where The Glasshouse, QUT Creative Precincts, Kelvin Grove Rd, Brisbane
when 17 October
time 6.00pm - 7.00pm
GIRRL [girrlsound : digitalgirrl] supports
the development and promotion of new work by women in the sonic and
digital arts. GIRRL works to provide discussion, networking, and
exhibition spaces to initiate collaborations and offer support to women
making, curating, reviewing, theorising, and working in the digital and
sonic arts.
Our final public program of the year includes four
dynamic sound and digital artists - Heidi Millington, Antonia Zappia,
Amber Hansen and Michelle Xen. They will present some of t
heir work and discuss their creative practice.
Speaker bios
Michelle Xen is an Australian visual/sound artist, musician, and
performer. Her practice synthesizes elements of colour, dynamic, timbre,
volume, and field to create emotional and visceral installations,
videos, songs and sound works. Through this practice, the persona of the
female pop musician is dismantled and reconstructed through the
histories of experimental art performance, pop music, and art
installation practices. Her practice forms relationships between
contemporary art practice, pop music and contemporary performance
creating a generative questioning of how we assimilate and balance
cultural outputs. Xen has collaborated extensively across creative
disciplines and toured internationally as a DJ and vocalist/producer.
Heidi Millington (Rose Carrousel) is a musician and an environmental
scientist. She mixes whimsical vocals and unguarded stories with
acoustic instruments and shimmery, glitchy electronica to make
hand-made, beautiful folktronica and lo-fi electro. She has performed
and released internationally and been highly commended in the Queensland
Song of the Year (2012). Merging art and science, she is developing a
light-sensitive "Nature Synth" for investigating how people engage with
voice and the sounds of nature.
Antonia Zappia is a
contemporary composer and sound engineer based in Brisbane, Queensland.
Her creative practice encompasses classical, contemporary classical,
popular music and sound art. In developing her compositional voice,
Antonia spent three years collaborating with contemporary dancers,
choreographers, filmmakers and visual artists. In 2011, she was one of
the classical finalists in the APRA Professional Development Awards and
completed an Honours degree in Music Technology at the Queensland
Conservatorium of Music. Her dissertation, entitled Interdisciplinary
Collaboration: Effective Traits of a Creative Partnership, was informed
by research of 20th century and current creative partnerships.
Amber Hansen is a multidisciplinary composer, producer, performer,
researcher and teacher. Her creative practice embodies and expresses her
experiences and perceptions as a woman of mixed cultural ancestry,
influenced and inspired by the multicultural, urban, indigenous and
natural landscapes that she was raised in, has travelled to and that
surround her. The diverse cultural, social, political, spiritual and
creative facets of her past and present inform and influence her
practice, realised by utilising diverse artistic mediums such as
electro-acoustic composition; traditional, contemporary and oriental
Arabic and Middle Eastern music and dance; live performance art;
installation; remixing; film and other visual media.
