James Hullick : Associate Artist
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Artist website: http://www.hullickmedia.com
Australian sound artist James Hullick's arts practice is wide-ranging. His arts career began in the form of solo pianist, vocalist and composer. He was taught by Felix Werder (Australia/Germany), James Tenney (USA), Warren Burt (Australia/USA), and briefly by Liza Lim (Australia). As a young man he attended the Stockhausen Summer Classes and spent a short time at Luciano Berio's Tempo Reale Studio in Florence. After spending his late teens and early 20s focusing on the study of composition and music making, he then branched out into electronic sound making in his mid to late 20s before adding sound sculpture, installation art and music making machinery to his creative activities in his early 30s, when his professional career ultimately arose.
Hullick's work is characterised by an unusual ability to use
sound to engage in social issues, and an unusual versatility of
aesthetic, which ranges from the expressionism of neo-Gothicism
to more austere classically principled process-based perceptual
works. His sonic works have been performed, exhibited and
presented in Asia, North America and Europe for a variety of
ensembles, electronic formats and installation formats. A number
of his projects have been at the fore-front of sonic art;
real time scores (scores that update in real time via a
computer), sk-eye like mind (2007), The NIS
(2009); sound making machines The Gotholin (2007),
Swarmlings (2010); community arts projects The Click
Clack Project (2010), to name just a few.
James Hullick has been teaching sonic art to people with an
intellectual disability since the beginning of 2005. In 2007 he
founded JOLT Sonic Arts Inc, an organisation dedicated to
presenting new cutting-edge works, which he is now creative
producer and artistic director. In 2009 JOLT and the Footscray
Community Arts Centre co-presented THE NIS - a large
multimedia interabilties sonic art event. This project marked a
maturation in Hullick's capacity to deliver large-scale events at
high artistic and management levels. It also led to the formation
of The Click Clack Project, a JOLT-auspiced entity that
runs workshops and presents events that combine professional
sonic art agendas with the development of the communities of
youth and intellectual disability.
In 2002 James Hullick formed the BOLT Ensemble, a chamber
orchestra dedicated to the artistic vision of James Hullick.
Through his work with musicians with an intellectual disability
he formed the Amplified Elephants ensemble and, in 2009, he
formed the Noise Scavengers with teenage sound artists from
Northern Geelong. In 2006-7 he performed with the Swiss
Australian Collectables, later forming the Buggatronic
noise/machine duo in 2009 with Swiss percussionist and sound
artist Daniel Buess.
James Hullick has completed a PhD research into the phenomenon of
'Recursion' through the School of Art at RMIT University.
www.hullickmedia.com — current to January 2013