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TOY.BIZARRE (Bellac) Cédric Peyronnet (aka toy.bizarre) is a French sound artist working since the 1990s with phonography (Field recordings, “sound hunting”…), soundscapes, using the principles of concrete, acousmatic, and electroacoustic music. His work, whose main theme is the exploration of places via sound recording and listening, takes the form of compositions and sound pieces (CD, Vinyl ... more than forty titles published), concerts, sound screenings and sound installations. His work with soundscapes led him to practice “sound mapping” and implement daily the principles of acoustic ecology. He also works from time to time in schools, “teaching” kids about our “sound environment” and the importance of the ear. www.ingeos.org

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MARCUS SCHMICKLER (Köln) Marcus Schmickler is internationally well known in various contexts of contemporary music. He is closely associated with the a-Musik label and in recent years he has worked in the fields of electronic, improvised, experimental and new music as well as doing scores, radioplays and unusual pop music projects. His recent releases feature choir- and chamber music, a new computer music piece as well as a new record under the banner of Pluramon with Julee Cruise. Recently he premiered a new drum-quartet in Milwaukee. His continuous collaborations feature settings with analogue Synth wiz Thomas Lehn and British pianist John Tilbury. He is also member of MIMEO and Pluramon. He has received numerous prizes and his work has been represented all over the globe. He lives in Cologne.

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ANDREW PEKLER (Berlin) Born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (then U.S.S.R.), Andrew Pekler spent his teens in the USA before moving to Germany to attend university. His first sound experiments were released under the Sad Rockets moniker. As part of the Bergheim 34 formation he has released several EPs and an album on Klang Elektronik. Under his own name he has produced two records for the ˜scape label, Station to Station (2002) and Nocturnes, False Dawns and Breakdowns (2004) as well as releasing Strings + Feedback (2005) on Staubgold. His latest album Cue, was released in June 2007 on Kranky (Chicago, USA) He has produced music for film, dance and theater and has played concerts in Europe, N.America, Asia and Australia. Apart from his solo recordings, Andrew Pekler plays in Groupshow with Hanno Lechtmann and Jan Jelinek.

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ROBERT NORMANDEAU (Montreal) In Australia courtesy of the Australian Computer Music Association, Canadian Robert Normandeau is a world renowned electro acoustic composer with numerous awards (including Ars Electronica 1993 AND 1996), commissions (including Banff and GRM) and academic qualifications (including the first PhDMus in Electroacoustic Composition (1992), under Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont) to his name. After his early interests in instrumental and mixed works, his current endeavours are focused on acousmatic music. More specifically, his compositions employ esthetical criteria whereby he creates a ‘cinema for the ear’ in which ‘meaning’ as well as ‘sound’ become the elements that elaborate his works. Along with concert music he now writes incidental music, especially for the theatre. He has been Professor in electroacoustic music composition at Université de Montréal since 1999.

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NAT (Melbourne) Nat has directed Australia's premiere festival of sound arts, Liquid Architecture , annually since its inception in 2000. He has lectured in sound art from the National Gallery in Canberra to Melbourne's RMIT University. Since the late 90s he has produced and performed experimental music and has composed sound design for videos and animations since 1998. He has produced interactive sound works for the web, CD-Rom and installation and has curated and coordinated group shows of CD-Rom, music-video and sound art. His current projects include the experimental rock outfit MxR, and Film§coria, a series of soundtracks for appropriated video pieces. Nat also finds time to teach sound to multimedia students at RMIT University and undertake a PhD in sound art.

