Writing

Gail has written extensively about sound and media arts predominantly for the cross-disciplinary arts magazine RealTime for which she was the Associate Editor (2003-2015) and Online Producer (2011-2015). She was the editor of the historical survey Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia (UNSW Press 2009), part of a four part Australia Council music book series. She has contributed catalogue essays for various artists and was writer-in-residence for Chamber Made's Hi-Viz Symposium 2021. She is currently on the editorial board of the academic journal Sound Stage Screen (University of Milan). She has partiuclar creative and critical interests in science fiction, short form poetry and creative non-fiction. Her PhD, Languages of Listening was on mediated ficto-critical approaches to sonic art-focused sound theory. Below is a selection of her writings across the last 20 years.

See also her sporadic blog - sound/s/words

Academic

Forthcoming: Mediated Sounds

Encyclopedia of New Media Arts Vol 2: Artists and Practice
Editor: Paul Thomas, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Sound Theaters of the 21st Century: Material Functions and Voltaic Performativities

Guest editor of Forum section for Sound Stage Screen, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021)

Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia

Editor and contributor. University of NSW Press, 2009 [Out of Print]

Arts Reviews & Commentary

The Saturday Paper

The Forest Collective: Sun Songs and Cycles

26 November 2022

Chamber Made Writer-in-Residence

Hi-Viz Practice Exchange 2021

November 2021

RealTime archive

Since 2001 Gail has written regularly for RealTime magazine, Australia's leading contemporary arts magazine, prodcuing over 150 articles covering sound & music, media art and hybrid performance. She has also produced over 40 video interviews and mini documentaries for the online version of the magazine.

Sound & Music
Notes from the Sound Underground

RealTime online closing edition

Sonica’s good-looking sounds: Cryptic, Glasgow

RealTime 130 Dec-Jan 2016

You can dance if you want to..., Unsound, Adelaide Festival

RealTime 126 April-May 2015

In Profile: Lawrence English, Wilderness of Mirrors

RealTime online, July 30, 2014

The signals have been waiting for us, Douglas Kahn’s Earth Sound Earth Signal

RealTime 120, April-May 2014

Hectic, eclectic, enthralling, MONA FOMA 2014, Hobart

RealTime 119, February-March 2014

Laurie Anderson: Do dogs aspire to Nirvana?

RealTime April/May 2013

John Cage Centenary, Bang on a Can All-stars: legacies and liberties

RealTime 113, February/March 2013

Laurie Anderson: We are meaning machines

RealTime 112, Dec 2012-Jan 2013

Sounding the festival factory: Ars Electronica 2010, Linz

RealTime 100 December 2010/January 2011

A branching practice: interiew with Haco

RealTime 88 December/January 2008

Time slips in an other place: Yokohama Triennale

RealTime 88 December/January 2008

Listening to the turning world: Sydney Biennale 2008

RealTime 86 August/September 2008

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Catalogue Essays

Our being, our doing, our knowing

Catalogue essay for Alexandra Spence's exhibition The Cities, They Tremble, Metro Arts, 2019

The rational and the fantastical: the morphology of Nigel Helyer

Catalogue essay for Nigel Helyer's BioSonics exhibition, Western Plains Cultural Centre, August 2008

Memory slips, trips and trades

Catalogue essay for Nigel Helyer's Quint de Loup II, January 2007

Creative and Ficto-Critical Writing

Sounding the Future

Shortform speculative fiction developed as part of the Sounding the Future project, in iBook form including audio.

Epiphany in 3 parts

Short speculative fiction, published in Sight Lines, UTS Anthology, XOUM, 2014