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Audio Workshop on 2SER

Shannon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:13:08 +0000

Students from my Audio Workshop class at UTS will be taking over the airwaves at 2SER tonight and tomorrow night to present their live radiophonic features:

Dead Air

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us; when we listen to it, we find it fascinating…

So if silence is the absence of sound, then what is the sound of silence?????

Tune your radio into 107.3fm (2SER) on the 26th, October at 9.00pm to find out.

Produced by:
Emily McDaniel
Kimberley Bulliman
Cristina Sebastian
Min Tack Cho
Rosi Tuck
Fei Fei Jian

Sydney Underground: An Aural Odyssey

A radio documentary produced by UTS Audio Workshop. Sydney Underground explores the sociological, historical, and transitory nature of Sydney’s underground tunnel systems through sound. Come on an Aural Odyssey featuring musical compositions inspired and constructed by sounds from within the tunnels. Interviews and ambient soundscapes created from audio captured from the tunnels of Sydney provide an interesting auditory perspective of familiar terrain. A Live audio feed from inside the Chalmers Street pedestrian tunnel at Central railway will be manipulated and blended using granular sound treatment. The Documentary will be performed live at the Bon Marche Theatre at UTS and transmitted live on 2SER (107.5) on Oct 27th at 9pm.
Be sure to tune in on Oct 27th at 9pm on 2SER 107.3

WIRED Open Day

Shannon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:01:45 +0000

WIRED O P E N DAY on 31st October 2009 is your opportunity to GET WIRED in the great outdoors of The WIRED Lab.

WIRED O P E N DAY gives the general public the first opportunity to interact with the ‘wires’ and witness its vast array of creative applications.

Performing at WIRED O P E N DAY will be the original wire maestro Alan LAMB and his core crew of collaborators Dave NOYZE, Garry BRADBURY, Oren AMBARCHI and Robin FOX. Each artist will be presenting unique ruminations of the ‘wires’ sonic capacities. Dave NOYZE and Alan LAMB will perform live mixes of this dynamic instrument; Garry BRADBURY provides a live mix in the pitch of ‘B’ (also the pitch of Bees in chorus!) for a ‘great bow’ acoustic performance by Alan LAMB; Oren AMBARCHI treats the wires like a giant guitar and amplifier; and Robin FOX utilises wire sounds to control a laser beam across the surface of water.

Commencing in the late afternoon audiences will be bussed from Cootamundra to The WIRED Lab site for a multi-sensory experience of site and sound. From sunset to nightfall audiences will experience the immense dynamic range and capacity of a musical instrument spanning hundreds of metres across the landscape. Affectionately called “… nature’s microphone” by WIRED Lab curator Sarah LAST, the ‘wires’ and the WIRED O P E N DAY program expands many horizons, and will radically shift paradigms of art, music and space.

The WIRED Lab is a collaborative arts project uniquely located in the rural landscape of South West NSW. In 2007 The WIRED Lab was established to create a site for artists, scientists and audiences to expand upon æolian traditions, environmental sonification, ‘wire’ music and research originally developed by Alan Lamb. Since its inception many Australian and international artists have visited The WIRED Lab, their research continues, and October 31st is the first of many future open days.

MEDIA: For print resolution images and to arrange interviews please contact WIRED O P E N DAY Curator Sarah Last on (02) 69 436 222 or 0414 22 66 23.

TICKETS ETC…
Available online from StickyTickets HERE.
BOOKING MUST BE MADE by 11am FRIDAY 30th October to reserve your place. PLEASE NOTE: The WIRED Lab is also a working farm and audience numbers are strictly limited.

WHEN: Saturday 31st October 2009. Busses leaving 5.30pm sharp and returning by 10.00pm

WHERE: Busses depart Cootamundra Post Office, Wallendoon Street for The WIRED Lab.

COST: $10 children (under 16), $15 concession (seniors, students etc), $20 adults
Price includes bus fare and entry to The WIRED Lab site. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

ATTIRE: Covered shoes must be worn, you will be in a paddock with long grasses & rocks etc. At nightfall the temperature can drop so bring something warm.

MEALS: available on site at an additional cost
Supper will be available at WIRED O P E N DAY courtesy of the Cootamundra Creative Arts and Cultural Centre (CCACC), all proceeds to the CCACC building fund.
Drinks, tea and coffee will be available on site. No food, drink or animals to be bought on premises.

