OPENS AT LINDEN ON THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER AT 6PM

INSTRUMENT BUILDING will transform Linden with the sounds of contemporary musical instruments under construction, in rehearsal and in performance.

From 28 November to 14 December, Linden will present:

Work by instrument builders David Murphy, whose ten year retrospective includes his Spoonaphone created for this year's Queensland Biennial Festival of Music; Rosemary Joy and her miniature percussion instruments (her earlier ball gown instrument was performed at the Shanghai International Arts Festival); a traditional violin-making workshop in which Glen Nicholls will work throughout the exhibition; Geelong's Demir Aliu and his walk-through stringed instrument; and Bendigo's Dean Stanton performing on his analogue noiseboxes.

Four of Australia's most compelling and imaginiative percussionists, Graeme Leak, David Hewitt, Peter Humble and Vanessa Tomlinson, will rehearse in the galleries from 8-12 December, culminating in live demonstrations on
Sunday 14 December, 1-6pm

International guest, Marie-Hélène Elleboudt, curator of Musiclab, a program of Les Bains::Connective, a socio-artistic laboratory located in a former public swimming pool in Brussels, Belgium.

The project begins with the CD launch of Aphids/Kokon's Maps The Soundtrack on Thursday 27th November 6-9pm. Maps The Soundtrack is an auditory journey through the landscapes of the collaborative project Maps, as presented in Melbourne at the North Melbourne Town Hall (2000), and later in Copenhagen at the Musikvidenskabeligt Institut (2002). The production was described by the Age as "the most aesthetically refined building tour in history, the most concentrated collection of functioning clocks and metronomes in the Southern Hemisphere…the most fastidiously upmarket echo of Cagean musical cartography."

Founded in 1994, Aphids is based in Melbourne and undertakes a varying series of cross-artform projects involving new music; international residencies and collaborations. For the 2003 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Aphids created Skin Quartet at the Anna Schwartz Gallery, and Fight with the Violin performed by Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan) with live martial arts by Melbourne's Budokai. Upcoming events include Aphids/Kokon co-production of A Quarrelling Pair at
La Mama, 21-23 November featuring sound by Kokon's Juliana Hokinson and Thomas Winther (Denmark) who are undertaking an artistic residency with Aphids until March 2004.

For more information about Aphids go to www.aphids.net

Gallery hours are Tuesday - Sunday 1.00pm - 6.00pm.
For further information and/or images please contact Jan Duffy on 9209 6794 or email info@lindenarts.org

INSTRUMENT BUILDING is supported by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council - its arts funding and advisory body.

Aphids presents
INSTRUMENT BUILDING

Instrument Building begins with the vision of turning Linden into an enormous living, resonating instrument. The builders and performers presented here come from the full gamut of instrument building practice, from the very traditional through to the radically experimental. Their work is on display, under construction, and will come to life over a two and a half week period. Through these residencies, the boundaries between music and visual art, performance and construction are collapsed, as is the very definition of instrument building itself.

Gallery 1 presents a retrospective of works by David Murphy.
Gallery 2 has been turned into Rosemary Joy's workshop as she creates miniature, personalised percussion kits.
Gallery 3 houses Glen Nicholls' violinmaking workshop as he constructs new stringed instruments employing traditional techniques.
Gallery 4 is home to our international guest, Marie-Hélène Elleboudt (Belgium), who is creating a work using the sounds of people taking a bath.
Gallery 5 has been transformed into a walk-in resonating installation by Demir Aliu.

Over the course of this three week exhibition, new and existing instruments will be constructed, developed and refined.

Aphids
artistic director David Young
general manager Rosemary Joy
mentoree Nicole Steven