UPDATE: WE WON! Thanks so much to the judges, audiences and all those wonderful people who made the project happen!

We have been nominated for a Melbourne Green Room Award! The nomination is for Outstanding Production - Creative Agency for Audiences under the Alternative & Hybrid Performance category. Our work is mentioned alongside some terrific artists and work we admire - congratulations to our fellow nominees Triage Live Art Collective, Team Mess, Elizabeth Dunn & co and Jason Mailing.

The nomination is for ALL of the collaborating artists who made The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge. Further congratulations to Andrew Bailey who was also nominated for his entire Years Work at Melbourne Theatre Company for Set And Costume Design in the Theatre - Companies category.

Our first recording mission to NORTHLAND Shopping Centre. 12/05/2011, 23:00.

Our process is responding to interconnection.

As the sun transmits light, a cameras sensors receives light and transforms the light into an image. We too in our process receive and transmit with each other, spaces, live sounds, recordings and in editing suite. 

Originally we, sound designer Adam Hunt(AH) and saxophonist Max Milne(MM), travelled to Northlands to record MM responding to the man made landscape with AH recording and reacting to the space with all its man made mass. Cement that cuddles you on top and all around.  

That evolved to include two saxophonists, MM and Claudio Tocco, and two sound recordists, AH and Ryan Granger, interplaying with their instruments, microphones and mass cement of Northlands.  That made way to a open expanse of green roving hills and Darebin creek running parallel to the building.

We brought people to react to each other. To find an interest in a space that can remain un-noticed. Lifting the dripping dregs of Northalands shopping centre to ooze and slip down a silken audio spatialisation pedestal.  All through trasmiting and receiving. 

Transmit

c.1400, from L. transmittere "send across, transfer, pass on," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + mittere "to send" (see mission). Related: Transmitted; transmitting.

Receive

Photos from the 2012 Next Wave season along and across the Yarra River at Southbank, Melbourne.

Kittycoldwater has set sail thanks to the patrons Ned and Majda down at Twenty & Six. 

Dear my lovely niece,

How is it that you inspire me one moment by hugging me and saying you love me. Then the next moment I'd filled with dread as "no, leave me alone. I'm not talking to you." flows from your lips. Well ah lass those are the truths of arriving home in Wangaratta for a stop over on route to Melbourne. 

Family. Either of blood or spirit bring joy and wall breaking dread moment to moment. 

Much love,

Your uncle.

Dear Brother from another Mother,  I miss you. But really we are having enough fun here without you. The Boat is happy and boy now we are dancing. Life on the long road is fun.

Over and out.

Max 

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