A new experimental radio show for 2008…ELEVENELEVEN…on straightup.com.au!!!

Grand Departure is the last show of the Resonant Tapestry series. As the year comes to a close we would like to thank to all our friends, listeners and supporters of the show. We’re happy to announce that in the new year Jen Teo and Sofie Loizou will each be launching a new show on StraightUp.com.au …See you in the new year folks!!!

1. Exit 100 - Liquid [Liquid / Mute]
2. Him - Disco Lips [Crooklyn Dub Outernational - Certified Dope Vol. 4 / WordSound]
3. Edseven - Oh Hayche [StraightUp Recordings]*
4. Transdub Massiv - Intracontinental Sky Juice (Featuring Meshell Ndegeocello) [Negril To Kingston City / Mystic Urchin]
5. Lunchbox - Peanutbutter & Jelly [Anyways / The Agriculture]
6. Faust & Nurse With Wound - Tu m’entends? [Disconnected / Art-Errorist ]
7. Sixtoo - Boxcutter Emporium Pt. 1 [Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures / Ninja Tune]
8. Dr. Israel & Loop - Saidisyabruklinmon (Nobwoycyantess) [Crooklyn Dub Consortium - Certified Dope Vol. 1 / WordSound]
9. Enduser & Kazumi - Genesis (Remix) [Adnoiseam 2001-2006]
10. DJ /Rupture - Pleasure Ruin Dub [Crooklyn Dub Outernational - Certified Dope Vol. 4 / WordSound]
11. Sonmi451 - Quantas Never Crashed [Vladivostok / U-Cover]
12. Lovecraft Technologies - U lllik annog m’l edude heir dub [ Crooklyn dub outernational - certified dope vol. 3 / WordSound]
13. Eue - Tititututitin [Al Revés / alreves.org]
14. GoGoo - Lueur [Long, Lointain / Baskaru]
15. (etre) - Anatomy Of This Faded Flower [A Post-Fordist Parade in the Strike of Events / Baskaru]
16. GoGoo - Affleurement [Long, Lointain / Baskaru]

*Denotes Australian Made

Link to StraightUp episode

Compose/Compost
Crossbay Gallery at the Fountain at Kings Cross presents a new exhibition
17 Dec ‘07 - 12 Jan ‘08.

‘Compose/Compost’ includes four Sydney artists, representing a variety of ages, cultural backgrounds, personal attitudes, art philosophies and practices:

Cecile Pauly (Painting, Mixed Media)
Anastasia Flanagan (Traditionally-based Creative Painting, Book Illustration and Batik Techniques)
Susan Laurent (Conceptual Ceramics and painting)
Carolyn Teo (Photography, Electronic Sound, Mixed Media)
Wun Thong (A Sydney cultural and sound media phenomena)

Anastasia Flanagan’s exploration of the topography of Cooks River area pre-colonial and current time produced richly coloured oil paintings and batik hangings which were exhibited in ‘Enviro-flections’ exhibition for World Environment Day, at Kirribilli in 2006. She learned batik artwork while living at Lightening Ridge for many years, and the colours of the area including opals have strongly influenced her. Some of her work for this exhibition contains personally imaginative, emotive and mythological images of birds/humans.

Susan Laurent’s conceptual ceramic work, dating from Sydney Collage education, has in recent years extended into illustration and painting. Her work tends to be well informed, minimalist, subtle and elegant.

Cecile Pauly has recently focussed on paintings motivated by environment/health and uses some script/drawing as well as abstraction including plant imagery.

Carolyn Teo’s studies in Photography at Sydney College of Arts were followed by a year in Canada studying electronic media and sound. Her recent participation in ‘Sounds of Failure’ in Sydney included a successful presentation with ‘Wun Thong’, of her electronic and mixed media work.

Aspects of physical, emotional and cultural health in our environment are foundations / motivations behind much of the work.

In ‘Compose/Compost’, the environmental interests of the four artists are reflected directly in the subject matter of vegetation/gardens, of humans/birds; and indirectly in the use of electronic sound and ‘found’/recycled’ objects. Environmental interest is a consideration in the motivation for a subtle, formally-based ceramic work which immediately requires focussed contemplation, while two paintings relate to experienced physical/emotional stress.

The four artists share common interest in environmental concerns, and in full lives have been involved in related studies and practices around their artwork, ranging from bush regeneration (Carolyn Teo), to teaching batik with natural dyes (Anastasia Flanagan), to involvement with arts and crafts classes for ‘the elderly’ (Cecile Pauly), teaching ceramics (Susan Laurent), and natural health practice (Susan Laurent).

From the Deep North (Qld) landscape of bush, banana’s and sugar cane, comes a mix of sounds from this regions body corporate of kooky sounds, The House Of Falcon. Led by the elusive Falcon Krest, The House Of Falcon presents the first of the GangaVale Sessions, a diverse journey through electronica, beats, sound art, field recordings and upbeat mixes from the stable of artists under the THOF banner.

The House Of Falcon
Nicholas Mills
thof@thehouseoffalcon.com

1. File_Error - Legacy [The House Of Falcon]*
2. The Colour Consultant - Sumden [The House Of Falcon]*
3. The Exit-Stencilist - BonnoSix05 [The House Of Falcon]*
4. The Exit-Stencilist – Chinkin [The House Of Falcon]*
5. The Colour Consultant - Day is Night [The House Of Falcon]*
6. The Exit-Stencilist - UPornMYPorn [The House Of Falcon]*
7. DJ No_Request - TimeFly’s (fly boy mix) [The House Of Falcon]*
8. The Exit-Stencilist - db_usiness2 [The House Of Falcon]*
9. A Gender - Squirrels [The House Of Falcon]*
10. The Colour Consultant - Dero 1 [The House Of Falcon]*
11. File_Error - Flamin’ Hell [The House Of Falcon]*
12. File_Error - Walks_2 [The House Of Falcon]*

* Denotes Australian Made

Link to Straightup episode

This is the Kidipads setup for a music making workshop Accessible Arts Western Sydney are running for people with disabilities, as part of a series of creative workshops for Bankstown City Council on 7 November 2007. Kidipads is an interactive system that allows the user to trigger sounds and music samples using switches. Up to 8 sounds can be played at the same time.

