Monday 4 September 2017, 7.30pm
“Blurring the lines between the natural environments of his original recordings and the processing they undergo subsequently, Tarab draws the listener into fascinating acoustic spaces that seem at once familiar and alien all at the same time.” – Live Eye TV
Melbourne based tarab explores re-contextualised collected sounds and tactile gestures formed into dynamic, psycho-geographical compositions inspired by discarded things, found things, crawling around in the dirt, junk, the ground, rocks, dust, wind, walking aimlessly, scratchy things, decay and most if not all the things he hears and sees. More than simply documenting a given site, tarab is interested in a direct engagement with our surrounds, teasing out half narratives, visceral sensation, false leads and heightened awareness.
TARAB's compositional works have been published on labels including Naturestrip, nonlinear, 23five, Unfathomless, Aposiopese, Swarming, Cronica, Semperflorens and also his own sonicrubbish imprint formed in 2018.
Seth Cooke describes most of his practice as “filling noise with space”, adopting an accidental turn of phrase coined by his daughter. This side of his work attempts to say something useful about “place” by snookering himself via broadband noise, scavenged data, media artefacts, graph theory, or his flimsy strawman arguments about other artists. The other side of his work involves snookering himself in performance through bloody-minded rules-based adherence to feedback, resonance, routing or mathematical processes that he can barely control, if he can control them at all. Sometimes he escapes through luck, sometimes it’s all just excruciatingly high effort/low reward.
“I saw Seth Cooke play tonight and he did something I’ve been trying to capture for a while. Completely pure music that does one thing but that one thing does everything. Whole, super-nutritious music in one tone-stew.” – Matt Loveridge (MXLX, Knife Library, Gnar Hest, Fairhorns)
“… richly investigated, purposeful work looking into the sonic artifacts of the unresolved dissonances in constellations of history, politics, and media. Through his no-input field recording technique, Cooke brings into consideration the materiality of the inscription devices, a sort of sonic ghost hunting that rewards investigative listening.” – Derek Baron (Reading Group)
Alice Kemp works with dream-image-language and subtle trance states, creating audio compositions and live-art performances. She lives in the South West of England, continually developing a practice of experimental music, audio composition, public and private performance, drawing and painting, doll/object making and hidden exhibits. Her work has been described as hypnotic, intense, unnerving, beautiful, dark and reflective, aggressive, confusing, meditative, pointless, brave, sensual, baffling, delicate, and absurd. Kemp has released music on Fragment Factory (DE), Harbinger Sound (UK), and Erratum Musical (FR).
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