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This is an archive of older news items, dating from before July 2007. Events after July 2007 are on the News page or archived in my blog.
2007
ACMC07
The Australasian Computer Music Conference was early this year: June 19-21 at the Australian National University in Canberra, directed by Alistair Riddell. Another great conference!
My piece Triangular Vibrations was shown.
Info about the conference at http://www.acmc07.org.
Visual Music Marathon article
I had a piece, Dissonant Particles, in the Visual Music Marathon held in Boston on April 28th, 2007. Now an extensive article on the Marathon by Jean Detheux has appeared in Animation World Magazine.
New Piece "Triangular Vibrations"
I have made another abstract video, Triangular Vibrations, based on the vibrations of an idealised drum. It has been awarded a Mención Especial in the III Muestra Monográfica de Media Art, part of the sixth Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia, 24th to 28th April, 2007.
Australia Council Grant
I have been awarded a small grant from the Australia Council for the Arts (OzCo) in the category New Work (New Media) to make an interactive audio-visual installation. It will have some elements in common with Triangular Vibrations, but visitors to the installation will be able to interact with it using a video camera. I hope to have this ready early in 2008.
Tape Projects
My piece Dissonant Particles has appeared on a DVD "Video by Numbers", Tape Projects Issue 1. Tape Projects are a Melbourne-based group engaged in promoting media art and hybrid art forms.
Visit to QUT, Brisbane, April 07
I spent the week starting 30th April at Queensland University of Technology, in the Creative Industries Faculty. finding out about their new Computational Arts program. I also gave three talks to different groups of students and participated in a concert, including the first outing of my piece Triangular Vibrations.
Visual Music Marathon, April 07
My piece Dissonant Particles was in the 2007 Visual Music Marathon, Northeastern University, Boston, 28th April 2007, which was part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.
It appears that Visual Music is a term applied to abstract films which try to do in the visual realm what so-called absolute music does in sound (“absolute music” is music without words or dance and supposedly without reference to extra-musical ideas). A discussion of Visual Music by William Moritz is here.
I actually don’t think of my work as “visual music”, as I am interested in having a single underlying process which produces both sounds and images. But I am certainly not objecting to having my piece in this company. It is true that my piece is “absolute” in that it doesn’t refer to people, flowers or anything else outside itself.
El Niuton
A little while ago I was contacted by an online arts magazine, El Niuton, which comes out of Colombia. So I sent them some material, and there is a piece on my work (in Spanish) in their issue no. 2, with a couple of excerpts from my pieces. (Click on the word "MagaZines" to get to the past issues.) They also sent me some curly questions, and asked me to send a video of my replies, which I did. It is on page 164 under the heading "Entrevista" (I talk in English; regrettably I don't speak Spanish).
2006
Generative Arts Milan 06
My installation piece Evochord was accepted for the 2006 Generative Arts Conference in Milan, Italy, in December.
Ringtone Society
In a collaboration with the Melbourne Festival of Arts, the Dutch organisation The Ringtone Society invited Australians to submit ringtones to appear in an Australian section of their website. I submitted a ringtone called Firefly, which is several pages in; a direct link to my piece. They assigned it the genre "non-music"...
Dorkbot Sydney, November 06
On Tuesday 28th November 2006 I gave a small presentation to Dorkbot Sydney about my piece Red Grains. Dorkbot Sydney was started recently by Pia van Gelder, and has produced some very interesting presentations; mine has been about the most low-key so far.
ACMA Conference 06
The Australasian Computer Music Conference was held this year in Adelaide, at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide. This continues to be the only regular event in the region that presents both computer music research (complete with refereed papers) and performance/artistic creations together. My installation piece Evochord was shown at the conference.
Festival Internacional de la Imagen, April 06
My piece Dissonant Particles was awarded a Mención Especial in the section Paisajes Sonoros of the II Muestra Monográfica de Media Art, part of the fifth Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia, 18th to 21st April, 2006.
"Live Wires", 29th March 06
Another concert in the series presenting electronic and computer music from Sydney Conservatorium staff and students, with surround sound and video projection. My piece this time was Starfish.
"Evochord" in Adelaide, March 06
My installation piece Evochord was shown in Adelaide on March 15 and 16, 2006 in the "Street Cinema" section of Project 3, which was part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts. I also gave a talk about my work to the Electronic Music Unit in the Elder School of Music, at the University of Adelaide.
Mac OS X version of "Evochord"
I have started playing around with Mac OS X (on a Mac Mini). The first result is a Mac OS X port of my installation piece Evochord. Some comments on using OS X.
2005
Generative Arts Practice 05
Held at University of Technology, Sydney, 5-7 December 2005. A smaller conference than Third Iteration. I gave a talk (PDF, 261 Kbyte) on my piece Evochord.
The conference website: http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/gap05/index.php.
Third Iteration Conference
Held at Monash University, Melbourne, November 30th to December 2nd 2005. The third in this series of international conference on generative systems in the electronic arts (the previous ones being in 1999 and 2001). My piece Dissonant Particles was in the art show for the conference.
The conference website: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~iterate/TI/.
On the evidence of this conference and Generative Arts Practice 05 (above),
generative art is flourishing in Australia right now. Both events were
very stimulating, with a good mixture of people from visual arts and music/sound
art.
