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25.01.2022 Machine listening is much more than just a new scientific discipline or vein of technical innovation however. It is also an emergent field of knowledge-power, of data extraction and colonialism, of capital accumulation, automation and control. It demands critical and artistic attention. Liquid Architecture and Unsound present Unsound 2020 Intermission: Machine Listening, October 2020 https://liquidarchitecture.org.au//machine-listening-unsou... Participants TBA image Debris Facility

24.01.2022 https://manusrecordingproject.com/

24.01.2022 Liquid Architecture Artistic Director Joel Stern is in Launceston this weekend working with co-curators Kristi Monfries ( Volcanic Winds) and Lisa Campbell-Smith ( Contemporary Art Tasmania) and artists Richie Cyngler, Julia Drouhin, Dylan Sheridan, and Pip Stafford for Instrument Builders Project 5 as part of MONA FOMA 2021, at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery! Come say hello if you're around. Details https://www.mofo.net.au//mof/instrument-builders-project-5 https://liquidarchitecture.org.au//instrument-builders-pro

23.01.2022 Tonight is the second of our three experimental Zoom sessions at Unsound for Machine Listening, a curriculum. Starts in 2 hours, see you there! Lessons in how (not) to be heard Saturday 3 Oct 2020, 9pm Melbourne time... Free, open to all Attend - https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KKafeaNuQvCA4JvEtBNSwg Explore - https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/ Machine Listening investigates the coming world of listening machines in all its dystopian and utopian dimensions. This second session offers a series of lessons in how (not) to be heard, ranging from the structural to the technical, and from the aesthetic to the activist. How might we institute and provide a platform for a global community as a critical counterpoint to all the capitalists and solutionists, militarists and industry boosters intent on empowering machines with a sense of hearing? Featuring: Halcyon Lawrence, Panoptykon Foundation, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Alex A Ahmed (Project Spectra), Joel Spring and Jazz Money, Mat Dryhurst (Interdependence), DeForrest Brown Jr. (Speaker Music) and more

23.01.2022 Unearthing: Unwelcome_________ Laniyuk and AM Kangieser in these online workshops ask: what does it mean to be unwelcomed on and by land? We will consider how we individually and collectively inhabit this land, unfolding what it means to be on land that never invited us. Reflecting on the presumptions of innocence and goodness that inform our everyday practices and talking about the erasure that comes from generations of genocide and deliberate silencing, we explore what it m...eans to listen, even when we think there is nothing to hear. Delving into feelings of what cannot be reconciled, where both staying and leaving might feel impossible. https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/unwelcomed https://www.facebook.com/events/291103045438687/

22.01.2022 Proud to have worked with our Monash University Museum of Art colleagues in bringing together this collection of stunning new works. Unsettling Scores examines how acts of experimental and political sound and listening grounded in the language of musical scores become vehicles of unsettlement, disrupting logics of settlerism, extractivism, expropriation and appropriation, while at the same time offering powerful assertions of sovereignty, resistance, and futurity. The collection is published on LA's journal Disclaimer and accessible in full at the link. Featuring Megan Cope, Raven Chacon, Candice Hopkins, Dylan Robinson, Rob Thorne, and Proposals from the Future: Nick Ashwood, Johnny Chang, Meg Clune, Andrew Fedorovitch, Sonya Holowell, MP Hopkins, Shota Matsumura, and Alexandra Spence

22.01.2022 Debris Facility, Blueprints for Temporal Investment 20212021

21.01.2022 The third of three experimental Zoom sessions investigating the coming world of listening machines across the spectrum of its dystopian and utopian dimensions. Comprising a montage of presentations, performance, sound, video, experiments in listening, and music, this final session considers the effects of the pandemic on machinic ears. From the perspective of the machine listening industry, the pandemic is not an intermission, it’s an opportunity: a dream come true. Thoughtle...ssness, touchlessness, wakewordlessness: listening with the pandemic, these and other tendencies of machine listening are more apparent than ever, only blanketed now in the twin auras of inevitability and social good. What’s clear is that machine listening will not be put back in its box. Imaginative work will have to be done to provoke something more emancipatory or constructive in the pandemic’s wake. When the sounds of the pandemic recede, as Shannon Mattern puts it, how will our hearing be changed? Featuring: Sean Dockray, Mark Andrejevic, Thao Phan, Vladan Joler, Andrew Brooks, Shannon Mattern, Jasmine Guffond and more. This session will last between 2 - 3 hours. This event is free of charge, but you can support it and donate here: https://www.unsound.pl//inter/support-unsound-intermission This project is co-presented with Liquid Architecture and CLOT Magazine.

