The audio art event Radio Insomnia will take place tonight in Sydney.
Radio Insomnia returns for a new edition, featuring new commissions by Australian artists and open mics, with a program of ambient sets live to air from the cavernous space of a downtown electrical substation.
The program is presented by Radio Insomnia in partnership with Liquid Architecture, supported by the City of Sydney, the French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation and Machine Hall, as part of M.PWR series.
The performance is on at Machine Hall, 4/183-185 Clarence St. Sydney,
Saturday 11 April from 7:30pm to 11pm. Book here.
Line up:
- CORIN: Corin Ileto is a Filipina-Australian electronic producer, composer, DJ and performer. New imaginary realms are produced by an assemblage of converging styles moving somewhere between trance, and baroque-laden ambience; with compositions that merge traditional forms with hyper-digital sounds. https://co-rin.com/
- Moss Hopkins: His radio works involve a spectral deconstruction of vocal apparatuses; audio recording equipment, transmission technologies, and text are put through cycles of receiving, decoding, distorting, erasure, and re-encoding. Morse code, short wave, EVP, and cut-up text experiments stirred with a nocturnal spoon. https://shorturl.at/OZoV2
- Peter Lenaerts: His sound practice unfolds in the margins of perception, composing with what is often overlooked, using the faint acoustics of room tones, residual noises, or by performing for sleepers during all-night concerts. Sounds quietly inhabits the ear, attentive to absence as much as presence. https://linktr.ee/peterlenaerts_radioinsomnia
- Boy Michael: Drag alter-ego of Sydney-based video editor Rae Brown. They have performed in various Sydney clubs and events over the last few years including The Bearded Tit, Birdcage and for the Opening Ceremony of Sydney World Pride. Their entertaining performances are a space in which the artist enjoys disrupting traditional narratives around gender and identity. https://www.instagram.com/boymichaellovesyou/
- Gail Priest: Her live exploratory music uses voice, micro sounds of objects, field recordings, and electronics as feeds into a system of transformation. Gail will sculpt shifting tides made from the sounds that haunt us, playing with acousmata, non-verbal auditory hallucinations such as hums, buzzes, ticks and zings, that leave us wondering if they are emanating from within, or from the night itself. https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/
Also this weekend the Sydney Opera House is featuring Art on the Steps, with several major audio performances.
Mel O’Callaghan’s Live Echo, works with three hundred choristers to transform the Opera House into a resonant instrument, fusing human and architectural breath into a single vibration. Frances Barrett’s Celia gathers seven vocalists beneath the steps in an improvised exchange of calls and echoes
Live Echo transforms the Monumental Steps into a living instrument where human breath, voice and vibration converge in a resonant act of collective sound.
Featuring more than 300 choristers from Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, conducted by Brett Weymark, Live Echo draws the hidden frequencies of the Opera House into voice, transforming the building’s resonant hum into song.
As the work unfolds, it becomes an act of endurance and release. As voices rise and merge, they dissolve into a single, continuous vibration — both human and architectural.
The performance is free.
Images: City of Sydney and radioinfo