The Audio Foundation presents a festival of immersive music, surround sound and deep listening. Through quadraphonic, octaphonic and dodecaphonic sound systems, portable speakers, massive analogue synthesiser arrays, multiple radios and more - the festival promises unique technological listening experiences from a lineup of extraordinary international and local performers and composers.
Night 1!
Suzanne Ciani (USA)
Flo Wilson - LIVE
Thembi Soddell (AUS)
Concepcion Huerta (MX)
JIM-S (MX) - LIVE
mHz (IRAN) - LIVE
Artist Bios
SUZANNE CIANI
Suzanne is a five-time Grammy award-nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, and neo-classical recording artist who has released over 20 solo albums including Seven Waves, and The Velocity of Love, along with a landmark quad LP “LIVE Quadraphonic,” which restarted her Buchla modular performances. Her work has been featured in films, games, and countless commercials as well.
She was inducted into the first class of Keyboard Magazine's Hall of Fame alongside other synth luminaries, including Bob Moog, Don Buchla and Dave Smith and received the Moog Innovation Award. Most recently, she is the recipient of the Independent Icon Award from A2IM.
https://vimeo.com/220413786
https://vimeo.com/480521992
https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/buchla-concerts-1975
THEMBI SODDELL
Thembi Soddell is a sound and installation artist, electroacoustic composer, and practice-based researcher with an interest in psychology, perception, extreme emotion, and the subjectivity of experience. They work with the sampler, generating sounds from field recordings, instrument textures, played found objects, and synthesis to form surreal and ambiguous realisations of place and experience. These volatile, filmic sound worlds often exploit the dynamic extremes, toying with a listener's sense of expectation and disquiet.
https://www.thembisoddell.com
https://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2019/01/thembi-soddell-the-experiential-impact-of-trauma-interview-by-paranoid/
https://soundcloud.com/thembi-soddell/the-absence-of-inclination
CONCEPCION HUERTA
Keen documentarian of the experimental scene in Mexico for more than five years, Concepción Huerta has extended her creative practice of visual media towards sound design. With a constant activity in the noise, improv and audiovisual collaboration circuit, she creates aural textures of narrative background with ambient and noise as pillars. Concepción has an EP for Vorágine, an album for Static Discos, Personal Territories (2019), an upcoming release with the Amor Muere ensemble and an extensive list of collaborations that include artists like Turning Torso, Fernando Vigueras, CNDSD, Nika Milano and Viian.
https://concepcionhuerta.bandcamp.com/album/lost-time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVRPUsbo4_Y
mHz
Mo H. Zareei aka. mHz is an electronic musician, sound artist, and researcher. Using custom-built software and hardware, his experiments with sound range from electronic compositions to kinetic sound-sculptures and audiovisual installations. Regardless of the medium, Zareei’s work aims to highlight the beauty in the basics of sound and light production, and reductionist audiovisual elements that draw inspiration from physical and architectural principles.
Publishing his electronic music projects under the moniker mHz, Zareei’s albums have been released on Important Records (US), Leerraum (CH), and Kasuga Records (DE).
FLO WILSON
Flo Wilson is an emerging composer, performer and artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland, Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Her creative interests include computer music, embodied performance, spatial sound design and immersive installations. In particular she is curious about the relationships between people and technology; how technology can extend, reduce and manipulate our modes of being.
http://www.flowilson.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ucCxyb3N4
JIM-S
Jimmy Solórzano is an electronic musician and sound artist from Guadalajara, México. He holds a Bachelor of Audio Engineering from SAE Institute in Mexico City, and has been active as a recording engineer and music producer since 2015. Throughout 2020 Jimmy has worked as the in-house technician at the Audio Foundation, as well as developing bespoke electronic musical devices and workshops for the Musical Electronics Library. His principal creative focuses are performative and generative electronic music and his recent work has explored creative means of incorporating natural sounds into installation and performance contexts, as well as the development of different forms of psychoacoustic expression.