20.01.2022 Thinking about Sean Baxter today while revisiting his essay "Let's do Pure Fucking Armageddon!" recently published in Disclaimer. His commitment to improvisation not only as a musical practice, but as a way of life, is so compelling. As Anthony Pateras put it in the intro, 'he was pure energy'. "At its core, improvisation is the act of doing in the moment, and to extrapolate upon that moment, to extend the cognitive superstructure around what is essentially spontaneous by... thinking, talking, writing, documenting, preserving, defending or otherwise colonising it with intelligibility seems like a betrayal of its very nature as a radical breach of regimented space, time and sensory perception that can only exist by experiencing it in situ. As an improvisor, it’s tempting to adopt this militant position whereby the very articulation of the ineffable is a compromise. But improvisation is an act that revels in the dichotomy of stasis and flux. It reveals the metaphysical tension between being and becoming. It is a conduit for the simultaneous negotiation of past, present and future in a rhizomatic and ever-changing NOW. Far from simply being ‘made up on the spot’, improvisation is the spontaneous navigation of training, context, intent and the unknown." See more

20.01.2022 This second edition of Unsettling Scores is the premiere of a new conceptual score conceived collaboratively by Navajo Nation composer Raven Chacon and Carcross/Tagish curator and writer Candice Hopkins. To be published in three parts or ‘Dispatches’ as the artists declare the work draws from Chacon and Hopkins’ reflections on the fight for cultural preservation and defence of Indigenous sovereignty at the Standing Rock Reservation Water Protector encampment in 2016. Dispatch #1 (The Call), published below, sets the scene with a short statement of political intent, followed by a roll-call of the ‘Players’, as they prepare to begin the piece. Dispatches #2 and #3 will follow on 30 September 2020 through Unsettling Scores, on our journal Dislaimer, with our friends @mumamonash

19.01.2022 Shamindan Kanapadhi is finally free of the Australian offshore detention regime, following eight years held illegally and cruelly by our government, first on Manus Island and later Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. Thankfully, the UNHCR have secured his passage to Finland. A Tamil refugee from Sri Lanka, Shamindan became a human rights activist and artist in detention, and we are honoured to have been able to share his many audio recordings as part of Manus Recording Project Collective's works, 'how are you today' and 'where are you today'. You can listen to them here - https://manusrecordingproject.com/. Safe travels Shamindan Kanapadhi. Justice for refugees in Australian detention.

15.01.2022 Shout out to all our moth friends evading bats through stealth acoustic cloaking.

15.01.2022 The second of three experimental Zoom sessions investigating the coming world of listening machines across the spectrum of its dystopian and utopian dimensions. Comprising a montage of presentations, performance, sound, video, experiments in listening, and music, this second session offers a series of lessons in how not to be heard, ranging from the structural to the technical, and from the aesthetic to the activist. Machine listening poses a challenge at least as urgent as c...omputer vision, search or social media indeed, all the more pressing for having received so much less critical attention. How might we institute and provide a platform for a global community as a critical counterpoint to all the capitalists and solutionists, militarists and industry boosters intent on empowering machines with the sense of hearing? Featuring: Jules LaPlace, Halcyon Lawrence, Panoptykon Foundation, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Alex Ahmed (Project Spectra), Joel Spring and Jazz Money, Mat Dryhurst (Interdependence), DeForrest Brown Jr. (Speaker Music) and more. This session will last between 2 - 3 hours. This event is free of charge, but you can support it and donate here: https://www.unsound.pl//inter/support-unsound-intermission This project is co-presented with Liquid Architecture and CLOT Magazine.

