Joel Stern - Objects, Masks, Props (NS3006)

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Naturestrip presents a new set of compositions by Australian sound artist Joel Stern
Brisbane based but often found wandering throughout Australia and regions far further out, Joel Stern, has been restlessly, compulsively, devising, capturing, constructing this album on and off  over the past 6 and a bit years (2001-2008). Created from instrumental debris, snatches of  environmental sound (Ethiopia, India, Toowoomba, his lounge room), and a poetic sensitivity for incoherence, Objects.Masks.Props, is the clearest and most potent reflection yet of Joel’s musical and artistic approach somewhere between music concrete, art brut, free noise, cinema, abstraction, and the farmyard.. .’

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a psychotropic travelogue of an unmapped realm between Jon Hassell’s fourth world and Pierre Henry’s laboratory throat singing bees rabid dogs minimalist patterns looped chants a fevered dream a mournful lament the hum and crackle of decaying beauty tickle the inner ear fragments of melody detuned strings sound swept through an open window seeds passing one hand to the other an ebbing accordion tapestry of the found and created a cinema for the third eye
(Leighton Craig - August 08)

Transit Lounge – Program Gallery, Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin GERMANY
Deadline: Monday 13th October 2008

The Australian-German collaborative residency program for interdisciplinary art and international exchange, TRANSIT LOUNGE, is calling for submissions to the 2009: Moving while standing still project. The ongoing experimental project TRANSIT LOUNGE, which began in 2006, evolved through several different modes, continually exploring the potentials of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration. Since its inception, TRANSIT LOUNGE has been a partner event of transmediale – festival for art and digital culture held annually in Berlin, one of Europe’s largest and longest running media art festivals.

For the 2009 edition, TRANSIT LOUNGE has set a specific thematic focus: MOVING WHILE STANDING STILL. TRANSIT LOUNGE, as a group of artists from the south, is in a unique position to respond to the theme of
the transmediale 09: Deep North. The curators have drawn this theme together with what has been the underlying question of their own project since its inception – the notion of transit- to ask:

• What happens when inter-continental movement becomes difficult?
• What then, when escape from (or to) home becomes impossible?

It is on this intimate level that implications of reconfigured global relationships brought about by climate change become the inspiration for TRANSIT LOUNGE 09. Here, limitations on global travel that are likely to ensue due to changes in availability and the rising of resources, plus subsequent shifts in political and social environments become the inspiration for the development of a series of rules restricting interaction between participating artists. TRANSIT LOUNGE 09 becomes a trans - national residency project where everyone stays home – an intense exploration of local contexts directed through communication with physically distant collaborators.
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