ACCOMMODATION: Many Hotels in Cootamundra are offering discounts for WIRED O P E N DAY punters for a full listing visit HERE.

WIRED LAB: http://wiredlab.ning.com/

The WIRED Lab gratefully acknowledges in-kind and financial assistance from :
* The Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body
* Arts NSW, The NSW Government Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation
Cootamundra Creative Arts and Cultural Centre
* Decode Media
* Cootamundra Shire Council
* Eastern Riverina Arts Program
* The Riverina Co-op
* Noyzelab
* Retrovox
* Charles Sturt University Winery

Chris Mann, Amanda Stewart & The Splinter Orchestra

Shannon — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:55:27 +0000

Monday, 10 August, 2009

The NOW now Series #6

Chris Mann (born 1949) is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics,, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as “the mechanism whereby you understand what I’m thinking better than I do.”[1] He is currently based in New York City.

Mann’s unique style of reading incredibly dense, parenthetical texts at a high speed has brought him recognition as a unique performer and recording artist. He has had a variety of recording projects over the years, including the ensemble Machine For Making Sense with Amanda Stewart, Chris Mann and the Impediments (with two backup singers and Mann reading a text simultaneously while only being able to hear one another), and Chris Mann and The Use. His piece The Plato Songs, a collaboration with Holland Hopson and R. Luke DuBois, features realtime spectral analysis and parsing of the voice into multiple channels based on phonemes.

Amanda Stewart (born 1959) is a contemporary Australian poet and sound/performance artist.

She began writing and performing poetry in the 70s and has since produce a wide array of sound, video and multimedia work. In 1989 she co-founded the performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense with Chris Mann, Rik Rue, Jim Denley and Stevie Wishart . She has toured in Europe, the United States and Japan.

and The Splinter Orchestra

Serial Space 33 wellington st chippendale

$10 / $8 at the door

Warm words, music & dirigibles

Shannon — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:37:25 +0000

Liquid Architecture 9 Sydney

Shannon — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:44:43 +0000

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

NOW now review

Shannon — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:06:48 +0000

My review of this year’s NOW now festival has just been published by RealTime.

the NOW now 2008

Shannon — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:08:10 +0000

is on this weekend. I’ll be playing on Saturday night with the Splinter Orchestra.

The 2008 NOW now festival will be happening at Wentworth Falls School of Arts (217-219 Great Wstrn Hway, Wentworth Falls) Blue Mountains, 18th,19th,20th january. Get your tickets before it’s too late! To book online:
http://www.moshtix.com.au

“Although usually held in the polluted, confined spaces of Sydney’s experimental musicghettoes, the NOW now Festival will take a deep breath and relocate to Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains.There are 3 days and nights of instrument building workshops (for kids and families),outdoor concerts, installations, post-gig jams, soundwalks, noise works in the car park,good food, all the exploratory music CDs from Australia and overseas, surround soundscapes, noisy electric, quiet acoustic, and audiovisual work.”

PROGRAM:

Friday, 18 January, 2008
The NOW now Festival night#1: Wentworth Falls School of Arts Main Hall

7pm sci-hi – paul winstanley (nz) – electronics

7.30pm
greg kingston (tas) – guitar
carolyn connors (vic) – voice

8.15pm louise dibben – audio visuals

break

9.30pm
clare cooper (berlin) – chinese harp
thomas meadowcroft (berlin) – organ

10pm passenger of shit

11pm festival club at Akemi – spontaneous and unscheduled collaborations feat. Sun of the Seventh Sister

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Saturday, 19 January, 2008
The NOW now Festival Day#2: Wentworth Falls School of Arts
10am Sound Walk

3pm workshop for kids (both young and old!!)
instrument building – Dale Gorfinkel & Rod Cooper

Small Room

6pm
Jo Truman – voice
Mike Majkowski – double bass

6.30pm
Ross Bolleter – ruined piano
Jon Rose – violin

Main Hall
7.30pm Brendan Walls – inventions, creations and monstrosities

break

Main Hall
8.30
Emmanuelle Pellegrini (france) – sound poetry

8.50
Philip samartzis (melb) – electronics
Marcia jane (melb) – live video

break

10pm Splinter Orchestra
shannon o’neill – electronics, mike majkowski – double bass, abel cross – electric bass, finn ryan – percussion, milica stefanovic – electric bass, dan whiting – laptop, rod cooper – cooperisms, dale gorfinkel – vibraphone, monika brooks – accordian, jim denley – flutes, alex masso – percussion, clare cooper – guzheng, mira pert – violin, michael sheridan – guitar, ben byrne – laptop, grant arthur – souzaphone, laura altman – clarinet, simon ferenci -
trumpet, karen booth – saxophone, cass mcglynn – euphonium, ian pieterse – baritone sax…plus more.

