Installation and Performance by Tom Hall
| Presented by | The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts |  | | Dates | Thu 18 Mar 2010 - Thu 25 Mar 2010 | | | Time | Installation: Street front viewing from 6pm – 7am daily
Performance: Thu 25/03/10 8pm (Duration: 120 mins)
| | | Cost | Installation
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or email boxoffice@jwcoca.qld.gov.au | | | Type | Installation and Performance |
Tom Hall's latest installation is an exploration into the past and the present through image collages experienced during hypnologic states. These states sit somewhere between reality and hyper-reality influenced by direct input (third-party) and ones existing memories, thoughts and sounds. Hall’s live video installation will include ‘outsider’ input from a large variety of sources from touch sensitive windows, movement recognition and sound analysis. This representation of external sources will directly control, alter and build on Hall’s pre-existing imagery and conscious memories to emulate that of the artists own hypnologic experiences. This installation will finish with live performances by Oren Ambarchi, Tom Hall and Ambrose Chapel.
Performance by Oren Ambarchi and guests
Oren Ambarchi's works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools: modern electronics and processing; laminal improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal.
From the late 90s, his experiments in guitar abstraction and extended technique have led to a more personal and unique sound-world, incorporating a broader palette of instruments and sensibilities. On releases such as Grapes From The Estate and In The Pendulum's Embrace, Ambarchi has employed glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, drums and percussion, creating fragile textures as light as air which tenuously co-exist with the deep, wall-shaking bass tones derived from his guitar. Ambarchi works with simple constructs and parameters; exploring one idea over an extended duration and patiently teasing every nuance and implication from each texture; the phenomena of sum and difference tones; carefully-tended arrangements that unravel gently; unprepossessing melodies that slowly work their way through various permutations; resulting in an otherworldly, cumulative impact of patiently-unfolding compositions.
Ambarchi has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists such as Sunn 0)) (USA), Fennesz (Austria), Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), Pimmon (Australia), Keiji Haino (Japan), John Zorn (USA), Rizili (Greece),Voice Crack (Switzerland), Jim O'Rourke (USA), Keith Rowe (UK), Phill Niblock (USA), Gunter Muller (Switzerland), Evan Parker (UK), Z'ev (USA), Robbie Avenaim (Australia), Toshimaru Nakamura (Japan), Striborg (Australia), Masami Akita (Japan), Chris Townend (Australia) and many more.
For 10 years together with Robbie Avenaim, Ambarchi was the co-organiser of the What Is Music? festival, Australia’s premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music. The festival hosted over 200 local and international performers. Ambarchi now curates the Maximum Arousal series at The Toff In Town in Melbourne and has recently co-produced a television series for SBS on experimental music called Subsonics. Ambarchi recently co-curated the sound program for the 2008 Yokohama triennale.
Ambarchi has given numerous guest lectures and workshops in countries such as Japan, Finland and Spain. He has been an artist-in residence in cities such as Vienna and Tokyo and composed music for films and theatre projects from Belgium, France, Japan, Sweden & Australia. Ambarchi is currently guest lecturer at the Victoria College of the Arts. Since 2001 Ambarchi has been commisioned to perform at international festivals in countries such as Norway, Israel, Italy, USA, Japan, Switzerland, Singapore, Slovakia, Germany, France,Portugal, Poland, Spain, Finland, Canada & more. Most recently Ambarchi was the only Australian to be invited to perform at the Portishead curated All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK.
Ambarchi has released numerous recordings for international labels such as Touch, Southern Lord, Table Of The Elements and Tzadik. In 2003 his live release Triste received an honourary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica digital musics category.
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