Also at The State Library
Wireless Imagination
Noise Electromagnetism Geophysics Dada cinema performance
Acclaimed American theorist Douglas Kahn is set to unleash his unique mix of ideas about sound, art and the cosmos on Brisbane audiences during two days of talks, films and performances at the State Library of Queensland.
Kahn’s cutting-edge work explores the collision between art and technology in sonic practice by placing it in the context of modern and post-modern experiment. He’ll be sharing insights into the relationships between astronomy, cosmology, science, technology, radical aesthetics and the natural noises made by electricity and other elemental energies in our atmosphere.
Don’t miss this exclusive, evolving multimedia experience.
Presented by Queensland University of Technology, State Library of Queensland and OtherFilm have partnered to bring Douglas Kahn to the city for a high-calibre two day festival experience, Wireless Imagination. The event will feature informative talks, eye- and ear-opening film screenings, and exhilarating live performances by leading sound artists from around Australia, all addressing the creative themes running throughout Kahn’s fascinating and eagerly sought-after scholarly work. We hope you can join us for this exclusive, evolving multimedia experience.
The AMA November Sound Art edition and Kahn lecture tour is made possible from funding support from the Australia Council for the Arts Music Board and the Visual Arts Board International Strategies Review.
When Sat 7 Nov and Sun 8 Nov
Where State Library Queensland
FREE no bookings required
More information Full program available at OtherFilm [new window]
The Cinema of Turbulent Transmissions
Douglas Kahn intorduces and discusses solar noise and electrical turbulence illustrating his ideas with some recent and historical film favourites.
When Sat 7 Nov, 5pm-7pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE no bookings required
Douglas Kahn in the Red Box
Join us for this intimate and lucid presentation and discussion by internationally renowned sound-art theorist Doughlas Kahn in State Library of Queensland's beautiful Red Box.
When Sun 8 Nov, 5pm-7pm
Where Red Box, level 2
FREE Limited seating, RSVP to sally@otherfilm.org
Mental Orchestrations: New Noise-Machines
A two evening evolving happening in celebration of Art Monthly Australia's (AMA) November issue, edited by Douglas Kahn and Sarah Last, focussing on sound art and noise.
Responding to Futurist visionary Luigi Russolo’s radical noise-machines, the intonarumori, on the 100th anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto, a selection of contemporary Australian sound artists transform the Queensland Terrace into a Mental Orchestra of machines-for-making-noise.
Conceived by noise-sculpture visionary Rod Cooper, the Vessel Project fuses sound, electronics, light, mechanics and projection in the form of a long metallic boat filled with enclosed sound chambers and covered in strings, springs, bowing mechanisms, tongs, rods and tubing. Multiple artists perform at simultaneously while ‘fellow travellers’ attach their creations to the ain stainless steel hull. The vessel’s mast is a harp and a screen-sail. With instruments, interventions and noise-sculpture by artists from throughout Australia.
When Sat 7 Nov and Sun 8 Nov, 7pm-9pm
Where Queensland Terrace, level 2
FREE no bookings required
Dr Martin Buzacott, recipient of the John Oxley Library Fellowship for 2007
Public Lecture with musical performances of Brisbane's Music History up to 1930.
When Sat 28 Nov, 11am - 12noon
Where Old Museum Concert Hall
FREE Bookings required email info@qyo.org.au
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Last updated: 8th October 2009
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