The exhibition presents four individual, yet related, sound works that each engage directly with the gallery. Through the interplay of physical installation and sound fields it is intended that sounds from each work saturate and dissect the space, overlapping one another and making for an immersive, visceral experience.
About the artist/s:
Ben Byrne (Artist/Curator) is a Sydney based artist, musician, curator, radio producer and writer. He is currently studying for his PHD at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he also works. Ben has performed at many events in Australia and overseas as well as presented works in gallery and radio contexts.
Ben is a co-founder of the Alias Frequencies Net label, and in addition to his own practice and writing he has worked extensively as a curator and director, most notably as co-director of the Electrofringe and Liquid Architecture festivals.
A self-confessed existentialist, Adam Costenoble’s work draws on philosophy, literature and cinema that contemplates the human condition and the human experience in the physical world. Building on the historical precedents of phenomenological inquiry, Adam attempts to set up avenues for viewers to engage with his work in a bodily, immersive and interactive fashion, recasting the viewer as an active participant.
Costenoble’s environments solicit in the viewer an affective response that, via sensory stimulation, facilitates a deeper cognitive impact and level of engagement. The viewer, implicated physically through his interaction, is also conceptually involved as he is subjected to the very human condition at the core of his critique.
www.adamcostenoble.com
www.aliasfrequencies.org/bb/
Matt Chaumont is an Australian-born sound artist currently based in Helsinki, Finland. Since graduating from a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Western Sydney in 2003, Matt has undertaken a Masters of Fine Arts in the Department of Time and Space at The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Chaumont’s art deals with the human illusion of perception, in relation to existing within a space.
www.bigvolcano.org/
Sourcing a wide range of field recordings and sonic textures, Thembi Soddell manipulates and reshapes sounds into abstract explorations of her emotional world. With a focus on texture and depth, she pushes the thresholds of silence and noise and thus toys with the listener’s sense of expectation. This results in both a vicious and alluring sonic experience.
Thembi works for various CD, gallery installation, and live performance projects, and has been involved in festivals both in Australia and overseas. She has three releases on Australian experimental music label Cajid Media, has recently toured Europe, and is a graduate of Sound Art from RMIT.
www.cajid.com/thembi
