New Mountain, live multi channel video performance

Peachey & Mosig

Rachel Peachey & Paul Mosig live and work on the land of the Dharug and Gundungurra people in the Blue Mountains. They have been collaborating for 20 years using field studies and play as research tools to create mixed-media installations and internet based art works. They have an ongoing interest in human/environment relationships, which they try and understand from a range of perspectives. Their process is centred around collaboration, often working with their two children and practitioners from a range of other disciplines They use movement, photography, video, sound, sculpture and textiles to document and respond to particular landscapes. Their work has recently been included in the 17th Athens Digital Art Festival, Cementa 22 and the Melbourne Art Fair, with recent video installations in Ireland, France, Melbourne, Canberra and the Blue Mountains.

Gail Priest

Gail Priest is a sound artist and writer based on Dharug and Gundungurra land (Katoomba, NSW). Her work spans soundtracks for dance, theatre and video, solo electro-acoustic performance as well sound installations for gallery contexts, both solo and in collaboration. She has performed her live compositions and exhibited sound installations nationally and internationally including in Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Norway and the Netherlands. In 2015-16 she was awarded an Emerging & Experimental Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council. She has undertaken numerous radio commissions and releases music on her own label Metal Bitch Recordings as well as Flaming Pines, Endgame Records and room40. She curates events and exhibitions and writes fictively and factually about sound and media art, working for RealTime magazine for over 15 years. She has just completed a PhD in creative sound theory at UTS.

Chris Caines

Chris Caines is an artist living on the land of the Dharug and Gundugurra peoples in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. Producing films, articles, book chapters, site-specific media installation and mobile/locative media alongside regular music releases and performances. Caines’s studio practice embraces the linkages between media and location across multiple modalities in video, sound, live performance and network media. For three decades he has pursued and developed a sustained meditation on media as live archive to be continually re-composed as a way of revealing new knowledge about the constructions of history, embodied place and the ephemeral nature of our understandings of the past.

Benjamin Ward

Ben is a musician, working predominantly on the lands of the Gadigal and Bidjigal, whose practice has recently focussed on altered tunings, texture and improvisation. Outside his work on the double bass with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra he is inspired by the wonderful community of musicians in Sydney. Place and history is currently an important foundation of his artistic thought. A recent highlight is an ongoing collaboration with cellist Freya Schack-Arnott which has produced an album “in landscape” (2020) and which has a set of upcoming releases for nyckleharpe, synthesised sounds, double bass and cello.

Tilman Robinson

Tilman Robinson is a composer, producer and sound designer. He creates maximalist electro-acoustic and dark ambient music drawing on a wide range of genres. Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of dense sound incorporating acousmatics and psychoacoustic principles. Tilman has received major work commissions from genre diverse sources and accolades including nominations for the Melbourne Prize in 2016 & 2019. From 2019-21 he was the Artistic Associate of Australian experimental music group, Speak Percussion. He has released three solo albums including CULTURECIDE on Icelandic label Bedroom Community. It was described by The Wire “...there’s a lingering sense of bleak romanticism here, a deliberate and human design that leaves the natural world as a beautiful and separate image.” The Wire, on Culturcide.

peachey & Mosig

Peachey & Mosig

Gail Priest

Chris Caines

Ben Ward

Tilman Robinson

Peachey & Mosig

Gail Priest

Chris Caines

Benjamin Ward

Tilman Robinson

peachey & Mosig