Radio Insomnia

Radio Insomnia returns to Gadigal lands for a new edition, featuring new commissions by Australian artists and open mics, with a program of ambient sets live to air from the cavernous space of a downtown’s electrical substation.

We’ll explore the intricacies of night-time listening, we’ll be led by voices, dragged by time, and by King, with or without sleep. We may be diverted by inner voices, led by eerie textural sounds and open to deprogramming ourselves. 

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Bounce, nothing holds. Split. Kick. The night is wide. Bounce. 

Bounce with strength. Enter the night. Sustain. 

The pleasure of a night without rest. Resilience, but also energy. Bouncing back is recovery, not escape. Recharge for political fights, bounce back. 

Release from the normativity of sleep, and productivity. 

Share our night. To bounce back… is to build trust.

Program presented by Radio Insomnia in partnership with Liquid Architecture, supported by the City of Sydney, the French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation and Machine Hall, as part of M.PWR series.

Line up:

• CORIN: Corin Ileto is a Filipina-Australian electronic producer, composer, DJ and performer. New imaginary realms are produced by an assemblage of converging styles moving somewhere between trance, and baroque-laden ambience; with compositions that merge traditional forms with hyper-digital sounds. https://co-rin.com/

• Moss Hopkins: His radio works involve a spectral deconstruction of vocal apparatuses; audio recording equipment, transmission technologies, and text are put through cycles of receiving, decoding, distorting, erasure, and re-encoding. Morse code, short wave, EVP, and cut-up text experiments stirred with a nocturnal spoon. https://shorturl.at/OZoV2

• Peter Lenaerts: His sound practice unfolds in the margins of perception, composing with what is often overlooked, using the faint acoustics of room tones, residual noises, or by performing for sleepers during all-night concerts. Sounds quietly inhabits the ear, attentive to absence as much as presence. https://linktr.ee/peterlenaerts_radioinsomnia

• Boy Michael: Drag alter-ego of Sydney-based video editor Rae Brown. They have performed in various Sydney clubs and events over the last few years including The Bearded Tit, Birdcage and for the Opening Ceremony of Sydney World Pride. Their entertaining performances are a space in which the artist enjoys disrupting traditional narratives around gender and identity. https://www.instagram.com/boymichaellovesyou/

• Gail Priest: Her live exploratory music uses voice, micro sounds of objects, field recordings, and electronics as feeds into a system of transformation. Gail will sculpt shifting tides made from the sounds that haunt us, playing with acousmata, non-verbal auditory hallucinations such as hums, buzzes, ticks and zings, that leave us wondering if they are emanating from within, or from the night itself. https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/