The spear and the boat

Roger Dean, Australian sound-artist,has composed about 70 works for chamber groups, and more than 30 are commercially recorded. He has performed in 30 countries, as bassist and keyboardist. His music has been broadcast in 50 countries. Currently he focuses on computer composition, and computer-interacive improvisation with the austraLYSIS Electroband. "I am involved with sound creation for the web and for computer-based installations, as well as for performance. I have particularly focused on creating real-time sound transformations which are run as a result of a screenerís participation. Increasingly, I work with generative materials as well, though from my perspective this approach for the time being remains subject to serious restrictions across the web. These restrictions are especially pertinent for my work with multiple streams of both audio and image, and for coordinated algorithmic approaches to their real-time production or manipulation. In performance, I achieve generative processes partly by writing in the coordinated software platform MAX/MSP/NATO. I am determined to use sound as a co-equal with other media, or as the dominant partner, unlike the situation with most web or installation works, in which image, or occasionally text, predominate. My purposes include establishing mutual interrogation between sound, image and text, often collaboratively with Hazel Smith (writer), Greg White (sound design, programming), and with several visual artists. The work is produced in the context of the creative ensemble, austraLYSIS, of which I am the founder and artistic director. austraLYSIS acknowledges grant support from the Australia Council for the Arts".

CFR. n. Arch. 184.17