Ada_list June 2006

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by Helen Varley Jamieson

>the project is called soundsource and it is a free sound database > >--> http://soundsource.servus.at > >The database went online in english and german language but also offers >a translation tool (will go online in the next weeks) that allows you to >translate the whole system in whatever language you can and want. > >Simply get a login at the startpage and you can upload your own sounds. >For simple downloading you don't need a login, but take care of the licences >set for each sound. > >In case of any problems or advices, simply write us an email: >soundsource(a)servus.at > >As the database just went online we are still working on some minor >changes, but >feel free to use and spread it! >best >barb -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst helen(a)creative-catalyst.com http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________

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Re: [Ada_list] Alt.music - July 11 plus extra shows

by Andrew Clifford

Great news for those of you that will be in or near New Plymouth over the next few weeks. Lawrence English, Greg Davis and Jeph Jerman have now confirmed a New Plymouth date - 9pm at Matinee. I think it's an ex-cinema around the middle of Devon Street. A real nice bar if it's the one I'm thinking of. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: <admin(a)audiofoundation.org.nz> To: <af_list(a)list.audiofoundation.org.nz> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:07 AM Subject: [Af_list] Alt.music - July 11 Sound trio to tour New Zealand An Alt.music presentation in association with ARTSPACE and Room40 Lawrence English, Greg Davis, Jeph Jerman and Michael Morley $10, Tuesday July 11 2006, doors 7pm, starts 8pm Artspace, 300 K' Rd, Auckland Greg Davis and Jeph Jerman free artist talk, 6pm, ARTSPACE, Weds July 12 NZ tour dates: 07.07.2006 Dunedin Public Art Gallery 08.07.2006 Physics room, Christchurch 09.07.2006 Happy, Wellington 10.07.2006 New Plymouth (TBC) 11.07.2006 ARTSPACE, Auckland Alt.music brings together three sound artists Lawrence English (Australia), Greg Davis (USA) and Jeph Jerman (USA). Davis and Jerman are regular collaborators and are joined by English for this unique tour. They each explore a range of natural textures and field recordings, from deeply carved digital soundscapes to rich sonic environments created from the most simple of tools. Also playing in Auckland is Michael Morley (Dunedin) who last played Alt.music as a member of pioneering noise group The Dead C. Greg Davis is a musician based in Chicago. As an undergraduate at DePaul University in Chicago, Davis studied classical and jazz guitar alongside composition and jazz studies. In 1997, he started his own label, Autumn Records, in order to put out his music and that of others. At this time Greg was attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he received his master's degree in composition in June 2001. www.autumnrecords.net www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/gdavisiw.htm Jeph Jerman plays mostly unamplified objects with an incredible control and sublime ear. He became interested in sound at an early age, experimenting with the first tape recorder he was given as a birthday present. What followed was many years of playing commercial music in a large number of bands and orchestras as well as working for several college radio stations and absorbing as much sound from around the world as he could. In 1986 Jerman began recording under the name 'Hands To', eventually releasing far too many cassettes, albums and CDs as well as founding the band 'Blowhole'. He believes that this is where he learned to listen, becoming less and less interested in music as a medium for self-expression. He gives solo performances using only natural found objects (stones, shells, bones, driftwood, pine cones, etc), as soundmakers. www.davidstanford.com/jerman Lawrence English is a writer, musician and media artist based in Brisbane, Australia. For over a decade, English's audio explorations have sprawled a range of areas. Sonically, the work calls into question the established relationships between approaches to sound and structure - traversing experimental soundscapes and free improvisation to processed beat works and concrete-influenced compositions, his back catalogue spans a dynamic array of frameworks. English runs the Room40 label and in recent years has performed and improvised with the likes of David Toop, Oren Ambarchi, Marina Rosenfeld, DJ Olive, Philip Samartzis, Toshio Kajiwara, Scanner, Tetuzi Akiyama, Janek Schaefer and KK Null. www.room40.org Michael Morley Dunedin musician and artist Michael Morley is a member of The Dead C, Gate, The Lavender Head and The Fuck Chairs. Earlier, in the 1980s, Morley was a member of Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos. Morley founded the Precious Metal label sometime in the late 1980s to document, first on cassette and later LP and CD, his own work as Gate. Most of the releases on Precious Metal were limited to very small quantities. He has also recorded and played live with Lee Ranaldo, Keiji Haino, Zeena Parkins and many more. Morley teaches at Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin. Alt.music is an ongoing series of events, regularly bringing a vital injection of contemporary sound art from around the world to Auckland. Founded by Auckland gallery ARTSPACE and now organised in conjunction with the Audio Foundation, Alt.music began as an international festival of experimental music and sound art in 2001, followed by successive festivals in 2002 and 2004. Previous Alt.Music artists include Keith Fullerton Whitman, Peter Rehberg, Pan Sonic, Tetuzi Akiyama, Jon Rose, Voice Crack, Sachiko M, Francisco Lopez, Pierre Bastien, Oren Ambarchi, Alan Licht, Richard Nunns and the Dead C. Alt.music is supported by ARTSPACE and Kolumbard. ARTSPACE receives significant funding from Creative New Zealand. ARTSPACE Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton PO Box 68418, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand phone +64 9 3034965 fax +64 9 3661842 www.artpace.org.nz www.audiofoundation.org.nz ARTSPACE is a charitable trust whose mission is to present cutting edge contemporary art. ARTSPACE receives major public funding from Creative New Zealand. Join the crusade, become an ARTSPACE member. _______________________________________________ af_list mailing list http://list.audiofoundation.org.nz/listinfo.cgi/af_list-audiofoundation.org… -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.5/377 - Release Date: 27/06/2006

