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97.1FM LOCALLY 21 November – 14 December 2019 Live opening event in partnership with HOBIENNALE 2019 Michelle Maynard, Dani Kirby and Matt Ward, Wes Miles. 21 November from 6pm at Moonah Art Centre MCR COMMISSIONS Lisa Busby (Scotland), Maia Koenig (Argentina), Sarah Mashman (Australia), Nicola Morton (Asia/Australia), Annika Moses (Australia), Sally Rees (Australia), Carolyn...
RISING is a radio installation for Moon rising signals by Sisters Akousmatica, a collaborative and expanded radio project of Julia Drouhin and Phillipa Stafford. They use radios as instruments, stitch collective conductive maps of female sound makers, built FM, crystal and dress transmitters with kids and adults, speak two...
A collaborative and expanded radio project of Julia Drouhin and Phillipa Stafford, Sisters Akousmatica are inspired by porous possibilities of transmission and the embodiment of radio akousmatic nature: a voice cut from the source. They are concerned with collective radio practices, auditory-spatial exploration and the potential of emergent art...
Thirteen new radiophonic works by thirteen sound artists are broadcast from transmission points dispersed along the Intercity Cycleway between Hobart and Mona (eleven km), curated by Phillipa Stafford and Julia Drouhin. Grab a radio and tune in as you walk/ride/rollerblade on 90.0FM to and from the festival hub at...
Sisters Akousmatica investigate mysterious radio broadcasts known as The Silent Key. Radio: drag the dial across frequencies at any given time, any given place and you will hear a cacophony of sounds. Static, pops and crackles, whistles, the tap, tap tap of the world and the universe going about...
A performance on the beach at Lisdillon, Tasmania. Inspired by Róisín Madigan O’Reilly’s instructional Waves by Waves document. Costume: Sabio Photo credit: Sally Ann McIntyre Soundcamp, Lisdillon, Tasmania, 2017.
SUPER OCCULT COSMOPHON is a never-rehearsed improvised collaboration by artists, curators and mothers Pip Stafford and Julia Drouhin. Utilising the most primitive radio technology, amplified mineral samples, lovingly re-kindled transistor parts and looped sources in acts of sound divination and occult listening, this dazzling duo in touch with worlds...
Sisters Akousmatica were one of 14 commissioned radio works for Radiophrenia 2017. Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station, broadcast from Glasgow, Scotland. NM, SK Transmission: Friday, 10th November 12:00 repeated at 18:00 Julia Drouhin and Phillipa Stafford, as Sisters Akousmatica, investigate mysterious radio broadcasts known as...
Sisters Akousmatica Radio! This is our starting point: a world where the contribution of women to radio is status-quo, where the secrets of the Heaviside are ours alone. We create connections between radio artists now and radio artists then, between grains of sand and the ocean. Waves are Waves....