roam//cast – podcast on a journey from inside out
presented by Stephen Harvey and produced by Jo Kennedy
This week’s podcast features Elizabeth Millar from a.hop – sound artist, musician, improviser, record label owner, and one of nine members of the band a.hop.
We talk in this edition of the ame artist podcasts about Elizabeth’s interest in fixed composition, improvisation and everything in between. She talks about her work on the Mystery and Wonder record label and her love of the physical artifact in music production. We look at the writing process in general but also focus on writing for a nine-piece band based in different parts of the world. We discuss the production of the album First Album which came out of recordings made for the audiograft festival. First Album (https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/first-album ) is available to download via the Superpang Bandcamp page.
Elizabeth Millar is active in sound art, experimental music, noise and self-made instrument building. She has performed throughout Canada and in Australia, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. Her creative practice merges the acoustic and electronic textures of machine hums, metallic resonances, feedback and low frequency air noise generated by self-made sound sculptures built from recycled electronic components and other found materials.
https://mwrecs.com/
Other a.hop members
Bonnie Jones: Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She is a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery, and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, she cofounded TECHNE that introduces young female-identified women to technology-focused art, improvisation and community collaboration. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
Verónica Daniela Cerrotta: Argentinian musician and sound artist. She studied music and Visual Arts. She currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she works with sound design and develops her personal artistic projects. Her productions are based on the use of field recordings and oscillate between experimental music and soundscape, focusing on listening and everyday landscaping.
Valentina Villarroel: sound artist and experimental musician. Trained in bioacoustics applied to human and animal wellbeing, she explores sound as the testimony of history. She has developed her works as a sound landscaper mainly in tours of the territories of the Biobío Region, and politically from highlighting the spaces of nature, flora, fauna and southern geography, a fundamental part of ecosocial conflicts.
Anne-F Jacques: sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. She is interested in amplification, oblique interactions between materials and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial objects and unpolished sounds. She has presented several sound installations and live performances in North and South America, Europe and Japan. Anne-F is also involved with Crustacés Tapes, a postal sound distribution project.
Ryoko Akama: Korean-Japanese, working with installation, performance and composition, residing in Huddersfield. Her work sculpts everyday tools and scrap wastes with invisible energy such as magnetism or gravity into kinetic contraptions to achieve both aural and visual occurrences, embodying ‘almost nothing’ aesthetics. She is an artistic director for ame c.i.c. and co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing and melange edition.
Lynette Quek: audiovisual maker from Singapore. Incarnations of her work include audiovisual installations, composition through sound manipulation, as well as crossdisciplinary performance with the computer. Her current work examines the synchronisation and interaction within audiovisuality, challenging the notion of the heard/unheard, seen/unseen. This varies across the medium of video, performance, sculpture, and expanding.
Liew Niyomkarn: sound and interdisciplinary artist. Liew’s work takes a critical view of geography’s historical roots, often referencing rituals, co-existence between human and nonhuman being, and audio culture. Coming from sound experimental practice and performance, Liew records sound from urban and natural areas, employs various media such
as text, drawing and video, and comes together to reconfigure story into performance and objects forms.
suzueri (Elico Suzuki): Tokyo-based sound artist and improviser. Also known as Elico Suzuki, she creates circuitous and restless performances using pianos and found objects combined with self-made instruments. Her recent interests have centred on the exploration of gaps and narrative aspects between the interaction of instruments and particular embodiment. She is she founder of the edible circuit makers, BreadBoard Baking.