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email address change

by Kristina

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FW: The Coup The World Missed

by brit

Although some still believe that the jury is still out on whether art = politics. Many apparently do now believe that the Duchamp>Beuys>relational aesthetics have destroyed the boundaries between the disciplines and every day life. I and others (including some high profile journalists) have been trying to get this possible big piece of news for NZers outto little avail (other than obscure corners of the net). No news editor as far as I know, not even Scoops or Radio NZs, will touch this so far (It is worse than the propaganda spasms of tax cuts or too much tax that went on a few weeks ago when all media in unison began to sound like a National/Act press release.) So perhaps Pilger and Keady are artists. At least it is important to know this point of view (perhaps the truth), with NZ troops in the line of fire. The Coup The World Missed June 23, 2006 By John Pilger In my 1994 film Death of a Nation there is a scene on board an aircraft flying between northern Australia and the island of Timor. A party is in progress; two men in suits are toasting each other in champagne. "This is an historically unique moment," effuses Gareth Evans, Australia's foreign affairs minister, "that is truly uniquely historical." He and his Indonesian counterpart, Ali Alatas, were celebrating the signing of the Timor Gap Treaty, which would allow Australia to exploit the oil and gas reserves in the seabed off East Timor. The ultimate prize, as Evans put it, was "zillions" of dollars. Australia's collusion, wrote Professor Roger Clark, a world authority on the law of the sea, "is like acquiring stuff from a thief . . . the fact is that they have neither historical, nor legal, nor moral claim to East Timor and its resources". Beneath them lay a tiny nation then suffering one of the most brutal occupations of the 20th century. Enforced starvation and murder had extinguished a quarter of the population: 180,000 people. Proportionally, this was a carnage greater than that in Cambodia under Pol Pot. The United Nations Truth Commission, which has examined more than 1,000 official documents, reported in January that western governments shared responsibility for the genocide; for its part, Australia trained Indonesia's Gestapo, known as Kopassus, and its politicians and leading journalists disported themselves before the dictator Su-harto, described by the CIA as a mass murderer. These days Australia likes to present itself as a helpful, generous neighbour of East Timor, after public opinion forced the government of John Howard to lead a UN peacekeeping force six years ago. East Timor is now an independent state, thanks to the courage of its people and a tenacious resistance led by the liberation movement Fretilin, which in 2001 swept to political power in the first democratic elections. In regional elections last year, 80 per cent of votes went to Fretilin, led by Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, a convinced "economic nationalist", who opposes privatisation and interference by the World Bank. A secular Muslim in a largely Roman Catholic country, he is, above all, an anti-imperialist who has stood up to the bullying demands of the Howard government for an undue share of the oil and gas spoils of the Timor Gap. On 28 April last, a section of the East Timorese army mutinied, ostensibly over pay. An eyewitness, Australian radio reporter Maryann Keady, disclosed that American and Australian officials were involved. On 7 May, Alkatiri described the riots as an attempted coup and said that "foreigners and outsiders" were trying to divide the nation. A leaked Australian Defence Force document has since revealed that Australia's "first objective" in East Timor is to "seek access" for the Australian military so that it can exercise "influence over East Timor's decision-making". A Bushite "neo-con" could not have put it better. The opportunity for "influence" arose on 31 May, when the Howard government accepted an "invitation" by the East Timorese president, Xanana Gusmão, and foreign minister, José Ramos Horta - who oppose Alkatiri's