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Sound. Culture.

Australia's premier sound arts festival Liquid Architecture celebrates its tenth consecutive year with concerts, immersive sound presentations, audio-visual and recorded work, exhibitions and installations, featuring our most imaginative musicians, composers, sound designers and media artists in a sense-specific feast for the ears.

 

What is Liquid Architecture?

Liquid Architecture is a sense specific festival, as opposed to art form specific. Occurring annually since 2000, Liquid Architecture celebrates the diverse methods of sound making and sound theory. It is our belief that listening is a vital activity, and one that is often overlooked within the dominance of visual media in our environment.

 

What is 'Sound Art'?

"For many, it refers to sound-based art work (or at least art work where the principal focus is on sound) across the broad gamut of performance, installation and broadcast contexts, which departs from both traditional musical instrumentation and notational methods and frequently employs electronic media. Others may see it as an intersecting space with roots in post-Cageian music practice, or indeed 'post-phonographic' music practice, and installation art."

Julian Knowles, QUT Portfolio Director and President of QMusic, in an article entitled Sound Practice, Sound Thesis in RealTime No. 68, August / September 2005.

 

Who's it for?

Now in its tenth consecutive year, Liquid Architecture combines the fragmented communities in which sound art practices occur, achieving cross disciplinary appreciation and critique. The practical objective of this strategy is to popularise and publicise sound culture through greater aggregate audience size and a higher profile, and to make sound culture more accessible to the community, particularly to youth and student audiences. Audiences currently include those engaged with contemporary creative practice, sound arts practitioners, music industry professionals, electronic music concert goers, academics, cultural theorists and students (post & undergraduate), youth audiences and enthusiasts of adventurous popular music.


Liquid Architecture popularises sound culture, particularly with young/emerging content producers within Australia's active student culture, in order to build not only future audiences but also future artists. Our rationale reflects an intense engagement with specialist and broader cultures, and the desire to make a contribution to those cultures. Sound practice is often cross disciplinary and Liquid Architecture reflects that, not only in the work presented but in the broad range of audiences it attracts.


The opportunities to network with national and international artists are an important means of generating future initiatives and cross cultural collaborations. The community is being exposed to some of the most exciting explorations occurring within sound culture that also happen to intersect with the media and fine arts. The exposure generated by Liquid Architecture is crucial in developing new audiences for the many discreet sound and experimental music communities currently operating around the country, and internationally.

 

What will I hear?

A key objective is the promotion of artists practising on the periphery of music and sound culture, particularly those with an experimental aesthetic and a critical approach to (media) cultures. The artistic content of the festival focuses upon and privileges sound practice in all its manifestations but, due to the cross disciplinary potential of sound, many other art practices are included in the festival. Liquid Architecture focuses on any and all art forms involving particular emphasis on the auditory, including an exciting mix of musical performance, AV presentations and installation work, along with a strong critical element involving panels, workshops and artist talks.

 

Who's responsible?

Liquid Architecture was born out of the Sound department in the School of Art at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia in collaboration with RMIT Union Arts. The festival is curated by practicing artists; Melbourne based co-founding national director Nat Bates, assisted by Bianca Durrant and Camilla Hannan, Brisbane based Lawrence English from ROOM40, in Sydney Jen Teo from Plum Industries and Shannon O'Neill from Alias Frequencies, in Central Victoria director Jacques Soddell from cajid media, in Cairns Nick Mills from On Edge and in Perth Tura New Music director Tos Mahoney.
 
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its principal arts funding and advisory body. Touring Australian artists have been assisted by Sound Travellers.
 
Liquid Architecture 10: Sydney is assisted by City of Sydney and New South Wales Department of the Arts, Sports and recreation, the Victorian season by Arts Victoria. Asmus Tietchens and Thomas Köner's visit is supported by the Goethe Institute Australia. Perlonex's visit is supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department. Jason Kahn's visit to Australia is made possible by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council.
 



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ALAN LAMB (WA)
Alan Lamb’s work involves the exploration of sound structures, neither musically "designed" nor of random occurrence. Such structures possess the properties of beauty, complexity and evocation of the emotional, the spiritual and the imaginary. On the whole, sound compositions arising from these aims are not intended to possess intellectual formalism.
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