Circadian Rhythms
Artspace, Friday 14 September 2007
www.artspace.org.au
Featuring: Tarab, Jim Denley & Gail Priest
Guest curator: Gail Priest
l-r Gail Priest, Jim Denley, Tarab
Circadian Rhythms is a sound-cycle exploring the phases, phrases and songs of a city and its inhabitants. Sampling Sydney across a 24 hour period the artists will use augmented field recordings to create live compositions reflecting a six hour section of a day (night, morning, afternoon) and work together to create the final piece, evening. Approached as a clamorous organism, the artists will tap into the city's biorhythms revealing both its dynamic, complex patterns and quiet, simple secrets.
TARAB examines the interplay of field recordings and sounds generated from
found objects. He explores the possibilities of personal chartings
and reactions to the urban environment reveling in the decay and detritus
to be found there. He attempts to sonically trigger, form, and recreate
the interior environments occurring through our interaction with the
commonplace, often overlooked. www.23five.org/
JIM
DENLEY places an emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration.
He sees no clear distinctions between his roles as instrumentalist,
improviser and composer. In recent years he has been working with
computer processed input from throat and contact mikes manipulating
this material live via a foot pedal, avoiding the one-to-one relationship
that much live processing of instruments has. http://www.splitrec.com
GAIL
PRIEST is interested in releasing the hidden melodies and broken beats
found in raw sonic material. By stretching, looping and manipulating
samples augmented by instrumental and vocal improvisations she creates
soundscapes, which aim to capture the atmospheric essences of places,
dreams and memories.
A double CD of the works will be released in 2008.
Jim Denley & Tarab, photos Sam James