nationalism - to send troops to Dili, the capital. This was accompanied by "our boys to the rescue" reporting in the Australian press, together with a smear campaign against Alkatiri as a "corrupt dictator". Paul Kelly, a former editor-in-chief of Rupert Murdoch's Australian, wrote: "This is a highly political intervention . . . Australia is operating as a regional power or a political hegemon that shapes security and political outcomes." Translation: Australia, like its mentor in Washington, has a divine right to change another country's government. Don Watson, a speechwriter for the former prime minister Paul Keating, the most notorious Suharto apologist, wrote, incredibly: "Life under a murderous occupation might be better than life in a failed state . . ." Arriving with a force of 2,000, an Australian brigadier flew by helicopter straight to the headquarters of the rebel leader, Major Alfredo Reinado - not to arrest him for attempting to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister but to greet him warmly. Like other rebels, Reinado had been trained in Canberra. John Howard is said to be pleased with his title of George W Bush's "deputy sheriff" in the South Pacific. He recently sent troops to a rebellion in the Solomon Islands, and imperial opportunities beckon in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and other small island nations. The sheriff will approve. AND HYPERLINK "http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=10480"http: //www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=10480 Three years ago, I wrote a piece talking about attempts to oust Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri in East Timor, then a new struggling independent nation. I wrote that I believed the US and Australia were determined to oust the Timorese leader, due to his hardline stance on oil and gas, his determination not to take out international loans, and their desire to see Australia friendly President Xanana Gusmao take power. Three years later, I am unhappy to say that the events I have predicted are currently taking shape. The patriotic Australia media, that has unquestionably fallen into line over every part of John Howards Pacific agenda including the Solomons excursion is now trumpeting the ousting of Alkatiri, a man who has gamely defied Australias claims over its oil and gas, many of the papers foreign editors clearly more in tune with the exhortations of Australias Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade than the sentiments among Timorese. I arrived in Dili just as the first riots broke out on April 28 this year- and as an eyewitness at the front of the unrest, the very young soldiers seemed to have outside help believed to be local politicians and outsiders. Most onlookers cited the ability of the dissident soldiers to go from an unarmed vocal group, to hundreds brandishing sticks and weapons, as raising locals suspicions that this was not an organic protest. I interviewed many people from Fretlin insiders, to opposition politicians and local journalists and not one ruled out the fact that the riots had been hijacked for other purposes. The Prime Minister himself stated so. In a speech on the 7th of May, he called it a coup and said that foreigners and outsiders were trying once again to divide the nation. I reported this for ABC Radio and was asked if I had the translation wrong. I patiently explained no we had carefully gone through the speech word for word, and anyone with any knowledge of Timorese politics would understand that is precisely what the Prime Minister meant. No other media had bothered to go to the event the Australian media preferring to hang out with the rebel soldiers or Australian diplomats that all wanted Alkatiri gone. Since his election, Alkatiri had sidelined the most important figure in Timorese politics President Xanana Gusmao and the tension between the two has been readily apparent. Alkatiri, has a different view to Gusmao about how the countrys development should take place slowly, without rich men feasting behind doors was the way he described it to me, a steady structure of development the way to develop a truly independent nation. His ability to defend Timors oil and gas interests against