I’ve programmed a selection of Australian music for the latest edition of the ELEVENELEVEN podcast.
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A short audio piece by UTS Honours student Tom Smith, made to accompany an essay. Tom Smith – Faggot Shit: Homophobia and Male Fantasy in Orthodox Hip Hop (192kbps, 0:0:58, 1.33MB) It’s a good example of how collage can be used to highlight certain patterns. The Fair Goes is Rik Rue on multiple recording devices, Gary Butler on guitar and toys, and myself on laptop. We played together for the first (and so far only) time at the NOW now festival in Sydney last month. Rik suggested that we each play a solo before doing the trio performance. He was going to go first but had some technical problems so I played first instead. Here’s a recording: The Fair Goes – Shannon O’Neill Solo (Live at the NOW now festival 2006-01-21) (192kbps, 0:05:40, 7.8MB) Featuring vocals by John Howard. and drank too much coffee
Disorientation is on again next week. The last one for the year. Maybe forever? Do come along if you can… I played at the previous one last month
and figured I might as well share with you the recording of my performance: Shannon O’Neill – Live at Disorientation 2005-10-26 (2005, 192kbps, 0:18:52, 25.9MB) I was teaching that night, so arrived after the event had started – no time for a soundcheck. The artists on before me turned out to be much noisier than I’d expected, so I reconsidered what I might do and ended up playing an improvised glitch piece that got pretty noisy at times. Strangely I had a lot of compliments afterwards – strange cos I thought the performance was only so-so. But the compliments came from ppl whose opinions I respect, so I don’t know what to make of that. I do worry about a lack of critical rigour in the current local experimental music scene (it does exist, but more in private than public). I mean, it’s nice to be part of a supportive community, but it can lead to some pretty ordinary work (we discussed this a while ago in the Vital Signs thread…). Maybe it wasn’t so bad – I do like sections, and I suspect it sounded better on a PA with sub-woofer, than through headphones or hi fi… But the audio is flawed – there are annoying unintended glitches (as distinct from annoying intended glitches) approx every three seconds. It is particularly noticable in the second half (in the first half it’s almost a bonus) which kinda ruins it for me. I think the problem is caused by a modified Hangman preset in Tobybear’s Deconstructor Pro plugin causing dropouts when I use it within AudioMulch (which I do often, so it’s a serious problem). I’ve contacted Tobybear about this, but dunno if/when the problem will be fixed. So, if I ever do anything with this recording, some surgery will be required… nevertheless I present it here as documentation.
Last year I did the soundtracks for two parts of an ongoing project by De Quincey Company (the company of acclaimed dancer/performer/choreographer Tess de Quincey). Embrace developed from DQC’s residency in Kolkata in 2003. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the residency, but members of the company made over 10 hours of field recordings which I was given to work with. My feeling was that anything I did would be a distortion of reality. A perspective. So I ran with that idea, manipulating the field recordings and not adding extraneous sounds. Embrace – An Immodest Green was a performance/installation at the Performance Space which took the audience through the eight states of the Natyashastra: Love, Laughter, Sorrow, Anger, Energy, Fear, Disgust, Astonishment. The audience moved around the space to experience the different states, and I performed a live surround sound mix to change the virtual architecture. Part of the performance involved the cooking of a soup, which audience & performers shared at the end of the night. Smell was a big part of this performance. Here’s a podcast of the soundtrack. It’s stereo, so you miss the spatialisation, and of course the performance, the smell, etc. but I figured it’s documentation worth sharing. It’s probably best to think of it more as atmosphere than music. Shannon O’Neill – Embrace – An Immodest Green (2004, 192kbps, 1:01:21, 84.2MB) Following An Immodest Green, I was asked to do a 16 minute redux version of the soundtrack for a version of Embrace called Changing State, which took place in one of the Performance Space’s galleries. The structure is the same – it goes through the eight states – but each state only lasts for two minutes and the changes are more abrupt. Here’s a podcast of it: Shannon O’Neill – Embrace – Changing State (2004, 192kbps, 0:16:00, 21.9MB) Falling Hats – Appropriation in Sydney Electronic Music Produced by Shannon O’Neill, February 2004. Includes interviews with and music from: Rik Rue; Garry Bradbury, Tom Ellard (Severed Heads); John Blades (The Loop Orchestra); Adrian Bertram (WUAL); Luke Collison (Dsico); Toecutter (System Corrupt). Each answers the hard questions – about appropriation, cultural sensitivity, copyrights, fair use and the musicality of pre-loved sounds. This is the one hour version. A two hour version is available from anonradio. Shannon O’Neill – Falling Hats (2004, 128kbps, 59′16″, 54.2MB) And a reminder: you can subscribe to this blog’s podcast category as an RSS feed for iPodder or whatever aggregator you use. Otherwise just download the mp3s here by (right) clicking and saving. My solo piece from if you like improvised music we like you. Shannon O’Neill – pps (2005, 192kbps, 08′08″, 11.1MB) As I explained to the audience on the night, the piece was inspired by the phrase ‘the pornography of performance’ (which was also the title of a piece by The Sydney Front). Several years ago I made a piece called ps (pornsong) made by synthesizing pornographic images found on the net. pps is a live, extended manipulation of those sounds. Shannon O’Neill – Let the Dead Bury the Dead (1996, 192kbps, 7′00″, 9.63MB) My piece from The Night Air Audiotheque: Shannon O’Neill – Heaven Tonight (2005, 192kbps, 7′45″, 10.6MB) For Charles |
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