Shannon O’Neill

Over the last few years Don’t Look Gallery has presented a diverse
array of challenging experimental technology-based art from its
shopfront in the outer-inner-west suburb of Dulwich Hill. Sound,
video, computer art, vintage technologies, installation and conceptual
art describe just some of the forms that have raised eyebrows in this
modestly sized art space.

We are currently looking for artists (and potential artists) who may
want to show at Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery in 2009.
Exhibitions run for 10 days (or longer by agreement), the rent is
cheap and we help with publicity, setup and concept (if you wish). If
you are interested in having an exhibition please email a proposal and
CV (no more than two pages in all) to dontlookgallery@gmail.com.

In 2009 we will be also be starting a fortnightly experimental
sound/new media performance night. If you’re a musician and/or artist
and want to try out something new, again please email
dontlookgallery@gmail.com with a short description of the work and a
CV.

We look forward to hearing from all artists who are into making work
that doesn’t fit neatly into a gilded frame, squarely on a wall!

I’ve programmed a selection of Australian music for the latest edition of the ELEVENELEVEN podcast.

I have a chapter in this new book:

Very shortly the book Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia will be hitting the streets.

Written by artists, producers and participants in alternative music-making, and including a companion CD, Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia explores the development of forms, ideas and scenes from the 1970s to the present.

It brings together a wide range of musical experimentation, from post-punk, noise, appropriation, electronic dance and listening music, to free improv, computer process music, experimental radio, instrument building and audiovisual fusions. More soon…

To accompany the book, a website www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net has been created to bring together information about experimental music and sound in Australia. There are 3 features that invite your input:

National Calendar: a web-based calendar (it’s a little bit ugly, but it’s free), to bring together listings from across the country. So if you have a gig, festival, exhibition, conference etc that you’d like listed you can send through information. If you produce multiple events or series you can have editing access.

Artist Directory: Hopefully a comprehensive map of people working in experimental music and sound across Australia. If you would like to be included, download the form, fill it in, and email back, or contact for further information.

Resource List: This is a mega links list starting with information drawn from the book on all things experimental music from gigs, organisations, online journals and a bibliography. Already an unwieldy monster, feel free to send through additions/suggestions.

For all of the above email: info <at-sign-here> experimentalmusicaustralia.net

I’ll email more when the book is ready for our hot little hands, but in the meantime help make the website a valuable resource!

thanks

Gail Priest

NB: The website www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net is an unfunded, independent activity undertaken to accompany the book Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia.

Out November 2008

Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia published by UNSW Press

RRP $29.95
ordering information
For a limited time there is a
20% pre-order discount

Written by:
Julian Knowles
Ian Andrews with John Blades
Cat Hope
Shannon O’Neill
Bo Daley
Alistair Riddell
Jim Denley
Virginia Madsen
Sean Bridgeman
Gail Priest

edited by Gail Priest

The printed publication Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia was funded by the Australia Council Music Board as part of a series of publications.

[via Nick Mariette]

Dear EFA Supporter,

It has been a busy few weeks for Electronic Frontiers Australia as public outrage against the Government’s Internet censorship plan ignited around the country. EFA has served as a gateway for information on the scheme and a rallying point for opposition. Our revamped campaign website at http://nocleanfeed.com has seen an explosion in traffic, and the EFA board has done dozens of interviews in print, on radio and television getting the word out to the Australian public. See below for just a sample.

The campaign is working. On the internet, letters to the editor pages and talk-back stations around the country, the Australian public are up in arms. MPs around the country are being flooded with calls, letters and emails demanding an end to the censorship plans. If we keep it up, sufficient pressure can be summoned to bring about a full-scale retreat from this ludicrous and undemocratic position.

EFA will not be easing up the pressure. We will be increasing our online presence, working with other community groups to organise activism, preparing policy analysis material for politicians and journalists, and spreading the bad news with targeted advertising. We will be lobbying selected politicians, so with your continued support we expect to be banging on the doors of power in Canberra regularly over the coming months.

There are a few things you can do to help keep momentum building.

- If you haven’t already, visit the campaign website, and write to your local MP telling them how upset you are.
- Join our Action Alert mailing list here: http://lists.efa.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/alert and be ready to respond when a call for targeted action is made.
- Follow us on Twitter for frequent campaign updates.
- Volunteer. Got special skills in web or graphic design, online advertising, video production, community building or copy writing?
- Got expertise in the subject you’d like to share? Willing to hit the phones? Let us know.
- Send us feedback on the campaign (feedback@efa.org.au), and where you’d like to see EFA target its resources.
- Make a donation (http://www.efa.org.au/support/donations/) so that we can continue to fund our ongoing activities.

We haven’t forgotten about our other campaigns, either. Our campaign site pushing for an R18+ category for computer games went live last week at http://www.r18games.com. As always, check EFA’s home page for latest news.

-The EFA Board

EFA in the news

Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/labors-net-gag-worse-than-iran/2008/10/23/1224351430987.html

Filter to cause World Wide Wait
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24575125-15306,00.html

Net filters may block porn and gambling sites
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/10/27/1224955916155.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Stranglehold on the Internet
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24561421-5006364,00.html

Channel 7’s Morning program
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xThNk0Vd4ws

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I’ll be DJing at this:

The Sound of Failure sound art festival continues at UTS and the
Factory Theatre (see http://soundoffailure.com.for complete list of
events and details)…

Question/Answer… Interruption
UTS performance space
Bon Marche building, Corner of Broadway and Harris St
August 27, 6pm – FREE

This unique performance will explore and disrupt the notion that music
should be as symmetrical as a ‘perfect’ human face. Participants will
be invited to perform in this collaborative work aimed at
investigating notions of rhythm, structure, form, space and time.
These performances will make use of the snazzy new facilities (which
include a 9.1 surround sound system) in this UTS space. Performers
include: Peter Newman, Shannon O’Neill, Jessica Tyrrell & Chris
Caines, and Roger Mills.

