Lesley Duxbury - Debbie Symons - Rosie Weiss - Vicki Hallett (sound) - Felicity Spear (curator)
Opening event: 2-4pm Saturday August 19th.
Image credit: Vicki Hallett
Image credit: Michaela Gleave - Model for the end of the universe 3: multiverse/false vacuum (2013)
In 'Get Me Out!', artists share ways of escape from our current reality - be that through protest, imagining a new future or completely checking out - Morton Bay Region Galleries & Museums.
The outlook for the future can seem bleak, the doomsday clock is currently set at 90 seconds to midnight and there does not seem to be a solution on the table. With this depressing forecast how do we find hope? In Get Me Out!, artists share ways of escape from our current reality - be that through protest, imagining a new future or completely checking out.
Across diverse practices proposals for new worlds, futurist inspired thinking and science fiction inspired realities will be presented. What possibilities are on the table if we can escape from the current state? Who would benefit and who gets left behind? Here you will find both utopic and dystopic futures, some filled with hope and others with humour.
Get me out! features new and existing works by 110% Collective, Erin Coates, Michael Cook, Merinda Davies, Michaela Gleave and Vicki Hallett, Spencer Harvie, The Huxleys, Robert Nugent, Helena Papageorgiou, Ryan Presley and Katie Rasch.
Sensing Sound duo, Ros Bandt and Vicki Hallett, will create a site specific sound work within St Mary’s Basilica, Geelong. The performance will utilise wind instruments, tarhu, psaltery, aeolian harps and other aspects of their art practice as Bandt and Hallett sound the unique resonance and sonic space of the Basilica. With a focus on women composers from ancient times to current day personal reflections, the performance will immerse the listener in a dreaming - a dreaming filled with resonance and sound.
Travel to places both familiar and imagined through the compositions of Geelong-based composer Kym Dillon, brought to life by the breathtaking sounds of Mindy Meng Wang on guzheng and Sonus Ensemble.
PLACE presents two original compositions, rhapsody/postcard and Djilang 5x5. Commissioned by NEAL (New and Experimental Arts Laboratory, rhapsody/postcard layers the unique sound of guzheng extraordinaire Mindy Meng Wang over the wind instruments of Sonus Ensemble.
OCEANIA BIOPHILIA SUMMIT 2022 - Soundscapes - Living Future Institute of Australia
The Oceania Biophilia Summit (OBS) is an exploration of our innate connection to nature and each other. Together we will delve into the biophilic design philosophy and collaborate to shape effective connection experiences in our built environment.
Keynote Speaker - Vicki Hallett - 9am - Thursday 8th September
Join Vicki Hallett for a Listening experience exploring sonic connections to Country & human impact on the world through field recordings, soundscape, experimental music and more.
12h00-13h00 CEST
The Journey on Wadawurrung Country is a cross-section of portraits, sounds and stories from identified Wadawurrung Traditional Owners and their lands.
Together in close consultation with Corrina Eccles (Wadawurrung Traditional Owner and cultural manager), Ferne Millen (art director / photographer) and Vicki Hallett (musician, sound artist, field recordist), collaborated to capture the stories of the traditional custodians of Wadawurrung land.
This multidisciplinary exhibition features installations and includes sound, visual arts and lighting.
Millen’s fine art prints of portraits of Wadawurrung elders and landscapes of this country will be displayed and interwoven with Vicki Hallett’s sound recordings and interviews, activating the space into a sensory and immersive cultural learning experience for all.
Image credit: Ferne Millen
A Gathering of Sound. Participants are invited to join Vicki Hallett and Lucy Allinson in a fieldcraft experience in the world of soundscape ecology. Enter into the space of fieldcraft and acoustic ecology and how it can be used to create art.
Gather, listen, create, collaborate and discuss.
Image: "Point Addis" by tdm911 is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0
Can we imagine a world without sound? In ELEMENT5, sound is framed as earth’s elusive fifth element. Multidisciplinary musicians Vicki Hallett and Jem Savage create a compelling and interactive audiovisual installation inspired by air, fire, water and earth - including live instrumental performances by expert percussionist Zela Papageorgiou and the creators.
