Liquid Architecture, Australia’s premier sound arts festival, celebrates its 10-year anniversary. The festival showcases the best of contemporary sound arts and experimental music in our major cities. With a decade of experience to draw upon the diverse program features the highest quality sound work in an intensely focused listening environment.

“Liquid Architecture 10 will be a landmark occasion for the festival and for sound culture in Australia,” says national festival director Nat Bates. “It will draw together all of the things that the festival has done well in the past and take them as far as they can go.”

The Sydney program includes two concert nights and a free exhibition at the Performance Space at Carriageworks, a free forum and concert at The University of Technology, Sydney, and a 10-year anniversary late night event at Hermann’s Bar.

The breadth of artistic practices includes meticulous recorded work (Bradbury), improvised instrumental performance (Whirlpool), sound for screen (Memory Flows), explorations of subsonic sound (Cat Hope), radical uses of digital technology (Somaya Langley), inventive self-made sound making devices (Plump) and much more.

International guests include two generations of German composers: ambient maestro Thomas Köner, and Asmus Tietchens, a major figure in the history of electronic and experimental music.

Exclusive to Sydney will be the pioneers of mash-up The Evolution Control Committee (USA) presenting their Wheel of Mashup and new Vidimasher 3000, which lets audiences see how their live, improvised mash-ups are cut and pasted on the spot. The same concert will feature the first Sydney performance by Australia’s own mash-up genius, Buttress O’Kneel.

The exhibition Correspondence interrogates ideas of conversation, silence, sound and music, featuring the work of Scott Arford (USA), Ruark Lewis & Rik Rue, Nigel Helyer, as well as Memory Flows, in which artists from the UTS Centre for Media Arts Innovation collaborate around the shared theme of rivers, accessing the flow of memories via objects, sounds and projections.

At the forum Sustainability of Sound Arts in Australia, Julian Knowles is joined by a panel of leading voices from Australian sound culture to discuss important issues around the sustainability of contemporary sound arts practice in Australia, at the University of Technology Sydney.

The Liquid Architecture 10 festival of sound arts takes place in Sydney, 24-27 June 2009.

Full festival program and ticketing details: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au