The Subsonic programme
Callum Morton
Monument #19 Sexy Beast (2008)
Site 424 Cashel Street, Linwood
Callum Morton (1965)
Monument #20: Rat a Tap Tap
2008
4:42 minutes
Until 30 November 2008
The footsteps travel up and down the carpark staircase, rising and falling at various speeds from a tired lope to a furious run and back again. Like a group of Sisyphean ghosts at a bootcamp in Hades, these figures never stop, condemned as they are to repeat the exercise for all eternity, although it remains unclear whether they are descending or ascending.
Planted in the middle of this procession is the sound of a speeding car approaching from a distance circling the car park in steady acceleration, careening ever closer and louder before rounding another corner and speeding away.
Previous Subsonic artists
The Donkey's Tail performing live at the Toff, Melbourne, 2007. Photograph by Warren Taylor.
John Nixon (b.1949) & Matt Hinkley (b.1976)
The Donkey’s Tail
2007
67 [9:30]
68 [9:28]
69 [5:09]
The Donkey’s Tail was first formed in early 2007 by Australian visual artist John Nixon as a recording project and can consist of up to five members for any given performance.
The Donkey’s Tail approach involves experiment and improvisation.
This is anti-music: members are unrestrained by traditional musical practices such as keeping time and structuring their songs around choruses and versus.
These three tracks were created by Nixon and Matt Hinkley using a variety of musical instruments, both acoustic and electric.
Rob Hood (b. 1973)
15 Art & Automotive Lessons
2008, 60:30 minutes
Rob Hood is known primarily as a visual artist producing video, photography and installation based work. His interest in sound as an art-form has led to several installations incorporating his own field-recordings. With the sound recordings used in 15 Art & Automotive Lessons Hood combines the dialogues of 15 artists, mechanics and documentary makers who discuss the two separate cultures of fine art and the automobile within the space of the bunker, bridging the gap between the two worlds of the Art Gallery and its car park.
Bruce Russell and Greg Malcolm performing live at the Christchurch Art Gallery, July, 2007.
Bruce Russell and Greg Malcolm
I'll come following you...
2007, 39 minutes
Canterbury sound artists Bruce Russell and Greg Malcolm have been interested in sound improvisation since the 1980s, and have established successful international careers.
They have collaborated on several projects recently, including this piece recorded live at the opening of Bill Hammond's survey exhibition ‘Jingle Jangle Morning' at Christchurch Art Gallery in July 2007.
The improvised sounds you are listening to feature Russell performing with three analogue tape recorders and various electronic equipment and Malcolm playing several guitars.
Rosy Parlane performing live in Brisbane, October, 2007.
Rosy Parlane
Iris
2004, Part 1: 19:06; Part 2: 18:10; Part 3: 12:11 minutes
Rosy Parlane is an Auckland-based sound artist who has been experimenting with sound since he first played with the avant-garde rock trio Thela in 1993. Today, Parlane is widely respected in New Zealand and internationally for his innovative use of layered textures of sound, combining sample-loops, keyboards, guitars and field recordings, all manipulated on his laptop computer.
The three tracks included on Iris combine soft, droning layers of keyboard chords that drift between quiet, restrained periods and louder, intense patches – all overlaid with occasional waves of various static sounds, reminiscent of running water or falling rain. Combined, these elements create subdued and often contemplative sensations.
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