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Sounding the Condamine - Photos

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

 

Kumi Kato's exquisite bell tree walk at Dogwood Creek

Kumi Kato's exquisite bell tree walk at Dogwood Creek

Sounding the Condamine is a site-specific performance piece and an on-line installation paying tribute to the Condamine bell that sounded the Queensland landscape in the late 19th century. Drawing on folk songs (On the Banks of the Condamine), bush poetry (in particular Condamine Jack), the sound of the bells (which locals say can be heard up to 20 miles away on a cold still night) and the environmental sounds of Murilla shire, a

performance piece involving music, livestock, installation and movement will be carved into the landscape. Footage from the performance will become part of a digital archive which will also incorporate interviews, historical information, sounds and images presented as an on-line installation work.

 

Erik's Griswold's piece Trombones in Tinnies performed on the Dogwood Creek

Erik's Griswold's piece Trombones in Tinnies performed on the Dogwood Creek

Sharka Bosakova ignities her Czech heritage

Sharka Bosakova ignities her Czech heritage

 

Singing Steve Newcomb's arrangment of Time (by Condamine Jack)

Singing Steve Newcomb's arrangment of Time (by Condamine Jack)

 

The 3 Amigo's join Clocked Out for the final part of SOunding the Condamine

The 3 Amigo's join Clocked Out for the final part of SOunding the Condamine

Performing his composition Flutes of the Forrest

Performing his composition Flutes of the Forrest

 

Jan Baker-Finch at Dogwood Creek

Jan Baker-Finch at Dogwood Creek

Double Interchange

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Site specific collaboration with installation artist Cath Clover for Double Venturi_The Current, Melbourne Town Hall 2006.

The site was the lift shaft and stairwell of the Melbourne Town Hall, the centre of civic power for the City of Melbourne, Australia. It was chosen for its transitional and apparently peripheral nature. Little time is spent here yet it is a vital link within the building and is constantly in use. Using composed music played live in the lifts, a projection of visual sampling, and a pre-recorded sound piece the work engages with ideas surrounding transition, change, and flux.

With thanks to musicians Martin MacKerras [clarinet], Adrian Sherriff [bass trombone], Eugene Ughetti [percussion]; lift operators Gemma Collette and Alana Gibson; assistants Utako Shindo, Holly Ingleton, Johnny Pavlatos; and sound recording contributions from Kirsten Reese and Sean O’Neill