Melbourne Now Projects

                                                       
















http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/melbournenow



Malarkey with the Slow Art Collective



http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/melbournenow/projects/539



Drawing Now - curated by John Nixon



http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/melbournenow/projects/567




Now Hear This including work by Dylan Martorell,




Snawklor and Hi God People



http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/melbournenow/projects/538

Overlay / Acoustic Survey - Geoff Robertson

Site Overlay / Acoustic Survey

By artist Geoff Robinson

Site Overlay / Acoustic Survey is a series of three events using sound, performance and installation to explore the relationship between three Melbourne interior, exterior, built and botantical environments. Featuring performance contributions by local artists Ernie Althoff, Tim Catlin, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Matthew Davis, Aviva Endean, Helen Grogan, Rosalind Hall, Dylan Martorell and Charlie Sofo.

Site Overlay / Acoustic Survey makes use of rich site-specific sound recordings to present one-hour long performances, exploring the sounds and spaces of three diverse inner-city locations. In the events Robinson presents a sonic and spatial collage, overlaying the sounds of each site with those of another. The events will present audiences with a new insight into the sonic environments of the RMIT Design Hub rooftop, the Forest Gallery at the Melbourne Museum and Long Island at the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Each event will surround audiences with recorded and live sound performance, presenting an immersive and participatory exploration of the artist’s interest in sound collage and mapping our sonic experiences of public space.

The Site Overlay / Acoustic Survey project is supported by Experimenta Media Arts and funded by the Arts Development Project Grants through Arts Victoria.

Site Overlay/Acoustic Survey dates:

Friday 29 November, 7pm - 8pm, RMIT Design Hub (Rooftop level)

Saturday 30 November, 3pm - 4pm, Melbourne Museum (Forest Gallery)

Sunday 1 December, 1pm - 2pm, Royal Botanic Gardens (Long Island)

Performers: Ernie Althoff, Tim Catlin, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Matthew Davis, Aviva Endean, Helen Grogan, Rosalind Hall, Dylan Martorell and Charlie Sofo.

Rooftop Pavilions,

RMIT Design Hub

Level 10, Building 100,
Corner Victoria & Swanston Streets,
Carlton, Melbourne
[Map]

Forest Gallery,
Melbourne Museum
11 Nicholson Street,
Carlton, Melbourne
Enter via Nicholson or Rathdowne streets.
[Map]

Long Island, Royal
Botanic Gardens
Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne.
Closest entrance, Gate H
off Alexandra Avenue
[Map]

Hazrat Prototypes Review - The Submachine

http://thesubmachine.net/2013/10/18/dylan-martorell-oct-2013/

Oct 2013

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Dylan Martorell, Hazrat Prototypes

Utopian Slumps, Melbourne; 21 September – 12 October 2013

Future Primitive - Heide Museum of Modern Art

FUTURE PRIMITIVE 
23 NOVEMBER 2013 - 02 MARCH 2014

Future Primitive conveys a link to modern twentieth-century art inspired by indigenous artefacts—a history that is the subject of works by artists such as Narelle Jubelin, Daniel Boyd, and Alasdair McLuckie, who are among eighteen artists from Australia and New Zealand included in the exhibition. More broadly, the exhibition draws together a range of work by artists who conjoin modernist ideas or forms with atavistic, totemic or tribal motifs, employ traditional handcrafts or fundamental materials and ways of making such as ceramics or weaving to contemporary ends, or forge their personal style/ identity through images or ideas they identify with across cultures and times. Some of the artists turn the table on modernist primitivism and explore its specific local histories, some make reparative gestures, attracted to what joins cultures or communities rather than what divides, others provoke questions and sidestep the usual decorum around the subject. Many of the works move forward and back between past and future, presenting the ‘primitive’ as a going back to origins, whether ancestral, animal, or cultural, in an attempt to find out how to live better in a world in crisis or to question its values.

