"phenomenal musicianship" (Sydney Morning Herald, 1995)

"sonic powerscapes" (Sydney Morning Herald, 1996)

"incredible interaction" (The Wire, 1996)

"cutting edge..eclectic..consummate" (British Broadcasting Corp. Radio3, 1997)

"ever challenging" (Sydney Morning Herald, 2000)  

"sparks of genius" (Artforce, 2000)

"continue to push the parameters of music and multimedia...probing the nature of performance art" (Sydney Morning Herald, October 2004)

In December 2003 Hazel Smith gave a paper about the work of austraLYSIS, “The Erotics of Gossip: fictocriticism, performativity, technology” at the conference, Incorporated: Bodies, Technologies, Habitats: Conference for the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Christchurch Arts Centre, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Roger Dean appeared solo and in group performance at the Canberra City Art Gallery, Civic, ACT, on the evening of Friday 14th November 2003, together with touring improvisers from Melbourne, and other Canberra musicians including Richard Johnson (winds), and Somaya Langley (lap top).

austraLYSIS received notification in early November 2003 that the Australia Council would continue its current Key Organisations grant through the Music Board. While the support remains only a modest proportion of that requested and needed, austraLYSIS remains very grateful for this ongoing support.

In 2003 our hypermedia work The Egg, The Cart, The Horse, The Chicken, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean was included as part of a multimedia showcase in FutureWord, Bumbershoot Festival, US.

In November 2003, Hazel Smith gave a poetry reading at The Loft poetry reading series at UTS, Sydney. This included a performance of her collaboration with Roger Dean, the writer, the performer, the program, the madwoman. She also gave a plenary address at the conference Negotiations: Writing, the Academy, Publishing. Conference of the Association of Australian Writing Programs, University of New South Wales. The paper was entitled “Cursors and Crystal Balls: digital technologies and the futures of writing”.

Geoffrey Morris has recorded Roger Dean's piece for solo guitar, Plaka, in his 'Sono' series of solo instrumental compositions, for release on a RedHouse CD, which includes this and all other works in their published anthology of Guitar scores. The score can be realised by solo performer, but the recording takes advantage of overdubbing to create the fullest realisation possible.

Hazel Smith gave a plenary paper at the conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs at the University of New South Wales in November 2003 in which she included a demonstration of soundAFFECTs and also a performance of 'The Writer, The Performer, The Program, The MadWoman', with pre-recorded real-time processing of the spoken text by Roger Dean and austraLYSIS.

Hazel Smith gave a performance at the University of Technology, Sydney, LOFT WRITERS' READINGS, Thursday 6th November 2003; she included a version of 'The Writer, The Performer, The Programer, The MadWoman', with pre-recorded real-time processing of the spoken text, by Roger Dean. The piece exists also as a live performance work with two computer interactive performers, as presented first at the Sydney Conservatorium austraLYSIS performance of 11 October 2003. Amanda Stewart was the companion perfomer in this LOFT event.

austraLYSIS appeared at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, presenting new multimedia performance work, on Saturday 11 October 2003. This event was in the New Music Network's first Sydney series, which includes performances by the Song Company, Ensemble Offspring, Synergy, and other member ensembles. Details are to be found here.

Roger Dean appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio National 'Music Show' in an extended interview on Saturday 11 October, 2003, c 10.15 am, discussing the event, computer interactive music, austraLYSIS' work, and previous interactions with Karlheinz Stockhausen: available on 576 AM, other local frequences. The interview was available online as RealAudio at the ABC RN Music Show.

Roger Dean presented a paper on our initiation of "NoiseSpeech", a subgenre of the massive digital 'noise' performance movement, at the 'International Music and Gesture' Conference at the University of East Anglia, UK, August 2003.

austraLYSIS work was referenced in Gordon Monro's article on 'Computer Music in New South Wales', Organised Sound, 6, 55-61 (2001); and its endeavours in 'digital instrument creation' in Andrew Brown's article on the subject in the Australian Computer Music Conference Proceedings, 2003. Andrew Brown has also written extensively on our 'Computer Interactive Sound Improvisation' (A-R Editions, USA, 2003, book and cdr), in Sounds Australian, 62 (2003), pp.55-56, indicating that it provides "insights into the importance of generative systems in improvised musical performances [which] are far reaching" and "brings together the threads that have informed this emerging practice and provides some clear pointers to its future".

Extensive documentation of two of austraLYSIS sound design projects for the web, lead by Roger Dean, appears on the Australian Sound Design project web site, curated by Ros Bandt and Ian Mott at the University of Melbourne.

austraLYSIS work is referenced on the Australian Music online site, www.amo.org.au.

