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)

Random Acts of Elevator Music, back by popular demand

Returning by popular demand to a building near you…

Appearing spontaneously in elevators throughout the city, Random Acts of Elevator Music enlighten the consciousness of office workers with live muzaktronica.  Their portable studio hidden in briefcases, who knows where these undercover sonic redesigners will strike next.  Check their website for the inside tip on where and when to experience the soothing oscillations and melodies of Random Acts of Elevator Music.  Just don’t tell your HR department or the security guy at the front desk…

Random Acts of Elevator Music are back in 2009, performing as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival between September 23rd and October 9th at office buildings throughout Melbourne’s CBD.  Covert visits to Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra are planned, along with rare out-of-office-hours appearances at bars and venues, as they spread sonic joy throughout the land. There is also an album on the way, helping to increase productivity in workplaces everywhere.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

The original City Frequencies installation was a live surround-sound audiovisual performance held at the Melbourne Town Hall for the 2000 Next Wave Festival, utilising the sounds and sights of the Melbourne CBD as source material.  Following this, City Frequencies included material in the Australian Sound Design Project’s Hearing Place for the 2003 International Symposium of World Forum of Acoustic Ecology.

In 2004 City Frequencies recorded the conversations of Fitzroy café-goers at Kent Street Cafe, using the tapes to create the Café Voyeur installation for the Fringe Festival that year.  The installation was presented again during 2005 in a listening gallery environment and is now being remixed for surround-sound DVD release.

Random Acts of Elevator Music has been developed over the last few years with discrete showcase performances in the Electundra festival at Loop Bar and an exploratory series of elevator performances in the previous Melbourne Fringe.  Now they are ready to venture forth into the city once more…

For further information visit:

www.akm.net.au/cityfreqs

www.twitter.com/cityfreqs

Yes To Fear, Yes To Desire Panoptique Electrical tour

Yes To Fear, Yes To Desire is the second album from Panoptique Electrical AKA Jason Sweeney (Pretty Boy Crossover, Mist & Sea). It follows on from 2008’s Let The Darkness At You, an album which garnered significant critical praise and has become one of Sensory Projects’ best selling releases outside of Australia.

Celebrating the release of the new album, PANOPTIQUE ELECTRICAL will perform across Australia in August 2009, supported by the Sound Travellers initiative.

Find Panoptique Electrical live in 2009 and you will experience the extension in the line-up, coming via the addition of Zoë Barry (cello – Ladykillers, Hope Diamond) and Jed Palmer (guitar – Bergerac, Mist & Sea, Hope Diamond), and Tristan Louth-Robins (laptoptronica – aka Red_Robin). The results are expansive depth of sound, the combination of guitar drones, Zoë’s exquisite cello work, and nuances and tones from Louth-Robins, recalling early 4ad outfits The Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil and their mesmeric recorded works.

Venue:
Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, Australia

Date:
Sunday, August 23, 2009
6:00pm – 9:00pm
$10

Info:
dontlookgallery@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles at Frankston Art Centre

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles Installation

(Cube 37), Frankston Art Centre, Victoria

10-30 August, 2009

From Dusk till dawn
Featuring Video Projection and Sound Installation

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles is the latest collaboration between film artist Louise Curham and composer David Young. Shot in Yokohama Japan, this 45 minute hand-processed super 8 film/music work forms the basis of the musical scores. The inter-medial nature of the work creates a hovering connectedness between image and sound, shifting the boundaries between the artforms. Similarly the graphic music notation allows a certain freedom and spontaneity in the performance of the music which accompanies the film, whilst remaining precisely structured.

As part of the opening of Waiting to Turn Into Puzzles installation in Cube 37, an excerpt of the work will be performed by Melbourne-based Quiver Ensemble. Quiver consists of a group of highly focused young musicians who are passionate about contemporary art music, experimental improvisation and interdisciplinary practice. The four core players are also co-directors who share a dedication to innovative programming and close composer-performer collaboration.

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Endangered Sounds Conference

Australasian Sound Recordings Association – 2009 Conference

Thursday 20th and Friday 21st August 2009
National Library of Australia – Canberra, Australia

In an age of rapid environmental, social and technological change, the sounds of our world are noticeably disappearing. These sounds form an essential component in the fabric of our cultures, and the ability to preserve these sonic environments is a necessity. Conference themes include capturing the shifting soundscapes of humanity, vanishing natural environments, impermanence of installation and performance works, virtual sounds in virtual spaces, endangered languages and community collections. Selected Australian professionals and practitioners will present powerful ideas regarding the past and future of our sounds.

