A few words from veterans of the EMU

.forum - week nine.

This week in Music Technology Forum two emerging artists who came through the same degree at the Electronic Music Unit as the one I am doing presented some of their work and approaches to creativity.

Seb Tomczak presented a few projects that he has coordinated. The first of these was an album he wrote this year called Automaton. This album was created using a single 11.6 millisecond sound. Seb has an artistic obsession with small things, as suggested by track three – ‘the emphasis is on small things’. This fixation is ingrained too in his ongoing Milkcrate project, which involves sound artists working within specific restraints – rules – by which they must write music. One of these restraints is that the instruments of the session must fit into a Milkcrate (and hence be small). I have never been involved in a “Milkcrate” session, but have certainly had the opportunity to if I wanted.


Darren Curtis has, for as long as I can remember, been interested in using sound to heal as well as using it to represent patterns in nature and supernature, by which I believe he means Outer-Space. Also, he is interested in “Ancient Sound,” something to do with Pyramids and patterns and maybe religion (?). How all of these things tie together I am still figuring out. I am fairly sceptical of his ideas, however I am sure that there is a large group of people who would not be. Further, to comment harshly on his work would really be inappropriate before I learn more about what he does – needless to say I am not yet sold on his music – where it is going, what it is hoping to achieve for him, and so forth.


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Tomczak, Sebastian and Curtis, Darren 15.05.08, "Postgraduate Presentations," Forum of EMU, Adelaide University.

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