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. In the new year Plum Industries will be launching a new radio show & podcast called eleveneleven, so watch out for it…See you in the new year folks!!!
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.
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]*
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.
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.
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.
Alex White (Electrofringe Director / Panel facilitator)
Alex declared Electrofringe’s interest and commitment to accessibility. Moving beyond the aesthetics of new media Alex suggested that it is time to start talking about how new media can be more useful and meaningful to people and benefit the community at large. Alex discussed the enormous potential for electronic arts and new media work in the field of accessibility, highlighting that multimedia works in their nature are multi-sensory by having video, audio, vibration, movement and tactile components, immediately broadening audience access.
Alex presented the idea of broadening ways you can engage by expanding interface systems so that they are multi-modal. Perhaps an interface system that becomes a new medium in itself, opening up art making to a whole new sector of people. As an example Alex described a wand-type tool fitted with a motion tracking system that could allow the artist to draw or create works on a large screen. The benefit of this being the ability to independently control and change your environment.
Dan Kojta (New Media Artist)
Daniel introduced himself as a practicing new media artist who uses interactive technology, video and audio in his works. To begin the presentation Dan showed a video work that he completed in 2002 depicting the notion of disability from a different perspective.
Dan told how he picked up on the original story whilst travelling, he heard the story on the radio. A ‘paraplegic man’ had been mugged and was left hanging upside down on a fence. The muggers were reported to have taken the mans wallet, mobile phone and wheelchair. The video later reveals the deception involved in the crime where the so-called victim turned out to be a fraud. Video footage was taken of the man walking around in his flat, exposing his fraudulent claim of being a victim of crime and having a disability. The man was never sentenced or held accountable in any way for his actions.
As an artist Dan’s practice has never focused on the notion of disability as an individual subject or looked at it as part of himself. It has only been a recent move for Dan to consider disability in his arts practice and through his art works and in particular using new media technology in order to manipulate the idea of ‘being disabled’ and the ‘notion of healing’. Dan talks about his experiences as an artist and his perspective on disability as it relates to his personal identity and art works.
Dan highlights the need for a greater focus on grants and residencies that are more accessible to people with a disability and reinforces the enormous benefits of collaborations with other artists.
Tess O’Brien (Researcher / Teacher for Australian Signing Choir)
Tess delivered an inspirational presentation and spoke about the experience of music for a person who is deaf. Tess firstly explained to the audience that she is deaf and that ’sign’ is her first language. As a listener Tess has perfect speech but it has only been through hard work that Tess has learned how to speak.
Tess introduced Dancing Hands Sing, a music program she has been developing that enables deaf people to access music through the implementation of alternate teaching and learning strategies.“For a deaf child to be able to access the same educational, social and therapeutic benefits of music as their hearing peers alternate teaching strategies need to be available and implemented.”
The program is designed to help deaf people access music and learn to sing, particularly deaf children in their learning years. A deaf student is a very visual learner and takes in information through observation and vibration. The Dancing Hands Sing music program takes a multi-modal approach to teaching by integrating the use of vibration, tactile support, recording and interpretation of visual sound waves to assist with learning as well as hands-on peer support.
Over the past 4 years Tess has been involved in the development of a computer program specifically designed “to teach deaf children to sing with their hearing peers”. The program has been designed so that it is simple to use with a child friendly interface and that is memory efficient to allow greater accessibility to the ‘average home computer user’. The development is still ongoing. Tess foresees the music program as being available in future as an educational package including the music software, instructional CD-ROM, and syllabus teaching notes.
Tess played an audio recording of a deaf student at different stages of learning to sing using the music program over an 8 month period. An amazing transition can be heard in the development of the child’s singing voice and musicality.
Tess ended the presentation by providing a practical demonstration on ‘learning how to sing through vibration’ with a group of people from the audience. To demonstrate how singing voices harmonise a solo voice was heard first followed by two voices singing together. The two voices harmonised and the original solo voice had changed tempo. A group of people selected from the audience were asked to stand in a circle and sing “Jingle Bells” together. The group was then asked to stand in the circle with their heads together, cheek-to-cheek with the persons next to them. They were asked to sing “Jingle Bells” together again. A significant difference in sound could be heard as the voices began to harmonise, quite powerful and beautiful.