This event is part of the Surround Sounds Festival, Geelong
FREE LUNCHTIME SERIES
"Draw The Music"
Thursday May 8th 2022
12.30-1.30pm
Creative Geelong
Centrepoint Arcade Atrium
“I Hear You”
A new sound work by first time collaborators Hayden Calnin, Vicki Hallett and Janenne Willis. I Hear You is a call for deep listening to the sounds of Western Port Bay. Underwater field recordings will be fed from hydrophones into an improvised live music performance, to be experienced along the historic Hastings Jetty.
Image credit: Ros Bandt
Antipodean Adventures
An afternoon of relaxed live music in the delightful surrounds of the botanical gardens where Sonus Ensemble will perform crowd pleasing classical favourites to accompany your picnic. Bring your friends to the free event!
This event is part of the Surround Sounds Festival - Geelong.
Further information HERE
Ngubitj, Samgooan, Water – Songs, Stories & Connection is a cross cultural, multidisciplinary arts project exploring grief, and connection to water and land through songs and stories. The projection and soundscape experience to be presented on Geelong City Hall as part of Surround Sounds Festival.
Weaving together languages from three continents; Wadawurrung, Mi’gmag and English, Ngubitj, Samgooan, Water - Songs, Stories and Connection will take the form of a visual projection and soundscape which will activate the centre of Djilang (Geelong). Projected on the Geelong City Hall, this project will facilitate a space where the public can learn from the Traditional Owners of the region; the Wadawurrung people, travel across oceans to engage with the Elsipogtog, Mi’gmag community (Canadian Indigenous Community) and engage with questions of our collective pasts and futures.
In this project, Vicki’s recordings of Wadawurrung Country are woven throughout the soundscape, where the songs of nature sing in harmony with the songs of Ngubitj, Samgooan, Water – Songs, Stories & Connection
This project has been generously supported by Creative Victoria and the City of Greater Geelong, and produced by Maverick Arts Management.
Exhibition Open: Thursdays: Midday - 7pm, Sundays: Midday - 4pm (or by prior appointment)
March to Art : Voice highlights new & innovative works & projects from across the veteran community.
Through various creative mediums veterans elevate, affirm & contribute LIVED experience perspectives & STORYTELLING to the collective understanding of the Veteran Arts COMMUNITY VOICE.
Exhibiting artists: Mike Armstrong in collaboration with Mick Cook & Kris Kerehona, Steve Brewer in collaboration with Dominik Kul & Mike Godfrey, Glenn Buesnel-May in collaboration with Janine Mitchell, Steve Cotterill, Zak Critsilis, Dan Elborne, Jarryd Goundrey, Vicki Hallett , Jack McLain, JackTar Collective a collaboration with Michael Currie, Sergio Capozzi, Thomas Kunyoul Lee, Byron McLoughlin, Dean Robinson, Kat Rae, Rock4RnR Collective, WaveRiders Collective in collaboration with AVOB & supporters
Curator: Tanja Johnston
Discover Barwon Park through the creative response of local artists, whose installations and artworks interrogate the site for Trust Contemporary: Barwon Park Reimagined.
Abandon is a sound exploration work created by Vicki Hallett uses airborne (microphone) and underwater (hydrophone) recordings from the Barwon River and Sparrovale Wetland Reserve.
Welcome to the sumptuous Acclimatisation Society of Victoria Dinner. Creatures from the menu come to life as you eat your way through boiled Murray cod and shrimp sauce, a Matelotte of eels, Yan Yean eel a la Tartare and a Vol au vent of frogs.
Birds, bugs and other creatures from Wadawurrung country fight for survival as humankind gorges through the gastronomical offerings.
The Barwon Park Acclimatisation Dinner is the focus of a collaborative installation by Mary-Jane Walker and Vicki Hallett.
Join me as I perform from a hidden bushland site within the Brisbane Ranges in Victoria, Australia to celebrate the Southern Hemisphere Summer Solstice.
Tuesday December 21st 2021 at 1830 (AEDT UTC+11h).
Listening will be via a live streamed audio-only link released just prior to the event.
