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
This event is being organised by Chris Caines and the Centre for Media Arts Innovation. I’ll be there! 
Golden Live – A performance night for the Golden Eyes Festival 8pm Tuesday the 20th of October 2009. Bon Marche Studio. UTS The bi-annual Golden Eyes Festival of Media Arts has been held at UTS for over 20 years. This year it will also include a performance night showcasing the very active AV performance scene among undergrads, postgrads and staff at UTS. Three groups of performers will be presenting on the night in the wonderful purpose built Bon Marche Studio at UTS with 9.1 sound and high resolution digital cinema projection. Performers will be: Emily McDaniel & Emma Ramsay, Roger Mills & Neil Jenkins as well as Nick Wishart & Miguel Valenzuela. Entry to the Bon Marche Studio is on Harris St, Ultimo on the ground floor of UTS Building three. http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/citymap.html 8pm Tuesday the 20th of October – The event is Free. Duration approx 80 mins. ————————————————————————————————————— Emily McDaniel is an Aboriginal artist, curator and educator from the Wiradjuri Nation. Her work traverses performance, new media, film and sound installation. This year she has begun curating and coordinating Refraction, a UTS Media Arts performance night that encourages the next wave of artists to get amongst it. She is currently completing her BA in Media Arts and Production. Emma Ramsay works across many platforms of art including sound, video and installation. She is a founding director of Sydney based ARI Quarterbred, that promotes cross disciplinary practice and developmental support for emerging artists. She is currently completing a Masters in Media Arts and Production. Emma and Emily have been collaborating for over a year and have recently exhibited and performed at Electrofringe. Their practice tries to achieve a good feeling through sonic spirituality, by fusing installation with performance and lo-fi with hi-fi. Although they can be placed under the umbrella of new media, sometimes, they just like to leave the brolly at home. Golden Live will see the two of them collaborate with stunning visuals and epic sounds to create a cockle warming sound that will make the little hairs on your spine stand on end. ————————————————————————————————————— Idea of South – Roger Mills & Neil Jenkins Exploring ontological notions of southernness, Idea of South is a three part radiophonic composition combining live networked terrestrial radio and Internet streaming. It is a musical sound journey integrating spoken word, live processed trumpet, violin and location recordings contributed by sound artists and phonographers throughout the southern hemisphere. It was originally broadcast simultaneously over Radio 2SER, FBi Radio and Shoutcast stream in June 2009, and will be performed for Golden Live as a six channel mix with a live visuals by artist Neil Jenkins. Performers are: Roger Mills – Trumpet, Hogi Tsai – Violin, Bernie Maier – Spoken word, Visual Mix – Neil Jenkins. Roger Mills is a composer, sound artist and writer whose practice focuses on networked collaborations, internet performance and radio. He has worked internationally as a composer & sound designer, and is editor of the online sound art magazine and net label Furthernoise.org. Roger is currently an HDR student at UTS, researching improvisation in remote online collaborations and founder of the Ethernet Orchestra. http://www.eartrumpet.org http://ethernetorchestra.netpraxis.net http://www.furthernoise.org Neil Jenkins is an artist whose practice is heavily engaged with electronic media and the Internet. He creates highly interactive works that often require a live internet connection and the participation of its audience to function and exist. http://www.devoid.co.uk ————————————————————————————————————— Alphabet Soup, is a new audio/visual performance by Nick Wishart + Miguel Valenzuela Using a hacked Speak n Spell and other circuit bent alphabet toys, animations,a cube, some code and an asprin, Nick & Miguel will attempt to reassemble language into a sonic & visual feast. Think R2D2 on acid! Texas Instruments released the Speak n Spell toy in the late 70’s and are now the holy grail for circuit benders. Containing one of the 1st commercially available speech chips, these wonderful toys can be retro fitted with a MIDI input kit allowing the phonetic sounds to be triggered by keyboards and sequencers. Nick Wishart – Working in music, sound and multimedia his main area of artistic practice is in the development of Physical Interactive Systems. Combining his skills in electronics, tactiles, MIDI, interactive devices, audio production and circuit bending techniques, Nick creates interactive multi-media installations and circuit bent instruments that form the basis of the all toy band Toydeath. www.toydeath.com www.cell.org.au Miguel Valenzuela has been making video art since 1996. He has exhibited at Artist Run Spaces such as Mekanarky studios and Newman Lane Gallery, as well as in various public spaces around Sydney. He is currently researching multidimensional interactive video/sound art and its associative dimensions with regard to social norms, laws, formalities and their relative elasticity. http://fmgrande.blogspot.com/2009/02/film-art.html 
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
Facebook page I’ll be playing with the Splinter Orchestra tonight on ABC Classic FM’s New Music Up Late. The concert will be free and open to the public. We’re also going to spend the day recording, which should be fun! 