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 Rouxperform 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!!
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 ]
Anytime Soon (something big is about to happen!!) a track from our feature album this fortnight Maverick Mouth by Kingfisherg available from Carte Postale. For those with an ear for strangeness we have included tracks by word jazz master Ken Nordine, the fabulous Luc Ferrari, some interesting artists from Al Reves, Retreat Syndrome from Melbourne, plus Brisbane artist Tom Hall.
Tom Hall will be performing in Sydney on the following dates: 24 August Akemi, Medlow Bath, Blue Mountains - 8pm 25 August The Sound Of Failure, Petersham Bowling Club, Sydney - 6pm 26 August Sedition, 275 Victoria St, Kings Cross - 6pm
Coming up on Saturday 25th August is an experimental music night, The Sound Of Failure presented by Don’t Look Gallery. Make sure you come along and check it all out…guaranteed it will be a little crazy.
1. Kingfisherg - Old Years [Maverick Mouth / Carte Postale]
2. Nara - Auto Auto [Assemblage Sessions 2 / Abandon Buildings]
3. Kingfisherg - Anytime Soon [Maverick Mouth - Carte Postale]
4. Fennesz - Chateau Rouge [Venice / Digital Narcis Corporation]
5. Kingfisherg - Miles Away From Fear [Maverick Mouth / Carte Postale]
6. Retreat Syndrome - Hidden From The World [Limit Of Separation / Solitary Sound]*
7. Uessels - Amlac Ares [Al Reves / alreves.org]
8. Kingfisherg - Rubicon [Maverick Mouth / Carte Postale]
9. Scrlk - Acobrar 1999 [Al Revés / alreves.org]
10. Kingfisherg - Tender Post Dawn [Maverick Mouth / Carte Postale]
11. Ken Nordine - Cigars [Wink / Asphodel]
12. Renaldo And The Loaf - Brittle People [Play Struve And Sneff / T.E.C. Tones]
13. Eric Satie - Cinema (Musique du film Entr’acte de Rene Clair, 1924) [Dada et la Musique]
14. Richard Huelsenbeck - Der Abend naht, die Lammer ziehen heim, Chorus sanctus (1916) [Dada et la Musique]
15. Kim Gordon, DJ Olive & Ikue Mori - Fried Mushroom [SYR 5 / Sonic Youth Records]
16. Tom Hall - Silanif End [Fluere / Nightrider Records]*
17. Luc Ferrari - Pt.4 [Danses Organiques / Elica]
18. Bruno Hiss - Before You Realize It You’re Not Walking Out The Front Door [Marionnette / alreves.org]
19. Uessels - Resf [Al Revés / alreves.org]
20. Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien No.1 [Deutsche Grammophon]
Conversations In My Head is the name of this episode, the title speaks for itself really. A special thank you to the lovely Lloyd Barrett for his CD Mise en Scene available for your listening pleasure on Room40 and to Abandon Buildings for all the great music. Enjoy the show.
1. Radio Free Europe - Adada [Laughoncue / Hedonics Record]
2. Allan Revich - Tapping My Fingernails While Reading Portrait of the Artist [Fluxus Podcast]
3. Pan Sonic - Arvio [Aaltopiiri / Mute]
4. Menagerie - Beau [Menagerie / Al Reves]
5. Bacanal Intruder - The Bride Of The Monster [Assemblage Sessions 2 / Abandon Buildings]
6. D’marro - Ot [Assemblage Sessions 1 / Abandon Buildings]
7. Matmos - Last Delicious Cigarette [The West / Deluxe Records]
8. Helen Kane - I’d Do Anything for You [Boop-Boop-A-Doop / Living Era]
9. Allan Revich - PoPo PiPi [Fluxus Podcast]
10. Infant Dust Moth - Clutoaral [Polymer / Psykodelik Noise]
11. Infant Dust Moth - Ichneumon Fly [Polymer / Psykodelik Noise]
12. Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - Ad [Fluxus / Podcast]
13. Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien Avec Filles [Presque Rien / INA-GRM]
14. Lloyd Barrett - A Silhouette For Balance [Mise en Scene / Room40]*
15. Mum - Ruxpin Remix 2 [Mum Remixed / TMT]
16. Steinbrückel & O.Blaat - Duplex [Evening At Room40 / Room40]*
17. Robin Fox & Clayton Thomas - Bird Song [Evening At Room40 / Room40]*
18. Soutine - Shining On The Riverside [Portrat / Tri Postal]
19. Terre Thaemlitz - D.c. d.o.a. [Rough Trade Shops Electronic 01 / Mute]
20. Steve McLaughlin - Them Frogs [Fluxus Podcast]
21. Tim Hecker - The Work Of Art In The Age Of Cultural Overproduction [Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again / Substractif]
22. People Press Play Always Wrong [People Press Play / Morr Music]
23. Eue - p [mstr0710 / Al Reves]
24. Bruno Hiss - The Conversations We Have In My Head Every Night [Marionnette / Al Reves]
20 -30 June 2007
Don’t Look Gallery
Dulwich Hill
Sydney, Australia
Solo exhibition, sound installations by Jennifer Teo. Built in a day, the exhibition pieces together old analogue technology plus whatever junk we could find in the gallery stores.
