Waterfront Utopia II, a sound installation by Jennifer Teo and Shannon O’Neill is part of the exhibition SNO 79 at SNO Contemporary Art Projects.

SNO 79

Sara Givins
Billy Gruner & Sarah Keighery
Vanessa
Laurie Scott Baker

Sound Project:
Shannon O’Neill & Jennifer Teo

March 3-25, 2012

Opening Saturday March 3, 3:00 – 6:00pm, including a live performance by Laurie Scott Baker and installation by Vanessa

Saturday March 24 at 3pm artist talk by Sara Givins and a solo performance by Shannon O’Neill

Part of Art Month, Sydney, March 2012

SNO Contemporary Art Projects
First floor, 175 Marrickville Road,
Marrickville, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2204
Ph: 02 9560 3470
info@sno.org.au
www.sno.org.au

Hours: Friday to Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment Mon-Thurs

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Waterfront Utopia II, by Jennifer Teo & Shannon O’Neill

8 channel generative sound installation.

Part of an ongoing series of artworks exploring site, memory and relationships, beginning with Waterfront Utopia (Newington Armory, 2010).

Exhibition

SNO 79, March 3 to 25, 2012
SNO Contemporary Art Projects
Sydney, Australia

Background

A follow-up to Waterfront Utopia (2010) in which a newly edited selection of stories is presented on headphones, and contextualised in an immersive sonic environment.

About the work

Waterfront Utopia II presents an immersive and ever-changing sonic environment of electronic and electroacoustic elements, while headphones contain a family’s stories of growing up and of their ongoing relationship to their environment.

Featuring: Camilla Christensen, Danny Christensen, Peter Christensen, Emma Jane Lynch

Dedicated to Peter Christensen (1951-2011) and in loving memory of Chester Teo (1939-2012).

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The radiophonic feature Radio Metamix, a 2007 collaboration between Lloyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord, Buttress O’Kneel, Rik Rue and Shannon O’Neill, was broadcast on Sunday February 26, 2012 on FBi Radio’s Ears Have Ears.

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My review of the WIRED Open Day has been published by RealTime.

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I’ve programmed the latest edition of the Eleven Eleven podcast. You can listen to it over at Alias Frequencies

This edition of Eleveneleven features a myriad of voices. Different voices with different perspectives, some familiar, some strange. Actually mostly strange, or estranged. We bring these outsiders inside for a delightful and unpredictable conversation.

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Produced and presented by Shannon O’Neill

Featuring the music of Craig Parry aka Puzahki/Gumsneaker/Craig LP

Playlist

Wish Mountain – Royal Wedding
Igorrr – Unpleasant Sounds / Tendon
DOOM – Lightworks
Retina.It – Tetsub
James Blake – Postpone
Puzahki – Reverse Anthology – Reverse Anthology
Gumsneaker – – Tripping Staccato / Hellektro
Seefeel – Making / Dead Guitars / Faults
The Legends – Always the Same
The Magnetic Fields – Famous
Scorn – Soon Come (Version Beat)
Igorrr – Very Long Chicken / Cruciform Dachsund
Coil – NASA Arab
The Bug – Run (feat Flowdan)
Rhythm & Sound – Poor People Must Work
Scientist – Dematerialise
Sherriff Lindo and the Hammer – Fatal Dub
Nurse with Wound – She and Me Fall Together in Free Death
When – Peer Gynt and the Herd Girls
CraigLP – Forever Learning / Gristle
Speedy J – Beam Me Up!
Spanky – Cheese Saloon
Jean Michel Jarre – Blah-Blah Café
Trancendental Headache – Ssppkk
Aphex Twin – Tamphex (Headphuq Mix)
Leonard Emanuel – Field Call and Answer – Distress Call / Calling Hogs, Cows and Dogs
Nudge – Sickth
Zoviet France – Look Into Me
Zoviet France – White Dusk
Negativland – Negativland (Track 9)
The New Pollutants – Online Celebrity
iNsuRge – Political Prisoners

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Produced and presented by Shannon O’Neill

Vale Tony Barrell

Playlist

Spazmodics – Late Night TV
Russell Stapleton – Tribute to Tony Barrell
Russell Guy – What’s Rangoon to You is Grafton to Me
Moby Death – Clockradio Power

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Hidden: A Rookwood Sculpture Walk
Opening Monday 7 March 2011
6 – 8pm

On the Village Green, corner of Hawthorne Avenue and Necropolis Drive, Rookwood Cemetery.

