Band

Daisy Allan (pre-record) vocal

Daisy is a Language Worker, in the palawa kani Language Program of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre has represented and advocated for the political and community development aspirations and entitlements of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community across the state since the early 1970s. The revival of the original languages has been a strong element of the TAC’s heritage maintenance work since the 1990s; palawa kani is the only Aboriginal language spoken in Tasmania today and has been learnt by three generations of children.

Dylan Banks and Mat Ward intonarumori

Banks and Ward are Hobart based artists with a shared passion for Instrument building, the history of 20th Century experimental music and site specific installation/performance. They have been researching, building and playing Intonarumori together since 2012.

The Intonarumori are instruments originally designed and built by the Italian Futurist artist Luigi Russolo (1869 - 1948). Most famous for his manifesto The Art of Noises Russolo built the instruments as part of his quest to bring Noise into the modern musical world. He believed the sounds of industry, urbanisation and transport, that began to dominate the cities of the early 20th Century, were crucial elements of any music that claimed to be contemporary.

Whilst all of Russolo’s original instruments were destroyed during WW2, and only one incomplete design plan remains, Banks and Ward have built many Intonarumori over there last few years and frequently perform live often in collaboration with other instruments and with voice.

Andrew Bell ( pre-record and live stream) Bagpipes

Andrew is a keen bagpiper who lives in Queenstown. He practices on the mountain and in the main street, and takes requests by text.

Julia Drouhin Cristal Bachet, Hurgy toy

Dr Julia Drouhin is a French Australian artist and curator interested in the embodiment of invisible soundstream that reveal friction in sociality and shift usual modes of transmission. She is exploring feminist nature of electromagnetic activities through ritualistic research that study micro and macro effects of fluid, sonic and social waves, especially with her collaborative project Sisters Akousmatica with Phillipa Stafford, for which they received an Adapt Australia Council for the Arts grant. Her work using field recordings, water based instruments, electromagnetic frequencies, dice, rope, textile and edible objects has been presented in Europe, Hong Kong, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, terrestrial airwaves and online. In 2011, she finished her Ph.D in Paris 8, France about the art of walking and broadcast impact in public space. She is currently part of the Instrument Builder Project (IBP5) engaging artists from Australia and the Asia-Pacific curated by Contemporary Art Tasmania, Volcanic Winds and Liquid Architecture, and art tutor and curator for artists with disabilities at Mosaic.

For RELAY, she will play her electric Hurgy Toy made by Léo Maurel and her Petit Cristal Baschet, a vibrating glass instrument frictionned with water that has a "fog" tune in.The Petit Cristal Baschet was primarly made for autistic kids for free improvisation by the Baschet brothers in the 50's.
Julia undertook a mentorship in their barn during a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris supported by the Australia Council for the Arts in 2019.
https://www.juliadrouhin.com/

Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey concept, conductor, siren, brass, composer

Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are Australian audio conceptual artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity about sound in culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. Recent presentations include AsiaTopa, Melbourne: Setouchi Triennale Japan: Theater Der Welt Germany: Brighton Festival UK: Sonica Festival Glasgow: Asian Arts Theater, Gwangju: Perth Festival Australia: MONA FOMA Australia: and ANTI Festival Finland. Current areas of interest are the sound of existential risk, the audio agents of artificial intelligence in public space, and long form socially engaged public art interventions. Current commissions how much time do we have? for ACCA 2020 and Witness Stand for Perth Festival. They live in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. http://madeleineandtim.net

Low Head Foghorn committee ( pre-record and live stream) Diaphone Foghorn

Zannette and Ron Crowden lead the Low Head Foghorn Committee, who care for and sound the foghorn on a Sunday.

Merinda Sainty ( pre-record) Cape Barren Fiddle

Dylan Sheridan Norwegian Pattern Foghorn, hand cranked siren

Dylan Sheridan is a composer and artist based in Tasmania, Australia. He is interested in expanding theatrical aspects of concert music through the rhythmic counterpoint of sound, light and movement. His works typically incorporate custom built instruments, electronics, objects and software, and are presented in increasingly unconventional forms and settings - from concert halls and theatres to gunpowder magazines and car washes. In 2019 he presented empty orchestra - his first solo show in a white cube gallery - at Contemporary Art Tasmania.

Dylan's works have been nominated for several awards and prizes, and in 2017 he received a Green Room award for Crush (with Sam Routledge) in the Contemporary and Experimental Sound Performance category. He is regularly commissioned to compose sound for dance, theatre, parades and festivals, and frequently incorporates interactive technologies. He has undertaken a number of national and international residencies including a two month Asialink residency at the Kyoto Arts Center. Dylan has recently joined Terrapin Puppet Theatre as an Artistic Associate where he will develop a new work with the company at Kinosaki International Art Center, Japan.

Pip Stafford Petit Cristal Bachet

Phillipa (Pip) Stafford is an Australian artist and producer whose work spans installation, video, sound, performance, printed matter and online projects. She is primarily interested in communication, networks and rituals. Stafford has a multifaceted sound practice, for which she builds radios (crystal and FM), transmitters and other electronic ephemera to create recorded and live, improvised sound work. She has completed commissions for ABC Radio National’s Soundproof, Radiophrenia Scotland and Women in Sound, Women in Sound for International Women’s Day at Goldsmiths, University of London. She collaborates with Dr Julia Drouhin as Sisters Akousmatica, and together they have been awarded the CBAA Excellence in Music Programming Award and will be featured in the up-coming book, Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia 1968-2018, by Professor Anne Marsh. Stafford is the Communications and Digital Programs Co-ordinator at Contemporary Art Tasmania and is currently studying Law at Deakin University.

Emily Sheppard Violin and Viola played through the tonewood amp reverb using a polycorde bow https://www.polycordebow.com. The polycorde is a new take on a 500 year old bow design, this version invented by Charlie McCarthy (Hobart violinist) and built by Tasmanian bow maker Philip Smith.

Emily Sheppard is a Tasmanian violinist/violist, improviser and composer. Trained in classical music at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne (2012/13), Emily is a member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Van Diemen’s Band. Since moving to Tasmania in 2014 she has devoted her time to exploring diverse musical traditions. She writes music influenced by her forays into folk, gypsy jazz, minimalist, Indian and Japanese music. She is drawn to unconventional and resonant spaces for writing and performing these works, creating site-specific compositions inspired by place. Written in the depths of caves, blackened forests and mountain summits, her music evokes landscapes, imagined and real. A haunting and emotive deep listening experience.