embracing sound program

Sound Culture Audio Lab

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The Sound Culture Audio Laboratory is a professional residential symposium for practitioners and theorists in the Sonic Arts and Sound Design fields. The Laboratory will feature peer to peer workshops, seminars and performances and will foster an informal but informative atmosphere, maximising dialogue and exchange.

The Laboratory will focus on the theme of Sound and the Environment and examine issues of location and locatedness; sonic immersion; spatial and geo-spatially located audio; approaches to acoustic ecology; the relationship of the body to sound and spatial memory; the relationship of natural and cultural soundscapes with acoustic patrimony; and relationship of physical sites to oral histories.

Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale

For information & bookings contact Dr Nigel Helyer sonic@sonicobjects.com

Fader

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Fader is a new installation-based work by Ryszard Dabek which that has arisen from time spent in Europe during 2007. It consists of a series of large archival inkjet prints, a looping video and a low level sound work. It is part of a broader project that concerns itself with an investigation and re-versioning of 20th Century utopian aesthetics as manifest in specific architectural spaces. These spaces range from the starkly utilitarian to the overtly monumental.

The work in Fader draws upon the abandoned utopian architectural projects of Mid 20th Century Warsaw while engaging the material detritus of the era. It proposes a fractured dialogue of sorts, between the short-lived aesthetic dictums of socialist realism and the formalist approaches that followed in its wake. Far from the gleaming surfaces of historically sanctioned “Modernity”, a confused and compromised model is brought into play.

Fader opens on Tuesday 5 August, 6 - 8pm, in the Sydney College of the Arts Galleries, and continues until Saturday 30 August.
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 4pm

The Sound of Failure festival August 2008

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The Sound of Failure 2008

Sound art festival

Bookings: http://factorytheatre.com.au

Website: http://SoundOfFailure.com

Following on from the (ironic) success of last year’s festival, Sound of Failure 2008 brings together over forty local and international sound artists in numerous venues to surprise, shock and entertain. Many of these artists have attempted to transcend the small rectangular screens and the latest Microsoft releases, opting instead to look at unintended consequences of technology – when it misbehaves or just gives up the ghost.

Internationally renowned torturers of electronic toys, Toydeath, will unleash their circuit bent mayhem on the Factory Theatre along with 15 other acts (Book NOW: http://factorytheatre.com.au). Exhibition wise, Chrissie Cotter gallery in Camperdown will host a diverse range of audio, and audio-visual installations from over a dozen artists.

You can also find sound art hiding between the junk in Reverse Garbage, and Wade Marynowski’s solo exhibition, ‘Rococo Vortex’, in the aptly titled Don’t Look Gallery, as well as a spellbinding performance, ‘Question/Answer… Interruption’ at the snazzy new UTS performance space. Please see http://SoundOfFailure.com for a complete list of venues and details.

Performers include: Toy Death, Ian Andrews (album launch!), Starella, Est Et Non, Hiske with Phychic Date, Greg Chantonsky (Can), Tom Hall (Bris), Cleaning Lady (Vic), Samuel Bruce, Dianne’s Dollhouse, Glenn

Remington, Catfingers, Jessica Tyrell & Chris Caines, Lectre Macabre & Triangle, Peter Newman & Johnathon Hunter, DJ Olive, Panoptique Electrical, and Shannon O’Neill.

Artists include: Norie Neumark & Maria Miranda, Jordana Maise Goot, Subscape Annex (USA), Krzysztof Osinski, Cara-Ann Aimpson, Wade Marynowsky, Monopero (Spain), Nick Wishart, Caroline Huf, Lisa Roberts, Vienna Parreno, and 2203 Collective.

Main performance night:

Factory Theatre, Enmore

105 Victoria Rd, Enmore

August 30, 7pm

$20 (+booking fee)

Book NOW at: http://factorytheatre.com.au

Main exhibition opening:

Chrissie Cotter Gallery

Pidcock St, Camperdown

August 19, 6pm (FREE)

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.

The NOW now Series 2008 #6

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David Rothenberg - is an American musician who connects the living sounds of the natural world to the traditions of global rhythmic innovation and improvisation. Inspired by the melodies and beats of birds, insects, whales, water, and wind. http://www.whybirdssing.com

roil - a new trio featuring Chris Abrahams - piano, Jame ‘Pug’ Waples - drums and Mike Majkowski - bass.

kraig grady - is a compser and instrument builder from the US, who now lives and works in Wollongong. His works feature his own ensembles of acoustic instruments, including metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers and reed organs tuned to microtonal just intonation scales. Kraig has also worked as a shadow puppeteer, tuning theorist, filmmaker and world music radio DJ. He has been nominated four times for the LA Weekly Awards as ‘best uncategorizable artist’ and was chosen by Buzz Magazine as one of the ‘100 coolest people in Los Angeles.’

www.anaphoria.com

@ serial space 33 wellington st chippendale $10 + $8

ALEX MASSO ENSEMBLE

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Wednesday, 27 August, 2008

ALEX MASSO ENSEMBLE

Alex Masso percussion, Finn Ryan percussion, Jono Lake piano, Sam Dobson double bass, Monika Brooks piano/accordion/electronics

SOUND LOUNGE, Seymour Centre

$20 Full / $12 Concession & Under 30

(02) 9351 7940 or tickets available at the door. If you are a NOW now regular you get entry for the concession price.