Media Release:
Last year Dave O’Donoghue was invited into Don’t Look Gallery and given eight hours to create an interactive audio monster from the stockpile of analogue equipment out the back. He successfully made a fragile, but amazing machine that relied on the interdependence of its components for continued existence.This year, sound artist Jen Teo has been invited to do her interpretation of a sonic Frankenstein. Morphing reel-to-reel tape recorders, fluorescent lights, timers, record players, movie projectors, old television sets, radios, amps, speakers a variety of circuitry and numerous doo-dads, and wochamacallits, Teo will make a truly awe-inspiring rhizomic creation. A physical web of circuitry, Teo’s monster will encompass the audience, turning passive observers into vital components. Just like O’Donoghue, Teo will be making both a profound statement about obsolescence, and a captivating spectacle that will play on our minds long after the puzzle pieces have been severed from the collective and returned from whence they came.
Floating
This cute old record player magically floats in the centre of the room…
Aurora
The rotating motion of the colour wheel moves a small suspended rod. A mercury switch attached to the rod turns a speaker on and off. A small radio tuned to classic fm which is run through an effect pedal is hooked up to an amp and then the speaker. Moving perspex rods reflect the light from the pin spot…this is the test, it looks better with the lights off.
Fishing Rod
The turntable powers the see-saw motion of the fishing rod. A mercury switch is attached to each end of the rod causing the speakers to turn on and off. Instead of paper we now have rice in the speakers that jumps about each time the speaker is turned on…just a bit of silliness.
Glue Loop
A little blob of glue causes this old record to loop…don’t you love it - Click Go The Shears sung in Japanese…a floor mat size switch turns the speaker on and off.
Reel-Two-Reel
One tape, Two reel-to-reels, two sets of speakers…
This episode Migration of the Snails celebrates the coming of Australia’s premier sound-arts festival Liquid Architecture, now in its eighth year. Liquid Architecture 8 promises to be an exciting festival of “live performances, audio-visuals, aktions & installations in a sense-specific feast for the ears. International guests include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine, Swiss aktionist performance artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Dave Phillips, and renowned US composer Pauline Oliveros”.
