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Catfingers
extruded
snow
The title refers to tuning for broadcasts (sound and vision). There are
worlds
of richness in between the narrow bands where programmes exist. This is
a
well-known and well-explored theme in art and musical works created
since the
advent of radio.
Many modern TV receivers attempt to hide what happens between bands,
which is
the preserve of every kind of noise up to, and including, the cosmic.
Catfingers attempts
to create something that does the opposite.
The extrusion presented here (used in the sense of passing a starting
material
through a series of operations which change it into something else) is
an early
stage of working with this audio and visual plasma, and artefacts.
Catfingers is a front for Ashley Scott. He is a Sydney artist who has
created
works for ABC radio, the Performance Space, the Song Company, Ensemble
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cleaninglady
The idea of CLEANING LADY is based around
Improvisational
Principles...to write, play and generate sounds live; manipulating and
ultimately destroying them through the use of many different types of
Effects
Pedals, Signal Generators and Interrupted Electronics. The live sound
is
ambient with an unsettling subtext; at times extreme and always
exploring the
high and low frequency spectrum.
http://www.myspace.com/iamcleaninglady |
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Gregory
Chatonsky
My harddrive is experiencing some strange
noises
Gregory
Chatonsky lives in both Montreal and Paris. He has
made new media and internet art since 1991 and is a teacher at
L'Université du
Québec à Montréal.
http://www.incident.net/users/gregory
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The Contingent Ensemble
Blemish/Colour
Blemish/Colour is an experiment – the mind versus the
physicality of performance, mediated by the body. It concerns the
process of
learning, of enduring, about the cumulative weight of physical
activity. It is
about getting tired and fucking up. It is about the imperfections, the
cracks
that begin to appear when your mind starts to drift. This is what you
are here
to witness.
It is also about the subjective nature of
time
and space for both you and the performers. Each performer will be
attempting to
hold each chord for five seconds, but their interpretations of time are
bound
to be so different that a kind of organic, shifting phasing will occur,
causing
different layerings.
So eat, drink, walk around, sit down, talk,
stare at the performers, go for a smoko, hell – go to the pub for a
while. The
more the performance goes on, the more interesting it’s likely to get.
Mistakes
will be made, and these mistakes will make the piece.
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Est
Et Non
DADA actions and Strategic Failings
EEN present
a freshly composed piece for the first
Sound of Failure, presented by Don't Look gallery, Sydney.
Applying a number of
pre-fabricated playing actions and
techniques in an exploration of the mechanisms of a homespun
network of
battery powered, circuit manipulated, analogue synthesis and digital
composition tools, EEN delve into the micro-sonorous nodes of their
production
methodologies to put the failings up in the mix, loopholes in the
continuum of
the fabric, the easy out in the space time continuum, ripples;
nostalgia for
the future past, aberrations, alliterations mystifications swirling,
it's all
falling down around your ears, oscillations, obscurings obsticurations;
EST ET
NON philosophy is constant action and contemplation, simultaneously...
Longings for the
promised future past, we do things,
we believe in Zen, actions speak louder than words, beauty is in the
eye of the
beholder, rhizomatics are our meta-functionality.
http://www.myspace.com/est_et_non |
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Tom
Hall
Tom Hall is a
Brisbane
artist who has pursued an interest
in redundant and subsidiary spaces and subjective immersion through the
eclectic use of sound, video, photography and installation. He has
recently
struck success with the release of a critically acclaimed experimental
sound
album, ‘Fluere’, which was based on Brisbane’s iconic Story Bridge.
Tom Hall will use
the degenerate sounds formed from the
destruction
of flimsy CD media combined with the glitch/skip/malfunction from aging
and
damaged CD players. These sounds form the basis of a live processing
performance that combine them in a progressive and layered manner,
juxtaposing
the usual frustration experienced when one strikes this inferior
malfunction.
http://www.tomhall.com.au
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Lecter Macabre
Lecter Macabre is the music of the spheres; psychedelic, free form and
improvised (spiralling, on axis, perpetual…). The band is equal parts
Josh
Shipton (Triangle, Marquis De Sound – vocals) and Mark Selway (Music
for Big
Game Hunting RIP – electronics). Lecter Macabre follow the teachings of
Le
Sony'r Ra, Akita Masami and Nikola Tesla existing simultaneously in the
past,
present and future.
