Name: Group Silence at Twenty Alpha, Hong Kong, 2019 by Mountain Black
Duration: 10 min 17 s
Description: 2x omnidirectional microphones recording a group of around 20-30 people who have been asked to observe a period of relative silence.

Tyler Bain is a Narrm-based filmmaker and sound designer focused on telling stories that are equal parts silly and serious, primarily through the manipulation of archival footage and field recordings. His screen and sound works have been exhibited across Australia and internationally, including
at New York’s Stony Brook Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival. He does basically whatever.

Primarily recorded at Fitzroy’s Expresso Car Wash, ‘Deluxe Wash’ is an attempt to explore the seemingly mundane. It is structured around an automatic car wash cycle and the subsequent emotional and nostalgic response that the cycle elicits. Through narration and the manipulation of field recordings and samples, the car wash is utilised as a vessel through which I investigate my relationship with sound, as well as my personal
experience living with obsessive compulsive disorder - in particular my daily compulsive hand washing. Additionally, the piece attempts to subvert the traditionally dour world of sound art with a slightly comedic approach.
An ode to the transportive effects of listening, ‘Deluxe Wash’ is best experienced in the dark.

Tyler Bain - Deluxe Wash

London: People Underground

2x omnidirectional microphones recording a group of around 20-30 people who have been asked to observe a period of relative silence.

Group Silence at Twenty Alpha, Hong Kong, 2019

VALE SEAN BAXTER 
1970-2020

We are crushed by the terrible news of Sean's passing. The Melbourne (and all over) experimental / improvised / noise scene took a huge blow just a few days before the start of the confinement, with the passing of legendary drummer, noise artist, curator, DIY stalwart, lover and enthusiast for all things strange, fukkd and brutal Sean Baxter.
I made a radio show of his music, with a few anecdotes, stories and quotes thrown in. If anyone is involved in radio, online or otherwise, and wants to get it aired please feel free to download to get the files.

1. ‘Almost Lucid Fairytale’ - from Bucketrider 'Guignol’s Band’ - 1998 - Dr Jims Records
2. ‘Safety Pod’ - From The Throwaways 'Angle Grinder' - 1991 - Au Go Go Records
3. ‘Rock and Roll’ - From The Throwaways 'Postmadonna Primadonna’ - 1994 - Dr Jims Records
4. ‘Nancarrow (For Conlon)’ - From Bucketrider 'Guignol’s Band’ = 1998 - Dr Jims Records
5. Excerpt from ‘Open Space’ - From Western Grey 'Glacial Erratic' - 2003 - Dr Jims Records
6. Excerpt from ‘1’ - From Lazy ‘Microsonics’ - 2002 - Dr Jims Records
7. ‘Metamorphics’ - from Pateras / Baxter / Brown - Ataxia - Synaesthesia Records - 2002/2003
8. ‘Bern 4’ - from Pateras / Baxter / Brown - ‘Bern - Melbourne - Milan’ - 2006 - Immediata 
9. ‘Inland 4’ - from Pateras / Baxter / Brown - ‘Bern - Melbourne - Milan’ - 2017 - Immediata 
10. ‘Plates’ - from Sean Baxter - Solo Drumkit Improvisations - 2011 - Bocian Records 
11. ‘Blood Meridian (Tempering Agent)’ - Embers - Slag-Welter - 2008 - Heathen Skulls
12. ‘Unreleased’ - Sean Baxter & Valerio Tricoli - Recorded in Berlin 2012
13. Sean Baxter Classic Intro - Make It Up Club - 2018
14. ‘Windchimes’ - from Sean Baxter - Solo Drumkit Improvisations - 2011 - Bocian Records 

Quotes from Anthony Pateras, Steve Heather, Judith Hamann, Clayton Thomas, Miles Brown, Dale Baxter, Scott Sinclair
Compiled by Annalee-Rose & Will Guthrie - April 2020
Thanks to Dave Brown, Anthony Pateras, Clare Cooper

Vale Sean Baxter - 1970-2020

Matrix number 1145c/1146c, recorded Cairo April 1907

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I am a sound recordist/artist/designer currently producing audio-montages and compositions that explore the intersection of architecture, psychoacoustics, social-dynamics and place. My works are constructed primarily from un-mixed and un-edited environmental sound recordings, which I capture using a mixture of straight, extended and oblique recording techniques – probing the various unheard material realities, angles and perspectives of a given sound event, as well as providing a tactile space that has surface, texture and reflection, whereby the listener is sensitised to hearing as if it were touch. Through employing a technologically limited (recording focused) work methodology, I am driven to find inventive recording techniques that re-contextualise my surroundings as well as inspire fresh and idiosyncratic compositional approaches pertinent to the places, situations and events I encounter.
 

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