11 pm festival club at Akemi, spontaneous and unscheduled collaborations

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Sunday, 20 January, 2008
The NOW now Festival Day#3: Wentworth Falls School of Arts
12pm outdoor kids workshop – Wilson Park
ross bolleter – ruined piano and story-telling

2pm Outdoor Concert
sam dobson – double bass, sarangi, clock radios
peter farrar – saxophone
alex masso – percussion
simon ferenci – trumpet
yusuke akai – guitar

carolyn connors (melb) – voice
rosalind hall (melb) – prepared saxophone

Main Hall
6pm
mathieu werchowski – violin (fr)
dan whiting – laptop
xavier charles (fr) – clarinet

6.30pm Metalog
amanda stewart – voice
jim denley – flute & saxophone
ben byrne – laptop
natasha anderson (melb) – contrabass recorder & laptop
dale gorfinkel – vibraphone and deconstructions
robbie avenaim – percussion

7.15pm ora(ra)
matt earle – electronics
adam sussman – guitar & electronics
rory brown – double bass & guitar
rivka schembri – cello

8pm Joyce Hinterding – electronics

8.30pm Taste of Teeth (brisbane)
Yusuke Akai – guitar
Daiji Igarashi – electronics
Nik Mayer-Miller – percussion
Sam Mitchell – sounding things
JoJo Dogshit – sounding things

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Thanks to Zina and Snow of the House of Laudanum for web hosting and the email list
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Thanks to ARTSNSW for their ongoing support of the NOW now.
www.splitrec.com
www.thenownow.net

dual plover bringing wednesday night back [Sydney]

Shannon — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:55:24 +0000

thats right every wednesday night club consolador de dos caras will be changing the lyrics of that easybeats song as midweek becomes the minds principal night of longing. two rooms of week in week out fun, the front room which incidentally is absolutely free!! will be armed to the teeth with an erratic array of all music presented by regular DJ’s smallcock/ bambi and the bambis/ toecutter & BOG + weekly guests like openings nights dj rainbow ejaculation. it will also be hosting a DIY market place for independent music labels/publishers and fashion designers so please feel free to bring your wares.

while in the back room for a minimal charge (usually gold coin but may vary depending on touring acts) 3 live acts every week! opening night offering up touring cairns city elite red red krovvy, the penrith/cairns pairing Axel Rosie O’Donnell, plus our very own naked on the vague. starts the 21st november at la ampana, 53-55 liverpool st, in the spanish 1/4, Sydney city, front room free entry back room $5 (touring acts from cairns)opens 8pm runs til late (live acts over by 11pm).

booking a wee weekly can be a little ominous so please dont be afraid to ge in touch if you’ld like to have a go on the decks or out the back, at dualpLOVER we’re up for anything!

the dual plover family of business

www.dualplover.com

Audio Workshop on 2SER

Shannon — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:35:37 +0000

From 8.30pm this Tuesday and next, my UTS Audio Workshop students will be presenting live features on 2SER-FM.

Sound Sports

Shannon — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:39:57 +0000

Dear Friends,
This year’s Golden Eye Awards hosts the first Sydney Sound Sports
event. A bit like Theatre Sports but
a lot noisier. Come along and join the audience on Wednesday October
17 at the Great Hall, level 5,
Building 1 (The Tower) at UTS.
Time: 5:30 sharp!!
Hope to see you there

Patchwork

Shannon — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:37:47 +0000

Electrofringe is just around the corner, and this looks to be a particularly good year. I’ll be there as usual, doing a few talks. No gig this time, but I am contributing to Patchwork, an exhibition of ‘patch art’. Here’s mine:

It’s a screenshot of an AudioMulch patch that I’ve been using for the past year or so for live performance, in conjunction with a Behringer BCR controller.

