Silent Music

The Sound of Silent Music

06 March 2006

The main stage festival is underway, the fringe is also in full swing and WOMADelaide kicks off in days. It is just exhausting thinking about the myriad possibilities for how to spend one’s days in Adelaide at the moment.

Opening this week and running until the end of the month, Project 3 is a suite of projects and exhibitions that explore both current and historic electronic forms of art, from the visual to the musical.

The vision of possibly one of the youngest directors ever, Project 3 is helmed by 23 year-old Michael Yuen and impressively brings together a number of high profile local and international artists for a series of sound, video and installation based projects and workshops that explore all things cutting-edge and experimental.

SonicSpace: Contemporary and historical electronic music, from 6 – 7 March, explores just that – electronic music, and features a series of performances by artists such as the Aurora Strings Quartet, playing a range of music including works by Steve Reich, Jon Drummond and Alvin Lucier.

A highlight of the program is undoubtedly the sound installation Silent Music by internationally renowned artist Robin Minard, whose installation at the Adelaide Festival Centre’s ArtSpace marks his Australian debut. Minard studied music composition in Canada and France and his works have been exhibited in numerous festivals, museums and public spaces around the world over the last 20 years. Currently a professor of electroacoustic composition and sound design at the Franz Liszt Academy and the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Minard’s practice as an artist is defined by an interest in moving music from traditional avenues of reception such as concert halls and in the integration of sound within public places.

In Silent Music, Minard creates a place of beauty, reflection and contemplation by merging sound, art and architecture. In a visually arresting but organic manner, Minard has arranged hundreds of tiny speakers all over the ArtSpace walls in such a way that the audience is engulfed in waves of soft sound.

Taking digital art to the streets, Street Cinema: Abstract Australian Digital Screen Art will take over Adelaide’s West End for 10 nights. Directly projecting the largest works of digital abstraction by some of Australia's leading new media artists, including Luke Harrald, Warren Burt, Jon Drummond, Sonia Wilkie and director Yuen among others, Hindley Street will be awash with a different program each evening.

Finally, in a series of artist talks on Wednesday 8 March, Project 3 artists Jon Drummond, Warren Burt and Robin Minard will present a series of free talks exploring and explaining their works and techniques.

- Jo Higgins

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