an aggressive Australia and powerful business interests, and his development of a Petroleum Fund to protect Timors oil money from future corruption never accorded with the caricature created by his Australian and American detractors of a corrupt dictator. The campaign to oust Alkatiri began at least four years ago I recorded the date after an American official started leaking me stories of Alkatiris corruption while I was freelancing for ABC Radio. I investigated the claims and came up with nought but was more concerned with the tenor of criticism by American and Australian officials that clearly suggested that they were wanting to get rid of this troublesome Prime Minister. Like Somare, he was not doing things their way. After interviewing the major political leaders it was clear that many would stop at nothing to get rid of Timors first Prime Minister. President Xanana Gusmao, three years ago, did not rule out dissolving parliament and forming a national unity government. Gusmao and his supporters (including Jose Ramos-Horta) have privately called Alkatiri an Angolan communist with his idea of slow paced development not something Gusmao and his Australian supporters agree with. Other than that, it is hard to work out why President Gusmao would allow forces to unconstitutionally remove this Prime Minister. In Timor, many see Gusmao at fault here, for disagreeing with the Prime Minister over the sacking of the soldiers (it should have been resolved in private) while others see him as the architect of the whole fiasco, his frustration with his limited political role allowing him to be convinced by his Australian advisors to embark on a needlessly bloody coup. In the last few days we have heard from young Timorese writers currently at the Sydney Writers Festival. They have a different take from the Australian media on what is happening in Timor. Take this quote by one young writer: ' it is suspicious and questionable. It is difficult to analyse why Australia wants to go there. I think it is driven by concerns over Australia's economic security, including the oil under the sea, rather than concern for the people of East Timor. 'I am scared it is less about East Timor's security than Australia's security and interests.' Gil Gutteres, the head of Timors journalists association TILJA similarly last month said old style fears of communism, and economic interests of Australia were driving the anti-Alkatiri campaign, and were behind the violence. In fact, there is hardly a person in Timor that doesnt understand that this is about big politics helped by internal figures wanting to control the oil and gas pie. And yet the Australian press is full of our boys doing us proud. This does not equate with sentiment on the ground, or answer the question as to where the rebel forces could have received support for this foolhardy campaign that has led to many Timorese being frightened, distressed and homeless. Just this evening, witnesses spoke of Australian army personnel standing by while militia fired on a church in Belide. During the early violence, not one UN soldier intervened to stop the small band of rioters, and the recent actions of the Australian troops add fuel to speculation that they are letting Timor burn. Alkatiri, for his part is refusing to step aside, saying that only Fretlin, his party, can ask him to resign. If he does go, the Timorese have the Australian media to thank for their unquestioning support of this coup. Perhaps they can explain to the starving citizens (that were already ignored by Australia for 25 years) why Australia now controls their oil and gas pie. More importantly, the politicians in Timor that have been party to the violence will have to explain to the people their involvement in this latest chapter of its traumatic history. Maryann Keady is an Australian radio producer and journalist who has reported from Dili since 2002. She is currently a professional associate at Columbia Universitys Weatherhead Institute looking at US Foreign Policy and China. Cheers, Brit NEW EMAIL ADDRESS "brit.b(a)xtra.co.nz" -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.4/375 - Release Date: 6/25/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.4/375 - Release Date: 6/25/2006

