Event overview
The online presentation covers the importance of context in sound, and the physical relation between our body and this context underlying sound.
The presentation covers the importance of context in sound, especially with regards to location and duration, and the physical relation between our body and this context underlying sound. Air is discussed as being of particular significance: through its meteorological qualities and their correlation to sound; its correspondence to our corporeality, both by sustaining life and its relation to our mode of being; and also architectural engagements with volumes of air and the way in which architectural space sculpts air and sound via nodes and modes.
Examples explored in the talk include: the current pan-European Open Form Pavilion of Air series of audioworks; work with pipe organ (SIRENE, Bronze Lands, Beyond Enclosures); and work with specific uses of architecture (Threshold Works; James Turrell's Skyspaces used for Climata).
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Bio
Robert Curgenven is an Ireland-based, Australian-born artist creating large-scale audiovisual experiences, installations, performances, and albums. His work emphasizes physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture – that is, the underlying significance of context. His recorded output includes SIRÈNE and Bronze Lands, pipe organ works for his Recorded Fields Editions; Oltre and Built Through for LINE imprint; and Climata, recorded in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces across 9 countries. He has produced works and installations for organizations including National Gallery of Australia, Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), National Museum of Poland (Krakow), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Transmediale (Berlin), Modern Art Museum of Medellin (Columbia), National Sculpture Factory (Ireland), National Film and Sound Archive (Australia) and presented live performances at festivals including Sydney Festival (Sydney Town Hall), Maerzmusik (Kraftwerk Berlin), TodaysArt (The Hague), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Insomnia (Tromsø), Ultrahang (Budapest) and Cork Midsummer. Curgenven is an associate composer with the Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland), has produced radio works internationally including national radio in Australia (ABC Classic FM) and Ireland (RTÉ Lyric FM) and since 2008 has been a guest lecturer in music and sound at Universities, Conservatoriums and tertiary institutions internationally.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jun 2023 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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