Exhibition dates 7 March – 8 May 2011

Exhibition Site Map (111, KB)

Rookwood Map (111, KB)

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Messages, by Jennifer Teo & Shannon O’Neill.

Five channel generative sound installation

Part of an ongoing series of artworks exploring site, memory and relationships, beginning with Waterfront Utopia (Newington Armory, 2010).

Exhibition

Hidden 2011, 7 March – 8 May.
All Souls Chapel, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney.

Background

Throughout the twentieth century, paranormal investigators sought to capture the ‘voices of the dead’ using the technologies of the time, such as radios and tape recorders. These ‘electronic voice phenomena’ are now widely thought to have been random, innocuous signals.

However the urge to reconnect with loved ones who have passed seems inherently human. The proliferation of new technologies for capturing and distributing memories suggests that such a connection is increasingly possible.

About the work

Messages explores this uncanny phenomenon through a site-specific sound installation that plays recordings of deceased loved ones, from sources such as answering machines and home movies. Members of the community are invited to contribute their own recordings, facilitated by social media and the web.

The chapel is a place of remembrance in which memories will spontaneously emerge, through spatially diffused audio recordings.

Recordings of the artists’ own deceased parents are included in artwork. Jennifer Teo has a personal connection to the site as her mother was cremated at Rookwood in 2004.

Call for contributions

You are invited to contribute your own recordings of deceased loved ones, to be included in a future version of the work.

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The website for the Powerhouse Museum’s exhibition ‘The 80s are Back’ includes a number of articles about the culture of the time. My article about sampling in the 80s has just been published. It focuses on the influence of the Fairlight CMI sampler and artists such as the Art of Noise and Kate Bush.

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Produced and presented by Shannon O’Neill and Adrian Bertram

2011 is the 20th anniversary of our radio show/band Wake Up and Listen, so we delve into our audio collage archives for some treats. Also tonight, we feature Sydney experimental music legend Garry Bradbury, whose back catalogue has just been made available at Bandcamp, and we hear from mash-up pioneer the Evolution Control Committee’s brand new album All Rights Reserved. Plus the usual cutting-edge beats and pieces you’d expect from the Fog.

Playlist

Coconut Monkeyrocket – Juicy Jungle
People Like Us vs Ergo Phizmiz – Carmic Waltz
Bradbury – Transmission Impossible
Bradbury – I’ll Never Go Caribou Hunting with You Again
Bradbury – Forever
Cloaks – “00148″
Cloaks – Junk
Skrillex – Scatta
Cesspool – The Wilhelm Screamix
The Evolution Control Committee – Freaky People / California Dreamings
Cupp Cave – Hamsterdam/Discrete Mathematics
Bretzel Zoo – Shugaring Emrod Baywatch
mjs538 – Five Seconds of Every #1 Pop Single – Part 1
John Oswald – Black/Brown
Wake Up and Listen – Ving
Wake Up and Listen – White Spines
Wake Up and Listen – Shitistry
Wake Up and Listen – Discombobulated Spectralism
Size – The Chocolate Grinder
Bradbury – Big Man on Campus
Severed Heads – Oblique Firefly Overlocker
Severed Heads – Kittenette
Lucas Darklord – Life
mjs538 – Five Seconds of Every #1 Pop Single – Part 2

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The latest edition of furthernoise.org includes a compilation ‘The Sound of Live Performance’, with my track Iris Detonation.

