Andrew Yencken : Associate Artist
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Random Audio Sample: Metamorphoses I (radiophonic music) by Andrew Yencken, from the CD Beta |
Artist website: http://yencken.wordpress.com/biography/
Andrew Yencken (b. Sydney, Australia, 1963) is a composer, sound
artist, guitarist and producer who has contributed work to radio,
film, TV, dance and theatre productions in Australia, Europe, and
South America. He comes from a visual art and design background.
He currently lives in Melbourne.
Between 1992 and 2002 he was a regular freelance contributor to
The Listening Room, ABC Radio's acoustic art
program.
Over the last 20 years his work for radio has been featured on
networks in Australia, Europe and North America. He also received
commissions from Studio Akustische Kunst (WDR Germany),
Kunstradio (ORF Austria), and Hörspiel und Feature (NDR
Berlin).
Works such as Metamorphosis I (1993), The Carousel
of Light (1996), Balanço (1996), Magnetic
South (1998) and Moon Lagoon Light (1999) all share
a preoccupation with movement through a succession of acoustic
spaces, their inherent narratives undergoing constant modulation
and changes in perspective.
Other works such as Kephisos (1998) made in
collaboration with percussionist David Hewitt, explore a range of
experimental performance and recording strategies for acoustic
instruments. The work was made with the assistance of the New
Media Arts Fund of the Australia Council.
In 1999-2001 he travelled extensively throughout Brazil which
resulted in the ABC/NDR co-production Boats Of Paper
(2000), a work made entirely of Portuguese and English vocal
sounds. In 2001 he was based in Brasília and São Paulo, Brazil.
His last work for The Listening Room was Before The
Rain (2002) which features location recordings from the
Brazilian interior, prepared piano, voice, modified acoustic
guitars, and percussion.
His most recent work draws on a typically broad palette of
acoustic and electronic sound sources that are shaped using a
variety of digital and analogue processing and software editing
techniques. A series of new works will be released in late 2011
as digital downloads.
Andrew Yencken — current to November 2011