SYDNEY, Thursday June 28 - Saturday June 30
BRISBANE, Friday July 6 - Saturday July 7
MELBOURNE, Wednesday July 11 - Saturday July 14
A special thanks to Shannon O’Neill and Ben Byrne of Alias Frequencies for organising the Sydney LA8 shows. This playlist features some artists from their net release Pink Sheets - Edition One
1. William Burroughs & Laurie Anderson - Sharkey’s Night [ Mister Heartbreak / Warner Bros. Records]
2. Deerhoof - Believe E.S.P. [ Friend Opportunity / Tomlab]
3. Cardiacs - R.E.S. [ A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window / Alphabet Business Concern]
4. Laurie Anderson - Walk The Dog [ O Superman / Warner Bros. Records]
5. Yello - The Race [ Essential Yello - Mercury]
6. Eat Static - Monda A Go-Go! [ Crash and Burn / Mesmobeat]
7. Rik Rue - Yes I’m There [ Pink Sheets Edition One / Alias Frequencies]*
8. Melodic Energy Commission - Migration of the Snails [ Migration of the Snails ]
9. Abject Leader - Phermone Wings [ Liquid Architecture 8]*
10. Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly [ Electronic Works / Paradigm Discs]
11. Dave Phillips - For The Tasmanian Devils (edit) [ Liquid Architecture 8]
12. Shannon O’Neill - Heaven Tonight [ Pink Sheets Edition One / Alias Frequencies]*
13. Jacob Cats - Cadens I [ Anthology Of Dutch Electronic Tape Music: Vol. 2 (1966-1977) / Creel Pone]
14. Runzelstirn and Gurgelstøck Vor Die Hunde und Zum Teufel (edit) - [ Liquid Architecture 8]
15. NON - Out Out Out [ Rise / Mute]
16. Shelley Hirsch - Blue Moon [ The Far In, Far Out / Tzadik]
17. Natasha Anderson - Hindsight Refracted [ Pink Sheets Edition One]*
18. Elph vs Coil - Ended [ Worship The Glitch / ArsNova]
This fortnights show Bubble and Squeak has been prepared by special guest programmer Greg Shapley. Greg runs an experimental new media art gallery in Dulwich Hill NSW. Check out Don’t Look Gallery.
The shows title refers to the method of selection and organisation rather than the overall sound. I have chosen some of the more interesting stuff I had lying around, added a bit of pepper and a handful of cheese (thank you Simon and Garfunkel) and then fried till golden brown. The first few tracks are just to shake out the cobwebs. The chaotic rantings of Captain Beefheart and Darth Vegas’ schizoid genre jumping accomplish this. I’ve thrown in my working mix of 3 Eyes and Eagles (a band that I’m sure you’ll be hearing more from in the future) as well as an experimental work from an installation that I have yet to conceive of.
Now dim the lights coz we’re getting serious. Phil Niblock’s ‘Held Tones’ a long, uber-minimalist work introduces, and provides backing for, my gentle reinterpretation of the classic Beat poem ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg. Mirroring this deep epic, is Steve Reich’s Violin Phase. This to me is the essential phase minimalist piece (along with Reich’s Come Out To Show Them’ and some of La Monte Young’s compositions). A lot of his later works are just too ‘neo-classical’ for my liking (the ‘genius artist’ should remain hidden me thinks).
After The Residents is a snippet that I found on my hard drive while putting this mix together. I think it may have been created by opening the text for James Joyce’s Ulysses into a sound program. The piece ‘Untitled’ is also derived from this snippet. Webern should be included in every mix everywhere seeing he’s inspired everyone from Stockhausen to Bjork. Varese wrote Ionisation in 1931 and was pretty much crucified for it and amazingly enough it still sounds pretty out-there today. It is normally listed as a work for 13 percussionists, but I’m adding another performer - the record player. ‘Made in Hong Kong’ by the guitarist, Fennesz, has become a glitchy minimalist classic (in the true spirit of glitch I have remixed this track so it’s a little less ’90s).
‘Mechanical Butterfly’ is a work I originally wrote for 6 flautists. The name refers to its subtle evolution from consonance to dissonance. Finally Simon and Garfunkel serenade us with their version of xmas schmultz. There is, however, a chilling twist. Hope you enjoy!!
1. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Brickbats [ Doc At The Radar Station / Virgin]
2. Darth Vegas - Cha Cha Cha [ Darth Vegas / Valve]*
3. Shapley Mix - Three Eyes and Eagles*
4. Shapley - Directory Assistance*
5. Allen Ginsberg - Howl (A Hymn Of Defeat, A Hell Of Despair) [ www.archive.org]
6. Phil Niblock - Held Tones [ Young Persons Guide to Phil Niblock / The Orchard]
7. Steve Reich - Violin Phase [ Music for a Large Ensemble / EMC]
8. The Residents - Smelly Tongues [ Meet the Residents / Ralph]
9. Shapley’s Computer - Something I found at the back of my hard drive*
10. Webern - Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9: IV Sehr langsam [ Webern - Complete Works for String Quartet and String Trio / IODA]
11. Edgard Varese – Ionisation [ Varese: Arcana, Integrales, Ionisation / Decca]
12. Shapley - Untitled*
13. Fennesz - Made in Hong Kong [ Endless Summer / Kudos Limited]
14. Shapley - Mechanical Butterfly*
15. Simon and Garfunkel – 7 O’Clock News/Silent Night [ Tales From New York / Columbia]
Liquid Architecture 8: Festival Of Sound Arts 28 - 30th June 2007 (Sydney)
Alias Frequencies and Performance Space present Liquid Architecture 8 at the CarriageWorks from Thursday June 28 to Saturday June 30 2007. The festival will this year feature three nights of groundbreaking performances from local and international artists as well as an installation program staged in the unique environs of the Carriageworks wonderful original architecture. International guests include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group Cellule Intervention Metamkine and Swiss aktionist performance artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, and Dave Phillips.
