Interview (Part 2) on The Field Reporter

:: Tessa Elieff in residence @ Pollinaria, 2014. Image by Daniela d'Arielli ::

Part two of an interview conducted by fellow Australian field recordist, Jay-Dea Lopez

now published at the online journal, "The Field Reporter'. 

Read it HERE

Interview (Part 1) on The Field Reporter

:: Tessa Elieff in residence @ Pollinaria, 2014. Image by Daniela d'Arielli ::

Part One of an interview conducted by fellow Australian field recordist, Jay-Dea Lopez

now published at the online journal, "The Field Reporter'. 

Read it HERE

The Field Reporter: 2013 in retrospective

   :: Images courtesy of 'The Field Reporter ::

The online journal, "The Field Reporter" (David Valez), is publishing a series of articles as a 2013 retrospect. First three have been released on their website and include

Part I: 'Recording excursion snapshot: Sound gathering on England’s North East coastline'. Tessa Elieff.

Part II: 'In praise of movement'. Patrick Farmer.

Part III: 'Two thousand and thirteen, the Grande Syntagmatique. Or an attempt to provide an exhaustive classification of the segmentation of a yearly narrative'. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.

Well worth a read and a listen!

Sombre nay Sated: Review on Carnage News

Review by Riccardo Gorone for Carnage News

Sombre nay Sated: Review in De:Bug issue #176

'Sombre nay Sated', has a review in De:Bug #176. Translation in english below................

"Tessa Elieff's ambisonic work, her interests in sound and effects of perception of specific spaces and rooms of resonance have led her to travel half the world in the last couple of years, notwithstanding Austria, where her debut album has finally been released on the Moozak label.  Her music, with its multi-layered dimensionality of diffusion and (re)editing (processing) always runs the risk of having these elements reduced when released on a CD. This is sometimes the case in this almost half-hour collection of three commission works. The shadow-like granular waves composed for the Melbourne event, 'Akousmatikoi' (with Jacques Soddell) one suspects only finds completion in its radiant emittance at the very location. Engaging, involving and immersive however, are the two following pieces for the ORF Kunstradio, both using the recordings of sound installations of Austrian artists Uli Kuehn and Andreas Trobollowitsch.
The mysterious and threatening low rumblings and buzzing hums are made alive through very engaged field recording processes and especially the sounds of weather and insects in, 'Taken to Booroomba' lets one eagerly await the planned collaboration work with Chris Watson." 

Article on the British Libraries Sound and Vision blog

Recently I was approached by Cheryl Tipp - Curator of Natural Sounds at the British Library, and asked to write a blog entry for her series on guest field recordists and sound artists. I was very flattered to contribute and must say - it was a little confronting writing about my work in a rather candid way. I didn't expect to be quite so open but Cheryl has a knack of making you feel comfortable enough to do so.

The article titled, 'Tessa Elieff: Witness, documentarian and provocateur.' can be read HERE

I highly recommend having a read of the other contributing artists - such as John Kannenberg's unique twist with his works of sound recordings within museum's and Simon Elliot's life work on recording (and not disrupting) the voice of the wildlife. 

Lovely weekend reading and a way to escape for a little....

Sombre nay Sated: 'A Closer Listen' review

Fellow drone and field recording lover, Richard Allen reviews, 'Sombre nay Sated', for 

'A Closer Listen'. 

Have a read of Richard's complete thoughts HERE.

"When listening to Tattered Kaylor, we're not just listening to Tattered Kaylor; we're listening to other artists through her aural lens. Sombre nay Sated invites us to consider the subliminal ways in which we translate our own sonic experiences. Would Elieff be honoured if someone were to position these pieces (with attributions, of course!) as the foundations of their own re-imaginings? One suspects so. To this artist, sound interpretation is more important than sound preservation."

Richard Allen

Interview: Blow-Up Magazine #176

I have recently been chatting with writer, curator and new media producer, Leandro Pisano - the result of which you can read via an interview in the January 2013 edition of the Italian electronic/alternative music magazine, Blow-Up. Issues are available from their website - interview is in Italian and is accompanied by an excellent image (below) taken by artist Markus Gradwohl, during the 'Selected Realities' album launch at the 'Moozak Festival' in Vienna, Sep 2012. 

:: Image by Markus Gradwohl, Moozak Festival, Vienna, 2012 ::

Selected Realities - OndaRock Review

Review from Italian Music/Culture site OndaRock

Apologies for the Google translate.... but you should get the idea

Selected Realities - Review in De:Bug issue #166

'Selected Realities', has a review in De:Bug #166. Translation in English below..........

"It is the perception of sound and thus accompanied perception of space and time which is the topic for Australian sound artist Tessa Elieff, and this combination of CD and DVD presents a good impression on how she is approaching this. Compositions made from sounds of Tibetan singing bowls or samples of singing birds only form the first level, followed by a second in which her sophisticated and diverse playback-recording-mix-procedure is suspended within the play of resonances in city-typical space constellations: E.G. within a six-storey stairwell or a waste water canal system, whose effects can be experienced on the 5.1-Surround DVD. The five concerned works including one live recording, often leave the entire sound experience with some documentary distance: You would just like to be at the locations yourself. However, a full compensation is given by the concluding quarter-hour audio/visual composition of recordings from the construction of a theatre lifting platform - an engaging symphony of heavy steel in cold light and geometrical dance."