Shannon O’Neill

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]

I’ll be DJing at this:

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.

We have a two week break from classes, so I’m looking forward to catching up on writing, paperwork and sleep (I can’t sleep before 3am, so the morning classes have been killing me).

In social network news, I left Facebook a few months ago cos it was taking up too much time and is, let’s face it, evil. Twitter has had a lot of hype recently, so I’m checking it out again, although I’m still unconvinced.

I keep vacillating between privacy and openness online, deleting or hiding info, then showing it again. Right now I’m back on Flickr, Last.fm and YouTube, and have also created a YT channel for Alias Frequencies.

One thing I’ve noticed about del.icio.us is that making your network private means that the people you’re following can no longer see that you’re following them. I’m sorry if I offended anyone who thought I’d stopped following them!

Lastly, my blog recommendation for today is the hilarious rantings of Tom Ellard. For someone who was always anti-blogging, he’s a great blogger!

OK, break over, back to writing! Schnell schnell!