Robert Curgenven
Biography
Working with harmonics, textures and resonance as articulated not only through instruments/objects, in space and place, but also in time and the dislocation of the remote, Robert's sound explores slowly shifting layers in the fabric of what surrounds us.
He has released one solo CD for privatelektro, "cichaczem" (2005), which was described by "disquiet" magazine as:
"absolutely beautiful distillations of sound mixing the familiar textures of field recordings, including falling snow and the period after a thunderstorm, with hyper-sensitive recordings of a grand piano that suggest the open spaces only alluded to by most synthesizers".
He has completed two commissions for ABC's Radiophonic Unit (2003, 2006), is included on the recent "recorded in the fields by..." compilation by "gruenrekorder" (2006) and the upcoming CRISAP/gruenrekorder compilation for the book "Autumn Leaves" (overview on sound and the environent). His soundtrack to Lezsek Paul's "Terrain der Zeit" has has been included in screenings at Prix de la Creation Video, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2007), Filmfest Dresden, Germany (2006) and Experyment V Internation Art Meeting Zbaszyn, Poland (2005). He organised the inaugural Sounds Unusual Festival of New Music in Darwin in 2006, had installations/group exhibitions in Darwin, Fremantle, Koln and Berlin and performed at the Darwin Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, 24HR Art (NT Centre for Contemporary Art), in Alice Springs, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Electrofringe Festival (Newcastle), Brussels, Amsterdam, Leipzig, and recently a brief tour of Japan and a European Tour including Germany, Paris, UK and the Netherlands.