Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia Gail Priest is a sound artist, writer and curator. On this site you will find information on recordings, upcoming activities, an archive of past projects in live audio presentation, curation, sound design for performance and radio. You can also find a selection of critical writing on sound, media arts.
News & Upcoming Events
the NOW now 2012
6.30
LAURA ALTMAN (Clarinet) &
PETER FARRAR (Alto Sax)
With members of HUMUNGUS PONY
7.10
GAIL PRIEST (Voice & Electronics),
IAN PIETERSE (Baritone Sax),
JEREMY TATAR (Flute) &
TONY OSBORNE (Voice & Electronics)
7.40 BREAK
8.00
CHRISTINE ABDELNOUR (Alto Sax) *France* &
RYAN KERNOA (Guitar) *France*
8.40
TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA (No-Input Mixer) *Japan*,
DALE GORFINKEL (Vibraphone) *Melbourne* &
SAM PETTIGREW (Double Bass)
9.20 JENNY HVAL *Norway*
Jenny Hval (Vocals & Guitar),
Havard Volden (Guitar) &
Kyrre Laastad (Drums)
10.00
ROBBIE AVENAIM (Motorised Percussion) *Melbourne* &
MARTIN NG (Turntables)
11.00 SOUND WALK with ANTHONY MAGEN
Saturday Jan 21, 2012
@ The Red Rattler
6 Faversham St
Marrickville
http://thenownow.net/2012-festival/
Audition Records: [ar058]
WONDERWERP
The lovely people at Audition Records have asked the equally wonderful people who run Wonderwerp—a monthly experimental music series in Den Haag—to release a compilation of live recordings. It includes a track from my gig there in Sept 2010.
Click here for info and free download.
Audition Records: [ar024]
SALON BRUIT - Berlin
Curiously, although I've never played Salon Bruit, a vanity google revealed a track of mine on this compilation by Audition Records, documenting the expanded activities of the Salon Bruit team. My track is a improv with Mangrove Kipling (France), from a radio show on Reboot FM back in 2004—my early sound.
Click here for info and free download.
Women of Note - Book Launch
A gig to co-incide with the launch of the book Women of Note by Rosalind Appleby (Freemantle Press).
Feb 25, 2012
Perth (venue & time tbc)
One thing follows another…
April/Oct/Dec
The project One thing follows another will be an in-depth collaborative exploration into the simultaneous composition of music (Gail Priest) and dance (Jane MacKernan). By working in real-time, at the same time, the compositional process will navigate music and dance in dialogue, in argument; in infatuation and ambivalence.
This project has been assisted by the Australia Council through it's Music/Dance initiative.
Recent Activities
VOX - New Weird Australia Volume 10
co-compiled by Gail Priest & Stuart Buchanan exploring the voice in experimental, alternative and eclectic musics.
FREE DOWLOAD AVAILABLE NOW
http://newweirdaustralia.com/2011/08/new-weird-australia-vox/
The Body is a Big Place
installation by Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy
with sound by Gail Priest
The Body is a Big Place by Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy is a new media commission exploring the fluidity between bodily boundaries inherent to the organ transplantation process, the ambiguous boundary between life and death, and the complex and multilayered responses reported by organ transplant recipients.
November 4 - 26
Opening November 3, 6-8
Exhibition open 10am - 5pm
Performances Mon Nov 7 & 21, 5pm (time may vary)
Performance Space
CarriageWorks, Wilson St Eveleigh
www.performancespace.com.au