I know this blog is becoming little more than a YouTube feed, but I just have to share this old favourite which recently appeared there:
Ah, the beauty and brilliance of Severed Heads. This work means more to me than I can explain. It’s in my blood.
Tom Ellard’s description:
(By request) This 1985 video was created in real time as a video ‘jam’ or improvisation. It features a preacher scratched by Ian Andrews on betacam tape, fed through Fairlight CVI and analogue video synthesiser.
The CVI signal is notable for not filling the whole screen (it had a resolution of 256 squared) and introducing a delay that causes the signal to shift to the right.
I’m supposed to be at an Ian Andrewsexhibition opening right now, but I crashed my bike today, so am staying home to lick my wounds and hopefully catch up with some overdue writing.
ANAT is offering the opportunity for young and emerging practitioners working with distributed, portable, online, wearable, gaming, mobile and emerging platforms to undertake a three-month mentorship with an established practitioner of their choice.
The mentorship enables an emerging artist to explore new creative directions, to expand technical skills and increase knowledge of networks, debates and business practice. Applicants are invited to select a mentor and develop a program of activity spanning a three-month period. By utilising emerging technologies the mentor may be accessed locally, nationally or internationally and the successful applicant will maintain a blog for the duration of the mentorship on the ANAT server.
Applicants must be emerging technologies practitioners who are 30 years or under. The mentorship will provide a fee for the mentoree ($7,200 excl GST) and a fee for the mentor ($1,800 excl GST). The mentorship program should be completed by early December 2007.
ANAT APPLICATIONS CLOSE 3 AUGUST 2007
ANAT guidelines and application forms are available on our web site http://www.anat.org.au. For further information please contact Gavin Artz, ANAT General Manager - manager@anat.org.au, 08 8231 9037, Monday Friday, 10am 4pm CST.
This mentorship is a part of the Australian Government¹s Young & Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Australian Media Arts Organsiations d.lux, Experimenta and MAAP are also offering mentorships:
+ d.lux will hold their mentorship inside Second Life or a similar online virtual community, contact malcolm@dlux.org.au for more
information.
+ Experimenta’s focus is on Site Related and/or Public Work, contact caroline@expeirmenta.org for more information.
+ MAAP will focus on projects that intersect or consider connections with the Asia Pacific regions, contact info@maap.org.au for more information.
ANAT gratefully acknowledges the assistance of CraftSouth in establishing the ANAT Emerging Technologies Mentorship Program.
ANAT is assisted by the Australia Council for the Arts, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA http://www.arts.sa.gov.au and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
I’ve been appointed program manager of ANAT’s ‘Embracing Sound Project’ (ESP). Over the next year I’ll be mapping the state of sound arts in Australia, networking and liaising with artists and organisations to see what sort of infrastructures might be desirable, and advocating sound arts to funding bodies and the media. It’s going to be interesting, travelling to parts of Australia that I’ve never been to and meeting lots of people.
There’ll be more info soon on this blog, as well as various email lists and on a forthcoming blog at ANAT, but please get in touch if you have any immediate ideas.
This job is in addition to teaching at UTS, doing a PhD, running Alias Frequencies, oh and trying to make art - so I’m a busy boy right now. I’m going to have to learn how to say no! =)
The Sound of Failure is an audio event sponsored by Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery of Dulwich Hill (Sydney, Australia) to explore the concept of ‘failure’ in a post-digital era. In this era
sound artists must look beyond the digital facade (the ‘graphics user interface’ and the like) to represent the times in which we live (times that are politically and socially, themselves, littered with
failures).
In the ’90s, digital technologies like the CD player made the ‘Glitch’ aesthetic possible, which, according to Kim Cascone ‘was developed in part as a result of the immersive experience of working in
environments suffused with digital technology: computer fans whirring, laser printers churning out documents, the sonification of user-interfaces, and the muffled noise of hard drives. But more
specifically, it is from the “failure” of digital technology that this new work has emerged’.
But what, in this era of ‘Failure’, is possible beyond the glitch? How do we exploit the possibilities beyond the digital façade without just reverting back to the seemingly primitive world of the analogue?
We are now seeking submissions from musicians who attempt to address this question in their works. To read the full brief, and to submit a proposal, please go to http://soundoffailure.com
The Sound of Failure will be held at the Petersham Bowling Club on August 25. For more information about Don’t Look Gallery please go to http://myspace.com/dontlookgallery
As part of the festival on Radio National Sunday night 1st July at 8.35pm till 10pm Liquid Architecture and The Night Air present “Radiophonic Remix”. Some of Australia’s leading sound artists interpret the idea of remix for radio.
