The Ear is a Brain: Compendium LP
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Featuring contributors from Australia and around the world, ‘The Ear is a Brain: Compendium LP’ is a limited edition vinyl record in parallel with, and celebration of, Liquid Architecture’s 2014 festival.
‘The Ear is a Brain’ will contain, inscribed in its grooves, a series of vibrational (made of sound) and conceptual (addressing sound) experiments. ‘The Ear is a Brain’ is an artist’s record. It is not the documentation of a work of art or sound. The record is the work of art. We take inspiration from the history of ‘sound art’ anthologies, notably Audio Arts.
Who will manifest in soundform on this LP?
Christof Migone (Canada), Hong-Kai Wang (Taiwan), Alessandro Bosetti (Italy), Helen Grogan (Australia), Johannes Kreidler (Germany), Robin Fox (Australia), Emile Zile (Australia), Salomé Voegelin (Switzerland) and David Mollin (UK), Andrew Brooks and Sam Pettigrew (Australia), Brian Fuata (Australia), John Nixon / The Donkey's Tail (Australia), Makiko Yamamoto (Japan), IDM Theft Able (USA), New Waver (Australia), Eric Demetriou (Australia), Sweat Tongue (Netherlands), The Charles Ives Singers (Australia) and Christopher LG Hill (Australia).
Who will also manifest in soundform on this LP?
TBC in due course.
What kinds of sounds?
(in alphabetical order) Action Art, Anti-Music, Conceptual Biography, Conversations With Self, Electricity, Imploding Objects, Market-Driven Composition, Mouth Music, Microphone Misuse, New Muzak, Plagiarism, Rock, Stutterances, Words and Non-Words.
We recommend you watch the above video as a secondary ritual after reading these terms.
What other kind of sounds?
Sounds that cannot be described at this time.
This album is, as of now, conceptual only. As in, we know what we know of these artists. We know what they have made. What exactly we don’t know is what they will do next. Which is something we at Liquid Architecture want to know.
But, we don’t need to send another object out into this world if it’s not wanted. We don’t want to add to the sheer mass of material to be stored, transported, exchanged, filed, managed, accommodated, experienced — unless it is also ENJOYED. And thus, wanted.
And that is the logic of using this system. If you can handle the degree of uncertainty and ambiguity, moreover if it sparks in you a desire, then you, along with others, can bring that desire to bear on reality itself and make the immaterial material.
Please support our record into existence.
‘The Ear is a Brain’ will contain, inscribed in its grooves, a series of vibrational (made of sound) and conceptual (addressing sound) experiments. ‘The Ear is a Brain’ is an artist’s record. It is not the documentation of a work of art or sound. The record is the work of art. We take inspiration from the history of ‘sound art’ anthologies, notably Audio Arts.
Who will manifest in soundform on this LP?
Christof Migone (Canada), Hong-Kai Wang (Taiwan), Alessandro Bosetti (Italy), Helen Grogan (Australia), Johannes Kreidler (Germany), Robin Fox (Australia), Emile Zile (Australia), Salomé Voegelin (Switzerland) and David Mollin (UK), Andrew Brooks and Sam Pettigrew (Australia), Brian Fuata (Australia), John Nixon / The Donkey's Tail (Australia), Makiko Yamamoto (Japan), IDM Theft Able (USA), New Waver (Australia), Eric Demetriou (Australia), Sweat Tongue (Netherlands), The Charles Ives Singers (Australia) and Christopher LG Hill (Australia).
Who will also manifest in soundform on this LP?
TBC in due course.
What kinds of sounds?
(in alphabetical order) Action Art, Anti-Music, Conceptual Biography, Conversations With Self, Electricity, Imploding Objects, Market-Driven Composition, Mouth Music, Microphone Misuse, New Muzak, Plagiarism, Rock, Stutterances, Words and Non-Words.
We recommend you watch the above video as a secondary ritual after reading these terms.
What other kind of sounds?
Sounds that cannot be described at this time.
This album is, as of now, conceptual only. As in, we know what we know of these artists. We know what they have made. What exactly we don’t know is what they will do next. Which is something we at Liquid Architecture want to know.
But, we don’t need to send another object out into this world if it’s not wanted. We don’t want to add to the sheer mass of material to be stored, transported, exchanged, filed, managed, accommodated, experienced — unless it is also ENJOYED. And thus, wanted.