Iris Detonation is an excerpt from a live performance at Disorientation, at the Abercrombie Hotel, Sydney on 2005-10-26. I’d prepared a glitchy piece in AudioMulch, but was surprised when my laptop and sound card decided to contribute their own glitches and dropouts. I couldn’t listen to this recording for a long time, but can now appreciate the extra dimension of broken sound.

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Here’s an ABC Classic FM interview/podcast about my Rolling Stock installation, Locomentum:

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s3104512.htm

The interview took place the day before the event, so the sounds you hear are of work in progress. I have some recordings of the actual train trip, which I’ll publish at some point.

Thanks to Stephen Adams and Somaya Langley from ABC Classic FM, Sarah Last / The WIRED Lab, and Chris Watson.

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Vale Trish Keenan of Broadcast.

Playlist

Diego Garro – Inner Cities
Nate Adderley – Aries
Sweet Trip – Dedicated
Broadcast – Corporeal
Sarah Hopkins – Double Whirly Duo
Axxo – No Idlers
Shackleton – Deadman / New Dawn
Kotchy – Sing What You Want (Mrk 1 Remix)
Strange Parcels – Badman Land
Kurt Volentine – Vortex St
DJ Smallcock – 1990 – 1990
Pernicious Sovereign – Television Part III
Ian Hartley – Train Je Taime
Broadcast – Black Cat
The Legends – Seconds Away
Utom Alla – Rok Forst
The Young Gods – Aux Anges
Caboladies – Atomic Weekender (B)
Antediluvian Rocking Horse – The Premier Needs Protection
Clark – Matthew Unburdened
Flying Lotus – GNG BNG
Meat Beat Manifesto – Let Me Set
The Kleptones – Mad Groove
Ebola – Necrophiliac Dance Party
Ken Nordine – Ecru
Perrey & Kingsley – Baroque Hoedown
Nate Adderley – Libra
Scientist – Cloning Process
High Tone & Wang Lei – Tchen
O’Rang – Mind on Pleasure
Underground Lovers – On and On and On and On
Francis Dhomont – Novars
Wake Up and Listen – Thoughts Flash
Broadcast – Lights Out

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I’ll be guest presenting Sunday Night at the Movies from 9-10pm this Sunday, November 7 on FBi Radio, 94.5 FM Sydney and streaming online.

Joining me will be Brisbane-based audiovisual artist Lloyd Barrett, who’ll share with us some of his musical influences, along with tracks from his new album as Secret Killer of Names, If the Answer Comes in Dreams, Then Who Asks the Question?. Tune in for an edifying hour of experimental audio!

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The whole event looks great. I hope to see you there!

More info: http://rolling-stock.org/

All Aboard! ROLLING STOCK is a series of site specific performances, installations and collaborations between artists, visiting audiences and the local Junee community on a train moving through the rural landscape from Midday to Midnight on Saturday 20th November 2010.

Ranging from the odd, the spectacular and the sublime, ROLLING STOCK embraces art, community and landscape in its broadest form(s). Beginning with a series of creative residencies with over 15 artists generating content with and relevant to the Junee community and other worldly concerns, ROLLING STOCK will culminate with a 1 day public event commencing at Junee Railway station at high noon on Saturday 20th of November. From here the ROLLING STOCK train will meander its way around the countryside with audio visual installations and participatory live art performances manifesting throughout the afternoon. Concluding ROLLING STOCK will be a Rockabilly band playing live at the Junee Licorice & Chocolate Factory until midnight.

Highlights of ROLLING STOCK include:

Acclaimed UK artist CHRIS WATSON, who is travelling to Australia specifically to participate in ROLLING STOCK. WATSON is known for his early work as founding member of influential experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire, and more recently for his work as a BAFTA award winning field recordist for David Attenborough, BBC Nature documentaries and feature films. For ROLLING STOCK Watson will be premiering recordings from his forthcoming album ‘El Tren Fantasma’ – The Ghost Train?. Utilising sounds from recording work for the documentary series ?Great Train Journeys? with Rick Stein in Mexico, ?El Tren Fantasma? will be recontextualised for ROLLING STOCK train via live surround sound mixes as the train ventures through significant landmarks.

