SOUND DAY AT THE NFSA
June 18 2008
Arts Minister Peter Garrett joined Michael Smellie and Paolo Cherchi Usai
at the inaugural Sound Day 2008
Arts Minister Peter Garrett at Sound Day
From Aeroplane Jelly to A Pub with No Beer, Arts Minister Peter Garrett announced the top 10 entries for the 2008 Sounds of Australia (National Registry of Recorded Sound) initiative at NFSA headquarters in Canberra on 18 June.
As part of NFSA’s first Sound Day, the audience responded enthusiastically to the announcements, reserving their loudest and warmest applause for Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs’ classic Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy).
Ros Bandt at the launch of Hearing Places
Sound Day commenced with an unusual performance and book launch courtesy of Ros Bandt. The gala evening events included a lively performance by Sounds of Australia 2008 Patron Renée Geyer, the thought provoking Inaugural Thomas Rome Lecture, delivered by former international music industry executive Michael Smellie and a concert by Jolt, which included an experimental troupe of robotic violins.
The Minister also launched a CD of the 2007 Sounds of Australia listings produced in partnership between the NFSA and the ABC as part of Sound Day. The CD is available at the NFSA online at www.nfsa.gov.au or ABC Shops for $29.95.
See more pictures in the Sound Day Photo Gallery.
Other Sound Day Events
Michael Smellie
Inaugural Thomas Rome Lecture
The Thomas Rome Lecture has been created to enable leading figures in the Australian recorded sound industry to foster debate, interest and ideas about the recent and current state of the industry and its possible future directions both nationally and internationally.
The Lecture this year was given by Michael Smellie, former Chief Operating Officer, Sony/BMG (New York).
Further details and audio transcript available here
Please note: The views expressed in this lecture are those of the presenter and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Film and Sound Archive.
The new Sounds of Australia CD
Sounds of Australia on CD
On June 18 2008, Sound Day at the NFSA, the Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett, launched a groundbreaking collaboration between two of Australia’s major cultural institutions, the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Click here for more details, including how to buy the CD.
Book Launch - Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture
The day’s celebrations commenced at 12.30pm with the launch of the book Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture edited by Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon. The book was launched by composer Warren Burt.
JOLT presents Sono-Perception
Sono-Perception
The first Canberra appearance of JOLT, a dynamic new music group of sonic art composers & percussionists from Melbourne.
Sono-Perception provides a platform for sonic artists whose work points back to the functional physical phenomenon that is sound and the abstract elegant mysteries that lie within the auditory system.
Sound gurus Warren Burt and Catherine Schieve perform works based on Percy Grainger’s pioneering Free Music machines of the 1930s.
Bruce Mowson explores the synæsthesia created between sliding tones and slipping colour field images and the ‘wild one’ of Australian music, James Hullick, works with his beloved robots in zooming in on the tension inherent within sonic minutiæ.
Wyana Etherington performed a work by the influential Canadian composer James Tenney (1934-2006).
