My review of the WIRED Open Day has been published by RealTime.

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I’ve programmed the latest edition of the Eleven Eleven podcast. You can listen to it over at Alias Frequencies

This edition of Eleveneleven features a myriad of voices. Different voices with different perspectives, some familiar, some strange. Actually mostly strange, or estranged. We bring these outsiders inside for a delightful and unpredictable conversation.

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Hidden: A Rookwood Sculpture Walk
Opening Monday 7 March 2011
6 – 8pm

On the Village Green, corner of Hawthorne Avenue and Necropolis Drive, Rookwood Cemetery.

Exhibition dates 7 March – 8 May 2011

Exhibition Site Map (111, KB)

Rookwood Map (111, KB)

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The website for the Powerhouse Museum’s exhibition ‘The 80s are Back’ includes a number of articles about the culture of the time. My article about sampling in the 80s has just been published. It focuses on the influence of the Fairlight CMI sampler and artists such as the Art of Noise and Kate Bush.

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The latest edition of furthernoise.org includes a compilation ‘The Sound of Live Performance’, with my track Iris Detonation.

Iris Detonation is an excerpt from a live performance at Disorientation, at the Abercrombie Hotel, Sydney on 2005-10-26. I’d prepared a glitchy piece in AudioMulch, but was surprised when my laptop and sound card decided to contribute their own glitches and dropouts. I couldn’t listen to this recording for a long time, but can now appreciate the extra dimension of broken sound.

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Here’s an ABC Classic FM interview/podcast about my Rolling Stock installation, Locomentum:

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s3104512.htm

The interview took place the day before the event, so the sounds you hear are of work in progress. I have some recordings of the actual train trip, which I’ll publish at some point.

Thanks to Stephen Adams and Somaya Langley from ABC Classic FM, Sarah Last / The WIRED Lab, and Chris Watson.

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I’ll be guest presenting Sunday Night at the Movies from 9-10pm this Sunday, November 7 on FBi Radio, 94.5 FM Sydney and streaming online.

Joining me will be Brisbane-based audiovisual artist Lloyd Barrett, who’ll share with us some of his musical influences, along with tracks from his new album as Secret Killer of Names, If the Answer Comes in Dreams, Then Who Asks the Question?. Tune in for an edifying hour of experimental audio!

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The whole event looks great. I hope to see you there!

More info: http://rolling-stock.org/

All Aboard! ROLLING STOCK is a series of site specific performances, installations and collaborations between artists, visiting audiences and the local Junee community on a train moving through the rural landscape from Midday to Midnight on Saturday 20th November 2010.

Ranging from the odd, the spectacular and the sublime, ROLLING STOCK embraces art, community and landscape in its broadest form(s). Beginning with a series of creative residencies with over 15 artists generating content with and relevant to the Junee community and other worldly concerns, ROLLING STOCK will culminate with a 1 day public event commencing at Junee Railway station at high noon on Saturday 20th of November. From here the ROLLING STOCK train will meander its way around the countryside with audio visual installations and participatory live art performances manifesting throughout the afternoon. Concluding ROLLING STOCK will be a Rockabilly band playing live at the Junee Licorice & Chocolate Factory until midnight.

Highlights of ROLLING STOCK include:

Acclaimed UK artist CHRIS WATSON, who is travelling to Australia specifically to participate in ROLLING STOCK. WATSON is known for his early work as founding member of influential experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire, and more recently for his work as a BAFTA award winning field recordist for David Attenborough, BBC Nature documentaries and feature films. For ROLLING STOCK Watson will be premiering recordings from his forthcoming album ‘El Tren Fantasma’ – The Ghost Train?. Utilising sounds from recording work for the documentary series ?Great Train Journeys? with Rick Stein in Mexico, ?El Tren Fantasma? will be recontextualised for ROLLING STOCK train via live surround sound mixes as the train ventures through significant landmarks.

The Perth based PVI COLLECTIVE will be resolving on-board conflict resolution relevant to local and global issues through the ancient art of tug-o-war.

The real life RENNY KODGERS will be on hand to entertain with his immense presence via variety quizzes, dulcet tones and sheer celebrity power.

