{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Encyclical - Music, Writing, Performances, & Projects by Dani Kirby","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au","description":"Encyclical - Music, Writing, Performances, & Projects by Dani Kirby","pubDate":"Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:32:49 +0000","generator":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au","language":"en","item":[{"title":"Information","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Information","pubDate":"Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:38:35 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Information","description":"\n\n\n\n\n\nDanielle Kirby\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor research and communications work, see daniellekirby.com.au \n\ndanielle.l.kirby@gmail.com\nKirbyWardMusic@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\n\nRecent Creative Projects(2017 - present)\n\nA fulsome aquifer swells imperfectly over the...\nThe forty-eighth volume of Exquisite Corpse music from the sound art collective Little Songs Of The Mutilated. Created between October 11th - 16th 2021, released November 3, 2021. Created\/composed by Kieran Ruffles, Sofie Loizou, Dan Mckinlay, Dani Kirby, Marcel Dorne, and Trevor Brown. Curated by Kieran Ruffles. Assembled\/mastered by Justin Ashworth.\nNocturne: Sonic Migrations. \nCurated work and performance, Constance ARI, 2021 Nocturne involves me as a vocalist, composer, and performer for a 1 hour experimental work with Sally-Ann McIntyre, Matt Warren, and Eliza Burke (curator), and is currently under development. The project will be performed live at Mawson\u2019s Pavillion, Feburary 2022.\n\nCrone, Exhibition by Sally Rees, MONA 2021\nI authored the companion essay to the exhibition, available in the Island Magazine #162. I also led pathfinding on Kunanyi with Sally Rees in the research and development stages of the work.\n\nUnTV, The Unconformity 2020\nFor UnTV, I composed and recorded expanded cinema work for the film \u2018A Trip to the Moon\u2019 piano and vocals, with Mat Ward (bass). Commissioned by Matt Warren.\n\n\u2018La morte mi trover\u00e0 vivo\u2019, A Sound Installation by Mat Ward. Curated by Sarah Jones. Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2020\nI authored a companion essay to Mat\u2019s exhibition \u201cInstrumental Logic and the Science of the Occult\u201d. I also performed (vocals) in the closing performance with Mat Ward and Dylan Banks (intonarumori).\n\nKirby\/Ward \nOngoing duo between myself (vocals and piano) and Mat Ward (bass). Extensive gallery performances, including MONA, MOFO, Dark MOFO, CAT, Visual Bulk, MAC, SAC, Percy Grainger Museum, and Small Black Box. Recordings include the 2019 album Joy as a Threat and Dissolute (2017).\n\nIntonarumori Trio\nExperimental trio led by Mat Ward with Dylan Banks and myself that explores the use of Russolo\u2019s Intonarumori as both musical instruments and as occult tools for communicating with the supernatural. The events are usually long format improvised pieces that treat the venue as a fourth instrument. Most recently, we\u2019ve ben focusing on an expanded cinema project soundtracking a series of Maya Deren short films, which was performed at the Rosny Barn on August 26th.\n\nThe Unforgetting of Mary K\nThe Unforgetting of Mary K was a project based around rescoring and adapting early unknown works of Mary Kiernan, a successful but now little-know Melbourne pianist from the mid 20th Century. Commissioned by Kieran Ruffles for Melbourne Music Week, I rescored and recorded works, which were distributed and adapted by a variety of musicians including myself and Mat Ward.\n\nEncyclical\nMy ongoing solo recording project initiated in the early 2000\u2019s exploring piano, vocals, in situ sound, and processing. A 2021 residency at Lisdillon Estate was undertaken for concept development for a new work. Three completed albums have been produced in this project to date. Studies in Attrition (2017) was originally composed for Radio 33, a micro broadcasting project by Tricky Walsh. It was also presented in installation for Hobiennale. The Mirrored City (2012) was predominantly an exploration of processed piano, and extracts have been performed at numerous venues. And her songs like bleeding...