Updates
For the 2007 Festival Program, Sounds Unusual has aimed to live up to its name as a "Northern Territory Festival for New Music", moving now to both ends of the Territory. Forging a new partnership with the Alice Springs Desert Festival, Sounds Unusual is now presenting a program of events in September in Alice Springs as well as in Darwin later in the month. This year SU07 presents a compact and accessible program that will begin on Saturday 8th September with a concert in the desert outside of Alice Springs. Sounds Unusual will then present a series of events in conjunction with the Desert Festival and Watch this Space Artist Run Initiative before travelling up the Stuart Highway to Darwin for the conclusion of its program.
International, interstate and local artists from a variety of multidisciplinary arts backgrounds once again present diverse events in new and exciting locations, from Undoolya Creek in Alice Springs to Fannie Bay Gaol in Darwin and beyond. Taking in the space of the desert through field trips, soundwalks and installations through to the final presentation in tropical capital.
Be challenged, be amazed - have your ideas of music and sound turned on their head. Even if you don't understand it, you'll like it.
And! Help support the festival - track down a copy of the limited edition CDR for just $10! With 13 tracks (over 70mins of music) featuring previously unreleased tracks by Robin Fox and album tracks by Jason Kahn, Blastcorp, Sumugan Sivanesan and Robert Curgenven with all proceeds going towards festival production costs and artists fees.
You can find these hand-numbered CDRs in Darwin from:
Darwin Visual Arts Association (Frogs Hollow Centre for the Arts, 56 Woods Street),
Jackson's Drawing Supplies (Parap Shopping Village),
24HR Art - NT Centre for Contemporary Art (Vimy Lane, Parap Shopping Village),
Greenie's Organics (Rapid Creek Shopping Village, Trower Road),
Relish Café (Cavenagh Street)
or in Alice Springs from:
Watch this Space (Gregory Crescent),
Jackson's Drawing Supplies (Cumming Plaza, off Todd St Mall),
Arid Lands Environment Centre (upstairs, Cumming Plaza),
Afghan Traders (Leichhardt Terrace)
Help support the festival and hear what some of the artists are doing. A compilation of slow, warm beauty - drones, tones, field recordings and sound art - and the odd sonic surprise too...