Other artists participating in ROLLING STOCK include an exciting array of sound, video art, installation, performance, interactive experts and public artists:

ALAN LAMB, DAVE NOYZE, GARRY BRADBURY, JOEL STERN , KATE MURPHY, PUBLIC ASSEMBLY, JUSTY PHILLIPS, MARGARET WOODWARD, ANTHONY CAHALAN, ROSS MANNING, RYSZARD DABEK, SHANNON O’NEILL, the GENERAL COMMUNITY and YOU!

To keep track (sic) and participate in Rolling Stock follow us online at:
www.rolling-stock.org

ROLLING STOCK | Artist Residencies
What: Artists collaborating with each other and the Junee community
When: Friday 12th – Friday 19th November 2010
Where: Follow the progress online at www.rolling-stock.org

ROLLING STOCK | Public Event
What: Train journey + After Party
When: Saturday 20th November 2010, Midday to Midnight
Where: Junee Railway Station and the Licorice & Chocolate Factory
Cost: Adult $50, Concession $40, Children $20 (pre-sale only)

Chris Watson (UK) Live in Sydney
The WIRED Lab, in association with The British Council proudly present….
What: Chris Watson UK) Live Audio performance
When: Wednesday 24th November 2010, 7pm
Where: Chauvel Cinema, Paddington Town Hall, Corner of Oxford St & Oatley Rd,
Paddington, Sydney.
Cost: Adult $15, Concession $10

Media Contact
For more information, to arrange interviews or to select from the range of high
resolution images please contact:
Tiani Chillemi
Decode Media
email: tiani@decodemedia.com.au
phone: +61 3 9015 7999

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OTHER TONGUE

Sound has the power to make an impact on a person. It can trigger visual responses, evoke or incite emotions and build and support perception. In this special program we will challenge conventional concepts of sound, to explore how sound affects people and other living things.

Other Tongue is a radiophonic project of UTS Audio Workshop Spring 2010. Tune in to 2SER 107.3FM from 9:00pm – 10:30pm, October 27th 2010.

Also tonight: REFRACTION

Featuring:
T H E   G H O S T   O F   2 9   M E G A C Y C L E S  (MELB)
J O E L  S T E R N (BRIS)
A T H R O C Y C L E
R E U B E N   H O L T

7.30pm, Wednesday 27th October 2010

Serial Space

33 Wellington St, Chippendale

Entry by donation

T H E   G H O S T   O F   2 9   M E G A C Y C L E S  (MELB)
The Ghost of 29 Megacycles is a minimalist shoegaze project currently based in Melbourne. The band released their debut album, Love via Paper Planes on Sydney label Sound and Fury Records to critical acclaim. Their follow up mini album The Hummingbird Dream continues to explore their unique ambient sounds and abstract songwriting.
http://www.myspace.com/theghostof29megacycles

J O E L   S T E R N (BRIS)
Joel Stern is a performer and producer of experimental music & sound, performing regularly both solo and in collaboration with a wide variety of artists around the world. Joel’s performance collaboration with filmmaker Sally Golding, as Abject Leader, has seen the duo widely recognised as Australia’s premier exponents of contemporary expanded cinema.
http://www.abjectleader.org/
http://www.myspace.com/joelstern

A T H R O C Y C L E
Athrocycle is a new collaborative project of Andrew Voet and Nick Beeby. Both have produced an expanse of eclectic electronic music and visual art both together and seperately for over 10 years. As Athrocycle they explore the potentials of chaos and the unexpected using circuit bent hardware and digital sound design, with a gameboy thrown in for good measure.
http://www.myspace.com/microstrobus
http://www.myspace.com/circuitsatanic

R E U B E N   H O L T
Reuben Holt is an emerging sound artist, musician and composer. His live performance will combine pastiche and found sounds with  sonic accompaniment. He is currently completing a Bachelor of Sound and Music Design and International Studies at UTS.

Refraction is proudly supported by Sound Travelers and assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Graphics by Jade Cantwell

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Classroom to Community

Friday 1st October 10.30am – 12pm
Process Space, 401 Hunter St, Newcastle NSW 2300

Facilitator: Emily McDaniel
Panellists: Ben Byrne, Brooke Olsen, Shannon O’Neill

This panel will aim to address the current state of student work in the sound/media arts community, including addressing fundamental issues that face emerging artists and students alike, and how these issues can be accommodated.

