Sound of Failure Festival :: Closing Party
Thursday 4 September

DJ Olive (USA)
Panoptique Electrical (Adelaide)
Shannon O’Neill (Sydney)
No_Request (Cairns/Melb)

Hotel Hollywood
2 Foster St Surry Hills 8pm til 2am | $10

DJ Olive (USA)
DJ Olive is known for many sounds, from beats to sleep to avant-turntablism. In the early 90’s he was an active member of the infamous Williamsburg scene, producing ambient events throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. He was a founding member of We™, one of the most influential electronic acts to emerge from the U.S. scene in the ninties. As a joke, he gave birth to the term “illbient” and has been credited with founding the illbient movement. As an improvisor he has performed with thousands of world class musicians such as Luc Ferrari, Kim Gordon, Ikue Mori, Uri Caine, John Zorn, Christian Fennez, plus many more. In 1999, he co-founded the Agriculture record label, releasing roof music, “beats in the backyard sunrise kinda vibe“, on which he has released solo albums Bodega and Heaps As. More recently DJ Olive has been releasing ambient sleep albums that he calls “Sleeping Pills“, Buoy and Sleep are both available on Room40. Performing at the Hollywood on Thursday night, DJ Olive will be on turntables and live electronics.

Panoptique Electrical - ‘Let the Darkness At You’ CD Launch
‘Let The Darkness At You’ collects instrumental pieces recorded by Sweeney for film, animated film, and theatre performances, in various towns and cities including Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Albury, and Wagga Wagga in Australia, Banff (Canada), Los Angeles (USA), Glasgow (Scotland), and Brussels (Belgium), between 1998 and 2008. In early 2008, Jason set to re-working and re-contextualizing these pieces to create ‘Let The Darkness At You’ (Sensory Projects).

Presented by Plum Industries & Sound of Failure Festival.

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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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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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…

d’ Versafur - the versatile fur…get yours today!!