DJ Olive
For well over ten years, DJ Olive (Gregor Asch) has been a central figure in the New York electronics and art-music communities. Through his solo output and in groups such as WE and Text Of Light he has played a number of key roles in branding a variety of divergent genres of music, most recently Rooftop Music stemming from Brooklyn’s countless rooftop parties and happenings.
With an audio palette as diverse as it is unique, DJ Olive seamlessly brings together disparate and eclectic sound passages to create works that combine the sensibilities of dancehall and breakbeat with glistening textural ambience and electro-acoustic approaches.
DJ Olive has worked on a wide range of projects, including the integrated experimental film/audio cut-ups of Text of light (in which he plays alongside Lee Renaldo, Alan Licht and others) and the Christian Marclay DJ Trio project. He has also given performances alongside members of Sonic Youth in a variety of ensembles and has recorded and toured with the highly regarded jazz composer Uri Caine.
Co-founder of Phonomena at subtonic – a performance space and record imprint – with Toshio Kajawara, DJ Olive also maintains the Agriculture, a label that documents the growing Rooftop music scene in New York. His recent output on Phonomena includes the Vinyl score compositions for Belgian cello master Jean Paul Dessy, called Kolidescore, and the piece created for his ongoing work alongside French Concréte composer Luc Ferrari.
In 2005 DJ Olive continues to diversify his audio output, with a new beat-oriented release on the Agriculture, as well as the latest ambient compendium Sleep in his ongoing series of works for the Room40 label.
Sam + Tq
Canberra performers Sam + Tq strive to illuminate the delicious circuitry of abandoned technology. Tq produces sounds of searing electricity, superbly dubbed by Sam Karmel, aka Sam.
Sam is interested in the reproduction and distortion of real sound environments using Ambisonics. H e has a passion for a wide range of music, and for the past five years has hosted the Sub Sequence radio show, played nationally across the community radio network.
The Consumers
To tantalise all senses, Liquid Architecture also presents the Edible audienceby The Consumers. Four guests dine on auditory aperitifs, feasting on the faces of the audience to produce a gastronomic sound-scape. Thisinteractive sound art interface was programmed by Tim Barrass, and is performed by Stephen Barrass, Anita Fitton and Onaclov from the University of Canberra, and Alistair Riddell from the Australian National University. The Augmented Reality System (AVIARY) used to track the food was developed in collaboration with Peter Morse from the University of Melbourne.
Shannon O’Neill
Media artist Shannon O’Neill works across music, radio, internet, film, video and installation. He is a founding member of the Alias Frequencies electronic arts collective, an Australian organisation that promotes and publishes collage-based music and media art.
Shannon also works as a lecturer in Media Arts at the University of Technology Sydney and was coordinator of the Electrofringe festival from 2001 to 2002. Most recently he curated the MP3 compilation of all Australian appropriation artists, which is available online at detritus.net/illegalart/mp3s/05.04.html.
Nat
Nat produces and performs experimental music, and designs sound and music for videos and animations. He has curated exhibitions of multimedia, music video and sound art, and is a co-founding Artistic Director of Liquid Architecture. He has also has produced interactive sound works for multimedia, gallery installation and the internet, most notably for the AFC and ABC funded Stuff-Art project.
Recently Nat created the sound and music for renowned media artist Ian Haig’s animation I was made for loving you as part of Philip Brophy’s Descore project, which screened at ResFest in Sydney. His current projects include Machina Aux Rock, an experimental rock outfit, and Film§coria, a series of soundtracks for appropriated video pieces.
Nat lectures and tutors in sound for audio-visual applications at RMIT University, Melbourne.
