GIRRL girrlsound:: digitalgirrl Saturday
May 19, 2012
GIRRL is an international organization supporting and encouraging new work by women who are working in the sonic and digital arts. On 19th May 2012 GIRRL in connection with Queensland University of Technology is hosting a symposium on the Excess of Sound on its Brisbane, campus in Australia. The symposium will cover the contemporary expression of sound as something more than both language and music, more than itself even itself. A panel of speakers will each address this issue through their own work, placing their own sound work in context with contemporary issues of agency, communication technologies, feminist studies and sound technologies for the 21st century.
Excess of Sound intends to bring together a plurality of approaches that engage with sound as both mediated and unmediated experience. The symposium primarily addresses what sound is when it presents itself as sonic art. In order to push the boundary of interdisciplinary sound studies into new areas, we encourage contributions from all approaches and disciplines. Excess of Sound is responding to the increasing global interest in sound studies and sonic art.
GIRRL Symposium: Excess of
Sound Program
Time
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Activity
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9:00-9:30
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Arrivals
and Registration
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9:30-9:50
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Welcome
and Introduction – Rachael Parsons and Majena Mafe
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9:50-10:15
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First
Presentation – Di Ball – Lost in translation
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10:15-10:40
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Second
Presentation – Brooke Ferguson - 'Celine Arnauld'
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10:40-10:55
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SOUNDAGE
a digital Opera(tion) Exhibition Tour – Majena Mafe
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10:55-11:20
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Morning
Tea Break
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11:20-11:45
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Third
Presentation – Donna Hewitt –
Choreographing Music: Body
– Voice – Electronic Music’
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11:45-12:45
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Keynote
Speaker – Erin Gee – Virtual Music - An architecture for feminist sound art
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12:45-1:00
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Wrap-Up
and Discussion
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Keynote
Speaker Erin Gee’s work: Voice of Echo:
Song of Love for Technological Eyes! (2011) will be screened on QUT
Creative Industries Precinct’s Parer Place Urban Screens on Friday 18 and
Saturday 19 May from dusk until 9pm.
Speaker Details:
Di Ball is a multidisciplinary artist with past lives
including architect, country and western singer and human statue. She spends
her time juggling her Balls as she navigates the BallPark: her life as a theme
park. This park includes iBall, Krystal Ball, Meet Ball and Disco Ball with
various subpersona existing in both IRL (in real life) and URL (unreal life). The BallPark
straddles fact and fiction, medium and media and challenges notions of the cult
of celebrity whilst remaining an examination of "self".
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Brooke Ferguson is a Brisbane based artist. Ferguson completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (in Visual Art) with Honours at the Queensland University of Technology in 2010. Working across different media, recent projects take the form of installation, sound, text based work and collaboration. Her practice reflects a continued interest in adopting economical means, research, humour, and play as strategies for making work. Her main interest is in exploring incidental and quotidian engagements with visual art and everyday life. Brooke has been active in Brisbane’s Artist-Run Initiative scene, having exhibited with No Frills*, inbetweenspaces and Boxcopy, and is Co-Director of Current Projects.
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Brooke Ferguson is a Brisbane based artist. Ferguson completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (in Visual Art) with Honours at the Queensland University of Technology in 2010. Working across different media, recent projects take the form of installation, sound, text based work and collaboration. Her practice reflects a continued interest in adopting economical means, research, humour, and play as strategies for making work. Her main interest is in exploring incidental and quotidian engagements with visual art and everyday life. Brooke has been active in Brisbane’s Artist-Run Initiative scene, having exhibited with No Frills*, inbetweenspaces and Boxcopy, and is Co-Director of Current Projects.
Brooke will take the GIRRLSOUND Symposium as an
opportunity to discuss her research interest in the practice of one of the
lesser-known women of the Dada movement - Celine Arnauld. The presentation will
elaborate on considerations about working with sound in art practice, a
selection of Arnauld’s contributions to journals at the time, and why she is an
interesting point of connection for Brooke’s art practice.
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Majena Mafe is a researcher and sonic artist interested in re-verbing the sound of subtle information in language. Majena has over thirty years experience in teaching and working within the arts, and is presently engaged in PhD practice-led, trans-disciplinary research project at the Queensland University of Technology. As a part of her PhD Majena is working toward a text-based work explicating sound as a new frame for meaning in language, and exploring its implications for digital languages based on the (un)theories of Gertrude Stein.
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Majena Mafe is a researcher and sonic artist interested in re-verbing the sound of subtle information in language. Majena has over thirty years experience in teaching and working within the arts, and is presently engaged in PhD practice-led, trans-disciplinary research project at the Queensland University of Technology. As a part of her PhD Majena is working toward a text-based work explicating sound as a new frame for meaning in language, and exploring its implications for digital languages based on the (un)theories of Gertrude Stein.
Majena has exhibited her work internationally, most
recently exhibiting in London and Prague, and is a published author writing on
experimental, sound based feminist theory.http://majenamafe.blogspot.com.au/ andhttp://www.furtherfield.org/user/majena-mafe
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Erin Gee is a Canadian artist who centralizes on digital culture through human voices in electronic bodies. Working in video, performance, robotics and audio art, her work is characterized by a distinctive use of historical referencing that enfolds past narratives into possible futures.
