An ambient 'clock' commissioned by Orange County Museum of Art in 2021. 

The project comprises twenty-four hour-long pieces broadcast perpetually, creating a slow kaleidoscope of moods across the day and night. It was designed to quietly accompany life under Covid lockdown in which time is both heightened and made meaningless: a consolation for a schismatic period. 

This playlist is a set of highlights featuring two-minute excerpts of twelve of the original pieces and an eight-minute composite of all twenty-four.

www.julianday.com

Elastic Ambience (highlights)

Two (excerpt)

Twenty Two (excerpt)

Thirteen (excerpt)

Sixteen (excerpt)

Twenty (excerpt)

It was dubbed a monster: a 200-day performance-installation by Marco Fusinato at last year’s La Biennale di Venezia. The work, DESASTRES, was a blistering wall of distorted white noise and "f-ed up" images. In this feature, recorded in-situ in Melbourne and Venice, Fusinato explains his approach and why he coopts the heavily-amplified electric guitar as "capitalism's entertainment tool." 

Commissioned for BBC Radio 3's New Music Show
Interview courtesy Daniel Browning, ABC RN
December 2022
20'00

Marco Fusinato (BBC feature)

Tanunda Memorial Soldiers Hall, South Australia
Commissioned by Country Arts SA
Created with the local community
July, 2019

A Civic Space (excerpt)

C/D (Kamari Carter and Julian Day)
Commissioned by Wave Farm
August, 2022

Content warning: recordings of violent police interactions resulting in deaths

Can & String is a one-hour radio feature by C/D, an artistic duo comprising Kamari Carter and Julian Day.

It centres on four recordings of BWCs (body worn cameras) capturing US police interactions in four metropolitan locales across New York state: Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and The Bronx.

These recordings are treated satirically as new record releases bookended with commercial radio-style banter by fictional hosts. Interspersed among these musical ‘tracks’ are real advertisements by Axon, America’s primary manufacturer of BWCs and, before that, the commercial inventor of the Taser.

The first broadcast on WGXC-90.7 FM featured an introduction and interview between C/D and Tom Roe.

wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/kwn8m1

Can & String (edit)

Chasm

Auditorium

Strange Father

Simultaneous Death Act

Pan Opticon

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Emotional Vampire

Manifest

2009

Image: Julian Day performing at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, in 2013

House Music (excerpt)

The Weight of Air (draft/excerpt)

2015
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Piano and pre-recorded piano

Dark Twin is about the essential loneliness of the pianist - a life spent alone in the rehearsal room, on stage, or behind the soloist. Dark Twin invokes a malevolent avatar against which the pianist must confront him or herself as if through a mirror. Like a warped version of Steve Reich’s Piano Phase, the pre-recorded piano sinks into impossible tuning states while the live player attempts to keep up, their every action reflected by a perpetually shifting chimera.

JULIAN DAY

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