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Willoh S.Weiland & Nicky Forster Project Director, Researcher Yelling at Stars ... Yelling at Stars is a sound/ web/ video work that will take place at Sydney Myer Music Bowl on the 31st of May as part of the Next Wave Festival 2008. Part of the work requires the collection of sound bytes from a diverse range of sources. We are looking for artists/ sound artists/ students willing to work with the creative team in this collection. They would be credited as part of the Yelling at Stars project as Audio Collection Assistants. Those involved would need to have access to their own recording equipment and deliver the sound files in a CD quality .WAV file format. YELLING AT STARS Art form Sound/science/video/web Partnered by Full Tilt at the Arts Centre. With an introduction by Anton Enus, SBS World News Australia presenter and featuring the new song Computer Love by TZU. Yelling at Stars is Australia’s first inter-stellar message to be transmitted deep into outer space. This one-off event will take place at the Sydney Myer Music Bowl on the closing night of the 2008 Next Wave Festival, and will be recorded, filmed and streamed directly onto the web. Deep Space Communications Network in Florida, USA, will then convert this broadcast into radio waves and transmit it light-years into outer space. Messages have been sent into space since the 1970’s, from episodes of I Love Lucy to complex mathematical equations. As yet nothing has been heard back. No wonder; we have approached our message-sending like a job interview, presenting a well adjusted, thriving Earth, overflowing with perky, attractive genius. It’s time for some honesty. The fastest way to make contact with others is to expose something about ourselves, our own frailty and vulnerability. We’re a beautiful yet destructive stressed-out plague of people, destroying our habitat and who feel in so many ways personally, culturally, and geographically alone. Yelling at Stars is a message that uses humour, pathos and the occasional cover song to give a personal account of humanity’s struggle to deal with its own sense of isolation. It is one person speaking to the sky with a voice far larger than their own, a thousand sounds from one throat. |
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