This recording is the document of a live performance i made inspired by The Thousand Views of Stella Vista by JG Ballard (1962) from the SOUND SPACES series at Monash University Museum, Melbourne, August 2017

Vortex Mix ✻ J

Improvised at MESS Ltd Naarm on Wurundjeri and Woi Wurrung lands. 

Felt, love/cold/warm/sick/excited/elated/light/heavy/gratitude/humble. 

Heard, voice/car/wind/rain/laughter/sigh/synthesiser/honesty/.

Thought of Joel's words, that silence is testimony, at odd moments throughout day. Walked with Paul and spoke about sound and belonging. Sat in Paul's car and watched colours in streets, throughout about people being shut inside their homes. Enjoyed lolly/Georgia's smiles. The warmth of a room while its cold outside. Thought of home, a lot. The space between there and me. How community fills all spaces.

Improv MESS/LA 1 [14072021]

Listen now to Mihnea Mircan in conversation with artists Erik Bünger, Inge Meijer, and Katie West to discuss their works featured in the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne'.

A Biography of Daphne’ is a curatorial project that revisits the Classical myth of Daphne as the starting point for an investigation of trauma and metamorphosis, symbiosis and entanglement in contemporary art. Daphne, the nymph who turned into a tree to evade the assault of the god Apollo, is a figure in, and of, crisis, but also a symbol of resistance and transformation.

Read more here: acca.melbourne/exhibition/a-biography-of-daphne/

A Biography of Daphne Artist talks: Erik Bünger, Inge Meijer, and Katie West

SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts Assistant Professor Eldritch Priest joins this episode Below the Radarl to discuss the potential in nonsense and failure,  the phenomenon of the earworm, and his journey from musicianship to employing theory.

In this episode, Eldritch explores his beginnings as a jazz guitarist,  the practices that guide his work and his teachings, and the path that led him to composition and beyond. He dives into the legitimacy and aesthetic possibilities of failure and nonsense, and the potentials of daydreaming and a resting mind — in defiance of prevailing positivist neoliberal discourse. 

Eldritch also talks about the phenomenon of the earworm, which is a focus in his new book, Earworm and Event. The earworm, to him, is a prime example of studying music less as an artform, but more as a technology, using the imagination to shape not just one's feelings, but one’s thoughts as well. 


Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/170-eldritch-priest.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/170-eldritch-priest.html

Resources:
Eldritch’s new book, Earworm and Event: https://www.dukeupress.edu/earworm-and-event 
Eldritch’s Website: https://www.strangemonk.com/ 
Eldritch’s previous book, Ludic Dreaming: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ludic-dreaming-9781501320804/ 
Eldritch’s other previous book, Boring Formless Nonsense: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/boring-formless-nonsense-9781441122131/ 
The Logic of Sense, by Gilles Deleuze: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-logic-of-sense/9780231059831

Bio:
Eldritch Priest writes on sonic culture, experimental aesthetics, and the philosophy of experience from a ’pataphysical perspective. He is Associate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Eldritch is also a composer and improviser as well as a member of the experimental theory group “The Occulture.” He is the author of several essays and books including Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure (Bloomsbury 2013) and most recently, Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and other Imaginary Refrains (Duke University Press 2022).  

Cite this episode:
Chicago Style

Priest, Eldritch. “Earworm and Event — with Eldritch Priest” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, April 26, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/170-eldritch-priest.html

Earworm and Event — with Eldritch Priest

How do we learn to speak to the non-human world? Anglo-Western paradigms tell us that there is a sharp divide between human and 'nature,' and that technology is what divides the human from the animal - or from plants, the landscape itself, and the world of gods and spirits. But all these assumptions can be turned against themselves: finding a way into Country, and finding kinship and speaking with all that is non-human, through digital recording, virtual archives, and AI learning. @salllvage (Rowan Savage) muses on performance practice across field recordings, vocal sonic transformations, reviving Aboriginal language, and deep listening, to present one path into postcolonial language practice beyond anthropocentrism.

Rowan Savage - Gurgun wagahn: speaking (in) crow | SUPERMODEL [discourse]

http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/program/sound-spaces-felicia-atkinson-gail-priest/

The future is hard to see from here, but perhaps we can hear it coming.

Sound Spaces
5 Aug 2017
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Presented by Liquid Architecture and the Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA

Parisian-born Félicia Atkinson is a visual artist, an experimental musician and the co-publisher of the independent imprint Shelter Press/curatorial platform Argument with Bartolomé Sanson. Her work deals with the topics of improvisation, fiction, instant composition, noise, abstraction and poetry. Her music is composed of concrete music, asmr voices, electronics, field recordings, improvisation with guitar and piano, abstract distortions and infra bass.

