NONSTOP WKND: Planetary Auditions

70 industry leading artists. 12 unique shows. Six iconic Melbourne venues—NONSTOP WKND is the choose-your-own-adventure festival within a festival closing Now or Never with a bang.

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70 industry leading artists. 12 unique shows. Six iconic Melbourne venues—NONSTOP WKND is the choose-your-own-adventure festival within a festival closing Now or Never with a bang.

A series of performances and presentations with artists and researchers exploring the intersections of sound, listening, ecology, machine learning, AI, and planetary thinking.

  • 2-2:20ᴘᴍ Sarah Barns
  • 2:30-2:50ᴘᴍ Santiago Rentaria
  • 3:20-4ᴘᴍ Machine Listening

Computer scientist and bird-listener Santiago Renteria will perform a new work titled 'Spectral (De)compositions: Dadamining Datamining' in which the carols and warbles of Australian magpies are analysed, computed, decoded and estranged in real-time, to try to work out what they might be saying.

Drawing inspiration from visionaries like James Lovelock, Rosi Braidotti and Gregory Bateson, and the sometimes contradictory legacies of acoustic ecology, storyteller, researcher and citizen technologist 𝕊𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕙 𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕤 will present her soundscape collaboration with and musician Nigel Cruikshank, 'Superorganisms: Listening to the Anthropocene'

And finally, Wild Hope exhibition artists Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern (Machine Listeningg) will host a listening session to their piece, Environments 12, about what it means to capture, synthesise and play the sound of the world back to the world, in a never-ending feedback loop.        

This free event is curated by Joel Stern (RMIT). It is part of the NONSTOP WKND program for Now or Never festival, and a public program of Wild Hope: Conersations for a Planetary Commons, an exhibition calling for radical shift to 'planetary thinking' as vital to the survival of human and non-human life on earth, at RMIT Design Hub Gallery 15 August - 30 September.

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