art of sedition

a la hommage to steve reich's 1960's tape music has been pulled from broadcast by an adelaide radio station, based on legal advice.

the piece, "Decennial Celebrations" commemorates the coalition and john howard's ten years in power, and was performed at adelaide's delicatessen venue in 2006. apparently the phrase "kill john howard" is enough to provoke the removal of such a work from airplay. in the words of the composer Christian Haines, "...eventually the words [in the piece] lose meaning because you can't tell the start and end of the sentence and leads to a sort of auditory hallucination."

in the final days leading up to australia's 2007 election, this really paints a picture of our rights to free speech.

mediating meditations

The 2006 Australiasian Computer Music Conference took place in Adelaide last week.

I presented an artist talk, Sonic Gesturing, about wearable control interfaces and sound, and gave a lunchtime performance as ID-i/o with the live improvised work [re] - utilising accellerometers.

MetaSense - the duo I'm invloved with - also presented a discrete channel multichannel work, Tourist x2 composed from ambisonic field recordings in Barcelona last year.

cinematic streetscape

my screen work tasting aloneness is currently being shown in Project 3's Street Cinema as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

If you're in Adelaide this evening, wander past 153 Hindley Street (in the city) ... it should be flickering until dawn.

Massive thanks are owed to Michael Yuen, the director of Project 3, for his utmost patience.