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RADIO KIOSK: broadcasting from The Kiosk, 29 June -18 July on 106.5fm

by zita

RADIO KIOSK - 106.5fm COMPILED BY ZITA JOYCE AND ADAM WILLETTS Broadcasting from The Kiosk Public Art Site (corner High, Manchester, Lichfield Streets, Christchurch) 29 June – 18 July 2006 Radio Kiosk is an experimental radio compilation. It gathers together experimental radio shows and music labels from around New Zealand and Australia, into a single programme broadcast from The Kiosk Public Art Site on the corner of High, Manchester and Lichfield Streets in Christchurch. It is a radio station made up of other radio stations, an exploration of adventurous radio that channels the sounds of other times and places. Radio Kiosk broadcasts through a small handmade mini-FM transmitter built by Adam Hyde, and designed by Japanese ‘mini-FM’ pioneer, Tetsuo Kogawa. Kogawa inspired Japan’s ‘mini-FM’ boom in the early 1980s, by establishing radio stations that broadcast across a few Tokyo blocks to evade Japan’s strict broadcast licensing laws. Most radio stations try to transmit with great power across a wide area, so that their audience can listen as they go about the rituals of daily life – at home, in the car, at work. Mini-FM deliberately restricts its transmissions to its immediate surroundings, so that it physically draws its listeners in. Radio Kiosk will have a very small transmission zone; audible within a couple of blocks through your own portable radio, car stereo or walkman. The programme will be audible without a radio receiver when you are standing close to The Kiosk. The Radio Kiosk programme was contributed to by radio hosts and musicians from New Zealand, Australia, and the Netherlands. Some of its content was first broadcast last week, some was broadcast last decade - these are the transient products of other radio stations, plucked from the ether for another listen. The programmes will be played randomly for three weeks, so that the unpredictable content is never predictable. Radio Kiosk transmits recordings of radio shows from RDU (Christchurch), Fleet FM (Auckland), the ABC (Australia), and FBi radio (Sydney). It also plays sample selections from New Zealand experimental record labels Pseudo Arcana (Wellington), Fiff Dimension (Nelson/Melbourne), and Claudia (Auckland). The project was partly inspired by a discussion on the Audio Foundation mailing list about experimental radio shows in New Zealand, and reminiscences about 'Rotate your State' / 'Rotate', a discontinued but much loved feature of Christchurch radio station RDU. Rotate's last host, Sally McIntyre, has written an evocative essay about the show's intentions and processes to accompany a selection of live recordings that feature on Radio Kiosk. Radio kiosk is coordinated by Zita Joyce and Adam Willetts, with The Physics Room, Adam Hyde, and Sally McIntyre. Content compilation and transmitter installation by Danae Mossman, Vanessa Coxhead and Jamie Richardson. To see the full programme, and for more information visit http://www.ethermap.org/radiokiosk/ The Physics Room contemporary art space PO Box 22 351 Christchurch New Zealand ph +64 3 379 5583 / fax +64 3 379 6063 www.physicsroom.org.nz

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Visiones Sonoras 2006

by Stella

From: Rodrigo Sigal <rodrigo(a)rodrigosigal.com> Date: 29 June 2006 1:50:34 PM To: Rodrigo Sigal <rodrigo(a)rodrigosigal.com> Subject: Visiones Sonoras 2006. Festival y Premio de Composición - - Festival and Composition Prize > La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México con apoyos del Centro > Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras y Fundación Clinker > para el Arte Contemporáneo invitan a participar en el Festival > Internacional y Encuentro de Composición Electroacústica Visiones > Sonoras 2006. La convocatoria para las becas de participación, el > concurso de composición Visiones Sonoras de música > electroacústica, la lista de invitados y mas detalles están > disponibles en www.visionessonoras.org. > * * * > > The National University of Mexico with funding from the Mexican > Center for Music and Sonic Art and Clinker Foundation for > Contemporary Art invites to participate in the Visiones Sonoras > 2006 Electroacoustic Music Festival and Composers Meeting. The > invitation and details about the grants, guest composers and the > Electroacoustic Music Composition Prize are available from > www.visionessonoras.org. > Mas información / More information > info(a)visionessonoras.org

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Re: [Ada_list] Fw: Heart stopping events at Sound/Bodies festival

by Emma Bugden

Also on at the Govett-Brewster that weekend while you're in New Plymouth for Sound / Bodies! Sunday 9 July, 2pm Talk: Emma Bugden discusses Leonie Smith's ...version 1... Join Emma for a lecture titled 'Break on through to the other side: Leonie Smith's ...version 1..., hallucination, perception and flux.' Emma Bugden is the Curatorial Director of te tuhi, Manukau City. Cheers, Emma Emma Bugden Curatorial Director te tuhi - the mark 13 Reeves Road PO Box 51 222 Pakuranga Manukau City Aotearoa New Zealand 09 577 0138 ext. 7704 emma(a)tetuhi-themark.org.nz

