Smooth the Pillow for the Dying Race
> Cat Hope 2015 Courtesy of the artist. To quell the violence on the frontiers of early Australia, to reduce devastation by disease and to provide Aborigines with a ‘humane’ environment while their race died out, colonial governments introduced systems of ‘protective’ legislation. The first was in 1860 in South Australia, where a Chief Protector […]
Pithoprakta
> Iannis Xenakis 1955 Courtesy of Iannis Xenakis Org. Pithoprakta is stochastic work. Stochastic processes have a random probability distribution that cannot be predicted. Examples include bacterial growth patterns, electrical current fluctuation, and the movement of particles within a fluid. Pithoprakta was composed for 49 musicians – 2 trombones, xylophone/woodblock, and 46 strings. Each instrument […]
Volume and Void
> Bjarni Gunnarsson 2020 Courtesy of the artist. The four compositions that form part of Volume and Void – Heap, Wreck, Blur, and Stash – were composed with experimental scheduling algorithms. The algorithms were used to explore the duality – juxtaposition and interpenetration – of immediate, direct events, and gradual processes that evolve over time. […]