Curation & Publications
CURATION (selected)
Ear Drops: Sonic Boundaries
ABC Radio National, Creative Audio Unit, Soundproof program commission.
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts
Produced by Frequency Oz
4 November 2016 - current
Works selected for broadcast and ABC hosted online collection at http://ab.co/2h3Q7CB
Sound Fix: Your Weekly Dose of Transmitted Audible Art (2013)
Sound. Music. Word. (ABC Radio National)
A four part series produced by Frequency Oz for ABC Radio National
Curated by Colin Black
15 September – 6 October 2013
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundmusicword/sf1/4955832
The Transmuted Signal (2013)
Kunstradio (Ö1, Österreichische Rundfunk, Austrian public radio)
Supported by Frequency Oz and the Australia Council for the Arts
Curated by Colin Black
3 Feburary – 10 March 2013
http://kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/CURATED_BY/OZ/
A Touring Exhibition of Sonic Media Art and Radio Art (2011)
Exhibition theme: Other Spaces
Part of The New Adventures in Sound Art’s Deep Wireless Festival
Frequency Oz in partnership with NAISA radio (Toronto)
Curated by Colin Black
1 – 31 May 2011
An On Air Festival of Australian Radio Art (2010)
Frequency Oz in partnership with Resonance104.4fm (London) and ABC Radio (Australia)
Curated by Colin Black
5 September – 26 October 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Book chapters (selected)
“Considering the Sonic Aspects of the Media Environment as an Exhibition Space for Creative Sound-Based Works.” In Radio As Art: Concepts, Spaces, Practices, Schriftenreihe für Künstlerpublikationen 8, edited by Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Ursula Frohne, Maria Peters, Jee-Hae Kim, Franziska Rauh and Sarah Rothe. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag.
Journal Articles (selected)
“Contextualising Australian Radio Art,” The Radio Journal: international studies in audio &
broadcast media, Volume 18 No. 2, (Intellect, UK), pp. 271-289. ISSN 1476-4504.
“International Perspectives on the Historic Intersections of Electroacoustic Music and the Radio Medium,” Organised Sound, Volume 19 No. 2, 2014. ISSN 1355-7718.
“A Brief Review of Australian Radio Art,” Sounding Out!, 4 December 2014. ISSN 2333-0309.
“Radiokonst Enligt Svensk Modell,” translated into Swedish by Andreas Engström Nutida Musik, # 2, 2011. ISSN 1652-6082.
“An Overview of Spatialised Broadcasting Experiments With a Focus on Radio Art Practices,” Organised Sound, Volume 15 No. 3, 2010. ISSN 1355-7718.
“Radio Art: Broadcast or Outcast,” Music Forum. Journal of the Music Council of Australia, Vol. 15 No. 2, February - April 2009. ISSN 1327-9300.
Keynotes (selected)
“Frequency Oz: An Australian Radio Art Historical Background,” Radio Without Boundaries conference, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto, 2011.
Conference Papers (selected)
“Exploring A Disembodied Voice In Surround Sound Media Space,” The 2015 Annual Conference of the Australasian Computer Music Association, University of Technology, Sydney, 18 – 21 November 2015. ISSN 1448-7780
“Investigating Acoustic Environments and Culture Through Sonic Art,” Listening: A Symposium, University of Western Sydney, 7 August 2015.
“A Radio Art Context,” Radio Now: A Symposium, London College of Communication, 11 March 2015.
“Explorations In Radio and Creative Audio For Trans-media: Beyond A Vococentric Aesthetic,” 9th Annual European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) Conference on CREATIVE ENERGIES » CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 19 - 21 June 2014.
“The Media Environment as an Exhibition Space for Creative Sound Based Works,” Radio As Art: Concepts, Spaces, Practices: Radio Art Between Media Reality and Art Reception, International Symposium, Bremen, 5 – 7 June 2014.
“Exploring The Interface Between Acoustic Environments and Culture Through Arts Based Research,” Sound Diaries, Symposium 2013, 3 – 4 June 2013, Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University.
“Radio Art Sound-Composition: Exploring A Dualistic Binaural Sonic Interplay,” Sound Scripts: Proceedings of the 2009 Totally Huge New Music Conference, vol. 3 (2011), ISBN 978-0-909168-77-3.
