Over the coming weekend ambient sound artists the world over will perform over a 24 hour period works to both raise funds and create a unity of sound, a gesture of sorts, for Aceh.

In Australia two locations have come online, one in Sydney with Stuart Ridley and MIKE G in collaboration with Greenpeace. In Melbourne, or near abouts, I'll be dedicating my two hour ambient set at the Rainbow Serpent Healing Zone towards the vigil. If you're in the area, join me from 11am to 1pm, Saturday 22 Jan.

For more information and listing of other international locations and artists, visit:

http://blog.winggang.com/

This is a time to remember not only Aceh and the other victims of the Tsunami, but to keep in mind the hundreds of thousands of civilians who have lost their lives through human encounters in Iraq and other estranged countries the world over.

We are unable to control geological events, but certainly we can contain the self-interest and avarice of the few at the expense of the many.

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On the occasion of Art's Birthday Andrew Garton revisits Radio Derive, a non-linear "re-invented" internet and radio play based on a 30 year plan to "manage growth and change across Metropolitan Melbourne." A reinterpretation of Radio Derive has seen the emergence of a new work, The 2030 Derive.

The 2030 Derive deconstructs ministerial language, reducing it to an ineffectual text and uninspirational narrative of the ongoing erosion of public and individual rights towards the semi-permanent creation of the city as we know it.

Bound within The 2030 Derive is a dialogue that unravels support for commerce at the expense of the citizenry, where centres for creativity and cultural development become the battle grounds between those who aspire to debt and commodified existences and those who choose to live with difference, reverence and a sense of custodianship to the land we inhabit.

The 2030 Derive was produced for "Permanent Creation", an EBU Ars Acustica Special Evening by KunstRadio (Vienna) for Arts Birthday.

The 2030 Derive Stream
http://radio.free2air.net:8000/arts2005 (stream now offline)

KunstRadio's Arts Birthday Site
http://www.kunstradio.at/AB2005/

• Conceived and Produced by Andrew Garton
• Performed by Beth Schubal, Mark Tallon, Andrew Garton
• Sound processing and production by Steve Law
• Audio Streaming provided by Free2air.org

Produced by Toy Satellite, Melbourne
http://toysatellite.org/

About Radio Derive and origins of The 2030 Derive
http://toysatellite.org/radio-derive/

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Interview with Korean new media magazine, Networker. Published in Issue 15.

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