Refraction, an innovative night of sound/media arts featuring UTS students performing alongside experienced artists. Wednesday, September 2nd at 7.30pm
Bon Marche Studio, UTS
Entry via 755 Harris St, Ultimo
Morning Stalker
Morgan McKellar began writing music under the name Morning Stalker in 2005 as a home-recording project. Using heavily-effected instrumentation and crude recording methods to create lo-fi soundscapes of layered guitar loops, synth drones and fractured vocals. Since then Morning Stalker has become three, recruiting fellow Underlapper members Marc Chomicki (drums) and Matt Furnell (samplers) for live performances based around improvisation, texture, and progression. http://www.myspace.com/morningstalker Cleptoclectics
Cleptoclectics is Tom Smith – channelling sonic detritus, playing various instruments, and extrapolating via granular synthesis to create dense, idiosyncratic music. Warm textures, a distinctive tonal range, and staggered rhythms develop into a subtle form of reverie.
http://www.myspace.com/cleptoclectics
The Ethernet Orchestra Ensemble
Live Internet improvisation session featuring Roger Mills – trumpet, Yavuz Uydu – Turkish Bendir and ex Cranes guitarist Mark Francombe performing live from Oslo. The performance will integrate live streamed guitar textures, trumpet and Bendir based on semi determined tonalities and structure. Roger Mills is currently an MCA student at UTS whose practice focuses on networked collaborations, Internet performance and experimental radio.
www.eartrumpet.org
www.furthernoise.org Genevieve Little
Currently completing a Master’s degree in Audio Production at UTS and having just returned from a year abroad in the United State’s San Fran, Genevieve offers an intriguing sound with inflections of jazz and alt-folk. By incorporating experimental looping techniques into her performances she is able to achieve a full band sound as a solo artist.
http://www.myspace.com/genevievelittlemusic
This new project is in the spirit of the UTS Sound Collective and the Disorientation events from a few years ago. I’m excited and will definitely be there. Congratulations to Emily McDaniel for making it happen! 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
Timothy Nohe, an international sound and installation artist, will be giving a public presentation, “Sounding Spaces” for the Centre for Media Arts Innovation on August 17, 6-8 pm, at the Bon Marche studio, UTS. From Botany Bay to Eastern State Penitentiary an 1840s era prison in Philadelphia, to an abandoned Communist period dental clinic in Prague, to the inner city factories and schools of Baltimore, Timothy Nohe has created sound installations, dance events and works of community art that address sites in compelling ways. One reviewer noted 142 Ways to Mark Time was “outstanding, a musical piece made up of recordings of rhythmic noises performed on parts of the prison–its rusting metal gates, wooden benches, fallen plaster, broken glass, locks. The randomness has the influence of John Cage, but the music was accessible, moody and evocative as its taps and scrapes and scratchings echoed through Cellblock 10 and its cathedral-like spaces.” In Gourd Season, Nohe has been working with kids at the revitalized Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School, a school abandoned for years due to population loss and subsequently used as a set for production of the crime drama The Wire, and then as a homeless shelter. Kids planted canteen, long-handled dipper, birdhouse and snake gourds in a planter box, and temporary 55-gallon drums. In the fall, the fruit will be harvested for drying in the winter months. During the spring academic term, the harvested fruit will be prepared for craft projects, including: water dippers, bowls, birdhouses, musical instruments, and figurative sculptures. In August of 2010 Nohe will exhibit Sounding Botany Bay, Sounding Gamay at Hazelhurst Art Centre, Sutherland Shire. This non-traditional documentary interweaves photography and audio composition and explores the human use of Botany Bay from the first human settlement to the present. The audio work shapes the rich voices and sounds of the Bay into an aural landscape that heightens and contrasts what is, and has been, so that the listener may experience the past and contemporary complexity of the site. Photographs and sound recordings made at locations throughout the Bay document the natural and built environments, from the wilds of Towra to container shipping terminus at Port Botany, to Kingsford Smith Airport, to the refinery at Kurnell. Short Bio: Timothy Nohe is an artist and educator engaging traditional and electronic media in public life and public places. His recent work has been realized in Intermedia works, sound scores for dance, and improvisational concert works. Timothy Nohe is actively committed to collectivist work, and is a member of the International Corporation of Lost Structures, a Sydney-based creative collective, and the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles. He is an active member of a number of professional organizations, including: the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), and the College Art Association (CAA). Nohe is the recipient of a 2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award from the Australia— America Fulbright Commission. Three Maryland State Arts Council awards and a Creative Baltimore Award have supported his work in the area of New Genre and Installation/Sculpture. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and serves his university as Faculty Senate Vice President. He is an Associate Member of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Interviews with several ‘young’ Australian sound artists, including me, are now online at Resonate Magazine.  Festival of Sound Arts
Sydney
24 – 27 June 2009Liquid 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
ProgramDownload 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 JUNEForum & Performance @ Bon Marche Theatre, UTSForum: 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 Space7:30 – 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 Space6:00 – 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.
TicketsSPECIAL 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
VenuesPerformance 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 & SupportersLiquid 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. 
This Friday I’ll be performing as a guest member of the Wollongong Anarchist Noisemakers Kollective (WANK). Date: 19 June 2009
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Location: Auditorium, Wollongong Conservatorium, Glennifer Brae
Street: Murphys Avenue
Town/City: Wollongong, Australia Description: Melbourne improvisor Adam Simmons playing saxes, clarinets (including contrabass), flutes, shakuhachi, fujara and a few toys. “One of this country’s most electrifying multi-instrumentalists, Adam Simmons defies classification.”
– Leon Gettler, DVD Review, June 2004, The Age. Support act – Wollongong Anarchist Noisemakers Kollective, featuring Gary Butler, Houston Dunleavy, Warren Burt and special guest WANKer Shannon O’Neill (and Adam again) “… for all out crazy chaos, nothing quite beats the free-spirited approach of the Wollongong Anarchist Noisemakers Kollective (WANK)” Cat Hope, “Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia” $10/$5
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