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Wreck A project from Jon Rose |
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"ILOVED IT! Having been involved with multi-disciplinary installations, soundscapes and improvised music for most of my life I have had the pleasure of seeing and hearing many very different works engaging with found objects. Wreck established itself as a quintessential experience for me." "What I really like about WRECK is the everchanging character of the relationship between the object (the wreck), the live performed and the pre-recorded sounds and the moving images. Between powerful acoustic attack and subtle musical discoveries of what is possible. Though overwhelming in its surprising character there is enough space for the spectator to reflect, to imagine - and to get lost between what we hear and what we see: and never be completely sure about it! " "Jon Rose's WRECK is a remarkable feat of musicianship and imagination. Towed in from the remote deserts of New South Wales, Rose's rusted-over car wreck is a powerful presence in the performance space - an iconic, decaying structure that has literally bridged the divide between city and country Australia. Resurrected by the astounding musicianship of Rose and his collaborators, the wreck rattles, pulses, screams, hums, and shudders hypnotically. It is a totally engaging and strangely moving experience to see this ghost of the outback re-animated as a living, sonic entity. This is the history, present and future of our environment, of the complicated relationship between humans and landscape, played out at an electrifying scale. " "The other night I was privileged to experience WRECK at Carriageworks presented by Performance Space and the Festival of Sydney. It was amongst the most impressive of Rose's complex and musically rich events to date. The use of projected car wrecks collected from around White Cliffs in Western NSW provided a powerful visual backdrop for what was a masterful musical improvisation. The Performance built from brilliantly controlled bowing and percussion using the car body as an electronic and material sounding board to a crescendo of sound that created the atmospheric impression of cars starting up, reving and possibly crashing. Ballard would have loved it! This is a work that will appeal to a diverse audience anywhere in Australia. I can strongly recommend future events making this a key part of their programme. " WRECK has become part of the cultural life of remote indigenous communities such as Lombadina, Djarindjin, and Warmun, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Hear the project there now! WRECK - SYDNEY FESTIVAL 11-17/2013 WRECK is part of the Sound Circus 2012, a project in which composer/artist Jon Rose led a band of musicians and sound artists to Corner Country - the outback where NSW, Queensland, and South Australia meet. Sound Circus was an expedition of self-education and sonic discovery, as well as a contemporary take on the notion of singing up the neglected parts of our continent. One of the main sculptural features of the outback is the car WRECK, the rusting history of Australian transportation, turning the very colour of the outback itself - imbedded, iconic, stranded, entropic, defeated - returning to the chemical parts from which it was made. The mining town of White Cliffs, NSW was one of the main performance sites for Sound Circus and is surrounded by wrecks. We have brought one of these back to Sydney to be installed, turned into a substantial musical instrument, and sonified in performance. This 1967 Holden Utility was once owned by Clair Innes, she could be seen in the 1970s driving it around Smiths Hill, White Cliffs minus one of the car doors - as you see it here at Carriage works. WRECK is the origin of the sound sources and also the amplifier of its emotive rattles, buzzes, hums, furious metallic rhythms, and disturbing shakes. WRECK sings up the quiet fragile creaks of old age to rock 'n roll levels of destructive vibration. WRECK situates itself somewhere between a DB drag race, an exercise in entropy, a celebration of the outback, and the reciprocity between urban and rural life. WRECK is a budget multi-media experience incorporating images of a hundred of the most beautiful outback car wrecks and a team of musicians/sound artists using the WRECK as both icon, instrument, intensifier, and vibrating transmitter. A lone violinist provides commentary on the proceedings. Bring your earplugs and let the waves of sonic rust massage your solar plexus. Special Thanks to: Lindsay White for transporting the WRECK from White Cliffs to Sydney; Gaye Nichols, Cree Mitchell, and Lindsay White for hosting Sound Circus in White Cliffs in 2012 as part of the Underground Arts Festival; Tony Bond, the Art Gallery of NSW, for his generous support of the project. WRECK TEAM: Jon Rose concept, director, musician, artist Claire Edwardes percussionist Erkki Veltheim scordatura violin, nail gun Aaron Clarke sound system Nicholas Rayment lighting Hollis Taylor technical support Tristan Ellis-Windsor production manager Jeff Khan director Performance Space, Sydney Extract from Sydney Festival performance of WRECK 11/1/2013 WRECK sounds used in the Sydney Festival performances 2013 This classic white cliffs car wreck was sung up by jon rose on 25/7/2011 Sound Circus is supported by The Music Board of The Australia Council: The Contemporary Music Touring Program: The New Music Network: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Art Gallery of New South Wales: |
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