Buttress O’Kneel remixes her favorite remixers, including Negativland, John Oswald and Coldcut.
Rik Rue remixes a whole world of sounds and music.
][oyd Barrett remixes dreams, nightmares and talkback radio.
Lucas Darklord remixes the culture of Black Metal.
And Shannon O’Neill remixes all of them.
Resonant Tapestry is an experimental radio show that interweaves music genres, taking listeners on an elaborate sonic journey.
http://www.straightup.com.au/page?n=825
This episode Migration Of The Snails celebrates the eighth coming of Australia’s premier sound-arts festival Liquid Architecture. A special thanks to Shannon O’Neill and Ben Byrne of Alias Frequencies for organising the Sydney LA8 shows. This playlist features some artists from their net release Pink Sheets - Edition One www.aliasfrequencies.org/ps
: : RESONANT TAPESTRY : :
Presented by Yun Mei & Sofie Loizou
www.myspace.com/resonantapestry
www.myspace.com/plumindustries
www.myspace.com/sofieloizoumusic
Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html
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:: :: LA8 radio feature :: ::
New Music Up Late, ABC Classic FM
Saturday 23rd June 10.30pm
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/newmusic
featuring a live interview with artistic director Nat Bates
Liquid Architecture 8 Launches In Sydney Next Week!
Liquid Architecture 8 kicks off in Sydney next week at the Carriageworks with three nights of performance from June 28 to 30. International guests include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group Cellule d?Intervention Metamkine and Swiss aktionist performance artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Dave Phillips, who will perform alongside local artists Tony Mason-Cox, Natasha Anderson, Peter Newman and Lloyd Barrett, among many more.
First up on the Thursday night is the gala opening, a night of skewed interpretations of popular music with Winner, Tony Mason Cox and Daniel Green, before a night of extreme performance on the Friday with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Dave Phillips, Natasha Anderson and Lucas Darklord before an AV spectacular on Saturday night featuring Cellule D’Intervention Metamkine, Lloyd Barrett, Abject Leader, Kamusta and Peter Newman, to close the festival. Also, the ?Terminal? installation program of sound works will be in the foyer for the duration of the festival. Season passes are only $30 too so be sure to make the most of the opportunity and check out the whole festival.
SYDNEY ARTIST FEATURE
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:: :: :: :: Winner :: :: :: ::
Winner is Sydney’s own psychotic supergroup covers band. Your favourite pop hits as you’ve never heard them before. Get down to such classics as Bohemian Rhapsody and Tainted Love as performed by a demented Eno-era Roxy Music featuring Sweden, Swerve and Adrian (Spastic Howitzer) Bertram.
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:: :: :: :: Peter Newman :: :: :: ::
Peter Newman is an emerging artist based in Sydney who primarily produces time-based works for both installation and performance. His practice is concerned with intuitively drawing from both digital technologies and organic artmaking methodologies in aspiring towards a seamless fluidity of process, ultimately offering an abstract cinema for the ears and eyes. He is driven by a need to explore the complex nature of time and its perception, and to produce work which exists firmly within it, devoid of an abstract critical distance. Newman has performed or exhibited around Australia in varying capacities at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the 2004 and 2006 Sydney Big Day Out music festival, and numerous artist-run spaces such as First Draft and Phatspace. Several of his sound and video works travelled to South Korea last year to be part of the Seoul Fringe Festival and Gwangju Biennale.
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:: :: :: :: Thomas Knox Arnold :: :: :: ::
Thomas Knox Arnold is a Sydney based artist who is not very interested in sport and rather focuses much of his attention on/to sound/s. Once one half of cult radio program Dark Hours (broadcast on 2RRR throughout much of the 90s), he now studies at the University of Western Sydney and releases music under the name Lucas Darklord. Check out his releases on Painfree Found Sound.
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:: :: :: :: Tony Mason-Cox with Ann Onymous :: :: :: ::
Tony Mason-Cox is an Australian insurance salesman.
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The program has been locked off and we can’t wait for the festival to begin! Please tell your friends about it. Hope to see you there!
Liquid Architecture 8 Sydney: Festival of Sound Arts
Thursday June 28 – Saturday June 30
http://liquidarchitecture.org.au
Alias Frequencies and Performance Space present Liquid Architecture 8
at the Carriagworks from Thursday June 28 to Saturday June 30 2007.
