Listening Vault

Exhibits, current and earlier, are archived here.

Skin rubbed smooth

What lies beneath, skin next to other skins, the outer interior of objects, excised stories. Stylus on wax, like a tattoo. Chisel and brush, pigment. An imagined layering of hides and rind and peel. Fifteen short works answer these many hollers in Earlid’s fourth annual Liminal Sounds. LISTEN

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Skin rubbed smooth

What lies beneath, skin next to other skins, the outer interior of objects, excised stories. Stylus on wax, like a tattoo. Chisel and brush, pigment. An imagined layering of hides and rind and peel. Fifteen short works answer these many hollers in Earlid’s fourth annual Liminal Sounds. LISTEN

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Dance of dream-led masses

If we are dancing a dream of ignorance around our planet’s future, perhaps a sound can pry open some of the residual oblivion. Two transmission artists, Anna Friz and Victoria Estok, consider environmental ruin—as witness-listener and as a kind of poetic intruder. LISTEN.

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Dance of dream-led masses

If we are dancing a dream of ignorance around our planet’s future, perhaps a sound can pry open some of the residual oblivion. Two transmission artists, Anna Friz and Victoria Estok, consider environmental ruin—as witness-listener and as a kind of poetic intruder. LISTEN.

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Where voices warp and swell

A woman’s cathartic scream skewers the foul-mouthed patriarchy. Four songstresses traverse the kinetic and vocal precipices of sonic artistry: Gelsey Bell and Sky High Diamonds, Kala Pierson and Kathy Kennedy. Play these songs when you need an echolocation to blip yourself to empowerment. LISTEN

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Where voices warp and swell

A woman’s cathartic scream skewers the foul-mouthed patriarchy. Four songstresses traverse the kinetic and vocal precipices of sonic artistry: Gelsey Bell and Sky High Diamonds, Kala Pierson and Kathy Kennedy. Play these songs when you need an echolocation to blip yourself to empowerment. LISTEN

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Radio’s Art

“Refreshing to read considered musings on the rich world of sound/radio/art …beyond the myopic borders of ‘storytelling’ podcasts.”
—Russell Stapleton, ABC/Australia

 

Practitioner-listeners, agile critics, experimenters of the air offer the long-tail of history and a bit of static. We open our ears to its public sounding. Ten written mini-provocations, more than 100 comments, downloadable PDF. READ MORE.

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Radio’s Art

“Refreshing to read considered musings on the rich world of sound/radio/art …beyond the myopic borders of ‘storytelling’ podcasts.”
—Russell Stapleton, ABC/Australia

 

Practitioner-listeners, agile critics, experimenters of the air offer the long-tail of history and a bit of static. We open our ears to its public sounding. Ten written mini-provocations, more than 100 comments, downloadable PDF. READ MORE.

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Right-Ear Dominant

Lift the veil upon a kind of curiosity. Cock the right ear. Eight short works offer the sonic body itself: organs and skin, a single knotted torso; the body of proof and lies; the wordy body, disembodied like a radio voice; a murdered body; and romantic suicide fiction. Sound artists consider language and meaning. LISTEN.

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Right-Ear Dominant

Lift the veil upon a kind of curiosity. Cock the right ear. Eight short works offer the sonic body itself: organs and skin, a single knotted torso; the body of proof and lies; the wordy body, disembodied like a radio voice; a murdered body; and romantic suicide fiction. Sound artists consider language and meaning. LISTEN.

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(A) Generative Engine

Think of a page in a book. Are the words the ink or the paper containing the shape of this ink? And what of its sounds? Seth Guy’s The LiteraryMix, Joan Schuman’s Plausible Narration, and Caroline Bergvall’s Together. MORE

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(A) Generative Engine

Think of a page in a book. Are the words the ink or the paper containing the shape of this ink? And what of its sounds? Seth Guy’s The LiteraryMix, Joan Schuman’s Plausible Narration, and Caroline Bergvall’s Together. MORE

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Over Yonder Horror

A whispered libretto; the dark, inky sea; passage and stasis. Radio artists Gregory Whitehead and Scott Carrier plow the space between empathy and witnessing in new sonic worlds. LISTEN + READ.

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Over Yonder Horror

A whispered libretto; the dark, inky sea; passage and stasis. Radio artists Gregory Whitehead and Scott Carrier plow the space between empathy and witnessing in new sonic worlds. LISTEN + READ.

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solace & friction

“Hometown is where your hair is hidden, wrapped up in the skin of your friends, tucked under the bridge of lingo, sealed in the locket around your first love’s neck …” Radio artists Dragan Todorovic and Pip Stafford consider the unraveling of home, language and other intersections. LISTEN + READ.

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solace & friction

“Hometown is where your hair is hidden, wrapped up in the skin of your friends, tucked under the bridge of lingo, sealed in the locket around your first love’s neck …” Radio artists Dragan Todorovic and Pip Stafford consider the unraveling of home, language and other intersections. LISTEN + READ.

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The Intermediary

Noisy dreams, ghostly emissary, silent harbingers of the ungraspable. Ten artists consider Earlid’s second Liminal Sounds. Ten short works beckon with intimate gestures that audibly ponder what comes between. LISTEN.

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The Intermediary

Noisy dreams, ghostly emissary, silent harbingers of the ungraspable. Ten artists consider Earlid’s second Liminal Sounds. Ten short works beckon with intimate gestures that audibly ponder what comes between. LISTEN.

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“Listening is a sacrifice.” — Christopher DeLaurenti

It is a giving of mortality, says the composer of his protest symphony comprised of social media’s live, uploaded, ongoing, complicit memories of Ferguson. And had its premier on Australian radio.LISTEN/READ MORE.

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“Listening is a sacrifice.” — Christopher DeLaurenti

It is a giving of mortality, says the composer of his protest symphony comprised of social media’s live, uploaded, ongoing, complicit memories of Ferguson. And had its premier on Australian radio.LISTEN/READ MORE.

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