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A sound response to Out of Place by Richard Johnson

On Friday 11 June and Sunday 13 June 2021 in the Drill Hall exhibition Out of Place, Richard Johnson responded to the exhibition Out of Place with an original composition, now available for listening and purchase on his website. This work is a montage of field recordings, textural drones and sounds from the real world inspired by the theme Out of Place. Sources include industrial machinery, working sites, welding, singing air filtering systems, crowds, walking in gravel, stone rubbing, doors, sounds from the opening night of the exhibition and excerpts from the movie Safe (1995). Using unconventional sounds Johnson’s composition teeters between deep harmonics and dissonant imbalance. His work sets an eerie ambiance in which the listener is forced to second guess both content and context. Within the soundscape the profane and everyday become illuminated in most surprising ways.

Listen to it on the link below.

https://soundoutrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-place

Richard Johnson has performed at the SoundOut 2010 – 2020 festivals; What is Music Festival, Nownow Festival; the Make it Now performances; also performances with the Brice Glace Ensemble and the 102 Club Orkestra in Grenoble France; “Whip it“ series in Sydney; various Precipice annual Improv workshops hosted by Tony Osbourne as well as hosting local, interstate, and international improvisation nights in Canberra. He is the Director, Curator, Producer and Administrator at SoundOut festivals. As a sound artist he worked with renowned visual artist Savanhdary Vongpoothornfor the Australia Exhibition at The Casula Power House as well collaborated with conceptual-visual artist Denise Higgins on soundscapes. He has performed with the likes of Jaap Blonk, Jon Rose, Hans Koch, Guylaine Cosseron, Jim Denley, Kim Myhr, Annette Giesreigl, Rodrigo Motoya, Antonio Panda Gianfratti, Thomas Rohrer, Luc Houtkamp, Clayton Thomas, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Yan Jun, Laura Altman, Michael Norris, Evan Dorian, etc. Currently performs in a wind trio with John Porter and Rhys Butler called Psithurism, which has a digital release with the renowned Canadian clarinetist Francois Houle and a new CD release called Lure on the SoundOut label withXavier Charles in 2017 SO-003. Also in June 2016 released Cd with Rhys Butler; Guylaine Cosseron and Stephen Roach called Swarm on SoundOut Cd’s SO-001. Lure CD Review. He also has a number of field recording releases available from the SoundOut label catalogue bandcamp site. Click here for more of Richard’s sound works.

Image: Exhibition installation image of ‘Out of Place’ in semi-darkness, by curator Oscar Capezio, Drill Hall Gallery, 17 April – 13 June, 2021. Pictured in foreground: Fiona Connor, ‘Closed Down Clubs, Full O’ Life,’ 2020. commercial aluminium-frame door, polycarbonate, silk screen on coated aluminium foil, vinyl, surface coatings, 213 × 137 × 5cm Pictured in background: Hany Armanious, ‘Stereotypes’, 2018. eco-solvent vertical surface print on wall, 180 × 500cm. Courtesy the artists and Fine Arts, Sydney.

The Drill Hall Gallery acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the traditional custodians of the Canberra region, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country.

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