Apostasy

Shannon — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:33:03 +0000

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Sunday, 16 September, 2007
APOSTASY

Sedition 275 Victoria st, Darlinghurst.
Every Sunday from 6pm. donation

Ben Byrne – laptop
Abel Cross – electric bass
Shannon O’Neill – electronics
Robbie Avenaim – percussion

www.myspace.com/seditionapostasy

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SOUND OF FAILURE: Experimental Music in a Post-digital Era

Shannon — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:51:08 +0000

WHAT: SOUND OF FAILURE: Experimental Music in a Post-digital Era

WHEN/WHERE (TWO VENUES):

Saturday August 25, 6pm:
Petersham Bowling Club (Performances)
77 Brighton St, Petersham
Hosted by the irrepressible Schappylle Scragg.

Saturday/Sunday August 25/26 11am-5pm:
DON’T LOOK Experimental New Media Gallery (Installations)
419 New Canterbury Rd (Near Marrickville Rd), Dulwich Hill
Endurance performances at Don’t Look Gallery from 12-5pm Sunday.

WHO:

PERFORMERS (Petersham Bowling Club):
Est Et Non, Tom Hall (Brisbane), Lecter Macabre, Marquis De Sound, Glen Remington, Starella, Vilhelm the Tortoise & Friends (Belgium), Alex White

INSTALLATION ARTISTS/ENDURANCE PERFORMERS
(Don’t Look Gallery):
Catfingers, Cleaninglady, Gregory Chatonsky (Canada), The Contingent Ensemble, Wade Marynowsky, Lecter Macabre, Marquis De Sound, Monoperro, Eva Mueller, Vienna Parreno, Cara-Ann Simpson, Subscape Annex (USA)

CONTACT: Greg Shapley – Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: http://soundoffailure.com for a complete program.

SOUND OF FAILURE
Experimental Music in a Post-digital Era

We live in an era of failure. On the global stage, the President of the most powerful country on earth has overseen thousands of deaths in two failed wars. In the third world the stench of poverty seeps through the pores of humanity in the guise of genocidal skirmishes, starvation and disease. Fundamentalists of all creeds goad each other like contestants on some new deadly reality TV show. And the optimism of the ’90s is washed away in a tide of apathy, indifference and hopelessness.

So where does this leave culture? If art is holding up a mirror to society, how long before the mirror shatters in sympathetic resonance to the horror it beholds?

A couple of months ago Don’t Look Gallery put out an open call to sound artists to propose a piece for an event called the ‘Sound of Failure’. From dozens of responses, 20 artists have been chosen to perform at Petersham Bowling Club on Saturday August 25, or to install works at Don’t Look Gallery, Dulwich Hill over the weekend of August 25/26.

These works generally employ technological failure, both as a euphemism for the state of the world, but also as a way of exposing, exploring and problematising the digital façade. These artists have attempted 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 goat.

Some artists use humour. Starella, for instance, juxtaposes ‘instruments’ such as ‘old wine bottles’ with digital technology and lyrics written on the backs of beer coasters. The failure in her musical sound comes from spending her life slipping through the gaps of every system she has known: family; society, and professional systems. In her performances she feels her way through drunken rants and musically attempts to determine what went wrong.

Others employ the literal failure of the technology itself. Tom Hall, a renowned sound artist from Brisbane, uses the degenerate sounds formed from the destruction of flimsy CD media combined with the glitch/skip/malfunction from ageing and damaged CD players. These form the basis of a live performance that combine in a progressive and layered manner, juxtaposing the usual frustration experienced when one strikes this inferior malfunction.

A detailed program is available from http://soundoffailure.com.

Splinter Orchestra at NightTime

Shannon — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:58:48 +0000

Sunday, 19 August, 2007
SPLINTER at NightTime #3

As part of the NightTime concert series the Splinter Orchestra will
perform in the massive foyer at Carriage Works, allowing for further
explorations in density and spatialisation.

“NightTime is an evening of music, improvisation, performance &
interventions. Each NightTime will hone in on live artworks from
(sub)cultures around the city.”

NightTime is co-ordinated by: Trevor Brown, Rosie Dennis and Lara Thoms.

Sunday, 19 August. 7pm start. $15 entry
Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveliegh.

ELECTROFRINGE 2007 PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE!

Shannon — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:23:33 +0000

Electrofringe 2007 Program Online!