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JACQUES SODDELL (Bendigo) Jacques Soddell is a Bendigo-based sound artist (live performance and installation). He mainly works with field recordings which he often manipulates beyond recognition and layers them to create electroacoustic soundscapes. He sometimes works in 4 channels, and has recently started improvising multilayered images to his soundscapes. He also creates works for theatre group Punctum and choreographer Megan Beckwith. Recent projects include Museum of Lost Sound (with animator Paul Fletcher). Curates experimental music series Undue Noise and runs sound art label Cajid Media. More info at http://cajid.com/jacques

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ALEX WHITE (Sydney) began making experimental techno and noise in the late 1990’s under the pseudonym ‘Autoclave’. Since then his practice has evolved to more abstracted explorations of sound whilst retaining some recognisable qualities and sensibilities of genre based music. Alex has performed at many events around Sydney and Melbourne sometimes as part of the noise duo/trio Fortran. Since 2003 Alex has created and exhibited video, installation and sound works for gallery settings. Some of these works have been included in group-shows at a variety of spaces including; PELT, First Draft, Wedding Circle, Liquid Architecture 2005 and Art Space. Alex exhibited in his first solo show in 2006 at PELT gallery. Alex has organised and programmed a variety of group video show and audio performance events throughout Sydney. Alex completed a Bachelor of Electronic Arts (Honors) at The University of Western Sydney in 2005. In 2006 he undertook a Residency at The University of Wollongong, teaching and developing interactive media with performance students. Since 2005 he has worked with a variety of artists and organisations as a contractor developing and assisting in projects such as; interactive video systems, interactive networked audio systems, DVDs, commissioned video and audio works, live audio for performance and general technical management, brokerage and advice.

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LAWRENCE ENGLISH (Brisbane) Lawrence English is media artist, composer and curator based in Brisbane, Australia. Working across a broad range of aesthetic investigations, English’s work is eclectic and characterises a long-term exploration into various themes including audio/visual environments, found sound/vision, subtle transformation of public space and sonic art works that exist at the very edge of perception. Over the past five years he has toured nationally and international to countries including Japan, China, Singapore, USA, UK, All of Western Europe, Denmark, Poland and New Zealand. In 2007 he completed his longest tour to date in EU/UK performing over 20 concerts in the period of 5 weeks. Outside of his recording and art commissions, 2008 will see English continue to direct the Queensland components of Liquid Architecture. In addition he will continue his work with the EMIT streaming studio at QUT, he will curate a range of events including Fabrique at Brisbane Powerhouse and also continue to issue records through his multi-arts organisation and imprint ::ROOM40::.

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METALOG (Sydney/Melbourne) It may look like an impro group, but it is a specific project with clear objectives. All members are deeply involved in creating their own 'Meta' instruments, and rethinking amplification on their respective instruments, their aim is then to create a meta-band. Amanda Stewart: voice and text. Ben Byrne: tape and electronics. Natasha Anderson: recorder and electronics. Robbie Avenaim: perscussion. Jim Denley: winds and electronics. Dale Gorfinkel: vibes, trumpet and electronics. In playing together they explore various ways of diffusing the electro-acoustic sound.

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ELKE MOLTRECHT (Berlin) Elke Moltrecht has been curating sound events since the early 90s working at institutions such as the Podewil Centre for Contemporary Art and the Ballhaus Nauynstrasse. She is now a freelance curator working on a variety of cross cultural projects that promote the diversity of music and sound art occurring in atypical locations including Turkey, Lebanon and Korea. Elke's workshop will comprise an overview of her experience in curating sound art and experimental music over the last 15 years, drawing on various examples to demonstrate the diversity of work being produced in the field. The workshop will also cover issues relating to the presentation of sound in different contexts in order to highlight the complexities involved in the organization and presentation of the sonic arts.

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WITHIN EARSHOT collective (Melbourne) The Within Earshot collective utilises new, anarchic and defunct technologies to explore the potentiality of immersive and surround sound experience. Through everything from live performance within a multi channel environment, to installation art in confined spaces, to free improvisation within uniquely constructed surround speaker set ups, the collective hopes to successfully explore distinct aspects of surround sound experience and acoustic phenomena. Que Nguyen, Vijay Thillaimuthu, Nick Van Cuylenberg, Tessa Elieff, Kit Webster, Martin Kay, Daniel Griffith, Toby Dundas.