To register and receive audio stream link email: info@vickihallett.com
Note: Registrations close Tuesday 21st Dec at 1600 (AEDT UTC+11h).
Cost - free / donation
Sonus Ensemble, in collaboration with composer Kym Dillon, presents 5x5—a musical exploration of five geographical landscapes from within the Geelong region. The music is expressed through the woodwind chamber music medium; each movement explores sounds and thematic material to showcase the nature and cultural history of each area. The music will all be accompanied by images to enhance the experience.
Kym Dillon has been commissioned to compose especially for Sonus.
This project is supported by the City of Greater Geelong through the Arts & Culture Arts Industry Commissions
https://www.geelonggallery.org.au/whats-on/events/5x5-exploring-landscape-sonus-ensemble
Starlings Spatial Sound Collective is a group of sound artists dedicated to the investigation, demystification and celebration of spatialised sound. Starlings will present two sessions on this day that will include a mixture of performed and installed works: a new, site specific composition made in the natural environments around McClelland, and multichannel works by a range of artists with a particular focus on emerging spatial sound creatives in the Melbourne region.
12pm session line up:
Vicki Hallett [playback of installed work]
Dave Coen [performance]
Gillian Lever [performance]
Josh Peters [performance]
Lisa Rae Bartolomei [performance]
Marty Kay [performance]
Between Saturday 27 February 2021 12:00 PM and Saturday 27 February 2021 3:00 PM
McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery
390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin, Vic 3910
Tickets and information: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/702718
"On the Land" is about the past, present and future of Australian wool. It is about people and places and how we have settled the land.
A renewed Australian story with a contemporary look and feel, updated interactives, renewed culturally relevant stories, this major project from the National Wool Museum is all about change.
"On the Land" is the story of wool in Victoria as a microcosm of the Australian wool experience. It is the story of how the land was settled with sheep and offers a deeper cultural and environmental understanding of the Australian wool industry.
This exhibition has been created with heritage research and art. Artistic installations include contributions from leading Geelong artists:
New contemporary sculpture from Mary-Jane Walker, School of Lost Arts.
An immersive sound installation from Vicki Hallet.
Photography from Geelong based Nicole Marie and Pete James. Also photographs from the wool photographer himself, Andrew Chapman.
Wadawurrung art from Deanne Gilson.
Painting from the leading bird artist and sheep farmer Richard Weatherly.
Even our taxidermy sheep have had a makeover with Melbourne illustrator Ashley Ronning – you can even vote for your favourite sheep!
JOURNEY ON WADAWURRUNG COUNTRY EXHIBITION / INSTALLATION
RYRIE ST FOYER, GEELONG ARTS CENTRE
MON 8 - FRI 12 FEBRUARY | 9:30AM - 4:30PM
MON 15 - FRI 19 FEBRUARY | 9:30AM - 4:30PM
MON 22 - FRI 26 FEBRUARY | 9:30AM - 4:30PM
Journey on Wadawurrung Country is a cultural exploration of our local indigenous people and their stories through artistic practise. Together in close consultation with Corrina Eccles (Wadawurrung Traditional Owner and cultural manager), Ferne Millen (art director / photographer) and Vicki Hallett (musician, sound artist, field recordist) will collaborate to capture the stories of the traditional custodians of Wadawurrung land.
The multidisciplinary exhibition featuring installations includes sound, visual arts and lighting in the Ryrie Street entrance-foyer of the Geelong Arts Centre. Millen’s fine art prints of portraits of Wadawurrung elders and landscapes of this country will be displayed and interwoven with Vicki Hallett’s sound recordings and interviews, thus activating the Foyer space into a full, sensory and immersive cultural learning experience for the public.
This pilot project will capture a cross-section of portraits, sounds and stories from identified Wadawurrung Traditional Owners and their lands.
PhotographerFerne Millen
Artistic DirectorFerne Millen
Wadawurrung Traditional Owner and Cultural ManagerCorrina Eccles
Musician, Sound Artist, Field RecordistVicki Hallett
For further information go to:
https://geelongartscentre.org.au/summer-sessions-2021/journey-on-wadawurrung-country/
Barwon Listening Special Blog for Possible Impossible event - National Science Week.
