Liquid Architecture 10

Liquid Architecture 10: Festival of Sound Arts was a landmark occasion for the festival and for sound culture in Australia. Celebrating its tenth consecutive year in 2009, the Liquid Architecture sound festival ran for four weeks and went to seven cities across Australia, presenting an exciting program of contemporary sound arts. With a decade of experience to draw upon, the diverse program featured 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 included 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.

Who was 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 10th festival was 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.

The Liquid Architecture 10 festival was supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its principal arts funding and advisory body. Touring Australian artists were supported by Sound Travellers.

Liquid Architecture 10: Sydney was supported 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 was supported by the Goethe Institute Australia. Perlonex's visit was supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department. Jason Kahn's visit to Australia was made possible by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council.

Sponsors 2009

Government Partners

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
In Sydney this project has been assisted by the City of Sydney, and the NSW Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation.


Australia Council	Arts Victoria	City of Melbourne


Sound Travellers	City of Sydney	Arts NSW	Arts Queensland

International Partners


Goethe Institute	Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department	Swiss Arts Council

French Embassy	Alliance Francaise

Venue Partners

Brisbane Powerhouse

Performance Space

Westspace

Melbourne Planetarium

Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall

Academic Partners


School of Art, RMIT University	University of Technology, Sydney	Centre for Media Arts Innovation

Media Partners


3 Triple R FM	2SER 107.3FM

Co Producers


room40	On Edge	Plum Industries	the house of falcon


	cajid media		Tura New Music	alias frequencies

SYDNEY Exhibition @ Performance Space, Carriageworks Foyer - 24 - 27 June 2009

Installations by

Scott Arford (US)

Ruark Lewis (NSW)
Rik Rue (NSW)

Lauren Brincat (NSW)
Vicky Browne (NSW)
Josie Cavallaro (NSW)
Memory Flows (various)

Opens 24 June 2009: Performance by Ruark Lewis & Rik Rue (6-8pm)

SYDNEY Forum & Performance @ Bon Marche Theatre, UTS - 25 June 2009

*Forum: Sustainability of Sound Arts in Australia*

3:00 - 5:00pm
FREE
Facilitator: Julian Knowles (Queensland University of Technology)
Paul Mason (Australia Council for the Arts)
Sarah Last (Australian Network for Art & Technology)
Somaya Langley (Electrofringe)
Nat Bates (Liquid Architecture)
Gail Priest (RealTime) via Skype.

6:00 - 8:00pm
FREE

* Image Ecologies Launch - Level 4, Tower Building, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo

*Memory Flows Performance

8:00 - 10:00pm
FREE

Performers, Chris Caines, Shannon O’Neill and Jes Tyrrell, improvise together, responding to each other and to audio-visual material from sources including the ABC's Pool web site.

The URL for the live stream of this performance is
http://www.communication.uts.edu.au/centres/cmai

SYDNEY Concert One @ Performance Space - 26 June 2009

Thomas Köner (DE)
Garry Bradbury (NSW)
Cat Hope (WA)
Alex White (NSW)

SYDNEY Concert Two @ Performance Space - 27 June 2009

Asmus Tietchens (DE)

Plump (Dave Brown/ Phil Samartzis/ Marc Rogerson) (VIC)
Chris Abrahams & Kraig Grady (NSW)
Somaya Langley (NSW)

SYDNEY 10 Year Anniversary Celebration @ Hermann's Bar - 27 June 2009

The Evolution Control Committee (US)
Buttress O’Kneel (VIC)
Puzahki (QLD)
Atone (NSW)
Loom (NSW/ACT)
DJ Lieutenant Colonel Spastic Howitzer (NSW)
DJ Corporal Leper (NSW)

BRISBANE Exhibition @ Brisbane Powerhouse - 3-4 July 2009

Works featuring Brisbane’s Eugene Carchesio and San Francisco’s Scott Arford.

BRISBANE Concert One @ Brisbane Powerhouse - 3 July 2009

Rooftop Terrace

Friday
Kontakt Der Jünglinge
Jason Kahn
Perlonex
Joel Stern

BRISBANE Concert Two @ Brisbane Powerhouse - 4 July 2009

Rooftop Terrace

Saturday
David Shea And Kristi Monfries
Asmus Tietchens (Germany) - Solo
Thomas Köner (Germany) Solo
Plump

CASTLEMAINE Concert @ ICU - 5 July 2009

Jason Kahn (Swiss)
Perlonex (DE)
Joel Stern (QLD)
Thembi Soddell & Anthea Caddy (VIC)

PERTH Concert @ Ellington Jazz Club - 7 July 2009

Perlonex (DE)

Jason Kahn (Switz)

Joel Stern (QLD)

Club Zho

presented by Tura New Music.

BENDIGO Concert @ Old Fire Station - 8 July 2009

David Shea (US/Vic) + Kristi Monfries (Vic)

Asmus Tietchens (DE)

Thomas Köner (DE)

BENDIGO Installation @ Dudley House - 9-25 July 2009

METASONIC

Audio and video installations presented by Undue Noise Collective.

Supported by the City of Greater Bendigo.

MELBOURNE 10th Anniversary celebration @ Horse Bazaar - July 9 2009

Digital media arts bar Horse Bazaar plays host to surprise guests and anniversary celebrations.

Vijay Thillaimuthu (VIC)
Martin Kay and Nick van Cuylenburg (VIC)
Joel Stern (QLD)

DJ bags (VIC)

MELBOURNE Installation @ North Melbourne Town Hall - 10-11 July 2009

Jason Kahn installation Brown White Blue Pink

Fri 10th - Sat 11th
3pm - 10pm

MELBOURNE Concert One @ Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall - 10 July 2009

Thembi Soddell + Anthea Caddy (Vic)

Jason Kahn (Swiss),

Perlonex (DE),

Asmus Tietchens (DE),

Kontakt der Jünglinge (DE)

MELBOURNE Concert Two @ Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall - 11 July 2009

Adam Simmons and Mark Cauvin performing Syd Clayton's "Yehudi"
David Shea (US) + Kristi Monfries (Vic) duo commissioned historical Liquid Architecture audio-visual performance work
Thomas Köner (DE)
Plump trio (Dave Brown/Philip Samartzis/Marc Rogerson

MELBOURNE Exhibition @ West Space - 11-25 July 2009

Infinite Music Machine featuring Alan Lamb, Dale Gorfinkel, Rosalind Hall and Peter Blamey.

Location Sound Films by Estonia’s John Grzinich

In addition to the exhibition, the artists will be presenting 3 performances and a workshop.
Performances:
Sat 11th July 3-5pm
Thurs 16th, 7.30pm
Sat 25th, 7.30pm
Workshop Sun 19th, 3pm

MELBOURNE Forum @ Tape Projects Space - 11 July 2009

Conducted as satellite events by the Within Earshot RMIT sound student collective

'Stated Sound': A Forum

Forum chair: Caleb Kelly
Panel members: Nat Bates, Jon Dale, Annalee Koernig, and Philip Samartzis.
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MELBOURNE Screening @ Melbourne Planetarium 12 July 2009

A curated selection of contemporary and historical, Australian and international audio-visual works presented in the surround sound, immersive dome experience. Featuring a dome screen reconstruction of Edgar Varèse's "Poème èlectronique" with a historical talk prefacing this presentation.

Que Nguyen – Math Anomaly 2009
Lizzie Pogson – Occity 2008
Bernard Parmegiani – Immer / Sound 1999

A presentation by Lawrence Harvey introducing ...
Edgar Varese – Poeme Electronique – 1958

Robin Fox – Photosynthesis (AOR) 2004