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LA8 newsletter enter your email address _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 12 :: Tuesday 10th July, 2007 :: :: :: LA8 Melbourne starts tomorrow night :: :: :: http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html#mel Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au :: :: :: Unofficial opening tonight :: :: :: Tuesday 10th July: Pateras/Fox/Noetinger (FRANCE) @ Make It Up Club, Bar Open, $5/7, 9pm. Special one-off collaboration between Metamkine sound maestro and local legends. :: :: :: Dave Phillips and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock talk at Footscray AV Club :: :: :: Schimpfluch Gruppe (SWITZERLAND) Artist Talk Friday 13 July 7-9pm Hydra, Footscray Arts FAVSC is honoured to host the artist talk of Schimpfluch Gruppe (Dave Philips and Rudolf Eb.Er) on the eve of their tour of Australia and New Zealand. An uncompromising experimental performance group that had its genesis in Switzerland in the mid-eighties, Schimpfluch Gruppe are exponents of "psycho-physical tests and trainings", a methodology of extreme duration and extreme physicality in performance. Pushing the body to its limits in a live context, Dave and Rudolf will present video footage rarely seen outside of Europe. This is a unique opportunity to gain insights into the origins, motivation and desires of Switzerland's influential Schimpfluch Gruppe. READ ME: -------- FAVSC is a regular meeting place for artists, noise makers, sound-designers, electronics boffins, installation artists, film freaks, VHS geeks, performers, programmers, DIYers, phonographers, photographers, holographers, circuit benders, laptop musicians, curators, producers and anyone with an interest in lo/hi-fi new/old-media art. TRANSPORT: ---------- Take Williamstown/Werribee/Sydenham train from city, alight at Footscray, turn away from the shopping centre on your right, go left over the rail bridge, down Bunbury street until you hit Moreland st, look for the white shipping container. Footscray Arts is located on the Maribyrnong river bicycle path, which crosses the Footscray Road bicycle path from the Melbourne city. Limited on-site parking available INFO: ----- Schimpfluch Gruppe (SWITZERLAND) Friday 13 July 7-9pm Hydra, Footscray Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray FAVSC is produced by Emile Zile and co-curated by Martyn Coutts, Artists-In-Residence at Footscray Arts. FAVSC is a new media lab program designed to encourage and build relationships with established and emerging media artists. CONTACT: -------- cultureshocktherapist at gmail dot com BEFRIEND US: http://www.myspace.com/favsc KNOW MORE: http://www.footscrayarts.com Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 11 :: Friday 6th July, 2007 :: :: :: LA8 Brisbane starts tonight :: :: :: Season passes can be pre-booked online at (free cd for all those pre-booking to be collected at the merch table) http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/view/liquid-architecture-8/ ____________________________________________________________________ :: :: :: Jerome Noetinger (Metamkine) plays the Make It Up Club, Melbourne :: :: :: Tuesday 10th July Jerome Noetinger (France) /Rob Fox/Anthony Pateras Rob Jackson solo Ryan McRobb Mousetrapreplica www.myspace.com/mousetrapreplicamusic the Make it up club is presently situated at Bar Open : 317 Brunswick St Fitzroy, Melbourne. Every Tuesday starting at 8.30pm. $7/$5 http://www.makeitupclub.com.au _________________________________________________________ Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 10 :: Tuesday 3rd July, 2007 :: :: :: Now taking bookings for FREE Deep Listening Workshop:: :: :: FREE Deep Listening Meditation Workshop with Pauline Oliveros (USA) + IONE (USA) Date & Time: Saturday 14 July, 2pm. Venue: RMIT Spiritual Centre, Building 11B, RMIT City Campus, Cnr Swanston and La Trobe Streets, Melbourne. Please bring a pillow or a yoga mat. Bookings essential to Bianca.Durrant(at)rmit.edu.au Pauline Oliveros is an internationally acclaimed sound artist and performer, whose practice spans over four decades. She will be performing with IONE (USA), spoken word artist and noted author, playwright and poet, as part of LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 8, annual festival of sound, audio-visual, installation and performance. We are excited to announce this free workshop, where participants can engage with ideas about listening and sound and how this affects the body. "Deep Listening" is for ear-minded people; musicians and artists interested in expanding their understanding of sound and its effects on the body; meditators interested in enhancing their depth of practice through listening; teachers who want to encourage appreciation