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austraLYSIS The Electroband Roger Dean Hazel Smith Members HearSeeRead Buy:Releases Historical soundsRite journal "phenomenal musicianship" (Sydney Morning Herald); "cutting edge...eclectic...consummate" (BBC Radio 3); "a fascinating complex interaction of ... sonic patterns of textural virtuosity" (Sydney Morning Herald). austraLYSIS (Will Luers, video, programming; Hazel Smith, text; and Roger Dean, sound) won the 2018 international Robert Coover Prize for their recombinant intermedia work novelling. INFO. Events(Australia and Abroad) and Recent Works
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austraLYSIS new CD DUALLING (2024; Earshift 085) is now available through Bandcamp and MGM distribution! It features duos between people, environments, text, machines, and electroacoustic compositions. It's created by Roger Dean(composition, piano, electronics); Sandy Evans(saxophones); Phil Slater(trumpet); Hazel Smith(text, text-performer); and Greg White(electronics). 8 additional dualling pieces, including two audio-visual works, are freely available on this web site together with detailed sleeve notes. |
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Hazel Smith's ECLIPTICAL (2022), a volume of poetry (with associated multimedia work), available as book/ebook from Spineless Wonders. Hazel was in performance, in conversation with critic Anne Brewster, and with appreciation by Joy Wallace, consideration of the multimedia by Roger Dean, and a Q&A, at Spineless Wonders' writers series 202206 view ONLINE. |
A new web piece (2022) of electronic literature, Dolphins in the Reservoir , by Will Luers(image, coding), Hazel Smith(text) and Roger Dean(sound). The piece premiered at the international Electronic Literature Conference (ELC), Como, Italy (202205) and then at ELC Coimbra, Portugal (2023); it next appears in 'Wild Media', the exhibition of the International Digital Media and Art Assocation (iDMAaA) conference, Winona, Michigan, USA (202406).It was published (202212) by the leading journal of digital art and literature |
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202111, austraLYSIS and MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University present: The Music of Science, the Science of Music (the Milperra Sessions) Four videos, twelve performances, discussion of the works' creation by austraLYSIS members and guests; one ArtsScience video, discussion of the science of music production, performance and perception by MARCS researchers. New music and intermedia work by Hazel Smith, Sieglinde Karl-Spence, Jo Thomas(UK), Charles Martin, Roger Dean and austraLYSIS. Duration 3h, and program notes are included in the FindOut. See also John Shand's article Sydney Morning Herald (20211110), and our Limelight article on making the unfamiliar become familiar.The videos are also available on the Australian Music Centre YouTube Channel, where there is an introductory article from their online journal Resonate. |
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