15.01.2022 EOFY EOI: Blueprints for Temporal Investment 20212021 To celebrate the end of the financial year, and 20 years of Liquid Architecture, Debris Facility is offering a project which takes the format of calendar, blueprint, syllabus and alarm tones to critically inhabit logistics as it cuts through the personal and professional. The A1 poster calendar is accompanied by monthly emails with accompanying texts expanding on that month's graphics alongside custom phone alarm tones to... those who submit an Expression of Investment (EOI). Edition of 220 available, "first come first served". Blueprints for Temporal Investment 20202021 is a propositional expansion to the body corporate of Debris Facility pty ltd which morphs propositional architecture with the speculative practices of temporal organisation, at this highlighted moment of collapse of the labour/leisure divide. The multiplicity of this Facility project incorporates works from The Chernobyl Gallery, Aodhan Madden, Spiros Panigirakis, Alexander Chizevksky, Nicholas Mangan, Beatriz Colomina, The Core Agency, The Numismatic Association of Victoria, ChemSpider, Paul Virilio, Off White, Bayer Corporation, Melbourne Radiology Clinic, Angel Investment, George Raymond Johnson and others. Obtaining a calendar is as simple as providing an EOI: Expression of Investment, which is a tax deductible donation to Liquid Architecture, and/or a short written response to the question: Where does time accumulate in the body? emailed to [email protected] along with your postal address. https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/support

14.01.2022 where are you today is a new work by Manus Recording Project Collective, continuing the group's practice of documenting, sharing and circulating audio recordings from inside Australia’s on- and-offshore detention centres for refugees and asylum seekers. where are you today will comprise a new set of ten-minute audio recordings, produced and delivered via text message over the course of August, by Farhad Bandesh, Farhad Rahmati, Samad Abdul, Shamindan Kanapathi, Thanush Selvraj and Yasin Abdallah. These men, seeking asylum by boat, were forcibly transferred to Manus Island by the Australian government nearly seven years ago. Now, they are held in hotels or detention centres in Port Moresby, Melbourne or Brisbane. To subscribe click on the event below or visit manusrecordingproject.com

13.01.2022 We’re proud to share the first in the series of Unsettling Scores: MUMA x Liquid Architecture Untitled (Death Song) from Megan Cope. Read it now on our journal Disclaimer at: https://disclaimer.org.au//unsettling-/untitled-death-song Bringing together artists, musicians and writers from around the world, the Unsettling Scores series examines how experimental and political sound and acts of listeninggrounded in the language of musical scoresbecome vehicles of unsettlemen...t, disrupting logics of settlerism, extractivism, expropriation and appropriation, while at the same time offering powerful assertions of sovereignty, resistance, and futurity. Quandamooka artist Megan Cope presents collected materials, instructions, notation and documentation from her recent work Untitled (Death Song), commissioned for the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Comprising a suite of sound sculptures constructed from discarded mining equipment, Untitled (Death Song) is a meditation on the ghost-like call of the yellow-eyed Bush Stone-curlew, a sound that is understood as a harbinger of death in Quandamooka culture. In collaboration with musician and instrument builder Isha Ram Das, and Liquid Architecture curator Joel Stern, Cope engaged a quartet of Adelaide-based artists Brad Cameron, David Henry, Naomi Keyte and Georgia Oatley to sound the work, drawing the call of the curlew out the industrial instruments using a range of extended musical techniques. In so doing, Cope directs our listening towards the deathly vibrations of extraction, expropriation and extinction wrought be these tools and those who wield them. Disclaimer - https://disclaimer.org.au/ - features an unfolding collection of essays, interviews, and experiments in publishing with sound and listening. With thanks to our patient writers, our editorial team, and Public Office.

13.01.2022 Unsound 2020 Intermission: Machine Listening https://www.unsound.pl//news/machine-listening-announcement https://liquidarchitecture.org.au//machine-listening-unsou image: Debris Facility

13.01.2022 These two new participatory Liquid Architecture projects, taking place throughout August, deal with the related questions: What does it mean to listen and produce art as an unwelcomed guest on stolen land? And, what might we learn from listening-in to the carceral soundscapes of Australian immigration detention? Both questions demand a practice of political attunement: to the myriad new and old forms of state violence which we must resist, and to modes of listening that allow... us to hear more clearly our own positionality, privilege, and responsibility, as feminist political theorist Krista Ratcliffe writes, "standing outside, in an uncomfortable spot, on the border of knowing and not knowing, granting others the inside position, listening to learn." Aug 5-12 Unearthing: Unwelcome______ AM Kaangeiser & Laniyuk Aug 1-30 Manus Recording Project Collective: where are you today Farhad Bandesh, Farhad Rahmati, Samad Abdul, Shamindan Kanapathi, Thanush Selvraj, Yasin Abdallah, Michael Green, André Dao, Jon Tjhia.

