12 June 2014
Sam Pankhurst, Ben Marks and Brodie McAllister are dedicated to pushing musical and conceptual boundaries through free improvisation.
In a meeting of Improvised, classical and printed traditions, “sOUNDS//iMAGES” is the coming together of music, art and people in a straight-to –the-point fashion. Where the music being played influences the score, and the score then influences the musical outcome. This is an acknowledgment of the moment-to-moment nature of art, and the immediacy of human response.
The improvisation will be guided by a graphic score, which will be collectively created by the audience and simultaneously interpreted by the musicians.
Samuel Pankhurst is a double bassist and musical jack-of-all-trades. His unique improvisational approach rings of western art music, jazz, rock and experimental practice. Sam is a member of The Marc Hannahford Trio, The Wild and Trouble with Templeton among many others.
Benjamin Marks is a freelance musician based in Brisbane. He is a member of the ELISION Ensemble and Specializes in the performance of contemporary music, including collaborations with visual artists and free improvisation. With ELISION, Marks has been involved in many projects involving Brian Ferneyhough, Richard Barrett, Aaron Cassidy, Klaus K Hu?bler and Timothy McCormack.
Brodie McAllister is a Brisbane based Trombonist/composer that deals with the blurring of lines between score and improvisation. Brodie has experience performing and composing in a variety of musical landscapes spanning from pop outfit Inigo through to ELISION Ensemble. He is a full-time member of The Jazzkill Bandits, BULLHORN and Ensemble Eigengrau.
11 June 2014
Luke Jaaniste is a sonic and visual artist, writer and researcher, currently based in Brisbane. As an artist he explores embodied experience of ambient space, through sound- and visual-based projects and events. This includes individual practice, co-direction of several ongoing collaborations and working in a range of communal settings. His Portal project involves the collection of multiple vintage keyboards (Yamaha PortaSounds, 1981-1984) which are then unleashed into homes, studios and art spaces, next being BEAF at Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art Brisbane (July 2013). With the Body-Sound-Awareness Collective, Luke is exploring a new wholebody listening-movement practice within drone fields called Dro Fo (Drone Focusing). Luke also works with children and other communities drawing on all these practices (including Jump, Dads-in-Schools and Living City) and is co-director of Super Critical Mass.
As a visual artist, he has exhibited installations, still and moving images, and temporary public art. His research work includes a doctorate exploring ambient modes of experience (QUT 2003-2007) and research fellowship around arts, innovation and policy (QUT/CCI 2008-2011), and he is now the studying and writing commentary on philosophy of living Eugene Gendlin (A Living Process). Other current writing projects are focused around the conditions of lively living and thinking as it’s surfacing across all out human practices (e.g. Hello to Thinking, Hello to You).
11 June 2014
“In our day and age, we have become so dependant on technology and social media that we have lulled ourself into a false sense of reality.”
“We barely look up now, more concerned with what other people are doing, in another place at another time.”
Our False Reality, is Caleb Colledge’s sonic response to this societal norm created by us.
By manipulating field recordings of the very city we reside in, coupled with tuned, un-tuned and found percussion, Caleb Colledge exemplifies sonically the world we have created for ourselves by our fixation on something happening elsewhere.
He seeks to severe that fixation and bring the audience into the very moment in which time is progressing. By creating a sonic landscape in which the audience can take part in at any time with the use of their smartphone. This interactive atmosphere will help to re-emphasise the beauty of a naturally formed human connection.
A current student of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Caleb Colledge is exploring many experimental avenues in percussion and electronics. He has had the recent opportunity to collaborate and improvise with resident artists of Jugglers Art Space as well as students of the Queensland College of Arts.
His new site specific creation for the B.E.A.F, Our False Reality helps us remember what is really important and brings us back into the moment.
9 June 2014
Mino Peric is a Brisbane-based musician, producer and sound artist. His work primarily focuses on the blending of sound as art and sound as music and its relationship to visual mediums.
The piece, Super Disco #1, explores the repetition and motion of travel via the projection of footage taken of Japan in January 2014. In the vein of sound artists such as Christian Marclay and Philip Jeck, the visuals will be reinforced through the art of turntablism.