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EAMON SPROD / TARAB (Melbourne) eamon sprod/tarab primarily uses the interplay of field recordings and sounds generated from found objects to explore the possibilities of personal chartings and interactions with the urban environment. His work centres around attempts to sonically trigger, form, and recreate the interior environments which occur through our everyday interaction with the commonplace, overlooked, ignored, lost, discarded, broken, decaying and dead. www.23five.org

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CAMILLA HANNAN (Melbourne) Camilla Hannan is a sound artist working across the fields of composition, installation and performance. Camilla uses location recordings as source material for her work. These raw recordings are digitally processed into abstracted representations of site. She is interested in the way field recordings become ‘essences of place’ These manipulated sounds may not be recognisable in their source but as a sonic texture which become iconic representations of time and place. Camilla has exhibited and performed both in Australia and in the USA and Europe. www.camillahannan.com

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ANTHEA CADDY (Melbourne) Anthea Caddy is a cellist and sound artist interested in the relationship between recording, spatialisation, and the instrument. Exploring the cello’s textural, spatial and dynamic capabilities, she draws reference points from electro-acoustic music and sound art. Working with digital composition, environmental field recording, and acoustic performance she consolidates the conceptual and practical aspects of these approaches by applying techniques and concepts indigenous to digital spatialisation to her performances and recordings. She has toured both nationally and internationally in both Europe and the States in various guises with cello and other bits and pieces.

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RYAN COCKBURN (Melbourne) Ryan Cockburn is an compulsive tinkerer and a lazy careerist. After academic study, he now works in the cosy intertwined space between art and life, where the ho-hum and hokum coexists. Heart in hand, broken tonal skeletons, home-wired, stuck together with tape. Record interventions, caves of tape, wonky, outsider-art turntable percussion machines & collected trash ensembles. Full of cast-offs, seconds and contradictions aplenty. Ryan has performed, exhibited, recorded and released in Australia and his native New Zealand.

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MATTHEW DAVIS (Melbourne) Matthew Davis is a sound artist whose work employs a range of means and methods of analogue and digital synthesis. Matthew’s work has been presented in a variety of contexts in Australia, Europe and the United States.

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THEMBI SODDELL (Melbourne) Thembi Soddell’s volatile sonic worlds morph, shift, rupture and dis-rupture into filmic atmospheres with a distinctly disquieting edge. Contorted into unreal environments and luscious masses of sonic textures, her sound palate sources field recordings, instruments and electronics to be suggestive but often unidentifiable. Her compositions exploit the dynamic extremes, toying with the listeners’ sense of expectation and generating anticipatory suspense. Thembi has created work for CD, gallery installation, and live performance. She has been involved in many of Australia's major sound festivals, such as What is Music?, Liquid Architecture and The Now Now Festival of Spontaneous Music, and toured Europe as part of a collaborative duo with cellist, Anthea Caddy. She is a graduate with honours in sound art from RMIT, and assists in running the Australian experimental music label, Cajid Media.

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CARL PRIESTLY (Melbourne) Carl Priestly is a sound artist composing for installation and performance. He has exhibited in various galleries in Australia as well as in broader public settings such as Federation Square, Eureka Tower and Nextwave Festival. His work incorporates found sound manipulation and site-specific sound design.

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HI GOD PEOPLE (Melbourne) LIFE IN OUR LAND. THE SPIRIT FLOWS Hello fellow travelers of spaceship earth. My name is Feather Wilson. I started the spirit acres commune back in 82. It was a fine barmy spring when we started making the mud bricks for the main house. Northern New South Wales back then was a quiet hamlet for the old brothers and sisters. We built the place up from mother earth and we thank her for her bountiful delights. I guess you could call the hi-god people our resident groovers. Dion was born at the commune to Anna Spring Blossom and Brian North Star, back in 86. He was a peaceful and enquiring child. Dylan came here as a seven year old, and he and Dion started their music making with flutes in the woods, skipping gently to the seasons. Julian moved here as a twenty six year old ex heroin user. He's done it tough, but his humour has always got him through. Greg was the last to join us, only eight years ago. He enabled us to enter the computer age with his know how. I remember the days we had playing music as the sun set, as if it was yesterday. The acoustic guitar and bongo marathons would go into the early hours. There we many people involved in these jams, but it was only Dylan, Dion, Greg and Julian that seriously melded with the sun. They've been at it ever since, spreading the word – of everlasting joy for all beings. I hope you like this record. We at the commune are proud of our brothers spreading the karmic mantra of love.

