Sound Offering I | Alexandra Spence

Boxcopy acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land upon which we operate and pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We extended this respect to all First Peoples.

Boxcopy is excited to announce the first instalment of ‘Sound Offerings’, an ongoing monthly program that invites sound artists and experimental musicians into our new space for an evening of listening. Each performance will be followed by a critical discussion with the artist as a way to generate discourse around contemporary sound practices. Our first sound offering will begin with Sydney artist and musician Alexandra Spence.

Alexandra Spence is an artist and musician from Sydney, working in audiovisual installation, music composition and sound-art performance. Her practice draws from acoustic ecology, psychogeography and phenomenology to explore the idea of listening as an active practice, examining the ways in which our individual notions of place and identity are shaped and mediated through sound. Her work navigates notions of sonic materialism through an examination of resonance and vibration in everyday life. Through her practice she reimagines the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. With an interest in unusual sound sources her aesthetic features field recordings, inaudible frequencies and object interventions.

Alex has performed and presented work in concerts, festivals, symposiums, galleries and on radio in Australia, Canada, Europe, and Asia, including the Vancouver Art Gallery; Destroy Vancouver; Late Junction on BBC Radio 3; SoundCamp Festival, London; Ausland, Berlin; Musée Guimet, Paris; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Museum of Contemporary Art ARTBAR, Sydney; Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong’s Sound Forms Festival, HK; Ftarri, Tokyo, JP; the NOW Now Festival, Sydney; Cementa Festival, Kandos (forthcoming); Firstdraft Gallery, and Casula Powerhouse, Sydney; Metro Arts gallery, Brisbane (forthcoming). Alex completed a Master of Fine Arts in sound installation at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA. She was awarded the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, which led her to Europe to perform, and to study with David Toop, Chris Watson & Jez riley French in 2018. In 2019, she resided at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, as one of the Asialink Arts Creative Exchange recipients. And her debut album Waking, She Heard The Fluttering, recently released on Room40, has received favourable reviews in The Wire Magazine and The Quietus.

Opening – Saturday 6th July 5pm-7pm

Performance – 5.30pm

http://alexandraspence.net/