November 2009 Issue 225

1 Introduction: DOUGLAS KAHN

1 Introduction: DOUGLAS KAHN

2 Can someone please turn the work up? The Exhibition of Sound in Contemporary Australian Art: CALEB KELLYMel O’Callaghan, The Fall, 2004, video still from DVD PAL, 4.15min duration. Image courtesy the artist and GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney

2 Can someone please turn the work up? The Exhibition of Sound in Contemporary Australian Art: CALEB KELLY

Mel O’Callaghan, The Fall, 2004, video still from DVD PAL, 4.15min duration. Image courtesy the artist and GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney

3 Potatoes, antennas & autofocus: three sound installations for Heidegger: ANN FINEGANMark Brown, part of the artistic team (with Vincent and Vaughan O’Connor) for Desertion, a sound installation held in a vacant shop in Parramatta’s Brand Smart…

3 Potatoes, antennas & autofocus: three sound installations for Heidegger: ANN FINEGAN

Mark Brown, part of the artistic team (with Vincent and Vaughan O’Connor) for Desertion, a sound installation held in a vacant shop in Parramatta’s Brand Smart building as part of Parramatta’s (biennial) Riverbeats festival, November 7 to 24, 2008

4 Super Tweeter: HOLLIS TAYLORPied butcherbird at Wogarno Station, WA. Photograph by Chris Tate

4 Super Tweeter: HOLLIS TAYLOR

Pied butcherbird at Wogarno Station, WA. Photograph by Chris Tate

5 Sound Artists In Extremis, PHILLIP SAMARTZISDouglas Quin at Swiss Camp on the Greenland ice sheet. Photograph by Ryan Vachon. Quin’s latest release (vinyl),Fathom (due out later this year on Taiga Records), features underwater soundscapes from Ant…

5 Sound Artists In Extremis, PHILLIP SAMARTZIS

Douglas Quin at Swiss Camp on the Greenland ice sheet. Photograph by Ryan Vachon. Quin’s latest release (vinyl),Fathom (due out later this year on Taiga Records), features underwater soundscapes from Antarctica and Alaska.

6 Re-Wiring a Postcolonial Culture: CARLA TEIXEIRAOutback fences (‘salt fence’ and ‘classic corrugated’) in the course of Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose’s Great Fences of Australia Project

6 Re-Wiring a Postcolonial Culture: CARLA TEIXEIRA

Outback fences (‘salt fence’ and ‘classic corrugated’) in the course of Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose’s Great Fences of Australia Project

7 Can we post gig announcements here? Community connections in the Audio Foundation mailing list: ZITA JOYCELines of Flight Festival, Chick’s Hotel, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, March 28, 2009. Photograph by Tim Coster

7 Can we post gig announcements here? Community connections in the Audio Foundation mailing list: ZITA JOYCE

Lines of Flight Festival, Chick’s Hotel, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, March 28, 2009. Photograph by Tim Coster

8 Sustainable Sonic Art in a 360° World: LEAH BARCLAYLeah Barclay recording at Lake Cootharaba, Noosa, Floating Land 2009. Photograph by Adam Sebastian West

8 Sustainable Sonic Art in a 360° World: LEAH BARCLAY

Leah Barclay recording at Lake Cootharaba, Noosa, Floating Land 2009. Photograph by Adam Sebastian West

9 Artist-Run INITIATIVES & Sound Art in Australia: DANNI ZUVELAExperimental expanded projections at Audiopollen, West End, Brisbane, 2007

9 Artist-Run INITIATIVES & Sound Art in Australia: DANNI ZUVELA

Experimental expanded projections at Audiopollen, West End, Brisbane, 2007

10 Sound Garden: addressing social & ecological sustainability: KUMI KATORoma St Parkland Sound Garden, 2009. The Japanese water harp is encircled by a glass mosaic path of the Turrbul Dreaming Freshwater Eel. Photograph by Hideki Okubo. This im…

10 Sound Garden: addressing social & ecological sustainability: KUMI KATO

Roma St Parkland Sound Garden, 2009. The Japanese water harp is encircled by a glass mosaic path of the Turrbul Dreaming Freshwater Eel. Photograph by Hideki Okubo. This image will be featured in a postage stamp

11 A ‘game of nomenclature’? Performance-based sonic practice in Australia: BEN ELTHAMJoel Stern, live performance at Liquid Architecture (with latex covered tube), 10, July 2009. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Bryan Spencer

11 A ‘game of nomenclature’? Performance-based sonic practice in Australia: BEN ELTHAM

Joel Stern, live performance at Liquid Architecture (with latex covered tube), 10, July 2009. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Bryan Spencer

12 The Wonderment of the Bleak – Sculpting the Static: CAT HOPELisa MacKinney during the filming of Mystic Eyes. Photograph by Natasha Blankfield13 Recent Sound Writing: JOHN POTTS

12 The Wonderment of the Bleak – Sculpting the Static: CAT HOPE

Lisa MacKinney during the filming of Mystic Eyes. Photograph by Natasha Blankfield

13 Recent Sound Writing: JOHN POTTS

14 Severed Heads, Adenoids 1977–1985: SHANNON O’NEILLCover image for Severed Heads’ Blubberknife release (cassette), 1982. Collection of Tom Ellard15 Don’t look back: an artist’s story: Ray Young, 1951-200916 Emil Goh, 1966-2009

14 Severed Heads, Adenoids 1977–1985: SHANNON O’NEILL

Cover image for Severed Heads’ Blubberknife release (cassette), 1982. Collection of Tom Ellard

15 Don’t look back: an artist’s story: Ray Young, 1951-2009

16 Emil Goh, 1966-2009