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REINHOLD FRIEDL (Berlin) Reinhold Friedl - born 1964 in Baden-Baden, Germany, lives in Berlin. Studied piano with Renate Werner and Paul Schwarz, in Berlin with Alan Marks and Alexander von Schlippenbach. Reinhold Friedl developed the techniques of playing on the strings of the grand piano and introduced the term "Inside-Piano" for that. He studied mathematics and musicology. Composition with Witold Szalonek. International scolarships and commissions. Concerts in Europa, USA, Australia and Japan. Numerous CD- und radiorecordings, and articles. Reinhold Friedl is also founder and director of the ensemble zeitkratzer

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ROD PRICE (Melbourne) Rod began life as a visual artist with strengths in graphic drawing, illustration and painting. Rod completed his fine art Diploma in 2003 at Box Hill TAFE and in 2006 completed his fine arts Degree at RMIT University. During his studies at RMIT Rod adapted his fine arts practice to the digital realm where he developed an eye for digital imaging and more importantly was exposed to the medium of sound. Rod's attendance of the 'sound art' and 'sound design' courses at RMIT dramatically altered the direction of his fine art practice. The sound courses introduced Rod to the academic and artistic movements in music. He instantly identified with the connections and relationships between musical and fine art movements and saw 'sound' as an exciting medium in which to explore his own fine art practice that wasn't restricted to the picture plane. Most of Rod's work, both visual and sonic, expresses a dark aesthetic quality that employ methods of abstraction and manipulation. Rod's compositions often refer to ideas found in industrial, dark wave, ambient,noise and electro acoustic music. Rod has currently finished his Post Grad studies at RMIT in SOUND. He has been very lucky to have studied under the academic and artistic watch of RMIT sound lecturer and Melbourne based composer Darrin Verhagen (Shinjuku Thief) who's influence has been one of the largest on Rod's work. Rod also has been studying surround sound under lecture/composer Philip Samartzis. Rod also composes music under the guise AMNION and has also performed under the title The Hills are Alive

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NATASHA ANDERSON (Melbourne) Natasha is a Melbourne musician and installation artist who creates works in which the source of sounds, images and gestures - whether electronic, instrumental or bodily - become tangled and confused. Variously using the contrabass recorder, electronics and mixed media she is interested in creating works that foreground the musician as a framed and gendered bodily presence. Rapidly shifting between extreme frequencies, between digital and acoustic sound, and abject and processed gestures, she creates for the audience multiple and conflicting points of focus. Natasha regularly performs multimedia, improvised and classical contemporary music throughout Australasia, Europe and Japan. Recent performances include Musique Action Festival, France [2007], Liquid Architecture and Now Now Festivals, Sydney [2007/08], the Festival de Musiques Innovatrices, St Etienne, OFF Film Festival, Brisbane, the Melbourne International Arts Festival and Alt.Music, Auckland [all 2006]. Natasha also composes music and sound design for dance and theatre, including The Stirring, Tess de Quincey Co’s 2007 production at Carriageworks in Sydney and the Sydney Theatre Company’s current production of “The Year of Magical Thinking”, directed by Cate Blanchett.

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TOM HALL (Brisbane) Hall's eclectic works flourish by utilising a variety of mediums, each that reflect on his varied background and interests. With a strong focus on elements of the 'everyday' Hall's practice involves considered explorations into place, space and time. Drawing inspiration from countless 'peripheral' spaces, Hall focuses on using multiple approaches to engage and recontextualise them to the public. He has contributed and implemented live sound and video performances, installations and exhibitions at various venues and art spaces across Australia and Internationally, including The State Library of Queensland, Nasic Square Gallery in Japan, live A/V performance in support of International sound practitioners Jason Khan, Tim Hecker and Steinbruchel at Open Frame at the Brisbane Powerhouse and a video installation at the Old Brisbane Museum as part of Otherfilm Festival. Tom most recently completed a residency at The Perth International Arts Festival presenting live performances, workshops, talks and presentations.