CONSOLADOR DE DOS CARAS

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Wednesday 6th August

@ la Campana, 53-55 liverpool st, the spanish 1/4, Sydney.

KRYSTOFFKRVSTOFFISTON -

FAMILY JEWELS

PEE WEE

http://www.dualplover.com/consolador.html

PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND’S NATIONAL ART AWARD IN NEW MEDIA

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Nine artists have been short-listed for the inaugural $75 000 Premier of Queensland’s National Art Award in New Media. Peter Alwast (QLD), Julie Dowling (WA), Anita Fontaine (QLD/NL), David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (NSW), Natalie Jeremijenko (QLD/USA), Adam Nash (VIC), Sam Smith (NSW), John Tonkin (NSW) and Mari Velonaki (NSW) are the artists short-listed for the inaugural award.
On 31 October 2008 the Award will be presented to one of these exhibiting artists. The exhibition and Award will be presented every two years and the award-winning works will become part of the Queensland Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

Accompanying the Award is the $25 000 Premier of Queensland’s New Media Scholarship, to be presented to an emerging Queensland-based new media artist to support travel and study.

Expressions of interest for the travel and study scholarship are available
at www.qag.qld.gov.au/new_media

Submissions due: 5 September.

The Award exhibition will be on display in GoMA’s new media gallery.
1 November - 8 February.
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/coming_soon/premier_of_queenslands_national_art_award_in_new_media

BRISBANE - GAME CONNECT: ASIA PACIFIC (GCAP)

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Representatives from the Asia Pacific region’s game development industry will converge in Australia once again to focus on industry improvement, investment, advancement and growth. GCAP 08 will deliver a stimulating
technical program that features leaders in the field of game development who will present new knowledge and thinking covering a wide range of disciplines and topics.

Hilton Brisbane, Queensland.
Wednesday 19 – Saturday 22 November
http://www.gameconnectap.com/

ARTSPACE CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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Artists are invited to submit proposals to exhibit at Level 17 Artspace at Victoria University in 2009. The space is situated at Level 17/300 Flinders St, Melbourne. This is situated within the School of Creative Industries which incorporates Multimedia. The Artspace’s modern, open-plan space is equipped with fully adjustable track lighting with dimmers, fixed three digital film projectors and three video screens, plus facilities for
audio, DVD and computer input. We encourage new media artists to exhibit. We are accepting artist and curatorial proposals in Painting, New Media, Sculpture, Photography, Installation and Performance.

Proposals due: 1 September

http://creativeindustries.vu.edu.au/level17.html

ii: the art of secret noises

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ii (“eye eye”) are hitting the road and serving up their very own blend of ambient pop to destinations around Australia on their first ever national tour. Promising to take audiences to the edges of pop and beyond, ii says the tour is “going to be an opportunity to bring our sound to new places and try it out in new contexts”. Playing a handful of galleries and art spaces, as well as traditional venues, first stop for the Melbourne duo is Canberra.

MORE INFO & DATES…

The recent success of their long awaited first full length album Landlakes, released on independent label Feral Media, has seen ii gain recognition for their ability to use improvisation in their performances and recordings while maintaining purpose to their elusive composition.

Playing all major cities, ii are teaming up with leading local and international acts in a series of shows presented by independent Australian labels; Room 40, Mistletone, Meupe, Feral Media and hellosQuare. Working together in cities around Australia, these labels provide a platform for experimental artists to present to new audiences across the country.

“What’s great about groups like ii is they are able to tap into an array of differing aesthetics. It’s this reason amongst others that have allowed a slew of labels such as Room40 and Mistletone to assist them in arranging events around Oz. This kind of work shows the breadth of sound coming out of this country right now…” Lawrence English, Room 40

Formed in 2000, ii is the product of long time collaborators Alex Nosek and Jon Tjhia. Over nine years, their inherent relationship has resulted in the duo producing a curious amalgam of guitar pop, post-electro and experimental styles. The surprise addition of guest artists in their largely spontaneous performances adds further depth to the many layers of ii’s sound. “I know that when listening back to things often it’s hard to tell who’s done what and that to me is a really good sign because it means that we’re both on the same page and we’re not just ploughing away with our own distinctive motifs and sounds” says Tjhia “It also means that hopefully we’ve got enough varied methods that our own creations are not instantly recognisable and therefore a bit predictable”.

With comparisons being made to acclaimed electronic/pop artists coming out of Germany’s Kompakt label, Boards of Canada and Fuck Buttons, ii are quickly becoming the frontrunners of tomorrow’s indie. The release of Landlakes has earned them an early spot in 2008’s “best of”, giving audiences a reason to get up and listen. To download Landlakes feature track “Oho” and music from other exceptional Australian sound practitioners, go to SOUNDS at www.soundtravellers.com.au

DATES

Thu 7 Aug - The Grace Emily, Adelaide
Fri 8 Aug - FELT Art Space, Adelaide
Sat 9 Aug - Hyde Park Hotel, Perth
Sun 10 Aug - Velvet Lounge, Perth
Wed 20 Aug - Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
Fri 22 Aug - Tongue & Groove, Brisbane
Wed 27 Aug - The Toff in Town, Melbourne