“Elements of Radio Art’s Concepts, Practices and Imaginative Soundworlds,” Sounding Out 5 - An International Symposium on Sound in the Media. 8 – 10 September 2010, University of Bournemouth, UK.
“An overview of radio art, its concepts, theories and practices,” Open Fields forum 28 – 30 April 2010, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
“Radio Art: An Acoustic Media Art Form,” 4th Media Art Scoping Study Symposium, 4 July 2009, Melbourne. ISBN 978-0-9807186-0-7.
“Alien In The Landscape: Distillation and Filtration of Soundscapes,” Sounding Out 4 – An International Symposium on Sound in the Media, 4 - 6 September 2008, University of Sunderland, UK.
“The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG): A Mobile Acoustic Profiling Resonating Filter,” 4th International Mobile Music Workshop, Amsterdam 2007.
“Radio Art: The age of the ‘Bunker’ Artist, Digging in Deeper, Spreading Thinner …” Vital Signs Conference, 7 – 9 September 2005, Melbourne. EISBN 1921166118.
Publications in International Press (selected)
“An Overview of Australian Radiophonic and Radio Art Practices,” World New Music Magazine No. 20, 2010. International Society for Contemporary Music. ISSN 1019-7117.
Publications in National Australian Press (selected)
“In Search of Captain Cat of Llareggub: Musings On Sonic Fact, Fiction, Radio Art and the Search For the Un-findable,” Resonate Magazine, Australian Music Centre, 29 October 2014. http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/insight-in-search-of-captain-cat-of-llareggub
“Is Anyone Listening?” RealTime issue #84 April-May 2008, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/84/8967
“Oh Dear ABC,” Limelight, January 2004.
Presentations, Seminars, Workshops and Invited Talks (selected)
Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Guest lecture and workshops, 27 – 30 October 2016.
Harvestworks (New York), artist talk and performance of Dynamically Adjusting Sonic Difficulties http://www.harvestworks.org/june-27-talk-and-performance-by-new-yorks-festivals-awards-2015-sound-art-winner-by-dr-colin-black/ 27 June 2015.
Goldsmiths, University of London, visiting research fellow talk entitled “Exploring The Interface Between Acoustic Environments and Culture Through Arts Based Research” http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=8512 16 March 2015.
Field Studies organised by Musarc, The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University. Invited to present lecture about arts-based research and creative practice. London Metropolitan University, 1 April 2015.
“Findings, Prespectives and Practice: An Antipodean Inquiry into Radio Art,” Workshop: Radio Art in the Network of the (Media) System: Country-Specific Reflections in Europe in Contrast to the U.S. Weserburg, Studienzentrum Für Künstlerpublikationen, Bremen, 5 – 6 May 2014.
European Broadcasting Union, 38th International Feature Conference, London 2012, held at BBC Broadcasting House, 13 – 17 May 2012. Major radio art work Soundprints: Sealed In Sweden selected for inclusion and presentation.
Keynote address: “Frequency Oz: An Australian Radio Art Historical Background,” Radio Without Boundaries conference, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto, 2011.
“Sonic Media Art: A Proposal” presentation, Experimental Arts Conference, 2011, National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), Sydney.
Industry talk about Colin Black’s work and sound design for media at the 2010 Audio Mostly conference held in Piteå, Sweden.
Invited as a guest speaker for the Spatial Audio class at the University of Sydney. As part of Black's talk Black presented his 5.1 surround sound work and discussed his 5.1 techniques and radio art.
Expo Leeds Unconference (Leeds, UK), 2009 Expo Leeds, 25 September 2009. Presented artistic work Alien In The Landscape and discussed artistic technques.
Radiotesla im Ausland (Berlin), 2 October 2008. Discussed the history of radio art in Australia with a focus on the activities of the famous ABC Classic Listening Room programme and presented artistic work Alien In The Landscape.
Invited to discuss sound design for the radio students at Macquarie University, 8 May 2006.
Invited to present a workshop about Black's Prix Italia Award winning work The Ears Outside My Listening Room, radiophonic/acoustic arts and music composition at Victoria University of Wellington, 24th February 2005.
