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We're not afraid of the dark (live)

by Gail Priest & Matt Warren

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Live recording from Experimenta Make Sense - Up Late
at The Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
May 19, 2018

‘We’re not afraid of the dark’ is the document of a live concert that presents Gail Priest & Matt Warren both performing short solos that seamlessly segue into a 20 minute exploration of tone, drone, whispers, whistles, textural undertows and harmonic overflows.

Their’s is an intuitive relationship in which their individual understandings of dark ambient, post-industrial and folk-inflected electronica come together to create a sound world that is equally ethereal and brutal, summoning the supernal by digging deep into the depths.

Track breakdown
0:00 Gail Priest, Orographic Wind
12:15 Matt Warren, A New Threshold
22:40 Priest & Warren, We’re not afraid of the dark

Matt & Gail’s formal, face-to-face collaborative relationship started in 2017, brought together by the Unconscious Collective (www.unconsciouscollective.org). Their first encounter was a long form improvisation to accompany the Hypnapod installation at MPavillion. This was followed by Crossings, an epic journey traversing the Tasmanian mid-lands developing site specific installations in six roadside churches (Dark MOFO 2017). However prior to this Matt & Gail had been finding ways to work with other, across the interstate divide, including curatorial and virtual collaborative projects.

Gail Priest a Katoomba/Sydney-based artist whose practice encompasses performance, recording, sound design for dance and theatre, installation, curation and writing. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally and has several CD releases on her own label, Metal Bitch, as well as other labels including Flaming Pines. She is also a curator of concerts and exhibitions and writes factually and fictively about sound and media arts. www.gailpriest.net

Matt Warren is a Hobart-based electronic media artist, musician, curator, radio presenter and writer. 
His music and sound practice has a basis in both composition and improvisation. He is interested in the results of chance combination and random actions and at times utilises nonsensical or portmanteau texts. The works investigate memory, transcendence, liminal spaces and suspension of disbelief and is informed by neo-psychedelia, digital abstraction and hauntology. He has undertaken sound-based residencies with Jean-Yves Thériault in Montreal, Canada and with Damo Suzuki in Köln, Germany and produced sounds works that have been presented in Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the USA.
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released June 11, 2018

Photo: Julia Drouhin

Thanks to Jane Barlow (The Plimsoll Gallery), Nicky Pastore (Experimenta), Michelle Boyde & David Patman (Unconscious Collective), Julia Drouhin, Sam James, Sally Rees, Arthur Warren.

Metal Bitch Recordings MB006/room of silence ROS012

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Gail Priest is a sound artist from Sydney/Katoomba, Australia making experimental sound and electronic music that explores the interaction of the figurative and the abstract, the machinic and the organic, the sensual and the brutal. Her practice encompasses performance, recording, gallery installation and sound design. ... more

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