Interactive sound and image performance, conceived in June 2000, by Andrew Garton and Ollie Olsen.
Music is a quality organised in sound and in time, The quality is ungovernable, the forms of organisation are mainly governed by the cultures and societies in which the music appears.
Robert Fripp, liner noters "Gates of Paradise" 1997
Regenerative Generative is the … Continue Reading ››
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The 2030 Derive
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 … Continue Reading ››
“Drowned World” reviewed
The play I had recently completed music and sound pieces for got a pretty decent review in The Age.
I wasn't entirely happy with the final result of my work, having had to deal with three, or was it four different briefs. Ended up producing far more material than I had intended and certainly … Continue Reading ››
Internet: Good Morning To All
Generative interpretations of "Good Morning To All" commissioned by and produced in collaboration with Western Front, Canada, for Arts Birthday, 17 Jan 2004.
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Good Morning To All
Produced with assistance from SSEYO.
Art’s Birthday: y a r t s t h d a b i r
Was art born on a specific day? According to French artist Robert Filliou, it was.
"He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge … Continue Reading ››