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Donna Hewitt
Donna is
presenting Choreographing Music: Body – Voice – Electronic Music
Technological development with regard to music and sound making has drawn particular focus to the role of the body in the way we make and receive music. Donna will talk about her recent compositional thinking and approaches to creating work for the electronically extended voice.
Donna Hewitt has been creating works for voice and technology for the past 15 years, starting out with fixed media works for processed voice and developing her practice into cross media and real time performance contexts. Donna is the inventor of the eMic, (Extended Mic stand Interface Controller), a sensor based gestural controller for vocal performance and live electronics that has attracted significant attention internationally. It provides the vocal performer with a responsive interface in which they can control digital audio processing parameters in performance. Donna will talk in particular about her recent collaborative work with choreographer Avril Huddy.
Donna Hewitt is a vocalist, electronic music composer and instrument designer. She has attracted significant international attention for her performance and design work with new vocal interfaces. Her primary interest in recent years has been investigating new ways of interfacing the voice with electronic media. She is the inventor of the eMic, a sensor enhanced microphone stand for electronic music performance. The eMic brings together her work as a vocal performer with her compositional work using microphone-captured audio. Much of Donna’s composition work involves re-processing audio via various digital processes to produce complex textures. Donna’s work has attracted funding from the Australian council for the Arts, most recently her collaboration in 2010 with dance artist Avril Huddy to develop the work ‘Idol’ for eMic and dancers. In 2010 Donna was also awarded funding to undertake residency with Julian Knowles at STEIM (Amsterdam) – an internationally renowned centre for research and development of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts.
Donna has performed in nationally and internationally. Performance highlights include Brisbane Festival’s Under the Radar Program ‘Macrophonics’, SEAM2011 (Sydney), Understanding Visual Music 2011 (Canada), ICMC (USA, Ireland, UK), Liquid Architecture (LA7) and The Great Escape Festival, Sydney (2006, 2007), disorientation, sound-no-sound, and 1/4 Inch experimental series. She is a Lecturer in Music and Sound at QUT in Brisbane.
.Technological development with regard to music and sound making has drawn particular focus to the role of the body in the way we make and receive music. Donna will talk about her recent compositional thinking and approaches to creating work for the electronically extended voice.
Donna Hewitt has been creating works for voice and technology for the past 15 years, starting out with fixed media works for processed voice and developing her practice into cross media and real time performance contexts. Donna is the inventor of the eMic, (Extended Mic stand Interface Controller), a sensor based gestural controller for vocal performance and live electronics that has attracted significant attention internationally. It provides the vocal performer with a responsive interface in which they can control digital audio processing parameters in performance. Donna will talk in particular about her recent collaborative work with choreographer Avril Huddy.
Donna Hewitt is a vocalist, electronic music composer and instrument designer. She has attracted significant international attention for her performance and design work with new vocal interfaces. Her primary interest in recent years has been investigating new ways of interfacing the voice with electronic media. She is the inventor of the eMic, a sensor enhanced microphone stand for electronic music performance. The eMic brings together her work as a vocal performer with her compositional work using microphone-captured audio. Much of Donna’s composition work involves re-processing audio via various digital processes to produce complex textures. Donna’s work has attracted funding from the Australian council for the Arts, most recently her collaboration in 2010 with dance artist Avril Huddy to develop the work ‘Idol’ for eMic and dancers. In 2010 Donna was also awarded funding to undertake residency with Julian Knowles at STEIM (Amsterdam) – an internationally renowned centre for research and development of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts.
Donna has performed in nationally and internationally. Performance highlights include Brisbane Festival’s Under the Radar Program ‘Macrophonics’, SEAM2011 (Sydney), Understanding Visual Music 2011 (Canada), ICMC (USA, Ireland, UK), Liquid Architecture (LA7) and The Great Escape Festival, Sydney (2006, 2007), disorientation, sound-no-sound, and 1/4 Inch experimental series. She is a Lecturer in Music and Sound at QUT in Brisbane.
Erin Gee is a Canadian artist who centralizes on digital culture through human voices in electronic bodies. Working in video, performance, robotics and audio art, her work is characterized by a distinctive use of historical referencing that enfolds past narratives into possible futures.
Gee's work has
been exhibited in North America as well as internationally, most recently at
such venues as TACTIC, Cork, Ireland (2011), La Centrale, Montreal (2011), and
Arcade Gallery, Chicago (2010). Gee has performed at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney,
Australia (2011), the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (2011) and the Deep
Wireless Festival of Transmission Art, Toronto (2011). Gee was short-listed
in the Bourges International Electroacoustic competition (2009). Her work has
been reviewed and included in such publications as WIRE: Adventures in Sound and Music, POIESIS:
Journal of the Arts & Communication as well as Vague Terrain online
journal for digital culture. As a writer, she has published in the journal of
the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, eContact!,
and has presented papers at several conferences on sound art and new media. Gee
is a founding member of Holophon, an audio
curatorial collective based out of Saskatchewan.
Gee has received several
awards from the Saskatchewan Arts Board
as well as the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and would like to thank
both organizations for their support. Gee lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
The Symposium will be held at:
The Glasshouse
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue
Kelvin Grove
Brisbane
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue
Kelvin Grove
Brisbane
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This Symposium is FREE
This symposium is part of GIRRL’s 2012 Events … 