Other artists in the exhibition include Sarah Contos, Mikala Dwyer, Graham Fletcher, David Griggs, Fiona Hall, Newell Harry, Siri Hayes, Brendan Huntley, Jess Johnson, Dylan Martorell, , Sanne Mestrom, TV Moore, Michelle Nikou, Ricky Swallow and Rohan Wealleans.

Venue Heide III: Central Galleries

Curator Linda Michael

Exhibition Tours
Tuesday 26 November, 2pm
Volunteer Guide
Cost FREE (with admission) 

Asian Art Biennale - Taiwan - Updated documentation

http://dylanmartorellexhibitions.blogspot.tw/2013/09/asian-art-


biennale-everyday-life-tmfma.html




Updated Documentation of "Everyday Life" Asian Art Biennale, 

TMFMA, Tiachung, Taiwan.

Interview with curator Kristi Monfries for the Instrument Builders Project in Indonesia

Interview with curator Kristi Monfries for the Instrument



Builders Project in Indonesia.Link below.

http://theinstrumentbuildersproject.com/interview-with-dylan-martorell/

http://www.asianartbiennial.org/2013/

http://www.asianartbiennial.org/2013/


10.5 -1.5 2013


EVERYDAY LIFE

迪倫‧馬托雷爾 Dylan MARTORELL

出生於1971年，蘇格蘭，英國。
現居並工作於墨爾本，澳洲。
相關經歷

作品說明

暫時性、就地取材、合作，是迪倫‧馬托雷爾富音樂

性的藝術創作的基石。壟罩在以音樂表現離散精神

（diaspora）的思維框架之下，他的作品深受音樂能

優游於不同空間的特質所感染，任何地理、氣候、文

化、與材質的改變，都能在音樂中察覺，成為一種跨

文化交流的媒介。

其創作援引貧窮藝術與具象音樂等運動，所製成的樂

器、載具、和服裝都具備實用性的功能，並將現實世

界中的各種廢料轉化成能夠發揮實際效能的物件，借

助音樂的運用和就地取材的途徑，超越語言的隔閡，

進入一個創意滿盈的空間。

鎖定在利用限地採集的素材，並結合升級再造

（upcycling）、自製文化、機器人、和替代能源等元素，馬托雷爾近年來在泰國、印度、印

尼、新加坡和澳洲等地進行的計畫，深入探究暫時性、公領域、便攜性與永續性的概念。



























Updated blog for biennale work in progress here: 

http://dylanmartorellexhibitions.blogspot.tw/2013/09/asian-art-



biennale-everyday-life-tmfma.html

DYLAN MARTORELL HAZRAT PROTOTYPES OPENING SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 4 - 6PM EXHIBITION 21 SEPTEMBER - 12 OCTOBER 2013 Dylan Martorell’s latest exhibition, Hazrat Prototypes, has its roots in the principles of Hazrat Inayat Khan, an early 20th century Northern Indian Sufi mystic who founded the Sufi Order of the West in 1914.  According to Khan: "Musicians have always held to the principle that modern scientists have rediscovered: that the ear is incapable of fully enjoying two sounds played or sung together, and that is why they enriched the melody to such an extent for the purpose of their meditation." Khan’s principles promote a stripped back, utilitarian kind of music based on the concept of one voice or sound. In response, Martorell has created a series of single-voiced musical scores formed from improvised, collaborative movement. Accompanying the scores will be a series of new drawings created whilst listening to these sounds and documentary videos of Martorell’s recent projects in the Kochi Muziris Biennale, India and Chang Mai, Thailand. Martorell weaves Khan’s minimalistic approach to music with notions of both natural and artificial decay, renewal and reuse. Repurposed and recycled objects form the material basis of Martorell’s chaotic aesthetic in striking contrast with the minimal backing-track to the exhibition. Throughout this permeates the organic form, underscoring and occasionally reclaiming the products of human intervention. Martorell has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Aguas de Marco, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2011; Duppy Musique Povera, Object Gallery, Sydney, 2011; Duppy Housing, Utopian Slumps, 2010; Musique Povera, Heide Museum of Modern Art Project Space, 2010; Splintered Guilders, Lamington Drive, Melbourne, 2009; Stolon Tonals, Black and Blue, Sydney, 2009; Umbel Ballits, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, 2008; and Panter Cluster Rimbone, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2007. Selected group exhibitions include Kochi Muziris Biennale, India, 2012-13;Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Biennial, curated by Victoria Lynn, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2012;Bellowing Echoes, Gertrude Contemporary, 2012; Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia, 2011-12; V.A., Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2011; New Psychedelia, curated by Sebastian Moody, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2011; Black and Blue Gallery, carriageARTworks, 2010; yogyabourne / roda roda sound system / south project reflections, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, 2009; and Slow Art Collective, Incinerator Arts Complex, Melbourne, 2009. Martorell curated V.A. at Utopian Slumps in 2011, He is a member of the Slow Art Collective with Tony Adams and Chaco Kato, and is part of the experimental music groups Hi God People The Donkeys Tail and Snawklor. Martorell recently completed a residency at Monash University, Gippsland campus, and an Asialink funded residency across Indonesia, Thailand and India.

