SOUND OF FAILURE 2008 - Sound Art Festival
SAT 30 AUG @ 7:00PM
- Price
- $20 + bf
- Bookings
- (02) 9550 3666
- Mode
- Concert Mode - General Admission
- Tickets
- On sale now @ Factory Theatre
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Following on from the (ironic) success of last year’s festival, Sound of Failure 2008 brings together over twenty international sound artists to surprise, shock and entertain.
All of these artists have attempted to transcend the small rectangular screens and the latest Microsoft releases, opting instead to look at unintended consequences of technology – when it misbehaves or just gives up the goat.
Some artists use humour. Starella, for instance, juxtaposes ‘instruments’ such as ‘old wine bottles’ with digital technology and lyrics written on the backs of beer coasters. The failure in her musical sound comes from spending her life slipping through the gaps of every system she has known: family; society, and professional systems. In her performances she feels her way through drunken rants and musically attempts to determine what went wrong.
Others employ the literal failure of the technology itself. Tom Hall, a renowned sound artist from Brisbane, uses the degenerate sounds formed from the destruction of flimsy CD media combined with the glitch/skip/malfunction from ageing and damaged CD players. These form the basis of a live performance that combine in a progressive and layered manner, juxtaposing the usual frustration experienced when one strikes this inferior malfunction.
Artists appearing include:
* Toy Death
* Est Et Non
* Peter Newman & Jonathon Hunter
* Marquis de Sound
* Lecter Macabre & Triangle
* Samuel Bruce
* Dianne’s Dollhouse
* Tom Hall (Brisbane)
* Jessica Tyrrell & Chris Caines
* catfingers
* Glenn Remington
* Greg Chatonsky (Canada)
* Starella
…and more!
