redfern in autumn

what to do in redfern on a saturday afternoon when you lock yourself out of the car? sit on the street in the sun and read RealTime (thanks realtime!)

commonly creative

there's currently an innovations forum running at the National Library (today is day 2). Brian Fitzgerald from Creative Commons Australia presented a paper that really outlines the changes in creation and use of creative content.

users are the new creators. consumer affordable technology (at least in the first world) means that almost anyone can be a creator these days. it leans on heirachies and begins to break down barriers between who can and who can't...

this in itself raises a whole new set of issues about the mass of content being created and published in a public environment (like this blog for instance). what then do we do with all of this "stuff"?

d' ya know what time it is?

i positively hate re-blogging... having said that it's something i'm tending to do more frequently.

Clockr, however, deserves a mention. It's another really good illustration of new modes of creation in the digital age: sample, remix, etc

subsequent cities

Sam aka. Kreme Karmel has left SubSequence for the new horizons of the Melbourne city lights...

(we're gonna miss you and your antics...)

sonic ferrying

As part of the New Constellations conference at the MCA in Sydney last weekend, there was a sonic ferry trip: Syren for Port Jackson, put together by the Audio Nomad guys. Spatialised audio on Sydney harbour, very cool. My preference was much more towards the ambient/atmospheric sounds - sonar blips - than any spoken slabs of text.

ps - out | side | in

photo: n mariette

out | side | in is a short piece that is part of What Survives: Sonic residues in breathing buildings at The Performance Space, Cleveland St, Sydney. It runs from the 24th March - 22nd April, opening 6pm Fri 24th March.

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Consisting of three major gallery-based sound installations and a program of commissioned works for two sound stations in the building, WHAT SURVIVES explores the real and imagined remnants of human presence in architecture.

The structures we build bear silent witness to our human behaviour — what have the walls, beams and girders absorbed and what sonic secrets can be coaxed back out of them? Does this ephemeral material influence the energy of the spaces we inhabit?

Taking inspiration from Rilke, WHAT SURVIVES conveys the indestructibility of energy and its subsequent transformations and manifestations.

GALLERY ARTISTS: Nigel Helyer, Jodi Rose, Alex Davies

SOUND STATION ARTISTS: Garry Bradbury, Joyce Hinterding, Aaron Hull, Somaya Langley, Sumugan Sivanesan, Amanda Stewart

CURATOR: Gail Priest

plug 'n' play

moments from october

photos: Adam Nash (or someone else from the ANAT Lab)

dog bomb

still from a security camera performance, Swanston Street, Melbourne as part of the ANAT Create_Space 2005 New Media workshop.

(apparrently the small motor and spinning origami with 4 texta lid legs looked like bomb... the dogbot has now been donated to RMIT)

noting alva.noto

went to a gig at the performance space on sunday night - Carsten Nicolai aka. alva.noto - who performed a medium-scale av show. the grasp this man has on the control of both sound and visual, and his indepth understanding (or perhaps it's feel) for what he's creating; weaving together a delicious detroit/berlin mix of b+w posttechno sound/screen-scape.

it's as if the work emerges direct from his pores.

it did remind me of Ryoji Ikeda's performance of C4I at the Melbourne international arts festival last October.

what is it that draws me to the german/japanese aesthetic?