Studioforum
Dezember 2010 / Januar 2011
Portrait Gail Priest
all works by Gail Priest
1) estranged angels / 7.04
2) satellite love station /
4.32
3) in case of fire / 5.00
4) patient shriek / 5.12
5) duet for gertrude and glass
/ 5.32
6) body in birmingham / 6.11
7) spider spins 1 / 1.15
8) tangled paths / 3.40
9) a surface dwelling race /
3.38
10) the dark entrance / 5:18
11) in the faded forest / 7.27
Tracks 1-6 from the CD "Imaginary
conversations in reverberant rooms" (2006)
www.snagglepussy.net/imaginary.html
gailpriest.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-conversations-in-reverant-rooms
Tracks 7-11 from the CD "Presentiments
from
the
Spider
Garden" (2010)
http://endgamerecords.bandcamp.com/album/presentiments-from-the-spider-garden
Gail Priest is a Sydney-based
sound artist. Her practice involves sound design/composition for
performance, installation and live laptop-based exploratory music. She
is also a curator, writer and commentator on sound and new media arts.
www.snagglepussy.net
"I seek to have a multi-faceted practice in which sound is the key
material of communication and investigation. The outcomes of this may
take the form of solo laptop improvisation, live audiovisual
collaborations, soundscores for performance and dance, gallery
installations, curation of exhibitions and concert events, and critical
writing on sound and related media arts.
Threading through my practice is an active engagement with the
audience/listener to bring about an immersive experience. I have
explored this through multispeaker saturated soundscapes for large
audiences as well as intimate exchanges for the solo viewerÑdespite the
scale there is always a performative essence.
The voice also forms a lynchpin of my works. While it is sometimes
unrecognisable, subjected to multiple manipulations, more frequently
the extended voice, derived from improvisation, is arriving in the
foreground of works exploring the raw and mediated, the visceral and
the mechanistic."