MACHINE FOR MAKING SENSE
"The Act of Observation Becomes the Object Itself"
Stevie Wishart - hurdy gurdy, vocals + electronics
Amanda Stewart - voice + text
Rik Rue - anaolog and digital manipulations
Jim Denley - wind instruments + electronics
recorded July 2001 at UWS studio in Sydney by Emma Stacker.
edited, mixed and mastered by Jim Denley
thanks the University of Western Sydney, the NSW Ministry of the Arts,
Joan Grounds, Michael Atherton and Julian Knowles.
Machine For Making Sense explores relations between linguistics, poetry, speech, music, and notions of sound, science and politics. Talk is the noise of talk, its musicality, its chance capture, words gulped and kicked out, guttural, barked and screamed. Therefore the Machine's talk becomes all the more important for being and around and about talk that you ignore in the usual give and take of conversation. You hear snatches of talk, you hear the voice as a musical instrument. Machine For Making Sense re-evaluates distinctions between text and music, music and sound art, improvisation and composition. MFMS first worked together after Ars Electronica (Austria 1989). They first toured the main centres in Australia in 1991. They have produced tours, performances, site specific events, recordings and intermedia collaborations in Australia, the US and Europe. Increasingly their work is site specific. Sonic Hieroglyphs, Residue and Fester were long large-scale works designed for specific space/times and escaped from the deadening environment of the concert hall. (from Discog profile)
ROSSBIN NEW DONATION POLICY
After 6 year, producing works we thought that some changes had to be done, and in order to get more and more close to the non profit concept, we decide, from the beginnig of 2008 to donate all the incomes from the distribution of our catalogue to a private istitution based in Peru and worked with poor and disable children, taken them out of the street, giving them schoolarity and one change to get out of the poverty. The reasons that made us choose this institution is the personal knowledge we have of the people involved in this project, and of course the absolute certainty that the money donated would be used for this purpose. In order to do this and avoid all possible bad interpretations of our desire, we decided stop selling the records, but give them for free to the peoples who decide to give a minimum donation to this institution, in this way we will not recive the money which are send directly to the benefit institution; for more information on how to get out cds please consult the order page of our web site. If you want to get more information about the Divina Provvidenza institution, or make donations, you can reach them at the web link indicated in our web site.