(2006) focused on more traditional song structures, and was recorded in collaboration with Lloyd Barrett.\n\nSisters Akousmatia Sound Camp\nIn 2017 I was one of seven female sound artists to participate in the Sound Camp residency, supported by funding from Arts Tasmania. Organised by Pip Stafford and Julia Drouhin, OI undertook the retreat with them alongside Camilla Hannan, Sally-Anne McIntyre, Sarah Mashman, and Georgia Lucy."},{"title":"Index","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Index","pubDate":"Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:38:35 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Index","description":"Music, \nWriting, \nPerformances, \nand Projects\n\n\n"},{"title":"Nav","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Nav","pubDate":"Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:38:35 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Nav","description":"encyclical showcases the solo and collaborative projects of Dani Kirby\n\n"},{"title":"Kirby\/Ward. Joy as a Threat","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Kirby-Ward-Joy-as-a-Threat","pubDate":"Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:08:40 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Kirby-Ward-Joy-as-a-Threat","description":"Kirby\/Ward: \nJoy as a Threat\nNo Mates Ensemble \u00b7 New Album title track - JOY AS A THREAT\nKirby\/Ward (duo) \nTitle track off our most recent album, Joy as a Threat, 2019. Buy the whole album on Bandcamp if you\u2019re keen https:\/\/kirby-ward.bandcamp.com\/album\/joy-as-a-threat\n\nCheck out more of Mat\u2019s work at www.matward.net\/Kirby\/Ward is the collaboration of Dani Kirby and Mat Ward. Dani Kirby (piano\/keyboards\/voice) and Mat Ward (bass) perform improvised multi-genre soundscapes that incorporate elements of post-classicism, noise-art, minimalism and polyrhythmic experimentation. Their practice includes site-specific response, expanded cinema, field recording manipulation and collaboration with percussion and custom-designed instrument ensembles. Kirby\/Ward have been performing regularly across Australia at festivals, museums and events since 2016.\n\n"},{"title":"Kirby\/Ward Album Launch Improv","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Kirby-Ward-Album-Launch-Improv","pubDate":"Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:39:47 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Kirby-Ward-Album-Launch-Improv","description":"Kirby\/Ward: Album Launch Improv\nAnother damn fine musical moment. Me on a ridiculously beautiful piano, Mat playing gloriously as always.\n No Mates Ensemble \u00b7 Kirby\/Ward - Album launch Improv"},{"title":"Discontinued Space: The Cinema of Maya Deren","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Discontinued-Space-The-Cinema-of-Maya-Deren","pubDate":"Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:19:23 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Discontinued-Space-The-Cinema-of-Maya-Deren","description":"Discontinued Space: The Cinema of Maya Deren\nAn Expanded Cinema Event\n\nLive at The Rosny Barn 26\/08\/21\n\nDani Kirby Piano\/Voice\nMat Ward Bass\/Intonarumori\/Percussion\nDylan Banks Intonarumori\n\nThe performance by Kirby, Ward and Banks showcases the 7 major short films Deren produced from 1943 to 1958. These are three of the seven soundtracks performned on the night.\n\n\nA Witch's Cradle (1943 Maya Deren) - Kirby\/Ward\/Banks LIVE 2021 from mat ward on Vimeo.\n\n\nAt Land (1944 Maya Deren) Kirby\/Ward\/Banks LIVE from mat ward on Vimeo.\n\n\nA Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946 Maya Deren) - Kirby\/Ward\/Banks LIVE from mat ward on Vimeo.\n\nMaya Deren (1917 - 1961) is considered one of true pioneers of experimental film yet unlike many of the film makers she influenced ( Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch) her work is rarely experienced outside of academic and film school environments. As part of Kirby and Ward\u2019s continuing investigation into the important (and often overlooked) role of women in the history of Contemporary Art Discontinued Space: The Cinema of Maya Deren will present several of Deren\u2019s short movies with original live scores written by Kirby, Ward and Banks.