Emma Northey

Asynchronous View by Lawrence English and Emma Northey, 2020, 12:37


"A challenging soundtrack by English that combines swooping drones with high-pitched electronic tones, feedback style ringing, and buzzes of radio noises, all create an unsettling accompaniment to Northey’s visual manipulations. Slow moving shapes, abstracted forms rendered as bursts of coloured static, memories of signals lost in the ether. When everything has been destroyed, when the sun transforms into a super nova and the solar system is annihilated, all that will remain are the broadcasts, getting increasingly weaker as they flow further into the universe, joining the background static. The beauty of electronic decay."

JACK SARGEANT

Co-Curator A Different View


Commissioned as part of the Tura Adapts Commissioning program 2020
tura.com.au

The 9:16  Moving Image Artworks (314 and Code Breaker)  can be described as Sound and Moving Image Collages, a blend of undulating abstract and figurative imagery. 

 Stephen Roedel and myself  are artists with distinct and different practices that come together to collaborate on moving image and sound artwork. Our collaborative audio visual works blend non-representational and figurative elements - bending light, sound, noise and signal to present fictive dystopian information ecologies. 


3:14  uses water as means to explore concepts relating to presence and internal elements of the psyche to trigger contemplation on mortality and perception, alluding to the myth of Narcissus.   

Code Breaker consists of  images that throb and hum; Sounds in radiant, pulsing technicolour.

The filmic collaboration, between animator and sound artist, as an act of synesthesia: signals become light noise becomes movement.


EN


The Neptune Pak Interviews

were made in collaboration with sound artist Stephen Roedel and are short non-narrative sound and moving image collages, they blend abstract and figurative images with electronic noise music; interpreting the mesh between human and electronic environments.

The Neptune Pak series references the work of video art pioneer Naum June Paik.  It was made with footage from some of my analogue moving image experiments beginning in 2004, as a continuation of my photographic practice and my work with the portrait. This was an exploration into methods to disrupt or obscure aspects of the face/self  as a way to express a sensation, idea or psychological aspect of human experience ; the presence of self within an electronic environment and its effects on perception and existence.


EN

Electronic Devils 14:47 was a series of Sound and Moving Image Collages made by Northey (image) and Roedel (sound). Originally exhibited as a loud art installation, downtown Adelaide, comprising of a several analogue televisions and old speakers in a dark space , arranged to surround the viewer. Inspired by the hype and anxiety of broadcasting that uses subliminal tactics to entrance and entice – the repetition of key phrases and images delivered with a sense of urgency preying on the insecurities of the viewer. Spirituality, sex and death are the undercurrent of media that use common fears and anxieties to sell lifestyles and belief systems. Electronic Devils uses these themes in a distorted simulation of a pre-dawn television viewing session, replete with high impact sound and vision to stimulate and re-sensitize the audience. The works evolve from the collection and distortion of media from analogue and digital sources and devices – including VHS (tapes and Camera), Super8 projections, Digital Camera captures, Synthesizers, Cassette tapes and Television recordings.

Northey/Roedel c2006

'Unique amongst mixed media collaborations, Northey and Roedel have worked on numerous projects for art galleries, film festivals and artist run spaces. Their moving image work builds up an extraordinary density of sound and image, often re-purposing found materials with horrifying, hallucinatory and hilarious results, in films such as I Love You (review) 2004 and the Electronic Devils 1447 series.'


Text by Mike  Retter/Chris Luscri 

916 Vertical Film Festival. 

Port Film CO OP.

Geology of Fire_Official Video_ For the collaborative album Chthonic _ American Dreams Records _ 2023

Lawrence English and Lea Bertucci. 

Reality Opposition_ Official Video for Christina Giannone.  Room 40

Becoming Halfling _ Official  Video for Lawrence English_ Approach. Room40.

Dulce Amargo_ Official Video for TAJAK_ new album_La Sombra del Agua_ 2022

(The Shadow of Water)


Psychedelic Baby Magazine, Hole Records, Acid Test Records, Little Cloud Records. 

Gate Of Light_ Official Video for Eternal Stalker_ by Merzbow and Lawrence English. 2022 


Dias Records, Room40.

Asynchronous View by Lawrence English and Emma Northey, 2020, 12:37


"A challenging soundtrack by English that combines swooping drones with high-pitched electronic tones, feedback style ringing, and buzzes of radio noises, all create an unsettling accompaniment to Northey’s visual manipulations. Slow moving shapes, abstracted forms rendered as bursts of coloured static, memories of signals lost in the ether. When everything has been destroyed, when the sun transforms into a super nova and the solar system is annihilated, all that will remain are the broadcasts, getting increasingly weaker as they flow further into the universe, joining the background static. The beauty of electronic decay."