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FILE_ERROR (Cairns) File_Error is another discreet face of Cairns based artist/producer Nicholas Mills. Working across the fields of sound art and digital screen/media, File_Error draws from a wide range or source material and influences from field and urban recordings, found sound and vision to samples and electronics. Often combined with text, recent new works include ‘shadows’ and ‘mary river documenta’, drawing from both lo-fi and high end screen vision, with found sound/field recordings, electronics and text. File_Error has performed as part of Liquid Architecture, On Edge, various one-off events, and has ongoing collaborations with inter-media group Bonemap, and indigenous performance artist Zane Saunders. File_Error juxtaposes, transcends, transforms and illuminates the absurd and the everyday through sound and media.

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CAT HOPE (Perth) Cat Hope is an accomplished composer, sound artist, performer, songwriter and noise artist whose practice is an interdisciplinary one that crosses over into video and installation. She has written soundcsapes for dance and theatre companies as well as completed commissions to write music for film (winning the Pandora’s Box Film Festival Best Score award in 2000) and pure music works. Cat is a classically trained flautist, with a BMus Hons, but also a vocalist and experimental bassist who plays as a soloist and as part of small ensembles, such as Gata Negra, Lux Mammoth and more recently, the noise improvisation bass quartet, Abe Sada. She has directed and edited numerous short music videos and created audiovisual installations. Cat is an active researcher and has conducted extensive funded research into communication technologies, audio recording in forensics, noise notation and surveillance techniques for use in performance, and maintains an active interest in challenging the relationship of image and sound. She is part of the sound art research collective Metaphonica and curates new music events Club Zho and Sound Spectrum. She runs a music label and production company, Bloodstar and is the founder of the Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference and editor of the associated proceedings, Sound Scripts. She is a PhD candidate in SOUND at RMIT University where she is looking at creating installation that focus on low frequency sound and lectures at WAAPA, ECU in music technology, 20th century music history and composition.

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RAFAEL TORAL (Lisbon) Rafael Toral is a musician and artist. Born in Lisbon, he has been performing live since 1984. Having attempted to study music, he realized his path was one of exploration and discovery, to which conventional music teaching was irrelevant. He learned acoustics, electronics and music writing, having started to write music on paper after his former fascination with graphic scores. Between 2002 and 2004 he operated a radical change in most aspects of his music practice and thinking, launching the so-called Space program - a work program establishing approaches to real-time performance and use of silence new to his past work, and including projects for many live pieces and recordings.

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IAN WADLEY (Various!) Ian Wadley has played various instruments in countless bands. In the last year, when not drumming for Six Organs of Admittance, Jandek and Mick Turner (amongst others) he toured the US, UK and Europe, performing solo, instrumental impromptu compositions for guitar. The music can be spontaneous; it can reference his and others' back-catalogues. Ian likes to hover between emotive melody and unlistenable racket. He likes to use a looping pedal without necessarily knowing where the loop begins and ends. He likes to remember that the guitar is made of nuts and bolts, wood and wires, etc.

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CLOCKED OUT DUO (Brisbane) Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomilinson use traditional and modified instruments alongside a bewildering array of toys, found objects, junk and sound sculptures to create carefully designed sonic, visual and theatrical experiences. Their totally unique style embraces a wide variety of influences including American Experimentalism, Free Improvisation, European Avant-Garde, Jazz, Fluxus, Minimalism, Chinese percussion, Folk Music and Street Sounds. This special performance for Liquid Architecture is with Richard Nunns, the renowned living authority on ngä taonga püoro (Maori traditional musical instruments). He has been described as one of New Zealand's most remarkable musicians.