This is my battered old Atomic Coffee Maker. As you can see, I’m missing a handle for the coffee catcher. The seal split the other day and water was leaking all over the stove. So now it is in for repair…actually, an overhaul. I took the Atomic down to Rita at Bon Trading in Woollhara (Sydney) and now her ‘people’ are taking care of it for me. My Atomic was originally purchased from Rita’s shop over 30 years ago and holds the Brevetti Robbiati badge, made in Milano. I have ten days until the Atomic returns so in the meantime it’s back to the old plunger style brew…
This title of the show was inspired by Raymond Scott and a track from his album Manhattan Research Inc. The track Bufferin: ‘Memories’, narrated by Jim Hensen the muppet show man, features on the Rough Trade Shops - Electronic 01 CD. I’ve selected quite a few artists from this compilation for the playlist but have tried to list the original album that the track is from where possible, for the trainspotters.
We start the show with a great track by NYC band Big A Little a. Their music has been described as a “sonic battery of driving beats and ethereal electronics” by New York Magazine and from listening to their track Thirteen, I’m liking what I hear already. The drums, percussion and vocals in the track are just fantastic and the electronic sounds are really nicely integrated…cool recommendation, thanks Commie Love Child on Last.FM , come back to us!?! From Denmark, Badun have just released their debut self-titled album on Rump Recordings. If you like smooth electronic jazz, you’ll enjoy this. Their sounds remind me of Flanger and in fact if you read their press release Burnt Friedman has been quoted saying “Probably the most elaborate programming of cyper-jazz to date”…nice. Also, check out their cute website. Another new release is Apparat’s album Walls, on fantastically named German label Shitkatapult. What can I say? Beautiful album.
From Brisbane, Australia we have sound artist Tom Hall with the track Metallon from his album Fluere. The album is based on 6 months of sonic documentation by Tom of the Story Bridge in Brisbane. Using contact mics and attaching objects to the Bridge, Tom gathered a huge number of recordings and has produced some magnificent ambient sound pieces for this album. Read more about Tom Hall and check out the link to a great review by Lawrence English for Wire Magazine. Layered over Tom’s track we have a excerpt from a live recording of DJ Olive doing his “Terror” turntables at Liquid Architecture in Brisbane, 2005…thanks for the recording Lawrence. We close the show with the beautiful sounds of Akira Kosemura and his track Yellow Lawn. This track is from the Drifting Skywards 2 compilation available as a free download from netlabel Cold Room. This show was compiled by Yun Mei.
Australia’s premier sound arts festival is coming up again in June-July…yes folks Liquid Architecture 8. In Sydney, Liquid Architecture is presented by Alias Frequencies and Performance Space, and will be held at Carriageworks, a fabulous new contemporary arts venue in Sydney that most of us remember fondly as the old Eveleigh Railyards.
Accessible Arts launches the new Western Sydney project on Thursday 10 May
The Accessible Arts Western Sydney Project launch was a great success. Many thanks to all those who came along to help us celebrate. Alison and I had a pretty hectic day organising workshops, people, food, ballooons, elvis wigs, etc. All the workshops were booked out and we had about 150 people turn up to the event. We even had to do speeches…
As you can see, Elvis was there and so was the Auslan interpreter.
I have to concur with this statement: “Known for its superb engineering, the Zyliss Food Chopper has become an essential tool in today’s kitchen” (swissmade.com). Better still the Zyliss Food Chopper is also known as the Universal Hacker…such a fantastic name!
