To hear on Sunday 20 March and 10 April 2011,
2 pm - 9 pm:
Grid (Continental European Premiere)
by Ros Bandt
With exhibition of the score
Ros Bandt on 'Grid' [18'17'']:
Its a stereo file of the steel sounds derived from the City Link smoke stack in Melbourne which draws the car fumes out into the atmosphere from Australia's first toll road under the Yarra River in Melbourne. It was made in the studios of the Australian Broadcasting commission which looks out over the stack. All sounds were derived from 8 track original recordings, plate, sensor, omni, cardiod, at the site up the cylinder and under the ground. They were treated electro-acoustically according to the architects autocad profile of the exoskelton which you can see painted red on the exterior of the Black chimney stack. Laid on its side, this was my score. A large section of the cylindrical tubular steel exoskeleton was taken into the studio and turned into an electronic sound sulpture as a wired sound source.
Ros Bandt is an award winning international Australian sound artist who has pioneered sound sculptures, installations and site specific artworks since 1977. She is at once composer, performer, sound installation artist, visual artist and sound culture researcher.
She was the first woman to win the Don Banks Composers Fellowship, Australia’s highest honour and the sound art Australia Prize. In 2010-11 she is touring and living in Europe with site-specific works in the Yerebatan cistern, Istanbul, Turkey, and collaborating with international artists in Crete, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland and Germany.
She is founding director of the online gallery, the Australian Sound Design Project documenting sound designs in public space in Australia.