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KAZUMICHI GRIME (Sydney) Kazumichi Grime is a Sydney based sound and visual artist. Recently he has been incorporating video art into his live sets which have been performed at events such as The Big Day Out, eScapes, Disorientation, The MCA and Liquid Architecture 2006. The focus of the imagery is often of intense studies of simple concepts that work in collaboration with the sound to create a resolve using shot footage, high speed camera work and graphic minimalism. Dense textural drones are drawn from field recordings, analogue synthesis and acoustic recordings. He has released numerous recordings since 1994 on cd, vinyl and online and has performed extensively. As well as his own solo practice, Grime has collaborated on a number of projects with artists such as Kim Cascone, Gary Bradbury, Anthony Guerra, Andy Polaine and has also developed a number of sound pieces for artist Shaun Gladwell, including the 2007 Venice Biennial piece, 'Storm Sequence'.

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NICK WISHART + HIROFUMI UCHINO (Sydney) Nick Wishart is a musician and chronic circuit bender. He creates interactive multi-media installations and circuit bent instruments that form the basis of the all toy band Toydeath. The MIDI controlled pneumatic orchestra CeLL is also a big part of his life. Hirofumi Uchino is a musician / instrument builder and founder of Lastgasp Art Laboratories. He is the mastermind and creator of the machines used by Japanese noise band Defektro. Hirofumi and Nick began their sonic collaboration early this year using the common ground of DIY electronics. Both artists are making and modifying electronic circuits to find new audio possibilities and collisions.

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HEIL SPIRITS (Sydney) Heil Spirits is an attempt to find some kind of cathartic reflection by fusing elements of archived, improvised and rehearsed sounds into a high volume pastiche that resonates with strains of Musique Concrete' and Metallic musics alike.

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JODI ROSE (Sydney) Jodi Rose is a sound artist, writer, radio producer and composer, working internationally to create experimental music, radio, public & sonic art events. Rose trained in Sculpture, Performance and Installation at Sydney College of the Arts, and was ABC Radio National: Radiophonic Artist in Residence 2004; Bridge Guard, Sturovo, Slovakia 2005-2006; Transit Lounge Artist in Residence 2007-2008; Program Initiative for Art and Architecture Collaborations, Artist in Residence. Currently Artist in Residence with the Ambient Intelligence Lab at the National University of Singapore, Interactive & Digital Media Art Institute for ISEA 2008. Rose released Singing Bridges: Vibrations and Variations, CD of bridge compositions & remixes in 2005. Her works have been exhibited, broadcast and published in Australia, Scandinavia, UK, Asia, Europe and America, and she completed a permanent sound installation on The Eleanor Schonell Bridge, Brisbane in 2006. Artistic research includes musical scores from architectural bridge drawings; wireless & monitoring technology to stream live on bridges; application of musical frequency for cable installation and tensioning; exploring the technical, philosophical and musical aspects of cable vibrations through global transmissions and installations; and developing a musical interface with model bridge instruments.

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JASON SWEENEY / PANOPTIQUE ELECTRICAL (Adelaide) Panoptiqué Electrical is both an experimental studio project by Jason Sweeney and instrumentalist collaboration with electronic and classical musicians. Jason has been composing sound and music scores for live theatre, dance, film/video and installation projects nationally and internationally since 1998. He is one half of Pretty Boy Crossover. In 2008 he is undertaking an artist residency in Brussels, Belgium, at NADINE where he will work on a series of new sound compositions based around texts by Fiona Sprott called "If Not For You Then Who: Essays on Fear & Desire". Late 2008 will see Jason developing another body of compositions and sound installation in Perth, Western Australia, based at cia studios. An album of a decade of collected sound works "Let the Darkness at You" (1998-2008) will be released mid 2008 on Australian label, Sensory Projects.

