20 -30th June 2007
DON’T LOOK GALLERY
Dulwich Hill
Sydney, Australia

Solo exhibition, sound installations by Jen Teo. Built in a day, the exhibition pieces together old analogue technology plus whatever junk we could find in the galleries store room.

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…


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.

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]

* Denotes Australian Made

Link to StraightUp episode

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]

* Denotes Australian Made

Link to StraightUp episode

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.

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