A sacred cow deconstructed in musical pyrotechnics. Yes, it’s raw; it’s sound art; it’s theatre; it’s sonic anarchy! Notice the close-ups of a stunned, disbelieving audience.

Performances at ICoMCS conference

Wed Dec 5, 18:30-21:00 Performance Session 1, G04, The Law Building, UNSW, Sydney

Sync: Garth Paine & Michael Atherton,  

33degrees 50minutes south for percussion and electronics

 

An archive of one of Mike’s early projects.Australian Made, Australian Played

Edgar Varese  ”Poem Electronique”

 

  

This composition was first presented at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair with 425 speakers placed throughout the famous Philips pavilion, the placement of the speakers and design of the building gave the spectators a feeling of being housed within a concrete, silver seashell. A giant model of the atom hung from the ceiling and the sound & imagery premiered to standing room only crowd, it must have been quite a spectacle. Varese is considered to be the “father of electronic music”, Henry Miller described him as the “stratospheric colossus of sound.” When Philips (Philips electronic company) approached Le Corbusier to design a building for the fair, Le Corbusier said, “I will not make a pavilion for you (Philips) but an Electronic Poem and a vessel containing the poem; light, color, image, rhythm and sound joined together in an organic synthesis.”This page provides some more info as does google Edgard Varese: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary (Biography of Varese)Space Calculated in Seconds (a book about the Philips Pavillion)