Artists Statement

Performance

“Mutual Interactions” (1992) for two voices and two samplers with Lightning MIDI controller. Collaboration with Amanda Stewart. Emergency solo version performed by W. Burt, electronics and voices at Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney, Nov. 13, ’92 (10 mins)

We collaborate because it’s fun. It’s fun to explore the voice. It’s fun to be in a situation of feedback between people, their voices, and machines. It’s fun to be in an artistic situation where you don’t know what’s coming next. It may also be politically useful, socially responsible, and helpful to develop both our own consciousnesses and abilities and those of friends.

• Amanda Stewart (born 1959) is a contemporary Australian poet and sound/performance artist. Amanda Stewart began writing and performing poetry in the 1970s and has since produced a wide array of sound, video and multimedia work. In the 1980s she worked for ABC radio as a producer. Amanda Stewart received the Åke Blomström Award in 1988. In 1989 she co-founded the performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense with Chris Mann, Rik Rue, Jim Denley and Stevie Wishart.
• Warren Burt, Australia, is a composer, performer, video artist, sound poet, writer, instrument maker (both in hardware and software, electronic and acoustic) and a few other things. http://www.warrenburt.com