This is the text element of an installation created last year for The Cad Factory's On Common Ground. The intention was to research matters related to the Narrandera Common and surrounding area and make a text specific to that place and its stories. A kind of psychogeographical map making exercise in  interconnectedness. Initially I thought it would be a series of lists of words, but I found I was unable to (or did not want to) extract my emotive reaction from what I encountered in the research and the project turned into something else. When I had finished writing I discovered I had a very strong compulsion to speak the words aloud at the installation site. It seemed to me that the work would be incomplete unless this happened. After responding to the land, looking for a language of land, I felt there needed to be a cyclic resolution, and that meant I had to return the words to their source location. I knew this would mean a pouring out of sound, taking the text out of my head, out of its existence as silent ink marks on paper, and into the space as vibrations and echoes.

Loose Leaf Manuscript: A Common Tongue - text recording

Once upon as time in Newtown there was a 3 piece called the Vultures. They lived in Petersham when you could get a 4 bedroom house for $350 per week. One bedroom was a rehearsal room where they tuned down to D flat and hammered out shambolic, minimal, unrefined songies to play at gigs with Whopping Big Naughty, The Momobench Seat Band, Kybershev, Triangle, MzAnnthropik, Stockholm Syndrome and other inner westies The Lansdowne, The Sando, The Vic on the Park, The Excelsior, The Annadale etc. High light was supporting McCluskey and beong reviewed in Kerrang mag. Yeeew! This demo EP was recorded at Zen Studios in St Peters. It is unmixed, there was no click track (obviously!), it is raw AF, and it's the only recording remaining of the original line up.

Los Buitres

13th Floor Elevation

Mercury Poisoining

Are U Long-Pig?

6ft Above

Muted

F-22

Once upon a time in Sydney there was a 3 piece called the Vultures. They lived in Petersham when you could get a 4 bedroom house for $350 per week. One bedroom became a rehearsal room where they tuned down to D flat and hammered out shambolic, minimal, unrefined songies to play at gigs with Whopping Big Naughty, The Momo Benchseat Band, Kybershev, Triangle, MzAnnthropik, Stockholm Syndrome and other inner westies at The Lansdowne, The Sando, The Vic on the Park, The Excelsior, The Annandale etc etc.  A highlight was supporting McCluskey and being reviewed in Kerrang mag. Yeeew! This demo EP was recorded at Zen Studios in St Peters. It is unmixed, there was no click track (obviously!), it is raw AF, and it's the only recording remaining of the original line up. Vox, guitar - Josh Pincock, Drums - Sam Pincock, Bass - Amelia Reid.

My Enemy

Ex-The Vultures, Box Freezer Romance, Charles Manson Experiment. Bass.

Amelia A R