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Farhad Bandesh joins Joe Khan on FBi Radio to discuss the Manus Recording Project Collective’s project, where are you today.

Everyday in August 2020 a text message with a recording from Farhad Bandesh, Farhad Rahmati, Samad Abdul, Shamindan Kanapathi, Thanush Selvraj or Yasin Abdallah will be sent out to subscribers.

These men, seeking asylum by boat, were forcibly transferred to Manus Island by the Australian government nearly seven years ago and are now held in hotels or detention centres in Port Moresby, Melbourne or Brisbane. Subscribe by texting ‘Hello’ to +61 488 845 951

This interview was originally broadcast on FBi Radio, Sydney.

https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/mornings-joe-khan

https://manusrecordingproject.com/

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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.

Michael Green joins Beth AQ on The Glasshouse, Triple R to discuss the Manus Recording Project Collective. Their project How Are you today was part of the 2018 exhibition Eavesdropping at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne. This interview was broadcast in 2018 on Triple R, Melbourne.

The Manus Recording Project Collective is currently presenting Where Are You Today? To subscribe visit https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/where-are-you-today

The Messenger podcast: https://www.wheelercentre.com/broadcasts/podcasts/the-messenger

Eavesdropping at The Ian Potter Museum of Art: https://art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/eavesdropping/

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https://manusrecordingproject.com/

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.

Susan Schuppli and Brian Hochman: A Short History of Eavesdropping on The Drawing Room (ABC Radio National)

https://eavesdropping.exposed/

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.

https://eavesdropping.exposed/

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.

Legal scholar Sara Ramshaw recounts the famous 1997 encounter between musician Ornette Cole­man and philoso­pher Jacques Der­rida and what this meeting might have to say about ideas of law and jus­tice.

As part of Eaves­drop­ping, Liquid Archi­tec­ture and Mel­bourne Law School took over Make it Up Club for a night of impro­vi­sa­tions in the key of jus­tice, on the 21st of August 2018.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/make-it-up-club-justice-as-improvisation

Eavesdropping

21 August, 2018

Bar Open, Fitzroy

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Law School and Make It Up Club

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.

Suzanne Kite presents INDIGENOUS LISTENING, a lecture on soundscapes, musicologies, and traditions in her own work and that of artists including Post Commodity and Rebecca Belmore, and EVERYTHING I SAY IS TRUE, a multi-media narrative work that uses family ephemera and history to consider concepts of truth in relation to Oglala Lakota knowledge systems.

Suzanne Kite, aka Kite, is a Southern California-based, Oglala Lakota artist, performer and composer working with electronics, sound, text and video.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/suzanne-kite

Pōuliuli (Fā‘aliga)

6 May 2017

West Space, Melbourne

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Yirramboi Festival and Midsumma Festival

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.

Saskia Doherty speaks until the breath is completely gone.

This program of lecture-performances by sound artists is brought to you by the new cultural logic of capital — real, but honestly, also kind of surreal (algorhythmically-determined, creatively industrial, simulacra sold back to us as authentic alternatives).

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/capitalist-surrealism

Capitalist Surrealism

24 September 2015

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Australia Council for the Arts, City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria.

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.

Born in 1947, Michel Chion is a composer, filmmaker, historian and writer – and arguably the world’s foremost thinker on sound in cinema.

For this event, Michel Chion presented a lecture performance tracing a history of the ‘acousmêtre’ – Chion’s term for the mysterious off-screen voice in cinema, through his own oeuvre and the works of Bresson, Lang, Syberberg, Spike Jonze and more.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/michel-chion

Histories and Theories of Sound

25 August, 2017

Australian Cinémathéque, QAGOMA

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Australian Cinémathèque, QAGOMA and INSTITUT FRANÇAIS

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

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.

Lin Chi-Wei is a Taiwanese artist who's practice incorporates folklore culture, noise, ritual, and audience participation. Chi-Wei initiated an iteration of his participatory sound work, 'Tape Music', in which audience members pass a paper score (sometimes 200m long) around a circle, singing as they go, generating a ‘human tape machine’.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/polyphonic-social-2017

Polyphonic Social 2017

14 May 2017

Abbotsford Convent

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Abbotsford Convent and the City of Yarra

Audio: Recorded and Mixed by Lauren Squire, Edited by Mara Schwerdtfeger

Image: Keelan O'Hehir

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.

Erkki Veltheim, Rohan Drape and Alex Garsden (of Inland Concert Series) presented a new fifteen-minute antiphonal work for instruments and computers of fragments of sonic things created independently.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/polyphonic-social-2017

Polyphonic Social 2017

13 May, 2017

Abbotsford Convent

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Abbotsford Convent and the City of Yarra

Audio: Recorded and Mixed by Lauren Squire, Edited by Mara Schwerdtfeger

Image: Keelan O'Hehir

LIQUID ARCHITECTURE is an Australian organisation for artists working with sound. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.