BOOK/CD PUBLICATION 2003:

Roger Dean has published "Hyperimprovisation: Computer-Interactive Sound Improvisation", with A-R Editions, USA, the major computer music publisher. The volume has 203 pages, and includes a CD-R with 3 sound pieces, several web pieces, software and other items. Composers/creators represented on the cd-r include austraLYSIS and Dean, together with Curtis Bahn, Rod Berry, Paul Hodgson, Darani Lewers, Eric Lyon, Martin Ng, Per-Anders Nilsson, Hazel Smith, Greg White, and Mitchell Whitelaw. See www.areditions.com for ordering and for additional info.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2003

Our piece Musecal Detective, released on altx in their Network Voices anthology (www.altx.com./audio), was released in the Hipersonica Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil (August 7-23 2003): see www.file.org.br.

austraLYSIS' sound, text and animation piece "The Egg The Cart The Horse The Gate" has been published by the new refereed international journal of multimedia writing, infLect.

Smith, H. and R. T. Dean (2003). "Voicescapes and Sonic Structures in the Creation of Sound Technodrama." Performance Research 8(1): 112-123.

CD RELEASE 2002

austraLYSIS work is represented on the new cd from the New Music Network, Australia; "Network Sounds: New Music Network New Music from Australia 2002" includes austraLYSIS performing Roger Dean's 'Evolution II for instruments and computer-interactive system', live in Sydney, December 2000. NMN 001. See www.newmusicnetwork.com.au. A limited number of promotional copies are available from Dr.Metagroove@mindless.com, for the cost of the postage.

PUBLICATIONS 2002

Hazel Smith and Roger Dean have published an academic article on their work the Egg the Cart the Horse the Gate, and its broader creative and educational implications: Smith, H. and Dean, R. T. (2002). "The Egg The Cart The Horse The Chicken: Cyberwriting, Sound, Intermedia." Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer Enhanced Learning 4(1): http://imej.wfu.edu. This is freely available on the web.

Dean has also published on creative arts and new media in Southern Review, 35/3 (2002, pp10-22).

austraLYSIS' multimedia works "Walking the Faultlines", and "Wordstuffs" are documented on the new Australian Sound Design Project web site http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/site/index1.html.

CD RELEASES FROM 2001, but not to hand previously

'Arc of Light', for solo piano, by Ian Shanahan. Roger Dean plays piano. On Jade CD 1091 (2001)

' Lines of Light', for recorder, synthesizer, and percussion; and 'Zodiac', for recorder, wind controller, and keyboards/computer; by Ian Shanahan. On Jade CD 1091 (2001; recorded by austraLYSIS)

SOME OTHER RECENT ACTIVITIES OF austraLYSIS and its MEMBERS

"Prosethetic Memories", an austraLYSIS work by Anne Brewster, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean, involving 2 screen projection and complex audio, was performed by Dean at the 5th Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Melbourne, Tuesday May 20th 2003, at the Bougie Cafe.

Kimmo Vennonen's 'Waterwheel', the sonic journey of a drop of water, was installed at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Belconnen, Canberra, May 2003, as part of the ACT Government's 24:7, Public Art Program. The work was launched by Roger Dean, on Friday 16 May 2003.

The launch for the combined exhbition of touring work of Darani Lewers, Helge Larsen and the retrospective of Margo Lewers at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, was on Wednesday 1st May, 2003. A multimedia collaboration done within the austraLYSIS aegis, between Darani and Roger Dean, was performed by Dean : 'The Centre Series' is an interactive image and sound work.

austraLYSIS together with the University of Canberra presented a cutting edge sound event, free but by invitation only, in Canberra on April 16 2003, at the University. The event was in part to welcome Simone de Haan, trombonist, composer-improviser, educationalist (the new head of Canberra School of Music) to Canberra. Other performers were Mitchell Whitelaw, Alistair Riddell, Roger Dean and Greg White (Sydney). Various formations appeared, inlcuding new projects from Whitelaw and Riddell, and the perturbed drum and bass of Dr Metagroove. Information about Dean and White is to be found on this austraLYSIS web site; other information is here.

The austraLYSIS Electroband appeared in the Sonic Alchemy series at the Brett Whitely Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney, on the afternoon of Sunday 2 February 2003.

austraLYSIS appeared at the Powerhouse, Brisbane, on the evenings of 18 and 19 October 2002. It presented a multimedia performance event, including computer interactive improvisation by the austraLYSIS Elecroband, and works involving text and image, real time and performed. The artists were Roger Dean, Sandy Evans, Hazel Smith and Greg White. Dean's acousmatic piece 'PianoStones' was premiered, and there were new versions of Evolution 4, an interactive electroacoustic work; and Virtual Movements, a two screen interactive image and sound piece.

Roger Dean performed 'The Centre Series', an interactive image and sound work done in collaboration with Darani Lewers, at the opening of Lewers/Larsen's major exhibition at Manly Art Gallery, Friday October 11, 2002, 18.00 onwards.

