Memories of Miss Memory

Seems like there is always so much going on at this time of the year, isn’t there? This project is one that I really adored working on, a laneway’s installation for Art and About using the Chicken Little theme of “the Sky is Falling” (which considering the current economic situation is quite apt don’t you think?) with space debris and my contribution of strange space blips and zaps whipping up and down Angel Place held in place by beautiful cloud balloons. See artist impression below.

The exhibition starts on 4th October and should run for a few months. Will stick up a post with some pics when it all gets up and running.

Where: Angel Place, Sydney city
When: 4th October for a few months
See press here: Big guns shake up the art of the city
See Kirsten’s blog entry here
The Sky is Falling is a production by Reef Knot for Art And About.

Come along to Electrofringe in Newcastle next week and check out the very first public demonstration of the “brain-controlled musical instrument”, a project I have been researching with collaborator Scott Eggert. On Friday 3rd October at 3:30pm-5:00pm @ University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38], we will be demonstrating the instrument and discussing our research and future plans for a brain controlled MIDI device/instrument. On Saturday 4th we will be joined by visual artist Mat McCosker and will be using the instrument in a performance with the music and visual being generated by the brain.

Yes my creative friends, CDR is just around the corner so time to get a crackin on getting a track or three spruced up for the night. Get busy and drop your new tracks mixed down and onto a disc for us to hear. The music at the last CDR was incredible and great to see some new faces. Don’t worry about tracks being finished and perfect - the nights about checking each other’s vibe and also getting to hear your music before you finish it off - a chance to tweak or add or boost that little something to make it awesome.

And what about your friends?

CDR isn’t just about equipment nerds getting all hot n bothered about knobs and faders, this is a music get together for everyone who wants to hear NEW MUSIC. Invite all your friends to have a drink and a dance and be part of the night.

All you have to do is bring down a CDR with 1-3 tracks you are working on, or have just completed, and hand it in to us before 9:30pm.

7 - 8:00 we’ll be playing CDR’s from absent friends - from as far and wide as Melbourne, Perth, and Adelaide to Detroit, London, Reykjavik, Berlin, etc etc etc. Big names, unknown names, hard-to-pronounce names…you’ll find them all here.

8 - 9:00 Lorna will chat with the Gaslamp Killer and quite possibly some other other stellar acts that are currently in town. You will have to come down to find out!!!!

9:00 - close the soundsystem gets 100% localised, as we dig through and play the music you bring along with you on the night.

FREE ENTRY
where: Hermanns (cnr Butlin and City Rd at Sydney Uni)
when: wednesday 1st October, 7pm til we play all the music…..

Lorna and Charles Webster, last CDR session in July 2008.