Seven sound artists, seven hours, seven locations. On Sunday 8 May 2016 Radio Queens Julia Drouhin and Pip Stafford led a sound walk around the Yarra River between 11am and 6pm, broadcast live via 3CR. Developed through Next Wave’s Emerging Curators Program, Sisters Akousmatica is a partnership with Liquid Architecture for Next Wave Festival 2016. Presented in association with Signal and 3CR. For more information and to find the walking tour head to www.nextwave.org.au
Full details below. Stream the broadcast Live @ http://www.3cr.org.au/streaming
3CR presents Sunday 8 May, 11am to 6pm
Acknowledgement of Country - Robbie Thorpe Listen here
11am Sisters Akousmatica Walking Tour @Site 1: Listen here
Performance Shani Mohini-Holmeswith Georgie Darvidis. Shani is a Melbourne based improvising vocalist and performance-maker. A hybrid performer, Shani explores “non-musical” gestures as well, such as spoken word/conversation, repeated silent motions and “contact improvisation”. Listen here
11:30am Libby Jamieson and Meg Butler discuss the history of 3CR's unique LIVE-TO-AIR tech training. Listen here
11:45am Michael Smith (Let Your Freak Flag Fly) in conversation with Shani Mohini-Holmes and Georgie Darvidis Listen here
12pm Sisters Akousmatica Walking Tour @ Site 2: Listen here
Performance Sally Ann McIntyre. radio cegeste is the sound project of Sally Ann McIntyre, who is is a writer, radio and sound artist based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Listen here
12:30pm Libby Jamieson and Meg Butler continue the discussion of 3CR's unique LIVE-TO-AIR tech training. Listen here
12:45pm Leanne McLean (3CR's Training Coordinator and one half of Apartment of Sound) in conversation with Sally Ann McIntyre. Listen here
1pm Sisters Akousmatica Walking Tour @Site 3 Listen here
Performance Rosalind Hall. Rosalind works with a multitude of sound technologies and tools such as a modified saxophone, home made instruments, percussion, field recordings and processing software to create live music and soundtracks. Listen here
1:30pm Join some of 3CR 's past and present sound techs. Listen here
1:45pm Leanne McLean (3CR's Training Coordinator and one half of Apartment of Sound) and Rosalind Hall in conversation. Listen here
2pm Sisters Akousmatica Walking Tour @Site 4 Listen here
Performance Angela Garrick: Sydney based artist and musician. Her practice examines notions of spatial awareness, geographic phenomena and kitsch. Listen here
2:20pm Women In Experimental Music: with Leanne McLean and Melbourne based vocalist, composer and pianist, Carolyn Connors. Listen here
2:45pm Thanh Hằng (Queering The Air) and Angie Garrick in conversation. Listen here
3pm Sisters Akousmatica Walking Tour @Site 5 Listen here
Performance Kate Geck. Kate is an installation artist working with digital and sensory space. Listen here
3:20pm Further conversation from some of 3CR 's past and present sound techs. Listen here
3:45pm Thanh Hằng (Queering The Air) and Kate Geck in conversation. Listen here
4pm Sisters Akousmatica Walking Tour @Site 6 Listen here
Performance eves . eves performs wavering, melodic blur-loops of harmonic oscillations using voice and effected pure tone, field recordings, drawn strings and minimal rhythms. Listen here
4:30pm The art of Curation. Ari and Miranda from sound art and media collective (no) Signal. Listen here
4:45pm Nina B (Sweet Dreams) and eves in conversation. Listen here
5pm Sisters Akousmatica Walking Tour @Site 7 Listen here
Performance Ela Stiles. Ela is a prolific Sydney-based musician, industrious in her output as both a solo artist and founding member of critically acclaimed bands Songs and Bushwalking. Listen here
5:30pm Sista Zai (Hip Sista Hop) is a storyteller who uses spoken word to explore the political through her personal and lived everyday experiences. Zai’s storytelliing-based social justice work started out within the Stillwaters Women’s Storytelling Collective, a project she initiated in 2011 and this work continues through another project, The Pan Afrikan Poets Cafe (www.facebook.com/panafrikanpoets), which she initiated in 2015. Listen here
5:40pm Nina B (Sweet Dreams) and Ela Stiles in conversation. Listen here
5:50pm From the Archives: Footscray's Ambient Orchestras. Listen here
6pm - Closing words Listen Here