Interviews (selected)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Extra on Digital Radio (Classical Now), Midday broadcast, 25 November 2016 Interviewed and works selected for broadcast including: The Ear Outside My Listening Room, A London Mosaic, Just Another Day and Babel Free Radio
Cashmere Radio, Berlin, 31 May 2016, Interviewed by Matty Martinez for the Listening To Whales program
https://cashmereradio.com/episode/listen-whales-4-matty-martinez-colin-black/
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Radio National, Soundproof programme, 28 December 2014. Interviewed by Miyuki Jokiranta (duration > 20 minutes) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundproof/radio-yak3a-colin-black/5960842
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Classic FM, New Music Up Late programme, 27 August 2011. Interviewed by Julian Day (duration > 20 minutes). http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2011/08/27/3301462.htm
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Radio National, The Night Air Live programme, 14 January 2011. Interviewed by Brent Clough (duration > 20 minutes)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Classic FM, New Music Up Late programme, 24 May 2008. Interviewed by Julian Day (duration > 20 minutes)
VPRO (The Netherlands), Cafe Sonore programme, 2004.
Invited to talk about Black's work and radio art on London's Resonance 104.4FM, 15 October 2004. This was part of Resonance 104.4FM's Resonance Radio Art Riot, an international on-air conference, workshop, gallery and happening that placed radio art centre stage.
Interview on National Radio Company of Ukraine's, The First Channel about Prix Italia Award work The Ears Outside My Listening Room, 2004.
ABC Radio Interveiw with James O'Brein,
CREATIVE WORK
Major/Feature Length Works (Selected)
2016 Sliced and Diced (duration 51:40)
Kunstradio - Radiokunst commission
Selected for broadcast on:
· Live broadcast, Österreich 1 (Ö1) - ÖRF, Kunstradio – Radiokunst, 19 June 2016
· Re-broadcast, Österreich 1 (Ö1) - ÖRF, Kunstradio – Radiokunst, 7 August 2016
2016 The London Ear Drops (duration 25:00)
ABC Creative Audio Unit online album release at http://ab.co/2a2Wbbu
Selected for broadcast on:
· Resonance 104.4fm (London), 14 August 2016
Extracts selected for broadcast on:
· ABC Radio National, Soundproof, 15 July 2016
· ABC Radio National, Soundproof, 17 July 2016
2016 Sonic Reflections (duration 51:30)
Deutschlandradio Kultur commission
Selected for broadcast on:
· Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst, 6 May 2016
Awards:
· 2016 Prix Phonurgia Nova Award (France), Final Round Selection
Reviews
Jochen Meißner, “Was das Radio sein kann,” Hörspielkritik (19 June 2016), http://hoerspielkritik.de/was-das-radio-sein-kann/
2015 The Shifting Sands of Cymru (duration 25:00)
ABC Creative Audio Unit commission, co-produced with Yanna Black
Selected for broadcast on:
· ABC Radio National, Soundproof, 12 June 2015
· ABC Radio National, Soundproof, 14 June 2015
2015 Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (an intermedia performance art/installation work that used a range of motion capture sensors alongside artists acting as wetware to create a dynamic multi-modal data feedback loop between the movement of two dancers, a surround sound diffusion system and video projection).
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, University of Ljubljana and Sonorous Arts Centre CSU Vodnik Manor.
Performances/installations:
· CSU Vodnikova domačija (Ljubljana), 28 March 2015
2015 Out Of Thin Air : Radio Art Essay #1 (duration 25:00)
Supported by Radio Arts (UK) commission
Selected for broadcast on:
· RTÉ Lyric FM, Nova, 5 April 2015
· Resonance 104.4fm (London), 9 April 2015
· Radiophrenia 87.9fm (Glasgow), 14 April 2015
2014 In Search of Captain Cat of Llareggub (duration 25:00)
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts
Selected for broadcast on:
· RTÉ Lyric FM, Nova, 12 October 2014
· Resonance 104.4fm (London), 21 October 2014
· Soundart Radio 102.5fm (Totnes), 12 October 2014
· ABC Classic FM, New Music Up Late, 8 November 2014
· RTÉ Lyric FM, Nova, 9 November 2014
· Radio Campus Paris, Récréation Sonore, 30 November 2014
· WGXC (90.7-FM), Radio Theatre programme, Hudson, USA, 11 December 2014
· 106fm קול הקמפוס [Kol HaCampus], אמנות רדיו [Radio Art] programme, Tel Aviv, Israel, 28 December 2014
· Radio Campus Grenoble, part of the Week of Sound festival, 7 February 2015
· HRT Hrvatski Radio [Croatian Radio], Glazba i obratno, 2 October 2015
Selected for performance/presentation at:
· Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 25 January 2015
· Full of Noises, The Nan Tait Centre, Cumbria (UK), 31 July to 2 August 2015
Awards:
• 2015 Prix Phonurgia Nova Award (France), Final Round Selection
• 2015 New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards, Gold Trophy Winner, Sound Art category
2014 Soundprints: A Likeness of Ljubljana (duration 44:40)
Supported by The Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities (JSKD) and CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing (Ljubljana)
Selected for broadcast on:
· ARS3 (Solvenian public radio), 4 June 2014
Selected for performance at:
· MCO, Mladinski Center in Ormož, Slovenia, 11 June 2014
· Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Ljubljana, 10 June 2014
2013 Semblance (duration 47:31)
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Kunstradio (Austria)
Selected for broadcast on:
· ÖRF (Austrian public radio), Kunstradio, 10 March 2013
· Extract Only: ABC Radio National, Soundproof programme, 28 December 2014
Selected for performance at:
· Hangar in Barcelona (Spain) for Orquesta del Caos, 7 May 2013
2012 Out In The Open (duration 53:50)
ABC Radio National commission, co-produced with Yanna Black
Selected for broadcast on:
· ABC Radio National (Australia), The Night Air, 23 December 2012
Awards:
· Pre-selected for the 2013 Prix Marulic awards
2011 Soundprints: Sealed In Sweden (duration 51:00)
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts
Selected for broadcast on:
· Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR 3), Studio Akustische Kunst, 16 November 2012
· HRT, Croatian Radio 3, 5 June 2012
· ÖRF (Austrian public radio), Kunstradio, 27 May 2012
· RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal), Dois ao Quadrado, 12 December 2011
· YLE Radio 1 (National Finnish Radio), Ääniversumi, 31 October 2011
· ABC, ABC Classic FM (Australia), New Music Up Late, 27 August 2011
· Sveriges Radio (National Swedish Radio), Monitor, 24 and 25 August 2011
· Radio Clásica, Radio Nacional de España, Ars Sonora, 21 August 2011
· Resonance104.4fm (London), 8 July 2011
· Extract Only: 106fm קול הקמפוס [Kol HaCampus], אמנות רדיו [Radio Art] programme, Tel Aviv, Israel, 28 December 2014
Selected for performance at:
· Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 10 December 2011
Selected for installation at:
· Verge Gallery, Sydney, Sound Plaza launch, 24 November 2011
Conference selection:
· 38th International Feature Conference, London 2012 held at BBC Broadcasting House, 13-17 May 2012
Awards:
· 2011 Prix Phonurgia Nova Award (France), Final Round Selection
2010 Kilian’s Antipodean Dream (duration 52:00)
Deutschlandradio Kultur commission
Selected for broadcast on:
· Radio Campus, France, 26 January 2011
· Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst, 21 May 2010
Festival selection:
· 2010 Semaine De La Creation Sonore (Week of Sound Creation) festival, France
Selected for performance at:
· Phonos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in Barcelona (Spain), 14 May 2013
· Centralna Postaja, Maribor, Slovenia, 12 February 2014
Selected for inclusion on on-demand audio website:
· Radioartnet, radio art archive and network curated by José Iges
· Sonosphere.org, a collaboration between Deutschlandradio Kultur, Weimar Bauhaus University, Phonurgia Nova association and the Musée Réattu Arles
Awards:
· 2011 Prix Phonurgia Nova Award (France), Final Round Selection
2010 Ćišina (duration 53:30)
Selected for broadcast at RadiaLx 2010 International Festival of Radio Art Lisbon, Portugal
Awards:
· Pre-selected for the 2011 Prix Marulic