Some of the questions this panel will attempt to answer include:

• How can we better encourage students and emerging artists to approach the scene?
• Why is it that students can study subjects and not practice them outside the class?
• What can we do to foster new emerging artists currently studying?
• What are the challenges of emerging artists and students?
• How can we accommodate these challenges?
• What resources are available?
• What challenges do student run artistic organisations face?

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Submerge#d

Arahmaiani (Indonesia), post (Syd), tako seijin (Sam Tupou), Zane Saunders, Unstrumenta Orchestra, Shannon O’Neill (syd), ReelDance – Australian & New Zealand Awards 2010, John Von Sturmer (Syd), Kris Keogh (Dar), Font featuring Tweak Bakini, Hanzard and lots more.

Submerge#d presents a diverse and eclectic night of short media and performance works from local and guest practitioners. Guest artist, Arahmaiani (Indonesia) is a key-figure in the current contemporary art scene in both Indonesia and South East Asia, and draws from community process and social/political issues in developing innovative performance art.

The Submerge#d program also includes Sydney group post presenting new work in progress, the ReelDance Australian and New Zealand Awards, and innovative artists Zane Saunders and Sam Tupou bringing contemporary indigenous and pacific island perspectives to the fore.

• Sat 10th July
• Old Hrvatski Klub Artspace, 240 Scott St
• Doors 6.00pm, Show 7.00pm
• Check web for full program/times.

Tickets: $10/ 7 at the door.

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Liquid Architecture presents sound. Sound as the starting point for the active practice of listening. This is not to deny the conceptual or the abstract, the metaphorical or the representational, the expressionistic or the meaningful. But rather this is to restore the emphasis on the primary act of listening. Liquid Architecture is in effect then a listening festival and the artists presented are selected as much for their ability to listen with sensitive ears as for the sound they produce. You are invited to engage your sensitive ears and listen.

http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/

Tickets from Green Tix, $15 (or $10 concession) + $2 booking fee.

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KK Null (Tokyo, 1961) is an electro-acoustic music composer/performer, and guitarist, singer, mastermind of avant-garde rock band ZENI GEVA.

In 1981 Kazuyuki Kishino (KK NULL) studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka’s “Mai-Juku” workshop and started performing guitar improvisation in Tokyo, and collaborated with MERZBOW for two years, and joined the band YBO2 (with Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of RUINS) and started the improvized rock trio ABSOLUT NULL PUNKT (with Seijiro Murayama, the original drummer of Keiji Haino’s FUSHITSUSHA).

In the 90′s ZENI GEVA released five albums produced by STEVE ALBINI. Also recorded twice for JOHN PEEL SESSION on BBC, and extensively toured throughout Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, playing hundreds of concerts.

All the while, KK NULL has been working on his solo career and has collaborated with other musical innovators from all over the globe such as CHRIS WATSON (UK), Z’EV (USA/UK), JOHN ZORN (USA), FRED FRITH (USA/UK), MATMOS (USA), KEIJI HAINO (Japan), JON ROSE (Australia), PHILIP SAMARTZIS (Australia), ALEXEI BORISOV (Russia), ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI (Poland) to name a few, and has been invited to perform at prestigious international festivals. Especially, KK NULL has been invited by GRM (Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales) to perform at Presences Électronique in Paris, France successively 2008 and 2009.

In recent years KK NULL has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures and droning isolationist material, which could be described as “cosmic noise maximal/minimalism”.

http://www.kknull.com

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Lionel Marchetti (France, 1967) is a composer of Musique Concrète. Yôko Higashi (1974, Yokohama, Japan) is a performer, vocalist, Butoh dancer and choreographer.

Initially self-taught, Lionel discovered the catalogue of Musique Concrète with Xavier Garcia. He composed in the CFMI of Lyon 2 University between 1989 and 2002, where he still organises workshops focused on the loudspeaker, recorded sound and Musique Concrète, both on practical and theoretical levels. He has built his own recording studio, and has also composed in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris since 1993. Marchetti performs improvisation using microphones and loudspeakers, as a duo with Jérôme Noetinger, and with the collective Le Cube (with Christophe Auger, Étienne Caire, Christophe Cardoen, Xavier Quérel, Jérôme Noetinger, Gaëlle Rouard) a group that performs live music while films are shown and worked on interactively. Lionel also writes poetry, and develops theoretical thoughts on Musique Concrète and the art of the loudspeaker.

