2008 :: April :: May :: July :: August/Sept :: October ::

::October::

Aaron Hull, Scott Morrison and the Splinter Orchestra

Thursday 9th October, 8pm

Music Farmers 5 Crown lane, Wollongong.

Audiovisual, free improvised nightmares filled Wollongongs night air on Thursday the 9th of October. Many thought they may loose their hearing, for others a life changing experience. Aaron Hulls quiet, incredibly controlled set built to an earth shattering climax removing paint and debrit from the ceiling of Music Farmers which shook from foundation to roof. Scott Morrison's audiovisual work lit up the walls of Music Farmers, the ebb and flow of sound and high quality projected images of fields meeting gradually freshly painted walls ofering the audience a tast of his work, and leaving them eager for more. The Splinter Orhestra created subtle controlled improvisations and a sound world of extended, varied, weird and wonderful techniques. One of 1/4_inchs memorable evenings for 2008.

::Artist Bio's::

Scott Morrison is a Sydney based audio-visual artist. His screen based works have been exhibited and screened extensively throughout Australia and abroad. His primary interest lies in the musicality of
the image, the drama of natural occurence and how this can be re-imagined as new experience. Since 2007 this approach has been presented under the title of "ballad(s) for quiet horizons". The work
has been presented as live performance and exhibited as installation with the Canberra Contemporary Art Space - Gorman House, Kudos Gallery, Sydney and Level 17, Melbourne.

Aaron Hull is a Wollongong/Sydney artist who reguarly moves his practice between multi screen audiovisual installation work and solo sound performances. Aaron has presented work overseas and more frequently in Australia. Prepare to emmerse yourself in a sound world of landscape recordings and synthetic minimal textures. Aaron is the curator of the performance series 1/4_inch, technical officer by day at the UOW, artist and a researcher madly trying to finish his thesis titled "Corroded Memories" by night. Go to Aaron's Website for more info.

Splinter Orchestra "The Splinter Orchestra's music is like quicksand: it can suck you in, just as each of the 27 musicians relinquished his or her sense of self within this monumental improvising ensemble. Listening to it is like looking down on a jungle from above, with infinite layers of foilage making for an image without surface. Behind every sound lurks another sound, and then another. The result is eerie and weirdly beautiful; more diaphanous then dense, which is a tribute to both the subtlety of the interaction and the sophistication of the recording. Remarkable." John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald Jan 12 2008. Splinter Website