Abstract

     The movement of air is a powerful sound generator. Its presence has been perceived and encoded for over 40,000 years in Australia. It is present in natural and humanly organised environments. This paper traces various wind paths, from natural casuarinas to telegraph wires. Artists such as Peggy West- Moreland, Joan Brassil, Alan Lamb, Jon Rose, Chris Cree Brown, Jodi Rose, the present author and many others have devised their own aeolian works that interpret, tame, or represent the wind for acoustic purposes. Their attitudes to windpowered sound installation are compared and contrasted against a variety of installation genres, found, permanent, semi-permanent, and ephemeral.

Biography

     Ros Bandt is an internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, performer and sound sculptor. Since 1977 she has pioneered interactive sound installations, sound sculptures, created sound playgrounds, spatial music systems and some 45 sound installations worldwide. She was the first women to be awarded the Don Banks composers award , the Sound Art Australia prize and was the inaugural Benjamin Cohen Peace Fellow USA. Her original works and writings on sound are well known through her many publications by Fine Arts Press, O.U.P, New Albion, Wergo, EMI and Move Records.She has been the recipient of three ARC research grants and she is currently director of the Australian Sound Design Project, the University of Melbourne.