Composer and sound artist William Duckworth will deliver the keynote address entitled Endangered Sounds of the Future, with Indigenous curator Liz McNiven delivering the annual Alice Moyle Lecture. Drawing together a wide range of knowledge and experience, conference papers will be presented by curatorial, technical and archival experts, as well as creative and academic practitioners
in the sound arts. The speakers include sound recordist Greg Simmons, Aboriginal language linguist Michael Walsh, innovative environmental recording system designer Neil Boucher, Vincent Plush, Kevin Bradley and more.

The 2009 Endangered Sounds conference will be held in the National Library of Australia’s theatre in parallel with the National Film and Sound Archive’s 2009 Sound Week activities.  Of special interest is the announcement of the 2009 selection of ten Sounds of Australia for inclusion in the National Registry of Recorded Sound, announced by the Honourable Peter Garrett, Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts at the NFSA on Sound Day, Wednesday 19th August.

For conference registration please see the website: www.asra.asn.au or for more information contact:
Shelly Grant: sgrant@nla.gov.au or (02) 6262 1545.

Knitted Abyss a night of melodic experimental sound

Saturday 1 August
Knitted Abyss
Seth Rees + Seaworthy
Hochman & Hopkins

A night of melodic experimental sound.

Hochman & Hopkins features members of Jonathan (Holy Balm, Stick Stick, Pagan Dawn) & Matthew (Naked on the Vague, Vincent over the sink and Bad Tables/Lamp Puffer) and make a fuzzy kind of melodic noise.http://www.myspace.com/hochmanhopkins

Knitted Abyss features Anna (Holy Balm) and Lucy (Naked on the Vague) and specialize in buzzy jams of melodic guitars, organ and vocals.http://www.myspace.com/knittedabyss

Seth Rees is a Melbourne-based New Zealander (Amplifier Machine, The Spheres, This is you captain speaking) who uses guitar and feedback to create drifting multilayered textures. This show will also feature Sydney-based soundscapist Seaworthy in a special one-off improvisation.
http://www.myspace.com/sethrees
http://www.myspace.com/backgroundfrequencies

Saturday, August 1, 2009
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Don’t Look Gallery| 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, Australia

Dreams that money can’t buy Exhibition

The next SilkHouseARtProjects event is the opening of DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN”T BUY, a film/sound/text project featuring dissimilitude a film/sound installation by Ryszard dabek and groeten uit zandvoort a text/object by i.j.oog.

Opening night: Saturday 01 August
Time: 5pm
Exhibition Period: 01 – 22 August 2009

The SHARP artists would love you to come along and experience their new project!

For more information on Ryszard Dabek see http://ryszard.net/

SilkHouseARtProjects is a series of installations and experimental art projects located at Shop 1 / 200 Hunter St, Newcastle (Australia) in the Hunter St Mall.

The project is a part of the Renew Newcastle initiative.

The works will vary in material and process. You may find the artist is working in the space during setup and throughout the exhibition.

The works are viewable 24hrs and will be open 10am-5pm every Saturday. http://www.silkhouseartprojects.com/

Pink Twins plus Vijay Thillaimuthu play Melbourne

PINK TWINS (musicians and video artists, brothers Juha and Vesa Vehvilinen from Helsinki, Finland) build a tissue of connections between their sound work and their visual work, attempting to intimately join mundane fragments usually disjoint. They work from fragments of images, sounds and sensations which our daily life is subjected to in order to break them down into small particles and reunite them once again in audacious constructions formed from chaos, pulverising and rendering them abstract, according to a unified artistic sensitivity. Their concerts are surprising chromatic combinations with strong sonic collusions which correspond to a deep need, with nothing superfluous.

Active since 1997, Pink Twins have played their music to audiences in Europe and Asia, in festivals, art spaces, clubs, churches and outdoor events, and displayed their video works on all continents.

This will be their only Melbourne performance!
http://pinktwins.com/
http://www.myspace.com/pinktwins

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VIJAY THILLAIMUTHU creates a situation whereby anarchic and defunct technologies democratically combines analogue debris and signal feedback. An extreme environment of sensory stimulation is thuslyengineered through the translation of this voltage into both sound and vision.
http://www.xenosine.com/
www.myspace.com/xenosine

+ some short films chosen by MICHAEL PRIOR between the acts!

@ Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
Sunday 26th July
7pm start.
$10 (full) + $5 (conc)

Stealing space in South Yarra

Inside an empty shop space close to South Yarra station (Melbourne) a giant amorphic blob expands and contracts in response to subsonic frequencies and generative patterns of white light. People watch and listen into the conversation between form, sound and light. It continues, oblivious and autonomous.

Audiovisible daily between 7am—10.30pm.

SRG: Darragh O’Brien and …
CEMA: Troy Innocent, Joel Collins, Indae Hwang

Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 7:00am til Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 10:30pm
9-19 Claremont Street
South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia

State of Design Festival 2009 ::: Convergence @ Yarra Lane http://www.stateofdesign.com.au/events/convergence