UTOPIAN SLUMPS GROUND FLOOR, 33 GUILDFORD LANE MELBOURNE VICTORIA AUSTRALIA 3000 +61 3 9077 9918 WWW.UTOPIANSLUMPS.COM HOURS: WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY 12 - 5PM

Music for sleeping /drawing 

https://soundcloud.com/trims-bagus

http://theinstrumentbuildersproject.com/

http://instrumentbuildersworkshopjogja.blogspot.com.au/

instrument builder project update 

Musique Povera and Umbil Ballits Graphic Score music now avaliable on bandcamp

http://dylanmartorell.bandcamp.com/album/pobra-


copra

http://dylanmartorell.bandcamp.com/album/music-


for-scores-umbil-ballits-stolon-tonals

The ‘Instrument Builders Project: New Noises’ is collaboration between Australian sound artist / instrument builders and Indonesian sound artist / instrument builders to develop new experimental musical instruments, sound sculptures and performance tools.

The project focuses on blending traditional skill and craftsmanship with contemporary avant-garde approaches, to create innovative and original musical objects that act not only as sound making instruments but also as art works unique to the SE Asia/Australia region.

The key activity of the project is for visiting Indonesian artists to spend time collaborating with Australian artists in a series of one-on-one and group projects, to be showcased firstly in Australia and subsequently in Indonesia.

The first workshop intensive will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from 24 June until 16 July 2013.

The four key Australian artists are Rod Cooper (Melbourne), Dylan Martorell (Melbourne), Pia Van Gelder (Sydney) and Michael Candy (Brisbane).

The four key Indonesian artists confirmed are Wukir Suryadi master bamboo instrument builder, ethno-musicologist/gamelan maker Asep Nata, Indonesian visual artist Ardi Gunawan and traditional gamelan builder Wibowo and expert gamelan tuner.

‘The Instrument Builders Project: New Noises’ seeks to explore and celebrate the differences and similarities that occur within the creative processes of the Australian / Indonesian artists, but with an emphasis on skill sharing and exchange of ideas. Through these short-term creative collaborations, Australian and Indonesian sound artist / instrument builders will forge and consolidate relationships that will be of demonstrable long-term benefit to the arts communities in both countries.

This project is supported by Australia Council for the Arts, The Australia Indonesia Institute and iCan (Indonesia Contemporary Art Network)

http://theinstrumentbuildersproject.com/

 

Signature Style _Craft Victoria

Signature Style

Featuring the work of some of Melbourne’s most exciting artists and jewellery practitioners, Signature Style is a significant addition to the emerging discourse around collaboration and contemporary craft.

