Tape Projects

ICE CREAM EXORCISM 3 8pm, Sunday 26th Feb 2012 $5 TAPE PROJECTS...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:46:00 +1100

ICE CREAM EXORCISM 3

8pm, Sunday 26th Feb 2012

TAPE PROJECTS and PA_ON_RECORD presents an Eclectic, Electric, Chaotic night with:

Joel Stern
No fukwitz
Glass bricks

Joel Stern
A busy man, residing in Brisbane spending life in many cities and countries, who builds instruments, make sounds, performs solo and in collaboration, curates film and sound exhibitions and has an air of academia.

No Fukwitz
When two adventurous Australian men (Alex Cuffe and Daniel Jenatsch) were destined to be in Berlin in 2010, they witnessed sparks of instant fusing. They built instruments and performed together and sow a seed for no fukwitz. Now they are together again for the limited time they play their last show in Australia till next time their brains and tools come together.

Glass Bricks
VIsual and sound Artist, David Mutch from Melbourne. Listen to his music on the site below and wait till you see him perform live. you may sense the movements of the universe.

At Tape Projects, 1/81 Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne.

Moffarfarrah ‘Thread Bare’ 7” launch 6:30pm,...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:00 +1100

Moffarfarrah ‘Thread Bare’ 7” launch

6:30pm, Saturday 18th Feb 2012

$5

Moffarfarrah
Super Star
Mu
Oranj Punjabi
Cooper Bowman
Hessian Jailer
Always (…Maybe)

10 minute sets

+ Mouving DJ

Presented by Alberts Basement

At Tape Projects, 1/81 Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne.

Gentle Steps with an Open Mouth 2pm Sunday 5th Feb...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:22:00 +1100

Gentle Steps with an Open Mouth

2pm Sunday 5^th Feb 2012

$5/$10

Rosalind Hall – saxophone solo

David Palliser – saxophone solo

Noel St Cosmos (Wellington, NZ) & Alice Hui Sheng Chang – voice duo

Rosalind Hall – saxophone

www.rosalind-hall.com

Rosalind Hall is a musician based in Melbourne, Australia. She is interested in experimental approaches to music making and the collaborative experience. Rosalind plays the saxophone and works with changing the sound of and approach to the instrument through physical modifications. She achieves this by crafting individual reeds from many materials and using objects in the bell. With each preparation and reed material the vibrations and playing techniques are altered, creating a unique dialogue between the player and the instrument.

David Palliser – saxophone

www.davidpalliser.com

David’s practice as a visual artist, mainly painting, has been converging over many years with his development in improvised music. The 2 ways of working rely on an intuitive response to either other sounds or space and colour possibilities. He comes from the school of the ad hoc. Make something from hopeless case material, or at least find a space in which these sounds can exist. His music will be performed in the traditional broken barn style.

Noel St Cosmos (Wellington, NZ) & Alice Hui Sheng Chang – voice duo

noelstcosmos.wordpress.com

Originally immersed in avant-garde theatre and dance, Noel St Cosmos cut his teeth in New Zealand improvised music, eventually screaming and hollering along with the likes of Tetuzi Akiyama, Mats Gustafsson and Phil Minton. He has studied Hindustani music in Varanasi, regularly performs Early Music, sings in noise bands, improvised orchestras and Javanese gamelan, and has performed in the US, UK, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand.

www.huishengchang.com

Alice Hui-Sheng Chang’s work focus solely on developing extended vocal technique as a means for improvisation and communication. Her vocal explorations include sound from varying tension of physical vocal parts, driving air into alternative passages and vibration of calls and breath. The physical sound produced by a mouth and throat organism, under no computer manipulation, is not only for the artist to be fully involved during performance, but also to challenge the listener with an intimate relationship while receiving. The results of these explorations create a delicate world of primal and vulnerable soundscapes.

At Tape Projects, 1/81 Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne.

* Image source www.rosalind-hall.com at Always Moving

A RAY ARRAY - Screening new video directed by Sarah Rara (of...