Free Event link: https://platformarts.org.au/events/neal-habitatonline
Experience 'Habitat' an immersive project by experimental Australian musicians, featuring a streamed performance and live Q&A.
To mark World Elephant Day on Wednesday 12 August, we will be streaming the last pre-COVID Platform Arts performance of Habitat, a multimedia soundscape responding to recordings of an endangered and rarely-witnessed species, the African forest elephant.
This performance is the culmination of a creative project between Vicki Hallett, Jeremy Alsop and Steve Falk who combine field recordings from the native habitats of endangered species with improvised live music, inviting listeners to immerse themselves in these environments.
The sounds of the African forest elephant featured in this performance were recorded by the Elephant Listening Project (ELP), founded by Katy Payne at Cornell University. Both climate change and human activity are endangering the African forest elephant population, and the ELP monitors their populations through audio recordings. These animals are not easily viewed amongst their native habitat of the rainforests of Central and West Africa. Even some of the calls from forest elephants are uniquely difficult to track as they cannot be detected by human ears unassisted.
The ELP captures these sounds in acoustic recordings to study and aid conservation efforts for the African forest elephant. They also monitor ongoing threats to the species such as the logging industry, but also poachers illegally hunting for ivory. Some recordings even capture gunshots.
Habitat is a creative project by three Australian musicians: Vicki Hallett: woodwinds and loops, Jeremy Alsop: bass, strings and laptop, Steve Falk: marimba and percussions. Their performances are facilitated by sound engineer Jem Savage, and accompanied by video by Marie Pangaud.
A recorded album of this special performance is available to pre-order online.
Images and sounds courtesy of the Elephant Listening Project (ELP), Cornell University.
Presented with NEAL: The New and Experimental Arts Laboratory as part of the ongoing series NEAL: On the Couch.
You can donate to these causes here:
Saltwater/Freshwater Score premiering online for Field Trip Arts Front online conference 8/8/2020 3.15pm. Field Trip is an online national research symposium featuring creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment.
Habitat is a live performance group that improvises and reacts musically to images and sounds of species in crisis within their natural habitat. The immersive and captivating live performance uses recordings of the endangered African forest elephant from the Elephant Listening Project (ELP) at Cornell University. Members of Habitat are Vicki Hallett (winds), Steve Falk (percussion) and Jeremy Alsop (bass).
https://youtu.be/2KTl6oM7EnU
Workshop / Masterclass: 4:00-5:00 (TBC) $? (TBC) (includes ticket to concert)
Performance: 8:00pm $15-$20
Lenten Journey Encounter Series
Admission FREE
Gillian Turner - texts/poetry
Vicki Hallett -soundscapes and clarinet
Vicki Hallett performing 7:30-8:15
Final Final present their first, slow to make yet quick to listen EP.
To celebrate this fact, we'd like to welcome you to the first live performance of the EP from beginning to end – or something roughly like it – as well as a cacophony of other musical nuances. To you and for you as it has been and always will be, we shall play.
Come get other-worldly.
We are very excited and honoured to be featuring the sonispheric, supernatural powers of Vicki Hallett, and Jared Linton.
$10 on the door.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1470191216467980/
You are invited to join us for a concert of music in celebration of the Victorian volcanic plains.
Sonus Ensemble, Tarella Strings and Peter Hagen (harpsichord) present works by Dindy Vaughan, Johanna Selleck, Gene Holland, Vicki Hallett, Stefan Hakenberg (Austria), Holly Caldwell and Lore Burns.
When: Saturday 23 November
Time: 3pm
Where: Armadale Uniting Church 86A Kooyong Rd Armadale VIC 3143
Tickets: Adult $25 / Concession $20. For bookings please visit www.trybooking.com/BFZAE
SeenSound warms up with live new A/V works and live performances from Sophie Rose, David Hirst, Jutta Pryor, 0F.digital, Vicki Hallett, Brigid Burke, Mark Pedersen and Roger Alsop.
Performance of my composition created during my Artist in Residence at the Courthouse.
More information and tickets HERE
Tickets are available HERE