09.01.2022 We made a radio feature for our friends at Next Wave as part of their Assemble! program opening this Friday 22 May. An amazing effort by the NW team to bring together a responsive artist-led program around shared ideas of leadership, community and care in a time of crisis. Liquid Architecture's presentation is radio broadcast featuring a selection of experimental audio artworks from the past, present, and future sitting thematically alongside two specially composed radio feat...ures by Next Wave x LA co-commissioned artists Rachel Meyers and Marcus Whale. Rachel’s work is an audio essay exploring her relationship to environmental sound and the deep listening works of Pauline Oliveros, Hildergard Westerkamp and John Luther Adams. Marcus’ piece reflects on the artist’s enduring obsession with Bjork’s Vespertine and its varied sonic and cultural resonances. Find out more at https://radiowave.nextwave.org.au/ and tune in this Saturday. Image: Southern Ecophony, Rachel Meyers

07.01.2022 Subscribe by texting ‘Hello’ to +61 488 845 951 Every day for a month, you will receive a text message with a new ten-minute audio recording from Farhad Bandesh, Farhad Rahmati, Samad Abdul, Shamindan Kanapathi, Thanush Selvraj or Yasin Abdallah. These men, seeking asylum by boat, were forcibly transferred to Manus Island by the Australian government nearly seven years ago. Now, they are held in hotels or detention centres in Port Moresby, Melbourne or Brisbane.

05.01.2022 Introducing a new collection, edited by our dear friend, Paris-based Associate Curator and alumni, Anabelle Lacroix. From Wakefulness to Consciousness focuses on the politics, poetics and aesthetics of sleeplessness, framed by a broader inquiry into the desynchronisation between bodies and society, and a wish to reclaim night-time and its energies, whether natural, cosmic, sonic or otherwise. https://disclaimer.org.au//from-wakefulness-to-consciousne... It extends an invitation to listen with insomnia, to open a space to listen in and through our bodies. Inspired by bodily rhythms and the pace of production, we have programmed a slow release in five parts - dissonance, collapse, release, awakening and respite - from November 2020 into January 2021. This collection features contributions from artists, curators and researchers in Europe and Australia: Mattin, Elena Biserna, Tobi Maier, Geoff Robinson, Clare Milledge, Tom Smith with Jon Watts, Zoe Scoglio, Tricky Walsh, Debris Facility Ltd Pty, Kengné Téguia, Holly Childs and Angela Goh, Pan Pan Kolektiva, Alexander Powers, Jannah Quill, Anne Zeitz and SJ Norman. Image: inputs outputs, by Alexander Powers feat. Blu Jay. Photos Atong Atem.

05.01.2022 Xwelmexw (Sto:lo) writer and curator Dylan Robinson shares readings from his groundbreaking book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies, exploring Indigenous relationships to the lives of songs and the resonances between listeners, sounds, and spaces. Co-published with Monash University Museum of Art through their newsletter, and our journal, Disclaimer. Read and listen here https://disclaimer.org.au//unsettling-sco/hungry-listening Unsettling Sc...ores: MUMA x Liquid Architecture continues with upcoming dispatches of a new score from from Navajo Nation composer Raven Chacon and Carcross/Tagish curator and writer Candice Hopkins reflecting on the fight for cultural preservation and defence of Indigenous sovereignty at the Standing Rock Reservation Water Protector encampment; a new sound work from Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu); and Proposals from the Future by Nick Ashwood, Johnny Chang, Megan Alice Clune, Andrew Fedorovitch, Sonya Holowell, MP Hopkins, Shota Matsumura and Alexandra Spence. Image: ‘Atsi, gathering songs to return to our families’, Bracken Hanuse-Corlett

