Thomas Köner (Germany)
Asmus Tietchens (Germany)
Kontakt der Jünglinge (Germany)
Perlonex (Germany)
Jason Kahn (Switzerland)
Liquid Architecture 10 - Festival of Sound Arts Team:
National Artistic Director and Melbourne Director: Nat Bates Supported by Bianca Durrant - Event Production, and Camilla Hannan - Exhibition Program Coordinator Brisbane Director: Lawrence English Sydney Co-Directors: Jen Teo and Shannon O'Neill supported by Sarah Davies - Production Manager Central Victoria Director: Jacques Soddell
Perth: Tos Mahoney Cairns: Nick Mills
Sounds Like
Artists who have participated in Liquid Architecture (in no particular order):
Lawrence English, Alex White, Jacques Soddell, Metalog, Ian Wadley, Richard Nunns, Clocked Out Duo, Kusum Normoyle, Kazumichi Grime, Nick Wishart + Hirofumi Uchino, Heil Spirits, Ivan Lisyak, Toecutter, Natasha Anderson, Jodi Rose, Rene Christen, Melissa Hunt, Mark Brown, Jason Sweeney, Jessica Tyrrell, Eamon Sprod / Tarab, Camilla Hannan, Ryan Cockburn, Thembi Soddell, Carl Priestly, Matt Davis, Hi God People, Reinhold Friedl, Jean Luc Guionnet, Cornel Wilczek, Anthea Caddy, Rod Price, Tom Hall, Cat Hope, Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, Pauline Oliveros + Ione, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Dave Phillips, Clinton Green, Rainer Linz, Nigel Wright , Abject Leader, Thomas Knox Arnold, M.Rösner, Shoeb Ahmad, Simon Hampson, Winner, Tony Mason-Cox with Ann Onymous, The Daniel Green Tribute Show, Sounding Wivenhoe (Erik Griswold + guests), Kamusta, Dean Linguey, Abe Sada, Jasper Streit, Rik Rue, Wade Marynowsky, Robin Fox, Cat Hope, DJOlive, Thembi Soddell, Greg Davis, Jeph Jerman, Qua, eRikM, Donna Hewitt, Julian Knowles, Dean Roberts, The Swiss Australian Collectibles, Speak Percussion, Duo B&B, Martin Baumgartner, Simulus, Philip Brophy, Faber Castell, Ross Manning, Alan Nguyen, Ross Bencina, Zane Trow, David Edwards, The Loop Orchestra, Clayton Thomas, Jim Denley, Amanda Stewart, Pimmon, Gail Priest, Ros Bandt, Garth Paine, Michael Atherton, Peter Blamey, Darrin Verhagin, Ivar Lehtsalu, Lawrence English, Nigel Brown, Anthea Caddy, Ben Carew, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Rod Cooper, Malakat, Michael Prior, Eamon Sprod, Sean Baxter, Paul Rodgers, Benjamin Ducroz, Ryan Hayward, Kristina Matovic, Klipp AV, Ian Andrews, Kazumichi Grime, Dave Noyze, Alex White, Antediluvian Rocking Horse, Essendon Airport, Scot Cotterell, Undecisive God, Will Guthrie, Arnya Tehira, Ben Henderson, Dale Nason, Kim Bounds, Damian Laird, Lucas Abela, Pat Stormont, Raysles and Shoushi, SEO, Somaya Langley, TBA, Thomas Brinkmann, Wake Up and Listen, Zen Paradox, DPWplf, Jean Poole, Keith_d, Lindsay Cox, Alan Lamb, Eric La Casa, Jean Luc Guionnett, Philip Samartzis, James Hullick, Jodi Rose, Myles Mumford, Pia Borg, Sam Acres, Botborg, Dominic Redfern, Bruce Mowson, Severed Heads, Abject Leader, Children In The Game, Incidental Amplifications, Ai Yamamoto, Paul Abad, Luke Jaaniste, Beta Erko, Lieutenant Colonel Spastic Howitzer, Clare Cooper, Inge Olmheim, Social Interiors, Ivan Lisyak, Machina Aux Rock, Splinter Orchestra, file_error, The Consumers, nat, Shannon O’Neill, Sam, tq, Tom Ellard, Peter Newman, Jon Hunter, William Noble, Stephen Fox, Cameron Foster, John Watermann, Jessica Tyrrell, Chris Caines, Wet Gate, Rob Muir, Sumu Sivanesan, scissors for sparrow, Rob McDougall, mimic mass, Reinhold Friedl, Michael Vorfeld, Anthony Pateras, Chris Abrahams, Pierre Bastien, Tony Conrad, Bucketrider, Grant Collins, Compost, Kate Crawford , Adam Nash, Lloyd Barrett, Tim Catlin, Clocked Out Duo, Topology, Jody Kingston, The Terminal Quartet, Ernie Althoff, Geoff Robinson, Hannah Clemen, Andrew Garton, Bernard Parmegiani, Sue Harding, Infrasound, Scott Arford, Randy Yau, Bec Charlesworth, Casey Rice, Cicada, Kirsten Bradley, Nick Ritar, James Wilkinson, Andrew Barrie, James Cecil, Cassandra Tytler, Phillip Pietruschka, Sally Golding, Pia Borg, Joel Stern, Alison Blunt, Jasmine Guffond, Anne-Marie Kohn, Karli Munn, Claire Conroy, Jean Poole, Louise Terry, Sally Blenheim, Isobel Knowles, Boo Chapple, Jennifer Sochackyj, Kelly Sturgis, Julie Burleigh, Jim Knox, Biffplex, Porter Ricks (Thomas Koener), Oren Ambarchi, Martin Ng, Tony Buck, Michael Sheridan, minit, Jeremy Collings, Natasha Anderson, Sun Valley, Haima Marriott, Gus Franklin, Carl Priestly, Viveka De Costa, Nigel Helyer, Warren Burt, Nicole Skeltys, Sonia Leber, David Haines, Black Lung, Snawklor, pf duo, Kettle, Sophea Lerner, Five Fold Galactic Bells, Hagus, David Thrussell, Andrew Kettle, les brooms, Tarab, Michael Graeve, Deuce Ambience, Andie Reynolds, Hand Eye Coordination, Dan Hawkins, Futile Sound of Brunswick, Radiation Therapy, bags, Ollie Olsen, Nat Bates / nat, Abi Crompton
Liquid Architecture 10: Festival of Sound Arts is a landmark occasion for the festival and for sound culture in Australia. Celebrating its tenth consecutive year, the Liquid Architecture sound festival runs for four weeks and goes to seven cities across Australia, presenting an exciting program of contemporary sound arts. With a decade of experience to draw upon, the diverse program features live events and installations showcasing the highest quality sound work in an intense focused listening environment, privileging our most unsung sense: listening.
