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BOX #37 - 25 July 2004
- Jody Kingston ("Lullabies for Robots" - QLD)
- Biffplex (deeply immersed audio/visual - QLD)
- Terminal Quartet (Garton, Kettle, Bagley & Abad - VIC/QLD)
SMALL BLACK BOX in association with Liquid Architecture 5: Festival of Sound Arts
Sunday 25 July 2004, 7.30-10.30pm
Judith Wright Centre, Performance Space
420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
All ages - Entry $10, Concessions $7
This month Small Black Box teams up with the world-class Liquid Architecture festival, treating Brisbane audiences to a selection of diverse sound performances from artists from around Australia.
JODY KINGSTON?S creative practice combines soundscape, text composition and performance drawing largely upon techniques of sampling, simultaneity, non-linearity, random order and the sonic mass. This SBB she presents "Lullabies for Robots" - a sound-driven performance of an imaginary world inhabited by the two robots, a parent and child, relics of the pre-digital age. Between the sound and the space, a robot sings...
BIFFPLEX is Joe Musgrove and Andrew Thomson. Inspired equally by the spaces between altered states of perception, film-makers such as Tarkovsky and Wong Kar Wai, the seductive sickliness of 1950's whitebread 'lurve' music, the hypnotic pulse of early Steve Reich and the brain-twatting assault of Merzbow/Godzilla in full flight, Bifffplex produce a hypnotic, shifting wall of MONSTROUSLY ZENSUAL PHATTNEZZ, capable of inducing reactions as varied as deep sleep, vomiting and ecstatic, flailing abandon in audiences.
THE TERMINAL QUARTET was originally conceived by composer/producer Andrew Garton and video artist John Power as a means to define software as instrument, both in an audible and visual context. The Quartet performs structured improvisations - each performance is entirely unique, each performance influencing the next. Performers research and arrange individual movements in isolation from each other as governed by the context and structure of Garton's compositions. This SBB Andrew Garton (Melbourne) completes the quartet with Brisbane?s Paul Abad, Andy Bagley, and Andrew Kettle.
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE
"Exploring the interdisciplinary nature of sound arts practices, which touch moving image, contemporary/experimental music, contemporary art and new media cultures, Liquid Architecture is creating a distinct identity within the realms of sound, new media and contemporary art."
For the more information on LA5 and the full Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane program visit http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au