Rully Shabara / Wukir Suryadi (Indonesia) / Timothy O’Dwyer
Brother McNally Gallery
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Director / Installation Artist / Performer

Sonorous Duration is a festival for cross art-form collaboration and experimental music focusing on art practice in South East Asia and beyond co-presented by the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the School of Contemporary Music, LASALLE College of the Arts. The festival will run over 9 nights from the 20th to the 29th of October featuring performances of experimental music and installation projects. Nightly performances will commence on Thursday the 20th of October and run from Thursday to Saturday over both weekends within the Brother McNally Gallery (BMG). Installations will be presented in the Praxis, Project and BMG. On Saturday afternoons between 2-5pm (22nd and 29th) there will be artist talks in the BMG discussing issues concerning cross art form collaboration and experimental music by our visiting artists.

render visible – render duration sonorous

The broader conceptual framework of the festival is fluid but we are searching to articulate a common ground shared by contemporary sonic and visual art practice. Indeed the installation artists featured can all be characterized as having been primarily involved in sonic practice that are now presenting works using objects, video and physical space in combination with sound and this re-positions the discourse in interesting ways.

The intention is to move away somewhat from the obvious demarcations of representation /technique and effect in both these areas and present works that are made up of contrary technical backgrounds but occupy shared expressive outcomes. Shared affects.

The painter Millet used to say that what counts in painting is not, for example, what a peasant is carrying, whether it is a sacred object or a sack of potatoes, but its exact weight. This is the postromantic turning point: the essential thing is no longer forms and matters, or themes, but forces, densities, intensities. (Deleuze and Guattari 378)

From the perspective of this postromantic idea of painting expressed by Millet, “Paul Klee says that the object of painting is not to render the visible—to reproduce visual entities—but to render visible, to make visible that which is not visible, the forces that play through the visible.” (qtd, Bogue 44) To realign these ideas again with the sonic: “Music molecularizes sound matter and in so doing becomes capable of harnessing nonsonorous forces such as Duration and Intensity. Render Duration sonorous.” (Deleuze and Guattari 378) To attempt to render visible what is unseen and audible what cannot be heard through different plains of intensities and vibrations.

Bogue, Ronald. Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Deleuze, Gilles., and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. London: Continuum, 2004.

World Premiere of a work by young Singaporean composer RX Gan at Yong Siew Toh lunch time concert series at National University of Singapore.
Leslie Tan (cello), Timothy O’Dwyer (as), Zyrene Leonardo Estallo (p)
‎Listen!

http://soundcloud.com/rx-gan/biography-of-inner-duality

Musical Director of the Tom Waits and Robert Wilson version directed by Stefanos Rassios featuring Level 2 students from BA(Hons) Acting, BA(Hons) Musical Theatre and School of Contemporary Music.

http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/index.php/news-and-events/events/2011/826-woyzeck

Tim ODwyer (as/bc), Greg Lyons (ts), Gabe Evens (p),
Tony Makarome (b), Darren Moore (d).

Club La Opera
Second floor 78 Boat Quay, Singapore

Black Box, Goddman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman Rd, Singapore

Fukushima, once a quiet rural area in North-East Japan is now world-infamous as the site of possibly the worst human-caused disasters in history. The radioactive pollution continues to this day to spread in our air, water, soil and food. This has forcibly removed around 97,000 people (and counting) from the area, displacing them from their homes to start new lives from scratch.



However, the displacement is not just geographical, but also political and psychological. Fukushima, as a region with its own history and culture, is blindly being ostracized from Japan’s economic activities and being kept off the radar from the general public. Project Fukushima! is an initiative to keep Fukushima alive and connected. This tragic event must be remembered for and used as a stepping point towards a better future.

Fukushima! is a series of simultaneous events happening throughout the world on 15 August.

Featuring Hanging Up The Moon, Aya Sekine + Angie Seah, aspidistrafly, Dharma + Shaun Sankaran, Tim O’Dwyer + Ian Woo, Leslie Low + Yuen Chee Wai.

http://www.theobservatory.com.sg/index.php/main/event/20