Shannon O’Neill is an artist, academic and curator who works across music, radio, Internet, performance, text, video and installation.  Shannon works as a lecturer in Media Arts at the University of Technology, Sydney and is currently completing a PhD in music at the University of Wollongong.

He has been a director of the Electrofringe festival (2001-02), the Disorientation series (2003), and the Sydney Liquid Architecture festival (2005-07) and is the founder of Alias Frequencies, an organisation that promotes and publishes music and media art.

He contributed a chapter to the new book Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia.

This edition of ELEVENELEVEN features all Australian artists.

Playlist
1.Emma Russack - Death Heads
2. Atone - Cockroach [Brutalism / Shebeen/Basscode]
3. Loom - sss nail shell
4. DJ Do - Adolf a Carrot? [Mangled by the Tool of Satan]
5. Itch-E & Scratch-E - Bastards [Irritable / Volition]
6. The Process Void - Comfort Zone [Arcane Matter / Green Mutant]
7. New Waver - Life Force [The Defeated / Endearing]
8. Puzahki - Suffocating Matt Pt 2 [Smoking When Pregnant / Alias Frequencies]
9. Wheelsfalloff - Woman [Tough Titties / Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society]
10. Go Back to your Precious Wife and Son - Monkey Machine [Shindii Shimae]
11. John Watermann - D5 - [Ambiguity / Night Shift]
12. Systematics - 245T [Rural / M Squared]
13. Lucas Darklord - How God Rapes (Literal Reading) [Bleaching All Life You Knew / Painfree Foundsound Institute]
14. Melds - Melds [Melds / Alias Frequencies]
15. Beardwagon - Never - [Poolside]

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Mark Brown is a Sydney based sound, installation and photo media artist exploring the phenomenology of space, architecture and acoustic atmospherics. Brown’s practice has evolved into a poetic response to site, critiquing the history and function of architecture by documenting and making manifest unseen and unheard phenomena in space. 
This playlist maps a trajectory through strategies in the creation of sound composition and music derived from field recordings, sampling, artist made instruments and meta-generative techniques.

Minit’s samples of ‘absence’ recorded in the place where the Berlin wall used to be are layered into a subtle building wall of sound in Berlin Untitled. Wolfgang Voigt’s Pop 4 pulses through the black forest of reconstructed pop elasticity. Inside the white cube, a museum goods lift opening its doors to hear the ruminations of a disembodied forensic entity in Fontana Musee Incident. Einsturtzende Neubauten’s sound sculpture / instruments flail on the stage of Werner Schwab’s Faust. During the Acoustic Space Lab project in Irbene Latvia Zina Kaye & Mr Snow inhabit a decommissioned soviet satellite communications dish and distilled the unseen sonic particles it collects. Ian Andrew’s Dude Descending a Staircase traverses the static of radio waves and glitch frequencies in a Duchampian audio readymade. Echolocation is a recent collaboration with myself and Vincent and Vaughan O’Connor, the intention was to create a live sonic meteorology of field recordings and circuit bending.

http://www.wooloo.org/untitledbrown
http://www.myspace.com/contrailmusic

Playlist
1. Minit - Berlin Untitled (zwischen alexandrin und alte Jacob strasse) [ Metaklang / RMIT Gallery Melbourne 2003 ]
2. Wolfgang Voigt aka GAS - Pop 4 [ Pop / Mille Plateaux ]
3. Mark Brown + Ion Pierce - Fontana Musee Incident [ ICAN Gallery Sydney 2008 ]
4. Einstertzende Neubauten - Das Orchestra [ Faustmusik / Rough Trade Records ]
5. Zina Kaye + Mr Snow - Firmament [ Acoustic Space Lab project / Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center Irbene Latvia 2001 - 3 ]
6. Ian Andrews - Dude Descending a Staircase [ Static Museum2 / Artspace Center for Contemporary Art Sydney 2001 ]
7. Mark Brown + Vincent & Vaughan O’Connor - Echolocation (Live) [ Paramatta amphitheatre, Sydney 2008 ]

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. He also co-heads the Agriculture record label.

DJ Olive has prepared a special podcast for ELEVENELEVEN, the TITICACA BBQ MIX, a fun radio piece with friends. Enjoy!

