Liquid Architecture 10: Festival of Sound Arts is a landmark occasion for the festival and for sound culture in Australia. Celebrating its tenth consecutive year, the Liquid Architecture sound festival runs for four weeks and goes to seven cities across Australia, presenting an exciting program of contemporary sound arts. With a decade of experience to draw upon, the diverse program features live events and installations showcasing the highest quality sound work in an intense focused listening environment, privileging our most unsung sense: listening.
The breadth of diversity of artists and artistic practices includes meticulous recorded work, improvised instrumental performance, new sound for screen work, radical uses of digital technology, inventive self-made sound making devices and historically informed practices.
Buttress O’Kneel is the P!nk of the electro-activist world, or perhaps the Negativland of breakcore, or, perhaps even more accurately, the Mother Theresa of bio-anarchic post-grrl underculture. She has two main passions in her work: the destabilisation and reworking of corporatised pop, and the demystification of mass-media bias. She deals with these two main metapolitical prongs by dividing her work into the overtly-political “audio documentaries”, and the plunderphonic “compop” series (”compop” being a word coined by her to describe her musical “pop compost”). Website: http://www.myspace.com/buttressokneel