Re-Wiring a Postcolonial Culture
‘The Great Australian Silence’ was a cultural codification for the domination of Australia’s lands by British Imperialists in 1788. The term was coined in 1901, when the Bulletin editor A.G. Stephens...
View ArticleSustainable Sonic Art in a 360° World
The Pythagorean term ‘Acousmatic’ refers to the apprehension of sound without relation to its source. Today, Acousmatic defines a genre of music with a particular theoretical strategy developed from...
View ArticleSound Garden: addressing social & ecological sustainability
A Sound Garden with a Japanese water harp (sui-kin-kutsu) has been installed in Brisbane’s Roma St Parkland, Queensland. This Sound Garden is designed with a water harp, sui-kin-kutsu, as a central...
View ArticleA ‘game of nomenclature’? Performance-based sonic practice in Australia
This article examines four artists who are currently influential in the Australian sound art and experimental music scenes. In interviews with Robin Fox, Anthony Pateras, Lloyd Barrett and Joel Stern,...
View ArticleThe Wonderment of the Bleak – Sculpting the Static
Music is fragmenting. Traditionally isolated musical elements are collapsing: performance, composition, recording, and sampling are no longer mutually exclusive. Composers are exploring this process...
View ArticleRecent Sound Writing
The theoretical writing about sound comes in many forms and covers many different contexts. The role of sound in film, arts, media and everyday life has been analysed using a wide range of techniques...
View ArticleSevered Heads, Adenoids 1977 – 1985
Always a difficult act to categorise, Severed Heads are perhaps best known for a handful of oblique dance hits in the 1980s and early ‘90s. They were also associated with that bleak genre known as...
View ArticleAn Interview with Somaya Langley
Somaya Langley is a sound and new media artist whose work has been presented in significant festivals and on air throughout Australia. Somaya is currently the National Library of Australia’s Digital...
View ArticleFrom the Director
As an organisation supporting the development of new media arts practice in Australia, ANAT aims to support artists and practitioners across a wide spectrum of artforms. Increasingly ANAT promotes...
View ArticleLiquid Architecture
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...
View ArticleSound Art and Sound Design in Australia
Sound is a visceral substance inhabiting air, water and three dimensional space while driving the temporal domain. The concept of time-space is complex and open to stylistic and cultural variation....
View ArticleTransmediale Report
The theme for Transmediale 04 was Fly Utopia—there is hope there is no hope. This offered interesting conceptual territory in terms of cultural theory and worried at the ongoing question as to the...
View ArticlePixelache 2004
In March and April 2004 I travelled to Helsinki for PixelACHE 2004 DIY Electronic Arts Festival: Audiovisual Architecture. During the first weekend of the festival I caught the ferry to Stockholm with...
View ArticleClose Listening
I was able to meet the artist Larissa Linnell, during the final stages of her site-specific installation. Using a slide projector as a guide, she was completing a floor-to-ceiling pattern. Thousands...
View ArticleANAT Member Profile: Adam Nash
Adam Nash is a performance artist exploring 3-D multi-user virtual space as a live performance medium. He teaches multimedia at RMIT, Melbourne; and is a writer/reviewer for Digital Media World...
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