Music | Shannon O'Neill

Douglas Kahn at the MCA

Douglas Kahn, noted academic and theorist, will be speaking at the Museum of Contemporary Art this Thursday 19th November from 6.30 – 8.00pm.

Bookings are essential, to reserve your place please email the MCA or call the number listed below.

The November Art Monthly Australia ‘Arts of Sound’ edition guest edited by Douglas Kahn, which also includes a DVD of works by Australian artists, will be on sale at a special one-off lecture event price of $8 each or 2 for $15.

Also listen to Douglas Kahn on ‘New Music Up Late’ with Julian Day (prerecorded) this Saturday night (14th) on ABC Radio National 10:30pm to 12:30pm. The show will be available online for four weeks.

I contributed a review of Severed Heads’ Adenoids box set to the current issue of Art Monthly Australia. Tom Ellard has written a response. If I have time I may write something about that here, but I’ll probably just discuss it with him over a beer.

Random Acts of Elevator Music + Shannon O’Neill

I’ll be performing selections from some forthcoming solo releases on Alias Frequencies at this event.

WHAT: Random Acts of Elevator Music + Shannon O’Neill
WHEN: Friday October 9, 7.30pm
WHERE: Don’t Look Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd
Dulwich Hill (426/428 bus)
COST: $10
CONTACT: Nicholas Bates, Master Management
0403 920 908, nicholas.bates@gmail.com
OR Don’t Look Gallery 0401 152 434, dontlookgallery@gmail.com

Random Acts of Elevator Music at Don’t Look Gallery

Making their first business trip from Melbourne, Random Acts of Elevator Music perform at the experimental new media art space Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, on Friday the 9th of October at 7.30pm. The show incorporates the acclaimed Random Acts of Elevator Powerpoint display, featuring highlights from office life and rare elevator footage, along with their trademark soothing tones, melodies and oscillations. Joining them for a rare solo live set is Sydney sound artist Shannon O’Neill.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

The original City Frequencies installation was a live surround-sound audiovisual performance held at the Melbourne Town Hall for the 2000 Next Wave Festival, utilising the sounds and sights of the Melbourne CBD as source material. In 2004 City Frequencies recorded the conversations of Fitzroy café-goers at Kent Street Cafe, using the tapes to create the Café Voyeur installation.

Shannon O’Neill is a Sydney sound and media artist. As well as making sound and music under his own name and as Time Being, he has been a member of several groups including Wake Up and Listen and The Splinter Orchestra. Shannon has been a director of the Electrofringe and Sydney Liquid Architecture festivals, and is the founder and director of Alias Frequencies, an organisation that promotes and publishes music and media art.

For further information visit: www.akm.net.au/cityfreqs
www.twitter.com/cityfreqs

Or contact: Nicholas Bates
Master Management
0403 920 908
nicholas.bates@gmail.com

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LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 10

Festival of Sound Arts

Sydney
24 – 27 June 2009

Liquid Architecture 10 will be a landmark occasion for the festival and for sound culture in Australia. Celebrating its tenth consecutive year, the Liquid Architecture sound arts festival will be held across three city venues, The Performance Space, the University of Technology Sydney and Hermann’s Bar, presenting an exciting program of contemporary sound arts. With a decade of experience to draw upon the diverse program features live events and installations showcasing the highest quality sound work in an intense, focused listening environment.

In Sydney, Liquid Architecture 10 presents a program of performances, installations and artist presentations. The breadth of diversity of artists and artistic practices includes meticulous recorded work, improvised instrumental performance, new sound for screen work, radical uses of digital technology, inventive self-made sound making devices and historically informed practices.

Sydney Directors: Jennifer Teo & Shannon O’Neill
Production Manager: Sarah Davies

liquidarchitecture.org.au

Program

Download the LA10 Sydney Program

Download the LA10 Sydney Program [Flyer] [6.6Mb]

WED 24 JUNE

**Exhibition: Correspondence @ Performance Space**

Wed 24 – Sat 27 June
FREE

Opening Wed 24 June (6:00pm)
Performance by Ruark Lewis & Rik Rue

Scott Arford (USA), Ruark Lewis & Rik Rue, Lauren Brincat, Vicky Browne, Josie Cavallaro.
Memory Flows: Nigel Helyer, Greg Shapley, Maria Maranda & Norie Newmark, Jacqueline Gothe & Ian Gwilt.

A composition of works interrogating ideas of sound, music, conversation and silence. In Memory Flows, artists from the UTS Centre for Media Arts and Innovation collaborate around the shared theme of rivers, accessing the flow of memories via objects, sounds and projections.

THU 25 JUNE

Forum & Performance @ Bon Marche Theatre, UTS

Forum: Sustainability of Sound Arts in Australia
3:00 – 5:00pm
FREE

Julian Knowles (Queensland University of Technology)
Paul Mason (Australia Council for the Arts)
Sarah Last (Australian Network for Art & Technology)
Somaya Langley (Electrofringe)
Nat Bates (Liquid Architecture)
Gail Priest (RealTime) via Skype

Julian Knowles will be joined by a panel of leading voices from Australian sound culture to discuss important
issues around the sustainability of contemporary sound arts practice in Australia.

