 Event |
The Machine for Making Sense
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| Venue |
The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW |
| First Date |
24 May 1991 |
| Last Date |
26 May 1991 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Part of a Tour |
Yes |
| Description |
Five sound artists make up The Machine for Making Sense, who arrested and delighted the ears of audiences as they toured around Australia. In their performance, they probed the idiosyncratics of Australian speech patterns to produce a performance of surprising, and at times chaotic, aural textures.
"The Machine explores the musicality of language.
Spluttered vowels and vocalisations are attached or unattached to meaning, decontextualised, rapped out as inspiration and in collision with instruments, conversing with 'found' voices and recycled musical refuse; speech escapes the syntaxes and discourses that notate it; voices depart from the linear, exposing complex systems at play beneath the surface." |
| Description Source |
Other |
| Primary Genre |
Music
|
| Secondary Genre |
Performance
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Performance Space Database |
press release, flyer, listing and april/may brochure |
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| Event Identifier |
73606 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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