Tura New Music in association with SoundCulture and the City of Fremantle presents
Sonic Difference: Re-Sounding the World
As part of the Biennale Of Elelctronic Arts Perth
Sonic Difference has brought together five artists from around the world to create a window into the world of sound art. Diverse in nature the works of Sonic Difference all have in common the exploration of sound and technology and shows clearly why sound artists have retained their position as pioneers of new creative methodologies and technologies.
Exhibition
Opens 6pm Wednesday 8th September
Runs 7 days, 10am through 5pm until October 10
Moores Building, 46 Henry St, Fremantle
Free Entry
Performance
9pm Wednesday 8th September
Moores Building, 19 Henry St, Fremantle
Conference
Thursday 9th Sept 8.30 am – 5 pm
Library Theatre, Perth Culltural Centre
Registration: www.beap.org
Beap It - Performance Night
8pm Sunday 12th September
The Bakery Artrage Arts Complex
223 James St Northbridge
Bar and food available
Entry $15/$10
Artists/Curator Talk
6 pm Mon 13th September
Moores Building 46 Henry St Fremantle
Free
A Small Migration
Micro-controller sound installation
Shawn Decker (USA).
A Small Migration consists of many prepared piano wires strung above the ground across an open gallery. Natural rhythmic patterns created by small striker motors placed along the length of each wire are disturbed by people entering the space and triggering sensor cued software.
Shawn Decker teaches in the Art and Technology department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is specialised in interactive sound sculpture environments that typically employ micro-controllers to deliver a form of 'sonic' emergent behaviour.
Viileaa (Sounds cool)
Sound Sculpture.
Simo Alitalo (Finland)
Viileaa (Sounds cool) is a sound installation that combines recorded ice and underwater sounds with "live" sounds of wind & weather. Ice forming, ice melting, ice recorded underwater, sounds of birds recorded through ice sounds of Beluga whales Russia combine with the live sounds of wind harps & water fountains and are rendered through a sail like loudspeaker net that is suspended in the air.
Simo Alitalo is a sound artist and a radio producer. His installations and radio projects have been exhibited and broadcast in U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in many European countries. His works are many faceted space/time experiences that aim to re-sensitise our ears and make us aware of the surrounding soundscapes.
Intraterrestrial Soundings
Bio-Sonic Installation
Amy Youngs (USA).
Intraterrestrial Soundings is an installation designed to offer human participants an opportunity to tune into - and bodily experience - vibrations made by worms and tiny soil-dwelling insects. The live sounds inside an active worm box are highly amplified and directed into speakers attached under a chaise lounge that visitors to the installation may sit or lie upon. An infrared camera inside the dark worm box provides live, projected images onto the ceiling as visual confirmation of the life inside.
Amy M. Youngs creates mixed-media, interactive sculptures and environments, that reveal her interest in the complex relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self.
Amy Youngs appears courtesy of The Ohio State University
Technical Advisors: Richard Mankin, David Foster, Carl Bailey and Daniel Joliffe.
Harvester
Sound Sculpture Installation
Ed Osborn (USA).
Harvester is a sound installation that employs sound, kinetic elements, and interactivity to create a shifting audio field of from a system of controlled feedback. The sounds arise naturally from the configuration of the electronic components and serve as a monitor of the state of the piece as it changes: all sounds are generated in real time and are filtered so that they become a set of evolving, resonant low and mid-range tones that can be listened to for an extended period.
Ed Osborn works between Oakland and Berlin, independent Sound Artist, previous director of SoundCulture 1996 in San Francisco, recent fellowship with Guggenhiem Foundation and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
Participation of Ed Osborn has been made possible in part through support from The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, a public-private partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of State, the Rockefeller Foundation, with additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and administered by Arts International.
Endangered Sounds
Sculptural Installation
Garth Paine (Australia)
Endangered Sounds is a project that focuses on the exploration of trade marked and Patented sounds. The initial stage of this project comprised legal searches which resulted in listings of Trade Marked and Patented sounds. The next stage of this project is the publication of this list on the internet with a call for volunteers to collect samples of the listed sounds internationally. Volunteers have collected and will continue to collect the sound by placing the test tube close to the source (thereby capturing air through which the sound travelled), and documenting the presence of a privatised sound in public space.
This project questions the legitimacy of privatising and protecting sounds that are released at random in public spaces.
Dr Garth Paine Academic, Composer, Installation Artist, Sound Designer has exhibited/performed extensively in Asia, UK, Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. his passion has led to the creation of several interactive responsive environments where the inhabitant generates the sonic landscape through their presence and behaviour. He is currently Head of Program, Electronic Arts and Senior lecturer in Music Technology and the University of Western Sydney.
Garth Paine appears courtesy of University of Western Sydney where he is head of Electronic Arts.
Curator: Dr Nigel Helyer
Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. Dr Sonique) is a Sydney based Sculptor and Sound Artist with an international reputation for his large scale sonic installations, environmental sculpture works and new media projects. His practice is actively inter-disciplinary linking creative practice with scientific Research and Development.
Nigel is a co-founder and commissioner of the “SoundCulture” organisation; an honorary faculty member in Architectural Acoustics at the University of Sydney and a research fellow at the “SymbioticA” bio-technology lab at the University of Western Australia. He is currently an Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland.
SoundCulture
SoundCulture is a festival focused on the creative use of sound outside of the field of music by practitioners based in the Pacific region. The event shifts site with each new iteration and is made up of performances, exhibitions, broadcasts, lectures, and other events focusing on aural activities and their placement and function within and across cultures.
The Moores Building
The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery (MBCAG) is managed by City of Fremantle and located in the historic west-end, near to commercial galleries and Notre Dame University.. The (MBCAG) supports exhibition development and partnerships with artists, artist’s organisations and communities and provides subsidised rental spaces, development assistance and information services for exhibitors
