Sonic Greyspace

The Sonic Greyspace residency is an opportunity for two groups of artists with intersecting sound and image practices to come together in project development and project exploration modes.

There are two project concepts that are the focus of activity - one a graphic novel and the other a new sound image composition.

The graphic novel will mix aspects of Nigel Helyer’s biography, his practice as a sculptor and sound artist, and the broader field of sound art. Magic realism will be used in the novel as a way to weave these elements together - the graphic novel format being ideal because it allows a similar fluid movement between fiction and reality.
Michael Buckley is drawing the images and Mark Hobby is writing the text.The residency is an opportunity to discover the content of the first five chapters and develop the overall schema of the novel.
Cecelia Cmielewski will facilitate this part of the project.

The Sone/Greyspace artists and musicians Keith Deverell, Corey Sands and Sue McCauley will create a new work incorporating field recordings of birds, prepared screens, and live music sound composition/performance. They intend to create a work in five days and to perform it on the 6th day at Bundanon. These artists are also working on a collaborative project with two other Cambodian artists called Our Cities - Hawker songs about the disappearing street hawkers of Phnom Penh. This will be a sound and projection project with exhibition outcomes in Phnom Penh and Melbourne. This residency is an opportunity to develop some ideas around the sound aspects of this project.