At Sound Spaces, Félicia presented a new work for voice, electronics and found sounds called 'Vermillion' which responds to the exhibition 'Future Eaters' by drawing on J. G Ballard’s collection of essays 'Vermillion Sands' (1971). Rooted in her experiences of deserts this live set will be escapist, textual and at times concrete.

Félicia’s recent album 'Hand in Hand' has generated a great deal of curiosity, excitement and intrigue, with Fact Magazine writing “the dying bleat of obsolete technology, the crack and stutter of her own voice, the atonal clatter of intuitively-played instruments – and sculpts them into flawless vignettes that lodge themselves deep in the psyche. Like the dystopian science fiction it references, Hand in Hand is bewitching, intense, meditative and at times, deeply unsettling.”

shelter-press.org/

SOUND SPACES is a performance series of experimental and improvised music organised by Francis E. Parker for Monash University Museum of Art. The series runs in parallel with MUMA’s exhibition program with occasional direct dialogues with particular exhibition projects.

LIQUID ARCHITECTURE is an Australian organisation for artists working with sound. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Live at Sound Spaces (Liquid Architecture)

2019년 제 58회 베니스비엔날레 La Biennale di Venezia 한국관에서 전시 중인 세이렌 정은영 작가님의 작품 "섬광, 잔상, 속도와 소음의 공연 A Performing by Flash, Afterimage, Velocity, and Noise"의 음악을 맡았습니다. 편집하여 올립니다.

섬광 (Edit) (work for "A Performing by Flash, Afterimage, Velocity, and Noise")

Music written and produced by https://soundcloud.com/oottrroo 
Mastering by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier 
Art by Diego Navarro 
Graphic Design by Guillem Srrv

Vidas

Otro - Dance Of The Young (Augurs Of Spring)

On abstraction without desire
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name

Capitale De La Douleur

A second small collection of music produced by or in association with Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples. 

A few years ago, Lew and I made a 'change the date' mix for our RRR show. I find it mind boggling that we're still celebrating dispossession with a public holiday in 2021. Not to mention our Anthem, which just stinks - both words and music. 

As a so-called 'Australian DJ', I am always trying to find ways to incorporate more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music into DJ sets, radio, etc. I am hardly in a position to make commentary on the vastly diverse musical cultures that exist across the cities, towns and communities in Australia, but this again seemed like a simple way to provide an alternative soundtrack for a day that otherwise resounds with a dull, universalist rhetoric. 

If you like this stuff, have a dig for it. I've put a few links to music organisations below the tracklist so you can stream, download and support the musicians directly. Go listen to this kind of stuff direct from first nations artists, djs, broadcasters, etc. 

Dispossessed - Guni Yu-Gi
Kevin Birch - The Ghost of Werner Runtz
John ‘Whiskers’ Cox - Lulu’s Tune
Wuj Wuj - Harmony
John Bennet - Emus
Jupurrupu - Yello
Zenaida Gallagher & Kathleen Gibson - Ngurra Nyirripi
Dharma 87 - Sonny Boy
Electric Fields - Vision (cover of Lajamanu Teenage Band)
Bärra + Krazy J - Miyalk Dirramu
Kmace - Wayirribarra (remix 2)
Arnold Moscow ft. KMace - Djongi Raah
Callum Scobie - Karnta
Mambali Band - Yuwani
King Stingray - Get me out
Gondwana - Mook Mook
Ub Ubbo Exchange - Guyang Giiny (Fire Heart)
Bärra + Krazy J - Yolngu (Electronica Mix)
Nyawa Kulila Wangka - Look, Listen, Speak

https://pakam.com.au/
https://kingstingray.bandcamp.com/track/hey-wanhaka
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq73rnFy2bUInDsY5Mw1Ppw
http://incitearts.org.au/rsc/
https://www.indigitube.com.au/
https://ububboexchange.com/
https://caama.com.au/caama-music/music

pic: edible acacia seeds

Coloured Stones 2

E B U:
https://soundcloud.com/e_b_u
Mun Sing:
https://soundcloud.com/munsing

DOWNLOAD:
https://illegaldata.bandcamp.com/album/illegal-data-compilation-2

DOWNLOAD

E B U & Mun Sing - Crossing

Liquid Architecture, operating since 2002, is a community-founded, artist-first organisation that exists to explore sonic relationships and practices on the radical edges of sound and listening.

Live at Sound Spaces (Liquid Architecture)

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