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +1000

A RAY ARRAY - Screening new video directed by Sarah Rara (of Lucky Dragons)

Monday October 10th, 7:00pm - 10:00pm

$5 suggested donation

A RAY ARRAY examines forms of visual and aural interference: from the failure of a message to be discernable, sudden interruptions, visual disturbance, the interaction of 2 sound signals, instability, and optical effects. Structured like a collection of short stories, the work is composed of 16 video chapters that explore the subject of interference using simple sets, everyday objects, and subtle special effects. A RAY ARRAY features a soundtrack created by Lucky Dragons.

http://sarahrara.com/a-ray-array

Video trailer

Also featuring live music performances by:

NORTHLANDS - solo dream synth and vocal drift by Esther, of the Melbourne duo Superstar.

HOUSE PLANTS - matching synthesizer duo of Sarah Rara & Tim Coster, some kind of exploratory counterpoint & arpeggios.

7pm early start with music first, and then video once it’s dark enough.

At Tape Projects, 1/81 Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne.

FDAO - Sugar Mountain FestivalApril 2011FDAO continues on with...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:30:00 +1000

Images by Evan Munro-Smith

FDAO - Sugar Mountain Festival
April 2011

FDAO continues on with TAPR’s interest in collaboration, social experimentation and lo-tech theatricality. The event included alchemical interference, bureaucratic occultism, magnetic distortion and accumulative infiltration.

Secret society recruitment, micro-crystolic scanning, vital statistics determination, ag-au-cu.

Tape Projects Portraits – Life Studies from the year...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:29:00 +1000

Tape Projects Portraits – Life Studies from the year 2030
December 2010

The task was to each create a future portrait of a fellow Tape Projects member in the year 2030. What followed was a series of speculations, divinations and experimentations.

Futuristic portrait creation, astral plane living, unicorn quest, Platform 20th anniversary.

Lazy Slum - Blindside GalleryAugust 2010 Lazy slum was a...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:28:00 +1000

Lazy Slum - Blindside Gallery
August 2010

Lazy slum was a cross-disciplinary experiment in what happens when you build a society from scratch. Think Lord of the Flies meets Better Homes and Gardens. Dystopian community meets tribal display home.

Over three days a game unfurled where audience and artists alike were governed by the rules and roles of this fleeting micro community. Lazy slum was the result of an exchange program between Tape Projects and Hobart-based initiative Six a.

Micro civilization building, oracle consulting, snuggy wearing pilgrimage, group-dreaming.

Time lapse Video of Lazy Slum

100 Proofs The Earth is Not a Globe – Incinerator Arts...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:27:00 +1000

100 Proofs The Earth is Not a Globe – Incinerator Arts Complex
July 2010

Data collection and findings from Tape Projects’ art-science investigation into the edge of understanding.

A unique feature of the 2010 Next Wave Festival, ‘100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe’ was not just a live-art performance, but a travelling road show that spanned 18 months of project development. Presented here were the results of the audience participation that occurred at the many talks, workshops and public appearances Tape Projects made during this time over 2009-2010.

The exhibition included video and audio works from the show, documentation, data collection, surveys, drawings and videos made by local Moonee Valley residents.

100 Proofs The Earth is not a GlobeMay 2010Part science project,...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:26:00 +1000

100 Proofs The Earth is not a Globe
May 2010

Part science project, part religious intervention, 100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe was a live art installation and guided performance, conducted for the Next Wave Festival 2010.

Pseudo-scientific game playing, data collection, rock exchanging, ritualistic aerobics.

Images of 100 Proofs

Video of 100 Proofs

Reviews:

The Enthusiast
Kill Your Darlings
Real Time Arts
Desktop Magazine

100 Proofs Workshop – Incinerator Arts ComplexMarch 2010

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:25:00 +1000

100 Proofs Workshop – Incinerator Arts Complex
March 2010

100 Proofs Talks Series – Tape ProjectsJune 2009 - March...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:24:00 +1000

100 Proofs Talks Series – Tape Projects
June 2009 - March 2010

The 100 Proofs talks were a monthly series initiated to coincide with 100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe. As part of an ongoing program of debates, experiments and public talks that formed the basis for this cross-disciplinary, performative installation, TAPR invited speakers from diverse academic fields to talk to us and the public in an informal environment to encourage discussion and inquisition. Taking its point of departure from the historical belief in a flat earth, 100 Proofs looks at notions of illusion and truth and the tensions between belief, conformity and fundamentalism.

