Event
Sisters Akousmatica
- Date: Sunday, 8 May 2016, 11am-6pm
- Venue: Signal — Flinders Walk, Northbank, Melbourne, VIC
- Tickets: This is a free event, however registration is required online
Event Details
Sisters Akousmatica is a city-scale radio orchestra. Over seven hours, seven female artists perform on the banks of the Yarra River, their sounds broadcast via radio transmission.
Featuring eves (NZ/VIC), Angie Garrick (NSW), Kate Geck (VIC), Rosalind Hall (VIC), Shani Mohini-Holmes (VIC), radio cegeste (NZ/TAS) and Ela Stiles (NSW).
Sisters Akousmatica is a city-scale radio orchestra. Over seven hours, seven female artists perform on the banks of the Yarra River, their sounds broadcast via radio transmission. Meanwhile, armed with a collection of portable radios, Radio Queens Julia Drouhin and Pip Stafford lead a procession through the streets of Melbourne, stopping at various locations along the way to tune in to each live performance.
Radiophonic transmission and the city soundscape fold together to become an acoustic web that changes hour by hour and culminates in an installation work at Signal, capturing, multiplying and archiving the performance works as a radiophonic acousmonium.
Focusing on the concept of akousma – sound removed from its source – Sisters Akousmatica creates a space through which to examine the radical possibilities of unconventional sound. The ephemeral world of radio offers a dialogue with the audience that is at once live and not-live, real and unreal.
Performance, walking tour and broadcast departs from Signal at 11AM. Listen live on 3CR 855AM or stream online at 3cr.org.au
Sisters Akousmatica was developed through Next Wave’s Emerging Curators Program with Liquid Architecture for Next Wave Festival 2016.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9658 9658 or by email to info@liquidarchitecture.org.au
Featured artists
- Performance/sound art by Rosalind Hall
- Performance/sound art by Shani Mohini-Holmes
- Performance/sound art by Kate Geck
- Performance/sound art by Angie Garrick
- Performance/sound art by Ela Stiles
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