The breadth of diversity of artists and artistic practices includes meticulous recorded work, improvised instrumental performance, new sound for screen work, radical uses of digital technology, inventive self-made sound making devices and historically informed practices.
What will I hear?
A key objective is the promotion of artists practising on the periphery of music and sound culture, particularly those with an experimental aesthetic and a critical approach to (media) cultures. The artistic content of the festival focuses upon and privileges sound practice in all its manifestations but, due to the cross disciplinary potential of sound, many other art practices are included in the festival. Liquid Architecture focuses on any and all art forms involving particular emphasis on the auditory, including an exciting mix of musical performance, AV presentations and installation work, along with a strong critical element involving panels, workshops and artist talks.
Liquid Architecture is a sense specific festival, as opposed to genre specific. The artistic content of the festival focuses upon and privileges sound practice that is difficult to categorise into existing music genres, or work that is of a genre where few high profile opportunities for exposure exist, such as electro acoustic or avant garde music.
Brief History
Occurring annually since 2000, Liquid Architecture celebrates the diverse methods of sound making and sound theory. It is our belief that listening is a vital activity and one that is often overlooked within the dominance of visual media in our environment. A key objective is the promotion of artists practicing in the periphery of music and sound culture, particularly those with an experimental aesthetic and a critical approach to (media) cultures. Liquid Architecture is the only festival in Australia that strives to combine the fragmented communities in which sound arts practices occurs, striving for cross disciplinary appreciation and critique. The practical objective of this strategy is to popularise and publicise sound culture and to make sound culture more accessible.
All photos by Christina Tester
"Hearing represents the primary sense organ - hearing happens involuntarily. Listening is a voluntary process that through training and experience produces culture. All cultures develop through ways of listening." Pauline Oliveros, Liquid Architecture 8 Performing Artist, 2007
"…it is clear that Liquid Architecture 6 is now a true celebration of the aural sense, with a fearless drive and ambition, aiming to shift expectations, challenge and develop audiences and to take the idea of a sound art festival to the next level …" Gail Priest, writing in RealTime, 2005
“The Decline Of Modern Civilisation” @ Step Inn (front bar) Saturday 4 July $10, 8pm. Curse Ov Dialect (Melbourne), Purple Duck (Melbourne), The Professional Savage (Melbourne), Joel Saunders, Bloody Roo, DJ Potato Master, DJ Lame.
launching 'The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye', out now on sound&fury records (www.soundandfury.com.au)
MELBOURNE LAUNCHES
Wed 24 June Stutter @ Horse Bazaar (Lt. Lonsdale St, City) with ii, Automating, DJ Christina Tester $7/5, 8pm www.myspace.com/stuttermelb
Sat 27 June Castle Tones @ Edinburgh Castle (Sydney Rd, Brunswick) with Je Suis Animal (Norway), Ned Collette & Wirewalker, Kes Trio, Laura Jean Trio, Lee Memorial, Jessica Says, Dick Diver, The Twerps, Francis Plagne, Minature Submarines, Scott & Charlene's Wedding $16+bf/$18 door, 3pm-midnight www.mistletone.net
Undecisive God 'A Vinyl Construction' 7" - Recent experiments with multiple turntables and prepared/broken records come to full fruition here with a release that poses questions both to the use of turntables as instruments and vinyl as a format. The music - crunchy multi-layered improvisations/processes that randomly sample small broken chunks from the original vinyl materials - is itself presented on 7" vinyl, in handmade covers reconstructed from old record covers and broken vinyl shards; each cover is different, individually numbered and an interesting one-off creation in itself. Limited edition of fifty copies. Available from Shame File Music, or Missing Link and Sunshine & Grease in Melbourne.
Hello friends & lovers... Come & feel the heat with us on Saturday nites at Alia!! Half-price cocktails from 8-11pm plus some of the land's finest mixing DISCO, FUNK & HOUSE all night long!! No riff-raff door policy. If you'd like to be on the guestlist, simply message us back or send us an email: guestlist@sweatsaturdays.com
New Anonymeye album ‘The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye’, featuring collaborations with Seaworthy and Mirrored Silver Sea, out Monday May 18 on sound&fury (www.soundandfury.com.au). First 50 pre-orders from s&f webshop also receive a bonus 3” CDR of exclusive material including collaborations with ii and Marisa Allen (Bremen Town Musician).
