To celebrate the first anniversary of the audio-visual project NOUMINA, I have decided, after much deliberation, to release it online for free download. NOUMINA uses open-source material: hi-res images from NASA, the Planetarium software Stellarium - and as such is offered to the public under a creative commons license. For release, I've never wanted to compromise on quality - which seems to be a given with web video at this point in time. So I have decided to avoid the compression ...Read More
I'll be taking part in BYOB Utrecht, a one-night-only video projection exhibition. BYOB stands for 'Bring Your Own Beamer' - that's 'projectors' for all us non-Europeans. The night is being run by Setup Media Lab, and I'm fortunate enough to have them arrange an install of Mute City Dreemz (2010) for me. From the Setup website: The white space reinvented. For one night we will take over the Utrecht Center for Fine Arts and turn the walls of the space into a ...Read More
I've spent the last couple months helping my friends at The Pixie Collective develop their gallery space. It's re-launching as 'Hyperspace Visionary Art Gallery' and will exist to support and feature artists working within the psychedelic, surreal, sacred and visionary arts. The opening show features French/Australian artist Aurélien Pumayana Floret. Having exhibited alongside Alex Grey recently at the Astor Theatre visionary art show, Aurel's digital visions will be on display at Hyperspace from the 6th - 18th of May, 2011. Check out ...Read More
Mute City Dreemz (2010) HD Video Projection onto Trace, Glass 1080p, dimensions variable Description: The Paleolithic used the cave painting ceremonially to visualize the hunt - to either worship or call upon the Bison for its blessings (to be used for food, tools, clothing). Today, we do not use these methods – I do not visualize a supermarket or retail department store through art in order to bring food, clothing, goods etc. Our visions are of a different kind – a ‘better’ ...Read More
NOUMINA presents a story, an abstract narrative, a cinematic journey through the cosmos. From a twinkly gaze at the stars, we are confronted with a presence, a geometric object, and are taken on a journey to its domain. Through super hi-resolution images of the Universe, the participant experiences multi-dimensional layers, geometric viewports to other-worldly realities. Accompanied by a hypnotic original score, the piece swoons and arcs over multiple moods and territories, finishing back at our home world, again at the gaze of ...Read More
SUBAUDIBLE HUM Live A/V Gig - featuring T A N T R U M S and Re:enactment (QLD) SubAudible Hum Live A/V Gig - the room will be black, there will be a big big big screen, on it will be some very interesting and beautiful video by some very talented people, behind it will be SubAudible Hum. Supports from T A N T R U M S and Re:enactment (QLD) at 9pm. Features works by C Rodent, Dirty Puppet, Leaf Tierney, ...Read More
'Airfield' is the new two-track EP from Sinuso Dial (aka m. leaf-tierney). The title piece combines location recordings from an old farmhouse cottage residence in Briar Hill, Victoria, Australia, with the electric guitar aesthetic characteristic of Tierney's ambient electronic sound. Track 2, 'Parafern', plays with a Macbook Pro built-in microphone and multi-fx processing in Ableton Live, to create an undulating swell of computational mechanics swathed in a wash of digital processes. You can download it free here: Sinuso Dial - Airfield EP Released ...Read More
Man's landing on the moon opened up a new consciousness for humans: for the first time we saw our planet as a whole, rather than a collection of divided countries and continents. Similarly, a new perception of ourselves has emerged with the proliferation of high quality satellite imagery, such as those provided by Google Earth. We now have access to the collective Space Eye, and possess the ability to zoom and focus at any one scale of the fractal. NASA provides ...Read More
I'm pleased to announce a new release, a track of mine called 'Anigma', on UK Label AmpBitif/go. It's a compilation called 'Feeding The Transmitter'. This is my first audio release on a label of any kind! I'm really happy to be featured - the album is a really enjoyable listen and I find the other artists work to be just the mood and genre that I am happy to sit amongst - glitchy, ambient, drone electronica. My track is the final track ...Read More
Audio is a live recording from the set, however the video recording didn't turn out so great, so this is instead a rough mock-up of how it went. Obviously a lot of the improvisations that took place visually on the night are missing, but this will give you an idea. Something of a compilation of video work from 2008 :+ a lot of digicam movies from my travels, weaved into some samples from 'The Future is Not What is Used ...Read More
Visual wallpaper for a two-track blend from Anigma EP: Teranigma/Denshu from M. Leaf-Tierney on Vimeo. Read More
I'm running my first audio-visual event in Australia on the 22nd of February. I got some funding from RMIT University's arts funding body 'Union Arts'. It's basically a get-together for RMIT Fine Arts students, but anyone is welcome. It's an outdoor event, held in the riverside lawn amphitheatre at Footscray Community Arts Centre. A range of sound & video experimentalists will be performing - from 6pm, thru dusk until 11PM. BYO Picnic, free entry - with a few drinks and snacks provided. Full ...Read More
M. Leaf-Tierney releases the new Sinuso Dial EP 'Live in Melbourne'. The release contains 2 new pieces, one being an exploration of percussive, open-tuned guitar playing, and the other ~ a loop based, processed ambient work that utilizes the aforementioned guitar techniques. 'Live in Melbourne' was recorded at 'The Toff in Town' as part of the OUTSET music event on the 24th of November 2008. http://mattleaf.com/releases/melbourne Read More
I'm proud to announce 'Anigma EP', my second release as Sinuso Dial. You can download it for free here. Just double-click the .zip file to open it. Containing 4 tracks that explore processed electric guitar and field recordings, 'Anigma EP' examines more subtle frequencies and sounds than on 'Biology'. Mixed with field recordings from Mt Cootha in Brisbane, Narita Airport in Tokyo and river sounds from the Merri Creek in Melbourne, Anigma presents a mix of insect and amphibian sounds, harmonic, ambient ...Read More
OUT_SET presents Graduate Students from RMIT FINE ART SOUND in a night of aural and visual expansion. Delivering an eclectic mix of music spanning a wide aural spectrum. From ambient, drone, noise, & vocal manipulations to treated acoustic electrics, psyched-out-jazz and critical-cut-ups. Video Screenings + Live A/V. Read More
'Death To Yevgeny Nourish' is an installation work being shown from Oct 20th - 31st at the 'New Genres' group show, at RMIT School of Art Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The piece uses a live fish housed inside a tank to which a small LCD screen is attached. The screen flickers visuals, while the fish (a Japanese Fighter fish) swims jubilantly ~ creating a wispy silhouette against an ambient rainbow of colour. Read More
Under The Gun Features installation, video installation and interactive-based work to showcase the diversity of approaches within the Media Arts 'New Genres' course. This course looks at that which is not easily classifiable and operating outside of the traditional definitions of what constitutes contemporary art practice. Read More
Food Coma from M. Leaf-Tierney on Vimeo. Read More
BIOLOGY LIVE from Matt Tierney on Vimeo. Read More
Biology 3 from Matt Tierney on Vimeo. Read More
