beautiful, emotive, intelligent,  imaginative important and I think   everyone should listen to this! Thankyou Geoff. From Carolyn Goldberg

Thank you Geoff! I had a lovely experience along the walk, and the sun was shining, the river floated in a still pace. I enjoyed the link to Birrarung very much 🤗

Durational Situation / Umeälven / Birrarung is a site based audio walk that focuses on the deep time and anthropogenic relations between the rivers Umeälven and Birrarung. Situated in Umeå, the audio walk starts from Galleri Verkligheten and takes the audience on a guided walk through listening to the river systems across time.

The narrator on the audio walk is speaking from the position of Birrarunga/Naarm/Melbourne in Australia and relates the river system of Birrarung (Yarra River) and its flow into Nairm (Port Philip Bay) to the Umeälven river and its flow into the Gulf of Bothnia. The audience acts as performer as they are taken on a journey across time and place between the two river systems; the Umeälven river and its counterpoint across the other side of the world, Birrarung. The counterpoint of the two rivers, highlight the interrelated experiences of geomorphological transformation, impacts of colonisation, and environmental changes across deep time to now, while the walk itself forms a living map that we can carry forward with us. 

This project acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Sami people as the traditional custodians of the land and waterways in which this project and recordings were made and pays respect to Kulin Nations and Sami Elders past and present. 

This project was made in conjunction with Re-Think festivalen, Norrlandsoperan, Galleri Verkligheten, and supported by Iaspis. Thank you to Helena Wikström, Sebastian Adolfsson and the Tributary Project (Ying-Lann Dan, Benjamin Woods, and Saskia Schut) who contributed to the recordings.

https://norrlandsoperan.se/forestallning/re-think-festivalen/

Durational Situation / Umeälven  / Birrarung

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Circle

David Brown & Rosalind Hall 

Prepared guitar and saxophone

Unsound Festival, Canberra, 2014

David Brown & Rosalind Hall - Unsound Festival

Distant football crowd cheering and nearby traffic captured and warped through Iron fence down by the Yarra river

 

Iron fence separating Batman Avenue from the banks of the Yarra river

Ukrainian Borders

Recording of football crowd from inside a stadium elevator 

stadium elevator

L. Lerkenfeldt - Surfaces (Excerpt)

This piece was made for the Herbarium Project, exhibited at Lab 14 gallery, Melbourne University.  The source sound is a saxophone with an acoustic spring reverb attached.  

The time based processes to preserve and treat once living specimens is reflected in the practice undertaken in this piece.  I have made recordings of my performing acoustic instrument and processed them to shift the pitch and speed of the sounds and give a sense of slow degradation and the inevitable decay as tones subside with noise.  The recordings bear no reference to the environment they were taken from and so exist in an in-between space that is remote and hanging in time, a sense I felt when visiting the Herbarium at Melbourne University, a shrine to the proof of life.

Slow Heat - Excerpt

Geoff Robinson is a Melbourne-based artist working on Wurundjeri country. Robinson creates event-based artworks that utilise the temporal qualities of sound and performance and the spatial conditions of physical sites to unravel the durational layers of place. Recent projects include: Tributary Project (2020-2021), with Ying-Lan Dann, Ben Woods & Saskia Schut, Bus Projects, Melbourne; Durational Situation / Vartiovuori (2019-2020), Titanik gallery, Turku; Itinerant Sound (2015-2019), multiple sites across Australia; Itinerant Object / Propositions for Change (2016), Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne; Room Overlay / 5 weeks / Thursdays 6-7pm / Accumulation (2015), West Space, Melbourne; 15 locations / 15 minutes / 15 days (2014), Federation Square, Melbourne; Site Overlay / Acoustic Survey (2013), across three public sites in Melbourne. Robinson has held residencies and exhibited at Titanik gallery, Turku; Helsinki International Artist Programme; MoKS, Estonia; and Seoul Art Space. He was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014 and completed the PhD project Durational Situation at MADA, Monash University, Melbourne, 2018.
 
www.geoffrobinsonprojects.com

Durational Situation / Umeälven / Birrarung

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