Rodolphe Blois
The Colours of Silence
This work is a celebration of silence and soft sounds. Initially composed for and presented in the wild environment of Stradbroke Island in 1996, it is almost entirely made with manipulated insect sounds found in the bush of the island. The bush version was an exploration of a possible acoulogical and ecological co-habitation between the electro-acoustic world and the wild environment. This winter version is woven with some unmodified insect sounds from which the textures are made. Rodolphe Blois (b. I 956, Paris, France) has been involved in electro-acoustic composition for nearly twenty years. His experience includes a live experimental electro-acoustic music group, numerous collaborations with musicians, visual aixl multi-media artists, theatre companies, film makers and radio producers as well as a series of works for the National Museum of Orsay in Paris. He has taught electro acoustic music at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music between 1989 and 1996. Rodolphe Blois uses concrete and synthetic sounds digitally processed and edited. He is a follower of Musique Concr�te and Acousmatics school. His works for which he has received State Government funding in 1995, 1996, and 1997, is exploring the formal, anecdotal, and metaphoric dimensions of fixed and invisible sound. Blois' interest in the sound environment and in silence has led him to composing about aixl for the wilderness, reflecting on a possible acoulogy and ecology, a tuning of culture with/to Nature, a cohabitation between electroacoustic sounds and wild acoustic ones.
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George Pinn
Untitled
This work is made as a kind of aural film. Heightened live sounds are used to conjure vivid images and associations in the minds of the audience, and are woven into a narrative structure. The work builds an environment of natural sounds (rain, water, bush sounds) which feature a human presence without recourse to the voice. The subjective associations of memory conjured in the minds of the viewer effect a delirious and dream-like state. George Pinn is a multi-media sound and visual artist. Her work ranges across the practices of installation, video, perfonnance, theatre, sound, and sculpture. Her sound work has been developed in close relationship to video technologies. Her experimentation with the flexibility of electro-acoustic sound via sampling and her video working processes have led her into diverse applications for sound such as animation and live visual mixing in varied environments and sound composition for post production video work.
Kenneth Lyons
Bad Language
she was seven years old an angel with hair like spun silver the only word she could utter was fuck with her wings clipped her language limited this cherub with her vile stutter was bound and shackled censored conupted rendered mute Kenneth Lyons is a second year student studying Communication Design at Queensland University of Technology. He has participated in previous Fringe Festival sound events and has worked as a sound artist/designer/collaborator for a number of years.
Electric Tipi
Dreaming of Fish
An abstract improvised piece which in itself has no specific story, just mood and movement. Dreaming of fish is inspired by whale communication sounds and was recorded live in our studio using computer samples, bass and tenor recorder, and an electric twelve-string guitar. Electric Tipi have been working in installation, performance, and sound for several years. Our ideal is ro create soundscapes that move the listener into realms of dream and introspection. We produce an organic, ambient feel with the help of technology, composing and improvising to suit each performance situation. Our work is experimental and self produced.
Shane Garvey
Tuning Forks for the Eyes and Ears
Experimentation with the functions of the eye as it adjusts to darkness: blurred fragments. Objects and shapes fight the blackened space for identity and recognition. Sound is given precedence over the dominant mode of communication: the visual. Shane Garvey is a second year visual arts student al Queensland University of Technology, who has been working in sound technology for the last three years. He has produced radio work for 2SER in Sydney and 4ZZZ in Brisbane (including a six-part documentary on "Disco", and a forthcoming experimental documentary on queer families). His computer-based sound work has been produced primarily for performance artworks.