Peter Blamey is a Sydney-based artist who has been doing performances and making works for quite a while now, and looks like continuing to do so for the foreseeable future. His practice largely revolves around notions of what might be called ‘open electronics’, and explores connectivity, ecology, feedback and re-use, and electricity in general. Much of Peter’s current work uses recovered electronic components (such as discarded computer mother boards and old copper wire) that are re-deployed in simple open, short, and long-circuit formations to produce sounds, and used as readymade materials for installation works.
He has a background in experimental music, and has been fortunate enough to have performed at experimental music and electronic arts festivals around Australia, including What is Music?, Liquid Architecture, Electrofringe, and The NOWnow festival, along with innumerable gigs, and has collaborated and performed with a range of local and international artists, including Jim Denley, Adam Süssmann, Emily Morandini, Oren Ambarchi, Joel Stern, Clare Cooper, Anthony Guerra, Werner Dafeldecker, Toshimaru Nakamura, Rosalind Hall, Philip Samartzis, Amanda Stewart, Dale Gorfinkel, Kusum Normoyle (in the duo Hard Hat), Brendan Walls, Sean Baxter, Laura Altman and Matthew Earle.
Peter also researches and writes about sound, both in the arts and in general. He was once a director of Pelt gallery in Sydney, still plays drums in Your Intestines, and that’s about it.
Recent performances and exhibitions:
2012
Dorkbot Sydney group show, Serial Space, Chippendale.
NOWnow group show, Hardware Gallery, Enmore.
2011
What is Music? festival, Cockatoo Island.
filet électronique/island, ICAN, Camperdown (w/Emily Morandini).
Serial Space residency (w/Emily Morandini).
High Reflections, The Red Rattler, Marrickville (w/Sean Baxter & Kusum).
NOWnow festival, The Red Rattler, Marrickville.
2010
Sound Series #8, Hardware Gallery, Enmore.
Superdeluxe@Artspace, as half of Hard Hat (duo w/Kusum Normoyle).
2009
Infinite Music Machine residency, (w/Alan Lamb, Dale Gorfinkel, Rosalind Hall), West Space, Melbourne.
Saturated electronics in situ solo ‘one-off’ sound installation, Serial Space, Chippendale.
Releases:
Salted Felt CD, Impermanent Recordings No. 2, 2002.
Warm Water 8cm CDr, Clear Liquid No. 1, 2005.
Jim Denley & Peter Blamey, Findings CD, Splitrec No.14, 2006.
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