Past Projects - Selected Audio Performance
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2011 / 2010 / 2009 /2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005
2012
Crests & Troughs
manipulated live and prerecorded vocal material, pretty/dirty crests and troughs, beats, sampling, re-mix, found sound
Featuring -
Gail Priest
Shannon O’Neill
Roger Mills
Scott Saunders
Thursday 7 June 6.30pm
@ Bon Marche Studio 755 Harris Street, Ultimo
University of Technology, Sydney
Women of Note - Book Launch
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Celebrating the launch of the book Women of Note by Rosalind Appleby (Freemantle Press). with performances by Cat Hope & Decibel, Gail Priest, Betty Beath, Anne Carr-Boyd & Cathie Travers Feb 25, 5pm Click here for more info |
the NOW now 2012
Improv quartet
GAIL PRIEST (Voice & Electronics),
IAN PIETERSE (Baritone Sax),
JEREMY TATAR (Flute) &
TONY OSBORNE (Voice & Electronics)
Saturday Jan 21, 2012
@ The Red Rattler
http://thenownow.net/2012-festival/
2011
psh.live
Tony Osborne, Gail Priest, Whale + Cheng
voice business
Sunday, October 30, 2pm - 6pm
PSH Gallery
118 Terry Street
Rozelle, Australia
www.anyplaceprojects.com/psh-live/
& Facebook
The Gate
Raven
Part-timer / Scissors & Cellotape / Upward Arrows
Ollie Brown
Gail Priest
A line-up curated by Peter Hollo of FBi Radio's Utility Fog, this night will feature a diverse mix of organic sounds meeting and being intermingled with technological counterparts to form something altogether new and exciting.
July 30
The Gate @ Pablo & Rusty's Specialty Coffee
42 Langston Place, Epping
flyer
2010

UNCOORDINATED #10
Sonic Acts
with
Ronnu Panda - vocals/laptops
MADHEAD - solo vocals/electronics
Cornelius Cardew Commemorative Choircurated
(and with interludes) by Gail Priest
November 27, 2010
Fraser Studios
Presentiments from the Spider Garden CD Launch
with live sets by
Gail Priest
Raven (Peter Hollo/FourPlay)
Jon Watts
Sounds of Homes (Shane Fahey, Tegan Northwood, Honi Ryan)
November 6, 2010
Hardware Gallery
http://www.endgame.com.au
Tomutonntu (Finland)
Horse Macgyver, Gail Priest
October 17, 2010
Serial Space
Sept/Oct - Europe Jaunt!
Cafe Wendel, Berlin, Germany
Gail Priest (Aus)
Arnaud Laprêt solo (France)
September 7, 2010
http://www.nstp.de/nstp/frameset-wendel.htm
wonderwep
September 16, 2010
Loos Studios, Den Haag, Netherlands
www.loosfoundation.com
Steim
with Astro Twin (Ami Yoshida & Utah Kawasaki)
dj sniff
Sun Sept 19
Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://www.steim.org/steim/
Ptarmigan
September 24, 2010
Helsinki, Finland
http://www.ptarmigan.fi/en/pages/frontpage
Sound Series
Kusum Normoyle, Jon Hunter, Mike Majkowski & Jim Denley,
Automating, Gail Priest
August 20, 2010
@ Hardware Gallery

Jon Rose, Candied Limbs, Gail Priest, Malcolm Riddoch
free non-idiomatic improv and noise meets laptop across the sounds of a roomSunday
July 4, 2010
Serial Space
Superdeluxe@Artspace
part of the Biennale of Sydney 2010
An evening of heavy ecstasy with
Machine Death
Mandala Trap
Gail Priest (guest programmer)
July 3, 2010
Artspace - The Gunnery Building
Woolloomooloo
Endgame Records presents
A Cloakroom Assembly's Territory + Population Launch
A Cloakroom Assembly
Pimmon
Shane Fahey
A Slow Rip
Gail Priest
June 19, 2010
Megaphon Studios
http://www.endgame.com.au/
photo Sam James
the NOW now series #3
The Artist Formerly Known As "The Artist Formally Known As Doctor Deaf" - Solo Reunion Performance Featuring Gary Butler
Gail Priest - laptop, vocals with Anna Chase - vocals, accordion
A first time collaboration that we suspect might yield velvety swathes, pretty shards and hints of song
Simon O'Rorke (New Zealand) - drums, percussion / Jack Dibben - guitar / Milica Stefanovic - electric bass
May 17, 2010
@ Serial Space
http://thenownow.net/
2009
Peats Ridge Festival
December 30, 2009
http://www.peatsridgefestival.com.au/
photo Sam James
1/4_inch
Rob Hughes, Gail Priest, Mark Brown & Khaled Sabsabi, Emma Russak and Alec Marshall and Sounds Of Homes
August 22, 2008
www.1-4inch.com
2008
Electronic Church, Berlin

