secession update #025

:__TUESDAY season ends sublime
:__Memory Effect @ Small Black Box, Brisbane
:__Secession relocation

|| secession update
   20/12/02
   #025

:__TUESDAY season ends sublime

Last TUESDAY saw the end of our first season at Lambsgo Bar, Fitzroy Melbourne. Special thanks to John Grant (Frazzle) for an inspiring two sets of pure synthesiser joy. It was the real deal folks! And more to come in 2003...

Over the coming weeks Dennis McGregor (aka DNS) will keep the fires burning, or rather the flames chilled at what is turning out to be one of the best bars in Fitzroy.

:__Memory Effect @ Small Black Box, Brisbane

Memory Effect is a generative canon for up to 10 PCs and will debut at Small Black Box, Metro Arts, Brisbane. It will be the first time the entire piece will be heard in its entirety, even by its presenters, Justina Curtis and myself.

When : 22 December, 7pm
Where: Metro Arts, 109 Edward St, Brisbane

Memory Effect is derived from Global Positioning System data and anecdotal sound and image references defining movement within what could be termed as scalable memory.

Memory Effect is a generative composition in up to ten, five minute movements. Each movement is comprised of three synthesised voices. Each voice is derived from a tone generator, particle synthesiser (granulator) and tap-step delay.

Each iteration of a single movement is defined by the GPS coordinates of the location that movement was conceived in. For example, Memory Effect 002 S27°31.479' E153°06.672', the 2nd movement in the series was composed at a specific location Brisbane as defined by the coordinates in the title.

Accompanying the composition is a video work entitled, Rot Emulsion. Created from several reels of found 35mm feature film footage, Rot Emulsion depicts film in various degrees of degradation. Each reel had been exposed to rain, heat, street grime and other unknown environmental conditions.

Rot Emulsion was constructed by hand-feeding each reel, fragment by fragment, piece by piece, into a Moviola, a 1940-1950 35mm non-linear editing machine, a video camera mounted above the frosted-glass viewer capturing each eroded frame. Fragmented faces, vehicles and buildings appear as ghost memories in amongst the weather damaged emulsion.

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This project would not be possible without the support of SSEYO Ltd, UK, the Department of Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology and the Small Black Box crew and friends who have kindly provided the use of their PCs for this work,

Sound/programming: Andrew Garton
GPS tracking: Justina Curtis
Video: Andrew Thomas, Andrew Garton

:__Secession relocation

We are on the move... again! You will find us at 106 Gore Street, Fitzroy from early February. In the meantime, office and studio are now closed as we prepare to relocate.

All the best for the new year and thanks for your support throughout 2002.

peace,
-ag.

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