October marks the start of a few new things in my life, one of which is the first release of what will be a series of straight field recording albums.
These will be a catalogue of my field trips, capturing and collecting sounds of various environments.
Field trip on 30/09/2018 to Lane Poole Reserve and Nanga. Some sounds captured along the Xanthorrhoea Trail, on Bindjareb land.
– R
Here is the audio/visual piece created for the Projection Project exhibition at the Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah, presented by the City of Mandurah.
Best listened to loud in headphones.
I have recorded a few of the pieces I have been working on lately and included them in an album.
If you are familiar with Max/MSP, then you would know that the object known as sfrecord~ will record the audio input to a file on the hard drive. It is a simple way of retrieving the output of a patch. I have used this method to capture the sound from a few patches.
I intend to continue to use the concept of sfrecord~ for albums, as they demonstrate some of what I have been working on.
– Rhys Channing
I have been commissioned to create an audio/visual installation piece for a projectioneering exhibition at a Mandurah art gallery.
The Projection Project: Otherworlds
Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah – 63 Ormsby Tce, MandurahVideo Art Exhibition featuring new audio visual works by Rhys Channing, Leon Ewing, Tomas Ford & Eleesha Ford, Nicholas Gardiner, Lee Kennedy and Jake Steele.
Opening Night: Friday 16th March – 6pm
Exhibition: Saturday 17th March – 8th April (Weds – Sundays, 10am – 4pm)
Artist Talk: Thursday 5th April – 5pmVideo art is a truly contemporary art form, which is growing in
popularity, diversity and complexity. A collective of artists showcase
video art pieces in Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah’s inaugural
video art exhibition, responding to the theme of “Otherworlds”.
More details on the Facebook event page.
My piece will be uploaded at the conclusion of the exhibit.
– Rhys Channing
I have applied to exhibit some visual art that I have been working on for a while now.
Here are some examples:
I have decided to create an album of some of the things I’m working on in Max.
Each track will be a simple recording of the output of each patch with minimal post-processing.
It is because of this that I have chosen the title…
sfrecord~
One track is finished already, out of… I haven’t decided yet.
It is a first draft of an interdisciplinary performance idea I’m working on with some other Mandurians.
I will update when I have done the next track.
– Rhys
Update on projects I am working on:
tilde~
More grid art
Thursday the 27th of October saw the return of Noizemaschin!! to Mandurah for the fourth time. Along with being the MC for the evening I performed a piece exploring weather data in a musical context (unfortunately I forgot to press record until after my set).
Here are some photos from the night.
The Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery before the show
The Noizemaschin! sign prototype
Myself being MC
Furchick
Andrew Nonlinearcircuits
Super Perfundo
Rubies Reddened by Rubies Reddening
Huge thanks to everyone who was there, and to the City Of Mandurah for their contribution to advertising. Photos courtesy of Sandy McNab and Calum Carty.
– Rhys
I got to the Pillbox Studio after midday and had lunch before I got stuck into it. The band who were in the studio previously weren’t courteous enough to tidy up after themselves, so I spent a lot of my time tidying up cables and such. Eventually I got everything where it needed to go.
I arranged all of my own gear and cables before placing microphones.
Then I was finally ready to go into the control room and check the signals.
The patch leads are very colourful.
Happy with day one.
Days two and three will be recording tracks and starting the mixdown.
– Rhys
Rhys Channing 