Liquid Architecture
Liquid Architecture

TIME OUT OF TIME
Sound measures time in space, and space in time: Reverb goes out, but echo comes back … back … back …
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE
Liquid Architecture is an Australian organisation for artists working with sound.





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[20151017]
Julian Oliver: TX/RX – Transmit and Receive
TX/RX; a participatory intervention and workshop in two parts by critical engineer and artist Julian

SAT 17 Oct 2015
3pm-5pm
Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA
[20151017]
Andrew McLellan: The Latest Technology as Unilateral Directories
the disintegrating effects of contemporary speech

SAT 17 Oct 2015
7pm - 9pm
Bus Projects
[20151018]
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Aural Contract: The voice before the law
The contemporary politics of listening - its relationship to power, borders, testimony and truth

SUN 18 Oct 2015
4pm-7pm
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
[20151022]
Lecture: Amelia Barikin ‘Sound Fossils and Arche-Fossils: Towards a Mineral Ontology of Contemporary Art’
the term ‘sound fossil’ has gained currency in the fields of paleosonics and contemporary art

THU 22 October 2015
6pm-8pm
Gertrude Contemporary
[20151024]
Time out of Time
Sound measures time in space, and space in time: Reverb goes out, but echo comes back ... back …

SAT 24 Oct 2015
12pm-6pm
Tarrawarra Museum of Art
[20151025]
Johannes S. Sistermanns: LIFTOFFWEHAVELIFTOFF
one body. one person. 1k of glad wrap. lines and planes stretching through.

SUN 25 Oct 2015
1pm-9pm
MPavilion, Melbourne


FULL PROGRAM
  • Adelle Mills
    Figures that act with skill wedge their voices in between rolling translations.
  • Alex Cuffe
    Our abject humanness horrifies me, imagine all these people, these skin wrapped containers of meat communicating to each other their thoughts.
  • Alice Hui-Sheng Chang
    vocal groups as small social experiments in the diversity in human social interactions
  • Alrey Batol
    practical attempts to expose or rupture existing systems that operate and govern everyday life
  • Amelia Barikin
    As a material index of acoustic activity, the term 'sound fossil' has gained currency in the field of contemporary art both as a means of accounting for the appearance of the past in the present, and as an embodiment of cosmic time.
  • Andrew McLellan
    rather than being slowed down by your brain needing to figure out how to say the words first.
  • Anja Kanngieser and Daniel Jenatsch
    sound and communication are shaped by, and shape, our relations to one another, to the architectures and infrastructures around us, to our larger atmospheres and ecologies, and to the forces of power and governance that we experience and intervene in
  • Ann Fuata
    !!CALL OUT!! Performers needed to participate in a live performance. It involves clicking, pausing and clapping. Please contact: a.a.fuata@gmail.com
  • Antony Riddell
    aggressive physical impropriety, neurologically-disordered vocals, lyrical interventions, simultaneously absurd, yet strangely elegant
  • Aurelia Guo
    #GiveYourMoneyToWomen
  • Basic House
    Sonic adventurer who experiments with captivating rhythmic and textured techno.
  • Bon Mott
    A transmutation into energy happens from an alchemical mixture of the corporeal, the spatial, the intangible and embodiment of the ghost of AC/DC’s singer/songwriter, Bon Scott.
  • Botanic Gordon
    Reel to reel tape, live radio samples, loops, vintage synth and homemade and modified sound trinkets
  • Brandon LaBelle
    questions of social life and cultural agency, using sound, performance, text and sited constructions
  • Caitlin Franzmann
    ...the term vocal fry and its association with young women is another ‘excuse to dismiss, ignore and marginalise women’s voices, both literally and figuratively’.
  • Camille Robinson
    Camille Robinson is here to listen
  • Caroline Anderson
    Screeds of crystallised information surprised me with its contents, issuing clues as to what was happening within.
  • Carolyn Connors
    At one factory, each worker was assigned a piece of wood. Each of the four sides was painted a different colour: black, white, yellow and blue. The piece of wood displayed the colour that corresponded to the quality of the worker’s work the previous day: black was bad, blue was so-so, yellow was good, and white was excellent. The daily colour for each worker was logged in a ‘book of colour’.
  • Celeste Liddle
    Melbourne-based Arrernte woman and self-described Black Feminist Ranter
  • Clare Cooper
    The feminism at the core of her practice manifests as commitment to oddity.
  • Coco Solid AKA Jess Hansell
    People have fatal embargoes on who they think they are. Permission to change unlocks that.
  • COLLINGWOOD COLLEGE SOUND COLLECTIVE
    They were asked to consider the contradictions in sound, such as those found in film and Foley techniques and to consider that gender may be associated to particular qualities in sound, instruments and/or image.
  • DIVA FINGER
    Super friend duo sending wavelengths of creme fraiche scooped offa a pile of sweetened condensed milk in a vortex of TLCWhaleNoise with a contact mic taped between Janet Jackson's buttcheeks, Sadeism and MariahCareyism, equaling the goodness of greasy pizzaonthecouch X 880000000
  • Eddie Hopely
    (eg a triad of #branding, #recovery, and #evidence corresponding to then cycling through topos CS, WWAFMSL, E)
  • Ellena Savage
    Ellena Savage is an essayist, critic, and editor from Melbourne. She has been described as a “neurotic airhead”, and “better than Marx”.
  • Evelyn Ida Morris
    musician, performer, LISTEN(ER) and advocate for women in Australian music
  • Feminist Theory Group
    FTG: Eva Birch, Katherine Botten, Aurelia Guo
  • Frances Barrett
    From here to hear.
    From here, as email. To hear, as script.
    From here, as silent artist**. To hear, performing Curator***.

