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Hearing a Possible World in the Crackling of Dry Leaves

10/19/2020

 
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I'm really pleased to share this article, written by myself and Salomé Voegelin reflecting on our sound and text installation 'And it tastes like hair' that we made for the Translating Ambiance exhibition last year.
Have a read of Unlikely Journal, issue 6 guest edited by Jordan Lacey, we're one of a huge number of articles sharing thoughts and artworks on ideas of wildness and translation;
  • Read 'Hearing a Possible World in the Crackling of Dry Leaves' here
  • Read the whole issue 6 online here

Acts of Air: Reshaping the urban sonic - Launch events & performances

7/11/2020

 
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I'm delighted to be sharing this exhibition that I've curated; 

Acts of Air: Reshaping the urban sonic
An online exhibition exploring and interrogating our cities of sound.
Launching on 16 July 2020, with two online events at 9:00 BST and 20:00 BST.
Commissioned by CRiSAP, part of the Un-Earthed Festival directed by Prof Cathy Lane. 


Although hosted online, this exhibition requires offline participation, each work is relational and needs your activation. The exhibition is just the prompt or score, your local urban environment is the gallery or performance space and you are the audience as performer who realizes the work through your participation. 

About the exhibition:

Acts of Air invites you to reshape your urban sonic present by enacting 14 sound works directly in urban spaces. Each work proposes a sounding out, a performance, a site specific listening or engagement in the streets, under bridges, by water fountains and extractor fans. They offer a means to explore and interrogate our cities of sound.
While the urban is a seemingly fixed and impermeable place, the urban sonic is in the air, performed and enacted each day as we ride the buses, press the buttons and talk to one another. With these vibrations we can choose to re-voice, re-sound, re-hear and rebuild the urban sonic in new ways.
This online exhibition brings together artists from around the world. While the works are shaped by the sites and locations they were made in, including Porto Alegre, Santiago, Hong Kong, Manchester, Melbourne and Cairo, they can be enacted and activated anywhere around the globe. Through local participation the audience as performer can sound out the artists’ provocations and create new engagements with their own local urban. From global participation we can reveal our shared and different conditions of urbanity – the opportunity to hear new possibilities and togetherness through documentation, participation and trace of these art works.
Artists: Agnes Paz, Anna Lann, Anna Raimondo, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Catherine Clover, Cedric Maridet, Colin Priest, Jacek Smolicki, Julieanna Preston, Kate Brown, Raheel Khan, Vagné, Vitório O. Azevedo and Yara Mekawei.


About the launch events:

Two launch events will be held online on 16 July 2020 BST. Launch one: 9.00 - 10.00 BST. Launch two: 20:00 - 21.30 BST. Please join us at either event that suits your timezone best (check BST here https://time.is/BST)

Both events will both include talks by the curator, Lisa Hall, presentations from the artists, plus a live participatory online performance, RMP hums, choral, viral, directed by Julieanna Preston. You are invited to participate in this live online performance - to listen and tune to electrical motors; to make their life force palpable.

RMP hums, choral, viral
During this relational encounter we will absorb, sound, mimic and emulate the motor’s vibrations; to quiver, tremble, shudder, shiver and spasm as a complementary and counter-humming material body. The noise pollution produced by electric motors, an everyday irritant to urban life, is heightened by a deep hush emerging during various levels of pandemic isolation across the globe. Imagine the chorus of our collective effort wafting through latitudinal and longitudinal currents.
To participate, you will need: A mobile device with camera, Zoom meeting software downloaded, internet access, and to be located at the site of an electric motor, device, appliance or system anywhere in your city at the time of the performance.
Duration: 15 minutes
Time & Date: 16 Jul 2020, 9.00 BST and 20.00 BST


Performance instructions and the zoom meeting links will be sent to all registered participants - anyone is welcome to participate.

Register for the launch event & performance here



Sound in the City: Translating Ambiance

5/1/2020

 
A nice article about the exhibition Translating Ambiance that Salomé Voegelin and I made the sound & text installation, 'And it tastes like hair', for. Curator Jordan Lacey interviewed by Foreground.
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Read the article online here: https://www.foreground.com.au/culture/sound-in-the-city-translating-ambiance/

Call for works: Online sound art exhibition, Un-Earthed festival

4/27/2020

 
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I'm putting together this exhibition as part of CRiSAP, Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice, research centre's,  forthcoming festival;

Un-Earthed: A festival of listening and environment. A critical reflection on our relationships with the environments that we share with other people and with other species.

This open call invites relational sound works that interrogate our sonic urbanism and sound out our sonic agency within it – works that trigger a hearing below the surface of our urban sonic landscapes in order to find something else within those same vibrations, to hear the unspoken or the cancelled out, the restraints or opportunities that might be found there, demonstrating our possibilities within these often seemingly impermeable spaces.

  • £150 fee for selected work
  • Deadline 17 May 2020, (midnight BST)

Full details are here: 
https://www.crisap.org/2020/04/24/call-for-works-online-sound-art-exhibition/


Artist In Residence with The BRI @ Auxiliary Gallery

2/19/2020

 
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Kaffe Matthews and I are starting work on a new commission with The Bicrophonic Research Institute, creating a new sonic bike project for Middlesbrough with Auxiliary Gallery. 

We're heading up to Middlesbrough this week for a one week residency, to start developing the project. We're thinking about air quality, noise pollution and generally what else might be in the air of Middlesbrough. The plan is to kit up the sonic bikes with air pollution sensors, to not only collect data, but to make their air quality audible. 

