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Artist
Robert Curgenven
12+ albums
ambientdronefield recordingsexperimentalaustralian
about
Robert Curgenven (1974) works 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, exploring slowly shifting layers in the fabric of fields of perception. Creating vast landscapes from carefully detailed recordings through to immersive resonances via deft manipulations of sound pressure - described by one audience member as “like a punch in the face while elsewhere flowers bloomed.“ Although born in Sydney from 1999 he lived in Australia's Northern Territory, where for much of the ensuing nine years he worked in small towns and remote locations in health, radio and the arts as well as auspicing and directing Sounds Unusual - NT Festival for New Music. Since the beginning of 2008 he has relocated to Europe, based in Berlin and Milan. Curgenven returned to performing live and improvised music in 2004 and has since played at events throughout Australia and Europe, including Transmediale (Berlin), Gallery for Contemporary Art (Leipzig), Headphone festival (Stralsund), C/O Pop (Koln), Alice Springs Desert Festival, Darwin Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Electrofringe Festival (Newcastle), Tura New Music Festival (Perth). He has toured Australia, Europe and Japan, including venues in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Brussels and Tokyo. He has performed with many Australian and international artists including Jason
