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Wired Lab Open Day 31st October 2009

Well, the wired lab open day was a great success and credit must go to Sarah Last and Dave Burraston for their tireless commitment to fostering a sense of community around the wired lab project. Well done guys. Thanks also to all who made the trek. I’m sure everyone had a rewarding experience. It was great to have Alan back on board. His performances with Garry Bradbury and Dave Noyze were inspirational as always. It was also a treat to hear Oren Ambarchi working with the wires again. His sensit… Continue

Added by Robin Fox on November 4, 2009 at 12:39pm — No Comments

WIRED O P E N DAY

Commencing in the late afternoon audiences will be bussed from Cootamundra to The WIRED Lab site for a multi-sensory experience of site and sound. From sunset to nightfall audiences will experience the immense dynamic range and capacity of a musical instrument spanning hundreds of metres across the landscape. Affectionately called “... nature's microphone” by… Continue

Added by sarah on October 21, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Wired Lab w/ Chris Watson

Thanks Sarah and Dave for inviting us to the Chris Watson workshop and showing us yr awesome wires. I've made a little pseudo-documentation of my experience and posted it here: http://www.vimeo.com/7154942 Continue

Added by Lloyd Barrett on October 20, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

NAISDA

I would love to talk to someone at Wired about a future project with the National Indigenous Dance College. Please contact KLim Walker on 02 43403100 Continue

Added by Kim Walker on October 1, 2009 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Chris Watson in residence 11-19th October

From 11-19th October The Wired Lab will be hosting UK artist Chris Watson as artist in residence.

Watson is a founding member of the influential experimental music group 'Cabaret Voltaire', and since the 1980's has worked as a sound recordist specialising in nature and the natural world around us. He records wildlife, the sounds of animals… Continue

Added by sarah on September 27, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Wired Lab Residency #3 26.08 - 01.09 2009-09-03

Another wonderful week spent at the Wired Lab! Thanks, as always, to Dave and Sarah for their warmth and flawless hospitality as well as their enthusiasm and insight into what is a really substantial and important project in Australian sound. It was great to sit and listen to the wires again, they sang beautifully everyday and somehow, over time, the sonority seems to be getting richer, particularly in the long wire system. I was unable to attend a previous residency at which a new wire (loving… Continue

Added by Robin Fox on September 4, 2009 at 2:00am — 4 Comments

recent WIRED Lab music uploads

WEATHER-MIX 5 minute weather sounds selection A multi-layered mix of natural weather pattern sonifications : rising and falling wind patterns rain storms (heard as cracks and pops when water strikes the pickup, and as zaps/pings as the rain strikes further down the wire) wir… Continue

Added by dave burraston on July 7, 2009 at 2:30pm — 3 Comments

Colin's concert & workshop

Hello again folks, I am back home again, up north on my island in Moreton Bay reflecting on my wire music experience. For me the most valuable aspect of my residency was having the time to become familiar with the vast range of sound possibilities the wires offer and how my own musical ideas could interact and be transformed by that sound. During my residency I spent a lot of time listening to, singing and playing with the wires, collaged existing pieces into their sound and composed new works.… Continue

Added by Colin Offord on July 3, 2009 at 5:36pm — No Comments

Colin in residence:week 1

Hello everyone, Here is a report on my first week at Wiredlab. It's been full, productive and rewarding, cold too for someone from the deep north ie: Moreton Bay Queensland !

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Added by Colin Offord on June 16, 2009 at 2:21pm — No Comments

Colin Offord in residence June 2009

A long time associate of Alan Lamb's, Offord will be joining us @ The WIRED Lab for two weeks. Whilst in residence he will be working with Wires and Dave Burraston to develop new compositions, and to build new instruments to record and interact with the wires.

