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 

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

instrument builder project update 

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

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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/

http://www.kochimuzirisbiennale.org/

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Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi. 160,000 sq ft of exhibition and event space for Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012.

Kochi-Muziris 

Biennale 2012

12 December, 2012–13 March, 2013

Press and professional preview: 11 December, noon
Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India

Venues in Fort Kochi, Mattancherry,
Ernakulam town and Muziris heritage sites

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India’s first biennale, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, will open in 30 days. The three-month-long exhibition and cultural programme, the largest contemporary art event in the country, will take place across a string of venues in the Fort Kochi area.

Curated by co-founders and artists Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu, the first edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale has nearly 90 artists participating, the large majority of whom are creating new, site-specific works. Half of the artists are Indian, a good number of them from Kerala.

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 will be inaugurated on 12.12.12 at Parade Ground in Fort Kochi.

Kochi Muziris Biennale explores the possibilities of blurring the boundaries, in a geographical region where boundaries are blurred in a local and cosmopolitan way, where the surroundings offer inspiration by way of the character of the place one can exhibit in. It can generate response to something that is already there as a public space in the neighborhoods, where perceived political content has been a major determinant of what survives and of what gets created as art in the first place.

Critical imagery can only have its genesis in a shared space, where celebrations of ethnicity or historical themes can collapse into metonymic utterances that cancel the distinctions between places and boundaries, aesthetics and politics, between life and art.

It is against this backdrop of an earnest enquiry that we propose to make Kochi a repository of emerging ideas and ideologies, an occasion to explore a mechanism to process, reflect and rewrite history, different histories, local, individual and collective that would meet in confluence in Kochi. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale proposes to open a new discourse, one that will explore a new, hitherto unknown language of narration.

Artists working on new commissions for the biennale include Sudarshan Shetty (India), Sanchayan Ghosh (India), Subodh Gupta (India), Hossein Valamanesh (Iran/Australia), Ariel Hassan(Argentina), Amanullah Mojadidi (Afghanistan), Anita Dube (India), Jyothi Basu (India), Tallur LN(India), Vivan Sundaram (India), Sheela Gowda (India), Joseph Semah (Netherlands), Nalini Malani (India), Atul Dodiya (India), UBIK (Dubai), Rigo 23 (Portugal), Jonas Staal (Netherlands),Dylan Martorell (Scotland/Australia), Ernesto Neto (Brazil), Reghunathan (India), PS Jalaja (India) and Mathangi Arulpragasam (M.I.A.) (UK).

The biennale will present an eclectic programme of talks, seminars, screenings, music, workshops and educational activities for students of all ages.

Biennial Foundation and Kochi Biennale Foundation are co-hosting a symposium on emerging platforms for contemporary art in India December 15–16. The two-day programme includes speakersGeeta Kapur, Sarat Maharaj, Ranjit Hoskote, Gayatri Sinha, Pooja Sood and Nancy Adajania.

‘Let’s Talk,’ Kochi-Muziris Biennale’s daily programme of talks, presentations, performances, conversations and panel discussions featuring artists, academics, curators and critics, will be held at the Outset Carnoustie Pavilion.

A literary/cultural festival, Annual Rings, will be launched on November 12 during an international book festival held at Ernakulam town by DC Books.

The BRICS Project, a collateral exhibition curated by Alfons Hug, director of the Goethe-Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, features artists from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and Germany.

Ten international films selected by renowned film maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan will be screened as a special programme at the biennale.

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 venues include the 150-year-old Durbar Hall in downtown Kochi, recently renovated by the Kochi Biennale Foundation, and David Hall, a restored Dutch bungalow in Fort Kochi. Spice warehouses, heritage structures, theatres, halls and public spaces are also on the map of this city-wide festival of art.

Aspinwall House is a large sea-facing heritage property at Fort Kochi, which contains a wide variety of structures, including offices, warehouses and a residential bungalow totalling 160,000 square feet of exhibition and event space. Aspinwall House, which will be a primary venue for the biennale, has been loaned to Kochi-Muziris Biennale by DLF Limited in association with the Gujral Foundation.

Pepper House is a historic spice godown with Dutch-style clay roofs and a large courtyard, once used to store goods for loading onto ships anchored in Kochi harbour. Pepper House provides Kochi-Muziris Biennale with 16,000 square feet of exhibition space and artist residency studios.

These grand heritage properties located on the Kochi harbour waterfront have never been open to the public.

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 opening week programme and images are available at ww.kochimuzirisbiennale.org.

Press are invited to apply for accreditation online.

Press Contacts
Maya Menon, Communications and Marketing Assistant
T +91 8943 598 524 / maya@kochimuzirisbiennale.org
Michelangelo Bendandi, Director of Communications
T +91 9562 905 508 / michelangelo@kochimuzirisbiennale.org

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Grainger Museum Free Music Now

New Mix - Arayan Kraal / ACid Priests

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Dylan Martorell / Snawklor /Scratch Orchestra at TWMA

TarraWarra Biennial 2012 Sonic Spheres Performances at TWMA 
First Sunday of the month, from September to December (inclusive) at 2pm
Free with Museum Entry

Snawklor / Dylan Martorell / Scratch Orchestra 6th October

Northcote Social Club

$10 TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA) is presenting a special evening of live sound performances at the celebrated Northcote Social Club on Wednesday October 3, 2012. The event will feature five separate performances by sound artists whose visual art also features in the TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres exhibition at TWMA.

Tickets $10 at the door; Sounds from 8:00pm to 11:00pm. Northcote Social Club, 301 High St Northcote VIC 3070 Ph: 03 9489 3917 Tickets: 1300 724 867

scratch orchestra 

snawklor      charles ives singers

donkeys tail

marco fusianato

              kochi prototype #2

Dylan Martorell: D'ameublement

Dylan Martorell, Bin Gamelan2012

4 September - 11 October 2012
Switchback Gallery
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Curator: Francis E. Parker

Sound and installation artist Dylan Martorell is MUMA’s artist in residence at the Gippsland Centre for Art & Design for 2012. Martorell undertook the residency in two stages in April and May, building interconnected sound sculptures using waste materials gleaned from the locale. The exhibition restages the studio environment in the Switchback Gallery, animated by projected video documentation of music-making with GCAD students and the robotic percussion instrument workshops that Martorell conducted with Buddhist monks while on a subsequent residency in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.

Named for French composer Erik Satie’s Musique d’ameublement or ‘furniture music’ – an early twentieth-century precursor to ambient music – D’ameublement transforms discarded remnants of household furnishings into Martorell’s characteristic musical assemblages.

Robotic percussion instruments where created with
Keith Urquhart - programming
Mat Valdman - Engineering
and Wil Campbell