List of Artists Artists Performance Schedule - click on the artist's name for a description of the project. Listed below the schedule are names and project descriptions for all the artists exhibiting work at Environmental Horizons 2001. The clock was designed for a paper packaging company to give its clients as a gift to promote the use of recycled and recyclable products. The corrugation works as timing gears, with the small cylinder rotating around the larger to tell the time in hours and minutes. A live performance on my laptop computer of a composition using the sounds of Australian birds, both at normal speed and stretched to many times their original lengths.
Bird song is so much more information dense than human speech.
Fortunately, computer software has been developed that allows sounds to be expanded in time without changing other aspects of the sound. With it, we can hear patterns within the sounds that were formerly inaudible to us. In this performance, a recording of birdsong from Horsham, a small town 180 miles west of Melbourne, is combined live with combinations of stretched Australian Bird calls, which I'm creating on the spot in response to the environment. My aim is not to make a music that reflects a nostalgia for a nature which no longer exists, but to create a performance that reflects the complex nature of environmental interaction. In the Beginning started with the imagination of the early Earth that had been just made up.