And that is the logic of using this system. If you can handle the degree of uncertainty and ambiguity, moreover if it sparks in you a desire, then you, along with others, can bring that desire to bear on reality itself and make the immaterial material.
Please support our record into existence.
How The Funds Will Be Used
1. Each pledge of $20AUD will function as a preorder for ‘The Ear is a Brain: Compendium LP’
2. At 150 pledges we will reach our target of $3000AUD, which is the approximate cost of pressing and printing the record in an edition of 200.
3. 150 of these will go to the pledgers. The remaining 50 will go to the participating artists.
4. Thanks to Creative Partnerships, every dollar you pledge up to $5000 will be matched through their Match Crowdfunding for the Independent Arts Sector initiative, provided we reach our target!
5. The matched funding will be distributed between the Australian artists as fees for their work.
2. At 150 pledges we will reach our target of $3000AUD, which is the approximate cost of pressing and printing the record in an edition of 200.
3. 150 of these will go to the pledgers. The remaining 50 will go to the participating artists.
4. Thanks to Creative Partnerships, every dollar you pledge up to $5000 will be matched through their Match Crowdfunding for the Independent Arts Sector initiative, provided we reach our target!
5. The matched funding will be distributed between the Australian artists as fees for their work.
The Challenges
The Ear is a Brain: Limited Edition LP delivered to your door in September 2014!
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Est. delivery is Sep 14
The Ear is a Brain LP (inc world postage) + Taiwanese artist Hong-Kai Wang will curate a fantastic meal for you at a Sichuan restaurant wherever you and she cross paths, whether you are vegan or vegetarian or meat lover. She promises to be a good listener. As an added bonus 38 (the $ price of this reward) is one of the luckiest Chinese numbers (8 standing for prosperity and the 3 signifying 'triple prosperity'!!)
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The Ear is a Brain: limited LP + Robin Fox's Backscatter DVD delivered to your door double offer!
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The Ear is a Brain LP + for any pledge over $55.55 the German conceptual artist Johannes Kreidler will make a piece of music especially for you. The work will be a 'data sonification' of the amount you pledge.
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The Ear is a Brain LP + Eric Demetriou prize pack comprising mystery object and a lock of Eric's moustache
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The Ear is a Brain LP + Canadian sound artist Christof Migone calls you!!! DIAL 9 (for LIQUID ARCHITECTURE) 9 words in 9 calls over 9 days for 99 dollars Christof Migone, 2014 (terms and conditions to be specified upon purchase)
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HELEN GROGAN; OBJECTS AS SCORES (FOR A PHOTOGRAPHIC OUTCOME) POSTER PRINT SERIES LA 2014 Series of 4 A2 poster prints (420mm x 596mm, 160 gsm, Colour, edition of 5) made by Helen Grogan especially for Liquid Architecture 2014.
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The Ear is a Brain LP + Robin Fox invites you to play the RGB Laser system in his Melbourne studio warehouse. Cut shapes in space with Dr. Fox as your guide. WTF!
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The Ear is a Brain LP + EMILE ZILE prize pack. If you donate 201 dollars Emile Zile will take you to an IMAX film in 3d (of his choosing). He will provide the tickets and popcorn, or you can choose to receive a signed archival production still from his 2012 film ‘Jack’, recently seen at Melbourne Now NGV, IDFA Amsterdam, CCA Singapore.
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The Ear is a Brain: limited edition LP + bagged assemblage artworks by IDM Theft Able. Rubbish you will want to keep safe for life.
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The Ear is A Brain LP + Christopher L G Hill prize pack feature an audio cassette 'Isolated distribution c120' in an edition of ONE!!!!
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The Ear is a Brain LP + NEW WAVER prize pack including a rare original copy of the seminal zine Diary Of A Cold by A. Loser, a desk sign and a selection of stickers. See photo attached...
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The Ear is a Brain LP + 2 single edition ghost 'skins' by Brian Fuata!! These 'skins' are single-bed, white sheets with texts sewn on them. The following text pieces are (working titles): NO CHAIR UNTURNED NO ARMS ALL AIR
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The Ear is a Brain LP + JOHN NIXON prize pack offering two unique painted LP records with red and blue images from the sunset over the Adriatic. These artworks were featured at the NGV's recent Melbourne Now exhibition.
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Est. delivery is Aug 14