The full program for Electrofringe is now online. This year sees an unprecedented diversity in the Electrofringe program, as well as a stock of brilliant and stimulating events of the calibre you’ve come to expect from the October long weekend in Newcastle. Themes include accessibility and collaboration in electronic arts, wearable art, rethought radio and new approaches to electronic music. Screen works, contemporary dance, immersive and site specific works are nestled alongside dynamic panel discussions, workshops and gigs.

International guests include Tim Hecker (Canada), Leafcutter John (UK), Sebastien Roux (France), Jason Kahn (USA) and Ralph Steinbruchel (CH) alongside local artists including Robin Fox, Machina Aux Rock, Darrin Verhagen, SpatnLoogie, Sanso-Xtro, Pimmon, Shannon O’Neill and Gail Priest, plus may more.

Head to the Electrofringe website, www.electrofringe.net to check out the program and stay tuned for further updates.

Splinter Orchestra CD launch

Shannon — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:34:27 +0000

Monday, 30 July, 2007
the NOW now series #14 at the Last Bastion of Civilization
Suite 202, 2nd floor, 267-271 Cleveland St, Surry Hills, Sydney.

The Splinter Orchestra

CD Launch. Recorded last December at Studio 301. Splitrec proudly will release the disk at this gig.

and the band for the launch is:

Laura Altman – clarinet. Robbie Avenaim – percussion. Karen Booth – alto sax. Monika Brooks – accordian. Rory Brown – double bass. Ben Byrne – laptop. Rod Cooper – klunk. Gerard Crewdson – trombone. Abel Cross – electric bass. Jim Denley – flutes and flax. Joe Derrick – trumpet. Sam Dobson – double bass. Peter Farrar – alto sax. Simon Ferenci – trumpet. Lloyd Honeybrook – alto sax. Cass McGlynn – tenor horn. Mike Majkowski – double bass. Alex Masso – percussion. Shannon O’Neill – synth. Mathew Ottignon – clarinet and flute. Ian Pieterse – baritone sax. Finn Ryan – percussion. Michael Sheridan – electric guitar. Milica Stefanovic – electric bass. Dan Whiting – laptop.

8pm. $10/$8

http://thenownow.net/series/

ESP

Shannon — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:38:57 +0000

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! =)

One thing I’ve let go of is Liquid Architecture, and it was great to go out on a high, with a very successful festival at Carriageworks. See Flickr for some of my photos.

Don’t Look Gallery Cult Movie Fundraiser

Shannon — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:35:03 +0000

WHAT: Don’t Look Gallery Cult Movie Fundraiser (+ lucky door prize + popcorn!)

WHEN: Saturday July 28, 6pm (please RSVP)

WHERE: Petersham Bowling Club
77 Brighton Street, Petersham

COST: $20 full/$10 concession

CONTACT: Greg Shapley – Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: myspace.com/dontlookgallery

Don’t Look Gallery Needs Your Help!

On Saturday July 28, we’re having a Cult Movie Night at Petersham Bowling Club to help raise money to keep Don’t Look Gallery going. For $20/$10 you get four hours of challenging and quirky full length films, shorts and obscure (perhaps even bizarre) public service announcements. Some highlights will include the controversial 1932 pic ‘Freaks’, and the post-WWII US propaganda short, ‘Make Mine Freedom’.

We’ve had a few big expenses lately (including a broken window) and digital projectors don’t grow on trees! So please show your support so we can keep up a bit of Kulcha in the outer-inner-west.

If you know you can make it please RSVP so we can have some idea of numbers. Thanks for your support!

Greg Shapley
Don’t Look Gallery

Copyright Tribunal orders PPCA licence fee increase for nightclubs and dance parties

Shannon — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:03:54 +0000

In response to an application by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) on behalf of its member artists and record labels, today the Copyright Tribunal is reported to have ordered an increase to the licence fees payable by nightclub venues and commercially organised dance party operators. The rate for licensed sound recordings played in nightclubs will be raised from $0.07 per person to $1.05 per person and from $0.20 to $3.05 per person for dance parties.

[via]

A 1500% increase??

Call for submissions for ‘The Sound of Failure’

Shannon — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:13:48 +0000

WHAT: Call for submissions for ‘The Sound of Failure’ (experimental music night)

SUBMISSION WEBSITE: http://soundoffailure.com

WHEN: Saturday, August 28, 7pm

WHERE: Petersham Bowling Club
77 Brighton Street, Petersham

CONTACT: Greg Shapley – Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com

SPONSORED BY: Don’t Look Gallery (http://myspace.com/dontlookgallery)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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