Live recording from Experimenta Make Sense - Up Late
at The Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
May 19, 2018
Track breakdown
0:00 Gail Priest, Orographic Wind
12:15 Matt Warren, A New Threshold
22:40 Priest & Warren, We’re not afraid of the dark
Matt & Gail’s formal, face-to-face collaborative relationship started in 2017, brought together by the Unconscious Collective
(
www.unconsciouscollective.org ). Their first encounter was a long form improvisation to accompany the Hypnapod installation at MPavillion. This was followed by Crossings, an epic journey traversing the Tasmanian mid-lands developing site specific installations in six roadside churches (Dark MOFO 2017). However prior to this Matt & Gail had been finding ways to work with each other, across the interstate divide, including curatorial and virtual collaborative projects.
released June 11, 2018
Gail Priest a Katoomba/Sydney-based artist whose practice encompasses performance, recording, sound design for dance and theatre, installation, curation and writing. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally and has several CD releases on her own label, Metal Bitch, as well as other labels including Flaming Pines. She is also a curator of concerts and exhibitions and writes factually and fictively about sound and media arts.
www.gailpriest.net
Matt Warren is a Hobart-based electronic media artist, musician, curator, radio presenter and writer.
His music and sound practice has a basis in both composition and improvisation. He is interested in the results of chance combination and random actions and at times utilises nonsensical or portmanteau texts. The works investigate memory, transcendence, liminal spaces and suspension of disbelief and is informed by neo-psychedelia, digital abstraction and hauntology. He has undertaken sound-based residencies with Jean-Yves Thériault in Montreal, Canada and with Damo Suzuki in Köln, Germany and produced sounds works that have been presented in Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the USA.
roomofsilencerecords.bandcamp.com
Photo: Julia Drouhin
Thanks to Jane Barlow (The Plimsoll Gallery), Nicky Pastore (Experimenta), Michelle Boyde & David Patman (Unconscious Collective), Julia Drouhin, Sam James, Sally Rees, Arthur Warren.
Metal Bitch Recordings MB006/room of silence ROS012