Sounds only

Woche 03-06 / 14.1.08 - 10.02.08

Australian Focus Nr. 2 - Portrait Ros Bandt
von Johannes S. Sistermanns

01. A Global Garden for Percy / 03:10
02. BLUE GOLD 1 / Water_The Blue Gold / 01:19
03. BLUE GOLD 2 / Lake Eyre, wind harps in the desert / 01:51
04. BLUE GOLD 3 / Elegy for eroded land after grazing / 04:30
05. BLUE GOLD 4 / Bush rain, call for water / 03:42
06. BLUE GOLD 5 / Ecstatic Rain Dance / 02:50
07. BLUE GOLD 6 / Plundering the Rain Forest / 03:44
08. BLUE GOLD 7 / Loggers and Water Barons
09. BLUE GOLD 8 / Salination_cacti and pricly pear / 03:12
10. BLUE GOLD 9 / From the Irrigation Channel / 06:22
11. BLUE GOLD 10 / Spirit level_water balance / 02:34
12. BYOS / 16:00
   mit den Sätzen: Prelude: Take off / Vivace: Gannets / Adagio: Bells / Industrial
   Blues / Epilogue: Catwalk
13. Lost In Space / 03:45
14. Mungo / 32:54
15. Paean / 02:04
16. Red / 09:56
17. Stack / 10:50

Ros Bandt
* 1951 Geelong, NSW Australia

Acoustic Artist: Ros Bandt is a well known Australian sound artist, composer performer, and visual artist who has practiced in the field internationally for over 20 years. She has pioneered unique interactive spatial sound forms including mixedmedia sound sculptures, interactive installations, spatial music and electronic music architectures since 1977. She interprets and "sounds" sites in unique ways. These have included indoor and outdoor venues such as wheat silos, concrete water tanks, car parks, Austrian salt mines, limestone Quarries and the virtual spaces of the internet. In 2006-7 she was the ABC composer in residence for radio national.

Commissions: include the Paris Autumn Festival, ISCM Warsaw, ORF Vienna, Radio WDR and the ABC. In 1997, she returned to Cologne to complete her electronic radio work Thrausmata based on ancient Greek text fragments morphed on the computer. Her installations have been commissioned in America, Canada, Poland, and Austria. She was artist in residence for Danceworks in1987 and has been commissioned by the world music ensembles The Chinese Orchestra and the Back to Back Zithers to write works for them along with classical musicians including Charisma. and most recently was Composer in residence for the ABC.

Curator: Ros Bandt has overseen many international collaborative intermedia works combining sound, sculpture, light, music and performance. In 1994, she curated the first women's sound art show for the Composing Women's Festival in Melbourne at the Malthouse, South Melboune and in 1998 curated Beaming the Theremin for the Melbourne International Festival installing the entire Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne as a lotus flower of sound and light.

Publications: Her audioworks appear on MOVE Records, ABC records, New Albion Records USA, Transit CD Rom, Austria, Wergo, Germany and L'Agence des Refuses, France. Her notations are published by Currency Press and Allans. She has a PhD in New Music from Monash University and has published internationally in the area of Sound Sculpture in Australia, writing the definitive book on Sound Sculpture in Australia with audio CD. She has founded the Australian Sound Design Project website and online gallery for 149 works in digital media in public space in Australia. www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au

Performance: As a performance artist she has toured her original music on original sound sources and sculptures throughout America Europe and Asia. She has also recorded and toured internationally with the ensembles, La Romanesca, LIME, Back to Back Zithers, Carte Blanche and the Free Music Ensemble in which she is a founding member.

Awards: She has won the joint ABC/WDR sound art Australia award, also sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Australia's premiere award for musical composition, the Don Banks Composers Award, and she was the inaugural Benjamin Cohen Scholar for peace and innovation in Ball State University, USA. As early as 1981 she won an innovation grant for her sound playground. She has been awarded 3 ARC research grants, for sound research.

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