  • Frances Dyson
    the resonance of voice has been exiled to places without people
  • Francis Plagne
    to jerk or throw underhand or backhand
  • Gabi Briggs
    Gabi Briggs is a Koori woman from the sovereign Anaiwan and Gumbangier peoples and has been raised on country in Armidale, NSW. She relocated to the unceded lands of the Wurunjeri people where she is currently completing her BFA at RMIT. Gabi works primarily with photography but also works within different mediums such as video and performance. Gabi is a co-founder of Sovereign Apocalypse and is a member of the Tiddas Take Back collective.
  • Gail Priest
    Gail Priest is an artist, writer and curator, for whom sound is the key investigative material.
  • Georgina Criddle
    a voice from behind the great walls of brian
  • Harriet Kate Morgan
    Psychedelic death industrial act military position deals with modern and everlasting feelings of female and human subjugation.
  • Holly Childs
    Kemistry died (cat-eye reflector dislodged by a truck travelling ahead of the vehicle she was in)
  • Ivan Lisyak
    pop culture appropriation, techno, and heavy industrial aesthetics
  • Jackson Eaton
    Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Jackson Eaton himself tell the Jackson Eaton story.

  • James Parker
    Eavesdropping and exposure: the twin frontiers of contemporary sonic warfare. What binds them together? Amongst other things, law’s complicity.
  • Jannah Quill
    lights on lights off lights on lights off
  • Jasmine Guffond
    digital technologies, sonification and the aesthetisation of data as a means of artistically surveying contemporary surveillance
  • Jennifer Walshe
    Irish Dada-ist, composer and musical conceptualist, socially mediated / meditated performance art
  • Joe Banks
    the relation between techniques of recording and mechanisms of perception
  • Johannes S. Sistermanns
    [Un - the World] unexpected unrepeatable unclosed
  • Jonathan Kemp
    the elaboration of life coding strategies usually by way of some breton-brut sleights of hand
  • Julia Drouhin and Pip Stafford
    Drouhin and Stafford use radios, transmitters, crystals, hurdy gurdy and field recordings in acts of sound divination and occult listening. Their collective interests lie in radio arts, auditory-spatial practices and the intersection of gender and emergent art forms.
  • Kate Brown
    The processes ‘the body’ undergoes during a vocal performance are acknowledged by representing the body as a machinic entity via sound to combine present actions and potential connections within a continuum.
  • Kate Geck
    animation, textiles, installation, interactive, melbourne, australia m8
  • Kraus
    I play guitar, drums, a home-made synthesizer, organ, bamboo flute and tape-loops. I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I like medieval and Renaissance music, Japanese traditional music, psychedelic music, electronic music 1950s-70s and rock and pop of the same era. And, etc.
  • Kynan Tan
    What are the implications of being listened to at all times? What is the difference between being listened to
    by: nobody, somebody, a machine, an intelligent machine?