02.01.2022 Working on this project over the course of such a messed up year has been very personally rewarding and nourishing, and we hope others will take something of value from it too! In early 2020, curator Emily Cormack commissioned Liquid Architecture to develop an artwork for her exhibition, Monument to Now: MoreArt 2020, responding to sites, histories, and imaginaries of Melbourne's northern suburbs. In search of some inspiration LA curator Joel Stern took a long walk north al...ong the Upfield train line, and just past Batman station in Coburg, a couple of hundred meters down an industrial road, saw a giant brick silo jutting into the sky. Taking a closer look he learned it was a remaining artefact of the Lincoln Mills, a once-monumental former industrial complex and a crucial part of the story of the development of the surrounding suburbs. Not knowing what the project would be, but suitably intrigued, we contacted two excellent writers, both with richly historiographic as well as creative practices, Timmah Ball and Jessie Scott. Over the course of lockdown, numerous deferrals, changes, platforms, and unexpected twists and turns, we ended up with this work, 'Songs you Can't Hear', which has been published on the Moreart platform, and on Liquid Architecture's journal Disclaimer.. It is, we think, a sublimely poetic text (and context) written by Timmah built from conversations with Jessie and Joel, which reflects on labour and other histories of the site, mediated by the social distance of the present. Alongside the writing are recordings of the poem in multiple languages by Dimitris Troaditis (Greek), Iliass Saoud (Arabic), and Luisa Lana (Italian), who have all lived in the area for decades having arrived as migrant workers. Before silence There were lyrics A woman in a building Sung histories we imagined Fixed to our homes Songs You Can’t Hear is curated by Liquid Architecture for Monument to Now: MoreArt 2020, and is co-published on Disclaimer.

02.01.2022 Still from 'Waking Life: The Dreamwork Model', by Tom Smith and Jon Watts. Ed. Anabelle Lacroix https://disclaimer.org.au//from-wakefulness-to-consciousne

01.01.2022 Liquid Architecture and Unsound join forces to launch MACHINE LISTENING, a new collaborative project engaging artists, musicians, writers, activists and educators. Unsound 2020 Intermission: Machine Listening Our devices are listening to us. Previous generations of audio-technology transmitted, recorded or manipulated sound. Today our digital voice assistants, smart speakers and a growing range of related technologies are increasingly able to analyse and respond to it as well.... Scientists and engineers increasingly refer to this as machine listening, though the first widespread use of the term was in computer music. Machine listening is much more than just a new scientific discipline or vein of technical innovation however. It is also an emergent field of knowledge-power, of data extraction and colonialism, of capital accumulation, automation and control. It demands critical and artistic attention. Across three days at the start of October, as part of Unsound 2020: Intermission, we will investigate the implications of the coming world of listening machines in both its dystopian and Utopian dimensions. More details, including participants, to come. Stay tuned.

01.01.2022 We've spent the last 2 nights sitting in a zoom, hosting 'Machine Listening, a curriculum' as part of Unsound Kraków 2020: Intermission. It has been an incredible experience to connect with artists, musicians, writers, , activists, audiences, and communities from all around the world through this project and the platform provided by such a rewarding collaboration between Liquid Architecture and Unsound. So then, the final session begins tonight at 10pm Melbourne time, 1pm i...n Krakow, and many timezones in between! See you there and say hi in the chats. LISTENING WITH THE PANDEMIC Sunday 4 Oct 2020 Featuring: Sean Dockray, Yeshi Milner (Data for Black Lives), Mark Andrejevic, Thao Phan, Vladan Joler, Andrew Brooks, Shannon Mattern, Jasmine Guffond and more Attend (free and open to all): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vpRtci5OQBOWzteAhS2EeA Stream - https://youtu.be/vuNmI9Xdgpo Explore - https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/ The third of three experimental Zoom sessions investigating the coming world of listening machines in all its dystopian and utopian dimensions. From the perspective of the machine listening industry, the pandemic is not an intermission, it’s an opportunity: a dream come true. Thoughtlessness, touchlessness, wakewordlessness: listening with the pandemic, these and other tendencies of machine listening are more apparent than ever, only blanketed now in the twin auras of inevitability and social good. What’s clear is that machine listening will not be put back in its box. Imaginative work will have to be done to provoke something more emancipatory or constructive in the pandemic’s wake. As Shannon Mattern puts it: When the sounds of the pandemic recede, how will our hearing be changed?