Opening       6pm Thursday 7 March 2013
Showing        8 March – 27 April 2013

Signature Style is a major group exhibition exploring models of collaborative practice in contemporary jewellery. Featuring the work of some of Melbourne’s most exciting artists and jewellery practitioners Signature Style will be a significant addition to the emerging discourse around collaboration and contemporary craft. Collaboration poses a very different method of working – by its very nature, collaboration eschews individual artistic identity in favour of some kind of ‘third’ position. Signature Style will examine new methodologies of working and ‘work’, thinking through the potentials of collaboration within craft and design.

Artists

Nicholas Bastin & Matthew Dux
Dan Bell, Bianca Hester, Charlie Sofo, Nathan Gray, Christopher LG Hill, Liang Luscombe & Oliver van der Lugt
Tessa Blazey & Alexi Freeman
Michaela Bruton & Kane Ikin
Milly Flemming & Dani Maugeri
Natalia Milosz-Piekarska & Katherine Doube
Nina Oikawa & Bridget Bodenham
Meredith Turnbull & Manon van Kouswijk
Karla Way & Dylan Martorell
Katherine Wheeler & Polly van der Glas

Signature Style Personnel

Nella Themelios – Curator
Kim Brockett – Assistant Curator
Erik North - Exhibition Design
Simon Browne - Catalogue Design

National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Victoria is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Community Support Fund, by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NETS Victori

White Nights - Melbourne Dylan Martorell / Snawklor NGV and Experimenta

KERELAN TOUCH MUSIC

A MULTI-USER TOUCH BASED SONIC ENVIRONMENT

DYLAN MARTORELL

PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH EXPERIMENTA

DATE AND TIME

Saturday 23 February 2013
7:00 pm - 7:00 am

LOCATION

Campbell Arcade

PRICE

Free

With an installation that combines touch, sound recordings and discarded materials, Dylan Martorell will create a sculptural instrument for multiple users in, based on a piece he is currently exhibiting at the Kochi Muziris Biennale in India.

Launching at 7pm, visitors are invited to Campbell Arcade to create improvised performances with the installation throughout White Night Melbourne, bringing the instrument to life with the sonic palette of Martorell’s recent recordings from the Indian state of Kerala. Visitors will journey through a soundscape of morning crows, hungry goats, elephants’ feet dragging chains, wet clothes hitting rocks, bicycle bells, cat fights, falling coconuts, broken fans and Indian instruments such as the Jal Tarang and the Taal Tarang.

Transience, improvisation and collaboration form the basis of Dylan Martorell’s music-based art practice. Housed within the conceptual framework of a musical diaspora, his work is inspired by the ways in which music travels through space and is affected by changes in geography, climate, culture and materials to become an agent for cross-cultural reciprocation.

Focusing on the use of site-specific gleaned materials and incorporating elements of upcycling, DIY electronics, robotics and alternative power sources, Martorell’s recent projects conducted in India, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia have explored concepts of transience, portability and sustainability.

DATE AND TIME

Saturday 23 February 2013
7:00 pm - 7:00 am

LOCATION

Campbell Arcade

PRICE

Free

DYLAN MARTORELL

PRESENTED BY NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA

Martorell’s practice is primarily concerned with the human trail evident in our refuse. To create his multifarious sound installations Martorell up-cycles this detritus, giving new life and function to discarded materials.

Martorell’s installations often take the form of electro-acoustic instruments featuring found and handcrafted elements that extend into magical assemblages of sound, costume and other apparatus and exist well beyond the confines of the gallery.

For White Night Dylan has proposed a performance of robotics and touch based sampling, which he is currently developing for the Kochi Biennale.

Robotic percussion instruments where created with the assistance of

Keith Urquhart - programming

Mat Valdman - Engineering

DATE AND TIME

Saturday 23 February 2013
TBC

LOCATION

Level 3,
NGV Australia

PRICE

Free

Images from Kochi Muziris Biennale Work

http://soundtracksingdonesia.blogspot.com.au/