NOMINATION: Work of the Year - Electroacoustic / Sound Art
NOMINATION: Work of the Year - Electroacoustic / Sound Art
The Electroacoustic / Sound Art category is for works which utilise and manipulate digital and/or analogue sound as the primary medium. The work may be interdisciplinary (incorporating more than one media). It may include, but is not limited to; sonic art, electronics, interactive work, generative music, environmental sound, installations, soundscapes, electroacoustic music, and intermedia works.
A work is defined as a single complete musical composition, or expression. This includes music with movements or sub-works (i.e. song cycles), installations, and real-time compositions (improvised music).
If you believe your work to be nominated in the wrong category or the details of your nomination to be incorrect, please contact the AMC via email at awards@australianmusiccentre.com.au before proceeding with the nomination.
Sisters and collaborators Natasha Dubler and Caitlin Dubler create works that span installation, performance, sound art and sculpture in a truly unique and visionary way. Their installation Tephra was commissioned by and exhibited at the Penrith Regional Gallery as a part of their summer suite of exhibitions from January to May 2024. The most substantial showing of their collaborative work to date the interactive sound installation spans four rooms and the intervening hallway of Lewers House, seamlessly weaving together 16 channels of sound with amplified glass, concrete, and bronze sculptures. In this work, the Western Sydney artists delve into the volcanic history of the Greater Blue Mountains Region, from the basalt-capped peaks of Mount Wilson and Mount Tomah, down to the Colo River, the artists trace the geological processes through sound, touch, and sculptural form. A beautiful and sensitive coming together of place, sensing and unspoken or unheard histories of landscape. Their work reimagines what it is to sense and experience sound across the sensorium, and probes at questions of the very nature of experience itself. This work demonstrates that Natasha Dubler and Caitlin Dubler are some of the most dynamic and striking voices working at the intersection of contemporary music, sound art, and sculpture.