From the CD cover: "a representation of the artists who have presented work at Liquid Architecture, Australia's Festival of Sound Arts." And from the festival website:
Liquid Architecture presents sound. Sound as the starting point for the active practice of listening. This is not to deny the conceptual or the abstract, the metaphorical or the representational, the expressionistic or the meaningful. But rather this is to restore the emphasis on the primary act of listening. Liquid Architecture is in effect then a listening festival and the artists presented are selected as much for their ability to listen with sensitive ears as for the sound they produce. You are invited to engage your sensitive ears and listen.
This kind of stuff is better engaged with in a gallery than on your computer at work, but the latter is the only opportunity I've had in another week of childcare challenges. Thembi Soddell piece, for example, throws you when it starts almost completely silently — has iTunes crashed? No, so you turn it up to the point where you can hear a low hum, but not too far in case some aural apocalypse is just round the corner. It isn't, just a bit of static crackling, and then a slow, interrupted build. I like it.
Almost inevitably for anything Australian involving sound art, Lawrence English makes an appearance. His piece with Ai Yamamoto is OK, but I prefer the odd mix of found sounds provided by another collaborator of his, Philip Samartzis.
See? I almost got to the end without mentioning the cricket.
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