>> The first LA flyer, 2000 (designed by Daniel New)
I was recently asked about my involvement in the Liquid Architecture festival, so I thought I’d explain it here. Liquid Architecture originated in 2000 at RMIT University when I was working at RMIT’s Union Arts as their special events officer. My brief was to devise arts […]
interview by Simon Sellars & Anna Krien
‘Music Is Not A Bloody Race’ was originally published in Subterrain magazine #2, July 2007.
There are two music groups for the benefit of clients at the Ozanam Community Centre. There’s one on Mondays, run by Alan Pavlikas, which is more of a rock-band affair, and one on Tuesdays, run […]
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interview by Simon Sellars
‘Whatever Goes into the Mix’ was originally published in Subterrain magazine #2, July 2007.
Alan Pavlikas manages the Ozanam Community Centre’s band, Shallow Rabbit, which has released one CD and has had a documentary made about it (see Subetrrain #1). intrigued, I crashed one of their jam sessions and collared Alan, guitarist Keith […]
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Flyer for Northern Void.
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 19 February 2007.
Last night I attended the second (and last, for now) screening of Philip Brophy’s 50-minute film Northern Void, billed as a “live cinema performance” accompanied by the real-time sonics of Ph2 (Brophy and Philip Samartzis). Northern Void is set along Plenty Rd, in the northern […]
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John Foxx live at Shrewsbury, 1998. © Extreme Voice.
interview by Simon Sellars
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 2 September 2006.
This is part 2 of my interview with John Foxx, former lead singer of Ultravox before the band’s Midge Ure era, and an on-and-off solo artist for the past 25 years. Foxx’s Ultravox purveyed a damned, dreamy, […]
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interview by Simon Sellars
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 25 October 2004.
Newton Armstrong is a composer/performer, ex of Melbourne, now ensconced in research at Princeton University in the US. His recent project for kids, SPACE MONKEYS, focused on interaction design and performance. It involves rethinking and reconfiguring generic game controllers as tools for facilitating alternative forms […]
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photo: Michael Shaw
interview by Simon Sellars
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 5 September 2004.
Melanie Chilianis, a Melbourne flautist, has sallied forth in recent times with a successful union between the instrument she made her name with, the flute, and technological mixes, patches and crunchy electronic treatments.
Melanie has an honours degree in music performance from Monash University […]
Melatonin, photo: Kirsten Bradley
by Simon Sellars
Originally published in RealTime Magazine, #62, August/September 2004.
I’m told “sleep music” is a new genre: music to listen to while dozing off. Emboldened by this, I visited Bus Gallery with palpable excitement. I’ve often yearned for a club that, instead of inducing forward motion through hyper-accelerated beats, piped in music […]
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Lawrence English & Philip Samartzis, LA4, 2003
by Simon Sellars
‘Watching While You Sleep’ by Simon Sellars. Originally published on the Liquid Architecture website, July 2004.
Melbourne’s festival of sound art, Liquid Architecture, originated in 2000 at RMIT University, when RMIT’s Union Arts offered the ((tRansMIT)) student sound collective the chance to stage a festival promoting the talents […]
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L’Oeil ecoute (The Eye Hears) 1970; dir. Bernard Parmegiani
by Simon Sellars
‘Liquid Architecture: the Parmegiani Experience’. Originally published in RealTime no.56, Aug-Sep 2003.
Liquid Architecture 4 featured the work of 30 Australian and international artists, including French musique concrete/acousmatic pioneer, Bernard Parmegiani, and San Francisco noise merchants, Scott Arford and Randy HY Yau. Another highlight was the […]
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Do-it-yourself soundproofing. Photo: www.g4noise.com
by Simon Sellars
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 2 November 2003.
It begins with a slow cycling noise, the heavy drone of massive turbines gearing up to complete some Herculean task. This sonic undertow – insistent and full of ominous bottom-end harmonics – ensures that writing my notes is a horrendous, teeth-gnashing exercise. Disorienting […]
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interview by Simon Sellars
screenshot from Untitled 2003, by Camilla Hannan & Cassandra Tytler
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 15 August 2003.
360 Degrees: Women In Sound was held as part of Liquid Architecture 4, the national sound art festival run by the ((tRansMIT)) collective. 360 Degrees was inspired by the need to address a perceived gender […]
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interview by Simon Sellars
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 5 January 2003.
In England, UK Garage has been sweeping the charts for some time now. But in London, typically, just when a sound breaks through, that’s when newer, virulent variants ferment, creating something totally unexpected from the ordinal ingredients. Kennington-based Steve Goodman splices the sexed-up vibe of […]
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interview by Simon Sellars
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 3 January 2003.
Do you remember ‘hardcore’?
As a style of dance music, it’s become a historical footnote, the sound of rave’s innocence: primitive, immature music for immature people. Supposedly we’ve all grown beyond that — haven’t we? Only gurners and E-monsters listen to hardcore, these days — apparently. […]
Interview by Simon Sellars
This interview marks the first time I’d used the term ‘liquid architecture’, which would of course become the name of the sound-art festival I formed at RMIT University in 2000. It’s also a significant article in that it represents my very first published work, aside from university publications.
Originally published in TRM magazine, […]
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