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out of place and safe .​.​.

from Out of Place by Richard Johnson

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This soundscape / collage is part of a response to the Out of Place Exhibition that ran at the Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra from the 17 April – 13 June, 2021, and included the artists Hany Armanious, Boyle Family, Bonita Bub, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Fiona Connor, Thomas Demand, Dale Harding, Anna Kristensen, Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, and Jasper Jordan-Lang. I deliberately sort field recordings that highlighted industrial sounds in the landscape such as air-conditioning singing; metal yard grushers; welding workshop; gravel roads sounds; excerpts from the film Safe; hammering; grinding rocks; bells modified post etc. These juxtaposed sonic pieces highlight a sense of embodied listening when we allow ourselves to truely listen and also it is an attempt to reflect in sonic terms a glimpse of the depth of the visual exhibtion.

Oscar Capezio, the curator of the Exhibition, has this to say about the exhibiton "Reflecting on our increasingly precarious notions of place and belonging, this exhibition examines ways in which contemporary artworks embody, transpose and reconfigure a sense of locality in a globalised world."

This work as SO-SA03 is preceeded by a companion recording in the form of FILTERS, SO-SA02 which is a section of this work in solo mode by itself in the form of huge air filters "singing" as it were.

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from Out of Place, released August 14, 2021
Recordings by Richard Johnson using Mixpre 10ii with Sennhiser MKH 8020 and Neumann KM184 microphones
Photograph on cover by Richard Johnson of a welding curtain similar to the one in the exhibtion by Bonita Bub.

Out of Place, 17 April – 13 June, 2021, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra. Curated by Oscar Capezio.

I wish to thank Oscar Capezio, Tony Oates and Terence Maloon from the Drill Hall Gallery for the opportunity to produce this work.

I also wish to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, live and learn, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. May we continue to celebrate and commend the rich depth of knowledge from the oldest continuing cultures in the world.

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