TITICACA BBQ MIX
Playlist
“intro” _illstyle live
“lambuna” omar yusuf turaybi  _tihama north yemen
“titicaca dawn” _multipolyomni
“animus 1″ _jacob druckman
“siiriri” _kenya
“bukusu” _kenya
“apple au genie” _cambodia
“lets make the most of a beautiful thing” _nancy wilson
“song & dance” _nigeria
“sleep” excerpt _dj olive
“olson” _boards of canada
3 min mini cdr _toshio kajiwara & tim barnes
“conversation” _south america
“if they see” _We™
“nya-be” & “yo bon maa” tumi _upper volta africa
“ziyara al ahamsi” _tihama north yemen
“the click” arieni _south africa
“alegria” _bolivia
“kontakte” _karlheinz stockhausen
“big bambu” _cheach y chong
intro _marlene sai
“lullaby” _upper volta africa
“visions of a new world (phase 1)” _lonnie liston smith & the cosmic echoes
“billy gean” _mathieu boogaerts
“burial dub” _bunny wailer
spanish 7″ battle sound fx record
“poem electronique” _edgar varese
“children and god” _tony schwartz
“coconut song” lamu _kenya
“open the light” _boards of canada
“kwahahalu” _indians of brazil
“ihaha” _indians of brazil
“nefisa(electronique)” _earthling
“evelution of the beast” _autechre mix
“taos hoop dance” _sw native american
“volodya” _angola
“tam pysiambo” _coastal amerindians of guyana
“tea house in tuhayta” _tihama north yemen
“urua” _south america
“legende de chinvong” _cambodia
“english as a second language” talking package
“bone” _once11
“sloop a”  jon tye
“i dont sweat” _dave alvin
“aku aku” -south america
“nyatiti” _kenya
“umo one” _khan
“funeral dance” _kenya
“disco love” _ian pooley
“roza” vermeila _brazil
“tonaha” _coastal amerindians of guyana
“ufolo” _angola
“come wi goh dung deh” _linton kwesi johnson
“bamileke bafang” _musiques du cameroun
“giulietta degli spiriti” nino rota
“standing here at the present time” _tony schwartz
“fugi isa” _coastal amerindians of guyana
two intros _marlene sai
bennink / brotzmann fmp
“hemcin trios danses” _turquie
“goodbye my friend” _coastal amerindians of guyana

plus a few extra mystery snibits here and there…

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.

DJ Olive provides us with the next radio show, cleverly crafted with friends.

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.

DJ Olive will be performing on Thursday 4 September at Hotel Hollywood, 2 Foster St Surry Hills 8pm - 2am. The official closing party of the Sound of Failure festival.

www.soundoffailure.com

WEEK 2

Question/Answer… Interruption
UTS performance space
Bon Marche building, Corner of Broadway and Harris St
August 27, 6pm – FREE

This unique performance will explore and disrupt the notion that music should be as symmetrical as a ‘perfect’ human face. Participants will be invited to perform in this collaborative work aimed at investigating notions of rhythm, structure, form, space and time. These performances will make use of the snazzy new facilities (which include a 9.1 surround sound system) in this UTS space. Performers include: Peter Newman, Shannon O’Neill, Jessica Tyrrell & Chris Caines, and Roger Mills.

Internationally renowned torturers of electronic toys, Toydeath, will unleash their circuit bent mayhem on the Factory Theatre along with 15 other acts that include everything from the burlesque cabaret of Dianne’s Dollhouse and the endurance karaoke of Samuel Bruce, to the uninhibited, primordial yowls of Lectre Macabre & Triangle. Other performers include: Ian Andrews, catfingers, Greg Chatonsky (Canada), Cleaning Lady (Vic), Jacob Craig, Delirium Tremens, Est Et Non, Tom Hall (Brisbane), Hiske with Psychic Date & VJ Jax, Sari TM Kavinen, Marquis de Sound, Glenn Remington, and Jessica Tyrrell & Chris Caines.

For more information and other events
Visit http://soundoffailure.com or phone Greg on 0401 152 434

www.soundoffailure.com

WEEK 1

Sound of Failure (Main Exhibition)
Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Pidcock St, Camperdown
Opening August 19, 6pm (FREE), August 20-September 7
Curated by Jennifer Teo

The Chrissie Cotter Group Show Exhibition hosts a diverse range of audio, and audio-visual installations. Artists featured include US based sound experimenter, Subscape Annex, who has used the potentially explosive technique of combining electricity and water in a work that involves sound from dripping water across the contact of an instrument cable jack. The result ‘The Water Method’ is a sublime ambient work that is hypnotically compelling.

Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda dissect and interrogate the iconic Aussie cop drama, ‘Homicide’ (said to be the most important and popular television drama series ever produced in the country) in ‘Homicide Rumours’ — a sound slash fiction. Like old episodes of Doctor Who, these Homicide mashups conjure sensations of familiarity and sentimentality, as well as disappointment and even embarrassment. Our memories live in the original – past – moment; our hazy dream is shattered by the harsh reality of the now.

Other artists include Peter Newman, Jordana Maisie, Vienna Parreno, Monperro (Spain), David O’Donoghue, Krzysztof Osinski, Ashley Scott, Greg Shapley, Cara-Ann Simpson, and the 2203 Collective.

The opening will feature a performance by renowned theatre artists Leisa Shelton  and Jethro Woodward.

Wade Marynowsky’s stunning solo exhibition at Don’t Look Gallery, ‘Rococo Vortex’. This exhibition explores 18th century European notions of the automaton, elegance, decadence and how these have filtered down into contemporary Australian kitsch culture.

In the gallery shop front are two spinning Rococo styled and robotic crinolines. The robotic stands spin as if they are in continual dance. The spin position coordinates are sent wirelessly to a computer which translates this movement into audio and video. The work questions Australia’s, and other countries, continuous obsession with identity, antiquity, and bourgeoisie society.

The main performance night for Sound of Failure (which includes over 15 acts with Toy Death headlining) is on at the Factory Theatre, August 30, 7pm (bookings at http://factorytheatre.com.au). You can also find sound art hiding between the junk in Reverse Garbage, as well as a spellbinding performance, ‘Question/Answer… Interruption’ at the snazzy new UTS performance space.

Festival details:
Visit www.soundoffailure.com for a complete list of events and venues details.

The Sound of Failure festival is supported by Marrickville Council, the Centre for Media Arts Innovation (University of Technology, Sydney), Reverse Garbage, the Factory Theatre and Don’t Look Gallery.

Greg Shapley
Festival Director

Nick Wishart is a Sydney based sound artist, musician and chronic circuit bender. He creates interactive multi-media installations and circuit bent instruments that form the basis of the all toy band Toydeath. The MIDI controlled pneumatic orchestra CeLL, developed in collaboration with Miles van Dorssen, is also a big part of his life.

Nick Wishart will be performing with Toy Death on 30th August at the Sound of Failure (main event), and as part of the Sound of Re-use (group show) opening 3rd September. 

Sound of Failure 2008
The Sound of Failure is sound art festival based in Sydney, begun in 2007, that explores notions of organised and indeterminate music/sound/noise as conceived and experienced in this, our post-digital era. It is both an inclusive and critical exploration of a broad spectrum of audio experience that includes everything from experimental cabaret, to granular synthesis-derived microsound. This year, the Sound of Failure is a multi-sited event centred around the main performance night at the Factory Theatre in Enmore, which will include some big names and some exciting emerging performers.

For full festival details visit http://soundoffailure.com

Playlist
1. Toy Death - Vtech
2. Nick Wishart - Cleared For Landing
3. Nick Wishart - Sine Stab
4. Nick Wishart - Starbase
5. Nick Wishart - Big Stab Comp
6. Nick Wishart - Snowy Mountains Scheme
7. Nick Wishart - Frog Intro
8. Nick Wishart - Iron Lung
9. Pyrolator - Cassiopeia [Ausland / Ata Tak]
10. Nick Wishart - Low
11. Pyrolator - Bacano Brothercito [Ausland / Ata Tak]
12. CeLL - Super Rattle Mastered
13. Nick Wishart - Bubble Stab 2
14. Nick Wishart - C011
15. Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time [Soothing Sounds For Baby / Basta]
16. Raymond Scott - Domino [Manhattan Research Inc. / Basta]
17. Mark Mothersbaugh - Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op [Original Soundtrack The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou / Hollywood Records]
18. Nick Wishart - Huge Noise
19. Casionova - a - d This Is Not The Future
20. Horror Horse - Toy Death remixed by Horror Horse
21. Nick Wishart - Huge Crack
22. CeLL - Red Rattler

TICKETS: $12 (including booking fee)
From The Factory Theatre box office (02) 9550 3666 or online at www.factorytheatre.com.au

Liquid Architecture, Australia’s premier national sound-arts festival celebrates its ninth year with live performances, surround sound presentations, audio-visuals and recorded work, screenings and installations, featuring our most imaginative musicians, composers, sound designers and media artists in a sense-specific feast for the ears.

