a Deaf Cinema for Thylacinus cynocephalus.

“It is not you who will speak; let the disaster speak in you, even if it be by your forgetfulness or silence.”

- Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster

“…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire… I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing
(whatever it is) that glitters on the earth--
we call it life. We know no other.
The underworld's a blank
and all the rest just fantasy.” 
- Euripides, as translated by Anne Carson, in Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

For a cultural heritage site of some significance, the former Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart is surprisingly overlooked. Over the course of a few days in October 2017, on the site of its derelict ruin (which is locked, and currently inaccessible to the public) near the Botanical Gardens in the Queens Domain, almost no-one comes by as I place highly sensitive contact microphones alongside various open-air microphones, to record whatever might be audible there. Together, both pick up the movement of metal and wooden fences and padlocked gates, the vibrations of structures in wind, the guttural croaking of endemic Tasmanian forest ravens (Corvus tasmanicus) and the eerie melodiously rhythmic warblings of black currawongs (Strepera fuliginosa) twisting in the air like mobiles or sonic DNA structures, the melancholy monotony of water falling from objects, the deep juddering of cars on the street going by from the same direction as the occasional, softer yet more startling human footstep, my own movements as observer. These sounds together begin to create a sightless image of the predominant life of the site, in absence of direct attention from people, which is also a gathering picture of the desolation of its abandon: an expanse of field containing a few crumbling, indeterminate concrete structures, a swampy area attended by Tasmanian native waterfowl sitting incongruously inside a ringed-off area of faded hi-vis tape.

  

corringham/cegeste + meek/kikkawa/naumoff + pppH [pH]

The Dunedin Art Gallery
Level 2
Allbell Chambers
127 Stuart St
Dunedin

22/3/2015
doors 7:00
$5
BYO

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spectres of the spectrum & The Dunedin Art Gallery present...

an early evening showcase of new electro-acoustic formations, improvisations and collaborations at the newly inaugurated Dunedin Art Gallery:

Extended vocalist / acoustic ecologist / walking artist Viv Corringham (NY) in duo with transmission artist Radio Cegeste.

Collaborative trio of vocalist/electronic artist Noel Meek (Auckland/Wellington), improvised violinist Motoko Kikkawa and extended guitarist Troy Peter James Naumoff.

Low-frequency drone from Paul Hirst (Melbourne) and collaborator(s) tbc.

David Clegg's 'the miserable idea of measurement (refrain)', St Kevin's Arcade, Auckland

a site-specific mini FM transmission of a radio work by David Clegg, re-siting the Artspace project The Miserable Idea of Measurement for the airwaves.

originally commissioned as a program for the Radia network and broadcast internationally by 19 independent radio stations.

narrowcast by Radio Cegeste on Saturday 14/5/11 to St. Kevin's Arcade, 177 Karangahape Road, Auckland. Transmission starting at 1:00pm.

followed by a discussion with David Clegg and Sally Ann McIntyre at Artspace, 300 Karangahape Road, at 3:00pm.

port-o-port for radio futura

a live radio project programmed and presented by Sally Ann McIntyre for RADIO FUTURA, the official radio station of the FuturePlaces 2009 digital media festival, Porto, Portugal. Port-O-Port is a night of live radiophonic performances simulcast from the future, from the physical location of Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers, New Zealand (8-10pm), to the previous morning in Portugal as a breakfast show (8-10am).