Offord, a gifted singer an… Continue

Added by sarah on June 5, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Species of Spaces, exhibition opening: Thursday 11.06.09 6-8pm

Featuring Ryszard Dabek, Brett Jones, Melissa Laing and the WIRED Lab an audio-based research that is focused on the pioneering work of Australian sound artist Alan Lamb. The exhibition title Species of Spaces is taken from the English translation of the French writer Georges Perec’s 1974 vo… Continue

Added by Pip Shea on May 20, 2009 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

alan lamb

Hey! Brand new to this site. Does anyone have any Alan Lamb recordings to copy or send me? I'm having a terrible time finding any. Thanks! Continue

Added by joe colone on May 18, 2009 at 8:35am — No Comments

Jeff Henderson current guest @ The Wired Lab & performing tonight at the Bald Archies exhibition

Jeff is currently our guest @ The Wired Lab & performing tonight at the 'Bald Archies' exhibition at the Museum of the Riverina in Wagga Wagga. New Zealand musician Jeff Henderson. Known for gigging with his handmade instruments such as a cigar box guitar, leaf ‘instruments’ and b… Continue

Added by sarah on May 7, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

pick-ups melt in heatwave!

well this ultra hot heatwave we had, followed by very strong winds has given us a good idea just how long a set of our piezo pick-ups will last. just about 10 months! which is pretty good going, as we were expecting to renew them after 6 months. i've uploaded some photo's i took yesterday showing just how much the weather has taken its toll. they are in an album on my page. i was quite surprised just how much they had been stressed by the heat, well we did get up to 45c and the heatwave lasted n… Continue

Added by dave burraston on February 17, 2009 at 9:23pm — 5 Comments

WIRED LAB Residency #2: 1-7 November 2008.

WIRED LAB Residency #2: 1-7 November 2008. There is now little doubt in my mind that the wire projects of Alan Lamb constitute non-linear dynamic systems that are in need of further empirical as well as aesthetic investigation and extension. Discussions with David Burraston on the nature of cellular automata and the observation of complex and chaotic behaviour generated from relatively simple rule states provide a platform from which to view the wire as a simple instrument capable of gen… Continue

Added by Robin Fox on November 6, 2008 at 3:20pm — No Comments

natures microphone

the wires themselves are multifaceted and the often discussed aeolian aspect is but one. they are also nature's microphone. much animal life intereacts with them e.g. insects (spiders, mozzies), birds and cows have all had a play too! the rainfall recordings are also very beautiful. water dampens the vibrations of the wire. water and morning dew will generally stop them from singing or vibrating. in light or short patches of rain the vibrations may not be completely dampened. the sound of the r… Continue

Added by dave burraston on May 13, 2008 at 1:31am — 3 Comments

moomoo cowcow adjustments

one of the important things we needed to see before the end of the residency was that the moo cows could co-exist with the installation. moo cows seem to get on fine with power and telephone poles, so we expect them to be no different with our poles and wires. however, one section each of both the short and long wire spans was just beneath moo cow head height after tensioning. so i made a few adjustments yesterday to compensate for this, which i've uploaded into a photo album called moo cow adj… Continue

Added by dave burraston on May 1, 2008 at 8:21pm — No Comments

RIP -> Bebe Barron

sigh... another great one gone... d ---------------------- Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Rhea Date: 2008 April 27 8:45:11 PM EDT (CA) Subject: Re: [EMF World] Bebe Barron Thanks Folks, I appreciate the remembrances. I, too will miss Bebe. I videotape interviewed Bebe some years ago, and she told me that the AFM actually "blackballed" Louis and her from doing further work "in town." This was done by threatening the major studios with the possibility of boycotting their orchestral film… Continue

Added by dave burraston on April 29, 2008 at 10:04am — No Comments

28-04-08-heavywind+rain -> long wires recording

28-04-08-heavywind+rain part of a 3 and a half hour recording sesh today of the long wires in proper artic conditions as far as australia is concerned. the wind chill factor was pretty convincing, but leeds in march with blizzarding snow is somewhat more inhospitable and just as beautiful. this 28-04-08-heavywind+rain recording was made from the pickups on the bottom long wire. the cows are heading up to the wire paddock soon and there was a couple of eagles, wedge tails going across a very dar… Continue

Added by dave burraston on April 28, 2008 at 11:20pm — No Comments

17-04-08-alan&dave-perf-shortwire.mp3

i've just uploaded this recording which was done on 17-04-08. alan was at the far end of the short wire playing with the end post floating pole. i started at the top end where the short and long wire connect and walked down the length of the wire towards alan, playing the poles along the way and then reaching him at the far end for the remaining 10 mins or so. the excruciating high pitched wailing around 5mins was the wire scraping on the pole while alan was rattling the floating pole, ear split… Continue

Added by dave burraston on April 28, 2008 at 3:05pm — No Comments

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