Yôko has collaborated with Lionel Marchetti, Nicolas Ticot and Frédérick Galiay, and has performed with Keith Rowe, Thomas Korber, Seiji Murayama and Chewbacca (Andrew Daymond and Damien Grange). In 2003 she formed Yokohama Zen Rocks, an electric pop-rock trio, and more recently the duo Octobriana with violinist Agathe Max. hamaYôko is Higashi’s Musique Concrète-influenced electro-pop project.

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Decibel is a new music ensemble based in Perth, Western Australia devoted to the nexus of acoustic and electronic instruments. The group was formed out of a desire to perform a range of music where electronic and acoustic instruments feature side by side and is dedicated to Australian music and emerging Western Australian composers. [photo © KFord]

Decibel Members

Cat Hope (artistic director, flute and electronics)
Lindsay Vickery (reeds and electronics)
Stuart James (piano, percussion and electronics)
Malcolm Riddoch (guitar and electronics)
Tristen Parr (cello)
Aaron Wyatt (violin, viola)

decibel.waapamusic.com

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Jon Hunter is an electronic artist/musician living in Sydney. He creates sound installations, composes and performs music for modified spring reverberation units, computer and guitar. Hunter’s works sit somewhere between psychedelia and science fiction. Often sounding like organic field recordings but synthetically rendered, these tense environments teeter on the edge of collapse whilst the echoes of Hendrix and Haino fly past.
He is a part of The Holy Soul, Guarde Compartmente (a duo with Monika Brooks) & Delirium Tremens (a duo with Peter Newman). He has performed with the likes of Damo Suzuki (Can), David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Yusuke Akai, Somaya Langley, TAD, Nick De Jong (Ghosts of Television / None Music) and Shoji Hano.
He co-presents the weekly new/experimental music program ‘Song X’ on 2ser with Martin Ng & Peter Blamey and co-runs a small label Magnetic Recording Council .”

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WIRED Lab DIY Wires Workshop, Web Launch & WIRED EAR Scheme

Over Saturday 17th  & Sunday 18th July The WIRED Lab will be hosting its annual in situ DIY Wires: Construction & Recording Workshop.  This workshop is your chance to learn how to build your own æolian instrument and custom recording techniques. The weekend will also include an evening of performances by Alan Lamb & WIRED Lab members, and the launch of our new website.

The WIRED Lab is located on a farm in regional NSW (between Gundagai and Cootamundra). The WIRED Lab is the site of the latest ‘Wire’ instruments built by Alan Lamb, along with collaborators Sarah Last, Dave Burraston, Garry Bradbury and Robin Fox.

WORKSHOP DETAILS
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th July
The workshop is offered for free to 25 lucky participants and will give you the DIY skills to build your own wires and pickups, held over two days, the workshop will include:
* Alan Lamb, Dave Burraston & Sarah Last will teach people how to build their own wire system and demonstrate ways to interact with the wires (eg. bowing and singing into polystyrene boxes, which work as reverberant amplifiers!).
* Permanent WIRED Lab resident & electronics wizard Dave Burraston will discuss his observations of The Wires when recording and will demonstrate how to custom build and attach piezo pickups.
* Alan Lamb will demonstrate percussion, bowing and techniques with the wires.
* Opportunity to interact with and record the wires.

NOTE: workshop places are strictly limited, with a maximum capacity of 25 people. Places will need to be reserved ASAP, with bookings on a 1st come 1st served basis.

WIRED EARS (EMERGING ARTISTS RESIDENCY SCHEME)
The WIRED EAR Scheme will provide financial assistance for NSW based young and emerging artists to attend selected WIRED Lab workshops. For our annual DIY Wires workshop we will be offering $150 to assist 8 emerging artists with the costs to attend the workshop. Artists who consider themselves to be ‘young and emerging’ are invited to submit a brief (1 page maximum) expression of interest detailing their arts practice and how they feel they will benefit from being a WIRED EARS participant. WIRED EARS expressions of interest are due on Monday 28th June.

PERFORMANCE EVENING & WIRED LAB .ORG LAUNCH
On Saturday evening WIRED Lab will launch its new website wiredlab.org, with Alan Lamb, Dave Burraston and Special Guests presenting a concert open to the general public in Cootamundra’s Creative Arts & Cultural Centre (CCACC). The CCACC is a new facility; it is the 1st time Cootamundra has had a dedicated Arts infrastructure, the Centre was initiated by local volunteers and is located in what once was an Ugg boot factory!