Kidipads, originally uploaded by Plum Industries.
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Jen & Carolyn are house minding at the moment for the lovely Natalie & Sean. Thanks guys!! We’re enjoying the kitchen and to celebrate Francois birthday Caz baked an amazing French flour-less chocolate cake. Another Operator11 show has gone to air live from the lounge, wigs and all…view it here!!

Sizzlas contemplating d’fur, originally uploaded by Plum Industries.

29 September, 2007
New Media as Accessible Art panel
Electrofringe (This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle)
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery

Image: (left to right) Tess O’Brien; Alex White; Daniel Kojta; Jen Teo
Click here to view more photos from the panel

Panel summary:
“Interactive and immersive digital artforms offer an enormous potential as inclusive and accessible practices. This panel of artists and facilitators will explore these ideas and look at accessibility issues in the field of electronic arts” (Electrofringe 2007).

Jennifer Teo (Accessible Arts, Strategic Initiatives Coordinator)
Jen talked about Accessible Arts and set the context for the panel by providing a definition of disability as stated in the Disability Discrimination Act 1972. Jen described the change in societies perception of disability in history as represented in the Medical and Social models of disability. New Media Arts and new technologies create new pathways for access and offer exciting new potential for people with disabilities to participate and engage in the arts. New media and electronic arts is recognised by Accessible Arts as a field with great potential.
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Love, Harmony, Light. I needed a release this week and these first 3 tracks helped me do just that - 99 Red Love Balloons by Nena, then The Ramones with I Wanna Be Sedated, followed by some noise from Cornelius with I Hate Hate. September has been a wonderful month of festivals and good times in Australia. A few events I managed to get along to include Sounds Unusual Festival (Alice Springs), This Is Not Art Festival (Newcastle) and Sau_Rang in residence at the Australian Institute of Music (Sydney). This fortnights play list features some of the artists that performed at these great festivals.

8 Sept Surrealestate (as part of the Sounds Unusual Festival), Alice Springs. New and experimental music in the desert. Undoolya Creek was the venue for this fantastic event with performances by Robin Fox, Rob Curgenven, Sumugan Sivanesan, Anthony Magen and J9 Stanton. When I heard of this event taking place I booked myself a ticket to Alice Springs, I just had to be a part of the experience. It was certainly worth the trip.

27 Sept - 1 Oct 2007 This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle. I now feel quite inspired from a most stimulating weekend at TINA. I met a lot of amazing people at the festival that made the whole experience a lot of fun and extremely memorable. Dr Fox - you’re wicked and thanks for ‘getting it’. Good vibes!! As part of Electrofringe I heard William Lane & Sebastien Roux perform in quadraphonic sound…superb! The viola made my heart sing, just what I needed for a Sunday morning. Roux’s soundscapes reminded me of some Luc Ferrari pieces, beautiful.

5 Oct - Sau_Rang in residence at the Australian Institute of Music, Sydney. I had to get along to another performance by William Lane & Sebastien Roux. Again, a lovely show, although I did miss the surround sound experience. Another good vibes human is Leafcutter John. I just can’t wait for the performance of Bohemian Rhapsody by Leafcutter John with Sebastien Roux on vocals…wt!?

21 / 22 Oct Laurie Anderson Homelands at Sydney Opera House. I’ll be there!! Thank you to all the people who have sent music and CDs over the last month, you know who you are!! ~Jen

1. Nena - 99 Red Love Balloons - Epic
2. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated [ Road To Ruin / Rhino Records ]
3. Cornelius - I Hate Hate [ Point / Matador ]
4. Robin Fox - V-Event [ Sounds Unusual 2007 ]*
5. Lucas Darklord - Track 03 [ Bleaching All Life You Knew ]*
6. Machine Aux Rock - An Ending For The Beginning Part 1 [Single]*
7. Sebastien Roux - Etude Pour Songs [Tsuku Boshi / Tsuku Boshi]
8. Rob Curgenven (with Derek Holzer) - Untitled 2 [Sounds Unusual 2007]*
9. Laurie Anderson - The Stranger [ United States Live / Warner]
10. Robin Fox - Voltaic Pile [ Sounds Unusual 2007 ]*
11. Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked [ You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With / Giorno Poetry Systems ]
12. Leafcutter John - In The Morning [ The Forest and The Sea / Staubgold ]
13. The Books - Be Good To Them Always [ Lost And Safe / Tomlab ]
14. Sugarcubes - Birthday [ Coldsweat / Elektra ]
15. Leafcutter John - Dream III [ The Forest and The Sea / Staubgold ]
16. Rob Curgenven - Silent Landscapes No. 2 [ Sounds Unusual 2007 ]*
17. Laurie Anderson - O Superman [ Big Science / Warner ]

* Denotes Australian Made

Link to StraightUp episode

Let me first say thank you to all the lovely people we met over the TINA (This Is Not Art Festival) long weekend. 2007 is truly a year to remember. Thanks again to all the good sports who participated in the making of D’ Versafur roaming commercials. Good times, good vibes!!

What to do with a mannequin head, an old encyclopedia Britannica set and a bit of fur…