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Wendy (Ceridwen) Suiter

Progress??

Theatre for the Listening Mind, and the Thoughtful Listener.

Progress?? is a quick piece of narrative Audio Art is made from a selection of the Found Sounds around Whittlesea, Victoria supplied by composer colleague, Gary McKie, during a residency he calls The Whittlesea Sound Project.

Whittlesea, Australia, has been swallowed up by the growing outskirts of Melbourne, Victoria. Gary’s Found Sounds were recorded both in the natural environment, a major shopping shopping centre, and the ordinary daily sounds heard in a typical Aussie suburban backyard.

the project’s creative brief

“The Whittlesea Sound Project is about discovering, or reconnecting to, the diverse sounds around us, as COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease, and we venture back into our communities throughout the City of Whittlesea and beyond.

Consider how being aware of the sounds around you effects your connection to place and ask yourself, “is there anything in my environment that could be changed to improve the quality of sounds and the way we are living?”

This project is supported by the Whittlesea Creative Community Fund.

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MY CREATIVE ADVENTURES IN AUDIO ART, POETRY, AND MUSIC COMPOSITION

Here I share my work and play. Please browse freely and enjoy.

Full of great plans to comprehensively chronicle all my original work, but the improvisational nature of a creative’s daily life, means that items will gradually appear when the time is right among the warp and weft of other tasks.

*Links to places that sell my scores and recordings can be found in My Music Shop.

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Rare Earth Cure*

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*36 words arranged on a single page so that reading the lines from left to right in the ordinary way presents the essential ideas driving the man-made moves on the planet’s ecology in the 20/21st centuries.

Reading the bold text vertically spells out three words which encapsulate the

changing existential relationship between human and planet.

The first two name the two geological eras that concretely inscribe evidence of man’s

existence within the Earth itself as human impact becomes more extreme. The terminal

letter of each line represents a dawning era of hope, through spelling out the collective

name for ‘rare earths’ in the periodic table of chemical elements. Curiously, far from

being scarce, these essential molecules are found in multiple combinations in many

locations on Earth; their rarity lies in the way they hide in and among each other.

Recently, individual elements have been re-badged as ‘bio-minerals’ since they were

‘discovered’ to be useful in curing human cancer. Given that cancer is caused by the

over-production of one single type of cell, my naming of a new era for our ‘rare Earth’

suggests we can use our growing knowledge with regard to the total ‘footprint’ of the

human race to judiciously remedy the outcome of past practices.

The theme for the debut Earthwords Anthology is Voices of Nature.

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BE BOLD SPEAK OUT, IWD 2017

This conceptual audio piece addresses women’s visual artistic contributions for International Women’s Day 2017, on the theme: Be Bold for Change.

Sue Bessell invited 21 local women artists to contribute to a group exhibition at Project Contemporary Artspace, Keira Street, Wollongong, Australia, on the theme of Be Bold for Change. As a an audio artist, I have sought to raise consciousness of the ephemeral intangible nature of sound, while seeking to encourage women artists everywhere to be conscious of using their artwork to voice their feminist awareness.

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My contribution to this exhibition lives entirely in the conceptual world. There is no particular audio for you to engage with here, except for the internal dialogue in your head about the place of art as political statement, and the boldness required of women as artists who make an explicit public addition to our culture.

The next step for you is to engage in conversation with, and encourage, women to speak out in their artwork about our gendered life experiences: to paint, sculpt, film, photograph, compose, record, and sketch their thoughts and responses, and then be bold enough to present their visual, musical, and actual voices in public places both in real life and virtual spaces such as this website.

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Flagged for Conversation

Frances Burnham (artist) and I (Ceridwen Suiter – composer) have been in constructive conversation since 2008 on contemporary social and economic topics.  We have formalised this into an ongoing collaborative arts-based project both in the physical and the virtual worlds,  to extend the conversation between citizens, arts workers, and business, regarding culture and art practice, economics and social values.

IWD 2016 invite thumbnailFor International Women’s Day 2016, our goal is to stimulate conversation about current Feminist issues as part of our ongoing project.  Our installation “Flagged for Conversation” aims to stimulate conversation on 21st century issues facing women.

The conversation will begin with a performance at the exhibition opening on March 4, 2016.

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Putting vision into practice, visitors to the gallery are invited to write a response: a catch phrase, a word, or to draw an icon or visual symbol on prepared and embellished green, white and purple flags, which will then become part of the installation.

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Visitors are welcome to participate in our online conversation by logging into our website forum: ‘ethec’ (extending the conversation) and express their thoughts.  Please note all comments will be moderated and responded to appropriately.