About

• Information
• Crew (Scott Sinclair, Greg Jenkins, David Loose, Luke Jaaniste, Lloyd Barrett, Joe Musgrove, Andrew Kettle)
• Sponsors

Information

Small Black Box is a performance and listening space dedicated to experimental music and sound art, held on the last Sunday of each month at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia.

Each month the Small Black Box program presents both underground and established sound artists presenting original works drawing upon the aesthetics of noise, silence, drone, glitch, instrument building, digital processing and improvisation. Artists are invited to submit performance proposals that challenge both audiences and themselves, to develop, widen and educate the appreciation of alternative approaches and cultural expression of sound and noise in Brisbane. Artists are free to concentrate on their original work and have it scheduled into the rapidly evolving year long program.

Small Black Box commenced on 27 May 2001. Since then the event has gone from strength to strength, attracting local, interstate and international artists presenting original works to appreciative audiences. With support from sponsors (Australia Council for the Arts, Institute of Modern Art, Queensland Music Festival), ticket sales and volunteers, the budget for Small Black Box is modest, an emphasis is on local artists performances as a cultural exchange of ideas with local talent.

Small Black Box serves as a continuing focal point for New Music in Brisbane.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Crew

Scott Sinclair - Coordinator, Webmaster

As an accomplished guitar improvisor and electronic composer, Scott has been performing for a number of years, most notably at "Sound Summit/Electrofringe" (Newcastle 2002/2003), "Melbourne Fringe Festival" (Melbourne 2002/2003), "Make It Up Club" (Melbourne 2003), "Small Black Box" (Brisbane 2001-2003) and "What Is Music?" (Brisbane 2004). As a collaborator, Scott has been played in a number of experimental music collectives (pH3, Flew Creeking, The Lichen Assembly) and with musicians from around Australia (Jim Denley, Clinton Green, Joe Musgrove) playing a variety of instruments and acting as electronic producer.

He has also actively collaborated with artists in other disciplines, thus participating in real-time audio/visual performances, short film scores, performance poetry collaborations, and art gallery installations. His recorded work appears on several independently released albums and compilations, and has received radio airplay throughout the country.
http://www.halftheory.com

Greg Jenkins - Coordinator

Greg lectures in sound media at the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology and has also been artistic director of the performance ensemble Simulation. He curated the concert programme of the Australasian Computer Music Association's 2000 conference and has also worked on a number of film score projects. Most notable of these was co-writing the score for the short film STOP which gained international recognition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

endoPHONIC is Greg's main musical vehicle and is a collaboration with like minded composer Richard Wilding. Using elements like electronic transformations of acoustic sound sources and real-time software synthesis, endoPHONIC use the vocabulary of musique concrete to navigate a course through contemporary non-dance oriented electronica.
http://www.endophonic.net

Andrew Kettle - Original Concept

Andrew Kettle, Brisbane sound artist and organiser of the events: Small Black Box 2001-02, Ao: Audio Only '01, Ambient Explosions 1999-2000 and Deviations '98-99 which highlight experimental musicians and sound artists. Kettle's work is heavily influenced by alchemy and is riddled with transmutive processes and experiential work in the natural world. His performance highlights include D>Art2001 (sound), Total Huge New Music Festival 2001 (Sound Spaces), MAAP 1999, 2001, Liquid Architecture '01, AIMIA Awards 1999, ACMC 2000,01 and Electrofringe 1999,00,01. His work has received radioplay nationally on JJJ, Radio National, ABC Classical FM, SBS FM, and through numerous community radio stations around Australia. His recording material dates back to 1993, with several CD releases and numerous tracks on various compilations including Serbsky Institute, ABC music, Vibragun, Last Chance Gasp, Phat Lips and Overt.
http://listen.to/kettle

David Loose - Technical Manager

David started working with audio in 1997, when he began creating electronic compositions in his modest home studio. In 2000 he completed cert. IV in contemporary music / audio engineering, and has worked in related fields ever since.

He has worked as a lighting operator / designer around Brisbane, doing corporates and music gigs (Woodford Folk Festival, Livid, 4zzz Market Day etc.) And has also done tech work for theatre, touring with shows along the east coast in 2001 and 2002. In November 2002 he was the technical manager of the "Straight Out Of Brisbane" festival, which he has been asked back to do in 2003. During the first series of "Big Brother" he worked as a camera assistant, and will be working as an audio operator on the third series.

Throughout this David has continued to produce a steady stream of quality experimental electronica, under the name Hydatid. Playing gigs around Australia and having his tracks played on radio around the world.
http://www.halftheory.com/hydatid

Luke Jaaniste - Official Writer, Publications Manager

Luke Jaaniste is a Brisbane-based artist working in the fields of sound, installation, performance, public art and curation. In 1999 he graduated from studies in composition and musicology at the Qld Conservatorium, and his sound-based activities currently include working with traditional scores, audio software and found objects. His sounds have been featured on Triple J, ABC Classic FM and Radio 4ZzZ, and at many festivals including Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Fringe, Noosa Federation festival, Mini[]Max, NOISE, Straight Out of Brisbane and Can of Worms. Luke is a co-director of national composers group COMPOST and is a PhD candidate at QUT Creative Industries, where he is investigating inter-disciplinary art practices.

Luke is also writes about art, tending to focus on conceptual rather than stylistic issues. His official relationship with Small Back Box as reviewer began in April 2003.
http://www.lukejaaniste.com

Sponsors

Small Black Box is generously supported by:

• Australia Council for the Arts
• Institute of Modern Art
• Queensland Music Festival