Next Wave Festival 2016

Sisters Akousmatica was the first collaborative project between Julia Drouhin and Phillipa Stafford. This project has grown to become an umbrella for their collective practice.

Sisters Akousmatica and 3CR were awarded the CBAA Excellence in Music Programming award at the 2017 CBAA Conference.

Featuring eves (NZ/VIC), Angie Garrick (NSW), Kate Geck (VIC), Rosalind Hall (VIC), Shani Mohini-Holmes with Georgie Darvidis (VIC), radio cegeste (NZ/TAS) and Ela Stiles (NSW)

DATES
8 May, 11-21 May

VENUE
Signal, Flinders Walk, Northbank, Melbourne

TIME
Performance and talk
Thu Mar 17, 7pm | The Channel, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne. Read more
Performance, walking tour and broadcast
8 May 11am–6pm | Departs from Signal

Can’t make it? Listen live on 3CR 855AM or stream online at 3cr.org.au

Exhibition
11–21 May | Signal
Wed–Sat 11am–5pm

PRICE
Free

Sisters Akousmatica is a city-scale radio orchestra. Over seven hours, seven female artists perform on the banks of the Yarra River, their sounds broadcast via radio transmission. Meanwhile, armed with a collection of portable radios, Radio Queens Julia Drouhin and Pip Stafford lead a procession through the streets of Melbourne, stopping at various locations along the way to tune in to each live performance.

Radiophonic transmission and the city soundscape fold together to become an acoustic web that changes hour by hour and culminates in an installation work at Signal, capturing, multiplying and archiving the performance works as a radiophonic acousmonium.

Sisters Akousmatica was developed through Next Wave’s Emerging Curators Program with Liquid Architecture for Next Wave Festival 2016.

Next Wave:
Ryan Hale
Matthew Greaves

Liquid Architecture:
Joel Stern
Danni Zuvela
Anabelle Lacroix

Walking-Site Manager:
Emma Sharp

3CR:
Gabrielle Reade
Lara Soulio
Riah Williams

Signal technicians:
Ryan Granger
Jeany Lee

3CR Presenters:
Acknowledgement of Country – Robbie Thorpe
Libby Jamieson and Meg Butler
Michael Smith (Let Your Freak Flag Fly)
Leanne McLean (3CR’s Training Coordinator and one half of Apartment of Sound)
Women In Experimental Music: with Leanne McLean and Melbourne based vocalist, composer and pianist, Carolyn Connors
Thanh Hằng (Queering The Air)
Ari and Miranda from sound art and media collective (no) Signal
Nina B (Sweet Dreams) and eves in conversation
Sista Zai (Hip Sista Hop)

Costumes:
Sabio Designs

Cart Construction:
Like Butter

Special thanks to:
the Signal team (in particular Amanda, Emily and Cecilia), Liquid Architecture and Next Wave volunteers, the entire Next Wave Festival team (especially Georgie Meagher and Lauren Clelland), David Rogers from The Art Centre, Eddie Stevens for her help with sourcing radios (and everyone who loaned radios to us!) and to Tim Panaretos for pushing the radio cart the last 100m.

Liquid Architecture – interview and images:
liquidarchitecture.org.au

Liquid Architecture playlist:
soundcloud.com/liquid_architecture

3CR – full program listing and broadcast archive:
www.3cr.org.au/sisters-akousmatica

Next Wave Worm Hole:
2016.nextwave.org.au