Ever wonder why you meet certain people at particular times in your life? I do. This fortnights show Reason, Season, Lifetime is about the ebb and flow of relationships beginning with an exhilarating gypsy number by Tony Gatlif & Delphine Mantoulet,from the original soundtrack to the movie Exils. Autechre bring back some good memories from 1992 with their track Crystel. This is a feel good track…from back in the old warehouse party days. We hear an ear throbbing piece by Pickle from the newly released Dub Rascals Vol 2 album. Much kudos to Dub Rascals Vol 2, a cool new album of various Australian dub producers, including live dub outfit Dub Rascal Soundsystem, on Cairns-based label Little Rascal Records. Kudos, also, with the dub-step track Weirdos Welcome and some melodic madness from Renaldo And The Loaf and the Pascals. Also featured are a three pretty micro-sound tracks by Moskitoo from her new release Drape on label 12K. One of my “I absolutely love it” tracks at the moment is Lonely In Shark Cage by Tim Koch on 4-4-2 Music. I love the tracks slightly erratic behaviour and sudden changes in rhythm. I listened to this as I walked through The Rocks (Sydney) to work in the rain yesterday. This beautiful track is full of delicate sounds and dreamy melodies that fit perfectly with a rainy day. And finally, another absolutely beautiful track To Build A Home feat Patrick Watson by The Cinematic Orchestra from their upcoming release Ma Fleur on Ninja Tune, due out in May. Compiled by Yun Mei.
1. Tony Gatlif and Delphine Mantoulet - 1,2,3 Nada Mas [ Exils / Sony ]
2. Renaldo And The Loaf - 16 Going On 17 [ Play Struve And Sneff / T.E.C. Tones ]
3. Autechre - Crystel [ Artificial Intelligence / Warp ]
4. Pickle - P.C.M. [ Dub Rascals 2 / Little Rascal Records ]*
5. Kudos - Weirdos Welcome [ Can't Sleep - Wierdos Welcome 12" / Boka ]
6. David Toop - Howler Monkey Shits And Roars [ Screen Ceremonies / The Wire Editions ]
7. Deadbeat - A Brief Explanation… [ Something Borrowed, Something Blue / ~scape ]
8. Pascals - I’m This. I’m That. [ Dodesukaden / Blue Label ]
9. Moskitoo - De SIII? [ Drape / 12K]
10. Jorge Savoretti - Phi Connection [ Post Office - Special Argentina Madness / Telegraph ]
11. Shelley Hirsch - Bessie [ The Far In, Far Out / Tzadik ]
12. Moskitoo - Shaggy [ Drape / 12K ]
13. Renaldo And The Loaf - Scottish Shuffle [ Play Struve And Sneff / T.E.C. Tones ]
14. Moskitoo - Tarantella [ Drape / 12K ]
15. Tim Koch - Lonely In Shark Cage [ 4-4-2 Music ]*
16. Oto Efekt - In This Hole [ Porträt (Various) / Carte Postale Records ]
17. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home feat Patrick Watson [ Ma Fleur / Ninja Tune ]
11 - 28 April 2007
Don’t Look Gallery
419 New Canterbury Road
Dulwich Hill, Australia
Opening Night: Wednesday 11 April 2007 @ 6pm
An exhibition of light and sound. A showcase of three emerging artists Carolyn Teo, Jennifer Teo & Sofie Loizou . Using sound and light as the mechanism of delivery, they independently explore notions of popular culture, meditation, semiotics and human interaction.
This fortnights show Devout Catalyst is named so after the Movie starring Ken Nordine and Tom Waits. A very entertaining piece of improvised spoken word or as Nordine would call it Word Jazz. A couple of rowdy experimental tunes free from The Real Luthor Mercy Maternal Clementine on myspace.com/realluthor. A pretty electro-acoustic piece by Carte Postale from the album Portrat on the tasty Belgium netlabel A Carte Postale Records www.cartepostalerecords.be. Also featured are two Australian producers, Faux Pas with Dorothy’s Finger from his self-released album Entropy Begins At Home. There are some awesome drum sounds in this track. On a more noise ambient note we have Ian Cho’s track Get Free! from his album The Waking Woods. Some beautiful listening so make sure you check out Ian’s site and Tovian Records www.tovianrecords.com. This crazy show was put together by Yun Mei!!