The Perth based PVI COLLECTIVE will be resolving on-board conflict resolution relevant to local and global issues through the ancient art of tug-o-war.

The real life RENNY KODGERS will be on hand to entertain with his immense presence via variety quizzes, dulcet tones and sheer celebrity power.

Other artists participating in ROLLING STOCK include an exciting array of sound, video art, installation, performance, interactive experts and public artists:

ALAN LAMB, DAVE NOYZE, GARRY BRADBURY, JOEL STERN , KATE MURPHY, PUBLIC ASSEMBLY, JUSTY PHILLIPS, MARGARET WOODWARD, ANTHONY CAHALAN, ROSS MANNING, RYSZARD DABEK, SHANNON O’NEILL, the GENERAL COMMUNITY and YOU!

To keep track (sic) and participate in Rolling Stock follow us online at:
www.rolling-stock.org

ROLLING STOCK | Artist Residencies
What: Artists collaborating with each other and the Junee community
When: Friday 12th – Friday 19th November 2010
Where: Follow the progress online at www.rolling-stock.org

ROLLING STOCK | Public Event
What: Train journey + After Party
When: Saturday 20th November 2010, Midday to Midnight
Where: Junee Railway Station and the Licorice & Chocolate Factory
Cost: Adult $50, Concession $40, Children $20 (pre-sale only)

Chris Watson (UK) Live in Sydney
The WIRED Lab, in association with The British Council proudly present….
What: Chris Watson UK) Live Audio performance
When: Wednesday 24th November 2010, 7pm
Where: Chauvel Cinema, Paddington Town Hall, Corner of Oxford St & Oatley Rd,
Paddington, Sydney.
Cost: Adult $15, Concession $10

Media Contact
For more information, to arrange interviews or to select from the range of high
resolution images please contact:
Tiani Chillemi
Decode Media
email: tiani@decodemedia.com.au
phone: +61 3 9015 7999

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OTHER TONGUE

Sound has the power to make an impact on a person. It can trigger visual responses, evoke or incite emotions and build and support perception. In this special program we will challenge conventional concepts of sound, to explore how sound affects people and other living things.

Other Tongue is a radiophonic project of UTS Audio Workshop Spring 2010. Tune in to 2SER 107.3FM from 9:00pm – 10:30pm, October 27th 2010.

Also tonight: REFRACTION

Featuring:
T H E   G H O S T   O F   2 9   M E G A C Y C L E S  (MELB)
J O E L  S T E R N (BRIS)
A T H R O C Y C L E
R E U B E N   H O L T

7.30pm, Wednesday 27th October 2010

Serial Space

33 Wellington St, Chippendale

Entry by donation

T H E   G H O S T   O F   2 9   M E G A C Y C L E S  (MELB)
The Ghost of 29 Megacycles is a minimalist shoegaze project currently based in Melbourne. The band released their debut album, Love via Paper Planes on Sydney label Sound and Fury Records to critical acclaim. Their follow up mini album The Hummingbird Dream continues to explore their unique ambient sounds and abstract songwriting.
http://www.myspace.com/theghostof29megacycles

J O E L   S T E R N (BRIS)
Joel Stern is a performer and producer of experimental music & sound, performing regularly both solo and in collaboration with a wide variety of artists around the world. Joel’s performance collaboration with filmmaker Sally Golding, as Abject Leader, has seen the duo widely recognised as Australia’s premier exponents of contemporary expanded cinema.
http://www.abjectleader.org/
http://www.myspace.com/joelstern

A T H R O C Y C L E
Athrocycle is a new collaborative project of Andrew Voet and Nick Beeby. Both have produced an expanse of eclectic electronic music and visual art both together and seperately for over 10 years. As Athrocycle they explore the potentials of chaos and the unexpected using circuit bent hardware and digital sound design, with a gameboy thrown in for good measure.
http://www.myspace.com/microstrobus
http://www.myspace.com/circuitsatanic

R E U B E N   H O L T
Reuben Holt is an emerging sound artist, musician and composer. His live performance will combine pastiche and found sounds with  sonic accompaniment. He is currently completing a Bachelor of Sound and Music Design and International Studies at UTS.

