Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK)
Elision premieres Richard Barrett’s CONSTRUCTION at the Huddersfield Town Hall.
Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3
Read the interview:

http://www.hcmf.co.uk/Richard-Barrett-a-monumental-CONSTRUCTION

OUT HEAR – Concert Series
“A general interrupter”
Elision soloists in concert

Performance of two of my solo compositions:
Transbraxton Study No 2 for bass clarinet (Carl Rosman)
Transbraxton Study No 3 for Ganassi recorder (Genevieve Lacey)

http://www.elision.org.au/ELISION_Ensemble/ELISION_2011__Kings_Place.html

HIAP (Helsinki International Arts Program)
Suomelina Johan Tobias Studio
Solo performance of Chikako Morishita’s ‘Hair’ variations (2010) alto saxophone

http://www.hiap.fi/event/chikako-morishita-two-new-solo-pieces-puristamo-cable-factory

Robbie Avenaim – mechanical drum beaters, sticks, junk, bass drums
Timothy O’Dwyer – baritone sax / pedals
Praxis Gallery

Fuzzy Assemblage
Robbie Avenaim – mechanical drum beaters, sticks, junk, bass drums
Timothy O’Dwyer – junk sax, microphone, feedback, delay

Yuen Chee Wei – electronics
Timothy O’Dwyer – table baritone sax / pedals
Brother McNally Gallery
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

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