JACK SARGEANT

Co-Curator A Different View


Commissioned as part of the Tura Adapts Commissioning program 2020
tura.com.au

Asynchronous View. 

Moving Image/ Northey.

Sound / Lawrence English.


TURA New Music, Perth. 

Interference 402

Image by Northey

Sound by Roedel 

single channel

16:9 


Collaboration with Stephen Roedel  https://www.stephenroedel.net/  for his painting Exhibition 'Interference' at Sister Gallery ADL. 

314 

Northey/ Roedel

9:16 

Vertical Film Festival

Port Adelaide 2014

Code Breaker 

2015 Northey /Roedel

9:16 ratio 

single channel moving image


'Images that throb and hum. Sounds in radiant, pulsing technicolour.

The filmic collaboration, between animator and sound artist, as an act of synesthesia: signals become light noise becomes movement.'


Moving image made for the 9:16 Festival of Vertical Cinema, Adelaide Film Festival 2015


Exhibited at Felt Space ADL After Dark Program 2019 



The 9:16  Moving Image Artworks (314 and Code Breaker)  can be described as Sound and Moving Image Collages, a blend of undulating abstract and figurative imagery. 

 Stephen Roedel and myself  are artists with distinct and different practices that come together to collaborate on moving image and sound artwork. Our collaborative audio visual works blend non-representational and figurative elements - bending light, sound, noise and signal to present fictive dystopian information ecologies. 


3:14  uses water as means to explore concepts relating to presence and internal elements of the psyche to trigger contemplation on mortality and perception, alluding to the myth of Narcissus.   

Code Breaker consists of  images that throb and hum; Sounds in radiant, pulsing technicolour.

The filmic collaboration, between animator and sound artist, as an act of synesthesia: signals become light noise becomes movement.


EN

Neptune Pak (Interview 1)

Northey /Roedel

single channel moving image

VHS/Super8/Digital

4:3

2011 


The Neptune Pak portraits represent ‘the self’ in states of disintegration and assimilation into an electronic environment and its effects on perception and existence within digital technology’s connected/disconnected dichotomy. These videos work with the concept of information as noise and signal, the representation of a possible dystopian media environment.

Neptune Pak (Interview 2)

Northey /Roedel

single channel moving image

VHS/Super8/Digital

4:3

2012


The Neptune Pak Interviews

were made in collaboration with sound artist Stephen Roedel and are short non-narrative sound and moving image collages, they blend abstract and figurative images with electronic noise music; interpreting the mesh between human and electronic environments.

The Neptune Pak series references the work of video art pioneer Naum June Paik.  It was made with footage from some of my analogue moving image experiments beginning in 2004, as a continuation of my photographic practice and my work with the portrait. This was an exploration into methods to disrupt or obscure aspects of the face/self  as a way to express a sensation, idea or psychological aspect of human experience ; the presence of self within an electronic environment and its effects on perception and existence.


EN

I LOVE YOU (review) 

single channel

2004

VHS

Edit by E Northey, (after a  break up, and a watercolour given to me  titled please don't go, which I lost somewhere) 


Sound Edit by S Roedel

Rock On Man (rocketman) 

Northey /Roedel

single channel 

4:3

VHS x Digital 

2012

Electronic Devils part 9, How to Prepare for Armageddon.

01:23 

Northey/Roedel

VHS/Digital

Electronic Devils 14:47 was a series of Sound and Moving Image Collages made by Northey (image) and Roedel (sound). Originally exhibited as a loud art installation, downtown Adelaide, comprising of a several analogue televisions and old speakers in a dark space , arranged to surround the viewer. Inspired by the hype and anxiety of broadcasting that uses subliminal tactics to entrance and entice – the repetition of key phrases and images delivered with a sense of urgency preying on the insecurities of the viewer. Spirituality, sex and death are the undercurrent of media that use common fears and anxieties to sell lifestyles and belief systems. Electronic Devils uses these themes in a distorted simulation of a pre-dawn television viewing session, replete with high impact sound and vision to stimulate and re-sensitize the audience. The works evolve from the collection and distortion of media from analogue and digital sources and devices – including VHS (tapes and Camera), Super8 projections, Digital Camera captures, Synthesizers, Cassette tapes and Television recordings.

Northey/Roedel c2006

'Unique amongst mixed media collaborations, Northey and Roedel have worked on numerous projects for art galleries, film festivals and artist run spaces. Their moving image work builds up an extraordinary density of sound and image, often re-purposing found materials with horrifying, hallucinatory and hilarious results, in films such as I Love You (review) 2004 and the Electronic Devils 1447 series.'


Text by Mike  Retter/Chris Luscri 

916 Vertical Film Festival. 

Port Film CO OP.

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