Audiosketch is a Chamber Made podcast created and produced by Roslyn Oades. Roslyn created a series of art dates with artists about their practice, with conversations particularly referencing how they have been listening at this moment in time.
Credits
To discover more about Aviva Endean’s body of interactive sound works, including Vibrato Virtual, A Face Like Yours and Stranger visit her website here.
Aviva Endean’s critically-acclaimed debut solo album, cinder : ember : ashes (SOFA Music, 2018), is available on Bandcamp here.
The ‘audio sketch’ Aviva shared with us, was recorded at Kata Tjuta Valley of the Wind (NT) on Anangu land, with Justin Marshall playing rocks.
The sound-based art crush Aviva nominated was Aarti Jadu. You can find her album L'Ecole De La Caz on Bandcamp here.
Our Audiosketch podcast title music is by Fia Fiell. All in the Same Room, is from Fia Fiell’s 2018 album of the same name, which you can find on Bandcamp here.
Additional sound design by Roslyn Oades, using the following sample courtesy of Freesound.org: Wind_blowing_gusting by Astounded Sound(Christopher J Astbury), licensed under the Creative Commons 0 Licence.
Transcript
{Signature title music by Fia Fiell}
Welcome to Audiosketch, a Chamber Made podcast dedicated to innovative artists working across performance, sound and music. I’m Roslyn Oades and today I’m joining you from the lands of Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, also known as, the City of the Melbourne. This episode’s art date is with composer, musician and performance-maker Aviva Endean. Having originally trained as a clarinet player, Aviva’s interest in embodied sound, intimacy and interactive compositions has led her down some very interesting creative pathways, which I’m very curious to hear more about…
Roslyn Oades Hi, Aviva.
Aviva Endean Hi. Thanks for inviting me.
Roslyn Oades It’s so nice to be chatting with you. As per Audiosketch tradition, I’d like to start by asking, if you were a sound right now, what sound would you be?
Aviva Endean I love this question. It’s so fun and playful. I feel like the sound I would be right now is, kind of the sound of the wind when you’re in a really intensely windy place, and it’s just like blowing at your face. And you can kind of play with it, by moving your head from side to side. Yeah, there’s something kind of intense about it. But with this playful quality.
{AUDIO: recording of strong wind blowing}
Roslyn Oades Why that sound today?
Aviva Endean It just feels intense at the moment. It just feels so full on. There’s everything happening after we’ve been in lockdown, and I’m just not used to this pace I suppose. But I guess there’s something kind of enjoyable about that as well. You know, that feeling like when you’re like on the beach, and you’re getting blown through? It reminds me of my dog. When we were kids, he used to like, always stick his head out the window when we’re driving down the highway. He’s was a cocker spaniel and his ears would like press back against his face. And, you’re kind of like, Oh, that looks weirdly enjoyable.
Roslyn Oades Yeah, it looks exhilarating. And a very appropriate choice of sound for someone with a background playing clarinet.
Aviva Endean I have actually been doing a little bit of experiments with cars and wind with Bec Jensen. So maybe I’ve been thinking more about these kinds of high-velocity winds sounds too.
Roslyn Oades My first experience of your work was in the middle of lockdown, where I had the unexpected pleasure of participating in your online interactive piece called Vibrato Virtual. And at the time, I remember feeling totally exhausted by all the Zoom events, as we all were, and so I was totally surprised by how delightful and communal that experience was. Can you describe that work for listeners who haven’t had that experience?
Aviva Endean Yeah, so Vibrato Virtualis a sound work which invites the audience to become a temporary collective of sound makers. And the way that they’re doing...