* Image Ecologies Launch – Level 4, Tower Building, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo 6-8pm

Memory Flows Performance: The Field
8:00 – 9:00pm
FREE

Chris Caines
Shannon O’Neill
Jessica Tyrrell

Artists improvise together on themes of memory and water, responding to each other and to audiovisual material from sources including the ABC’s Pool website. This performance will also be streamed live online at http://www.communication.uts.edu.au/centres/cmai/.

FRI 26 JUNE

Concert One @ Performance Space

7:30 – 10:30pm
$25/20

Thomas Koner (DE)
Garry Bradbury (SYD)
Cat Hope (WA)
Alex White (SYD)
The full spectrum of sound will be explored in this concert, from noise and infrasound, to intricate detail and atmospheric ambience.

SAT 27 JUNE

Concert Two @ Performance Space

6:00 – 9:00pm
$25/20

Asmus Tietchens (DE)
Plump (Dave Brown/ Phil Samartzis/ Marc Rogerson) (VIC)
Whirlpool (Chris Abrahams & Kraig Grady) (SYD)
Somaya Langley (SYD)
New instruments, new approaches to traditional instruments, and a major figure in the history of electronic and experimental music.

10 Year Anniversary Celebration @ Hermann’s Bar

10:00pm – late
$20/$15

The Evolution Control Committee (USA)
Buttress O’Kneel (VIC)
Puzahki (QLD)
Atone (SYD)
Loom (SYD/ACT)
DJ Lieutenant Colonel Spastic Howitzer (SYD)
DJ Corporal Leper (SYD)

Come and celebrate Liquid Architecture’s 10th birthday at this special late night show, featuring the pioneers of the mash-up, the Evolution Control Committee (USA). A night of breakcore, cabaret, dub and more, with some of Australia’s finest underground talents.

Tickets

SPECIAL Season Pass $50/$40
Both concerts + entry to closing night party at Hermann’s Bar.

BOOKINGS:
For Festival Pass, Concert One & Concert Two
Ticketmaster http://www.ticketmaster.com.au

For Hermann’s event only
The ACCESS Centre, Level 1 Manning House, University of Sydney Ph: 9563 6000 Email: info@usu.usyd.edu.au

Venues

Performance Space, Carriageworks
245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
Access info: http://www.carriageworks.com.au/visiting_us.php?subpage=getthere

University of Technology Sydney
UTS Bon Marche Theatre, 755 Harris St, Ultimo
Access info: http://www.fmu.uts.edu.au/disability/cbaccess.html

Hermann’s Bar
Cnr City Rd & Butlin Ave, University of Sydney, Sydney.
Access info: http://www.hermannsbar.com/About/FAQ/Default.aspx

Accessibility

All venues are wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets.

Festival Partners & Supporters

Liquid Architecture 10: Sydney is proudly presented by Performance Space, Centre for Media Arts Innovation (UTS), Alias Frequencies and Plum Industries.

Liquid Architecture is assisted by the City of Sydney, NSW Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Additional support from Goethe Institute & Sound Travellers.

Idea of South

Roger Mills’ extraordinary radiophonic/streaming project goes live tonight! Tune in on 2SER, FBi radio and online from 10:30pm.

New and updated Alias Frequencies releases

After a brief hiatus Alias Frequencies is back in 2009 with many wonderful things to come. Here are some new and updated releases:

Lucas Darklord – Handheld Apocalypse

These selections represent a sample of individual works, experiments and never-to-be-finished pieces produced between 2005 and 2007. Some pieces mark the beginnings of failed projects or redundant tangents, whilst others came to be for unknown reasons. All compositions are intended for most appropriate use in managerial meeting rooms, executive boardrooms, vaults, darkness, at volume and with influence. It is advised that this composition be played in all work places both before and after work each day. This music is without genre and is Dark Corporate Techno, Dark Grinding Corporate Ambience, Dark Corporate Art Core and 21st Centuary All Family Punk.

Lloyd Barrett & Paul Forbes-Mitchell – Humming through Schizophonic Air

The pieces on this album were created using a specially designed system code-named “Habitat”. Autonomous artificial agents feed on live and prepared sound and vision, excreting their own mutated variations which are then collected and presented for listener edification. The process is the culmination of combined research by Paul and Lloyd in the construction of a live electro-acoustic audiovisual engine that draws from both academic and underground practices.

Also updated:

Lucas Darklord – Asmoir

These are the sounds received from our first interdimensional probe, Asmoir. This epic work now includes parts 4, 5 and 6 plus high quality images. The current duration is over seven hours. The concluding parts 7, 8 and 9 will be released later this year.

Experimental artists/performers wanted! [Sydney]

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!

ELEVENELEVEN :: 14

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

Warm words, music & dirigibles

Experimental Music – audio explorations in Australia

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]

Liquid Architecture 9 Sydney

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