released March 10, 2021
Sam Longmore, 'Untitled (Blue Oyster)'
Sam Longmore is an artist, electronic-musician and writer based in Auckland, New Zealand. His work is informed by the relationships between geography and acoustics, soundscape and phenomenology, installation and architecture.
samuellongmore.blogspot.com
Sally Ann McIntyre, 'Kokakoradio'
Sally Ann McIntyre is a Hobart-born writer, radio and sound artist who lives between Melbourne and Ōtepoti Dunedin. Themed around erasure, the audible trace, extinction, colonial-era collecting, and silence, her work for the Trace exhibition, 'Twin signals at Silver Stream (a transmission for specimens #50766 & #50767)', utilised micro-radius transmission as a form of sonic repatriation. Through radio’s ability to connect across time and distance, the work listens to the silences of colonial-era extinctions present as traces in the landscape of contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand.
radiocegeste.blogspot.com
Charlotte Parallel, 'Coil to Coil'
Charlotte Parallel is an Ōtepoti Dunedin-based artist and events facilitator. In 'Coil to Coil', two sets of salvaged speakers are removed from their enclosures and arranged in towers, cone-to-cone and magnet-to-magnet. The wiring of one of these sets has been inverted, effectively transforming the objects from a speakers into microphones. By stacking these modified, 'microphone' speakers atop the conventionally wired 'speaker' speakers, established sonic feedback system emerges akin to that between an electric guitar and amplifier at high volume, and emerges as a result of the proximity of the 'input' speakers to the 'output' speakers.
Leben Young, 'COMPOST'
Leben Young is an artist, musician and film maker based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Young's response to the notion of trace is processual and direct. In his recording, debris accumulated at the premises of None Gallery (a long running artist space, occupied by musicians and visual artists for over 10 years) are sounded and recorded. These recorded sounds are then manipulated in an iterative process, using playback machines gleaned from the piles of objects also left behind by past inhabitants.
vimeo.com/lebenyoung
Karl Leisky, 'Matutine'
Karl Leisky is a musician, writer and visual artist. 'Matutine' is comprised of a series of short recordings sampled from sets performed throughout 2017. These fragments were then fed through a set of randomisers which, harking back to the chance operations of Cage, or the serial strategies which inspired them, manipulate the material to a point inaccessible by way of what Leisky describes as “direct human-input based methods”. Here we find traces of intentionality, obliterated by chance-based, algorithmic modification.
13bees.bandcamp.com
William Henry Meung, 'My Memory of the Temple'
William Henry Meung, works and lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin. His work for this exhibition features a range of materials prepared for the celebration of the winter equinox which takes place each year on the outskirts of Ōtepoti Dunedin. This includes materials from taken from an earlier live performance which were recorded to a vintage cell phone, and then remixed to a 4track cassette. This cassette was then formed the basis of a semi-improvisational session which was re-recorded to a 4track Portastudio tape recorder, and remixed live at the Winter Solstice event.
In addition to the manifestations of past performances, trace emerges here alongside a tinge of sadness: after many years of prolific performance and self published releases, “this material is the last trace of music I made before succumbing to a period of ill health that included a serious ear infection which has resulted in a spell of deafness.”
williamhenrymeung2.bandcamp.com