Framework #404: 2013.01.20

- Am very happy to be included in the first Framework program of 2013, alongside of other fellow sound/field recording artists throughout the globe such as Roland Etzin, Mecha/Orga and Stefan Paulus. The mother broadcast was on Sunday the 20th of Jan (I'm a little late with the information I know....) but good news is the podcast is still available online and for download to abate your listening curiosity. I highly recommend having a look at the Framework archives on the days you crave to discover new sounds and sound artists who work with the delicacy of field recordings.

It was a much appreciated zap to my ego to find my material selected for the show and I hope to contribute moreso in the future! Australia currently has nothing even remotely close to this type of radio programming (favouring works focussed on field recordings) and it is encouraging to realise that your artistic community reaches far outside your local continent...

Happy belated 2013,

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

ArtStart 2013

'Chris Watson Masterclass @ The Wired Lab, 2009: Image by Somaya Langley 

I am happy to say that in 2013 I will be one of the ArtStart recipients, as granted by the Australia Council for the Arts. I can't wait to get started on my plans which will involve heading to France and the UK around October for a number of intensive work developments.

The most exciting development to date - is the opportunity to work under the guidance and expertise of field recordist, Chris Watson. I was fortunate enough to meet Chris at a masterclass workshop at The Wired Lab, in rural South/West NSW, 2009. While I was impressed by his craftsmanship, I think it was his completely open dedication and love of his practice and conveyed respect and appreciation of sound that really knocked me over. While I was (and still consider myself) an amateur in the art of field recordings, Chris Watson was as approachable, humble and as generous with his time as if I was a fellow world-renowned  practitioner. The plan for the travel project is still developing but I hope to gather sounds under his teachings and then take them on to another institute for further developments - will see how I go and keep you posted.

Many thanks to the council for this opportunity. I hope to make the most of such an honor.

Selected Realities - Available in Australia

'Selected Realities' is now available for purchase within Australia.

Have a look HERE for more details including the media release. 

Bank transfer is also available - please EMAIL me for the details;

Paypal price includes shipping world wide

KUNSTRADIO ORF ö1: Tattered Kaylor program

This Sunday the 11th of November at 23:03pm in Vienna, Austria (CET), KunstRadio - the radio for sound art and experimental music on channel ö1(ORF/Austrian Public Broadcasting Corporation) will be broadcasting their program that focuses on my work as Tattered Kaylor. 

For those within Austria details are...

Date: Sunday 11th of November

Time: 23:03 - 23:59

Frequency: Tune into channel ö1 on 92.0 FM

For those outside of Austria you can hear the live stream HERE.

For those worldwide who cannot make the broadcast or live stream time you are able to listen to the program at any time as uploaded HERE.

*Please note, this program upload will only be available for a limited number of days.

For those in Sydney Australia the live stream times will be.... 

Date: Monday 12th of November

Time: 09:03 - 09:59am

Frequency: Live stream from HERE

See more information on the Kunstradio website HERE and HERE

Aspects that are covered within the program include the work I commenced at Kunstradio during my residency there and completed specifically for their radio program, the work I presented for the Moozak Festival in September this year, the release, 'Selected Realities' and interviews with both myself and one of the creators behind the Moozak Label, Clemens Hausch. 

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."