UPCOMING

Gail Priest & Thomas Burless
A continuous self-vibrating region of intensities

with guest devisor/performers Carolyn Connors & Sonya Holowell

 

MELBOURNE SEASON 2020:
The SUBSTATION
July 2020

https://thesubstation.org.au

 

SYNDEY SEASON 2019
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art
Performance Space, Carriageworks
Oct 23-26
6.30pm & 8.30pm

more info

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STEEP ST. 005

with Peter Blamey
& Hour House

Feb 29, 2020
Bathurst St Katoomba
https://www.facebook.com/events/173308693885056/

 

Humming Grotto #6

with Rishin Singh
Johnny Chang

Petersham Bowling Club
Sun March 15, 6-9pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/579038979489155/

 

NEW RELEASES

elbejée
a homeopathic waft of signal

The debut album of improvisational explorations by elbejée (Kathy Hinde [UK] & Gail Priest [Au]). Recorded amongst rutting frogs and all watched over by feisty Shetland cows, these three pieces combine field recordings, synthesised bleeps, processed vocals, mechanised singing bowls, self-playing gongs, bird whistles, wind-up bugs, and bespoke vinyl.

Digital download & Ltd Edition CD (pro print/burn).

https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/

 

Songs from the Omega Point

A post-anthroposcenic package tour to a sun gone supernova.

Digital download & Ltd Edition CDR.
https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/

RECENT PROJECTS: LIVE

SOFT CENTRE 2019

Gail Priest X Karul Projects
(Thomas E.S.Kelly & Taree Sansbury)
present Jogun Maibin

Sept 14, 2019
Casula Powerhouse
https://www.softcentre.com.au

 

Sydney Festival 2019: T5 Tank Project
Mosman Art Gallery

Four new site-specific artworks – by renowned Sydney-based sound artists Chris Caines and Gail Priest, and experimental, multi-disciplinary artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding – premiere at a secret Sydney WWII site. 
https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/t5-tank-sound-project

photo: Tim Conolly

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Room40: Open Frame 2018

William Basinski
Pan Daijing
Drew McDowall presents Coil’s Time Machines
Gail Priest
Ears Have Ears DJs
Carriageworks June 29
http://carriageworks.com.au

 

The Altitude Project 2018

On a Wing & Orographic Lift, two compositions for live performance commissioned for the Altitude Project, curated by Miriam Williamnson & Mahalya Middlemist.

Kingsford Smith Park Sound Shell, Katoomba
February 17, 2018
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RECENT PROJECTS: RELEASES & RADIO

 

Radia-Diffusion FM 91.9
Vietnam: through open windows & empty rooms

A 28 minute radio exploration of sonic tourism
Streaming 18 June - 24 June, 2018
http://radia.fm

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Heraclitus in Iceland, 2017

Digital download & Ltd Edition CD-R

Composed during a residency in Northern Iceland, Heraclitus in Iceland combines vocal and instrumental improvisations with field recordings that are stretched and twisted to create portals through which the listener may travel to this beautiful brutal land to experience previously untold folktales, forgotten ghost stories and suspected alien invasions.

Availabe through Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Googleplay etc..

Heraclitus in Iceland is one part of the Songmapping Ólafsfjörður project undertaken during the Nor∂andvindur: North Wind Sound Art Residency, Listhus, Iceland, Sept-Oct 2016

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RECENT PROJECTS: INSTALLATION

SonoLexic
Experimenta Make Sense
International Triennial of Media Art 2017-2020

SonoLexic is an exploration of how we process the listening experience through language. Foregrounding the intimate cross-modal association of sound and words, the artwork proposes a new variant of synaesthesia – ‘ideathesia’.

An Experimenta and Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) Commission.

RMIT Gallery
2 October - 11 November 2017
http://experimenta.org/makesense/

National Tour 2018-2020

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Runic Engine: Industrial Dreaming

Sonoretum, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana

8-channel sound installation in public space
A chance-based compositional structure derived from the format of a simple reading of the divinatory symbols called Runes.

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MAJOR PROJECT
Sounding the Future 2014-2017

Australia Council Emerging & Experimental Arts Fellowship

Sounding the Future brings together the worlds of speculative fiction and audio art. It is an intensive program of research and creative development that will seek to predict what art in future will sound like. This act of prediction is inevitably informed by the present and thus it will also take stock of the sound of art today.

Sounding the Future resulted in a body of ficto-critical works delivered via gallery installation, radiophonic presentation and e-publishing.

Outcomes

2017
Sounding the Future - UTS Gallery

UTS Gallery, 1 August - 22 September
featuring: George Poonkhin Khut, Pia van Gelder & Tom Smith, Peter Blamey
curated by Gail Priest

http://www.soundingthefuture.com/curatedexhibition.html

Sounding the Future e-publication

Exhibition catalogue and interactive hyptertext presenting the body of work developed for the Sounding the Future exhibition, in multitouch iBook format and interactive PDF

http://www.soundingthefuture.com/epub/index.html

 

2016
ISEA2016 Hong Kong

Sounding the Future presented as part of the Juried Exhibition
May 18 - 22
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Hong Kong

ABC's Soundproof

3 fiction streams from STF adapted for radio
Episode 1: Sound Shot - Sept 23
Episdoe 2: Battery Life - Oct 7
Episode 3: Green [glitch] zone - Oct 28

Welltuned City in continent journal

One stream from Sounding the Future presented as part of the Acoustic Infrastructures edition of continent journal

 

2015
.moveON, Werkleitz

Exhibition of the 1st iteration of the Sounding the Future project.
9-25 October, 2015
Halle, Germany

Impakt Festival, Utrecht

Artist panel presenting STF  - The Secret Life of Technology
1 November, 2015

 

See the Sounding the Future website for more information.