhibition - Track 9. Hey Love

Track 9, Hey Love will be the second single from the new album "Sunday Morning". Susannah Legge (ex-The Hampdens) contributes her wonderful vocals to the track.

Long term Winterpark collaborator, film-maker Jarrah Gurrie, who had used a number of Winterpark songs in his films... most notably "Wall Kids" in his short film "Centre of the universe". Jarrah also made the video clip for Winterpark for Wall kids when we were in NYC a couple of years back. Check it out here.

For the exhibition, Jarrah created a video response to the track called "To let you down", it references Hey Love not via the soundtrack, but through visual imagery. Jarrah's writes of his work; "Time stands still in the moment the heart snaps."

to let you down from Jarrah Gurrie on Vimeo.


listen to Hey love:
  

Winterpark Art Exhibition - Track 8. Sunday Morning

The title track "Sunday Morning" is an ode to the joys of lying in bed, coffee and breakfasts, walking in the park and love.

Who better to share the love than the amazing and wonderful Jessica Racklyeft. Jess has a knack of creating works of wonder and whimsy, that capture essence and emotion in a moment. Her artist response to Sunday Morning is a quasi-religious painting that embodies all these things.

Jess says of her work: "This pretty track got me thinking about the Sunday spirit - for me, ultimately lying in bed with the sun and no plans... time/quiet/peace. I wanted to represent elements of religious iconography, since perhaps church on a Sunday is where some people found their moment of reflection from the rest of the busy week... Like the track says, Sundays make you remember that everything’s all right."

Listen to Sunday Morning here:
 

and read more on Jess' Blog here.

Winterpark Album Launch - The Grace Darling - Friday Sept 16th

Following on from the successful single launch and coinciding art exhibition Winterpark is warming up for the official “Sunday Morning” album launch this spring. The show is a one off performance at the Grace Darling Hotel in Collingwood on Friday 16th September to celebrate the release of his third album.

Winterpark is the collaborative studio project for Melbourne’s Matt Ridgway, born out of the ashes of his indie-punk rock dreams. “Sunday Morning” is the long awaited third offering from the Melbourne artist which boasts a collection of atmospheric and heartfelt tracks, as well as a handful of catchy upbeat tunes that effortlessly echo the ebbs and flow of Matt’s musical career.

Last month saw Winterpark perform at the opening of the “Sunday Morning” art exhibition, held at the Dear Patti Smith galley in Fitzroy, to launch the first single Night Beetle. The exhibition displayed a collection of works by 14 different local and international artists, who each gave their creative interpretation to a track from the album, with artworks varying from photographs and light installations, to paintings and new media.

The Grace Darling launch will be the first full live performance in over a year, where Winterpark will treat Melbourne fans to a one off gig that showcases the songs from the new album as well as throwing in a few old favourites.

Matt will be performing alongside Susannah Legge (formerly of the Hampdens) who has leant her vocals to a number of tracks on the album, and Dan West (Diafrix/Velure). The wonderful Eugenia Lim will also be providing visuals for the performance.

Fellow Melbournite Ross McLennan and Popolice will be joining in the celebration, supporting Winterpark perfoming new material.