Sound of Failure

The Sound of Failure is sound art festival based in Sydney, begun in 2007, that explores notions of organised and indeterminate music/sound/noise as conceived and experienced in this, our post-digital era. It is both an inclusive and critical exploration of a broad spectrum of audio experience that includes everything from experimental cabaret, to granular synthesis-derived microsound. This year, the Sound of Failure is a multi-sited event centred around the main performance night at the Factory Theatre in Enmore, which will include some big names and some exciting emerging performers.

Sound of Failure (main event)
August 30, 7pm
Factory Theatre
105 Victoria Rd,  Enmore
$21.50 (+booking fee)
Book online at http://factorytheatre.com.au/events/factory (after July 1). Utilising the two performance areas at the Factory, Sound of Failure will present non-stop noise – from laptop warriors to endurance karaoke!

Some of the performers include:

  • Toy Death
  • Est Et Non
  • Peter Newman & Jonathon Hunter
  • Marquis de Sound
  • Lecter Macabre & Triangle
  • Samuel Bruce
  • Dianne's Dollhouse
  • Tom Hall (Brisbane)
  • Jessica Tyrrell & Chris Caines
  • catfingers
  • Glenn Remington
  • Greg Chatonsky (Canada)        
  • Starella


Sound Off Picnic

August 30, 3pm, Enmore Park, Marrickville
Before the performance evening at the Factory, there will be an audio picnic in Enmore Park. Bring your food and noise makers for this impromptu, unofficial, romp in the grass!


Question/Answer... Interruption
(performance)
Late August (date TBA) – free
UTS performance space
Bon Marche building, Broadway Campus

This performance will explore and disrupt the notion that music should be as symmetrical as a ‘perfect’ human face. Participants in the Sound of Failure will be invited to participate in this collaborative work aimed at investigating notions of rhythm, structure, form, space and time.

Sound of Failure (group show)
Opening August 19, August 21-September 7
Chrissie Cotter Gallery
Pidcock St, Camperdown
Curated by Jennifer Teo

Some of the artists include:

  • Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda
  • Monoperro
  • Vienna Parreno
  • catfingers
  • Eva Muller
  • Cleaning lady (Vic)
  • Subscape Annex (USA)
  • Cara-Ann Simpson
  • 2203 Collective
Sound of Re-use (group show)
Opening September 3, September 4-13
Reverse Garbage
8/142 Addison Rd, Marrickville
Curated by Mary Jean Newton
Reverse Garbage has, for the last 30 years, shown what you can creatively do with discards and offcuts that would otherwise be condemned to landfill. Applying the same principle to sound making, these artists have constructed audio installations from junk or using principles of reuse (which will be interspersed amongst the other 'junk').

Some of the artists include:

  • Ian Andrews
  • Nick Wishart
  • Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark
  • (...and many more!)

Roccoco Vortex (solo show)
Opening August 20, August 21-30
Don't Look 2203
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill
Wade Marynowsky

Spacecraft (solo show)
Mid to late August (dates TBA)
Mori Gallery
Day Street, Haymarket
Matt and Greer Rochford

The Sound of Failure festival is directed by Greg Shapley.
Email: dontlookgallery@gmail.com or phone: 0401 152 434