Ros Bandt (Melbourne, Australia)
PERFORMANCE, Saturday, July 24, 1999, 7pm, Tacoma Art Museum.
Ros Bandt is a well known Australian sound artist
who has practiced in the field internationally for over 20 years.
She builds multimedia sound sculptures, interactive installations,
composes environmental music and 'sounds' sites in unique ways.
Voicing the Murray, Endangered Species series 1, commissioned
by the Mildura Festival in March 1996, was a six channel acoustic
ecology derived from the impact oftechnology on the Murray Darling
Region. The stories and sounds wereinstalled in large ceramic
urns in the Mildura Art Gallery for three weeks,during which time,
they floated in differing relationships to each other,like the
ebb and flow of the river Murray. Ros Bandt has won the joint
ABC/WDR sound art award, the Don Banks Composers fellowship, and
she was the inaugural Benjamin Cohen Scholar for peace andinnovation
in Ball State University. Her works appear on MOVE records, ABCrecords,
New Albion Records, USA. and Wergo, Germany. She has publishedinternationally
in the area of Sound Sculpture in Australia and is writing abook
on an Australian research grant at Monash University. Her doctorategained
in 1983 was on Models and Processes in Repetitive Music. In 1996,
hercommissions include Thrausmata, an electronic tape piece based
on ancientGreek Texts for the WDR Cologne, and Are you really
there? for the ABC's Listening Room. Her spatial computer piece,
Loops was premiered at the ACMA conference in Brisbane in June
and entered in the Prix Ars Electronica Linz.
Supported by the Australia
Council