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Alexandra Spence - 'walking, she heard the fluttering'

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Waking, she heard the fluttering

(July 5, 2018)

I’ve just returned from three months in the UK and Europe. Some of that time was spent in cold, gritty London, meeting and talking with David Toop, some of it listening to fences vibrate in the Scottish highlands - learning from Jez Riley French and Chris Watson, some of it was spent swimming in nudist lakes at Grunewald forest in Berlin, lying in fields of tiny yellow flowers in quaint British towns, listening to sirens travelling across European cities, church bells ringing at midday, drinking expensive coffee and cheap pints, sharing music with audiences of five and audiences of ninety-five. Reading Dorothy Richardson, reading Hito Stereyl, reading Nan Shepard, Lydia Davis. Listening to Tyler the Creator, Laurence Crane, RP Boo and Sarah Hennies.

The whole time I was thinking about textures. David told me a story about a time when he was in Japan. He had visited a Zen garden in the spring time, there was a cherry blossom in bloom, and beneath it a black granite rock. The image of soft pink nestling rough rock is one I kept coming back to. How can colour and image become aural, how can the feeling of material (hand on sharp rock, hand against gentle flower) be understood not through sound, but as sound?

Created for and premiered on the FBi radio show Ears Have Ears. This project was supported by The Australia Council for the Arts, the Australia Council is the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, The NSW Government through Create NSW and the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship. The program is administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).

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from murmuration # 1, released August 31, 2018
Alexandra Spence is an artist and musician from Sydney, Australia. She makes installations, compositions and performances based on sound and listening.

Alex’s practice explores the idea of listening as an active practice, examining the ways in which our individual notions of place and identity are shaped and mediated through sound. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. With an interest in resonance, vibration and everyday sound, her aesthetic favours subtlety, quietude and unusual sound sources. (she holds the pseudo-scientific belief that electricity might actually be magic)

Alex has performed and presented work in concerts, festivals, symposiums and galleries in Australia, Canada, and Europe.

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