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Projects
2007 - 2008
The
Hong Kong Agent
Iolini is in
Hong Kong from Jan 1 to July 31 to research and develop an ambitious
cross-media/multi-platform
project focussing on Hong Kong ten years after its 1997 reunification
with China. Artist in Residence @ ACO (arts & culture
outreach) and
Visiting Scholar/Professional @
Journalism & Media Studies Centre
The University of Hong Kong.
This is an Asialink Project funded by the Australia Council, the
Federal Government’s arts funding and advisory body
and Australia-China
Council & Australian Department of Foreign Affairs &
Trade. Click for
radio + film projects
2006
The Holographic Ear - Short film
Mn is
sleeping in bed. The sun is
rising on another apparently normal day, outside the birds are singing.
He begins to stir, there's something odd about the birdsong - sounding
more like a complex musical composition it gradually builds in
intensity, as it reaches a crescendo Mn wakes up with a start. Thus
begins a journey of transformation in which Mn is subjected to a series
of extraordinary encounters which force him to confront the nature of
reality and perception. Click to watch The
Holographic Ear
Vaganza
Malti (Maltese Holiday)
A short video art
work produced as part of The
Wounding Song cross-media project commissioned by
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Shot entirely on location in
Malta & Gozo in 2004.
Vaganza Malti (Maltese Holiday) is a poetic audio visual montage
exploring contrasting aspects of Maltese culture. Click
here to watch
online at ABC website.
The Wounding Song
A cross-media
project commissioned and produced for the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation. The Wounding Song is a music feature
for radio and website exploring the vibrant phenomenon of Ghana
(pronounced
/a:na/), Maltese vernacular singing. Ghana is a living art -
simultaneously music, song and performance, deriving its vitality from
immediacy and context. Ghana contains a passion, which reflects the
heartbeat of the people, and their endurance through the years as a
nation.
Ghana is music of survival, from quaint rural setting, to gritty
dockland bar, to a backyard garage in an Australian suburb. Click
here to
listen online at ABC website.
Rise above the Living
A
music/sound/text composition for
radio. Commissioned and produced for the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation. The work is a response to Iolini's experiences while
working at
John
Northcott Place, the first high-rise public housing estate in Sydney,
Australia. Rise
above the Living traces the history of Northcott told
from the point of view of the building itself - the Building as a
living organism, a witness - keeper of secrets and knowledge. The music
is a mixture of melodic electronic chamber music and musique concrete. Iolini
was musical director/composer on Big hArt multi-media
theatre production, for
the 2006 Festival of Sydney.
2005
The Holographic Ear - Radiophonic composition
An audio visual
cross-media work.
Radiophonic component commissioned and produced for the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation.
Songs from Hurt
Iolini's second
solo album released on
new and experimental music label ReR Megacorp Available now online from ReR
website. "Songs from Hurt
is a troubling masterpiece"~ François
Couture, All Music Guide. Click for full review
Radio Holiday
Iolini works
with Big hArt Inc as
artist, producer and mentor to create 16 micro radio features for
Tasmanian arts festival 'Ten Days On The Island'. Radio Holiday is a
multi-artform project combining sound works, video, photography,
painting and theatre around the subject of "shacks". Across
Australia, shacks in isolated locations have held a unique
place in our culture. They are often the keepers of secrets, the
location for celebration, symbols of individualism over the state,
improvised architecture, hideouts, places for growing up, and sponges
for nostalgia. As avarism sweeps the coastal fringe, shacks are falling
victim to the national retreat from community to individualism.
A Shack at the Edge of
the World
Iolini produces
radiophonic works
for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Eye &
'Shacks'
for ABC's The Night Air program based on this material.
2004
Zeppelin
Sound Art Festival 2004
Iolini
is invited to this annual sound art festival in Barcelona to present
his latest sound/image/text work in progress The Sound of
Forgetting and to conduct a series of workshops on 'media
concrete'. Click here to
watch the video Forat
de la Vergonya
the result of one workshop.
2003
Barcelona Artist's Residency
Iolini is artist
in residence at Orquestra
del Caos an
organisation dedicated to artistic research in the field of sound.
Based at CCCB
(Centre
for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona). For three months begining in
October 2003 Iolini researches and develops skills, focussing on the
theme of 'narrative in new media'. He investigates what new languages
can result from the layering and juxtaposition of sound and image. The
project is made possible with the assistance of the The Australia
Council for the Arts New Media Fund.
New
Media Artists Residency
The Australia
Council for the Arts
and Australian Broadcasting Corporation appoint Iolini as New Media
Artist in residence at The Listening Room, the ABC’s audio
arts
program. Iolini develops ‘Archaeology’ a new
radiophonic
work, through re-interpretation of languages and disciplines associated
with the science of archaeology, crossing disparate worlds of
understanding and sharing metaphors of identity, self discovery and
personal vision.
Beasty Grrl
Iolini composes
music and sound
design for this multimedia play about the life of Errol Flynn as an
allegory for the apparent self destructive tendency of humankind.
Iolini's vision for this project is to allow realtime interactive
performance between actor, musician and video artist. Beasty Grrl is
written and directed by Scott Rankin. The play is toured nationally
throughout 2003 and wins the 'Green Room' award for best innovative
theatre for 2003.
2002
Leaves
Falling At Midnight
Iolini is musical
director, composer and sound designer for Scott Rankin and Glynn
Nicholas' new multi media play.
2001
'iolini'
New Solo Album
International
release December 2001. New and experimental music record label ReR releases a solo CD of Iolini's
chamber and radiophonic/acousmatic compostions.
"Iolini represents a
new breed of
electroacoustic composer who puts his heart as well as his intellect
into his work, and composes from a broad cultural perspective."
Bill Tilland BBC online Full
review
2000
Big hArt
Works
In March this
year Iolini directs and composes the music and sound for this large
scale multi media theatre piece for award winning outsider theatre
company Big hArt Inc. The work focuses on cruelty, beauty and isolation
seen through young eyes. It premieres at the Adelaide Arts Festival 2000 and is one of four critically
acclaimed shows at the festival.
Wrong way Go back!
In August Iolini
is commissioned by award winning outsider theatre company Big hArt Inc
to compose and direct the music and sound for this multi media theatre
piece. The work is based on the experiences of inmates, former inmates
and potential inmates of Darwin's notorious Don Dale Juvenile Detention
Centre. Iolini acts as arts mentor (composition, recording &
production) to the core group of young people involved in the project
both inside Don Dale and in Palmerston City. The project is funded by
the Australian Immigration Department as part of its Living in Harmony
initiative. It is premiered at the Darwin Entertainment Centre on
August 23.
1998
Happy Water Sad Water
Surround sound installation project for voices, found sounds and five
CD players.
Commissioned by Big hArt for the Manly Arts Festival and Carnivale.
Sydney
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