secession update #033

:__ MONDAY SECESSIONS are back!
:__ D3, Garton and Olsen soundscapes at ACMI
:__ Black Box - From Drift to Derive - 31 August
:__ QUT Lecture - Improvisation in the 21st Century

|| secession update
   04/08/03
   #033

:__ MONDAY SECESSIONS are back!

> DJC > The Ghost > Brain

The Secession crew return to the Lambsgo Bar intent on dragging the weekend out into Mondays.

They are set to bring you scary, loving, poignant themes reflecting the uncanny nature of our times.

Thanks to the Ovinyl crew who card for Mondays during Secession's sabbatical. They will surely return to pluck more than wool from yer ears!

A pre-Monday Secession commences tonight with The Ghost and Brain, with the official start to the season next week from 11 August.

Lambs Go Bar
135 Greeves St, Fitzroy
Mondays, 8pm-1am
Free entry

Secession releases will be available, $20 each for all LGB patrons :)

:__ D3, Garton and Olsen soundscapes at ACMI

Wednesday week ago saw the public opening of D3, a prototype stop-motion narrative engine conceived of by Andrew Garton and produced by Toy Satellite - 15 months in the making.

D3 draws its inspiration from various Toy Satellite projects, including the work of the Department of Ongoing Digital Situations and the writings of Situationist, Guy Debord.

D3 is comprised of two installations, an interactive work and a series of videos reflecting the history of the project. The entire space, in which the work is housed, is host to an arranged soundscape held together by three generative compositions from Toy Satellite's Memory Effect series.

Sound design for D3 was produced by Andrew Garton and Ollie Olsen, who created an evocative series of pieces that will be available from all the usual outlets at a time yet to be announced.

For more information about D3, see:

http://www.acmi.net.au/d3.jsp
http://toysatellite.org/agarton/photos/D3/

:__ Black Box - From Drift to Derive - 31 August

D3 is a prototype stop-motion narrative engine conceived by Andrew Garton and produced by Toy Satellite for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).

D3 is publicly accessible at ACMI as an installation in two parts; the D3 interactive and an accompanying video installation, 'From Drift to Dérive'.

The Small Black Box performance will consist of the themes 'Drift', 'Construct', 'Capture' and 'Dérive'. Originally composed as a generative score, D3's main theme was sonically mapped to create each D3 movement. These were in turn arranged and remixed utilsing digital cut-up and editing techniques.

D3 draws inspiration from the use of Global Positioning System tools in tandem with image gathering and the works of Situationist writer, Guy Debord, in particular his 'Theory of the Dérive'.

Music by Andrew Garton and Ollie Olsen

Performed by Andrew Garton (Koan, Ableton Live, AudioMulch) and Justina Curtis (Violin, AudioMulch).

Where: Video Screening, Institute for Modern Art
Judith Wright Centre, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Qld.

:__ QUT Lecture - Improvisation in the 21st Century

On Wednesday, 3 September, Andrew will be giving a lecture at QUT, Brisbane, on the projects and processes that lead up to the production of Undercurrents, a collaborative performance work produced by Toy Satellite and the Eyedrink Collective (Taipei).

From the lecture:

"The integration of audio and visual components has been integral to my work since the mid-80s. In those days, physical performance in tandem with minimal lighting and projections was central to the surrealist aesthetic I had conceived in largely acoustic based works. From the mid-90s I began a series of collaborations with video artists exploring real-time improvisation of sound and vision, utilising techniques derived from jazz and electroacoutiscs. This resulted in a body of work that saw the integration of motion-control tools, development of context specific visual/sound instruments, large-scale multi-projection performances and more recently, a completely overhauled approach relying more on artistry, aesthetic resonances and intuitive skill than reliance on technology. The integration of these two disciplines relies now more on technique, composition and communication than it does on sophisticated and often expensive technologies."

For more information about this lecture, contact studio@toysatellite.org.

peace,
-ag.

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