Alex White

 Nadir

Nadir is Alex White (Modular Synth) and Ben Byrne (Laptop Max/MSP). Together, we produce music that seethes. Oscillations and disturbances envelop and pollute one another as a host of possibilities surface, pattern and disintegrate.

Alex uses his analogue synthesiser to produce a broad spectrum of sound that Ben then buffers and manipulates in real time with his software patch, the collision of stochastic processes and improvisation creating a dense and visceral experience.

Excessive Redundancy, our debut album, is saturated with signal - music pushed to the brink of collapse.

Tele Visions

Tele Visions was an experimental intervention of the TV medium in the last days of analog TV in Australia, a temporary pop up TV channel that ran from the 28th of November to the 3rd of December. Programmed 24hrs a day with screen based and live televisual art devised specifically for and about TV, Tele Visions could be viewed via analog TV transmission: 681.25 MHZ in the UHF band if you live in Sydney’s inner west, or streamed live from the Tele Visions website. Presented as part of Performance Space's 30 Year program, You're History, Tele Visions coincided with the final shutdown of analog television in Sydney on December 3rd, 2013.

For this series of live and broadcast events Tele Visions built a TV studio at Carriageworks where  specially commissioned works will be created in front of a studio audience. Find out about them here.

A second studio at Verge Gallery is filming a live performance 24 hrs a day by Kate Blackmore and Frances Barrett. Alongside this live content a curated program of screen based TV artworks were broadcast.

To reflect upon this important cultural and creative moment, a series of critical writing was commissioned to expand upon TV’s history as a performance space, artistic tool and cultural phenomena. Presented in the TV Guide, these works were accompanied online by a series of guest blog posts responding to each day of the transmission.

Serial Space

Running from 2007 – 2012, Serial Space was an artist run space dedicated to providing a platform for artists undertaking ambitious and experimental projects. Serial Space supported sound art, experimental music, electronic art, performance art and many other non traditional practices and mediums. The Serial Space directors curated, organised and hosted countless events, performances, artist talks, debates, screenings, workshops, show & tells, exhibitions and residencies.

As a co-director of Serial Space, I worked to present over 100 events in 2009/2010 establishing the identity and focus of Serial Space as a development and presentation space for experimental hybrid art forms.

http://serialspace.org/

Lion Mountain Studio

Lion Mountain Studio is a community project initiated and controlled by members of Sydney's Sierra Leon community. The project was devised
to assist people from Sierra Leon and other African communities gain access and training in music making and recording in an informal structure with the long term goal of building the communities own capacity for creative expression in a computerised and on-line media environment. 

To achieve this the project focuses primarily upon building technical skills in music production and recording through songwriting and music creation-based activities.

The project has a training space provided through in kind support from Radio Skid Row and aside from a coordinator and specialist presenters, the project is run by volunteer producers and engineers. 

Project participants often begin with a low level of computer literacy, the program seeks to build these skills along the way. Through the on-line release of music produced in the project, the participants have had the opportunity to tell their story to a wide and varied audience. Project participants have identified their participation in the project as assisting greatly in their self esteem, mental health as well as technical and computer based skills.

Visit lionmountain.org for more information.

Moduluxxx

Moduluxxx was 2 day thermo voltaic burn out celebrating and exploring modular synthesis held in 2012 and 2013 in Sydney. Somewhere between a museum, a LAN party and a pet show, Moduluxxx was a space for vicarious enjoyment, learning, rubber necking, starting a dangerous new hobby, kicking tires or brushing shoulders with your peeps.

Around the world modular synthesis is experiencing a renaissance of interest and experimentation, with new developments from high bandwidth video synthesis systems through to reinventions of granular synthesis in an analog context. In a creative audio world that is dominated by software, saved files and presets, modular synthesis offers no recall, each patch is unique and perhaps unrepeatable. The equipment itself is constructed in small manufacturing runs, often by hand, designed by dedicated enthusiasts operating out of their lounge rooms.

The second Moduluxxx was held in May, 2013 at the Marrickville Bowling Club and the Red Rattler Theatre. 

Moduluxxx also showcased at Sound Summit Festival, 2013. 

For more information visit the Moduluxxx site.