Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
Performers/composers/sounddesigners/researchers/writers/creators/socially engaged sound artists working across performative artforms. Their curiousity about sound in space and cultural engagment with sound/music has led them to develop links with artists in dance, theatre, installation, film and public art.
They created and direct an ongoing sound installation the megaphone project, which toured nationally in 2009/2010 and will tour internationally in 2011. www.themegaphoneproject.com
Madeleine and Tim are part of constellation in Melbourne.
They created john cage's musicircus for Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2007, and for MIAF 2008 an installation with Californian sound artist Alex Stahl (Pixar productions), Echolocation, and a new duet for theatre, This Map is Not to Scale.
In 2008, an ANAT Synapse Residency enabled them to work on sonifying genetic processes. Their new work, Epi-thet, based on this research is currently in development with Cake Industries and will be presented by a major Australian festival in October, 2010.
They have a long term collaborative practice with dancer, Tony Yap, and Japanese visual artist Naomi Ota. Their most recent work Rasa Sayang had a highly acclaimed premiere season at 45 Downstairs in April, 2010.
In July 2010, they will present their new work constellation, a durational exhibition with performance interruptions, a work they commissioned for 12 composers. It will occur over 17 days as part of Liquid Architecture 11.
Their awards include a GreenRoom Award for Outstanding Composition/sound design, Melbourne International Arts Festival Award, ANAT Synapse Award and two Asialink Residencies in China and Japan. Tim has a PhD in music from Monash University and is currently a lecturer in creativity and culture at Griffith University. This is the year Madeleine is determined to finish her PhD in choreo-musical analysis at the University of Melbourne. They both did music/technololgy degrees at LaTrobe University in the early nineties.