in motion

wade's space

Wade Marynowsky - Autonomous Improvisation v.1
19 April - 19 May 2007, Artspace Sydney.
Opening 6pm Thursday 19 April 2007.


[Singing Sadie, Robbie Avenaim, Jon Wah, The_Geek_From_Swampy_Creek, REV. KRISS HADES, Jim Denley]

i even contributed a tiny bit of performance (the random accellerometer waving variety) to the A/V component...

under skin

Leah Heiss has written an article, Under the Skin, for Craft Australia on outcomes from the ReSkin lab.

feeding back

[MetaSense, photo: Etienne Deleflie]

3 performances over 3 days (during the Easter long weekend) in the Feedback Chambers (aka. the gunpowder bunkers) as part of the Great Escape Festival at the Newington Armoury, Sydney.

...sounds of anti-war rallies, glitch, post-techno, noise, feedback, more noise, shortwave radio, chorale singing and field recordings in a reverberant chamber...Lynda Roberts, Imogen Semmler, Kerry, Dan Conway, Brett Maverix, Nick Mariette and myself (MetaSense)
curated by Lynda Roberts.

sound-out-box

a bit late now... was a guest on immogen semmler's radio show out of the box on FBi FM over the easter long weekend

"Sound artist and radio presenter, Somaya took us on a journey through sound art, electronic producing and her own career of sound production and audio craft!"

the best of subsequence - 2003-2006...

track	artist	album	label
raum 1	pole	R	~scape
authenticity	si-cut.db	from tears: beach archive	biphop
postfabric	alva.noto	transvision	raster noton
cyclic	tomas jirku	entropy	intr_version
the art of stalking	suburban knight	my sol dark direction	raster noton
transition	mad mike	depth charge 5	submerge
everybody is a disaster	agf.3 + sue c	minimovies	asphodel records
rant (hot in here)	ursula rucker	ma'at mama	!k7
shimmer	somaya langley	ACMC 2004	Australasian Computer Music Association

morphing

still from paul mosig's remixing of norwegian heavy metal images, accompanying sarah logan's sonic remix of the same...

beautiful

[loud is boring, the front, canberra, february 2007]

children of [the] new world

the film Children of Men, which pre-9/11 may have seemed too way-out to be a realistic prediction of the future, today is only too possible.

coupled with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a dire prediction of the future of humanity, paints a bleak outlook for contemporary society.

sophistication of tools and technology surround us, but all too often the drive is towards their streamlining their military applications.

they are super-human fighting machines enaging in the ultimate apocalyptic battle. but, to what end?

acma cee-dee

upcoming australian computer music association cd release...

Daniel Blinkhorn - squeak (‘n bubble)
Diana Blom and Emma Stacker – Gong Agong
Garth Paine – Episode 4
Jon Drummond & John Encarnacao - 6 Degrees of Tension
Cat Hope – Women in Transit
Peter Mcilwain - Instrument Landscape #3

David Worrall - I am on the net
Ros Bandt – Sydney Road
Aaron Hall - Corroded Memory
Wendy Suiter – Litany for Refugees
Andrian Pertout - Azadeh
Somaya Langley - out | side | in
Simulus - channel

hail canberra(?)

8:50am - moore street, canberra city
the last day of summer...

digital paradoxes

the paradox of the digital age, as it is being termed exposes a number of facts that may have us thinking about what we really do when we sit in front of a computer.

a few things to consider/question are:

• easy to create make millions of files now
• much harder to access them later
• what do we really consider important digital items
  
• only way to keep digital things is to constantly manage them
• is that a valid use of our own time and headspace
• the need to look to history - such as the papryus scrolls (which were hand copied every now and then)
  

references
http://www.manovich.net/TEXT/digital_photo.html
and
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov