Sometime over the last ten, fifteen, umpteen years sound happened in the worlds of art, music, media arts … and literature, theatre, radio, film, academic scholarship, etc. (more…)
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Sound fills the art world. Upon entering almost any contemporary gallery space we hear sound emanating from TV monitors, projection spaces, computers, and in headphones, not to mention the echoes of voices and footsteps. (more…)
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Considerations of the rumbling tenor of his prose aside, the name of German philosopher Martin Heidegger is not one usually associated with speculations on sound, or even to listening. (more…)
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the songs of a bird? Pablo Picasso. [1] (more…)
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The Audio Foundation was founded by Zoe Drayton in 2004 to enhance connection and community for New Zealand experimental music and sound art practitioners. (more…)
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We have a problem. Artists consistently average annual salaries that place them in the low income bracket (more…)
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‘The Great Australian Silence’ was a cultural codification for the domination of Australia’s lands by British Imperialists in 1788. The term was coined in 1901, when the Bulletin editor A.G. Stephens used the expression to ‘codify an Australian myth’ that the Australian identity was born ‘in the silence of the bush’. (more…)
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The Pythagorean term ‘Acousmatic’ refers to the apprehension of sound without relation to its source. (more…)
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Artist-run initiatives come in many colours, but few have been as vibrant – or as controversial – as the Brisbane-based Audiopollen Social Club. (more…)
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A Sound Garden with a Japanese water harp (sui-kin-kutsu) has been installed in Brisbane’s Roma St Parkland, Queensland. (more…)
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This article examines four artists who are currently influential in the Australian sound art and experimental music scenes. (more…)
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Music is fragmenting. Traditionally isolated musical elements are collapsing: performance, composition, recording, and sampling are no longer mutually exclusive. (more…)
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The theoretical writing about sound comes in many forms and covers many different contexts. The role of sound in film, arts, media and everyday life has been analysed using a wide range of techniques and approaches. (more…)
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Always a difficult act to categorise, Severed Heads are perhaps best known for a handful of oblique dance hits in the 1980s and early ‘90s. (more…)
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Anyone who has taken an interest in the practice of field recording has probably noticed the extremes that artists have gone to in the past ten to fifteen years to document difficult and remote locations. (more…)
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A colleague once asked me whether I had ever ‘heard silence’. (more…)
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