Gail Priest + Sam James (Australia)
Recent audiovisual experiments from Calcutta, Prague & Glasgow
Fabrizio Nocci + Philipp Geist
see a snippet on YouTube and some documentation of the performance (very dark) on Vimeo.
Thanks to Stephane.
June 19, 2008
Electronic Church
2007
Circadian Rhythms

Featuring: Tarab, Jim Denley & Gail Priest
Guest curator: Gail Priest
September 14, 2007
Artspace
Electrofringe/This is Not Art
An evening of performances from Electrofringe artists in the great outdoors. Featuring: Gail Priest, Secret Killer Of Names, Ross F Manning, Hetleveiker, Fugal Queese, Undecisive God, Anna Chase
September 30, 2007
Newcastle
www.electrofringe.net
Immersion: Electrical Empathy

ARTISTS/PRODUCERS Samuel James & Gail Priest
COLLABORATORS Cicada (Nick Ritar, Kirsten Bradley), Scott Morrison, Peter Newman, Jason Sweeney & Ai Yamamoto
June 11 - 16, 2007
Performance Space @ CarriageWorks
2006
Imaginary conversations in reverberant rooms Debut CD
with sets by
gail priest and her co-producers:
julian knowles, peter blamey, jasper streit
video interludes by sam james
more info
November 1, 2006
Lan Franchi's Memorial Discotheque
Ten[d]ancy
Elizabeth Bay House A one-off sound performance at the historic Elizabeth Bay House to accompany the Tend[d]ancy exhibition. Gail Priest will create a multi-channel composition utilising the unique history and qualities of several rooms of the house.
The Tend[d]ancy exhibition (July 8-Oct 22) includes works by Shaun Gladwell, Gary Carsley, Hannah Furmage, Jonathan Jones, Claire Healey + Sean Cordeiro + Martin Blum + Simone Fuchs.
Curated by Sally Breen & Tania Doropolous
August 18, 2006
Elizabeth Bay House
Liquid Architecture 7
Performance Space The Sydney leg of the annual Liquid Architecture festival of sound arts. Concert 1 featuring:
Pimmon
Dean Roberts (NZ)
Greg Davis & Jeph Jerman (USA)
Donna Hewitt & Julian Knowles
Gail Priest
July 6, 2006
Performance Space
Gail Priest also included on the Liquid Architecture 7 CD sampler
2005
Typhoon - performing sound
An extreme and diverse series of performances drawing on experimental musics from the areas of noise, rock, improv and digital. The event will be a beguiling clash of overtly physical performances—highly performative, although not necessarily body oriented works.
Program 1: Haco, Joyce Hinterding, Robin Fox, Fast Mountain Die
Program 2: Jojo Hiroshige, Lovely Midget, Gail Priest, Stasis Duocurated by Caleb K.
October, 21-22, 2005
Artspace
photo Mr. Snow
Electrofringe
Live audio visual perfomance with Samuel James (video) for Elec-Sonic BBQ.
October 3, 2005
TPI House, Newcastle
Continuum Sax - 4 x 4
Continuum Sax, in collaboration with sound artist Gail Priest, present an exciting concert that includes the world premiere of a new work for saxophone quartet by Jane Stanley, the Australian premiere of Rolf Gehlhaar's Divine Wind, a new work for saxophone and electronics devised by Gail Priest and Continuum Sax, and a performance of Andrew Ford's Four Winds to mark the launching of Continuum Sax' second CD.
Margery Smith, soprano sax; James Nightingale, alto sax; Martin Kay, tenor sax; Jarrod Whitbourn, baritone sax; and special Guest Artist: Gail Priest, Sound Artist
August 20, 2005
Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The Audiotheque 2005: Finding The Signal In The Noise
ABC's The Night Air present an evening of live audio experimentation with sound and visual artists Ben Byrne, Shannon O’Neill, Pimmon, Joyce Hinterding, Rik Rue, Gail Priest, Ivan Lisyak, Sherre Delys, and Fold. Presented in association with The Media Department at Macquarie University. The Audiotheque 2005: Finding The Signal In The Noise
was broadcast nationally on September 18 2005 at 8.30pm
August 27, 2005
ABC Studio 22, ABC Centre







