Liquid Architecture

Artist and organiser Bridget Chappell talks through the experiments, research, and activities that have formed their exhibition No Comment. With particular attention paid toward their investigations into the science of phase-cancellation as bringing forward an acoustic insurrection through “phase-canceling the cops”, Chappell presents anti-police sound technologies through material research together with theoretical articulations of ungovernable space, tactical defence and silence as a means of political enunciation.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/bridget-chappell-no-comment

17 March - 3 April 2021

Blindside, Melbourne

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Blindside, and City of Melbourne

Image: Lou Wheeler

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uFbJ1RishuDg9micQLFctnbetewscg4R9BhRAWfBxOw/edit?usp=sharing

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For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Haftu Reda and Anbessa Gebrehiwot weave their East African cultural heritage, singing and playing the traditional krar, a 5 string lyre, and masinko, a single string violin.

Joined by Melbourne multi-instrumentalists Evelyn Morris on keyboards and percussion and Dale Gorfinkel on percussion and balafon (xylophone), they embrace new sonic territories with a beautiful modesty, camaraderie and a deep groove.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/breadwoman-mpavilion

Sound Spaces

MPavillion, Melbourne

28 January 2018

Presented by Liquid Architecture, MOFO, All Are Welcome and MUMA

Image: Jacqui Shelton

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For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Since 1982, Anna Homler has incanted the character of Bread woman - an ancient storyteller housed in bread that emerged out of the downtown Los Angeles performance art scene. Kneading language into music; toys into instruments, Homler’s vocal, visual and performance practice explores alternative means of communication and the poetics of ordinary things. This performance with special guests Samuel Karmel and Lilian Steiner was recorded at M Pavillion on the 28th of January 2018.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/breadwoman-mpavilion

Sound Spaces

MPavillion, Melbourne

28 January 2018

Presented by Liquid Architecture, MOFO, All Are Welcome and MUMA

Image: Jacqui Shelton

Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month.

https://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture

For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Vladan Joler takes artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and curator Joel Stern through Anatomy of an AI System, his 2018 work with Kate Crawford, which diagrams the Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. They talk about the politics of visibility and method as well as Vladan’s work with Share Lab, “where indie data punk meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues."

https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/

Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month.

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For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy provide a “reboot” manifesta in their book The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot, which lays out their proposals for improving the design and social effects of digital voice assistants, social robots, sex robots, and other AI arriving in the home. They talk to artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and curator Joel Stern about their research surrounding the book.

https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/

Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month.

https://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture

For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Founded in 2013 by curators Kristi Monfries and Joel Stern, the Instrument Builders Project is an ongoing platform for artistic collaboration and experimentation between Australian and Asia Pacific artists working at the intersection of contemporary art, sound and performance.

In January 2021, Richie Cyngler, Julia Drouhin, Dylan Sheridan and Pip Stafford undertook a residency at the University of Tasmania, School of Architecture & Design resulting in a performative installation at Mona Foma, Launceston.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/instrument-builders-project-launceston

Instrument Builders Project

15 - 17 January 2021

Object Gallery QVMAG, Launceston

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Contemporary Art Tasmania and Volcanic Winds.

Audio recorded by Mish Szekelyhidi.

Image by Mona/Remi Chauvin

Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month.

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For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Botanic Gordon plays reel to reel tape, live radio samples, loops, vintage synths and homemade and modified sound trinkets. This performance was recorded at the Tote on the 27th of September 2015.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/ritual-community-music/

Ritual Community Music


27 Sep 2015


The Tote, Melbourne

Image: Keelan O'Hehir

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For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Kraus plays guitar, drums, a home-made synthesizer, organ, bamboo flute and tape-loops. They live in Auckland, New Zealand. They like medieval and Renaissance music, Japanese traditional music, psychedelic music, electronic music 1950s-70s and rock and pop of the same era. And, etc. This performance was recorded on the 27th of September 2015 at the Tote, Melbourne.

www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/program/ri…ity-music/

Ritual Community Music

27 September 2015

The Tote, Melbourne

Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month.

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For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Artificially enhanced body music by Raquel Solier AKA Fatti Frances

Various Asses fuses bent trap, frantic house and fractured vocal samples forming the solo project from Melbourne electronic producer and drummer Raquel Solier. This performance was recorded at Tape Projects on the 24th of February 2016.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/ensemble-economique/

Ritual Community Music

24 February 2016

Tape Projects, Carlton

Presented by Liquid Architecture

Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month.

https://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture

For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.

Alex Ahmed talks to artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and curator Joel Stern about Project Spectra, an online, community-based, free and open source software application for transgender voice training. We discuss speech pathology and the politics of pitch, along with the importance of grass-roots led tech projects and community-centred design.

Our devices are listening to us. Previous generations of audio-technology transmitted, recorded or manipulated sound. Today our digital voice assistants, smart speakers and a growing range of related technologies are increasingly able to analyse and respond to it as well. Scientists and engineers increasingly refer to this as “machine listening”, though the first widespread use of the term was in computer music. Machine listening is much more than just a new scientific discipline or vein of technical innovation however. It is also an emergent field of knowledge-power, of data extraction and colonialism, of capital accumulation, automation and control. It demands critical and artistic attention.

https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/

Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month.

https://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture

For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.