Some of our recent releases:

201509:the austraLYSIS Electroband History goes everywhere (Tall Poppies 234)

201209: Roger Dean's double-cd of solo and computer interactive piano work, MULTI-PIANO (Tall Poppies 225).

"getting out there .... quite a survey" (Julian Day, ABC 20130302). The Wire (2013 Vol 51) says: "The CD shows Dean 'earning his jazz colours, and wnds up three decades on' ... Rollin for Harry, Metagroove Blue and The Monk's Habit are pleasingly unfussy and technically quick-witted. .... [the first has] shellac boogie-woogie spilling towards harmonic free-for-alls as Dean nudges his gears towards a double time. .... [In] Breaking in the Song .. Dean makes resourceful use of the inside of his instrument: sounds folding through and around each other with a logic that can never b[e] quite pinned down. "

2012: Re-released of Cycles, Superimpositions and Dualyses (formerly on vinyl on Mosaic and SOMA), together with bonus unreleased material. Double CD, SOMA 788.

2011: Re-release of the 'Wings of the Whale' CD (Soma), or digital download, live streaming, or cd purchase: via Amazon, CDBaby, iTunes and Spotify.

Hazel Smith's 2008 book/cd of poems and performance work The Erotics of Geography is published by TinFish, USA, and contains several of her sound and intermedia works created in collaboration with austraLYSIS.

SONIC STONES : 2006 CD release on Tall Poppies. Contains an acousmatic composition by Dean, Piano Stones, and a major improvisation, given live to the Web, by the Electroband. The cover is by Peter Lyssiotis.

BOOK PUBLICATIONS

Hazel Smith's 2005 book 'The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing' is available  in Australia, UK and US.  It can be ordered at any time from the Allen and Unwin website.
The book is designed for tertiary level students studying creative writing, and also for the general reader. It takes an experimental approach, stresses step-by-step strategies, and uses literary and cultural theory to illuminate the process of writing. It explores many different types of writing, including  fiction, poetry, mixed genre writing,  writing for performance and writing for new media.  Each chapter is illustrated with extensive student and published examples. The book also has an an accompanying website with additional information and examples of performance and multimedia works.
The link to the book's website is here.

 

The Australian Book Review (May 2005) has a glowing review, noting Hazel as a 'major poet', and describing the book as an innovative contribution, the first of its kind.

Roger Dean's "Sounds from the Corner", a book on Australian jazz and its embodiment on CD, has been published in August 2005 by the Australian Music Centre, from whom it may be purchased.

 

John Shand, writing in Limelight (2005), the magazine about ABC broadcasting, reviews the book positively, saying that 'it provides a marvellous insight into the art... with Dean... himself a prominent improviser, providing subjective commentary. There is also an interesting essay on the state of play...'

EARLIER BOOK/CD/JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Roger Dean has published "Hyperimprovisation: Computer-Interactive Sound Improvisation", with A-R Editions, USA, the major computer music publisher. The volume has 203 pages, and includes a CD-R with 3 sound pieces, several web pieces, software and other items. Composers/creators represented on the cd-r include austraLYSIS and Dean, together with Curtis Bahn, Rod Berry, Paul Hodgson, Darani Lewers, Eric Lyon, Martin Ng, Per-Anders Nilsson, Hazel Smith, Greg White, and Mitchell Whitelaw. See www.areditions.com for ordering and for additional info.

Hazel Smith and Roger Dean have published on 'Voicescapes and Sonic Structures' in Performance Research, 8, 112-123 (2003)

austraLYSIS work is represented on the new cd from the New Music Network, Australia; "Network Sounds: New Music Network New Music from Australia 2002" includes austraLYSIS performing Roger Dean's 'Evolution II for instruments and computer-interactive system', live in Sydney, December 2000. NMN 001. See www.newmusicnetwork.com.au. A limited number of promotional copies are available from Dr.Metagroove@mindless.com, for the cost of the postage.

Hazel Smith and Roger Dean have recently published an academic article on their work the Egg the Cart the Horse the Gate, and its broader creative and educational implications: Smith, H. and Dean, R. T. (2002). "The Egg The Cart The Horse The Chicken: Cyberwriting, Sound, Intermedia." Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer Enhanced Learning 4(1): http://imej.wfu.edu. This is freely available on the web.

Other recent releases:

austraLYSIS/Lysis : "Lysis Lives: Resounding in the Mirror", double CD, on Future Music Records (UK), FMR CD73-0900 (released December 2000). This comprises a reissue of Lysis Live and Lysis Plus (with Ken Wheeler), from the 1970s; together with new music by the austraLYSIS Electroband, recorded Australia, 2000. Price: $30AUD.

Roger Dean, Hazel Smith and austraLYSIS : "Acouslytic", acousmatic and electroacoustic works by Roger Dean. (Tall Poppies, TP 153, released November 2000) Price : $25 AUD.

Hazel Smith's latest volume of short prose, poems and performance texts, keys round her tongue, published 2000:

(ISBN 1 876783 00 1)
Price : $15 (AUD)

 

Hazel Smith is widely published in the areas of poetry, experimental writing, performance, multi-media and hypertext.

 

You can buy from : SOMA ARTS, PO Box 2039, Woolooware, Sydney, NSW 2230, Australia
Tel + 61 2 9501 5399; email : dr.metagroove@mindless.com.

Overseas orders : add 10% for p & p; Australian orders, post free. Payment accepted by cheque in AUD, or pounds sterling. Prices given in AUD (Australian); please convert at the current rate.

Smith brings to the composition of her poems an analytic awareness of the main revolutions in twentieth-century cultural-and specifically linguistic-thinking. Joy Wallace, Southerly.

Hazel Smith's chameleon-like virtuosity with languageglides from parody to narrative to poetry, rhythmically punctuated with incantations, puns, loud questions and statements. Victoria Hammond, Secret Places, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.

The Riting of the Runda is an extraordinary piece-not the least because it is pleasurable, disturbing, eerie, melodious, sensuous, and a mind-game all at the same timechallenging, fascinating and engaging Sonia Mycak, Australian Women's Book Review.

If you are interested in the way rap uses syllables as a percussive unit, you might find in Hazel Smith's complex verbal rhythms a very exciting extension. Sometimes these word constructions evoke the sprung rhythms of Gerard Manley Hopkins and sometimes the musical/verbal webs of Berio. John Clare, Sydney Morning Herald.

Nuraghic Echoes is an extremely interesting addition to a long tradition of Australian innovation in sound poetry, and shows the important new directions that technology is able to take all of the arts. Lindsay Vickery, Sounds Australian.



RELEASED AUGUST 12 , 2000, by the Australian Music Centre:

The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior,  an opera by Colin Bright and Amanda Stewart, performed by the Song Company and austraLYSIS, conducted by Roland Peelman. On Vox Australis VAST028-2.

You can buy this cd from the Australian Music Centre, PO Box N690, Grosvenor Place, NSW 1220; or Argyle Stores, 18 Argyle St, The Rocks, Sydney. Tel + 61 2 9247 4677; or from their web site.