MIAF kudos

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Ryan Granger
Can you tell us a little about the story of Aww Jeez and some of the concepts and theme’s within the film?
Aww Jeez is a short clay-animated film that takes religious dieties and puts them in a cheesy 50s sitcom environment. Essentially the story is; God is going away on business, but he doesn’t trust his slacker son Jesus not to throw a party while he’s gone, so he hires Satan, a former alcoholic, to babysit.
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The humor of the film is based around making light of religious mythology, while simultaneously exploring the way sit-coms utilise familiar characters and plotlines to create stories and explore ideas. The film really is my personal love letter to the situational comedy genre, so by using characters that almost everybody recognises, it allowed me alot of freedom to run wild, making a mixture of jokes at goofy sitcom cliches (like the flashy main character entrance) and more in depth religion themed humour. Fortunately for me I teamed up with an amazing sound designer and composer on the film named Ryan Granger who did an awesome job realising the kinds of theme music and audio cues which make sitcoms so fun and energetic.
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What is Music? sites

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Ryan Granger

Heres some web sites to check out about the festival and the event Circle jerk

http://www.whatismusic.com/?page_id=5

http://circlejerk.com.au/

http://www.revoltproductions.com/melbourneevents/byevent/CIRCLE_JERK1

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What is Music? Circle jerk

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Ryan Granger

We have been busy busy over the past few months getting this project off the ground and am very excited about it.
heres some info

What Is Music? Festival presents… Circle Jerk
Circle Jerk is an acousmatic sound instillation that facilitates sound artists and musicians instinctual creation in the form or workshop, exhibition and performance. French engineer and composer Pierre Schaeffer of Groupe de Recherche Musicale(GRM) first used the term acousmatic to describe how the loudspeaker is like a veil that hides the source of the sound. An acousmatic performance plays and manipulates the concept of this veil through performatively mixing with the sonic character through multiple loudspeakers. The event will invite established sound artists to develop and present sound works through the use of a world class acousmatic system.

Circle Jerk will take place at Revolt Melbourne on December 10th 2011. The space will first be transformed through the installation of the lighting, video projection and two custom diffusion systems utlising more than 100 loudspeakers. The installation will creatively respond to the venues acoustic properties and aesthetics to achieve a unique playback system. The established facilities will act as a catalyst for the development of unique sound and musical works through a schedule of week long workshops and allocated sessions with the system. Through this time the collective will explore spatialisation as a compositional device with each artist composing a site specific performative work.
At weeks end these compositions will be programmed into a night of performances and installations. Curators Adam Hunt and Ryan Granger will question the qualities and potency of the multi-channel works through the juxtaposing them against a collection of 2-channel and acoustic performances by other Melbourne artists and musicians encaptsualting genres such as Music Concrete, Electroacoustic, Noise & Electronic Music.

Circle Jerk will congregate audiences from several sound art communities throughout Melbourne including Liquid Architecture, Make It Up Club, Hand Made Music Festival, Sibattical, an many more. This will provide an outlet for audiences to hear new works and genres whilst celebrating and enriching Melbournes sound art community.

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Aww Jeez keeps giving Annecy/MIAF and MIFF

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Ryan Granger

Aww Jeez just traveled to Annecy and is now part of the 2011 MIAF festival, also MIFF (Melbourne international film festival)

Here’s an interview in which Michael gives me a lovely plug, Aww yeah.

http://thecreativehaven.blogspot.com/

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Acousmatic Installation

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Ryan Granger

I am currently co-curating an exibition/Installation/performance with Adam Hunt for the end of the year at Dear Patti Smith Gallery in smith st Collingwood. We hope to have the installation in for the December roster.

Here’s what we propose in a nutshell. will update further as it progresses.

‘Circle Jerk’ is a sound art workshop questioning how we experience and engage with compositional process and immersive performance.

The 100-speaker installation at Revolt Artspace will facilitate workshops and performances by seven RMIT sound artists, each chosen for their different compositional approach and methodology. The design of the speaker system will respond to the spatial, tonal and aesthetic characteristics of the speakers, galleries acoustics and ergonomics. The facility will operate on a timeshare rota, in which individual performers will have the opportunity to privately explore the potentials of the system, as well as group sessions for technological and compositional discussions. These workshops will culminate into a two-night performance using the installation as a performance tool.

