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WATER ▾
This year the word is 'WATER’, and the work will willingly wade the time away, in eddies, in sinks, in drains, in backwaters, through root systems, capillaries, infiltrating, inundating our "humid brains" (Isabelle Stengers).
Recipes for getting wet: out of the blue, blue planet, into the molecular, cellular, time’s involved, time runs through it, hydrophonics, hydrojams, glistening gestures, swimsink, cloud seeding, drought, contamination, advisories, nautical sea, nausea, leagues under, deep diver, pearl mother, Mariana Trench. We quickly see this flow forever, for, as Yve Lomax put it in Sounding the Event: “Yes, this noisy restless sea is pure multiplicity: it is mixture, it is contingency and it is turbulent.” Or, put even more succinctly, as Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar realizes: “isolating a wave is not easy.”
LINEUP:
- ARE - HOUR 1 (17:00 GMT)
artLAB PRESENTS UpStream/DownStream by Tom Cull with Danielle Butters & Sruthi Ramanarayanan
- ARE - HOUR 2 (18:00 GMT)
National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition PRESENTS Amanda Amour-Lynx, Kaya Joan, and Star Nahwegahbo
- ARE - HOUR 3 (19:00 GMT)
WalkingLab PRESENTS Eli Nolet
- ARE - HOUR 4 (20:00 GMT)
Doris McCarthy Gallery PRESENTS Farheen Haq, Laura Millard, Jordyn Stewart, Jon Sasaki, Lou Sheppard, and Bagida’waad Alliance
- ARE -HOUR 5 (21:00 GMT)
Art Gallery of Hamilton PRESENTS Celia Vernal, Tyler Tekatch, Laurie Kilgor-Walsh
- ARE - HOUR 6 (22:00 GMT)
SASAH PRESENTS Michelle Wilson and the Coves Collective Ensemble
- ARE - HOUR 7 (23:00 GMT)
Thames Art Gallery PRESENTS Dickson Bou, Jamie Dronyk, Sharmistha Kar, Peter Lebel, Patrick Mahon, Thomas Mahon, Valerie Mills-Milde, & Quinn Smallboy
- ARE - HOUR 8 (00:00 GMT)
Futura Resistenza PRESENTS Christof Migone
- ARE - HOUR 9 (01:00 GMT)
Forest City Gallery PRESENTS Racquel Rowe
- ARE - HOUR 10 (02:00 GMT)
Glenfiddich Artists in Residence PRESENTS Penelope Cain
- ARE -HOUR 11 (03:00 GMT)
McIntosh Gallery PRESENTS Shannon Cooney and Paul Walde
- ARE - HOUR 12 (04:00 GMT)
New Adventures in Sound Art and Other Sights PRESENT Brady Marks & Mark Timmings (Wetland Project)
The fifth in Christof Migone's series of twelve annual 12-hour events taking place on December 12th from 5pm to 5am the next day. Each year the event moves through each word of the phrase ‘You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air of Life and Death’ and a group of international artists activate the word of the year in myriad ways. Streamed live on YouTube.
1:01pm BST New!
The Wino Lodge Wireless Hour #4 ▾
This month Dylan and Karen are joined by Hali Palombo, S*Glass, Hobo Sonn, Ersatz Opportunity, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Bill Nace, Julian Bradley, Ted Trager, Ivor Kallin, Witcyst, Neil Campbell, Theo Gowans, Zheng Hao, Marija Kovacevic, Jon Thompson, Rick Potts, Nathan Howdeshell, Fritz Welch, Andy Ortman, Maureen Hallomas and Monad Node.
Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and friends beam out an hour of audio collage discombobulation direct from Chocolate Monk HQ. A sonic salve for overstimulated ears.
2:01pm BST Weekly, Thursday at 11pm
Phantom Circuit #225 - Synthesis ▾
This month: music by Anglezarke, Vulgar Débil, Kirsten Bråten Berg/Ale Moller, Rainbow Serpent, Sandra, Turvia, Whettman Chelmets, Solanaceae Tau, Alzar - DrOwL, Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Chris & Cosey, Closeyoureyes, Bocksholm and Astrovia.
Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.
3pm BST New!
Connections to Sound #1 ▾
A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.
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Radia #1081 - The Wind of Heaven by Jim Denley ▾
Hidden Valley seems to be far removed from our worlds. There, a musical encounter with Flies, Cicadas, Wombat Poo, and a little Waterfall unfolds. These characters become my Musickin—through the musicking—as the wind of heaven blows through the pipes of every critter.
Later in my studio: A contemplation re-enfolds on the affordances of identity and identitylessness.
The originary recording was made 2020, in the Budawang Mountains, southwest of Nowra, on the east-coast of Australia. This Country is the lead author of this work, and respects are paid to the Yuin people, who have been singing up these Mountains everywhen. My studio is on Gadigal Country.
– Jim Denley, December 2025
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Born in the Illawarra, Dharawal Country south of Sydney in 1957, Jim Denley has been active with experimental and improvised musicking since the 1970s.
He has performed in Australia, Europe, Japan and the US with artists such as Chris Abrahams, Clare Cooper, Keith Rowe, Joel Stern, Robbie Avenaim, Jon Rose, John Butcher, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith, Phil Niblock, Trey Spruance, Clayton Thomas, Tess de Quincy, Axel Dörner, Adam Sussman, Ami Yoshida, Oren Ambarchi, Tony Buck, Ikue Mori, Sachiko M, Malcolm Goldstein, Michael Sheridan and Annette Krebs.
He is interested in what his music instinct might learn from language. From 1989 to 2009 he worked with the text/music group Machine for Making Sense, (Amanda Stewart, Stevie Wishart, Rik Rue and Chris Mann). Jim co-formed 180º with Amanda Stewart and Nick Ashwood in 2018 to continue the pursuit of text/music intra-activity. He’s been involved with the radically inclusive Splinter Orchestra since 2001.
He often records around the coves and beaches of Sydney Harbour, where for thousands of years the Dharug people would have played ngaramang (music).
His radio work Collaborations, produced by ABC Radio National won the 1989 Prix Italia for radio production.
Bloomsbury will be publishing his PhD research as the book, Towards ecological musicking: As Weather Improvisation.
Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.
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