JULIAN DAY

Julian Day is an art ist, composer and writer/broadcaster from Austral ia. His work fuses his backgrounds in composit ion and visual art, encompassing instal lat ion, performance and recording. He seeks to understand proximity and terr itory: the distance between subjects, attempts to synchronise and the dissonance of interpersonal boundaries. He typical ly uses homogeneous sound to capture and frame human and atmospheric turbulence within such environments as gal ler ies, parklands and homes. He also works with ‘cracked media’, exploit ing and mistreating vintage playback devices. Day has presented work at Whitechapel Gallery, MASS MoCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Institute of Modern Art, Le Poisson Rouge, Café Oto and Sydney Opera House. He has won the ARTAND Austral ia Contemporary Art Award, London Sinfonietta’s RSVP (highly commended), an Austral ia Council Creative Austral ia Fel lowship and Brit ish Council ’s Realize Your Dream. As a composer he has worked with Third Angle, Transit, Lisa Moore, Decibel, Synergy Percussion and Austral ian Str ing Quartet and featured in such festivals as MATA, Liquid Architecture, Spitalf ields Music and VIVID. Day has produced many programs on contemporary sound on BBC and ABC radio, interviewing Vito Acconci, Janet Cardiff, Bi l l Fontana, David Toop, Steve Reich, John Cale and Laurie Anderson, and given talks at Harvard University, Goldsmiths and City University London. He has undertaken studies and masterclasses with Alvin Lucier, Caleb Kelly, Louis Andriessen, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Jul ia Wolfe and Martin Bresnick. Day directs two ongoing sound projects. Super Crit ical Mass brings together temporary communit ies to undertake simple sonic tasks using dispersed homogeneous sound in public places. An Inf inity Room (AIR) overlays temporary 'rooms' of sound within exist ing spaces using geometrical ly posit ioned synthesizers, enl ivening the air with intersecting kinetic vibrations as a form of ‘turbulent geometry’. www.soundcloud.com/julian-day www.supercriticalmass.com www.aninfinityroom.com www.julianday.com