The new album Yes To Fear, Yes To Desire is currently at the pressing plant in Melbourne and will be released on Sensory Projects on the 8th August 2009.
Here is a taste of the artwork, featuring the beautiful illustrations by Steve Phillips:
In anticipation of the new and upcoming Panoptique Electrical album Yes To Fear, Yes To Desire on Sensory Projects (release date 8 August), I wanted to announce the five city Australian tour dates:
August 2009
Adelaide – Friday 7 - EMU Space: Adelaide University
Mount Gambier (SA) – Sunday 9 - Varcoe’s Foundry
Melbourne – Thursday 13 – The Curtin Bandroom
Canberra – Wednesday 19 – Front Gallery & Café
Sydney – Sunday 23 - Don’t Look Gallery
As of today, I can proudly announce that I will be working as the composer on State Theatre Company of SA’s production of King Lear, which has a season from 31 October – 21 November this year at the Dunstan Playhouse.
From about mid-year onwards, I am being commissioned to develop new sound work for the Belgium based performance company, SOIT. The project is called WE WAS THEM and the sound will be developed concurrently via remote correspondance and onsite in Brussels in Sept/Oct.
I am currently seeking admissions and submissions from a willing public: recorded and/or written stories, sounds, noise, anecdotes, nightmares and confessionals about attempts at living a life online.
Some questions to consider:
When living a life on the internet, what kind of connections, good or bad or indifferent, do you make? Do you make real friends or imaginary ones? Do you make love online? Is there flesh contact or constant ether? Did you think you knew someone, only to find out a) they didn’t exist in the first place or b) were constantly telling lies? Do you feel more connected or more isolated when socialising on the inter-web?
This material will be gathered as a kind of sonic library to be developed into an audio-museum project called Faceless Music – http://www.faceless-music.net –
Part One of this project is entitled: Alone & Lonely. It is about building an anti-social networking environment, devoid of faces, emptied of visual stimulation.
Submit your recordings (mp3), video links, texts or any media fragments to:
admissions (at) faceless-music.net
OR http://faceless-music.ning.com
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This project is being assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
To be researched, composed and created as part of an Inter-arts Office Self-Initiated Residency at CIA Studios, Perth WA, Australia (November 2008 – January 2009).