Ros Bandt premiering Rodi :Pomegranate at Seen Sound March 2018,Amplified found objects with live electronics, ancient Greek text, live camera andvideo mix by Brigid Burke, small percussion Nat Grant, Loop Bar, Melbourne.
Dr Ros Bandt, Sounding Spaces is an internationally sought after Australiansound artist who is at once inventive composer and designer, multiinstrumentalist, sound sculptor, installation artist, curator, and scholar. She isfamous for her profound engagement with specific works in acoustic spaces be itindoor or outdoor, the gallery, warehouse, industrial carparks, wheat silos, theMurray River, American biosphere reserves, or the ancient outdoor site of LakeMungo. Her sensitive multi-sensory approach pays particular attention to theaudience engagement and her works are often collaborative with locals from theplace. In 2017, she was the premiere featured artist for 2 Greek festivals creating
5 nights of Sonic Metamorphoses in Delphi for Animart festival and "Sounding theSacred Oak, the first ever performance for the first Dodoni festival where she washailed as "the priestess of sound". Since returning from Greece in August, shehas performed and given keynote addresses on Sonic Connections, at theAustralian Wild Life Recording Group annual meet in the Pilliger, and theInternational Eco-Acoustics Conference in Brisbane where she performed hermulti channel Water Dreaming live with flute and exhibited it on the European
world water map as an installation. Her internationally commissioned works, IsoNagecki and Hydra have been spatially diffused in Brisbane by Leah Barclay for
Aquatic Ecology, World Water Day March 22, 2018 for the World Science
Festival, and her 6 channel Raptor was installed as one of 7 international works
chosen from the RMIT collection for their Chaos and Order exhibition in June andJuly 2018. Currently her corpus of works including 4 books, numerous CDs,graphic scores, installation designs, a pythagorean medieval recorder she madein France are on display at the Monash Performing Arts MUMA exhibition tocoincide with the Gender diversity in music making conference.

Her commissions over 5 continents, include America: Six Exquisites sound art
festival, International radio WNYC, Europe: Studio of Acoustic Art Cologne West
Duetsche Rundfunk, (Twice), Paris Autumn Festival, Archeao-acoustics Malta,Re-Map 3 Athens, (Bus Projects), Yerebatan Cistern Istanbul, Radio Wein,Asia:Radio Wakayama Japan, Isobue in Sugashima , Japan Mind in Sound, soundart exhibition, Radio Beijing , SMKI Bandung Indonesia. In Australia she wasABC audio arts RESIDENCY in Sydney where she also was commissioned by theInternational harp conference to compose Windharps, a sonic installation andelectroacoustic sound for 10 improvising lever harpists which transformed theFour Seasons Ballroom into a massive vibrating illuminated spiders web shaken
by the cosmic windharps, plucked and blown. She is an expert historical windplayer touring birdsong throughout Europe with Trio Avium and is a passionate
advocate of the Australian Tarhu bowed spike fiddle. In 2018, Ros was also
commissioned for Geelong After Dark creating the large outdoor mixed media
work Earthscape collaborating with Vicki Hallett and Jem Savage to install thearts precinct with sound, light, moving image, sculptures and performance.
A founding member of the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology, she has
pioneered environmental sound art for four decades and has created an acoustic
sanctuary for recording wild life, underwater creatures, and studying
soundscapes in change, a constant inspiration for her art practice. It is here her
106 string sound sculpture, the aeolian harps, sing country. She is the artistic
director of the 2 day free freshwater listening event celebrating listening to box
ironbark country and celebrating 20 years of acoustic ecology. www.afae.org
She is published by Wergo Germany, Pozitif Turkey, New Albion USA,Random Round, EMI, Move Records, Sonic Gallery, Hearing Places and herinnovative books and writings are on Craftsman House and Cambridge Scholars
Press, UK. She has a PhD in Musicology from Monash, and the NFSA haveawarded her the Fanny Cochrane Smith award for sound heritage. Her original
water tank improvisations are in the national Australian significant soundregister. She was the first woman to win the prestigious Don Banks Composers
award and in the same year won the Sound Art Australia Prize. In the USA she
was the inaugural Benjamin Cohen Fellow for innovation at Ball State University
with her cross faculty multi-channel sound installation Altars of Power andDesire. She has been awarded 3 ARC grants and the award for excellence at theUniversity of Melbourne for her innovative research.
She was born in Geelong where her father pioneered automotive design for Fordand invented the UTE.
SUPPORT MATERIAL: ROS BANDT LINKS Dr Ros Bandt
INTERNATIONAL
https://blog.oup.com/2014/05/ros-bandt-grove-music-online/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ros_Bandt
www.rosbandt.com
GREECEhttps://animartgreece.eu/2018/en/tutors/bandt/ videos
The Tortoise and the Spider www.hearingplaces.com
AUSTRALIA

https://hearingjaarajaara2013.wordpress.com/ large public event at acoustic
sanctuary and 12 month 7 seasons JaaraJaara aboriginal calendar, multi sensory ,image sound video, text.
ROS BANDT with VICKI HALLETT and Jem Savage (live electronics).
GAD COMMISSION 2018 & 2019
Earthscape https://vimeo.com/272716562
Probe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxR5CMOkot4, underwater video byMelinda Barrie

EARTHSCAPE PROMO Ros Bandt and Vicki Hallett

EARTHSCAPE : Live performance, ROS BANDT & VICKI HALLETT, GAD 2018