Noisy Rubbish

Constellations presented Noisy Rubbish in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) on 27 April 2022 at Loop Performance Space. Noisy Rubbish was a sound installation and live performance event that interrogated how we conceive of and label ‘noise’ within city life, starting with a residency at Testing Grounds in Southbank in 2021. Camilla Hannan, Miyuki Jokiranta, Zoe Scoglio, Marco Cher-Gibard and Michelle Macklem examined workings of noise in our inner and outer worlds.

Who and what determines or designates ‘noise’? What averts or repulses us from ‘unwanted’ sounds, textures and objects? How do we disassociate or reconcile noise within our cities; can it be adjusted, seasoned to taste?

This project was supported by the City of Melbourne.

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Miyuki Jokiranta, This is how we find ourselves

presented at Testing Grounds, Southbank

This is how we find ourselves uses the aesthetics of a fragment to contemplate displacement not only in place but in time. The site of Testing Grounds has been overwritten several times throughout history. Its groundlessness leaves Jokiranta confused – everything feels proximate or distant, is she feeling loss or ignorance.

Jokiranta used a reel-to-reel tape player, where erasure is as central as recording.

To ask what is it to put more displacement into place, as it is written over again?

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Marco Cher-Gibard, Research into enthusiastic sax practice

Naarm, and presented at Loop Project Space

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Zoe Scoglio, Back-ground listening scores

Testing Grounds and presented at Loop Project Space

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Camilla Hannan, Moments in space lying beneath the layers of noise

presented at Loop Project Space

A moment in space that fizzles and pops lying beneath the surface of noise.

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Michelle Macklem, Noisy Rubbish Sample Pack

presented at Loop Project Space

A collection of lip smacking, p popping, bubbles and breaths, all discarded fragments from her dialogue editing work modified and modulated into 64 playable pads. Press the buttons to begin!