Find a full listing of the 100 Proofs talks here .

37 Proofs The Earth is not a Globe – 6a GalleryJuly 2009 In July...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:23:00 +1000

37 Proofs The Earth is not a Globe – 6a Gallery
July 2009

In July 2009 Tape Projects visited 6a Gallery (Hobart) with an exhibition of experiments, participatory interventions and disputable evidence that formed part of their research for their 2010 Next Wave interdisciplinary collaboration for ‘100 Proofs the Earth Is Not a Globe’.

Taking its point of departure from the historical belief in a flat earth, 37 Proofs The Earth Is Not A Globe looked at notions of illusion and truth and the tensions between belief, conformity and fundamentalism.

Earth composition debates, science expert consulting, proof generating experiments.

Nic Whyte - 37 Proofs 2009

Found Sound at Tape Projects2009Found Sound held a number of...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:22:00 +1000

All images from the Found Sound website.

Found Sound at Tape Projects
2009

Found Sound held a number of musical and sound art events at Tape Projects Space in 2009. Featuring experimental instruments designed and built by Australian artists and musicians, Found Sound: The Experimental Instrument Project was a series of musical and sound art events curated by Amelia Douglas and Albert Mishriki.

Found Sound

Otherfilm at Tape Projects Otherfilm

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:22:00 +1000

Otherfilm at Tape Projects

Otherfilm

Frame - Platform Contemporary Art SpacesFebruary - August 2009 A...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:22:00 +1000

Frame - Platform Contemporary Art Spaces
February - August 2009

A 7 month residency, FRAME, Platform Melbourne 2009. A series of site-specific installations at the dark end of the subway.

Residency 1: Installation of Flip Lock Publication - Tape Projects.
February 2009

Residency 2: Ooomong: Building Tunnels and Pondering Infinity - Zoe Scoglio and Unchalee Anantawat.
March 2009

Lee and Zoe’s third collaboration is a site-specific installation, which sees the dark, subterranean Frame window below Flinders Street transformed into an intergalactic porthole. Utilizing sounds, structures and video,Ooomong playfully explores the fine lines between the infinite and infinitesimal, the wise and the whimsical, and the eternal and ephemeral. Adapted from the Thai word for ‘tunnel’, Ooomong creates stepping stones between the physical world and that which is unfathomable.

Residency 3: Loose Lips Sink Ships - Nic Whyte and Eugina Lim.
April 2009

A journey to the ends of the earth collaboration between Nic Whyte and Eugenia Lim. Loose Lips Sink Ships combines weird optics, tricks of light and shade and Whyte and Lim’s current obsession with re-imagining geography, science and common sense

Residency 4: The Hunt - Louise A. Dibbe.
May 2009

Regarding cheap special effects and the codex of body language as the most refined communication devices available, Louise Dibben makes video installations that re-position cultural and sexual power struggles through simple actions that are recontextualised.

Residency 5: Degraves Street Subway - Tanja Milbourne.
June 2009

This project, specifically designed for the Frame Residency at Platform, takes the existing site as the subject for enquiry. Investigating the conceptual and formal properties of photographic documentation, Degraves Street Subway extends into the temporal realm. The transitory nature of the passageway is evidenced by the fragments and traces of people moving through the subway. The surrounding space is unfolded both architecturally and temporally, implicating the viewer in the act of seeing and inviting questions about the nature of perception.

Residency 6: Gravity Pleasure Switchback - Jessie Scott.
July 2009

Shot on a blustery, bleak mid-May Saturday afternoon, the powerful magnetism of memory and place is revealed in this shaky, handy cam footage of a barely-there Coney Island. R&B and the booming of touts steamroll over the emptiness, deliberately and insistently evading the issue of absence. Seagulls circle on the fog engulfed shore, and on the boardwalk, people are dancing.

Even in its vastly reduced state, with assumptions of its closure rife, there is enough magic dust mixed in with the sand and cigarette butts to draw people, in the most unlikely circumstances, into spontaneous and public reverie here. Surprising, awkward, slightly daggy and incredibly awesome at the same time, the Coney Island Dancers revive the simultaneously naive and seamy public space of the boardwalk.

