Site and Sound: Sonic art as ecological practice

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Catalogue

Contributors

Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, composer and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. She specialises in electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology and emerging fields of biology exploring environmental patterns and changes through sound. Barclay is the president of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology, the vice-president of the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology, and serves on the board of a range of arts and environmental organisations. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and has written extensively on acoustics, ecology and listening.

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Daniel Browning is an artist, curator, writer, journalist and radio presenter based in Sydney. He is a descendant of the Bundjalung people of northern New South Wales, the Kullilli people of south-western Queensland and the traditional owners of the Gold Coast hinterland. Browning has worked in the Radio News and Current Affairs division of the ABC and as News Director at Triple J since 1994, and as producer and presenter of Radio National’s Indigenous arts program Awaye! since 2005. He is the curator of Blak Box, an innovative architectural sound installation by Urban Theatre Projects used to share the First People’s past, present and future through diverse contemporary Aboriginal voices. Daniel has worked as an editor for Artlink Indigenous and Artlink Blak on blak, and is a widely published freelance writer on arts and culture.

David Chesworth is an artist and musician based in Melbourne. He works across experimental and electronic music, sonic art, installation and video practice, with a diverse cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and often conceptual practice. From 1978 until 1982 Chesworth coordinated the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre in Melbourne, and has long been central to Australian experimental music activity. Sophie Gleeson is a sound artist, audio producer and academic. She teaches soundscape studies and spatial sound production at the SIAL Sound Studios at RMIT’s School of Design. Her evolving research and creative practice concerns listener experience, place and attuning to the sounds of the everyday.


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