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Gertrude Contemporary

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Ryan Granger

Hi

Here’s some info about an exibition i did the Sound co ordinating on, it is still currently showing at the Gertrude st Contemporary art space and is well worth a check out, the guys are great and the installation and performances a great succsess.

ARTISTS: ANDRE AVELAS (PT/NL), ANDERS HANA (NO), KOEN NUTTERS (NL), MORTEN J. OLSEN (NO), MOHA! (NO)

FEEDBACK PROJECTED (PROPOSALS TOWARDS AN EXHIBITION), CURATED BY HELEN GROGAN
29.04.11 – 04.06.11

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to present a major international exhibition of collaborative and performative works that explore the notion of feedback. Curated by Helen Grogan Feedback Projected (Proposals Towards an Exhibition) presents the practices of six European artists working with sound and installation forms in collaborative and responsive ways. The five-week project adopts the exhibition format as a frame and departure point for a series of installations, performances and discussions that will overlap in time and place at Gertrude Contemporary and at Dear Patti Smith Art Space on Smith St, Fitzroy.

The exhibition adopts the concept of feedback employing live processes to investigate the relationships between the artist, artwork, exhibition context and the viewer. In the simplest sense, Feedback is defined as both the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input, and also a response to an inquiry or experiment, and in this exhibition both perspectives will be fully explored.

In André Avelãs (PT/NL) live installation work, Earphones, for example, he presents five hundred sets of earphones that are rigged to create a field of sound generated through the feedback between earphones that have been configured as speakers and as microphones.

The concept of  ‘feedback’ will be present in every work in Feedback Projected (Proposals Towards an Exhibition), whether it is technical, physical or communicative. In The Input / Output Routine (a arrangement of microphones, amplifiers, and loudspeakers) by Koen Nutters and Morten J. Olsen, they create an environment of potentiality, whereby a PA system – with amps and microphones – such as that which would be traditionally used by a rock band is set up in the gallery space and yet remains void of players. The absence of anticipated performers leaves the visually iconic amplification system as the sole protagonist, generating a feedback system that absorbs the sounds of the gallery and articulates the presence of the gallery’s visitors.
This investigation of the broader implications of feedback will extend out beyond the traditional exhibition format with artists talks and an active facilitation of dialogue between the artists and Gertrude’s audiences. The exhibition will also encompass a series of performances and off-site events by leading European artists such as MoHa!, allowing for a comprehensive exploration of all facets of the idea of feedback.

PROGRAMS

Friday 29 April
6-8pm: Opening at Gertrude Contemporary
8:30 SHARP: MoHa! Performance at Dear Patti Smith (+ drinks until 10pm).The Patterson Building, L2, 181 Smith St, Fitzroy.
Friday 29 April – 4 May
Input / Output Routine (an arrangement of microphones, amplifiers, and loudspeakers) by Koen Nutters and Morten J. Olsen at Gertrude Contemporary

Wednesday 4 May
9pm: Fields by Koen Nutters and Morten J. Olsen on collaboration with local artists at Gertrude contemporary

Thursday 5 May
7pm: Public Forum of artists, curator, guests and audience at Gertrude Contemporary

Thursday 5 May – Tuesday 17 May
Earphones by André Avelãs at Gertrude Contemporary

Tuesday 17 May – 4 June
Special Project(s) to be developed in situ by André Avelãs at Gertrude Contemportary. Further information will be made available on the Gertrude Contemporary website.

Feedback Projected (Proposals Towards an Exhibition) is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL. It has received support from the Sound Studio, School of Art RMIT University. Special thanks to Tanzplan Essen 2010.

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Colorful Pandas

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Ryan Granger

I am Currently Working on a Kids T.V show called Colorful Panda’s. The Theme has been written my myself and Jade Myconos and I am currently working on the incedental music for the show.  Smile happy joy and friendship.

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Acceny/Miaf 2011

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Ryan Granger

This film Directed and Animated by Mike Greaney with Sound design and Music done by yours truly.  It is a part of the 2011 official selection in the Acceny film festival in France and showing at the Melbourne international animation festival (miaf). We are hoping it does well because of the hard work we put in to making it.

 

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