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Alt.Music - July 11

by admin＠audiofoundation.org.nz

Sound trio to tour New Zealand An Alt.music presentation in association with ARTSPACE and Room40 Lawrence English, Greg Davis, Jeph Jerman and Michael Morley $10, Tuesday July 11 2006, doors 7pm, starts 8pm Artspace, 300 K Rd, Auckland Greg Davis and Jeph Jerman free artist talk, 6pm, ARTSPACE, Weds July 12 NZ tour dates: 07.07.2006 Dunedin Public Art Gallery 08.07.2006 Physics room, Christchurch 09.07.2006 Happy, Wellington 10.07.2006 New Plymouth (TBC) 11.07.2006 ARTSPACE, Auckland Alt.music brings together three sound artists Lawrence English (Australia), Greg Davis (USA) and Jeph Jerman (USA). Davis and Jerman are regular collaborators and are joined by English for this unique tour. They each explore a range of natural textures and field recordings, from deeply carved digital soundscapes to rich sonic environments created from the most simple of tools. Also playing is Michael Morley (Dunedin) who last played Alt.music as a member of pioneering noise group The Dead C. Greg Davis is a musician based in Chicago. As an undergraduate at DePaul University in Chicago, Davis studied classical and jazz guitar alongside composition and jazz studies. In 1997, he started his own label, Autumn Records, in order to put out his music and that of others. At this time Greg was attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he received his master's degree in composition in June 2001. www.autumnrecords.net www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/gdavisiw.htm Jeph Jerman plays mostly unamplified objects with an incredible control and sublime ear. He became interested in sound at an early age, experimenting with the first tape recorder he was given as a birthday present. What followed was many years of playing commercial music in a large number of bands and orchestras as well as working for several college radio stations and absorbing as much sound from around the world as he could. In 1986 Jerman began recording under the name 'Hands To', eventually releasing far too many cassettes, albums and CDs as well as founding the band 'Blowhole'. He believes that this is where he learned to listen, becoming less and less interested in music as a medium for self-expression. He gives solo performances using only natural found objects (stones, shells, bones, driftwood, pine cones, etc), as soundmakers. www.davidstanford.com/jerman Lawrence English is a writer, musician and media artist based in Brisbane, Australia. For over a decade, English's audio explorations have sprawled a range of areas. Sonically, the work calls into question the established relationships between approaches to sound and structure - traversing experimental soundscapes and free improvisation to processed beat works and concrete-influenced compositions, his back catalogue spans a dynamic array of frameworks. English runs the Room40 label and in recent years has performed and improvised with the likes of David Toop, Oren Ambarchi, Marina Rosenfeld, DJ Olive, Philip Samartzis, Toshio Kajiwara, Scanner, Tetuzi Akiyama, Janek Schaefer and KK Null. www.room40.org Michael Morley Dunedin musician and artist Michael Morley is a member of The Dead C, Gate, The Lavender Head and The Fuck Chairs. Earlier, in the 1980s, Morley was a member of Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos. Morley founded the Precious Metal label sometime in the late 1980s to document, first on cassette and later LP and CD, his own work as Gate. Most of the releases on Precious Metal were limited to very small quantities. He has also recorded and played live with Lee Ranaldo, Keiji Haino, Zeena Parkins and many more. Morley teaches at Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin. Alt.music is an ongoing series of events, regularly bringing a vital injection of contemporary sound art from around the world to Auckland. Founded by Auckland gallery ARTSPACE and now organised in conjunction with the Audio Foundation, Alt.music began as an international festival of experimental music and sound art in 2001, followed by successive festivals in 2002 and 2004. Previous Alt.Music artists include Keith Fullerton Whitman, Peter Rehberg, Pan Sonic, Tetuzi Akiyama, Jon Rose, Voice Crack, Sachiko M, Francisco Lopez, Pierre Bastien, Oren Ambarchi, Alan Licht, Richard Nunns and the Dead C. Alt.music is supported by ARTSPACE and Kolumbard. ARTSPACE receives significant funding from Creative New Zealand. ARTSPACE Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton PO Box 68418, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand phone +64 9 3034965 fax +64 9 3661842 www.artpace.org.nz www.audiofoundation.org.nz ARTSPACE is a charitable trust whose mission is to present cutting edge contemporary art. ARTSPACE receives major public funding from Creative New Zealand. Join the crusade, become an ARTSPACE member.

