Samples II (1987) and Artificial Languages (1981) in MixTape 1980s at the National Gallery of Victoria

My piece "Samples II: Ravel Homage - That Which is Neither a Deconstruction nor an Appropriation, Neither Bricollage nor Post-Modern" (1987) is on display as part of

Mix Tape 1980s

Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style

which is on at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square from 11 Apr – 01 Sep 2013.

While mostly a show of visual works, there are four iPads attached to the walls of the exhibition, each with a playlist faceplate (that looks like a blown-up, hand-written cassette label) and a pair of headphones attached to them.  Each iPad has a different playlist on it, chosen by a different person.  My piece is on the iPad in the right-hand room of the exhibit, on the right-hand wall, about half-way into the room.  The playlist was chosen by Peter Tyndall, to whom I give many thanks for including me.  Also on his playlist is "Artificial Languages" (1981) a collaboration between Chris Mann and myself, which was performed by the Astra Choir, John McCaughey directing.  The show is well worth seeing - for me, at any rate, there was a lot of nostalgia in seeing works I'd seen many years ago.  And especially worth seeing, from a new music historical point of view, is a large wall-full of posters, record jackets and other objects from the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre and Innocent Records, designed by Philip Brophy.  So if you're in Melbourne in the Federation Square area, drop in.   

Photos from Sound Poetry Performance at La Mama, 18 March 2013

Here are some photos from a performance I gave as part of La Mama Poetica, on March 18.  The performance was organized by Sjaak de Jong, and featured Jaap Blonk, Santo Cassati, jeltje, Sjaak, Mark Lewis, and Peter Fraser as well as myself.  A good time was had by all.  I was performing on an iPhone (not visible in these pix), an iPad, and voice.  My performing material consisted of letters on alphabet beads I drew at random from a small box.  I sang/intoned these letters, and also entered them into the iDevices for use in the program abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, running on both.  The captions of the photos (taken by Catherine Schieve) are the phonemes I was performing at the time, according to Catherine.

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