Liquid Architecture 6

RMIT Union Arts and the Transmit sound collective are proud to present
Liquid Architecture 6
Sound Arts Festival
Friday 1 July - Thursday 7 July
North Melbourne Town Hall, Cnr Errol & Queensberry St, Nth Melbourne
Public Office, Adderley St West Melbourne

'A Fly In the Pigment' Film Program screening at Kaleide Theatre RMIT, Swanston St, Mebourne
Bookings thru Ticketmaster7 1300 308 999 or www.ticketmaster7.com or on 03 9925 3085
Sound intrudes every aspect of our modern lives - lifts, shopping malls, supermarkets, televisions, radio. But how often do we really listen-
Liquid Architecture asks you to stop and listen and get rapt in the change.

Liquid Architecture is Australia's annual sound arts festival, now in its sixth year. It presents a series of exciting and invigorating live performances, installations, screen programs, artist talks and forums, taking place in five cities through the month of July. This rapidly growing festival is sense specific as opposed to art form or genre. It celebrates sound in all its manifestations, and due to the cross disciplinary potential of sound includes many other art practices.
"Sound as art is difficult to define," admits artistic director Nat Bates. "Mercurial, nebulous, fluidly existing in the void between the emotional and the physical, its resistance to the definitive is one of its key attractions for artists.

Nonetheless, Liquid Architecture is an attempt to define sound as art, specifically contemporary sounds arts practise in Australia, simply by presenting a wide selection of the stuff."
Liquid Architecture is delighted to present a number of international artists including: mysterious but prolific German artist Thomas Brinkmann, on his first trip to Australia. Since wowing the dancefloor with his remixes of Richie Hawtin, Brinkmann has gone on to be just as accepted in the sound arts world with releases like Klick, made from locked grooves on records scratched with a sharp knife-like instrument into the vinyl. Brinkmann will be performing a sneak preview of the forthcoming Klick 2 album in concert.

French artists, Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet. Working in situ, Eric and Jean-Luc will feverishly record and process audio from the Australian environment and represent the sounds of ourselves and our space in a major installation at Westspace Gallery, and in concert.

DJ Olive from the land of loud Americans will charm audiences with his unique take on turntablism and the sounds of vinyl. His invention of the term "illbient" was meant to be a joke, but is apt enough to describe his work which ranges from "beats in the backyard sunrise kinda vibe" to his recent Buoy release intended to be music to go to sleep to.
Premiere Australian performance of San Francisco Bay Area's renowned all 16mm projector performing ensemble, Wet Gate. This unique outfit will perform pieces for multiple 16mm sound projectors as a "band", the machines and films as musical instruments.

The festival is excited to be launching a number of Australian albums in concerts. On opening night, David Chesworth will celebrate the re-release on CD of his influential 1978 vinyl release 50 Synthesiser Greats by way of a reformed and revitalized Essendon Airport. Broadcast live on ABC Classic FM from 10.30. The following night, Zen Paradox (Steve Law) will launch his new album on EEM Records. Other local luminaries presenting special performances include Alan Lamb (he of the miles of wires in the outback fame), and Severed Heads riding high on the success of their soundtrack to the film The Illustrated Family Doctor.

Liquid Architecture is proud to present the 16mm film program A Fly in The Pigment, featuring a diverse array of avant-garde films dealing with scrambled and invocative sound, unearthly image and abstract explorations. Collage, degeneration, pop and concrete music feature, with a strong emphasis on individual filmmakers' ideologies. Sidney Peterson, Paul Sharits,< Tags