November 2009 Issue 225
1 Introduction: DOUGLAS KAHN
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 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 TAYLOR
Pied butcherbird at Wogarno Station, WA. Photograph by Chris Tate
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 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 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 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 ZUVELA
Experimental expanded projections at Audiopollen, West End, Brisbane, 2007
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 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 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’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