1. Zoviet France - Scene 1 [Music For A Spaghetti Western / Klanggalerie]
2. The Real Luthor Mercy Maternal Clementine - It Went Down There [myspace.com/realluthor]
3. Faux Pas - Dorothy’s Finger [Entropy Begins At Home / Self-released]*
4. Ikue Mori - Latino Interactive [B/Side / Tzadik]
5. Skalpel - Tension [Polish Jazz / Not On Label]
6. Holger Czukay - Hip Hip Flop Flop [Rome Remains Rome and excerpts from Der Osten Ist Rot / Virgin Records UK]
7. Strawberry Girl - Moonbeams [Em:t 2295 / Em:t]
8. Dominik Eulberg - Begrüßung Und Buntspecht [Heimische Gefilde / Traum Schallplatten]
9. Ian Cho - Get Free! [The Waking Woods / Tovian Records]*
10. Sonmi451 - Slice It Gentle [A Phosphorous Spot / U-Cover Transparente]
11. Fred Frith - Catherine Jauniaux - Talking To The Tree [Hallelujah, Anyway - Remembering Tom Cora / Tzadik]
12. Tom Waits & Ken Nordine - Movie [Devout Catalyst / Grateful Dead Records]
13. The Real Luthor Mercy Maternal Clementine - Caballeros e Meloni [myspace.com/realluthor]
14. Bacanal Intruder - Carte Postale [Porträt (Various) / Carte Postale Records]
15. Coco Rosie - The Sea Is Calm [Noak's Ark / Touch and Go]
This fortnight on Resonant Tapestry special guest Wun Thong stirs the wok with a mix of old and new artists plus music sauced from myspace. There is a whole weird and wacky world out there and Wun Thong is delighted to take you on an aural journey into the underground vaults of the unheard. From the soothing Hawaiian infused sounds of Vilhelm (the amazing composing turtle), to the avant-garde improvisations of ensemble Fist Of Kong. You will be happy to know the world is full of strangeness …so sit back, relax and prepare your ears for this Special Sauce Mix!
1. Sonnerie Pour Reveiller Le Bon Gros Roi Des Singes (1921) - Dada Et La Musique [Unknown Label]
2. Countless - Da Crouton (with overlays from Dada Et La Musique) [Grimsey]
3. Grandfathers Shield - Charles C Oldman [Unreleased]
4. Der Abendnaht, Die Lammer Ziehenheim, Chorus Sanctus - Dada Et La Musique [Unknown Label]
5. Bomb And The Snowman - Darth Vegas [Downloaded from MP3.com.au]*
6. Ya Kekchose - Chango Family [Zion Zone Records]
7. Hettakorii No Ottokotou - Ex-Girl [Alternative Tentacles]
8. First Woman On The Moon (with Battaglia snippet) - Cosmic Shenggy [Independent]
9. Globus - A.R.T. Machines [UnknownLabel]
10. Left Handed - Arisona [Independent]
11. Sloppy Joes - Wun Thong [Beta Tapes]*
12. Kirseberg - Vilhelm [Kning Disk]
13. Alkhukarka - Kemialliset Ystavat [Fonal Records]
14. Morpions - Les Fils De Teuhpu [Irfan (le label)]
15. Ha Cha Cha - Darth Vegas [Downloaded from MP3.com.au]*
16. Boogie Woogie Man In A Black Dress - Gabby La La [Prawn Song]
17. Mere Imposters - Solex [Matador]
18. Variations Of Variations (with Poeme Phonetiques, Histrorische Lautgedichte (1918) - Wun Thong [Beta Tapes]*
19. Farararara (with L’art Petit) - Wun Thong [Beta Tapes]*
20. The Source Excerpt (Live in Houston) - Fist Of Kong [Burnt Records]
Going through a midlife or pre-midlife crisis!?!? Well I recommend buying a sports car, or a car that drives like a sports car or at least sounds like a sports car. I recently bought this sporty number because it was cheap and it ran well. Admittedly, I was at first dazzled by the bling i.e. the wooden sports steering wheel, the LED lit gear knob and fat ass muffler. That was until the gear knob came off in my hand as I was driving to the mechanics, at which point I also noticed that the cars prior owners had taken a hacksaw to the gear stick…hmm, dodgy backyard modifications. Not only that I later learned from my mechanic that instead of installing a boss to hold the wooden sports steering wheel in place the prior owners had chosen instead to nail the damn thing into the steering column. Brilliant!! Needless to say I had the car UNmodified back to its normal state. It is now an enjoyable and easy drive. The muffler on the other hand has provided me with much entertainment and continues to amuse me to this day. It is just the funniest thing. It hadn’t occurred to me before but when you have a fat ass muffler, people in other pimped out cars just want to race you. It’s great, I feel 21 again! So until it doesn’t amuse me any more I’m sticking with the muff. I think the next step is to take my fully sick car for a drive to Parramatta and enter the Saturday night Church Street parade…
I recently joined Freecycle in my local area. Freecycle is an online network of people who are interested in ‘recycling’ unwanted items. Basically this means instead of chucking your unwanted crap out you can give it away to someone in your local area for free. It’s along the lines of ‘one mans trash is another mans treature’. This network of recyclers extends worldwide, so I joined my local area and look at these little gems that I acquired today (Thanks Martha & Phil!!)
