Maya Deren’s films screened with experimental live soundtracks #Melbourne #geekgirl

Eye-MayaDeren

Five of Melbourne’s best experimental acts have organised the opportunity to see them play new soundtracks live to the films of Maya Deren.

Maya Deren was the first lady of avant-garde film making in the 1940’s and 1950’s, not only a filmmaker in her own right but also collaborating with the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Antony Tudor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren Her films are a wonderfully textured and moodily lit black and white and deal with themes such as ritual, movement, violence and beauty.

On 4th September  Occult Blood, Rottuer, Siilt, Electronic Shaman and Abre Ojos will play their own unique soundtracks to her films,
including improvisations between Occult Blood and Rotteur, – Sillt, Electronic Shaman and Abre Ojos.

The films screened are:

Occult Blood: At Land
Rotteur: Ritual in Transfigured Time
Electronic Shaman: Meshes of The Afternoon
Siilt: Meditation on Violence
Abre Ojos: The Very Eye of Night

With collaboration performances to:
Witches Cradle and an edited version of Divine Horsemen- The Living
Gods of Haiti

Occult Blood: noise wall degrading tape loops vocals to resurrect Maya herself http://www.myspace.com/occultblood
Rottuer: Rotteur makes cold, desolate soundscapes, haunted by droning machinery and sparse abstracted electronics. http://www.myspace.com/rotteur
Electronic Shaman: follower of the left hand path delivers resonance from the forgotten tombs of the old ones and stygian vistas of distant worlds http://electronicshaman.com
Siilt: siilt is dusty voltage-controlled atmospheres and loops by s.klein, also of Terminal Sound System (Extreme Music, AU) and HALO
(Relapse Records, USA). www.antisound.net
Abre Ojos: is improvised sound and vision for dystopian meditation http://abreojos.net

Saturday 4th September
Doors open 2.00pm at Loop Bar 23 Meyers Place Melbourne, Tix $10 full/ $5 Conc.
http://www.looponline.com.au

Interactive Sound Exhibition – constellation: a durational chamber work: Liquid Architecture #Melbourne

“constellation: a durational chamber work” by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey at Red Gallery (North Fitzroy, Melbourne) is a set of performance interruptions that occur daily during the exhibition period, accumulating over the entire period. On the first day, one piece is performed. By the last day, all pieces are performed.

Madeleine and Tim commissioned a collection of composers to create new work to become part of a larger piece, responding to their year of birth in the Chinese zodiac. Artists created a collection of objects, scores, instructions, installations and video which Madeleine and Tim have assembled into an interactive sound exhibition, a chamber orchestra of sound. constellation imagines these entanglements of artistic connection and considers the interaction of people in the process of creation. constellation is supported by the New Music Network, Liquid Architecture and Arts Victoria.

Runs until July 17th, 2010 – check website for more info:

For more information on constellation – including performance times
For all Liquid Architecture programs and event schedules.

Semantic Clutter – 11 sound and new media artists #Melbourne #liquidarchitecture

Semantic Clutter is the creative detritus as generated throughout the artists work process. It is their fleeting ideas, forgotten moments of genius and experimental experiments that fall by the wayside during their pursuit of the elusive final piece.

In alignment with the Liquid Architecture ethos, eleven Sound and New Media Artists will inhabit West Space Gallery over a period of 17 days to question, construct and collaborate amongst themselves. Punters are invited to experience their Semantic Clutter on a first-hand basis via a range of openhouse events. These include opening and closing night performances, alternating exhibitions and an unlocked rehearsal door where you may stumble across a “Work In Progress”.

Selected artists include:

Martin Kay
Kit Webster
Alister Mew
Kirri Buchler
Tessa Elieff AKA Tattered Kaylor
Matt Tierney AKA M Leaf Tierney
Lizzie Pogson
James Wright
Paul Candy
Adam Hunt

Opening Drinks: Thursday July 1^st 5–7pm, free entry

Closing Performance: Saturday July 17^th, $5 entry

Semantic Clutter will run from July 1^st to July 17^th inclusive. Detailed programs with Who/When, Performance/Exhibition times/Opening hours are available online at http://www.westspace.org.au/ and http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/

Flyers will be lurking at West Space gallery and other Liquid Architecture events.

Dematerialization – #Melbourne – a sound-image hybrid installation

MELBOURNE – DEMATERIALIZATION
A sound/image hybrid installation by Dinesh de Silva & Marcia Jane
May 11-22 at First Site Gallery
344 Swanston St, Melbourne

Electricity, air, shimmering, falling, light, flicker, sound, energy, suspension, organic, a brief freedom from time and space – dematerialization. An installation of amplified sound and projected light shaped by the surfaces and contours of the gallery. Live performances during the exhibition.
 
For more information see http://www.concealedentrance.com

Supercollider Symposium – Call for Works

Submission Deadline  26 April 2010 ::
18 – 22 September 2010 :: Public welcome

Works, Installations, Papers, Workshops submissions are invited for submission to be presented at the Supercollider Symposium, which will introduce SuperCollider (SC) to new users, show the current state of development, and host talks and presentations of a variety of artistic and/or scientific projects realised with SC. The four-day conference will be preceeded by five days of workshops intended as community service to help beginning programmers, composers and artists with specific SuperCollider techniques.

