BRUCE MOWSON |
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photo: Lynn Thomson
Participatory post audio/visual installation
Architechure/sound installation |
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The Shower, Bruce Mowson and Pia Ednie Brown, 2003-5. Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, April 2004. Latex, steel, rubber, perspex, mdf, pressure sensor, lights, CD player, custom audio gate, speakers and amp. Within the latex skin lurks a minimalistic noisescape, inspired by La Monte Young and Alvin Lucier's explorations of sono-acoustic space. The Shower was commissioned by Experimenta Media Arts for the 'House of Tomorrow' project, but withdrawn at the last minute due differences between the artists and curators. |
| BARNEY |
Immersive Installation and Software project.

Bruce Mowson, 2006.
Generative audio-visual installation, dimensions variable.
Sound Polaroids Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, October 2006.
Influenced by Op Art and musical Minimalism, Barney is a generative audio-visual work, run from a computer using max/msp/jitter software, and including an immersive soundtrack.
| Melting Moments |
Immersive Installation and Software project.

Generative audio-visual installation, dimensions variable.
Kerb Artist Run Inititive, Totally Huge New Music Festival, Perth, Australia, 2007.
āI would describe the work as hypnotic, mesmerising and captivating ā and this is the works meaning, to be captivating and mesmerising. What Iām interested in is under what circumstances, or in what personal spaces are such captivated states possible.ā
Download (Max/MSP/Jitter standalone application 15.4mb)
| Static Tones |
Audio CD

"An intricate, yet unchanging mass of sound comprised of tiny repeating fragments. Although unchanging, the static tones create an illusion of movement and change, with perceptual distortions generated by the listener." Ed Osborn, Stretcher Archives, 2001.
Download: MP3 800kb
| Infracinema |

Live audio-video performance.
37 minutes.
North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne International Arts Festival, 2005.
Download exerpt: Quicktime 14mb
| Absorption |
Installation

Zippered, 2005, Installation View.
Le Corbusier Chaise, computer generated sound and video, screen, headphones.
RMIT School of Art Gallery, April, 2006.
A soundtrack of groans and soft moans, somewhere between pleasure, admiration and discomfort, accompanies the perceptual-plays of the color-field video.
Read about Zippered in the chapter 'Absorption': Download full exegesis (900kb)
| Flesh Antenna |
Sound/Installation

Flesh Antenna, 2002.
Customised radios, steel wire, FM transmitter and antenna.
Presented by Experimenta Media Arts in "Prototype" at the Black Box, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne.
Initially commissioned by the 2002 Next Wave Festival.
A field of skull-ish radios... glaring, they hiss at you as you disrupt their transmission field.