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"the most exciting performer I have seen in the last three years – in fact, since I first saw Iggy Pop" - Bruce Russell - WIRE magazine.

What's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is in fact the unique work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. In his infamous show that has astonished and bemused countless people in over 40 countries, yeldham ecstatically purses his lips against sheets of amplified glass whilst deftly employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, turning discarded shards into crude musical instruments. The results are a wild array of cacophonous noise that is strangely controlled and oddly musical. The instruments simple, original and effective premise is a welcome riposte to over complicated musical performances of modern times. A one of a kind act re-defining the expression 'don't try this at home' this show quite simply needs to be witnessed to be fully appreciated, let alone understood.

Justice Yeldham is the latest alter-ego of Australian sound performer Lucas Abela, whose past sonic experiments were conducted under monikers like A Kombi, Dj Smallcock, Peeled Hearts Paste and more recently his band Rice Corpse. Initially classed as an experimental turntablist, though his early work rarely resembled anything in the field. Early feats, saw him stab vinyl with Kruger style stylus gloves, bound on electro acoustic trampolines, drag race the popemobile across Sydney Harbour Bridge, perform deaf defying duet duels with amplified samurai swords, hospitalised by high powered turntables constructed from sewing machine motors, record chance John Peel sessions with the Flaming Lips, & be Otomo Yoshihides' favourite entry into his Ground Zero remix competition; 'Consummation' even though instead of sampling the CD he destroyed it using amplified skewers! Principally a live audio artist, performing professionally for the past 17 years, since Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim stumbled across one of his late night radio performances in 1994 and asked him to play their What is? Music Festival. He also founded of the irreverent dualpLOVER group of businesses (recording label, cd/dvd replicators, distributor and promoter of gigs and tours) and his now dabbling in sound installation.


Selected Festival Appearances.

2009
Donau Festival
, Krems, Austria.
Camp A Low Hum, Homedale, New Zealand.
NOW NOW, Blue Mountains, NSW.

2008
gocha festival, Kawachinagano, Japan
PAN (Performance Art Network) ASIA Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Supersonic, Birmingham, UK
Bad Bonn Kilbi, Düdingen, Switzerland
SXSW (load showcase) Austin, USA
INC, Miami, USA

2007
Unsound Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Donau Festival, Krems, Austria.
Sonic Protest, Paris, France.
Observatori Festival, Valencia, Spain
Le Weekend, Stirling, Scotland
Venn Festival, Bristol, England
Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, Victoria

2006
Tiny Noise, Sofia, Bulgaria
Electrograph, Athens, Greece
Franko B, Colchester, England
Unsound Festival, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Straight Out of Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

2005
No Trend; London, England
Les Voutes, Paris, France.
Ertz, San Sebastian, Spain
Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ekko Festival, Bergen, Norway
Unsound Festival, Krakow, Poland
Jon Roses'Panikkin (The Melbourne International Arts Festival), Melbourne, Victoria
Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, Victoria
This Is Not Art, Newcastle, NSW
No Fun Festival, New York, USA
GAS (Glass Arts Society) Conference, Adelaide, South Australia

2004
Ideal Festival, Goteborg, Sweden
Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Noise Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
LEM Festival (Caixaforum), Barcelona, Spain
Brake My Brick (Liverpool Biennial), Liverpool, England

2003
Turnament, Los Angeles, USA
Now Now, Sydney, NSW

1998
String Em Up!, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Exiles, Berlin, Germany

1996-97-2002-05
EAR stage Big Day Out, Sydney, NSW

1995-96-97-98-2000-01
What Is Music?, Sydney / Melbourne, NSW / Victoria

 


Selected Collaborations

2009
Sean Baxter, NOW NOW Festival, Blue Mountains, NSW

2006
Anthony Pateras, Make It Up Club (Fringe Festival), Melbourne, Victoria

2005
Maja Ratkje, Oslo, Norway
Jon Roses' Panikkin (Melbourne Festival), Melbourne, Victoria
Robin Fox, Ding Dong Dang, Melbourne, Victoria
Alex Davies, Lanfranchis, Sydney, NSW

2003
Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, Dr Martin Ng, Robin Fox, Now Now, Sydney, NSW

2000
Oren Ambarchi, Robbie Avenaim, Dr Martin Ng, Dave Grohl & Curse Ov Dialect (performing as Testicle Candy) Big Day Out, Melbourne, Victoria.

1999
Yamatsuka Eye, Noise Ramones Remixes, Sydney, NSW

1998
Otomo Yoshihide, Bob Ostertag, Jon Rose, String Em Up, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Flaming Lips, Peel Session, BBC Studios, London, England
Masami Akita (Merzbow), Tokyo, Japan



additional infomation.

WIRE interview (2009)

signal to noise article (2009)

WHITE FUNGUS interview (2008)

plan b magazine interview (2008)

inpress interview (2008)

CMJ (2005)

the age (2005)

polish interview(2004)

Sydney Morning Herald (2003)

slovenian interview (2003)

cyclic defrost article(2000)

australia adlib(includes video and audio downloads + interview from no frills 2000)

ujaku magazine interview (1998)

bananafish interview (1997)


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