Liquid Architecture and the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) present British sound artist and writer Joe Banks in Australia for the first time. He’ll be delivering a lecture entitled Rorschach Audio as part of the ‘Theories and Histories of Sound’ series presented in association with Discipline at Gertrude Contemporary, whilst MUMA will present a concert of the project Disinformation (founded by Joe Banks) as part of MUMA’s new ‘Sound Spaces’ program.
Disinformation pioneered creative uses of electromagnetic (radio) noise radiated by live mains electricity, lightning, magnetic storms, high-voltage plasma discharges, industrial, IT and laboratory hardware, railway and metro systems, and the sun. From the beginning, Disinformation’s agenda was strongly driven by research into fields including military research & development, space physics, and psychology of perception and illusion
In 2012 Banks published the book Rorschach Audio: Art & Illusion for Sound exploring the relation between techniques of recording and mechanisms of perception, through figures as diverse as parapsychologist Konstantīns Raudive, artist Jean Cocteau, and the art historian and wartime intelligence eavesdropper E.H. Gombrich
Wednesday 3 June, 6:30pm to 8pm, Free
Lecture: Joe Banks, ‘Rorschach Audio,’ Histories and Theories of Sound Lecture Series. Venue: Gertrude Contemporary.
Thursday 4 June, 6:30pm to 8pm. Free
Concert: Disinformation
Venue: Monash Museum of Art, Caufield
Further details here.
