Infinite Music Machine

10.07.09 – 25.07.09

Galleries 1 + 2

Performances: ($10 donation)
Saturday 11 July 3-5pm
Thursday 16 July, 7.30pm
Saturday 25 July, 7.30pm

Workshop:
Sunday 19 July, 3pm

The collaboration of Alan Lamb, Rosalind Hall, Dale Gorfinkel and Peter Blamey brings together four artists who are exploring experimental approaches to sound through instrument building and installations.

Expect a wondrous world of automated contraptions, supermagnets, long wires, ping pong balls, multi-speaker sculptures, cellular automata and electronics. They will be creating an exhibition of constantly transforming kinetic sculptures that explore the chaotic interplay between sound, light, air, water and electricity.

Alan Lamb’s (WA) work involves the exploration of sound structures, neither musically 'designed' nor of random occurrence.  Such structures possess the properties of beauty, complexity and evocation of the emotional, the spiritual and the imaginary.

Dale Gorfinkel (VIC) builds automated mechanical sculptures based on his unique approach to the vibraphone. He creates wondrous sonorities using motors, aluminum bars, swinging tin resonators, pingpong balls and trumpets that play themselves.

Rosalind Hall (VIC) is developing a unique sonic language by making modifications to the saxophone.  Rosalind has also been working on speaker sculptures which use vibrational feedback to create sound and movement.

Peter Blamey (NSW) is an artist who has been working with simple electronic feedback systems in both performance and installation for quite a while now, and looks like continuing to do so for the foreseeable future.

Liquid Architecture Sound Festival runs for four weeks in June/July 2009 and goes to seven cities across Australia, presenting an exciting program of contemporary sound arts. Celebrating its tenth consecutive year, the diverse program features live events and installations showcasing the highest quality sound work in an intense focused listening environment, privileging our most unsung sense: listening.

For more info go to: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.