Correspondences in Sound and Vision
An ACID/CCS/Carriageworks performance  by Ernest Edmonds and Mark Fell

 
General Information 

CURATOR AND CO-ORDINATOR Deborah Turnbull
WITH GUESTS Andrew Brown, Andrew Sorensen, Andrew Johnston, and Benjamin Marks
WHEN Sunday 30 September, 2007 -  6:30-8.30pm
WHERE Bay 20 - Carriageworks - 245 Wilson Street - Eveleigh -Sydney
HOW Tickets available through Carriageworks and Moshtix from Thursday 13 September, 2007
COST Adults: $25  Students: $20

Performances 

DC_RELEASE
by Ernest Edmonds and Mark Fell 

DC_Release is a generative audio-visual performance work by Ernest Edmonds, based in Sydney, Australia, and Mark Fell, based in Sheffield, UK, to be presented for the first time in Australia at Bay 20 of the Carriageworks site. The first performance was in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, April 2007.  

BIOGRAPHIES

Ernest Edmonds works in the constructivist tradition and first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He was also a pioneer in the de- velopment of practice-based PhD programmes in art and technology in he UK. His work is concerned with color and minimal forms, particularly in the context of time and interaction.  He first showed an interactive ork with Stroud Cornock in 1970 and first showed a generative video piece in 1985. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to LA. Artists Bookworks recently published his book “On New Constructs in Art”. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Journal’s Transactions, which publishes high-quality original reports on new developments in art and technology. He is an invited contributor to the digital art exhibition “Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary” to be held at the National Academies of Sciences Gallery, Washington DC, June-August 2007. Ernest Edmonds is Professor of Computation and Creative Media at the University of Technology, Sydney Australia, where he runs a multi-disciplinary practice-based art and technology research group, the Creativity and Cognition Studios.

Mark Fell is an inter-disciplinary artist and curator living and working in Sheffield,UK. His work explores new technologies, sound, image and interaction, bringing together an interest in electronic musics, contemporary art, avant-garde practice, contemporary philosophies of language and computer science. Fell has performed and exhib- ited extensively at many major international festivals and institu- tions including Sonar (Barcelona), Mutek (Montreal), Siggraph (Los Angeles), Powerhouse (Sydney), ACMI (Melbourne), ISEA (Paris), Hong Kong National Film Archive, The Barbican (London), Schirn (Frankfurt), Volksbuhne (Berlin), Liquid Room (Tokyo). His published sound works quickly placed him at the forefront of new digital musics with critically acclaimed releases on Mille Plateaux (Frankfurt), Or (London), Line/12k (New York), and raster-noton (Berlin). Fell also works as curator (including Lovebytes Sheffi eld, Sightsonic York), computer programmer in digital arts. Awards and nominations include Ars Electronica, Quartz award for research in music, and Euro Asia foundation.  

Guests

aa-cell
Andrew Brown and Andrew Sorensen 

aa-cell are an Australian-based live coding duo - Andrew Brown and Andrew Sorensen - who have been invited to perform around Australia and in Europe and the USA.  Their work involves semi-improvised musical performances where they build the software for a piece during performance from a blank slate using the Impromptu environment.  The music created by aa-cell includes elements of electroacoustic sound art, minimalism and electronic dance music.  In these performances Sorensen and Brown explore emergent combinations of various fundamental computational processes they have found to be effective across a range of styles.  These include probability, period functions, set theory and a healthy dose of recursion.  In the tradition of improvisation, their works emerge anew at each performance as aa-cel interact with each other, the audience, and the performance context.

BIOGRAPHIES 

Andrew Sorensen is an independent software developer and an active performer and composer of electronic music.  Andrew has spent much of the past two years focused on Live Coding performance practice working on the tools and ideas that enable him to explore code as a medium for real-time expression.  Andrew is the author of the Impromptu audio/visual programming environment.

PARTIAL REFLECTIONS
Andrew Johnston and Benjamin Marks

Partial Reflections is an interactive performance in which live audio affects animated virtual sculptures.  The work exists as a composed work for solo trombone, but also as an art installation for public participation. The performance presents a unique audio-visual composition in which sounds and visuals merge to create a duet between the senses. The installation provides a playful and creative environment in which audiences can experience the sound of their voice transformed into evocative patterns of movement and sound (see Spheres of Influence on the Beta_space website).  With practice, they may even  be able to play the virtual sculpture as if it were a musical instrument - an extension of the voice.

BIOGRAPHIES