Sisters Akousmatica

Angie Garrick Ela Stiles eves Julia Drouhin and Pip Stafford Kate Geck radio cegeste Shani Mohini-Holmes

Sun, 08. May 2016

Signal
Flinders Walk, Northbank, Melbourne

11AM - 6PM
FREE

Sisters Akousmatica was developed through Next Wave’s Emerging Curators Program with Liquid Architecture for Next Wave Festival 2016.

Featuring: eves, radio cegeste, Angie Garrick, Kate Geck, Rosalind Hall, Shani Mohini-Holmes and Ela Stiles.

Sisters Akousmatica is a city-scale radio orchestra. Over seven hours, seven female artists perform on the banks of the Yarra River, their sounds broadcast via radio transmission. Meanwhile, armed with a collection of portable radios, Radio Queens Julia Drouhin and Pip Stafford lead a procession through the streets of Melbourne, stopping at various locations along the way to tune in to each live performance.

Radiophonic transmission and the city soundscape fold together to become an acoustic web that changes hour by hour and culminates in an installation work at Signal, capturing, multiplying and archiving the performance works as a radiophonic acousmonium.

Focusing on the concept of akousma – sound removed from its source – Sisters Akousmatica creates a space through which to examine the radical possibilities of unconventional sound. The ephemeral world of radio offers a dialogue with the audience that is at once live and not-live, real and unreal.

Performance, walking tour and broadcast departs from Signal at 11AM. Listen live on 3CR 855AM or stream online at 3cr.org.au

sistersakousmatica.org

Artists

Angie Garrick

Listening to my work conjures a feeling of a certain colour, perhaps a blue thats between blue and another, green and or purple. It wavers and moves between. My eyes are closed and this indigo landscape forms a silky texture in my mind. It slowly starts to rain and the colour dissipates into and oxen nothingness. The end.

Ela Stiles

The act of listening to my work is unpredictable, as I never play the same set twice or use all the same sounds or words, they are constantly changing and I myself don't know what I am going to do each time I play live.

eves

Julia Drouhin and Pip Stafford

Drouhin and Stafford use radios, transmitters, crystals, hurdy gurdy and field recordings in acts of sound divination and occult listening. Their collective interests lie in radio arts, auditory-spatial practices and the intersection of gender and emergent art forms.

Kate Geck

animation, textiles, installation, interactive, melbourne, australia m8

radio cegeste

Shani Mohini-Holmes

(I just want to create sound that transcends my horrendous personality)