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SYDNEY PROGRAM
Friday 11 July – 7:30pm
$12
TOY.BIZARRE (Bellac)
ROBERT NORMANDEAU (Montreal)
LAWRENCE ENGLISH (Brisbane)
NAT (Melbourne)
JACQUES SODDELL (Bendigo)
KUSUM NORMOYLE

Saturday 12 July - 7.30pm
$12
ANDREW PEKLER (Berlin)
MARCUS SCHMICKLER (Köln)
METALOG (Sydney/Melbourne)
KAZUMICHI GRIME
NICK WISHART + HIROFUMI UCHINO
HEIL SPIRITS
IVAN LISYAK
TOECUTTER

An international screening program featuring new A/V works. Plus an installation program exclusive to Sydney, featuring:

CÉDRIC PEYRONNET (Bellac)
JODI ROSE
RENE CHRISTEN
MELISSA HUNT
MARK BROWN
JASON SWEENEY
JESSICA TYRRELL

The first TEN people through the door each night will receive an ERIKM cd - Stéme (Room40). Giveaways courtesy of Room40 .

GIVEAWAYS
Listen to 2SER to win a double pass to both nights plus a festival cd.

FULL PROGRAM AND TICKETING DETAILS: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au

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Pre-Liquid Architecture Listening Party @405
Wednesday July 9, 9pm
Hybernian House
405/342 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills
$10 donation

Sydney siders have a chance to catch our German guests Andrew Pekler and Marcus Schmickler in one-off duo sets with locals in an intimate pre-festival setting and meet them face-to-face. Lyndon Pike will spin some tunes before and after.

Adrian Klumpes (leaf) + Andrew Pekler (kranky / staubgold / scape)
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Kusum Normoyle (LA9) + Marcus Schmickler (A-Musik, editions Mego, Häpna)
+ DJ Lyndon Pike

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ELEVENELEVEN RADIO PODCAST
ELEVENELEVEN :: 10 CEDRIC PEYRONNET (FRANCE)  IMPROVISED RADIO PIECE

Title: kdi dctb 209 [a]

"A totally improvised radio piece dealing with the relationships I can draw between some of the works I’ve done these last 10 years. I revisit the archives 1998-2008. My work is always "site" based: a place is explored, recorded, played, then becomes a matter for the studio work; a piece is always about a place, and is always composed only with sound material gathered in - a really very important point to me. It is never a ‘phonography’ of the place but an interpretation of the place. " ~ Cédric Peyronnet

Cédric Peyronnet (aka toy.bizarre / ingeos) is a sound artist working since 1990 with phonography and soundscapes, using the principles of concrete, acousmatic, electroacoustic music. Peyronnet’s  practice of “sound mapping”, the exploration of places by sound recording, listening and sound sculpting, take form in compositions and sound pieces, concerts, sound screenings and sound installations.

Cédric Peyronnet is performing at Liquid Architecture 9, Australia’ s premier sound-arts festival throughout July 2008.

Liquid Architecture , Australia’s premier sound-arts festival, celebrates its ninth consecutive year with concerts, surround sound presentations, audio-visual and recorded work, exhibitions and installations. Featuring our most imaginative musicians, composers, sound designers and media artists in a sense-specific feast for the ears.

International highlights include Robert Normandeau (Canada) , world renowned electro acoustic composer, in Australia also for the Australian Computer Music Association conference; Cedric Peyronnet / toy.bizarre (France) whose works focus on phonography and field recordings, and who will spend time mapping on location prior to performing; Marcus Schmickler (Germany) who will present experimental and electronic compositions from his Altars of Science release 2007; and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Pekler (Germany) , well known for his atmospheric soundscapes.

Festival Dates

| BRISBANE | Friday 4th - Saturday 5th July 2008

| SYDNEY | Friday 11th - Saturday 12th July 2008

| BENDIGO | Tuesday 15th July 2008

| MELBOURNE | Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th July 2008

| CASTLEMAINE | Sunday 20th July 2008

| CAIRNS | Friday 25th July 2008

| PERTH | Saturday 26th July 2008

Full program details visit www.liquidarchitecture.org.au