Polyphonic Social is an annual Liquid Architecture project taking place at Melbourne’s Abbotsford Convent. It is framed by the proposition that artists practice polyphony in vastly expanded and experimental ways.
Friday’s evening concert features legendary Japanese electro-punk auteur PHEW, whose warped vocal exclamations over pulsating electronics have been described as ‘Yoko Ono meets Suicide’ making her Australian debut more than 40 years after arriving on the Osaka scene as the singer in avant-noise band Aunt Sally. Australian composer, pianist and electronic musician ANTHONY PATERAS and French experimentalist ERIKM will collaborate on an analogue/digital set of ‘free concrète music inscribed firmly in the present’. And finally, SAGE PBBBT’s extra-normal vocal techniques will conjure chaos magick via a feminist, queer and trans praxis of air, lungs, vocal folds, lips and room.
Saturday afternoon’s performance program features Indonesian punk coder, designer and horror-aficionado NATASHA TONTEY presenting new work Church of Xenoglossia. First developed as part of Instrument Builders Project Kyoto, the project employs early-internet proto-emoji language Shift JIS in scores for improvisation. Chinese Singaporean artist ZOU ZHAO will be apologising on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party as part of her continuing investigation into language and neocolonial knowledge today. British Australian artist SARAH CROWEST will present the first experimental showing of her open-source text-score project Sound Seen, for multiple performers.
Saturday afternoon’s performance program features Indonesian punk coder, designer and horror-aficionado NATASHA TONTEY presenting new work Church of Xenoglossia. First developed as part of Instrument Builders Project Kyoto, the project employs early-internet proto-emoji language Shift JIS in scores for improvisation. Chinese Singaporean artist ZOU ZHAO will be apologising on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party as part of her continuing investigation into language and neocolonial knowledge today. British Australian artist SARAH CROWEST will present the first experimental showing of her open-source text-score project Sound Seen, for multiple performers.
Nigerian American sound-artist, writer and founder of NON Worldwide, CHINO AMOBI will headline Saturday evening’s concert with an experimental performance incorporating elements from his acclaimed albums Airport Music For Black Folk and Paradiso and his new novel Eroica. Melbourne-based electronic artist NINA BUCHANAN’s new performance will explore queer, feminist methodologies through the prism of deep listening. Salvadoran Australian sound artist LUCRECCIA QUINTANILLA and Chilean Australian musician BRYAN PHILLIPS will band together to present an experimental audio essay exploring multiple histories of protest and noise.
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