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Fw: Heart stopping events at Sound/Bodies festival

by Andrew Clifford

Even more reasons to be in New Plymouth over the next few weeks. Busy times. I'm recommending a full week off work to catch this and the SCANZ/ADA symposium the following weekend. We're still waiting for a late confirmation but Lawrence English/Greg Davis/Jeph Jerman may be in NP on Monday 10th too - more info on them very shortly. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- sound /bodies 8 july - 9 july A WEEKEND FESTIVAL OF SOUND EVENTS EXPLORING THE ROLE OF THE BODY IN CREATING AND RECEIVING SOUND. CURATED BY ANDREW CLIFFORD IN RESPONSE TO THE TOURING EXHIBITION WHAT SOUND DOES A COLOR MAKE? CURRENTLY SHOWING AT THE GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY. schedule: SATURDAY 8 JULY, 1PM PERFORMANCE: PHIL DADSON SATURDAY 8 JULY, 3-5PM WINTER FORUM: JOHN COUSINS, RAEWYN TURNER, RICHARD NUNNS, FUYUKI YAMAKAWA SATURDAY 8 JULY, 7-10PM PERFORMANCE: FUYUKI YAMAKAWA (PROGRAMMING BY SATORU TAKANO), RICHARD NUNNS AND JEFF HENDERSON, ELECTRIC BIORAMA SPECTACULAR SUNDAY 9 JULY, NOON PERFORMANCE: SEAN KERR: MUSIC 4 100 COMPUTERS also: AUCKLAND, THURSDAY 6 JULY 6.00PM IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE EASY LISTENING PROGRAMME, SOUND/BODIES ARTISTS FUYUKI YAMAKAWA AND SEAN KERR PRESENT A TALK AT THE AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM. www.govettbrewster.com Media Release: The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery presents Sound/Bodies, a weekend festival of events on 8 & 9 July. Curated by Andrew Clifford Sound/Bodies explores the role of the body in association with the touring exhibition What sound does a color make?, currently on show at the Govett-Brewster. Curator, Andrew Clifford says: "Sound/Bodies examines the role of the body in creating and receiving sound, and especially the kinaesthetic implications of synaesthetic experience and this festival brings together national and international artists who explore this phenomena in a series of workshops and performances through out the weekend" The festival includes performances by Japanese artist, Fuyuki Yamakawa, renowned New Zealand intermedia sound artist Phil Dadson, Electric Biorama Spectacular, media artist Sean Kerr and other artists working with sound including Jeff Henderson (NZ) and Richard Nunns (NZ). Artists Raewyn Turner (NZ) and John Cousins (NZ) will take part in the winter forum during the weekend. Sound artist Fuyuki Yamakawa will be travelling from Japan to take part in Sound/Bodies. A creator of sound installations and improvised musical happenings, Yamakawa picks up and amplifies the sound of his heartbeat with an electronic stethoscope. Using a light system developed with programmer Satoru Takano, he triggers a series of light bulbs that oscillate simultaneously with his heartbeat. In turn, his heart rate beats to the rhythm of his 'Khoomei', a form of popular Mongolian singing in which Yamakawa excels. Through his vocalisation, he controls his heartbeat's speed and velocity. Yamakawa says: "My heartbeat is output as sound and light pulses, perceptually stimulating the eyes, ears, and skin of my audiences, eventually the venue transforms into an extended part of my body and sometimes it stops my heart for seconds." Fuyuki Yamakawa & Sean Kerr will present a talk at the Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium on Thursday 6 July 6.00pm in association with the Easy Listening programme, Sound/Bodies and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. -Ends- Notes to Editor: Fuyuki Yamakawa - In 2001 Yamakawa won the Grand Prix and Audience Award at the 1st Khoomei Festival in Japan and started his professional career as a voice performer. In 2003, he was invited to the 4th International Khoomei Festival, which was held in the Republic of Tuva. He won the Avant-garde Award in the contest and became known as an Avant-garde Khoomei singer. In the same year, he participated in the 2nd Khoomei festival in Japan and succeeded in defending his championship title. In 2004 he performed in the Fuji rock festival and sonarsound tokyo 2004. Khoomei is a technique where the drone is in the middle-range of the voice, with harmonics between one and two octaves above. Singing in this style gives one the impression of wind swirling among rocks. For details about the other artists taking part in Sound/Bodies go to www.govettbrewster.com Now showing at the Gallery is What sound does a color make? from 20 May - 23 July Old brain new media: Len Lye from 13 May - 9 July; and Leonie Smith's project .version 1 . from 15 June - 9 July.

