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Melbourne Georgian Choir (MGC), led by celebrated Georgian-Australian ethnomusicologists Dr Nino Tsitsishvili and Dr Joseph Jordania. The choir features 20 vocalists singing together in the rich Georgian polyphonic tradition which dates back to at least the 4th century CE. In challenging works from its repertoire, the choir demonstrated the outré scales and clashing dissonances characteristic of Georgian polyphony.

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

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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.

As a material index of acoustic activity, the term ‘sound fossil’ has gained currency in the fields of paleosonics and contemporary art both as a means of accounting for the appearance of the past in the present, and as an embodiment of cosmic time. Drawing upon audible and not so audible projects, art historian Amelia Barikin presents her lecture: Sound Fossils and Arche-Fossils: Towards a mineral ontology of contemporary art.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/sound-fossils

Histories and Theories of Sound

22 October, 2015

Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Discipline and Gertrude Contemporary.

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

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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.

Seth Kim-Cohen places rock and roll next to conceptual art, poststructualism and politics, foregrounding it as an active participant in a wider social conversation. Focusing on 1965 to 1985, rock and roll is no longer just a soundtrack to a generation but is equally responsible for greater transformations of the time.

Seth Kim-Cohen is an artist, musician, and writer who makes as little distinction between these categories as he can get away with.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/nofuture

Theories and Histories of Sound

18 August, 2016

MADA, Monash University

Presented by Liquid Architecture and MADA

Image: Bianca Morgans

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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.

English singer and guitarist Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive. His shambolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed in amp static and teetering on the edge of feedback. His songs are both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that references worlds held dear and worlds unknown.

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

Ritual Community Music

27 September, 2015

The Tote, Collingwood

Presented by Liquid Architecture

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

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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.

Hannah Catherine Jones presents a lecture-performance that critically reflects on her long-term project Afrofuturism & Gesamtkunstwerk in which she set out to speculatively explore the relationship between Sun Ra and Wagner, two cultural giants, seemingly irreconcilable in many ways, but whom Jones brought together as part of her doctoral research at University of Oxford.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/hannah-catherine-jones-afrofuturism-gesamtkunstwerk

Ritual Community Music

26 February, 2020

Loop Project Space, Melbourne

Presented by Liquid Architecture.

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

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.

Listening to the Anthropocene: Sound and ecological crisis explores imaginations of the natural world at a time of accelerating global environmental crisis; in an era currently being defined as the Anthropocene. Mapping out a range of eco-acoustic practices from field recordings to data and geo-sonifications, Anja Kanngieser investigates how such practices seek to delineate, highlight, and/ or overcome, distinctions between natural and social, urban and rural, exceptional and everyday.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/listeningtotheanthropocene

Anja Kanngieser: Listening to the Anthropocene: Sound and ecological crisis (Theories and Histories of Sound)

Histories and Theories of Sound

14 December, 2015

Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy

Presented by Liquid Architecture, Discipline and Gertrude Contemporary.

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

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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.

Teresa Wong’s lecture performance The Multiplicity of Roots explains her expanded approach to working with cello across experimental tunings, unusual harmonics, and drawing on influences from around the world and avant-garde arts. Ellen Fullman’s lecture Constructing a Musical Phrase from the Ground Up shares the influences, ideas, and context that led up to the creation of the Long String Instrument and other works.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/ellen-fullman-and-theresa-wong-lecture

Ellen Fullman and Teresa Wong Double Lecture (Theories and Histories of Sound)

Histories and Theories of Sound

25 January, 2017

The Channel, Melbourne

Presented by Liquid Architecture, The Substation and Room40.

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

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.

Douglas Kahn presents his lecture, Sound Matters: One Energy Among Others. Based on his most recent book, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, Kahn reworks the histories of science, communications, music and the arts to account for the incursion of electromagnetism into culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Investigating the trade between acoustics and electromagnetism in aesthetics and the arts, Kahn poses questions for new approaches in the arts, ecology and media where sound is but one energy among others.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/douglas-kahn-sound-matters-one-energy-among-others/

Douglas Kahn: Sound Matters - One Energy Among Others (Theories and Histories of Sound)

Histories and Theories of Sound

28 August, 2014

Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy

Presented by Liquid Architecture

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

Image: Douglas Kahn

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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.

Terms such as “fake news” and “alternative facts” have become common vocabulary in the so-called post-truth era. But there is a sense in which these are just contemporary iterations of a familiar phenomenon: propaganda. Propaganda is not merely concerned with sending messages – its aim is to construct reality as such. In this episode visual artist Jonas Staal elaborates on what he describes as today’s arena of the propaganda (art) struggle.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/jonas-staal-propaganda-art-in-the-21st-century

Jonas Staal: Propaganda Art in the 20th Century (Machine Listening)

Machine Listening

17 February, 2020

Melbourne Law School, Carlton

Presented by Melbourne Law School, Curatorial Practice at Monash University and Liquid Architecture.

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

Image: Jonas Staal

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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.

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst discuss their recent work with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, with specific reference to “Spawn”, their “A.I baby”, which listens, learns, speaks and sings on Herndon’s recent album Proto.

This conversation was hosted by Sean Dockray, a Melbourne-based artist, writer, and programmer, and was recorded on the 20th of January at Loop Project Space as part of Liquid Architecture’s Eavesdropping investigation.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/holly-herndon-and-mat-dryhurst

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst: Inhuman Intelligence (Machine Listening)

Machine Listening

20 January, 2020

Loop Project Space, Melbourne

Presented by Liquid Architecture and Melbourne Recital Centre

Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger

Image: Holly Herndon

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.