Ashley Scott is a Sydney-based artist, musician & technician.
I am most interested in art and technology that promotes reflective or critical thinking in its audience. The visual work I have produced lately is an attempt to isolate or comment upon modes of communication in cultural and technological spheres.
My work as musician and sound artist develops an expanded world of concrete music and sampling as performance practice or soundtrack/sound design. I am constantly in the process of merging improvisation practice drawn from live mixing and jazz musicianship in order to shake up the fixed order of events and draw more of the 'instrument' out of the electronic devices I use.
The software I create serves many purposes within the creative and distribution of works in the areas of creating visual images or animation frames, processes that control video and audio files and the presentation of net art works.
2010
Sending the Message: Julie Vulcan & Ashley Scott. Durational performance at Customs House, Sydney. I developed and operated software to translate audience-provided messages into audible morse code. This was the basis for a performance celebrating the work of Florence Violet McKenzie
catfingers performance at Difficult Music Festival, Sedition Gallery, Darlinghurst Sydney.
2009
Bundanon Trust Residency, Shoalhaven as an associate artist (musician) for an Unreasonable Adults work in development
Somedays Gallery, Darlinghurst: "Everyday @ Somedays" Photomedia works
catfingers performances at venues in Sydney
research & development for an online self-generating image gallery - an entry for the "Subtle Technologies" conference, Toronto, Canada. Some documentation of the process is available at: http://landurchin.blogspot.com
2008
Hothouse Theatre residency, Albury as an associate artist (sound designer) for Julie Vulcan work in development
Chrissie Cottier Gallery, Camperdown: "Sound of Failure 2008" group show. Video projection wait
catfingers performances at The Factory, Marrickville: "Sound of Failure 2008" and "now now" programmes at Serial Space, Chippendale
Art Gallery of NSW, "Biennale of Sydney": development & installation of a short-range FM radio reciever/transmitter system for Michael Rakowitz(US) white man got no dreaming
2007
Don't Look Gallery, Dulwich Hill: "Sound of Failure 2007" group show. Video projection: Extruded Snow
Research & development for image processing software in Perl and Java. Some examples are at: http://catfingers.blogspot.com/search/label/visual
2006
Development of soundfile utilities for use with audio software such as Max/MSP.
2002
University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences: employment as a programmer as part of a team developing real-time audio analysis and display software. This project has since been spun-off into a commercial product called "Sing and See": http://www.cantovation.com
2001
Development of software FSM - providing composition tools for the csound audio lanuage. This work was supported by Apple Computers through an Apple University Consortium Seeding grant.
1998
Ensemble Offspring, Sydney: Composition of a string trio River Rouge
1996
Frog Peak Music, US, compilation CD "Frog Peak Collaborations": Electonic music consciousnessed
1997
ABC Radio, "The Listening Room": Electronic music and composition, on texts by Henri Michaux, performed by The Song Company where to lay the head
WATT performing group, Sydney: Electronic music souvenir
1995
Artspace, Woolloomooloo: "Sounds in Space": Composition for saxophone and electronics a journey that keeps at a distance
1992
ABC Radio, "The Listening Room": Electronic music including voice on texts by Virginia Woolf: Signs
1991
Art Gallery of NSW, "Perspecta 1991": 8-channel audio installation Manoeuvres
The Performance Space, Sydney: "Soundculture 1991" presentation of Thesis research within the conference forum programme
Pre 1990
video, photomedia and audio works installed and performed in numerous sites such as: The Performance Space gallery, Sylvester Studio and Tin Sheds gallery in solo and group show contexts