We're hoping to meet new people who'd like to get involved. If your based in the area, come and join us - we're holding an open day on Sat 22 Feb 2020. There will be vegan chili and drinks to enjoy too.
Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1985213998290171/

The work will launch at MIMA for Sonic Arts Week July 18-25 2020, Orange Pip Festival August 2020 and Middlesbrough Art Weekender September 24-27 2020

  • More on the BRI here: https://sonicbikes.net/news/#middlesbrough
  • About the BRI: https://sonicbikes.net/
  • What's a sonic bike? https://sonicbikes.net/sonic-bike/
  • Auxiliary Gallery: theauxiliary.co.uk

Licenced for Amateur Radio!!

2/14/2020

 
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Hannah Kemp-Welch and I just passed our Amateur Radio exam and are now licensed for the Amateur radio waves!! 

A giant home made aerial will soon be being strung out of one of our windows, as we get our radio shack set up... 

Thanks to the wonderful people at Eltham's Cray Valley Radio Society for the epic two day course to get us clued up and ready for the airwaves and part of the Radio Society of Great Britain.

EXHIBITION 'translating ambiance' - showing new work, a collaboration with salomé voegelin - opening 5 Sept

8/10/2019

 
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Translating Ambiance is a group exhibition exploring the possibilities of translating an ambience between environments, and what the embodied processes are during this act.

Salomé Voegelin and I have collaborated to make a new work for this show - 'And it tastes like hair', a sound and text installation.

Artists; Polly Stanton / Byron Dean, Bruce Mowson, Camilla Hannan, Michael Graeve, Jordan Lacey / remi free, Marty Kay, Lisa Hall / Salomé Voegelin, Catherine Clover and Andrew Goodman.

​Curated by Jordan Lacey and produced by Ari Sharp.

At the Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 6-22 September 2019. Opening 5 September 6pm.

For more information see Facebook

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Review: Sound at The National: New Australian Art

7/9/2019

 
'The National 2019: New Australia Art’, is a celebration of contemporary Australian art, a 'survey exhibition. 70 artists have been commissioned to make new works responding to the theme of the 'times in which they live'. This large group exhibition spans three major galleries; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

This theme nicely invites a plurality of the now, and it's great that these works are commissioned, it not only means pay for artists, but it allows them to actually respond to now, now.  

There are a number of sound focused works in the show and I've written up in a review of them on Hannah Kemp Welch's Sound Art Text


Read the article here


Images: Fort Thunder by Lucas Abela, Heala by Hannah Brontë, OH YEAH TONIGHT by Melanie Jame Wolf.

Cast Out Loud: Rupture, Vibration And Residue - Contemporary Sound Art Theory And Practice | RMIT, Melbourne

4/6/2019

 
I'm very pleased to be participating in this in Melbourne next month at RMIT and meeting Jordan, Phill and Polly. Many thanks to Jordan, Rose and the CAST research group! To register for a ticket visit the eventbrite page here. 
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Image: Polly Stanton, Dam Wall

Sound artists interface with sonic environments to provoke changes in the minutiae of everyday life – social, political, aesthetic – as a means to disassemble/reassemble those relations and flows that inform our habitual connections with the world. Three international sound artists – Lisa Hall, Philip Samartzis and Polly Stanton – are invited to RMIT’s Black Box to discuss their sonic practices across urban and wilderness environments, and in relation to human perception. Embodiment, technology, listening and intervention form key approaches of each artist’s interactions with environments and everyday human activity. These practices will be discussed in relationship to immersive audio-visual artworks created by each of the three artists, presented in the Black Box’s state of the art audio-visual system. With discussion guided by Jordan Lacey, audience-participants will have the opportunity to be involved in an open conversation about what a sound art practice is, when realised in the political, social and cultural context of the city.

Lisa Hall is a sound artist exploring urban environments using audio interventions and performative actions, and is affiliated with Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) at University of the Arts London. Currently on sabbatical, Lisa is travelling, listening to urban spaces across the globe and developing new practice based research works.

Phil Samartzis a sound artist, scholar and curator with a specific interest in the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions and their communities. Philip is the co-founder and artistic director of the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture and teaches courses in sound art and spatial practice in the School of Art.

Polly Stanton is a moving image artist and sound practitioner who’s mode of working is expansive and site based, with her practice intersecting across a number of disciplines from film production, sound design, field research, performance, writing and publication. Polly is a lecturer in the Master of Media program at RMIT University.

Jordan Lacey is an urban sound installation artist and author operating at the interface of the sonic arts and urban design. He is author of Sonic Rupture, which offers an affect-based approach to the design of urban soundscapes, and is recent recipient of a DECRA fellowship entitled, Translating Ambiance.

CAST, Contemporary Art and Social Transformation https://cast.org.au is the research group within RMIT’s School of Art. This CAST OUT LOUD event is part of our Public Art research stream.
REGISTER FOR A TICKET

Online exhibition: Live* From cicada

4/6/2019

 
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My sound walk work 'Walking with Crickets' is playing in this exhibition 'Live* from CICADA' which is a totally unique version of an online sound exhibition - 

​CICADA Gallery are exhibiting the work of twenty artists working in sound. Each audio work has been processed with an 
impulse response recording made within the the physical space of CICADA (an artist-run venue located in Ogden, Utah, America). By treating each piece with the natural reverberant qualities found within the approximately 1,325 cubic foot gallery space, a hypothetical performance takes place where the sonic works made in disparate locations now aurally appear to have been originally performed within the same subterranean structure.

The exhibition is actually the recorded document of this conceptual event!  
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