Sound of Failure Festival, main performance night
Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Rd, Enmore
August 30, 7pm (sharp!), $20 (+booking fee)
Book NOW online at http://factorytheatre.com.au

Internationally renowned torturers of electronic toys, Toydeath, will
unleash their circuit bent mayhem on the Factory Theatre along with 15
other acts that include everything from the burlesque cabaret of
Dianne’s Dollhouse and the endurance karaoke of Samuel Bruce, to the
uninhibited, primordial yowls of Lectre Macabre & Triangle. Other
performers include: Ian Andrews, catfingers, Greg Chatonsky (Canada),
Cleaning Lady (Vic), Jacob Craig, Delirium Tremens, Est Et Non, Tom
Hall (Brisbane), Hiske with Psychic Date & VJ Jax, Sari TM Kavinen,
Marquis de Sound, Glenn Remington, and Jessica Tyrrell & Chris Caines.

Before the performance evening at the Factory there will be an audio
picnic in Enmore Park at 3pm. Bring your food and noisemakers for this
impromptu, unofficial, romp in the park!

Book now for August 30 at the Factory at http://factorytheatre.com.au

For more information and other events see http://soundoffailure.com,
or phone Greg on 0401 152 434

The Sound of Failure 2008
Sound art festival
Bookings: http://factorytheatre.com.au
Website: http://SoundOfFailure.com

Following on from the (ironic) success of last year’s festival, Sound of Failure 2008 brings together over forty local and international sound artists in numerous venues to surprise, shock and entertain. Many of these artists have attempted to transcend the small rectangular screens and the latest Microsoft releases, opting instead to look at unintended consequences of technology – when it misbehaves or just gives up the ghost.

Internationally renowned torturers of electronic toys, Toydeath, will unleash their circuit bent mayhem on the Factory Theatre along with 15 other acts (Book NOW: http://factorytheatre.com.au). Exhibition wise, Chrissie Cotter gallery in Camperdown will host a diverse range of audio, and audio-visual installations from over a dozen artists.

You can also find sound art hiding between the junk in Reverse Garbage, and Wade Marynowski’s solo exhibition, ‘Rococo Vortex’, in the aptly titled Don’t Look Gallery, as well as a spellbinding performance, ‘Question/Answer… Interruption’ at the snazzy new UTS performance space. Please see http://SoundOfFailure.com for a complete list of venues and details.

Performers include: Toy Death, Ian Andrews (album launch!), Starella, Est Et Non, Hiske with Phychic Date, Greg Chantonsky (Can), Tom Hall (Bris), Cleaning Lady (Vic), Samuel Bruce, Dianne’s Dollhouse, Glenn Remington, Catfingers, Jessica Tyrell & Chris Caines, Lectre Macabre & Triangle, Peter Newman & Johnathon Hunter, DJ Olive, Panoptique Electrical, and Shannon O’Neill.

Artists include: Norie Neumark & Maria Miranda, Jordana Maise Goot, Subscape Annex (USA), Krzysztof Osinski, Cara-Ann Aimpson, Wade Marynowsky, Monopero (Spain), Nick Wishart, Caroline Huf, Lisa Roberts, Vienna Parreno, and 2203 Collective.

Main performance night:
Factory Theatre, Enmore
105 Victoria Rd, Enmore
August 30, 7pm
$20 (+booking fee)
Book NOW at: http://factorytheatre.com.au

Main exhibition opening:
Chrissie Cotter Gallery
Pidcock St, Camperdown
August 19, 6pm (FREE)

The Sound of Failure festival is supported by Marrickville Council, the Centre for Media Arts Innovation (University of Technology, Sydney), Reverse Garbage, the Factory Theatre and Don’t Look Gallery.

Liquid Architecture 9: Festival of Sound Arts
Sydney 11 –12 July 2008
@ The Factory Theatre
105 Victoria Rd, Enmore

TICKETS: $12 (including booking fee)
From The Factory Theatre box office (02) 9550 3666 or online at www.factorytheatre.com.au

Liquid Architecture, Australia’s premier national sound-arts festival celebrates its ninth year with live performances, surround sound presentations, audio-visuals and recorded work, screenings and installations, featuring our most imaginative musicians, composers, sound designers and media artists in a sense-specific feast for the ears.

SYDNEY PROGRAM
Friday 11 July – 7:30pm
$12
TOY.BIZARRE (Bellac)
ROBERT NORMANDEAU (Montreal)
LAWRENCE ENGLISH (Brisbane)
NAT (Melbourne)
JACQUES SODDELL (Bendigo)
KUSUM NORMOYLE

Saturday 12 July - 7.30pm
$12
ANDREW PEKLER (Berlin)
MARCUS SCHMICKLER (Köln)
METALOG (Sydney/Melbourne)
KAZUMICHI GRIME
NICK WISHART + HIROFUMI UCHINO
HEIL SPIRITS
IVAN LISYAK
TOECUTTER

An international screening program featuring new A/V works. Plus an installation program exclusive to Sydney, featuring:

CÉDRIC PEYRONNET (Bellac)
JODI ROSE
RENE CHRISTEN
MELISSA HUNT
MARK BROWN
JASON SWEENEY
JESSICA TYRRELL

The first TEN people through the door each night will receive an ERIKM cd - Stéme (Room40). Giveaways courtesy of Room40.

FULL PROGRAM AND TICKETING DETAILS: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au