ABOUT ALAN LAMB
You may already be familiar with Alan’s work, he has been working with wires since the 70′s. He originally started with disused spans of telegraph wires and evolved into building his own that spanned hundreds of metres across the desert and the open landscapes. During this time he developed a technique of attaching stereo contact microphones to record and listen to The Wires. These recordings expose an infinite and amplified universe of sound that sonically reflects the environment and things we cannot see. The Wires sonically reproduces environmental and human interactions with an enormous dynamic range of harmonics and frequencies, often to visceral effect. Whilst having traditional sonic qualities such as pitch, timbre, rhythm and key, the sounds produced are perhaps best described as a deep space atmosphere with earth hums and electro-pings, even insects can be heard as they collide or crawl up and down the wire.

ABOUT WIRED LAB
A primary objective of The WIRED Lab is to consolidate Alan’s work and create a permanent site for his instrument to be further developed by other artists, and for Alan to devolve his skills and knowledge to as many people as possible. Since its 2007 establishment The WIRED Lab has presented workshops, concerts, an open day and various publications documenting Alan Lamb and WIRED Lab collaborators.

Thus far The WIRED Lab has built several sets of wires, spanning kilometres across the landscape. We have been recording the wires with piezo pickups and we plan on setting the wires up so we can record visiting artists and their interactions. You will find some recordings and info here:http://wiredlab.ning.com/

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Further logistical details about the workshop can be found HERE

REMEMBER: this workshop has ***limited availability***
This is primarily for logistical reasons; BUT NOTE we plan on hosting more workshops and an open day, so if you miss out this time there will be opportunity for many more people to get WIRED in the future.

Any further questions?
Please email Sarah at: info@wiredlab.org

The WIRED Lab
W I R E D : Wire Integrative Research Education & Development
http://wiredlab.ning.com/ and http://www.wiredlab.org/

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Curator Led Tour and Moderated Artists’ Forum

Saturday 12 June 2010 | 11am-3pm Newington Armory Gallery | Buildings 18 & 22

Curator Led Tour @ 11am | Building 18

Join Sophia Kouyoumdjian on an exhibition tour as she discusses the works and concepts explored within Memory Flows.

Artists’ Forum @ 1pm | Building 22

Join selected artists from Memory Flows and Daniel Brine, Director of Performance Space for a panel discussion about collaborative and iterative media art practice in Australia. Panelists will explore ways that this practice can re-engage with ideas of water, ecology and the aesthetic metaphors these concepts generate. The Panelists are: Chris Caines, Shannon O’Neill, Greg Shapley, Megan Heyward, Jacqueline Gothe, Sherre DeLys and Nigel Helyer.

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Memory Flows is an ongoing and distributed media art project of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation (CMAI) UTS. As elsewhere around the globe, Australian rivers are conduits that are emblematic of networking systems, travel systems and survival systems. Memories and stories – both actual and fictional – will flow and stream from Australians’ intense and varied relationships with water. Artists belonging to this group have tapped into the specific memory that rivers and waterways retain, streaming their enquiry back to the group and out to a larger public audience via exhibition.

http://memoryflows.net/

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Ian Andrews | Chris Bowman | Chris Caines | Damian Castaldi | Sherre DeLys | Clement Girault | Jacqueline Gothe | Ian Gwilt | Megan Heyward | Nigel Helyer | Neil Jenkins | Solange Kershaw | Roger Mills | Maria Miranda | Norie Neumark | Shannon O’Neill | Greg Shapley | Victor Steffensen | Jen Teo | Jes Tyrrell

15 MAY – 20 JUNE 2010 | open weekends only 10am – 4pm
Armory Gallery, Newington Armory Jamieson Street (off Holker Street), Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127

LAUNCH EVENT AT THE ARMORY

Friday 14 May 2010 @ 6pm
Talks @ 7pm to be opened by Judith Blackall, Head of Artistic Programmes at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Headwater performance @ 8pm by The Field

There will be a charter bus leaving from the Art Gallery of NSW (5:45pm) and stopping at UTS (6pm) before heading out to the Armory (arrival @ 6:45pm). Return charter service to Central Station departs from the Blaxland Riverside parking lot @ 9pm.

FREE parking at Blaxland Riverside Park car park

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