For more information – http://supercollider2010.de/calls/13-calls-general

FOLD a/v collaborative platform Wed March 10 #Melbourne #HorseBazaar

• HOLY BONER AV SET – Lovers of horror and noise, HOLY BONER feat. Brad Smith (drumkit/screams of agony) & Nik Kennedy (electronics/voices from the grave) reprise their collaboration with visual artist Grand Guignol AKA Tina Douglas.  + special guest victims Zev Langer (zombie groans) and Diana Szabo (bloodcurdling screams) make the noise to go with it. Lionel will get his revenge!
• EARLE STUART / SEAN BAXTER – Legendary outsider Hip Hop MC, Earle Stuart (from the incredible Curse Ov Dialect), joined by percussion nut Sean Baxter.
• DJ CRUMBS (Max Kohane) between the acts!

Wed March 10, 2010

8:30pm

$10 (full) / $5 (conc)

@Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

www.myspace.com/stuttermelb

60×60 is collaborating with ICMC (International Computer Music Conference 2010)

Vox Novus is inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less in length to be included in its eighth annual 60×60 project!

60 compositions will be selected to be played continuously in a one-hour concert.

For this special event we are looking for 360 works for 6 one hour performances at Stony Brook University and New York City: 360 degrees of 60×60.

We are also have an International Mix and a microtonal mix (the UnTwelve Mix) I also have venues for another UK Mix, Midwest Mix, Canada Mix, and Pacific Rim Mix. (if we get enough submissions. get it? if you submit.there is a possibility of 12 different mixes. that is 720 slots with a great chance of multiple performances around the globe and the possibility of a multimedia collaboration with video or dance that are getting press reviews and attending audiences in the thousands.)

ICMC has an online submission process.
http://music.oc.cct.lsu.edu/author/submit.php
check the 60×60 box and then upload your ZIP file containing your submission form (PDF) and sound file (AIFF) (I know it says MP3 is allowed but don’t do that for 60×60 submissions)

you can get the submission form here:
http://www.VoxNovus.com/60×60/Call.htm

The idea is to activate the entire community of electro-acoustic music.

Robert Voisey
RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com
60×60 Director
Living Music Foundation Vice President
Founder of Vox Novus
http://www.VoxNovus.com

> Submissions must be uploaded by December 31st, 2009.

Peter Greenaway creates the Last Supper to be served in Melbourne

Acclaimed as an extraordinary spectacle of sound, light and multimedia magic, Melbourne Festival invites you to the Australian premiere of one of this year’s most exciting and affordable events on offer.  From Saturday 10 October, North Melbourne Town Hall will be transformed into the Santa Maria delle Grazie of Milan, with visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s acclaimed masterpiece Leonardo’s Last Supper.

Screening every half hour for only $10 for adults and $5 for children, Melburnians are sure to be mesmerized as Greenaway gives new life to one of the world’s most iconic and mystifying masterpieces, merging visual arts, cinema, music and cutting-edge technologies.

A master of cinematic magic, Greenaway has created an inspiring multimedia event in front of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. This is a perfect, three-dimensional sculptural clone of Milan’s crumbling, 510-year-old chapel wall and painting, with live projections of images and light as well as a life-size physical reconstruction of the table in the painting accompanied by a soundscape of voice, music and atmospherics.

The Last Supper depicts the moment when Christ announces that one of the apostles will betray him and disruption ensues. Greenaway’s sensitive spectacle delves into this moment. It uncovers truths about the painting and its influence, and reveals obscure details lost to time, overpainting and restorations.

“To the strains of modern opera, he used cutting-edge technical trickery to make Leonardo’s Christ appear like a three-dimensional hologram while a radiant sun rose and fell over his head. He turned the original colourful image red, grey and black before the artist’s gentle brush strokes were replaced with a chalk outline of the 13 figures, as if Leonardo had drawn a crime scene. Dawn broke, dusk fell and by the end the disciples had been dramatically cast into the shadow of prison-like bars,” Robert Booth, The Guardian.

This exact recreation of the chapel wall - to the same size and scale, and featuring the same characteristics and texture of the original - has been achieved through a groundbreaking combination of sophisticated technology and craftsmanship.  Leonardo’s Last Supper places Peter Greenaway among the great artists who experiment unflaggingly with new means of expression for the new millennium.

Greenaway conceived Leonardo’s Last Supper in response to a deep fascination with visual literacy and explores the potential interaction between 114 years of cinema and eight thousand years of painting.

More info at the Melbourne Festival website

LAND. Ulf Langheinrich. Digital Illusion part of the Brisbane Festival

A SENSORY JOURNEY COMES TO AUSTRALIA

LAND is a triple-screen digital landscape rendered solely out of two algorithms that create pure noise. Through its sheer immensity and use of pulsing repetition it induces a changed state of consciousness, or, as the artist puts it, “an altered state of reality”.

LAND, which debuted at the 2008 Liverpool Biennial (UK), continues the German artist’s exploration into sensory immersive environments, at the core of his recent artistic research into the nature of digital illusion.

15 September – 1 October
The Block
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia

For more details, see description on QUT website

Digital Fringe is calling for Youuuuuuuuu.

Ferret around your hard drives for (video, stills or audio), dig out those gems and have your work seen on hundreds of public screens in Melbourne.

Uploaded content will play on an extensive network of screens around the world: from retail television display walls to huge urban screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public nooks and crannys.

Visit digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works and for more festival info, or contact us – people@digitalfringe.com.au

Digital Fringe is produced by Horse Bazaar as part of the MelbourneFringe Festival (September 23 – October 11)