I’m organising a performance night for the Golden Eyes festival next Tuesday night with some fantastic performers, come along if you are in Sydney town. See blurb below for details.
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Golden Live – A performance night for the Golden Eyes Festival
8pm Tuesday the 20th of October 2009. Bon Marche Studio. UTS
The bi-annual Golden Eyes Festival of Media Arts has been held at UTS for over 20 years. This year it will also include a performance night showcasing the very active AV performance scene among undergrads, postgrads and staff at UTS. Three groups of performers will be presenting on the night in the wonderful purpose built Bon Marche Studio at UTS with 9.1 sound and high resolution digital cinema projection. Performers will be: Emily McDaniel & Emma Ramsay, Roger Mills & Neil Jenkins as well as Nick Wishart & Miguel Valenzuela.
Entry to the Bon Marche Studio is on Harris St, Ultimo on the ground floor of UTS Building three. http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/citymap.html
8pm Tuesday the 20th of October – The event is Free. Duration approx 80 mins.
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Emily McDaniel is an Aboriginal artist, curator and educator from the Wiradjuri Nation. Her work traverses performance, new media, film and sound installation. This year she has begun curating and coordinating Refraction, a UTS Media Arts performance night that encourages the next wave of artists to get amongst it. She is currently completing her BA in Media Arts and Production.
Emma Ramsay works across many platforms of art including sound, video and installation. She is a founding director of Sydney based ARI Quarterbred, that promotes cross disciplinary practice and developmental support for emerging artists. She is currently completing a Masters in Media Arts and Production.
Emma and Emily have been collaborating for over a year and have recently exhibited and performed at Electrofringe. Their practice tries to achieve a good feeling through sonic spirituality, by fusing installation with performance and lo-fi with hi-fi. Although they can be placed under the umbrella of new media, sometimes, they just like to leave the brolly at home. Golden Live will see the two of them collaborate with stunning visuals and epic sounds to create a cockle warming sound that will make the little hairs on your spine stand on end.
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Idea of South – Roger Mills & Neil Jenkins
Exploring ontological notions of southernness, Idea of South is a three part radiophonic composition combining live networked terrestrial radio and Internet streaming. It is a musical sound journey integrating spoken word, live processed trumpet, violin and location recordings contributed by sound artists and phonographers throughout the southern hemisphere. It was originally broadcast simultaneously over Radio 2SER, FBi Radio and Shoutcast stream in June 2009, and will be performed for Golden Live as a six channel mix with a live visuals by artist Neil Jenkins.
Performers are: Roger Mills – Trumpet, Hogi Tsai – Violin, Bernie Maier – Spoken word, Visual Mix – Neil Jenkins.
Roger Mills is a composer, sound artist and writer whose practice focuses on networked collaborations, internet performance and radio. He has worked internationally as a composer & sound designer, and is editor of the online sound art magazine and net label Furthernoise.org. Roger is currently an HDR student at UTS, researching improvisation in remote online collaborations and founder of the Ethernet Orchestra.
http://www.eartrumpet.org
http://ethernetorchestra.netpraxis.net
http://www.furthernoise.org
Neil Jenkins is an artist whose practice is heavily engaged with
electronic media and the Internet. He creates highly interactive works
that often require a live internet connection and the participation of
its audience to function and exist.
http://www.devoid.co.uk
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Alphabet Soup, is a new audio/visual performance by Nick Wishart + Miguel Valenzuela
Using a hacked Speak n Spell and other circuit bent alphabet toys, animations,a cube, some code and an asprin, Nick & Miguel will attempt to reassemble language into a sonic & visual feast.
Think R2D2 on acid!
Texas Instruments released the Speak n Spell toy in the late 70’s and are now the holy grail for circuit benders. Containing one of the 1st commercially available speech chips, these wonderful toys can be retro fitted with a MIDI input kit allowing the phonetic sounds to be triggered by keyboards and sequencers.
Nick Wishart – Working in music, sound and multimedia his main area of artistic practice is in the development of Physical Interactive Systems. Combining his skills in electronics, tactiles, MIDI, interactive devices, audio production and circuit bending techniques, Nick creates interactive multi-media installations and circuit bent instruments that form the basis of the all toy band Toydeath.
www.toydeath.com
www.cell.org.au
Miguel Valenzuela has been making video art since 1996. He has exhibited at Artist Run Spaces such as Mekanarky studios and Newman Lane Gallery, as well as in various public spaces around Sydney. He is currently researching multidimensional interactive video/sound art and its associative dimensions with regard to social norms, laws, formalities and their relative elasticity.
http://fmgrande.blogspot.com/2009/02/film-art.html