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Canberra International Music Festival: The Magnetic Quiet Zone
3 May @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am AEST

The Magnetic Quiet Zone (TMQZ) is an immersive, 35-minute (looped) audio-visual installation exploring the frozen sounds and stagnant silences, the strange atmospherics and dynamic forces operating at the margins of our planet. Drawing on the Antarctic research of sound artist Philip Samartzis, visual artist Martin Walch, and writer/composer Sean Williams, TMQZ uses field recordings, digital imaging and animation, and ambient music to render complex behaviours, vast spaces, material encounters and wild weather to express the uncanniness of the ice continent. The animated video comprising images captured at 150 second intervals over the 2017/18 austral summer provides a record of light and shadow, mutable weather, and the rhythm of human activity to distort the fabric of space and time.
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