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In "Musical Vitalities", Holly Watkins describes the life of music - tenuous, metaphorical, contingent and mortal - as the cross-modal interpretation of sounds. Sounds are ambiguous, they alert us to dangers and lures, both animate and inanimate. “Music retains that ambiguity; music is the art of possibly animate things”. Artist and writer Tessa Laird and curator Xenia Benivols

Folk, Noise, Electronics, Improvisation – how can radical music help us manifest new possibilities for thinking and imagine new ways of organising community through ritual behaviours, actions and languages? Adam Gołębiewski describes how he has extended the drum kit to include mysterious and unusual objects; outlines the pleasures and difficulties of collaboration; and reflects

Thinking and listening to place emerges as a thematic of 'Where and How to Gather' - a collection of texts published on Disclaimer and edited by Josten Myburgh. These works consider technology and humanity as being in the world, rather than as tacet mediators or observers of it, with the writing investigating the processes by which meditation is obscured, or how presence is made di

Alex Ahmed talks to artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and curator Joel Stern about Project Spectra, an online, community-based, free and open source software application for transgender voice training. We discuss speech pathology and the politics of pitch, along with the importance of grass-roots led tech projects and community-centred design. Our devices are listeni

Folk, Noise, Electronics, Improvisation – how can radical music help us manifest new possibilities for thinking and imagine new ways of organising community through ritual behaviours, actions and languages? Alexandra Spence expands on her relationship to objects and how she translates their textures and histories into sound; the development of her practice and its relation to lan

Folk, Noise, Electronics, Improvisation – how can radical music help us manifest new possibilities for thinking and imagine new ways of organising community through ritual behaviours, actions and languages? Across two nights, Liquid Architecture and Melbourne Music Week present a program of electronic music genealogies, featuring artists whose works span the 1970s to today and re

As a material index of acoustic activity, the term ‘sound fossil’ has gained currency in the fields of paleosonics and contemporary art both as a means of accounting for the appearance of the past in the present, and as an embodiment of cosmic time. Drawing upon audible and not so audible projects, art historian Amelia Barikin presents her lecture: Sound Fossils and Arche-Fossi

As part of the exhibition Site & Sound: Sonic art as ecological practice at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Liquid Architecture was invited to stage a project critically responding to themes of sonic art, acoustic ecology, field recording, deep listening, and spatial sound, all understood in the context of profound environmental crisis and instability. A Hanley’s practice

The dissonance of democracy; sum of an irreducibly complex combination of notes. We attune, celebrate, make difference audible, amplify disobedience, choreograph dissonance, enact alternative rituals and harmonies, open new horizons of possibility. Today on the podcast we revisit Mono-Poly-June with a Japanese ghost story told by Amy May Stuart, a performance of improvised violin b

Anabelle Lacroix hosts a conversation on Social Dissonance with Mattin, Elena Biserna and Tobi Maier in relation to her curatorial project 'From Wakefulness to Consciousness'. https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/from-wakefulness-to-consciousness Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and