Content Warning: this artwork contains references to trauma and abuse. 

Monique Gawne is a Taiwanese Australian Multidisciplinary Artist working on unceded Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung land. While Monique predominantly practices printmaking, she also creates work within the disciplines of painting, installation, ceramics, and sound. Monique’s practice is conceptually grounded, her works embrace the subjectivity of lived experiences and learning. There is a rawness and honesty which is produced regardless of the medium she is creating through. Monique is currently in her final semester of a double degree (Honours) in Fine Art and Secondary Education at Monash University. She is the recipient of the Firestation Print Access Award and of the Blackbird Protostars Grant.

How long do you let yourself spiral for? A lament and a love song, Monique uses field recordings of authentic conversations within her life to explore the mental processes of healing from trauma. Monique works manually within the sonic field, using physical objects of symbolic significance to warp and manipulate her field recordings. From fans, to beer cans, to rusty speakers found at hostels, to the mug which he gave her. Monique re-records her field recordings into and through these objects, creating new layers of ambience and emotion. Monique works intuitively. All decisions are guided by conceptual and symbolic direction, the work not only explores her healing process, but is the healing process. While making the artwork, the microphone becomes a point of release, intimate thoughts and feelings are shared to this device, now a therapeutic tool. It goes further, the microphone becomes a tool of accountability, Monique records her daily actions, the self-surveillance motivates her into positive behaviours. She records herself as she gets out of bed, brushes her teeth, gets changed, says hi to friends, and walks into town. Monique is reflecting on and working through these layered emotions regarding trauma as she creates this artwork. For best listening, Monique advises using quality headphones, and listening with your throat and your chest.

'How long do you let yourself spiral for?' by Monique Gawne

"gt yr wobl on for't Table Jelly show - boofin doofs wit Lara David"

Table Jelly w/ Lara David 14/01/22

The finest London selection of Japanese grooves, from the 30s to 80s, and more. Anything from folk, jazz, psychedelia, new wave, soul, disco and electronic, all Made In Japan.

https://www.nts.live/shows/japanblues/episodes/japanblues-15th-april-2023

Japan Blues 150423

“This show is my year anniversary of Just a Dilettante, so I am celebrating by playing the music of probably my favorite artist of all time, Carly Barton.

Carly makes some of the most unique and personal music I have ever come across. A large portion of their catalog is them traversing across different video game universes as imagined by Carly with the series "Vidya World." A classically trained pianist and music enthusiast, the spirit of curiosity and imagination is wildly alive in everything they do.” - @glorbis

Just A Dilettante w/ sold (Carly Barton Special) - Apr 26th 2023

At it again with NYC musician, DJ, and artist Axine M.  Turning out a truly mysterious and strange mix.  A haunted web of voices, plucks, cymbal washes, pop b sides, and sustained tones to inhabit your very own astral plane.  Somehow both comforting and very challenging, don't hesitate just dive right in.  Words and track list below from Axine M:

"a melodic intervention :: mining my files for “acoustic” , not-meant-2-b-blent, small escapes from the din of the city, a needed disruption of the hectic day-to-day in necrocapitalist nyc"

Anne Gillis - Untitled 6
Mabe Fratti - Are
Henry Cow - Look Back
field recording from a party probably ten years ago
The Fertile Crescent - get weeping
LXV - drifting
Robbie Basho - Zarthus
Rihanna - James Joint
Atahualpa Yupanqui - Me Voy
Kepler Quartet & Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 8; Fast, Skimming - Light
Brittle Brian - The Trout Drive
Lucrecia Dalt - Escopolamina
Melissa Cross - 1-2-3-2-1-8-7
Jon Gibson - Untitled (1974) recorded December, 1975 at Big Apple Recording Studio, NYC
Tom Waits - Watch Her Disappear
Klein - Camelot is Coming
Dominique Guiot - Menestrel
菅野よう子 - Voices (Acoustic Version)
Leila Bordreuil - I fall, I flow, I melt
Brazilian Girls - Ships in the Night
Beatriz Ferreyra - Echos
Daniel Lentz - Instrumental Interlude
Usher - Climax, David Posso edit
Soho Rezanejad - New Spring
Bridget Ferrill (fka Bridget Feral) - Vessel feat. Leap Byrne
Henry Cow - Gretel's Tale
Fabulous Diamonds - A Short Confession
Laurel Halo - Quietude
Joanna Newsom - On a Good Day

Crude Mix 034 - Axine M

JOEL ARCANE 20.6.23

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (25.08.2023)

Artist: @the-social-lover

The Social Lover @ Radio TNP 25.08.2023

Bi-monthly emissions from Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel, aka CS + Kreme - keeping it loose, deep and free.
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/cs-kreme/episodes/cs-kreme-22nd-september-2023

CS + Kreme 220923

DJ Pitch presents the warped world of their TT label every month, with new and exclusive music from the bleeding edges of the internet and beyond: indefinable club mutations, zeitgeist-collapsing pop edits, & sounds as yet undiscovered.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/tt/episodes/tt-29th-september-2023

TT W/ zi! 290923

The soundsystem music and low-end hitters that move from weirdo 2 weirdo with some 7'' dancehall business chucked in for good measure.

https://soundcloud.com/hermeneiaa
https://lyl.live/show/tread-on-a-snake

'How long do you let yourself spiral for?' by Monique Gawne

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