I'd like to let you know about a couple of recent releases
of mine. The first of these is the new LP 'Sieve' by the duo 'Helium Clench',
published by the Polish Label 'Bocian'.
And the second is the book I've coauthored "Designing
Sound for Health and Wellbeing" published by Australian Scholarly
Publishing, which provides an overview of my recent PhD research project. The
official release of the book takes place at RMIT University next Wednesday
night. Details of the launch are listed on the invite below.
I have limited copies of both releases so if you'd like to
contact me via email we can organise a way to get copies to you.
"Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing" can be
purchased directly from
Scholarly and there will also be copies available at
the launch.
New LP 'Sieve' by Helium Clench.
Shadows gather
under cardboard where animal dreams and cello bows struggle to hold off
electricity. Sounds of bells are rushed, entangled with rain, through measly
slots between tightly crosshatched wires. This fabricates perforated fragments
of seeing. These fragments adhere in the air to form a soft abrasive paper,
fancied by the remote ones.
As a duo Tim Catlin and David Brown
come together as ‘Helium Clench’ and boast long histories in the Melbourne and
international avant-garde music world. Both have independently developed a
fascination with microtonal sound through Catlin’s construction of harmonic
overtone guitars and alternatively tuned metal rod instruments, and in Brown’s
case through his explorations using the quartertone bass guitar. ‘Sieve’, their
first duo recording is a studio-based project that amalgamates electroacoustic
strategies, bowed objects and processed acoustic and electric instruments.
Initial recordings focused on improvisational processes along with bowing of
acoustic instruments and found objects, whilst other recordings utilized
electronically processed electric guitar beds. All of these recordings were
then subject to rigorous studio production techniques to shape the final
compositions.
New book "Designing
Sound for Health and Wellbeing"
Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing investigates ways
in which sound and music compositions can ease the stress and anxiety of
patients located in a hospital Emergency Department. The aim of this
collaborative research project, comprising a team of composers, art producers
and historians, writers, emergency medicine practitioners and health psychology
researchers, was to test the function of environmental and electroacoustic
music compositions especially produced for patients in the Emergency Department
of St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. The research and findings of this project
provide new knowledge of the impact and use of sound and music in Emergency
Medicine and the physical effect of sound and musical compositions on human health
in general.
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The DSHW book provides an overview of my recent doctoral research project and
is saturated with photographs by myself and John Billan that capture the
Emergency Department in a forensic-style. My co-authors are: Elizabeth
Grierson, George Jelinek, Keely Macarow, Philip Samartzis, Tracey Weiland and
Craig Winter.
Come along, hear the compositions and discover more about how
arts and health are working together.
DATE:
Wednesday 22 May, 2013
TIME:
6pm - 7.30pm
LOCATION:
RMIT Design Hub, corner of
Swanston and Victoria Streets Level 1,
Multipurpose Room Foyer
SUPPORTED BY:
Australian Research Council
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
RMIT School of Art
RMIT Design Research Institute
(forwarded from Dave Brown)
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