We are the Australian Government’s principal arts investment and advisory body. 

With artists at the heart of what we do, we invest in creative talent and stimulate the market for Australian stories to be told on a national and international scale, sharing our rich culture with the world.  

We do this because art and creativity define us, recording what we have been and what we might yet become.

In the vast, unpredictable theater of now, Mattin and Miguel Prado surrendered to the whims of the unconscious, that masterful improviser, seeking to conjure into being a future that, once distant, now beckoned with the inevitability of a forgotten prophecy slowly, inexorably coming to fruition.

Indie-rock angel Tanaya Harper is one of Perth’s leading ladies of original music.
Her insightful lyricism resonates with audiences as she delivers her personal experiences with depression, anxiety and living with bipolar disorder.

Some Kinds - Debut EP 2018 - Healthy Tapes
Slow Motion Breakup - Sophomore EP March 2020

In the summer of 1997 were heard a series of sounds, unrecognizable at first and classified as strange, even monstrous. The unfounded nature of the underwater sounds, onomatopoeically named 'Bloop', captured popular imagination and stirred up a rather fantastical speculation of their likely sources. Nearly a decade later, it was concluded that this mysterious sound spectrum was "consistent with icequakes generated by large icebergs as they crack and fracture" and dip down under with a loud and resounding 'bloop'! 

Bloop is a resurgence of sound in art and design. An entry into the immenseness of the sonic space. An unpacking of sound. A hearing, as much a listening as an investigation. An inquiry into the language and limits of the acousmatic as the medium of expression. A provocation finely crafted in the material of the heard. A conversation about sound-in-itself that flows and meanders, through place and time, listening in to the silent notes and the cadences that linger long after.

Bloop is an attempt to step away from the visual and alternatively approach the design of information, interactions, media, spaces and participation, from the auditory lens. A collective tuning into a sonic practice of composing experience in time and space. Trespassing into the digital and the physical, the focus lies in exploring the plurality and contextuality of everyday sound and sonic objects. 

While we discover the art of listening to understand, reflect and respond, we wish to design to listen in to the concerns of our time, sonifying the distinct social, political, conceptual and philosophical realms of our being.

Contrary to what it ‘sounds’, this particular instance of the bloop is a deliberation, not an erronerous utterance.

Mark Turner captivates by bringing his unique warmth to familiar styles of blues, folk, soul, and groove. Performing regularly as a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and saxophonist, Mark delivers heartfelt lyrics, roaring guitar, and natural vocals with charm.

DIY, prank phonecalls, weed, goon 
SHLOFF enjoyed some healthy notoriety in the late 90's/early 2000's with a bunch of home-recorded independent releases and erratic live shows in their hometown of Perth, Western Australia.

Australian indie/pop music makers
www.foreignarchitects.com

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