for listening in their students; and people interested in well being, relaxation, excitement and connection with others and the environment. For further information please visit the festival website at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au To see the venue please go to http://www.rmit.edu.au/chaplaincy/spiritualcentre _____________________________ :: :: :: Architectural Delivery:: :: :: On Sunday July 8 Simon Hampson (Melb.) and Matt Rösner (Perth) will perform a one-off live collaboration for radio station 3RRR FM in Melbourne. The performance will go live-to-air as part of the radio program ‘Delivery’, presented by Owen McKern between 4:00pm and 6:00pm. Since 1998 ‘Delivery’ has dedicated two hours every Sunday to Australian instrumental music and sound in all its myriad incarnations. Simon Hampson and Matt Rösner will be performing together with Shoeb Ahmad (Canberra) for Liquid Architecture 8 on Wednesday July 11, 2007 at the North Melbourne Town Hall Arts House. 3RRR FM 102.7MHz Melbourne Streaming live at www.rrr.org.au Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 9 :: Friday 29th June, 2007 ______________________ :: :: :: LA8 has begun :: :: :: Last night saw the festival kick off in Sydney with a suitably twisted, bizarre, irreverent, and unpredictable set of performances. Don’t say Liquid Architecture doesn’t know how to laugh. If you missed it then tough luck, because the rest if the festival is completely different! Make sure you’re there to hear it … Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org :: :: :: End of Symbiosis party :: :: :: Symbiosis on 3RRR 102.7 FM in Melbourne, long time Liquid Architecture supporter, finished this week. Help Simon celebrate, commemorate, and commiserate at the Christopher Willits show tomorrow night (Saturday 30th June). From Simon; Hello dear friends, This week marked the end of Symbiosis on Triple R. I have wrapped it up due to work and impending study commitments. But we’re going to go out with a bang! This Saturday come down to North Bazaar for an audio-visual feast. Christopher Willits is in town from San Francisco and he will be performing a special hour-long audio visual set just for us. I will be djing alongside friends of Symbiosis, Touch Typist will grace us with their dulcet tones and I would love to have a drink with you all. And the blurb.. Christopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco, California. Striking a delicate balance between acoustic and electronic sounds and systems, Christopher manages to defy genre distinctions while still defining a ‘sound’ unto his own. His recent album for Ghostly International 'Surf Boundaries' captured the pure essences of pop song writing and buried them deep inside an unusual shell of post-production, the resulting album being hailed as one of the most original visions of pop influenced abstract electronica. For more info/sounds... http://christopherwillits.com Cheers, Simon ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 8 :: Tuesday 26th June, 2007 :: :: :: ABC Radio National special :: :: :: As part of the festival on Radio National Sunday night 1st July at 8.35pm till 10pm Liquid Architecture and The Night Air present "Radiophonic Remix". Some of Australia's leading sound artists interpret the idea of remix for radio. Buttress O'Kneel remixes her favorite remixers, including Negativland, John Oswald and Coldcut. Rik Rue remixes a whole world of sounds and music. ][oyd Barrett remixes dreams, nightmares and talkback radio. Lucas Darklord remixes the culture of Black Metal. And Shannon O'Neill remixes all of them. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/nightair _________________________________________________ :: :: :: Resonant Tapestry Liquid Architecture special :: :: :: Resonant Tapestry is an experimental radio show that interweaves music genres, taking listeners on an elaborate sonic journey. http://www.straightup.com.au/page?n=825 This episode Migration Of The Snails celebrates the eighth coming of Australia's premier sound-arts festival Liquid Architecture. A special thanks to Shannon O'Neill and Ben Byrne of Alias Frequencies for organising the Sydney LA8 shows. This playlist features some artists from their net release Pink Sheets - Edition One www.aliasfrequencies.org/ps : : RESONANT TAPESTRY : : Presented by Yun Mei & Sofie Loizou www.myspace.com/resonantapestry www.myspace.com/plumindustries www.myspace.com/sofieloizoumusic Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 7 :: Friday 22nd June, 2007 :: :: LA8 radio feature :: :: New Music Up Late, ABC Classic FM Saturday 23rd June 10.30pm http://www.abc.net.au/classic/newmusic featuring a live interview with artistic director Nat Bates Liquid Architecture 8 Launches In Sydney Next Week! Liquid