Furchick’s most recent adventure was performing solo and as a guest artist with the Laundry Room Squelchers (USA) at the International Noise Conference in Sydney and Melbourne. She produces the Analogue to Digital sound art series at Scitech in Perth Australia which recently hosted Lyttleton’s Stanier Black-Five. She is now excited to be taking the series to New Zealand. Special guest is Our Love Will Destroy the World. Our Love Will Destroy the World is a psychedelic / noise project from Featherston, New Zealand by Campbell Kneale after disbanding Birchville Cat Motel. It forced through and came to life as the artist’s sort of “second birth” in 2008. Furchick is a multi-instrumentalist with numerous releases in New Zealand, USA and Australia. In the 1990s in New Zealand, she played in Katerpillar Tractor Concept, K-Tel Dancers, Claire’s Un-Natural Twin (with the notorious acronym) and Froithead in New Zealand. She then moved to New York where she joined up with Gerard Cosloy and played drums in the improvised noise project Air Traffic Controllers. http://airtrafficcontrollers.bandcamp.com/album/existence-period While in New York, Claire started and curated the improv nights at the Pink Pony Cafe in the Lower East Side and played with numerous jam bands including The Armaround (with Tom Greenwood's Jackie O Motherfucker). http://www.discogs.com/artist/Furchick+w%2F+The+Armaround Back in Perth she plays percussion for experimental improv band Brown and previously formed a jam band with Chris Cobilis and Chris Hudson called Sexy Band. http://soundcloud.com/sexy-band Her main focus now is on her solo project Furchick. Reviewer Lyndon Blue described Furchick thus: Each new piece is a nonchalantly delivered slice of experimentalism, at times discordant but never repellent. A playful, adventurous ethic is betrayed by a range of offbeat home-made instruments – like a contraption built from a tin box and a slinky. Meanwhile however, the set recalls a classic avant-garde art aesthetic. There are people in Perth playing with loopers and unconventional instruments, but no-one’s doing anything like this. A performance like Furchick’s will stick in your memory like chocolate on your pearl-white frock. Oranj Punjabi releases cassettes on Sensitive Man Tapes. She recently performed at the Australian leg of the Ladyz in Noyz Festival. “Bundling together time-warping feedback loops, cracked and mangled tape sounds, the pure tonality of no-input mixing desk, and found object manipulation (fed through dirty, hand-molded contact mics), local visual artist Bjorn Futler (aka Oranj Punjabi) places sonority under stress, pushing library recordings of body noise through a thick wall of psychedelic splooey. Here, collage and concept meet an exceptionally tactile approach to the simple pleasures of making noise.” Jon Dale
