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CURRENT INFORMATION on austraLYSIS and SOMA Activities
Recent/Upcoming/Ongoing Activities:
JazzGroove Festival 2012: Roger Dean discussed improv in Australia, January 13 2012.
New Music Network December 10, 2011. During 2011 austraLYSIS worked on Playing Film, a program not simply of music for film, but of music and spoken text that drives some filmic pieces, including a new collaboration with American video-artist Will Luers. The program was in the New Music Network series on December 10, 2011 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. An extract of the piece is here, and there is an early version of the piece too.
Kinetic Jazz October 7, 2011. The austraLYSIS Electroband appeared at the Kinetic Jazz Festival, October 7 2011, in Enmore, Sydney. Roger Dean also presened some of his music for an orchestra of improvisers, with the Kinetic Jazz Orchestra, on October 6.
Finitude. Roger Dean also made sound for a major new installation by Keith Armstrong and his team, Finitude, presented first at the Mildura Palimpsest, September 9-11, 2011. The installation was shown in a group occupying a series of rooms the Kar-Rama Motel in the town. Keith Armstrong's Embodied Media web site provides detailed and extensive material on Finitude: documentation, images, video extracts as well as interviews with both Keith himself, and Roger Dean. Next showing: Artisan Gallery, Brisbane, April5 - June9, 2012.
Video Collaboration with Will Luers. This collaboration developed the work Film of Sound, for the New Music Network Event on December 10, 2011.
Commercial and open access releases of austraLYSIS' work:
austraLYSIS commercial work online: we are now available on Amazon, CDBaby, iTunes, and Spotify, and all our Tall Poppies recordings are available for download at the Australian Music Centre.
austraLYSIS Recent Open-Access Releases : Instabilities 2 and Speak
Far and Wide appeared in 2011 in the longstanding US journal Drunken
Boat, volume 12. Also recently published were our pieces Clay
Conversations and two works in the journal Ekleksographia.
See our listen/view page for a broader selection of our work.
See also soundsRite, a journal of online creative work in sound, text and image, founded (2009) and edited by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean.
Other Activities and Earlier Work:
Go to our Recent Work page for more information on some of our other activities.
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