Architecture 8 kicks off in Sydney next week at the Carriageworks with three nights of performance from June 28 to 30. International guests include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group Cellule d?Intervention Metamkine and Swiss aktionist performance artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Dave Phillips, who will perform alongside local artists Tony Mason-Cox, Natasha Anderson, Peter Newman and Lloyd Barrett, among many more. First up on the Thursday night is the gala opening, a night of skewed interpretations of popular music with Winner, Tony Mason Cox and Daniel Green, before a night of extreme performance on the Friday with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Dave Phillips, Natasha Anderson and Lucas Darklord before an AV spectacular on Saturday night featuring Cellule D'Intervention Metamkine, Lloyd Barrett, Abject Leader, Kamusta and Peter Newman, to close the festival. Also, the 'Terminal' installation program of sound works will be in the foyer for the duration of the festival. Season passes are only $30 too so be sure to make the most of the opportunity and check out the whole festival. SYDNEY ARTIST FEATURE ______________________ :: :: :: :: Winner :: :: :: :: Winner is Sydney's own psychotic supergroup covers band. Your favourite pop hits as you've never heard them before. Get down to such classics as Bohemian Rhapsody and Tainted Love as performed by a demented Eno-era Roxy Music featuring Sweden, Swerve and Adrian (Spastic Howitzer) Bertram. ____________________________ :: :: :: :: Peter Newman :: :: :: :: Peter Newman is an emerging artist based in Sydney who primarily produces time-based works for both installation and performance. His practice is concerned with intuitively drawing from both digital technologies and organic artmaking methodologies in aspiring towards a seamless fluidity of process, ultimately offering an abstract cinema for the ears and eyes. He is driven by a need to explore the complex nature of time and its perception, and to produce work which exists firmly within it, devoid of an abstract critical distance. Newman has performed or exhibited around Australia in varying capacities at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the 2004 and 2006 Sydney Big Day Out music festival, and numerous artist-run spaces such as First Draft and Phatspace. Several of his sound and video works travelled to South Korea last year to be part of the Seoul Fringe Festival and Gwangju Biennale. _________________________________ :: :: :: :: Thomas Knox Arnold :: :: :: :: Thomas Knox Arnold is a Sydney based artist who is not very interested in sport and rather focuses much of his attention on/to sound/s. Once one half of cult radio program Dark Hours (broadcast on 2RRR throughout much of the 90s), he now studies at the University of Western Sydney and releases music under the name Lucas Darklord. Check out his releases on Painfree Found Sound. ______________________________________________ :: :: :: :: Tony Mason-Cox with Ann Onymous :: :: :: :: Tony Mason-Cox is an Australian insurance salesman. _________________________________________________________ Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 6 :: Tuesday 19th June, 2007 :: :: LA8 radio feature :: :: New Music Up Late, ABC Classic FM Saturday 23rd June 10.30pm http://www.abc.net.au/classic/newmusic :: :: more LA7 interviews and concert recordings now online :: :: Gail Priest interview http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s1943650.htm Interview and concert excerpts recorded by ABC Classic FM in 2006 at a Liquid Architecture 7 concert at The Performance Space, Sydney SPACIOUS SOUNDS ARTIST FEATURE ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Lloyd Barrett :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney. "There is no auditory container for sounds... music communicates with all times and all spaces of a film, even as it leaves them to their separate and distinct existences" (Michel Chion: 1990). For well over a decade, Australia's Lloyd Barrett has been issuing all manner of intricate sound works – from diligent examinations of postconcréte sound and abstracted rhythmic projects to spacious ambient works. In 2005, he committed himself to create Mise en Scene, which he will present at Liquid Architecture 8, a work drawing on the concepts of filmic sound and exploring the possibilities of philosophies suggested by authors and theorists such as Michel Chion. The resulting album heralds a bold statement of intent from Barrett. Deeply evocative, maintaining moments of extreme intimacy and vast remoteness, this record is characterised by highly realised imagined sonic language. It speaks to the notions of acousmatic composition and delivers a document rich with decomposed found