The Book of Scenes by David Shea (Sub Rosa Records), Sundanese Jaipong, Kuda Lemping–Jatilan, Tarian Buduyo, hypnosis tapes esp circa 1993, Black Ribbon, Bernard Parmigiani, DNA, The Carpenters, Boris, Bobby Beausoleil, Earth, Alan Licht, Sounding of the Bell from Plum Village, Swans, Erik Satie, 13th Floor Elevators, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, Tayfa of Chiekh Sidi Mohammed, Led Zeppelin, Mina, Ennio Morricone, Fifel Gourgy, Idjah Hadijah and the Jugala Ensemble, Javanese Court Music, Planxty, early hip-hop, Rose Tattoo, Slow Dive, Edgard Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, Glen Gould, Atrium Musicae De Madrid-Music from Ancient Greece, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Hendrix, Kyuss, Led Zeppelin, Marcel Duchamp-Erratum (Sub Rosa Records), Harry Pussy, Alternative Tenticles stuff, Neil Young, Victims Family, Nam June Paik-Works 1958.1979 (Sub Rosa Records), meditating on the moon and the sun collapsing into each other to bend my perception of time... and most music on cassette
Movies
Shackle Me Not and Hocus Pocus—H-Street, Imitation of Life-Douglas Sirk, Tokyo Story-Yusijiro Ozu, Looking for Mr Goodbar, La Notte and L'Aventura-Michealangelo Antonioni, Irving Klaws films, In the Mood for Love-Wong Kar Wai, Rebel without a Cause-Nicolas Ray, The very eye of Night and Witches Cradle-Maya Deren, Mondo Topless-Russ Meyers, Valley Girl-Martha Coolidge, Le Mempris-Jean Luc Goddard, Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night-John Cassavettes, Once Upon a Time in the West and Fist Full of Dynamite-Sergio Leone, New World-Terrence Mallick, Invocation of my Demon Brother-Kenneth Anger, Andrei Rubulov-Andrei Tarkovsky, Vertigo-Alfred Hitchcock, Bicycle Thief-De Sica...
The work is dedicated to a range of mediums that include collage work, appropriation pieces, improvised and experimental music, single chanel video and live video improvisation in combination with musicians, print/design/web. Focused on an individual and whole artistic approach to living, feminine identity and sexuality, media gathering and re-invention.
Seventh Gallery - Australia, Melbourne International Film Festival - Australia, ARTrage Festival SEX-Australia, Company 21-87, LEM Festival-Spain, ACMI Federation Sqaure-Australia, Clubs Projects Space, Agora Festival-France, Home Gallery-Czech Republic, HOMESHOWS 1 & 2-Artist house in Fitzroy, Artwalk Amsterdam-The Netherlands, Why Note Festival-France, ROOM Galerij-The Netherlands, The Studio Sydney Opera House, International Festival Bellone Brigittines-Belgium, Netdays New Music Festival-Belgium, Gaudemaus New Music Festival-The Netherlands, Transculture Recylart-Belgium, First Floor - Australia, Citylights-Australia, C.C.P-Australia, 5 CD cover designs (Sub Rosa Records, Metta Editions and Tzadik) Invading Bitrate performed w/ Jimmy Mahardhika—Ruang MES 56-Yogya, Indonesia
"This debut album contains 6 tracks/39 minute running time. Ghaust build a instrumental trip crossing through different genres, where post-rock/shoegaze influences, crushing sludge/doom tempo, collide with hardcore/punk and heavy rock"
For Fans of : Pelican, Boris, Mogwai, Kyuss and Neurosis.
More info and networking : soundofghaust@yahoo.com