  • Lawrence Abu Hamdan
    the contemporary politics of listening – its relationship to power, borders, human rights, testimony and truth
  • Leena Riethmuller
    By accessing bodily information, participants will be given the opportunity to reflect on tacit knowledge, physical experiences and emotional states.
  • Lucreccia Quintanilla
    multidisciplinary artist, writer and sometimes DJ
  • Magic Steven
    "Treat Every Experience as a Lesson... To Open your Mind & Heart." -
  • Marcus Rechsteiner
    Time travel confuses me. When I see it in movies I get confused and think how is this possible. I also think it would be cool to see if Aliens did build the pyramids. I would also use it to see if Julius Caesar ate Caesar salads.
  • Marian Tubbs
    There is a party at Minerva 4/111 Macleay St, Potts Point this Saturday from 8pm-9:30pm. We hope you can make it. There will be some recording devices at the gallery.
  • Mark Brown
    relentless processes of the dematerialisation of matter despite the human struggle to contain time - the eternal eating machine
  • Martin Howse
    discourse, speculative hardware (environmental data in open physical systems), code (an examination of layers of abstraction), free software and the situational (performances and interventions)
  • Martina Copley
    Sound, idea, object and modality are collated to set up a structural space for something to exist, a space in which the work moves towards an opening and at the same time asks questions about itself.
  • Media Lab Melbourne
  • Monica Monin & Astrid Lorange
    Affective Citations
  • Nathan Gray
  • Nicola Morton
    psychic séances, psychedelic performances, psychological deaths
  • Pia Van Gelder
    heosophy, technology, science, counter-culture histories, DIY pedagogy, AV mysticism and what she calls ‘machinic affinity’
  • Poppy de Souza
    "Beyond Voice Poverty: New Economies of Voice and the Frontiers of Speech, Listening and Recognition"
  • Ragtime Frank
    Her neighbours come tell me
    Frankie she ain’t home

  • Rebecca Ross
  • Richard Dawson
    songs both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that references worlds held dear and worlds unknown
  • Rita Revell
    Amniotic reminiscences and mutated mummy rhythms transmute in home video holy matrimony.
  • Rosalind Hall and Dave Brown
    a blind dance of hope in step and flight..sending thoughts astray amid hallucinations born of time and telepathy.
  • Ruth O’Leary
    Melbourne based artist who works primarily with performance, video and painting.
  • Saskia Doherty
    speak until the breath is completely gone
  • Sean Dockray
    The Facebook timeline is like a broken toilet, constantly flushing.
  • Shani Mohini-Holmes
    (I just want to create sound that transcends my horrendous personality)
  • Sibling
    SIBLING works at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, cultural analysis and graphic communication to produce new and unexpected spatial outcomes
  • Simona Castricum
    "All that I am doesn't belong, all I will be doesn't belong, so whats the point of all of my songs if everything I know is now wrong?"

  • Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange)
    Multipacks, or: microbial colonies, algorithms talking to algorithms, a google deep dream, systems as swarms. Denial in a buzz is no escape at all. Effortless, thick cloud.
  • Sovereign Trax
    decolonises the party with tracks from First Nations musicians and producers who are “experimenting across genres and spitting heavy truths”.
  • Steph Overs
    Electronic materials recombine and transform in infinite compositions as an experiment in computer aided sound-to-object synesthesia.
  • Thanh Hằng Phạm
    Thanh Hằng is a queer, second-gen Vietnamese-Other descendant. She draws on the bodily to visualize and give breathe to her writing and zine-making. Thanh Hằng’s work is engrossed in mental health, bodies, boundaries, Vietnamese diaspora, queerness, and water. She is also a radio producer for 3CR’s Queering the Air.
  • Tom Ogley
    “I went to my teacher I wanted to stop and she said ,'no Tom , you can’t leave . You’ve got something special in your feet that people would die for'“
  • Tom Smith
    I selected several excerpts from Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's The New Spirit of Capitalism. I interpreted these sentences in the manner of the heavily auto-tuned slowdown.
  • Yen-Ting Hsu
    the connection between sound, life, environment and culture.
  • Zac Segbedzi
    “one does not simply take the acid, the acid is no longer a tab... ”
EVERYTHING