sound, unfamiliar texture and instrumental passages reflective of electroacoustic methodology. www.halftheory.com/skon ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Nigel Wright:: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane and Melbourne. Jon Dale writes about Nigel’s 3” CDR release Tapir, in The Wire Issue 272 October 2006; “New Zealand's Nigel Wright is part of a loose conglomerate of artists, circling around the CMR label, who have found new ways to approach computer music. Wright works with big, weighty chunks of sound and his palette is all oppresive greyscale and flickering hints of kaleidoscopic colour. He uses laptop to weather and and rust his guitars strings, ricocheting hefty down-strummed chords through cavernous banks of effects and then watching the overtones drift in the distance, like trailing headlights captured on polaroids. Sometimes Wright's music suggests the early releases on German techno label Chain Reaction if they were stripped of all rhythm; on the evidence of Tapir, however, I wouldn't be surprised if soon he was spoken of in the same breath as Tim Hecker and Christian Fennesz.” www.myspace.com/nigelwright ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Sounding Wivenhoe:: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane. Sounding Wivenhoe / Sounding the Powerhouse Sounding: The act of one that sounds. A probe of the environment for scientific observation. A measured depth of water. A site-specific musical performance on the banks of Lake Wivenhoe harnessing music, scientific data, and the natural environment. Video installation and live events at Brisbane Powerhouse. Composer Erik Griswold and artist Rebecca Ross with musicians Bettina Crimmins, Elliott Dalgleish, Oscar Garrido de la Rosa, Richard Haynes, Crystal Hildred, Louise King, Dan Quigley, John Rodgers, Vanessa Tomlinson. Lake Wivenhoe performance: Saturday, June 30, 2:30 pm Captain Logan Complex (park at Logan Inlet) Directions to Lake Wivenhoe: From Brisbane access the Warrego Highway via Ipswich Road or Mt Crosby Road. Turn right into Brisbane Valley Highway at Blacksoil, proceed through Fernvale and follow the signs. An alternative route is via the Samford/Mt Glorious Road and Northbrook Pathway linking to the Wivenhoe/Somerset Road. Liquid Architecture 8 Brisbane Powerhouse performance: Friday, July 6, 10 pm In case of rain check this web page www.erikgriswold.org ______________________________________ Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 5 :: Friday 15th June, 2007 :: :: :: All artist biographies are now online :: :: :: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8bios.html :: :: :: mp3s are now online :: :: :: Many bios have links to an mp3 for that artist or go to www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/soundvideo.html (not recommended if on dial up) :: :: :: Call for volunteers (Melbourne only) :: :: :: We are currently seeking Festival Volunteers for Melbourne across a range of production areas including: - Artist Liaison - Festival/Arts Administration - Front of House and Bar - Publicity and Promotions If you have an interest in these areas, or are working, studying or volunteering in the arts or music industry, this opportunity will help develop your skills at a professional level. To apply to volunteer please contact the Event Producer, Bianca Durrant at Bianca.Durrant(at)rmit.edu.au or on 0412 132 740. We will be happy to discuss the possibility of an internship if an area above is of specific interest to you. Please indicate if you have any special qualifications or certificates such as: - Responsible Serving of Alcohol Certificate - Elevated Work Platform Licence - Speak French, German or Dutch - Have a practical coursework requirement in your area of study UNSUNG HISTORIES ARTIST FEATURE ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Artefacts CD:: :: :: :: Launching at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane and Melbourne. Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: 1930 – 1973, a new compilation CD documenting the forgotten history of Australian experimental music, is a landmark in the historical research of early Australian innovative and exploratory music created and recorded in Australia. Over three years of research by Clinton Green (Shame File Music) has resulted in this compilation CD that stretches over four decades, a time previously thought by many to be barren of experimental activity in Australian music. Tracks by Percy Grainger, Keith Humble, Arthur Cantrill, Felix Werder, Ron Nargorcka, Melbourne Dada Group (featuring Barry Humphries), Syd Clayton, Jack Ellitt, Robert Rooney, Bruce Clarke, Val Stephen, Barry McKimm, Tully and NIAGGRA. Pre-order your copy now for the special discounted price of AU$23ppd (US$17.30ppd) (shipped in July 2007) http://www.shamefilemusic.com/artefacts.html ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Shame File Music :: :: :: :: Presenting the launch of the Artefacts CD at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane and Melbourne. SHAME FILE Music has two main arms of operation: a mailorder catalogue of quality Australian experimental music releases, and a small label producing releases mainly connected with the musical output of Clinton Green (Undecisive God), as well as compilation releases. The label was born in 1990 and saw a decade of cassette releases before moving to CD in 2000. The label name, SHAME FILE, was taken from the Hinch current affairs TV programme of the time, which had a regular segment of that name listing various dodgy tradesmen, conmen, asian queue-jumping paedophiles, etc. Despite the negative connotations, Shame File continues to be an important outlet for experimental Australian sound work. As Clinton says, “I am mainly thinking of artists whose work I really admire but who are unheard of by many, due to the artist’s lack of a supporting record label or their own resources to self –release their material on a substantial scale.” http://www.shamefilemusic.com ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Robin Fox :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane and Melbourne. Helping launch the Artefacts CD will be Robin Fox performing on Keith Humble synthesisers (and others). Robin Fox is a Melbourne-based sound-artist and researcher currently working with live digital media in improvised, composed and collaborative settings. He also creates audio-visual works for the cathode ray oscilloscope which have been released on the dvd ‘backscatter’. This work, in constant development, is currently being realised with a high-powered, audio-controlled laser system. He has performed with some of the world’s leading improvisers including Jon Rose, Tony Buck, Clayton Thomas (album Substation released by Room40 records in 2005), Erkki Veltheim, Natasha Anderson and Sean Baxter, among many others, and has an ongoing collaborative duo with composer/performer Anthony Pateras. This duo is documented on Coagulate, released through Synaesthesia in 2003, and Flux Compendium, released on eMego in 2006. He is also a member of Beta-erko, a quartet recently released on Berlin-based Quecksilber label. Fox is a regular performer and speaker at Festivals around Australia and performs regularly across Europe. All his releases, including ‘backscatter’ DVD, are available through Synaesthesia: http://www.myspace.com/synaesthesiarecords Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 4 :: Tuesday 12th June, 2007 :: :: LA7 interviews and concert recordings now online :: :: Wondering what sound art is and what sound artists are trying to achieve? Go to http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s1943661.htm to hear interview and concert excerpts recorded by ABC Classic FM in 2006 at a Liquid Architecture 7 concert at The Performance Space, Sydney Also, follow the link to Julian Knowles’ paper exploring the distinction (real or created) between sound art and contemporary music practice in the Australian context, and don’t forget to check out the rest of Rainer Linz’s comprehensive site. http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/articles/ideologies.html LISTENING DEEPLY ARTIST FEATURE ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Pauline Oliveros :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane and Melbourne. Pauline is one of America's most vital composers. Deep Listening(r), her lifetime practice, is fundamental to her composing, performing and teaching. She serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland CA and president of Deep Listening Institute in Kingston NY. In performance Pauline plays an accordion that has been re-tuned in two different systems of just intonation. Additionally she uses electronics to alter the sound of the accordion and to incorporate and transform room acoustics. In Melbourne, in addition to her performance, she and Ione will be conducting a Deep Listening Meditation workshop. http://www.deeplistening.org/pauline ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Ione :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane and Melbourne. Ione is a spoken word performer and sound artist who performs with Pauline Oliveros and other artists in the United States and Internationally. A noted author, playwright and poet, her works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family;Four Generations of American Women of Color, Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream! She is the playwright and director of Njinga the Queen King and the dance opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him. An educator and counsellor who specializes in dreams and the creative process, she conducts seminars and retreats throughout the world. Ione is the Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. http://www.deeplistening.org/ione SYDNEY AUDIENCES: Regrettably Pauline and Ione are unable to perform in Sydney this year. Perhaps consider a quick trip to Brisbane or Melbourne … for Pauline’s first performances in Australia!!! ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Camilla Hannan :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane and Melbourne. Camilla is a Brisbane based sound artist working across a range of arenas. She utilises field recordings as the source material for her work. These recordings are then digitally processed into abstract representations of site and memory. http://www.camillahannan.com ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: pimmon :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Brisbane. Paul Gough is pimmon. The name acts as an empty canvas for his otherworld soundscapes. The sound of pimmon? Buzzes and blips, distorted rumbles, ghosts of melody, radar pulses, glitched ambience all are melted into an unpredictable slab of sound that fluctuates on and off. Minimal and maximised sounds weave without sounding unfocused. Microscopic worlds that are zoom-lensed into grainy focus, alien and yet vaguely familiar, an emotive call from the distance. http://tigerbeat6.com/pimmon EXTREME SOUNDS ARTIST FEATURE addendum ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Abe Sada :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Melbourne. Abe Sada are an electric bass guitar noise improv quartet. They often play with tools, knives, whips, radio’s and other domestic appliances. They often play under stages to vibrate audiences with their extreme bass. Led by Perth based artist Cat Hope, Abe Sada are currently touring Japan and are due to release a new album in 2007. think low : think loud : think noise. http://bloodstarmusic.com/artists/abe-sada Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 3 :: Friday 8th June, 2007 EXTREME SOUNDS ARTIST FEATURE ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Runzelstirn and Gurgelstøck :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney and Melbourne. RUNZELSTIRN & GURGLESTOCK is the work of long-running avant-garde visionary Rudolf Eb.er. Originally emerging from the Swiss Schlimpfluch group, along with folk such as Joke Lanz (aka Sudden Infant), RUNZELSTIRN has built quite a reputation for severe recordings and unpredictable live shows. His is the noise of spluttering soundscapes, hyperventilating, blood curdling screaming, gagging, dogs barking, punches, vomiting, whistles, laughs, creaks, pops and squeals that emerge through the oddly-timed silences. All this delivered via intense, audience frightening ‘aktion’ performances that will undoubtedly shock. See Rudolf’s amazing, disturbing paintings at his website. www.artnotcrime.net/r+g _______________________ :: :: :: :: Dave Phillips :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney and Melbourne. Dave Phillips has been a member of Schimpfluch Gruppe, Fear Of God, Ohne and Dead Peni. In his solo work he blends together field recording, real noise, insect recordings, cracked electro acoustic sound and voice to create extreme computer music, crafting cartoonish sketches with organic and synthesized sounds, cut and placed in (seemingly) free-form arrangements. Expect shocking performances designed to unsettle, disturb and make your skin crawl. http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/dp http://www.myspace.com/dpdavephillips Dave and Rudolf will be performing at Tongue and Groove in Brisbane on 5th July ________________________________________________________ :: :: :: :: Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Melbourne For a decade Sydney based Lucas Abela (aka Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device) has travelled the globe grinding his face into a sheet of amplified plate glass. As he screams and hyperventilates onto it and then pulls and squeezes at the sheet, the noise generated wildly varies and wavers as it is run through some pedals and processing that results in an orgy of speaker rattling noise. Expect nausea, saliva, blood, fresh wounds and sickly sounds. http://www.dualplover.com/justice.htm http://www.myspace.com/justiceyeldham _______________________________ :: :: :: :: Natasha Anderson :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney Natasha is a Melbourne musician who combines contrabass and garklein recorders with electronics to create works which constantly shift between dialectic extremes; those of frequency, the digital and the bodily and the processed and the