Happy Valentines Day!! This weeks show Amour Tragique has been prepared by Yun Mei. “I don’t want to work. I don’t want to lunch. I only want to forget and so I smoke” sing Pink Martini in the opening song Sympathique. So tragic but so true. A big thank you to French label Baskaru for sending us some fantastic music including Etre’s - A Post-Fordist Parade and a new release from Lawrence English - For Varying Degrees Of Winter. We also hear from the extraordinary Holger Czukay, plus an excerpt from I Am Sylvia (1973, Institute of Sonology) by Simeon ten Holt and to conclude the show the wonderful Tom Waits with When You Ain’t Got Nobody. For all the lonely hearts out there this show is for you…with love. 1. Pink Martini - Sympathique [Sympathique / Naïve] 2. Etre - The Hypnosis Of The Stone [A Post-Fordist Parade / Baskaru] 3. Flanger - Lata [Templates / Ntone] 4. Tom Waits with Jerry Garcia & Ken Nordine - Thousand Big Bangs (by Jack Kerouac) [Devout Catalyst / Grateful Dead] 5. Dilo - Spe2K [Post Office-Special Argentina Madness / Telegraph] 6. Holger Czukay - Sudetenland [Rome Remains Rome and excerpts from Der Osten Ist Rot / Virgin Records UK] 7. Elliott Sharp - Farm & Field [Figure Ground / Tzadik] 8. The Books - An Animated Description Of Mr. Maps [Lost And Safe / Tomlab] 9. Elliott Sharp - Playground [Figure Ground / Tzadik] 10. Bird Show - Seeds [Lightning Ghost / Kranky] 11. Skeleton Crew - Jelly Roll Stomp [Hallelujah, Anyway - Remembering Tom Cora (Disc 2) / Warner Music (Japan)] 12. Buckethead - Frankenseuss Laboratories [Kaleidoscalp / Tzadik] 13. Yoko Solo - Untamable Cockle [www.myspace.com/yokosolo] 14. Cappablack - Suikinkutsu 09.12.2003 [Facades & Skeletons / ~Scape] 15. Lawrence English - Unsettled Sleep [For Varying Degrees Of Winter / Baskaru]* 16. Simeon ten Holt - I Am Sylvia (1973, Institute of Sonology) [Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music: Vol. 2 (1966-1977) / Composers Voice] 17. Triosk - Goodnight [Moment Returns / Leaf]* 18. Tom Waits - When You Ain’t Got Nobody [The Early Years Volume One / Bizarre-Straight] * Denotes Australian Made Link to StraightUp episode
I have now joined Accessible Arts as the Strategic Initiatives Coordinator for the Western Sydney Project. My project partner is Alison Richardson who is the Creative Progams Coordinator. Accessible Arts is the NSW peak body for Disability in the Arts. I’ll write more on this project later….In the meantime have a read of the Accessible Arts newsletter here…
I also work as a casual tutor at the SoundHouse VectorLab in the Powerhouse Museum. SHVL is pretty cool place and I get to work with interesting and talented people.
(Photo by Carolyn Teo)
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