Thursday, 15th June 2023 at 20.15: The Transmittal Hearing – Listening Event
At 20.15 Colin Black will take you on a soundwalk through the installation, afterwards we invite you to take time, sit or lay down and just listen for a while.

The Transmittal Hearing
by Stefan Doepner & Colin Black

An acousmatic 9 channel installation on 1 sub and 8 directional speakers. Field recordings, Sputnik and 2 algorithmic realtime generated birds, all conducted via MIDI network. (thanks to Robert B Lisek for the algorithmic birds!)

Opening: Thursday, 8th June 2023 at 20.00
On display: Monday to Saturay from 12.00 – 18.00, 9th – 16th June 2023

The project explores the liminal space between the physicality of the object with the immateriality of temporal bioacoustic sounding zones. In the installation, we want to create a state of tension between “field recordings and not fully controlled objects/devices that emit/reflect sound

Colin Black is an Australian experimental music composer, sonic media arts practitioner, radio artist and researcher. Black has been awarded the 2015 New York Festival International Gold Trophy Winner for Sound Art [1] and the 2003 Prix Italia Award for Best Music Radio – Composed Work.[2] Black has also achieved preselection status in the 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2017 Prix Phonurgia Nova, the 2013 and 2019 Prix Marulić (Croatia), 2018 Grand Prix Nova (Romania), and 2018 UK International Radio Drama Competition. Black’s commissions to create major works include the following organisations: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Český rozhlas, Deutschlandradio, Parramatta Heritage Centre, Lismore City Council and Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA). His works have been selected for events including En Red O 2000 music festival in Barcelona, Spain, the Festival Synthese in Bourges, France, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel France, 60×60 Pacific Basin Regional Concert Los Angeles USA, Zèppelin 2004-Festival de Arte Sonoro in Barcelona, Spain, Hipersonica 2004 in São Paulo, Brazil, The Literature Sound Barrier 2002 in Wien, Austria, Sydney University’s Live Wires concerts ’97, ’98, and Melbourne’s Extatic Concert for the Next Wave festival ’98. In 2010 he was artist in residence at WORM, a Rotterdam based institute for avant garde music and art.  In 2013 Black was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney for his research into sound art for radio. Black is also a graduate of the UNE Contemporary Music Degree and has an Honorary Graduate Diploma of Musical Directing and Composing for TV from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

Stefan Doepner (*1966) studied painting, experimental film and intermedia arts at the University of the Arts Bremen. He primarily works in the fields of technologically based art, robotics and sound. His work focuses on the artistic exploration of today’s use, reception and rules of technology. His reinventions take the shape of building his own technological tools which are often developed in close collaboration with other artists, researchers, and engineers operating in various fields. In his work Doepner tries to profane the technological glorification and grasp the relations of society, technology, sound, science and everyday life through meditation on and mediation of artistically approached technological visions. He has cofounded several art groups and initiatives since the early 90s.

Foto: Veronika Markuš