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2nd International Art & Science Exhibition & Symposium - TASIE (Beijing November 2006)

by Danny Butt

Hi all I'm on the advisory council for TASIE in Beijing and have been asked to recommend some works from Aotearoa, if you're interested and want to organise a "virtual studio visit" or send some info just let me know. I can also discuss down at the ADA gathering if you're going to be there. Of course, anyone is free to submit proposals, but I'm also happy to advocate for works I think are interesting and know about. Regards Danny ----------------- http://www.tasie.org/show_detail_en.asp?id=948&sort=1009 Dear council members, Open to artists and organizations allover the world, TASIE is now calling for entries and papers of the exhibitions and symposium. We are looking forward to your recommendation of artists/artworks. **Entries Deadline: September 20, 2006 **Please send us the artworks' pictures( jpg file ), text, media, dimension, year, country, author name, artist's short bio in the attached application form. E-mail: aas(a)tsinghua.edu.cn huang-s04(a)mails.tsinghua.edu.cn Theme: Exhibitions Harmony And Innovation – Art & Science in Contemporary Culture November 11th, 2006 – November 25th, 2006 Mediums include, but are not restricted to: · Interactive Art · Telematic Art · Net Art · Robotic Art · Software Art · Nano Art · Virtual Reality · Bioart · New forms facilitated through art and science combinations Works demonstrate expertise in the following two areas are encouraged for submission: 1. New Explorations: Cutting Edge Explorations in Art & Science Works explore the interaction between art and science, demonstrate the inter-relationship that results from their interaction revealing the latest direction in global artistic and scientific innovation. 2. New Practices: Art & Science’s Application and Study Works achieving art and design’s most practical applications and research results from interdisciplinary endeavor. **Symposium Theme: Value & Creation — Art & Science in Contemporary Culture Date: November 11th, 2006 –November 13th, 2006 ======================= More details in: http://www.tasie.org/show_detail_en.asp?id=948&sort=1009 Submission of Works: E-mail: Huang-s04(a)mails.tsinghua.edu.cn On Line Submission: http://www.tasie.org/upfile_en.asp Mailing Address: Art & Science Research Center, Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University Haidian District, Beijing, 100084 CHINA Important Submission Deadlines in Details: September 20, 2006 All entries due September 25, 2006 Entries will be listed, successful applicants notified September 30, 2006 Admitted sculpture and installation projects must contact organizers with details regarding exhibition installation Any question please contact us by huang-s04(a)mails.thu.edu.cn or bit.stone(a)163.com Best regards, Prof. Lu Xiaobo ------------------------------- Executive Director of Research Center of Art and Science Tsinghua University Director of Information Art and Design Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University Vice Chairman The 2nd Art & Science International Exhibition and Symposium http://www.tasie.org Artistic Director Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium http://www.newmediabeijing.org -- Danny Butt db(a)dannybutt.net | http://www.dannybutt.net Suma Media Consulting | http://www.sumamedia.com Private Bag MBE P145, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand Ph: +64 21 456 379 | Fx: +64 21 291 0200

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