2008 Soundprints: The Prague Pressings (duration 20:00)
Czech Radio commission
Selected for broadcast on:
· Freies Radio für Stuttgart, Musica Nova, 14 October 2015
· Extract only: ÖRF (Austrian public radio), Kunstradio, 10 March 2013
· ÖRF (Austrian public radio), Kunstradio, 26 July 2009
· VPRO, Cafe Sonore, (The Netherlands), 19 July 2009
· RTR FM 92.1, Difficult Listening (Perth, Australia), 15 Feburary 2009
· Czech Radio, Radiocustica, 27 September 2008
· AV Festival, UK (radio broadcast), during Feburary 2008
2008 Longing, Love & Loss (duration 53:00)
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts
Selected for broadcast on:
· Extract only: ÖRF (Austrian public radio), Kunstradio, 26 July 2009
· Sverges Radio P2, Monitor (Sweden), 4 June 2008
· ABC, ABC Classic FM (Australia), New Music Up Late, 24 May 2008
2007 Alien in The Landscape (duration 42:00)
Deutschlandradio Kultur commission
Selected for broadcast on:
· Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst, 16 August 2013
· Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst, 28 May 2010
· Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst, 14 March 2008
Selected for inclusion on on-demand audio website:
· Sonosphere.org, a collaboration between Deutschlandradio Kultur, Weimar Bauhaus University, Phonurgia Nova association and the Musée Réattu Arles
Awards:
· Pre-selected for the 2008 Prix Marulic
2004 Soundprints: The Greek Imprints Series (duration 58:21)
ABC Radio National commission, co-produced with Yanna Black
Selected for broadcast on:
· ABC, ABC Classic FM, Late nights with Julian Day (11 - 15 April 2005)
2004 Greek Imprints: The Asklepia and the Conscious Dreamer (duration 41:00)
ABC Radio National commission, co-produced with Yanna Black
Selected for broadcast on:
· ABC, ABC Radio National (Australia), 28 March 2004
2002 The Ears Outside My Listening Room (duration 52:00)
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and ABC Radio (Australia)
Prix Italia Award, Best Music Radio – Composed Work 2003
Selected for broadcast on:
· NAISA Radio (Toronto), 20 May 2011
· Resonance104.4fm (London), 24 and 26 October 2010
· YLE Radio 1 (Finland), 1 October 2005
· Radio New Zealand, Sound Lounge, 27 February 2005
· Radio New Zealand, Sound Lounge, 12 October 2004
· Schweizer Radio DRS (Switzerland), 10 August 2004
· Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Ikke mer lydkunst, 1 August 2004
· Deutschlandradio Kultur, HörspielWerkstatt, 30 July 2004
· Radio New Zealand, RPM, 11 April 2004
· SBS Radio (Australia), Alchemy, 30 January 2004
· ABC Radio National (Australia), Special Australia Day broadcast, 26 January 2004
· VPRO, Cafe Sonore (The Netherlands), 14 January 2004
· Sverges Radio P2, Monitor (Sweden), 10 December 2003
· ABC Classic FM (Australia), The Listening Room, 15 December 2003
· ABC Classic FM (Australia), The Listening Room, 15 September 2002
Selected for inclusion on on-demand audio website:
· ABC Classic FM (Australia), Rewind: The Australian Music Collection, January 2013
· ABC Classic FM (Australia), classic/amp, May 2009
Awards:
· Winner of the 2003 Prix Italia Award, Best Music Radio – Composed Work
118, 120, 122 (part one) (duration 52:00)
Selected for presentation at:
· Brisbane Institute of Modern Art
· Live Wires Concert at the University of Sydney
Awards:
· National Digital Arts Award finalist,
· NCEIA Industry Award, Best Experimental Song
Installations (selected)
2016 Adrenaline, sound installation with visual artist David Istvan at Alkatraz Gallery (Ljubljana).
Exhibition open from 4 to 25 November. Supported by: City Council Ljubljana, Department for Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
2016 Untouchable Sound (sound art installation work), Sound Reasons Festival IV (India), 16 – 24 January 2016
2014 Slice & Dice, 5 channel sound installation with visual artist David Istvan at CSU Vodnikova domačija (Ljubljana)
2013 Double World by the tranSTURM collective, Building 20, Newington Armory site, Sydney Olympic Park
Sound artist/ composer
2013 Corfu Art Gallery, Art Room (Garden of the People).
2011 Sound Plaza launch at the Verge Gallery, Sydney.
2009 Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Open Day Alien In The Landscape: The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG)
2008 Australiasian Computer Music Association Conference 2008, University of Sydney, Alien In The Landscape: The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG)
2007 Lismore City Council, Butter Churn sound sculpture installation
2004 Northern Rivers Performing Arts Inc (NORPA) Floodscape installation in the Starcourt Theatre, as part of their production of The Flood with director Patrick Nolan
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