Antediluvian Rocking Horse

January 15, 2006





*Name: Antediluvian Rocking Horse

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: ARH, DJ1

*Do you use a pseudonym? DJ2 (Paul Wain) and DJ3 (SM King)

*Members: Paul Wain, Susan King, Ollie Olsen

*Founding Members: Paul Wain, Susan King

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Dada. Anti-art. We are Sonic Culture Actuality Reabsorber Satellites.

*Another genre descriptor: Opaque music

*Location: Melbourne, Australia

*What is your creative/artistic background: Paul Wain is a sculptor. SM King is a writer and visual artist. Ollie Olsen is a musician.

*History: ARH formed on April 23rd, 1994.

*Born: We were all born in or near Melbourne between the years 1958-1971.

*Philosophy: Folk music, random occurences, bricolage. We use whatever is at hand, live and in the studio, to produce sound. Analogue cassette, radio and TV, reel-to-reel, various keyboards, turntables, CDs, effect pedals, and drum machines have all made their way into our sets. When we play live we use no headphones and rarely tell the other what we have in our audio arsenal. Anything can happen. We like to have as many sources in the mix as possible, to find the point at which DJ1 has taken over and neither DJ2 or DJ3 can determine what sound is from which source - an unpredictable 'third record' of sorts. Our recorded output has more structure. We take inspirations while playing 'live' - how different elements conversed amongst themselves, back to the studio to create tracks for our CDs. Our basic motivator is "Do whatever you can with whatever you can get your hands on." ARH is administered by the Potential Fossil Assemblage and underwritten by the Cultural Mechanics Institute.

How would you like to be remembered: As...."those people who used to play really weird s*** at parties that did my head in."

*Web address: http://www.starttransmission.com