Liquid Architecture

photo: Sonia Leber

David Chesworth, with collaborator Sonia Leber, creates large-scale sound installations for gallery spaces and the public domain. In 2007 they were recipients of the Helen MacPherson Smith Art Commission which resulted in Almost Always Everywhere Apparent installed at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Sonia and David's installation site contains more information about their artworks including Proximities, a permanent soundscape artwork created for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Photo :  Hollis Taylor

Jon Rose is an Australian violinist, born in the UK in 1951. For over 35 years, Rose has been at the sharp end of new, improvised, and experimental music and media, working in over 40 countries and collaborating with many other maverick musicians and inventors such as Kronos Quartet, John Cage, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith, etc. His work in interactive electronics since 1983 is internationally recognized as innovative and exemplary.

http://www.jonroseweb.com/f_projects_k-bow.html

Photo : solo in deventer, willie, 2007

Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical 'activist' in the industrial music and noise rock of the 80s. Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a Collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combos) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime and after he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk, AA Kismet, Liana Flu Winks, VRIL and Coolhaven.

Photo : M. Chamagne

Pascal Battus started out in music as a teenage rock guitarist, then studied percussion (ENM Le Mans et Noisiel) and finally focused on experimental music and improvisation, shaping his instruments to match his own gestures. He now presents a wide range of sound possibilities and experiences, including the 'surrounded' guitar, acoustic and amplified percussion, 'acoustic walkman' on rotating surfaces and guitar pick-ups.

Photo : Rosalind Hall

Ross Bolleter is primarily interested in improvisation, both as a solo player and in group work. Although he has composed some pieces formally, he feels little interest in having pieces recreated by other performers. In the last 10 years Bolleter has explored playing with ruined pianos, that is old pianos that have been found after having been left exposed to the action of time and weather, thus acquiring novel and unexpected musical possibilities.