Guest Programmer
Jeph Jerman (USA)
www.jerman.littleenjoyer.com

Jeph Jerman is a musician, improviser and sound-maker from the US. Jerman first began recording and performing in 1986, under the name Hands To . Most of his early sound work was sampler and tape loop based. Over the course of ten years Jerman’s music evolved into environmental recordings, with very little to no manipulation or electronic processing. In 1996, Jerman embarked upon a weekly series of concerts in Seattle at Anomalous Records , which brought him into contact with the city’s improvised music community. During this time he began performing solo, using only natural found objects (stones, shells, bones, driftwood, pine cones, etc) as sound-makers, a practice which continues today. In 1999, the Animist Orchestra was founded, original members are Jeph Jerman, Eleanor Gallagher, Dave Knott, Mike Shannon, Jeffery Taylor and Robert Millis.

Most of Jerman’s previous work could be interpreted as being ‘idea-based’. He finds that most of his work nowadays is sound-based, and believes it is due to his growing interest in listening, in what happens when one listens, and his concomitant disinterest in contextualizing sound

Photo by: Julie Schubert
Text : www.kaon.org/jeph_jerman

Playlist
1. Doug Theriault - Orange (excerpt) [Fargone Records]
2. Tac - Out Of Context (excerpt) [Pure]
3. Eric Lanzillotta, Mike Shannon & Dave Knott - Untitled
4. Greg Davis - Auckland Pier Hydrophone
5. Dave Knott - Rondo #3
6. Climax Golden Twins - German [Climax Golden Twins (The Rock Album)/Fire Breathing Turtle]
7. Mike Shannon - Lex-O [Raido/Oxglove]
8. Leny Puksar - Reeds 1
9. Leny Puksar - Reeds 2
10. Jeph Jerman - Metal Drift (excerpt) [AARC]
11. Giancarlo Toniutti - Ura Itam Taala’… [Ferns Recordings]
12. Steve Peters - Delicate Abrasions [Pianíssimo]

Link to StraightUp episode

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.

KYDOS (that which is heard of…)
A showcase of three emerging artists Jennifer Teo, Sofie Loizou and Carolyn Teo. Using sound and light as the mechanism of delivery, they independently explore notions of popular culture, meditation, semiotics, female objectification and human interaction.

Come along to our exhibition 11 - 28 April at the Don’t Look Gallery in Dulwich Hill. Opening night is Wednesday 11 April. An exhibition of light and sound starring Jennifer Teo, Sofie Loizou & Carolyn Teo. Love to see you there!!!

Opening Night: Wednesday 11 April 2007 @ 6pm
Don’t Look Gallery
419 New Canterbury Road
Dulwich Hill, Australia .

LAST DAYS 26, 27, 28 April 2007…