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JESSICA TYRRELL (Sydney) Jessica Tyrrell is a Sydney-based new media artist who works at the intersection of installation, audio/visual performance, sound, video, online & locative media. Fusing a cinematic sensibility with a love of poetic text, she creates works that draw out fragmented narratives and often incorporate documentary elements. Jessica is currently engaged in creating physically immersive environments that experiment with the affect of interactivity and space on narrative, poetics and spectatorship. Jessica's work has been included at various festivals in Australia, such as Liquid Architecture, Real Life on Film (ACMI), & Electrofringe and she has recently exhibited at Carriageworks & Chalkhorse Gallery in Sydney.

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MELISSA HUNT (Sydney) Melissa Hunt is often a composer and musician but also works in a button shop. Occasionally she plays with a rock band, but much more frequently she writes and performs with Toydeath www.toydeath.com - an all electronic toy band. Sometimes she even writes music compositions, and in the recent past she has been enjoying developing and exhibiting interactive sound installations around Sydney. These installations are primarily concerned with sound and listening being influenced by human gesture.

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MARK BROWN (Sydney) Mark Brown is a Sydney based sound, installation and photo media artist exploring the phenomenology of space, architecture and acoustic atmospherics. Brown's practice has evolved into a poetic response to site, critiquing the history and function of architecture by documenting and making manifest unseen and unheard phenomena in space. Selected recent sound installation projects were exhibited at Headland curated by Caleb K and Scott Donovan at ICAN (2008), Peloton Gallery (2007), Tin Sheds Gallery (2007) and CONICAL Inc, Melbourne (2005). Previous key installations were exhibited at Artspace (2002, 1997) and First Draft Gallery (1995, 1994). Brown also co-developed and toured Portasonde, a mobile surround sound field unit for dLux Media Arts at Electrofringe, Newcastle (2003). Since the early 90s Brown has performed with collaborator Ian Randall in sound duo Contrail, including METAKLANG, an exhibition and performance series curated by Mark Brown at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2003), Impermanent Audio and Waveform (2001). Most recently he collaborated with David O’Donoghue for the Sound Series, CONICAL Inc, Melbourne (2007).

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IVAN LISYAK (Sydney) Ivan Lisyak is an electronic artist/musician from the Blue Mountains, Sydney. Ivan is involved in many projects including being a member of rock bands Paper Scissors, Belles Will Ring, and Sludge/ Doom- Rock duo Machine Death. In his spare time, he produces harsh techno, elongated harsh core and bad euro electro, which heard rarely outside the confines of his home studio. Ivan also is an Electronic artist; his art- practice engages in the deconstruction of time and space within a moving image, utilising digital & analogue processes with the intent to elevate tired post-production techniques of video art to their origins, the still image. Ivan has exhibited electronic art in Sydney, Melbourne, Japan and America as part of these exhibitions; i.audio, performance space (2003); Video Nasty, First Draft (2004); Big Noise, Art Space (2005); Liquid Architecture, Performance Space, Sydney (2005); Satellite Of Love, Bus Gallery, Melbourne (2005); Dying Everyday, pelt Gallery, Sydney, (2006); The Sensory Image, Arts- Asporia, Osaka / Tokyo Exhibition Centre, Japan (2005 – 2006), Bronx Map Exhibition, Bronx Map, Bronx, N. Y, America (2007).

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KUSUM NORMOYLE (Sydney) As a vocalist and electronic artist, Kusum’s sound has developed a sympathy for broken language and communication technologies. She uses the outer limits of her voice, in combination with varying electronic media, broken instruments, radios, microphones to explore improvisation and vocal norms. A graduate from Electronic Arts at UWS, she is a practicing sound artist /musician in Sydney.

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RENE CHRISTEN (Sydney) Rene Christen is an emerging Australian artist who has been creating interactive media in a number of areas since 2001. Rene takes an aesthetically conscious approach to code, both with regard to it's output and it's source, using open source solutions wherever possible. Outside of graduating with an honors degree in Electronic Arts and continuing on to receive a scholarship to do his Masters in the field, he has been exhibiting internationally, his work ranging from educational games for children isolated in Australia's outback to interactive gallery, museum and public installation, performance, and a variety of web work.