Festival of Sound Arts Sydney
24-27 June, 2009
Liquid Architecture 10 will be a landmark occasion for the festival and for sound culture in Australia. Celebrating its tenth consecutive year, the Liquid Architecture sound arts festival will be held across three city venues, The Performance Space, the University of Technology Sydney and Hermann’s Bar, presenting an exciting program of contemporary sound arts. With a decade of experience to draw upon the diverse program features live events and installations showcasing the highest quality sound work in an intense, focused listening environment. In Sydney, Liquid Architecture 10 presents a program of performances, installations and artist presentations. The breadth of diversity of artists and artistic practices includes meticulous recorded work, improvised instrumental performance, new sound for screen work, radical uses of digital technology, inventive self-made sound making devices and historically informed practices.
Sydney Directors: Jennifer Teo & Shannon O’Neill
Production Manager: Sarah Davies
Program
- Download LA10 Sydney Program (PDF)
Wednesday 24 June
Exhibition: Correspondence @ Performance Space
Wed 24 – Sat 27 June FREE
Opening Wed 24 June (6:00pm)
Performance by Ruark Lewis & Rik Rue Scott Arford (USA), Ruark Lewis & Rik Rue, Lauren Brincat, Vicky Browne, Josie Cavallaro. Memory Flows: Nigel Helyer, Greg Shapley, Maria Maranda & Norie Newmark, Jacqueline Gothe & Ian Gwilt. A composition of works interrogating ideas of sound, music, conversation and silence. In Memory Flows, artists from the UTS Centre for Media Arts and Innovation collaborate around the shared theme of rivers, accessing the flow of memories via objects, sounds and projections.
Thursday 25 June
Forum & Performance @ Bon Marche Theatre, UTS
Forum: Sustainability of Sound Arts in Australia 3:00 – 5:00pm FREE
Julian Knowles (Queensland University of Technology) Paul Mason (Australia Council for the Arts) Sarah Last (Australian Network for Art & Technology) Somaya Langley (Electrofringe) Nat Bates (Liquid Architecture) Gail Priest (RealTime) via Skype Julian Knowles will be joined by a panel of leading voices from Australian sound culture to discuss important issues around the sustainability of contemporary sound arts practice in Australia. * Image Ecologies Launch – Level 4, Tower Building, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo 6-8pm
Memory Flows Performance: The Field 8:00 – 9:00pm FREE
Artists Chris Caines, Shannon O’Neill and Jessica Tyrrell improvise together on themes of memory and water, responding to each other and to audiovisual material from sources including the ABC’s Pool website. This performance will also be streamed live online at http://www.communication.uts.edu.au/centres/cmai/.
Friday 26 June
Concert One @ Performance Space
7:30 – 10:30pm $25/20
Thomas Koner (DE)
Garry Bradbury
Cat Hope
Alex White
The full spectrum of sound will be explored in this concert, from noise and infrasound, to intricate detail and atmospheric ambience.
Saturday 27 June
Concert Two @ Performance Space
6:00 – 9:00pm $25/20
Asmus Tietchens (DE)
Plump
Whirlpool
Somaya Langley
New instruments, new approaches to traditional instruments, and a major figure in the history of electronic and experimental music.
10 Year Anniversary Celebration @ Hermann’s Bar
10:00pm – late $20/$15
The Evolution Control Committee (USA), Buttress O’Kneel, Puzahki, Atone, Loom, DJ Lieutenant Colonel Spastic Howitzer, DJ Corporal Leper
Come and celebrate Liquid Architecture’s 10th birthday at this special late night show, featuring the pioneers of the mash-up, the Evolution Control Committee (USA). A night of breakcore, cabaret, dub and more, with some of Australia’s finest underground talents.
Tickets
SPECIAL Season Pass $50/$40 Both concerts + entry to closing night party at Hermann’s Bar.
BOOKINGS: For Festival Pass, Concert One & Concert Two Ticketmaster http://www.ticketmaster.com.au
For Hermann’s event only The ACCESS Centre, Level 1 Manning House, University of Sydney Ph: 9563 6000 Email: info@usu.usyd.edu.au
Venues
Performance Space, Carriageworks 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
University of Technology Sydney UTS Bon Marche Theatre, 755 Harris St, Ultimo
Hermann’s Bar Cnr City Rd & Butlin Ave, University of Sydney, Sydney.
Accessibility
All venues are wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets.
Festival Partners & Supporters
Liquid Architecture 10: Sydney is proudly presented by Performance Space, Centre for Media Arts Innovation (UTS), Alias Frequencies and Plum Industries. Liquid Architecture is assisted by the City of Sydney, NSW Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Additional support from Goethe Institute & Sound Travellers. 