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The name, the T-shirt!
I am now using GommoG as a name for artistic activities. And, yes, there is a T-shirt!
Electrofringe 05
I had a slot in the Spac{v}e series at the 2005 Electrofringe festival in Newcastle. I played some of my generative pieces (audio, video, live performance) and talked a little about what I do in this area. Info about Electrofringe is at www.electrofringe.net. Electrofringe is part of This Is Not Art, http://www.thisisnotart.org.
Live Wires 05
Held on 31st August 2005. Electronic and computer music from Sydney Conservatorium staff and students, with surround sound and video projection. My piece was Dissonant Particles.
ACMA Conference 05 (ACMC 2005)
The 2005 Australasian Computer Music Conference was held at the Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, from 12th to 14th July. These have always been really good, and this one was no exception. As far as I know, this is the only regular event in the region that presents both computer music research (complete with refereed papers) and performance/artistic creations together. Two of my pieces were performed: Dissonant Particles and Starfish.
e)scapes, June 05
A new event curated by Gail Priest. The first one was on Thursday 23rd June at the Medium Rare Gallery, 70 Regent St (upstairs), Redfern, Sydney. Live audio-visual performance, video screenings, installations. There was work by Alex White & William Noble, Jon Drummond, Wade Marynowski, Julian Knowles, Gordon Monro, Luke Stacey, Emile Zile, Lindsay Webb, Sam James. My piece was the video Dissonant Particles (it's getting a good run). My piece aside, this was a great event with lots of interesting stuff.
Video screening at ACMI
My video Dissonant Particles was screened in the Memory Grid at the as part of the "777 Seconds" exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, 22 March 2005 to 31 May 2005.
Eclectic:bit concert/event May 05
The Sydney Eclectic Composers Society (a student society) put on an electronic event on Sunday 1st May 2005 in Bar Broadway, corner of Broadway and Regent St, Sydney (opposite UTS). A mixture of live performance, video, tape... Unfortunately I couldn't be there, but my video Dissonant Particles was scheduled.
Discovery After Dark 05
2nd April 2005. "Discovery After Dark" is an annual event in Sydney when a large number of museums, galleries and the like are open until midnight. The Conservatorium of Music is one of the participating institutions. There were performances, and a number of electro-acoustic pieces were played, including a couple of mine.
http://www.discoveryafterdark.com.au/
"Tronicphosis", Wollongong University, October 04
Held on 29th October 2004. "A night of exploration into experimental music, sounds and visuals." Included the visuals from my piece Red Grains.
Harvest Moon Festival, Montreal, September 04
Held at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, on 22nd - 25th September 2004. This event was devoted to multi-channel works, and included the eight-channel version of my piece What Are You Really Thinking?
"Live Wires" concert, September 04
Held on 1st September 2004. Presented the latest electronic and computer music from Sydney Conservatorium staff and students, with surround sound and video projection. Included the surround sound (5.1) version of my piece What Are You Really Thinking?
Cello piece on viola, July 04
My piece Lament Over Jerusalem was played at a concert of new music by composers living on the NSW Central Coast, organised by Paul Groh (18th July 2004). Paul, who is a composer as well as a violist, has adapted my piece for viola (very successfully).
Brainwave sonification concert, July 04
Held on July 8th 2004 in The Studio, Sydney Opera House. Included my piece What Are You Really Thinking? played in 16-channel sound (15.1 to be precise). This event was part of the 2004 International Conference on Auditory Display.
This turned out to be a very interesting event, with a great variety of treatments of the same data. This concert had a great poster.
Pre-concert publicity included a program on ABC Radio which included some of my piece. (My name is spelt "Munro" in the transcript.)
ACMA conference July 04
Held in Wellington, New Zealand, 1-3 July 2004. Another stimulating conference in this series, with a good spread of topics around the area of computer music, and lots of concerts. A surround (5.1) version of my piece What Are You Really Thinking? was played at one of them.
Premiere of choral piece, April 04
My choral piece For Death has Climbed in Through Our Windows was premiered by the Gosford Philharmonia Choir on 24th April 2004. This piece was completed in February 2004. (Later in 2004 I made some revisions.)
"Disorientation" gig, April 04
I played a few tracks on 8th April 2004 at "Disorientation", a monthly series run by Shannon O'Neill. Garth Paine played that evening as well. Place: Lanfranchi's, Level 2, 144 Cleveland St, Chippendale, Sydney.
DISORIENTATION is usually "live electronic music & audio/visual
performance", but I played some of my computer-generated music from
CD and my short video Red Grains.
Kaleidoscope Festival 03
My piece Red Grains was a prize-winner in the multimedia section of the Kaleidoscope Festival held by Metro Screen in Sydney in November 2003.
"Live Wires" 12 September 03
Held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. My piece Red Grains was in this concert.
ACMA Conference 03
The 2003 Australian Computer Music Conference was held at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia on July 5–7, 2003, under the title "Converging Technologies". My pieces Red Grains and Peace and Quiet were in the concerts.
International Symposium on Acoustic Ecology 03
The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) presents
?... acoustic ecology ...?
an International Symposium hosted by the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology (AFAE) and the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Melbourne, Australia 19th – 23rd March 2003.
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