instrumental. Appearances in 2006 ranged from the Festival Musiques Innovatrices (France to the Skopje Summer Festival (Macedonia) and the OFF Film Festival (Brisbane). http://cajid.com/artists.html _________________________________ :: :: :: :: Thomas Knox Arnold :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney is a Sydney based artist who is not very interested in sport and rather focuses much of his attention on/to sound/s. Once one half of cult radio program Dark Hours (broadcast on 2RRR throughout much of the 90s), he now studies at the University of Western Sydney and releases music under the name Lucas Darklord. Check out his releases on Painfree Found Sound. http://www.painfreefoundsound.com/pod Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane www.brisbanepowerhouse.org ========================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. They can subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter #2 :: Tuesday 5th June, 2007 AUDIOVISUAL ARTIST FEATURE ______________________________________ :: :: :: :: Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in all 3 cities. Through the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and highly ingenious live on stage editing, this French audiovisual performance group produce and direct a new film with each of their performances. Working around a core narrative, they spill eddies of impromptu vignettes, accompanied by a live soundtrack of tape fragments and ancient synthesiser sounds. These three collaborators, Jérôme Noetinger, Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel, have worked together for ten years, and have succeeded in pushing the boundaries of film and soundtrack into the realm of live performance. http://metamkine.free.fr Jérôme’s mail order label www.metamkine.com _______________________ :: :: :: :: Abject Leader :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney and Melbourne. Abject Leader are Sally Golding (film, projectors) and Joel Stern (concrete sound) and Jamie Hume (shenanigans). Hailing from Brisbane Australia, they perform expanded cinema pieces for multiple 16mm projectors, handmade film, feedback systems, incongruous foley noise, sprockets and flicker, trumpet, and cardboard boxes. www.abjectleader.org Experimental and avant garde film and DVD www.otherfilm.org ____________________ :: :: :: :: Kamusta :: :: :: :: Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney Kamusta is a collaboration between Sydney based video artists Chris Caines and Jessica Tyrrell. Jessica Tyrrell is an emerging experimental filmmaker, video artist and writer. Chris Caines is a filmmaker working in shorts, documentary, locative & wireless media. Testing the filmic possibilities of VJ performance, Kamusta creates live visual and audio pieces that aspire to a kind of "live cinema". ================================================= Please forward this newsletter to anyone you know who would be interested. Subscribe at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/subscribe.html or become a festival myspace friend at www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with artist features, special announcements, satellite events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. To unsubscribe from this mailing list please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. _______________________________________________________________________________ Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter #1 :: Friday 1st June, 2007 It’s the first day of winter in Australia and that must mean … It’s Liquid Architecture time! Liquid Architecture, Australia's premier sound-arts festival celebrates its eighth year with live performances, audio-visuals, aktions & installations in a sense-specific feast for the ears. International guests include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, Swiss aktionist performance artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Dave Phillips, and renowned US composer Pauline Oliveros. Local gems include the launch of Shame File’s Artefacts CD, a new compilation CD documenting the forgotten history of Australian experimental music, and audio visual wunderkinds Abject Leader. Tickets for all events are now on sale online. Mark these dates in your diary SYDNEY, Thursday June 28 - Saturday June 30 BRISBANE, Friday July 6 - Saturday July 7 MELBOURNE, Wednesday July 11 - Saturday July 14 Bookmark these pages www.liquidarchitecture.org.au www.myspace.com/liquidarchitecturefestival And mark these emails as ‘Not Spam’ :) Subscription to this newsletter will keep you updated with special announcements about the festival and side events, radio and print interviews, volunteering opportunities, and other extra bits. 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