Lecter Macabre's live performances are cathartic experiments in high
volume,
free form sonic mesmerism, radio emissions emanating from the heat
death at the
centre of the universe, psychic turmoil at the edge of sleep and at
times, when
the mood takes us, the meditative ambience of warm golden honey poured
into
your ears by two unlicensed practitioners of ancient druid rites;
strange,
ugly, compelling and beautiful.
Each Lecter Macabre
performance is tailor-made for the situation. The
Sound of
Failure you say?… "Suits you sir!"
http://www.myspace.com/lectermacabre |
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Marquis De Sound
The Marquis De Sound have never had two shows/songs that sound the same
due to
their constant rotating door lineup policy. Formed by
multi-instrumentalists
Josh Shipton and Noel Power, Marquis De Sound balances itself
recklessly
between beauty and horror, and uses everything from guitars to
traditional
Eastern percussion, to the sounds of attack dogs and baboons in order
to create
this sound. Lineups have included members of Box Freezer Romance, The
Charles
Manson Experiment, TRIANGLE and Lecter Macabre.
http://www.myspace.com/MarquisDeSound |
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Wade Marynowsky
Marynowsky’s work is
a
recording of a computer controlled
prepared pianola, built as an installation for Liquid Architecture 8 at
the
Performance Space recently.
http://www.marynowsky.net |
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Monoperro (Ignacio
Álvarez Bordoy)
Ignacio
Álvarez
Bordoy was born in Madrid, Spain. In 1973,
he returned to be reborn in Madrid in 2005 under the name of MONOPERRO.
MONOPERRO engages
with a
number of disciplines, including
sound, video and poetry.
http://www.myspace.com/monoperro
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EMU - Eva Müller
On Transit
The Austrian sound,
video and performance artist is interested in
everyday sounds and what they tell us, if we (would) listen, capturing
the music of daily atmospheres and confronting the audience with them.
In her installations and performances she mainly uses recorded
atmospheres, blended with narrative fragments and contemplative moments
to create immersive soundscapes. Failure and flukes are an integral
part of this process, and are most welcome. At the Sound of Failure
Festival she presents her latest audio installation: ON TRANSIT.
www.eva-mueller.at |
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Vienna Parreno
thoughts collected
deleted:
recording of silence in
an anechoic chamber + blank CD
*CD-cover from
mashed-up
found photograph.
Between the silence
that
is not and the blank slate, are
audibly similar mute objects of different states. By
turning a nothing into a something (that is an art object) the aim is
to
represent the imperceptible (for what matters most is not always
apparent); to
leave a trace of a mental journey, the visual-sonic representation of
negative
space twice-over meeting at the same point from different ends.
Vienna Parreno is
an artist who
works across various
media.
http://findingvienna.multiply.com |
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Glenn
Remington
50Hz
+ 55Hz
Glenn Remington is a Sydney Sound Artist interested in noise. His work
explores
sound created from sonic detritus. Using analogue and digital
technologies, he
is attracted to the physical properties and presence of sound.
His work has been exhibited in CCNOA Brussels Belgium, MILIA Cannes
France,
Experimenta Australia, D.Art Sydney and at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Current
projects include a CD of sound works, researching microscopic audio and
experimenting with surround sound.
