Boxes

BOX #26 - 27 July 2003

• Camilla Hannan (surround sound composition - Melbourne)
• resi-quat (cassette tape collage - Brisbane)
• Machina aux Rock (drums & electronics post/kraut rock - Melbourne)

Sunday 27 July 2003, 7-10pm
Institute of Modern Art, Screening Room
420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
(entry via Berwick Street)
$7

The improvised performances of Melbourne experimental musicians Nat Bates (electronics) and Stephen Masterson (drums) come under the name "Machina aux Rock". In simplistic terms, Stephen plays drums that trigger Nat's noise gates, which in turn pass bursts of electric guitar and bass textures, the overall sound being processed and shaped live by Nat. The result is something akin to Post-rock Krautrock. "It's 'rock' Jim, but not as we know it." Nat is a co-director and founder of Liquid Architecture, the only National Sound Art Festival, and is currently undertaking a Masters degree focussing specifically upon the use of appropriation, quotation and assimilation in contemporary sonic art.

resi-quat (aka Adam Park) performs sound collage using a number of cassette players mixed together each playing tapes of various cutups, sound effects and computer and/or totally analogue produced loops. Thus returning music to its true meaningful state, as noise.

Camilla Hannan is a Melbourne based sound artist working primarily in gallery installation and surround sound composition. She is primarily interested in the psychological sonic narrative and the physicality of sound in space. Her most recent solo exhibition was Hedgeburner, a surround sound installation involving 30 metres of synthetic grass at first site Gallery Melbourne in July 2002.