Event Diary
Walk on Parts - Decibel 'Somacoustica'
Nov 18 2009 8pm
Decibel ensemble will perform Walk on Parts in their Somacoustica concert at the Callaway auditorium in Perth on November 18. Written originally for a flexible combination of reed instruments, this performance features an arrangement for violin, cello, bass clarinet, alto flute, percussion and electronics.
More details about the Decibel ensemble can be found at http://decibel.waapamusic.com/
Fugue in Nature
The journal Nature Immunology has published a feature article on the Fugue project in its October 2009 edition.
http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v10/n10/abs/ni1009-1043.html
"The Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, recently held an exhibition called Infectious: Stay Away that used art to illustrate
infection and immunity. Luke O'Neill talks to one of the artists, Gordana Novakovic, about her involvement in this project."
October 2009
Video docs published
September 2009
Two video documentaries about recent collaborative work have been published on the internet.
A short documentary about the infonoise installation (Belgrade 2001) includes interviews with Gordana Novakovic, Zoran Milkovic and myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvCS0mavLb0
An informal video documentation of the Fugue installation (Belgrade 2006) details some of the real time
images and sound (3 mins).
Fugue in Dublin
April-July 2009
An exhibition titled Infectious - Stay Away at Trinity College Dublin provided a new context for the Fugue project - that of so-called "public engagement with science".
The three month exhibition at the Science Gallery attracted nearly 9,000 visitors in the first week. A flickr photostream of the event's opening can be found here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37756063@N02/
Euphemisms for the Intimate Enemy at Toronto Nuit Blanche
November 2008
Toronto's annual dusk to dawn event hosted my 12-hour, live computer sound work based on Ruark Lewis' text of the same name.
For the monumental overnight installation, Lewis had arranged some 500 oil drums to be stacked across a city street between
two buildings, the head of each drum bearing a letter from his aphoristic text. This was brilliantly lit (pictured) and
augmented with a stereo sound system.
The sound composition is written in the form of a java program that ran on a computer connected to the sound system. It contains 26 sections each based on a line of the text, coming to a close after 12 hours.
See also Haema Sivanesan Transforming East and West dialogues in
Artlink vol 29 no 2