Ros Bandt (Melbourne, Australia)

PERFORMANCE, Saturday, July 24, 1999, 7pm, Tacoma Art Museum. 

BIOGRAPHY: Ros Bandt is a well known Australian sound artist who has 
practiced in the field internationally for over 20 years. She builds multimedia 
sound sculptures, interactive installations, composes environmental music 
and 'sounds' sites in unique ways. Voicing the Murray, Endangered Species 
series 1, commissioned by the Mildura Festival in March 1996, was a 
six channel acoustic ecology derived from the impact oftechnology 
on the Murray Darling Region. The stories and sounds were
installed in large ceramic urns in the Mildura Art Gallery for three weeks,
during which time, they floated in differing relationships to each other,
like the ebb and flow of the river Murray. Ros Bandt has won the joint 
ABC/WDR sound art award, the Don Banks Composers fellowship, 
and she was the inaugural Benjamin Cohen Scholar for peace and
innovation in Ball State University. Her works appear on MOVE records, ABC
records, New Albion Records, USA. and Wergo, Germany. She has published
internationally in the area of Sound Sculpture in Australia and is writing a
book on an Australian research grant at Monash University. Her doctorate
gained in 1983 was on Models and Processes in Repetitive Music. In 1996, her
commissions include Thrausmata, an electronic tape piece based on ancient
Greek Texts for the WDR Cologne, and Are you really there? for the ABC's 
Listening  Room. Her spatial computer piece, Loops was premiered at the  
ACMA conference in Brisbane in June and  entered in the 
Prix Ars Electronica Linz. 

More information about Ros Bandt can be found at http://farben.latrobe.edu.au/NMA/22CAC/bandt.html
and at  http://www.knm.com.au/bol/nav/navigation.html

Supported by the Australia Council