Refraction is proudly supported by Sound Travelers and assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Graphics by Jade Cantwell

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Classroom to Community

Friday 1st October 10.30am – 12pm
Process Space, 401 Hunter St, Newcastle NSW 2300

Facilitator: Emily McDaniel
Panellists: Ben Byrne, Brooke Olsen, Shannon O’Neill

This panel will aim to address the current state of student work in the sound/media arts community, including addressing fundamental issues that face emerging artists and students alike, and how these issues can be accommodated.

Some of the questions this panel will attempt to answer include:

• How can we better encourage students and emerging artists to approach the scene?
• Why is it that students can study subjects and not practice them outside the class?
• What can we do to foster new emerging artists currently studying?
• What are the challenges of emerging artists and students?
• How can we accommodate these challenges?
• What resources are available?
• What challenges do student run artistic organisations face?

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Delving into the depths of my hard drive to bring you a selection of unusual music by artists you may not have heard before. Expect noise, beats, collage, novelty, electroacoustics and more.

Playlist

The Evolution Control Committee – IGA Giant Pineapple Party
Roger Roger – No 15
Max Tundra – Glycaemic Index Blues
Severed Heads – – Bruise Vienna, Pt. 3
The Bedroom Philosopher – New Media
Pill Wonder – What We Know
Hinterlandt – Dabeiblossgedacht
Andrew Liles – The Ether Reel / The Mind as an Engine that Hitherto Ceases to Function Correctly
Utom Alla – Kniv Och Sked
Implex Grace – Glass Castles
Muslimgauze – Zakat Zakat
Greyhound – Gefuhlskalte
Bran(…)Pos – Am-Mit’s Odds
Catfingers – Sketch Rock 1
Gentleforce – Learning to Forgive / Our Last Day Together
Seaworthy – Map in Hand, Part 2
Nosaj Thing – Coat of Arms
Nuearz – Turn and Twist
Richard Devine – Partition.Refinement / Carry.Completion.Sensing
Hecq – Untitled (Bk Remix)
Clark – Outside Plume
The Gasman – Tymetix
Dak – Wego
Kryptic Minds – Chosen Few
Ikonika – Idiot
Maladroit – Secret Sights
Size – Nothing
The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast – The Dumbwaiters
Blastcorp – Crystalline
The Fall – Bury, Parts 1, 3
Spektr – The Violent Stink of Twitching Terror
Hair Police – Interruption & Invasion
Satanicpornocultshop – Anorexia Gas Balloon (Reprise)
Vodka Soap – Interpretation the Initiation
The Necks – The Royal Family

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Submerge#d

Arahmaiani (Indonesia), post (Syd), tako seijin (Sam Tupou), Zane Saunders, Unstrumenta Orchestra, Shannon O’Neill (syd), ReelDance – Australian & New Zealand Awards 2010, John Von Sturmer (Syd), Kris Keogh (Dar), Font featuring Tweak Bakini, Hanzard and lots more.

Submerge#d presents a diverse and eclectic night of short media and performance works from local and guest practitioners. Guest artist, Arahmaiani (Indonesia) is a key-figure in the current contemporary art scene in both Indonesia and South East Asia, and draws from community process and social/political issues in developing innovative performance art.

The Submerge#d program also includes Sydney group post presenting new work in progress, the ReelDance Australian and New Zealand Awards, and innovative artists Zane Saunders and Sam Tupou bringing contemporary indigenous and pacific island perspectives to the fore.

• Sat 10th July
• Old Hrvatski Klub Artspace, 240 Scott St
• Doors 6.00pm, Show 7.00pm
• Check web for full program/times.

Tickets: $10/ 7 at the door.

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