Hazel Smith performed her texts on September 7th 2002 at the Australian Poetry festival in Sydney, and on October 5th at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival in Launceston. On October 6th she appeared at the ACT Spring Poetry Festival in Canberra (accompanied by Roger Dean (sound)).

Aaron McMillan presented 'Arc of Life', a recital of Australian piano works to launch his new cd of the same name, created as a cultural contribution from Australia to the new Library of Alexandria, Egypt. This recital was in the '88 Colours of the Keyboard' festival at Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith (20 4721 8832) on Saturday September 14th, 20.00. The concert and cd included the premiere performance and recording of Roger Dean's '3 Bagatelles : for Left and Right'.

Roger Dean and Hazel Smith were featured guests, together with Richard Johnson, on Artsound FM, Canberra, on the final Fretless programme, on the evening of 15 August 2002, introduced/programmed by Andrew Torda and Barbara Schwarz. Andrew and Barbara moved to Hamburg, Germany, in late September.

Hazel Smith and Roger Dean performed their text, image and sound works at the Arts Cafe Lunch Event series, Gallery Cafe, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT 2617, Australia, on Wednesday 28 August 2002, from 12.30-14.00. Included the first performance of a new sound and text work by Smith and Dean, 'Minimal'.

Hazel Smith was featured guest on Artsound FM, Canberra, on the Fretless programme, on the evening of 15 August 2002, introduced/programmed by Andrew Torda and Barbara Schwarz.

Roger Dean was invited to appear with the international Cathedral Band, and its founder, American William Duckworth, in the MiniMax festival at Brisbane Powerhouse, on the evening of 3 August 2002.

austraLYSIS initiated a Canberra segment of the annual adventurous 'What is Music?' festival, based in Sydney and created by Oren Ambarchi and Rob Avenaim.The event was on 10 July 2002, at the University of Canberra (UC). It was supported by UC and austraLYSIS Productions Inc. Performers were Rob Avenaim, Roger Dean, Richard Johnson, and Kimmo Vennonen (solos, ensembles, toys, installations). Cutting edge. Details and free invitations (subject to space) were available from dr.metagroove@mindless.com.

Hazel Smith appeared at the Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney, in a Poets' Union Reading, Sunday 28 April 2002. To quote the Union's press release: "Hazel Smith -- intelligent, powerful, innovative and exciting -- a real original. Don't miss her."

austraLYSIS Electroband performed at the Weereewa Festival (of Lake George, near Canberra, ACT, Australia) on the evening on Sudnay 7 April 2002. The event was at the WoodWork Gallery in Bungendore. New immersive work from Roger Dean (keyboards, computers); Sandy Evans (saxophones; computers); and Greg White (sound projection, computers, sound sources).

Hazel Smith presented her poetry, prose and performance work t the 2002 Autumn Writing Festival of the NSW Writers' Centre, Sydney, on Sunday 10 March 2002.

SELECTED austraLYSIS ACTIVITIES: 2001

austraLYSIS' work was chosen for inclusion on 'Homo Sonorus', a cd-set of International Sound Poetry, published by the National Center for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad Branch, Russia (2001). This comes with a substantial book of essays and biographies, including Hazel Smith.

December 17th 2001 : The Listening Room of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC FM broadcast a large segment of Dean's "Meme-ing Ex Cathedra" ( see information for Dec 2 2001, below). This was part of a two week anniversary celebration of the Marconi's contributions to radio.

austraLYSIS at Performance Space, 199 Cleveland Street, Sydney, Australia. SoundVision Events #6December 14th/15th 2001, at 20.00 (2 separate events). New computer-interactive sound and hypermedia performance works by austraLYSIS and its collaborators, involving real-time computer-interactive generation and manipulation of sound, image, text and video. Premieres included Meme-ing 2 by Roger Dean, in which sonic ideas behave somewhat like Lamarckian genes; real time image generation from musical algorithms, in a piece entitled Virtual Movements; and ProseThetic Memories, a work of text, VRML and sound by Anne Brewster, Hazel Smith and austraLYSIS. On Friday evening, austraLYSIS collaborated with special guest performer, Phil Slater (trumpet/computers); on Saturday it focused on its own work, including the premieres mentioned. "ever challenging … the pick of the avant-garde groups" (SMH). Performers/creators included: austraLYSIS, Anne Brewster, Roger Dean, Sandy Evans, Neil Simpson, Phil Slater, Hazel Smith, the austraLYSIS Electroband, Greg White. GST-free performances!

December 5, 2001 'Sounding Science', an electroacoustic piece of Roger Dean was presented in a 24 hour event, 'The Sound Thing" at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain, organised by En Red O 2001. Play the piece on this web site:

A new technodrama "The Erotics of Gossip" commissioned from Hazel Smith and Roger Dean by the ABC for the Listening Room. Recorded March 2001.

OTHER austraLYSIS ACTIVITIES 1999 ONWARDS