Boxes

BOX #46 - 23 April 2005

• Snawklor (electronic/acoustic synthesis - Melbourne)
• Aaron Hull (digital improvisation - Sydney)
• Camilla Hannan (surround sound field noise - Brisbane)
• Hydatid (sound that speaks through stutters - Brisbane)
• DZO (bass heavy dronescapes - Brisbane)

Saturday 23 April 2005, 7-11pm
Institute of Modern Art - Main Gallery
420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Entry $7/$10

There will be no fixed chairs at this performance. Instead the audience will be free to wander in the spacious gallery venue to fully take in the multi-speaker setup and adjust to their own listening pleasure.

SNAWKLOR is Dylan Krasevac and Nathan Gray and their main interest is a successful synthesis of technology and acoustic sound. Snawklor attempt to create a rich acoustic ecology edgy but never menacing tickling the ears as well as the brain, a body of work that is exotic, unnerving and unique. Influences and starting points for their work include Luc Ferrari, Areski, Gamelan Music and Brazilian psych-folk they're both oddly musical and musically odd for an experimental act.

AARON HULL is a sound artist, curator of the performance evening 1/4_inch, video installation artist and masters research student at the University of Wollongong, Australia. As a performer, Aaron manipulates and recontextualises sound and image in real-time. Many of his works are created by recorded improvisations and chance techniques. Aaron utilises digital signal processing, cut and paste and re-sampling as tools for structuring compositions.

CAMILLA HANNAN is a sound designer, installation artist, composer and performer. Her work has been featured both nationally and internationally. In 2004, she was part of dLux 04 sound programme at the Sydney Opera House and Liquid Architecture National Festival of Sound Arts with a specially commissioned work for the Melbourne Planetarium. Camilla is currently working on 'More songs About Factories' a CD of industrial soundscapes, due for completion mid 2005.

HYDATID's (David Loose) music has evolved somewhere around the peripheries of electronica and sound art, producing a fusion of ambient sound scapes, prosaic beats and abstract melodies and skilfully composing these elements to create an aesthetic of contemplation. This performance is part of an ongoing work entitled "Studies in Particle Motion" whereby the artefacts of sound processed through MAX/MSP begin to organically take on a new context.

DZO is a dreamscape for the half awake. Performed by Andrew Thomson(Biffplex, Diaspora) DZO focuses on the fine particles of sound that combine to form an exhaling world. Cavernous rumbling bass is finely counterpointed with plaintiff crying to the sky; evocations of a yin/yang world that is one part dystopia sci-fi, two parts hermetic droneology.