\nDeren employed a vast array of cinematic devices (looping, reversing, overlaying and time manipulation) to create vignettes that focused on graphic and kinetic form rather than straightforward narrative. Conceptually the work examines rhythm, isolation, social constructs, movement and ritual, all of which is underpinned by the notion of the inner world and its disconnection from the space of everyday life.\nIt is the conceptual framework of Deren\u2019s cinema that informs the scores produced for this project. Rather than compositions that \u2018soundtrack\u2019 the action and the visual imagery the music reflects and explores Deren\u2019s philosophical beliefs and her desire to immerse her audience in a world that is barely hinted at in everyday life yet sits just under the skin of reality."},{"title":"Opening Remarks: Sarah White's Patience","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Opening-Remarks-Sarah-White-s-Patience","pubDate":"Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:17:43 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Opening-Remarks-Sarah-White-s-Patience","description":"\n\tOpening Remarks: Sarah White's PatienceSarah White\u2019s exhibition Patience is a collection of experimental works on paper that recompose the motif of the natural history specimen into something intimate, enigmatic and a little bit mystical. I was honored to be able to open the exhibition with some brief discussion of the nature of sacred time and the interiority of patience. The full text of On Sacred Time is provided on her site. Further details and works from the exhibition are available at https:\/\/www.sarahwhiteart.com\/patience-2024\n\t\"Detail\n\n\n"},{"title":"Kirby\/Ward: Mill Lane ","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Kirby-Ward-Mill-Lane","pubDate":"Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:32:49 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Kirby-Ward-Mill-Lane","description":"Kirby\/Ward: Warehouse Drone #1 at Mill Lane\nLive performance at the Mill Lane warehouse, 2023\n\n\nWarehouse Drone #1 from mat ward on Vimeo.\n"},{"title":"Book. Fantasy and Belief","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Book-Fantasy-and-Belief","pubDate":"Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:55:16 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/Book-Fantasy-and-Belief","description":"Fantasy & Belief\n\tKirby, D. Fantasy and Belief: Exploring the relationship between fiction, media and alternative religion London & New York: Routledge, 2014 The book explores fiction-oriented beliefs, their situation within the western tradition, and how they work in digital worlds. It\u2019s prohibitively expensive, but it is a really good book. Pretty academic, though, just in case that wasn\u2019t clear.\n\t\"Book\nReligion and spirituality are being transformed in our late modern and secularising times. New forms of belief proliferate, often notable for not being limited to traditional systems of reference or expression. Increasingly, these new religions present worldviews which draw directly upon popular culture - or occulture - in fiction, film, art and the internet. Fantasy and Belief explores the context and implications of these types of beliefs through the example of the Otherkin community. The Otherkin are a loosely-affiliated group who believe themselves to be in some way more than just human, their non-humanity often rooted in the characters and narratives of popular fantasy and science fiction. Challenging much current sociological thinking about spirituality and consumption, Fantasy and Belief reveals how popular occulture operates to recycle, develop, and disseminate metaphysical ideas, and how the popular and the sacred are combining in new ways in today's world.\n\n"},{"title":"The Smiling Madame Beudet: MONA FOMA 2021","link":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/The-Smiling-Madame-Beudet-MONA-FOMA-2021","pubDate":"Sat, 01 May 2021 05:43:19 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/encyclical.com.au\/The-Smiling-Madame-Beudet-MONA-FOMA-2021","description":"Kirby\/Ward:The Smiling Madame BeudetMOFO 2021, Main Stage at the Museum of Old and New Art\n\nA small excerpt from a recent Expanded Cinema project by Dani Kirby ( Keyboards\/Voice) and Mat ward (Bass), presented Live at MONA FOMA festival 2021 in Hobart, Tasmania.Project Synopsis\/Media release....\n\nThe Smiling Madame BeudetGermain Dulac, 1923\n\nNo Mates Ensemble \u00b7 The Smiling Madame Beudet LIVE Dani Kirby\/Mat Ward"}]}}