The common koel (excerpt)

From the split vinyl LP blue | green
blue - Kate Carr, green Gail Priest
Flaming Pines/Metal Bitch Recordings (2012)

06 randolph's dream

from paravox. Hear the full EP at https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/album/paravox

In a recent two-week residency at the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (M.E.S.S.), one of the things I was pursuing was how to inject voices into synthesisers, and how to extract voices from them. ‘Indeciphers’ uses material from experiments with a Doepfer modular system, exploring how the voice can drive the signal chain.

Indeciphers

Music I forgot I made. Found this track in an almost complete state created in 2011. Thought it was time to finish it.

Dead dreams [resuscitated]

From the compilation album Ladyz in Noyz Vol II - Corpus Callosum, August 2014 

Immanence

From the EP Fear of Stranglers, Metal Bitch Recordings, 2010

Stranglers

The audio components of the installation Songs with Oscillators. The audio (listened to on headphones) is accompanied by large scale wall tracings.

Singing With Sines I

Singing With Sines II

Singing With Squares

Excerpt from live performance at Experimontag, Berlin, Oct 26, 2015

Experimontag: VoiceMeatNoise Excerpt2

Excerpt from live performance Experimontag, Berlin Oct 26, 2015

Experimontag: VoiceMeatNoise Excerpt1

Hookedfoot

Live performance  - an improvisation for vase, feedback, voice and digital processing. Performed at the Pilgrimage of Sound Art concert, part of the A! Festival Akureyri, Iceland. Presented by Listhus as part of the Northwind Sound Art Residency 2016.

Vessel - Icelandic version - A! Festival

“souls take their spirit from the waters” *
The Arctic Gulls daily dining at the fish factory. Pitch-shift it and all manner of ancient sea monsters emerge bewitched by the tangled twang of the Celtic harp. 

From the album Heraclitus in Iceland: available as digital download & limited edition CDR - from https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/album/heraclitus-in-iceland

Heraclitus in Iceland

Scraps for Sirens and Harpies

“the hidden harmony is better than the obvious” 
The howling Arctic winds make eerie stringed instruments of the flagpoles (one for each front yard). In the wind a marching army of voices. What is the voice if not just wind after all.

From the album Heraclitus in Iceland: available from https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/album/heraclitus-in-iceland

Home Moan

Excerpt from practice session for the live composition Orographic Lift to be performed as part of The Altitude Project, Kingsford Smith Park, Katoomba, Feb 17, 2018, 5-9pm.

http://thealtitudeproject.com/the-sites/kingsford-smith-park/

Altitude Project

Orographic Lift excerpt

Excerpt from a little practice session…getting my 0-coast on.

practicing

Transformations

From the ep Songs from the Omega Point. 

Take a post-anthroposcenic package tour to a sun gone supernova.

Full album on https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-omega-point

Sulphur Sunrise

An excerpt from the debut album A homeopathic waft of signal by elbejée (Kathy Hinde [UK] & Gail Priest [Au].

Limited edition CD & digital download.
AUS customers: https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/album/homeopathic-waft-of-signal
UK customers: https://kathyhinde.bandcamp.com/album/homeopathic-waft-of-signal

elbejée - loréli (excerpt)

Gail Priest is a Sydney-based sound artist. Her practice involves sound design/composition for performance, installation and live laptop-based exploratory music. She is also a curator, writer and commentator on sound and media arts.

Her compositions exist in a liminal zone between song and soundscape. She is interested in exploring the timbre of the voice when filtered and effected—finding the point when it loses its ‘grain.’ She is similarly interested in the transformation of field recordings into new rhythmic and melodic material. It’s a continuing exploration of the relationship between the machinic and organic, the figurative and the abstract.

She has released 4 albums on her own label Metal Bitch, as well as releases on Endgame Records and Flaming Pines. 

Gail Priest

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