Vision of Sound is a project commissioned by Chronology Arts to produce three artistic audio visual compositions by emerging Australian composers and visual artists. We believe cross artform collaboration is an important career development for any artist because it broadens the creative possibilities and dimensions of their works. Chronology Arts is presenting three new audio-visual compositions by Scott Morrison/ Monika Brooks, Aaron Hull/ Greg Hughes & Julian Day/ Lani Weekley.

Vision of Sound Live Performance will take place on 3rd October 2013, at Seymour Centre Sound Lounge.

We're creating a DVD of the audio-visual works which we'll pitch for broadcast, and add to our merch stock for sale at our future events.

The artists involved are a mixture of experienced, young, emerging, professional. They all come a creative arts background in moving image and/or music.

This project is partly funded by ArtsNSW and APRA/AMCOS, and we're doing this Pozible campaign to bridge a gap in the funding so that we can pay the artists well, produce an excellent live event with high production standards and produce a professional DVD of the works with our partners Hospital Hill.

We hope this project will lead to further opportunities for these artists - as we're all about supporting emerging Australian talent.

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Vision of Sound artists:

Scott Morrison - Scott Morrison intertwines video installation and intricate sound design to create new ways of viewing both natural and synthetic environments. These rhythmic and undulating audio visual works combine an interest in the aesthetics of rural landscape, with an ability to bend his audience's perception of density and time. Live editing and sonic performances are an important part of Morrison's practice and he has appeared in countless performances both nationally and abroad, with recent inclusion in the MONA FOMA FESTIVAL line up for 2012. Morrison's solo exhibitions include Small Choir, Beam Contemporary(2012) and The Monolith@ Cinechamber, Musikprotokoll, Graz(2012); and his contributions to group exhibtions include Figuring Landscapes, Tate Modern, London, amognst others.

Monika Brooks - Monika Brooks models compositions and improvisations on piano, computer, and accordion. As a performers she has collaborated with various fabulous folks such as Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Herminone Johnson, Chris Abrahams, Robbie Avenaim, Kraig Grady, Richard Nuns, Eugene Chadbourne and Joe Talia. Various long-term projects have toured nationally and internationally, including Great Waitress with Laura Altman & Magda Mayas(Germany's WABE & Exploratorium 2011, Austria's Konfrontationen 2011, Music Unlimited 2012); West Head Project, with Dale Gorfinkel & Jim Denley(MONA FOMA 2012); and Embedded quartet (iiii Fest New Zealand 2011, Canada 2013). From one of her first group shows at Loose Gallery in 2007, Monika's sound installation works are often heavily inspired by tehnology and usage of radio transmission. Brooks also fronts the eight-piece ensemble, Electronic Resonance Korps, developing compositions for multiple computer perforamnce.

Aaron Hull - Aaron Hull is known as a curator of the 1/4_inch and Laze, a promoter of events in Wollongong and a musician, video and sound artist. Aaron is a proven advocate for live AV performance, improvised music and sound in Wollongong via the not-for-profit performance series 1/4_inch, which has run in both Sydney and the "Gong" for the last 10 years. As an artist, Aaron has performed internationally touring China and Europe in 2008 and 2010. His video work and live performances have featured in galleries such as Gallery 4a, Performance Space - Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney, Wollongong City Gallery and at prominent Australian sound series. More recently Aaron has investigated site-specific work in remote locations. Aaron continues to collaborate with Greg Hughes under the moniker Hu.

Greg Hughes - Greg is a practicing Wollongong-based designer, artist, musician and lecturer in the Design program at University of Western Sydney. He is also completing his PhD at University of Wollongong focusing on the hybrid qualities of analogue and digital technology in creative production and consumption. Greg's recent exhibitions and performances have revolved around mapping and data visualisation, and involved the design of audio-visual systems that allow video, sound and feedback loops to collide with physical materials in a controlled manner. Greg has explored this process in composition, performance and applied data visualisation. Greg also co-curates the continuing not-for-profit 1/4_inch audio-visual performance series with Aaron Hull.

Julian Day - Julian Day is a sound artist, composer, writer/broadcaster based in Sydney. Described as "an epic and intimate formalist", Day creates installation and performance works using simple yet often lateral means. They inhabit a world of slowed down sounds, broken patterns and basic geometries influenced by conceptual art, cracked media and pop culture. Day's work has featured at Whitechapel Gallery, Cafe Oto, MATA festival, Massachusetts of Contemporary Art, ISM World New Music Days, Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Arts, Queensland Art Gallery, Firstdraft and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. He has worked with such artists as Lisa Moore(Bang On A Can All Stars), TILT Brass, David Longstreth(Dirty Projectors), DuoSolo, Genevieve Lacey, Zubin Kanga, The Song Company and Decibel. Day directs the synthesizer project An Infinity Room (AIR) and co-directs Super Critical Mass, a large-scale participatory performance project for massed identical instruments. He works with composer Luke Jaaniste as LOUD+SOFT and co-directed composers' collective COMPOST.

Lani Weekley - Lani Weekley is an emerging sound and visual artist and a recent graduate from University of Technology Sydney. Her practice explores the elusive nature of sound as a time based medium and seeks to re-imagine it in a unified visual form, as one gestalt experience. Recent exhibited works include video at the London Gallery West, a sound visualisation object at Mungo Mills, Sydney and audio visual composition performed as part of the "Voltage" series in Wollongong.

The main obstacle is, as with all arts projects, budget. However, by having funding from ArtsNSW and APRA/AMCOS secured, the budgetary risk has been mostly mitigated. Ticket sales, and DVD sales, are the only risk however we're quietly confident (having just had a partnership with DirtyFeet yielding great audience numbers, as did some of our events in the Vivid series and nearly sold out our Seven Stations event earlier this year).

The creative risks are ALWAYS there with new work, and that's the charm of commissioning. Its only a risk if you have expectations, but we love to give our artists complete freedom, as we've brought them on board because we know their background, experience, interests and trust they will delivery amazingly on this project.