50Hz + 55Hz is a sound work exploring the physical
and spatial aspects
of sound. Two interlocking low frequency sine waves create a dense
field of
sound with shifting microscopic pulses and tones that play with our
senses. |
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Cara-Ann Simpson
Hearing
Orange Speak 1-3
The work of
Cara-Ann Simpson
explores space, duration and
process, engaging critically with digital media, which she sees as
being
strangely elusive. For most of the world, ‘the latest thing’ is, at
minimum,
just out of reach. Being a student in a rural area Cara sees digital
technology
as throwing up a mountain of impossibility, wedging itself firmly
between
city-country, rich-poor, highlighting – not eradicating – differences.
In order
to move beyond the purely digital, Cara creates sound from her visual
art
practice; the process of sculpture and painting providing the raw
material for,
and a bridge to, the finished, digitised product.
http://www.myspace.com/soundartca |
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Starella
Starella's strong point is in writing lyrics (on the backs of beer
coasters),
which she then performs to art crowds, occasionally at pubs, and the
rest of
time drunkenly out on the street.
The failure in her musical sound comes
from spending her life slipping
through
the gaps of every system she has known: family; society, and all kinds
of
artistic and professional systems. She is the product of these systems,
the
product of their failure to contain her; she ultimately embodies
herself in
performance as the symbolism of this ‘failure’. In her performances she
feels
her way through drunken rants and musically attempts to determine what
went
wrong. She incorporates odd instruments including wine bottles, old
accordions,
and an electric keyboard. Starella represents a human failure product
of her
system, which could be comparable to the glitchy CD being a failed
product of
its technology. Starella will be joined by Sonic Yootha and La Donna
Rama.
http://www.sari.net.au
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Subscape Annex (Steve
Burnett)
Slipping
Discs
Steve Burnett is an improvisational
musician who played alto clarinet
and
saxophone when young, and currently plays Chapman Stick, theremin, and
electric upright bass. He performs in several improvisational,
cinematic,
and ambient contexts in the Research Triangle Park area of North
Carolina
in the USA. Steve is interested in phonography, sonic evocation of
physical objects, and collaboration with non-musical artists.
"Slipping Discs" was performed with a knife on a decayed and
skipping compact disc with a contact microphone attached, looped with
multiple live looping effects units, and processed through a Moog MF-104
analogue delay and an Electro-Harmonix Polyphonic Octave Generator. The
name
refers to the literal skipping disc that inspired the creation of the
piece and the biological glitch of the human spine that is a slipped
disc.
http://www.subscapeannex.com/
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Vilhelm the Tortoise
& Friends
“My name is Vilhelm.
I
am a Greek land-tortoise, a
second-generation Moroccan, born in Sweden. In 1996 I came to live with
Lisa. I
have always been fascinated by vibrations and sounds. I often walk to
speakers
when music is played and stay there listening and nodding my head to
the
rhythms. One day we were visiting a friend who had a plugged in
electric-guitar
lying on the floor. I climbed up on it and played a solo for 30
minutes. Lisa
recorded this and made my first record: Vilhelm’s boogie-woogie.”
Vilhelm (and
Lisa) are joined by two other Belgian artists; Rolf Schuurmans and
Ernst
Reiziger for two other short videos.
http://www.myspace.com/vilhelmtortoise |
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Alex
White
Alex White
explores a point between total
mess/disorientation and discernible melody, rhythm and genre
references. His
music is constructed using home made patches which allow movement and
manipulation of existing audio files - usually older pieces of his own.
Most of
his recordings are either completely improvised or at least constructed
and
edited from several improvisations. |
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Wun
Thong
Wun Thong is a poet
and
accomplished artist (of the BS
sort) who creates experimental music in the genre of Tropical Western
Swing
combined with smatterings of chance and improvisation (stirred, not
shaken) and
is renowned for his totally immersive surround sound of failure. Wun
has spent
much of his life in rural Wandiligong, Australia which has had a
remarkable
influence on his musical style. Wun was the only son of a Chinese gold
miner
named Tu.
http://www.myspace.com/wunthong
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Sound of Failure is presented by DON'T LOOK GALLERY,
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill.
http://www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery, email:
dontlookgallery[at]gmail.com or phone: 0401 152 434 |
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