Residency 7: Chronox - Michael Prior and Lachlan Conn.
August 2009

Chronox is an ongoing investigation of time, space and perception, incorporating installation, performance and publications in a variety of media.

Video of Chronox from Frame 2009

Flip Lock - Publication BUY TAPR06/07 contains more than 60...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:21:00 +1000

Flip Lock - Publication

BUY

TAPR06/07 contains more than 60 ten-second locked groove tracks. Each track is designed, to provide a soundtrack to a series of 18 flip books.

12”LP

Barbara Schroeder, Clare Cooper & Chris Abrahams, Michael Prior, Antuong Nguyen & Blase Roccisano, Ross Manning, Anthony Magen, Ding Dong, Bonnie Clarke, Boorges, Ernie althoff, Clayton Thomas, Mu Child, Joel Stern, Rat Creeps, Sumugan Sivanesan, Michaela Davies, Que Nguyen, Jim Knox, Markham Wightman, Buffalo Jump Band, 12 Dog Cycle, Harry Williamson, Zoe Scoglio, Monica Brooks, Dan West, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Kristi Monfries, Moffarfarrah, Thembi Soddell, Thee Monumental, Matthew Davis, Nat, Dylan Martorell, Horse Hospital, Anthony Magen, Lawrence English, Rosalind Hall, Tarab, Echo Khalida. It’s Is, Malakat, Emma Jean Gilmour, Anthea Caddy, Werner Hoeck, Philip Samartzis, Jacques Soddell, Robert Curgenven, Severed Heads, Ben Byrne, Dave Phillips, Paul Rodgers, Dean Linguey, Samuel Acres, I=it, Der Kosmonaut, Toecutter, Emile Zile, DJ YSL, DJ Rainbow Ejaculation.

18 FLIP BOOKS

Dom Czapla, Lucy Dyson, Benjamin Ducroz, Cherie Green, Madeline Griffith, James Hancock & Sumu Sivanesan, Anna Helme & Robbie Mckewan, Matthew Hopkins, Isobel Knowles, Antuong Nguyen, Kirsty porter, Paul Rodgers, Soda_jerk & Sam Smith, Salote Tawale, Aarlene Textaqueen + 3 diy blanks.

Video of Flip Lock and Chronox at TINA

Artist talks - Forepaw Emile Zile, David Shea, Kristi Monfries,...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:20:00 +1000

Artist talks - Forepaw

Emile Zile, David Shea, Kristi Monfries, Gang Festival, Lucy Dyson, Rachael Hough, Marcia Jane, Paul Rogers, Salote Tawale, Sam Smith, Soda Jerk, Eamon Sprod/TARAB, Dan West, Marcus Westbury, Callum Cooper.

Tape Projects DVD’s

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:19:00 +1000

DVD launch Images:

Tape Projects DVD’s

Arab Telephone - Platform Arts SpaceOctober 2008 Arab Telephone...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:18:00 +1000

Arab Telephone - Platform Arts Space
October 2008

Arab Telephone is French for Chinese Whispers. A children’s game that succinctly condenses ideas of truth, fiction and history into a simple chain reaction.

An artists’ game, experiment in process and time-delay collaboration, Arab Telephone begins with a story about Campbell Arcade, written by a history student, who is also a writer of fiction. Without knowing on which side of this boundary it lays, the story is passed from artist to artist by word of mouth, accreting or excreting details in the re-telling. The 12 resulting audio visual and sculptural installations reveal the mechanics of this myth, uncovering the themes that resonate between the artists and those that divide them.

Featured artists: Maggie Scott, Jessie Scott, Eugenia Lim, Michael Prior, Salote Tawale, Saskia Pandji-Sakti, Tanja Milbourne, Lizzy Sampson, Nic Whyte, Zoe Scoglio, Paul Dornau, Sarah Lake, Eliza Hearsum, Tony Holzner and Unchalee Unantawat.

Chinese whispering, narrative relay race, time-delayed collaboration, myth evolution.

Video Peep Show - Rose Chong2007-2008 A series of curated...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:17:00 +1000

Video Peep Show - Rose Chong
2007-2008

A series of curated experimental video compilations presented on the streets of Melbourne throughout 2007/8, in a peep show format.

Surprise video, Rose Chong, Horse Bizarre, public video viewing post.