austraLYSIS and SOMA ARTS
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"phenomenal musicianship" (Sydney Morning Herald); "cutting edge...eclectic...consummate" (BBC Radio 3); "a fascinating complex interaction of ... sonic patterns of textural virtuosity" (Sydney Morning Herald). austraLYSIS (Will Luers, video, programming; Hazel Smith, text; and Roger Dean, sound) won the 2018 international Robert Coover Prize for their recombinant intermedia work novelling. INFO.

Events(Australia and Abroad) and Recent Works

Events/Sydney performances: 20240315 Dualling released on Earshift 085: see below (supported by Create NSW)! 202402 pre-release of Trumpet Pelog (from Dualling), on Bandcamp, and an Earshift sampler item track 10 ; Roger Dean/Matt McMahon played a 2 piano set Monday Confessions Sydney 20240212: see the 'hymn-sheet'prepared by composer-host Guy Gross here. austraLYSIS presented 20231114 at Tempe Jets , 202312 at Monday Confessions. In current performances, and earlier at People's Republic (20230507) we're presenting pieces from Dualling in old and new versions (duos of people, person/media, person/machine).202310: Roger Dean presented a "Hook" public lecture/performance (Sydney Conservatorium), on creativity in music. See the video. austraLYSIS (Torbjörn Hultmark and Roger Dean) appeared in Scotland and England, 202310. 202305 Sandy and Roger appeared at the AI for U festival, and Roger played piano in TAKA, with Trevor Brown (winds) and Clayton Thomas (bass) at Tempe Jets. Our piece Dolphins in the Reservoir was shortlisted (5 from 50) for the 2023 international new media writing prize and presented at the Electronic Literature Conference, Coimbra, Portugal (202307), and the online Wild Media (USA) conference. At the Art Gallery of New South Wales (202209), Dean presented his new work for 1 live/two virtual pianos), Regeneration: human-machine-human, responding to Katie Paterson's Earth Moon Earth installation (using a Disklavier automated grand piano). It was also heard 202212 in MARCS Institute's new performance space.

 

LATEST MAJOR WORKS

 

austraLYSIS new CD DUALLING (2024; Earshift 085) is now available through Bandcamp and MGM distribution! It features duos between people, environments, text, machines, and electroacoustic compositions. It's created by Roger Dean(composition, piano, electronics); Sandy Evans(saxophones); Phil Slater(trumpet); Hazel Smith(text, text-performer); and Greg White(electronics). 8 additional dualling pieces, including two audio-visual works, are freely available on this web site together with detailed sleeve notes.

 


 

Hazel Smith's ECLIPTICAL (2022), a volume of poetry (with associated multimedia work), available as book/ebook from Spineless Wonders. Hazel was in performance, in conversation with critic Anne Brewster, and with appreciation by Joy Wallace, consideration of the multimedia by Roger Dean, and a Q&A, at Spineless Wonders' writers series 202206 view ONLINE.


 

The flyer describing the work is here. Order a copy here.

A new web piece (2022) of electronic literature, Dolphins in the Reservoir , by Will Luers(image, coding), Hazel Smith(text) and Roger Dean(sound). The piece premiered at the international Electronic Literature Conference (ELC), Como, Italy (202205) and then at ELC Coimbra, Portugal (2023); it next appears in 'Wild Media', the exhibition of the International Digital Media and Art Assocation (iDMAaA) conference, Winona, Michigan, USA (202406).It was published (202212) by the leading journal of digital art and literature The New River. A screen shot is below, and another contributes the cover of our Dualling CD.


 

 

202111, austraLYSIS and MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University present: The Music of Science, the Science of Music (the Milperra Sessions)

Four videos, twelve performances, discussion of the works' creation by austraLYSIS members and guests; one ArtsScience video, discussion of the science of music production, performance and perception by MARCS researchers. New music and intermedia work by Hazel Smith, Sieglinde Karl-Spence, Jo Thomas(UK), Charles Martin, Roger Dean and austraLYSIS. Duration 3h, and program notes are included in the FindOut. See also John Shand's article Sydney Morning Herald (20211110), and our Limelight article on making the unfamiliar become familiar.


 

The videos are also available on the Australian Music Centre YouTube Channel, where there is an introductory article from their online journal Resonate.


Heimlich Unheimlich, an installation work by Sieglinde Karl-Spence and Hazel Smith, in an austraLYSIS collaboration, was shown at Dogwood Crossing, Miles, Queensland 202302-03 and previously at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (South Sydney) 202011, and in Edith Cowan University Gallery 25 Perth, WA (202106). Currently a book form is in press with Apothecary.

 



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from Hypnagogia (Will Luers/austraLYSIS, 2013)

 

austraLYSIS is based in Sydney and London; it was a founder member of the former New Music Network. Contact: PO Box 6, Cronulla, NSW 2230, Sydney, Australia. Tel + 61 481 309612; email : roger.dean@westernsydney.edu.au