Hey, I'm working on an immersive light/sound installation project for Fringe 2007 called Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound (http://www.frey.co.nz/categories/art/soundslikelight/), and I need some suggestions for good noises to record for it. I'm most interested in the sounds of machines and of liquids, but I'd also like to build up a sample bank of interesting aural environments (for example the train station, tunnels, forests, Kent Terrace on boy racer nights, etc). If anyone has any suggestions for locations, could they post them here or at http://www.frey.co.nz/2007/01/14/interesting-sounds-around-wellington/ Also, if anyone is interested in working with me on narratives built from sound and *simple* digital light control (no projectors), using copious quantities of darkness and a sufficiently loud sound system to scare and/or confuse people, do let me know. cheers :-) I've added the press release below... -- MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Damian Stewart, 027 305 4107, damian(a)frey.co.nz 9th January 2006 SOUNDS LIKE LIGHT, LIGHTS LIKE SOUND TRANSDIMENSIONAL TRAVEL THROUGH GLIMMER AND RUSTLE This Fringe, Damian Frey invites you to come to Happy’s back room, enter a breathing, living electronic space made of light and sound, and be taken somewhere else. Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound is a reactive installation built from sound and light, designed as a playable world-creating light and sound instrument with a mind of its own. “I’m inspired by the feel of computer games like Half-Life, System Shock 2, and Doom,” said Frey. “These games create awesome emotional effect, using sound and light to build an intense atmosphere.” Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound draws on this power of raw sound, light, and darkness to create emotion, transporting visitors to otherworldly realms. What makes it different from other installations is that it is reactive. Without the input of the visitor, it’s just a room, static and unchanging. But step into it and it comes to life. “People will enter this space and they will feel like they’re taking themselves somewhere else,” said Frey. “You are in control – most of the time – but just where you end up will never be entirely certain. Imagine moving through a darkened labyrinth with walls that keep on shifting, inhabited by ghosts, phantoms, and portals to other places – that’s what it’s like.” Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound Happy’s back room Underground, corner Tory and Vivian St Open daily except Mondays, 11am-7pm, Feb 16-March 3 Entry by koha/donation Damian Frey - Biography Frey has a website at http://www.frey.co.nz where anyone interested can observe the progress and construction of Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound. He also has a myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/freyed . Frey has recently completed his final year studying Sonic Arts at the Lilburn Electroacoustic Studios in the New Zealand School of Music, directed by renowned composer Lissa Meridan. He has worked as a computer game programmer and a designer of interactive display systems for museum gallery installations. He is also a performing musician, playing laptop as a live performance instrument both solo and in groups. Selected appeances from recent years include: performing as part of the Fringe 2005 Best Music award-winning Ascension Band; performing alongside Norwegian sound artist Biosphere at the Catchpool Found Sound Project (2005) and Canadian techno star Deadbeat (2006), performing with video artist Emil McAvoy at Interdigitate 06 (Auckland, 2006), Soundtracks 7 (Wellington, 2006), Indeterminacy and Interface (Wellington, 2005) and Intimacy and In.yer.face (Wellington, 2006); and composing soundtracks for two short films by Wellington filmmaker Alouis Woodhouse and the feature documentary Father of the House by Simon Burgin and Xavier Forde (2005). Frey is also a founding member of the While You Were Sleeping audiovisual art collective. #### Media Contact: Damian Stewart, 027 305 4107, damian(a)frey.co.nz -- Damian Stewart +64 27 305 4107 f r e y live music with machines http://www.frey.co.nz http://www.myspace.com/freyed