The festival will this year feature three nights of groundbreaking
performances from local and international artists as well as an
installation program staged in the unique environs of the
Carriagework’s wonderful original architecture. International guests
include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group
Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine and Swiss aktionist performance
artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Dave Phillips.
Season Passes - $30/$25
available from Moshtix
http://moshtix.com.au
Full Program:
Thursday June 28 from 8pm – Gala Opening!
$10/$8
WINNER
TONY MASON-COX WITH ANN ONYMOUS
THE DANIEL GREEN TRIBUTE SHOW
+ Very Special Guests!
Friday June 29 from 8pm – Main Concert One
$15/$12
RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK (SWITZERLAND)
DAVE PHILLIPS (SWITZERLAND)
NATASHA ANDERSON (MELBOURNE)
LUCAS DARKLORD
Saturday June 30 from 8pm – Main Concert Two
$15/$12
+ THE NIGHT AIR: REMIX
ABC Radio National 8.35pm, Sunday July 1.
Four leading Australian sound artists (][oyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord,
Buttress O’Kneel and Rik Rue) explore the concept of the radiophonic
remix and are in turn remixed by Shannon O’Neill.
+ ‘TERMINAL’ Exhibition
at Carriageworks throughout the festival.
Artists Include:
NATASHA ANDERSON
JOKE LANZ
RIK RUE
WADE MARYNOWSKY
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EXTREME SOUNDS ARTIST FEATURE
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:: :: :: :: Runzelstirn and Gurgelstøck :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney and Melbourne.
RUNZELSTIRN & GURGLESTOCK is the work of long-running avant-garde
visionary Rudolf Eb.er. Originally emerging from the Swiss
Schlimpfluch group, along with folk such as Joke Lanz (aka Sudden
Infant), RUNZELSTIRN has built quite a reputation for severe
recordings and unpredictable live shows. His is the noise of
spluttering soundscapes, hyperventilating, blood curdling screaming,
gagging, dogs barking, punches, vomiting, whistles, laughs, creaks,
pops and squeals that emerge through the oddly-timed silences. All
this delivered via intense, audience frightening ?aktion? performances
that will undoubtedly shock. See Rudolf?s amazing, disturbing
paintings at his website.
www.artnotcrime.net/r+g
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:: :: :: :: Dave Phillips :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney and Melbourne.
Dave Phillips has been a member of Schimpfluch Gruppe, Fear Of God,
Ohne and Dead Peni. In his solo work he blends together field
recording, real noise, insect recordings, cracked electro acoustic
sound and voice to create extreme computer music, crafting cartoonish
sketches with organic and synthesized sounds, cut and placed in
(seemingly) free-form arrangements. Expect shocking performances
designed to unsettle, disturb and make your skin crawl.
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/dp
http://www.myspace.com/dpdavephillips
Dave and Rudolf will be performing at Tongue and Groove in Brisbane on
5th July
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:: :: :: :: Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Melbourne
For a decade Sydney based Lucas Abela (aka Justice Yeldham and the
Dynamic Ribbon Device) has travelled the globe grinding his face into
a sheet of amplified plate glass. As he screams and hyperventilates
onto it and then pulls and squeezes at the sheet, the noise generated
wildly varies and wavers as it is run through some pedals and
processing that results in an orgy of speaker rattling noise. Expect
nausea, saliva, blood, fresh wounds and sickly sounds.
http://www.dualplover.com/justice.htm
http://www.myspace.com/justiceyeldham
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:: :: :: :: Natasha Anderson :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney
Natasha is a Melbourne musician who combines contrabass and garklein
recorders with electronics to create works which constantly shift
between dialectic extremes; those of frequency, the digital and the
bodily and the processed and the instrumental. Appearances in 2006
ranged from the Festival Musiques Innovatrices (France to the Skopje
Summer Festival (Macedonia) and the OFF Film Festival (Brisbane).
http://cajid.com/artists.html
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:: :: :: :: Thomas Knox Arnold :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney
is a Sydney based artist who is not very interested in sport and
rather focuses much of his attention on/to sound/s. Once one half of
cult radio program Dark Hours (broadcast on 2RRR throughout much of
the 90s), he now studies at the University of Western Sydney and
releases music under the name Lucas Darklord. Check out his releases
on Painfree Found Sound.
http://www.painfreefoundsound.com/pod
Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html
TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
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