issue 003

Issue 003 is a sound led composition that seeks to explore a sensory spatiality. Josh peters and Ange crawford took their lead from sound, which produced the text in response.

The text for this work, called ‘Partitions’, is a contrapuntal poem. (It consists of three columns that can be read horizontally or vertically. pictured below.) Crawford’s writing component was borne out of Peters’ exploration of sonic spatiality and transformation in previous works. These works often depict sounds perpetually morphing and blending into each other, which inspired crawford’s writing process.

The composition is hosted by a shifting narrator posing questions of boundaries in relational storytelling.

DURATION: 04:32. headphones encouraged.

Partitions, by Ange Crawford 2024

Josh Peters is a sound designer and composer based in Naarm (Melbourne). Through manipulation and transformation of a wide range of audio materials, his practice examines the underlying mechanisms of listening. His compositions both challenge perception and interrogate the subjective influences embedded in sonic matter. To further explore the perceptual and physical capabilities of sound, his work is often presented over multichannel surround-sound systems. He also works as a sound designer, composer and recordist for film, installation and other collaborative projects. He has exhibited and performed his work both nationally and internationally in spaces such as ACMI, Bus Projects, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Montsalvat, Space Zero Gallery (Seoul), and Rumata ArtSpace (Makassar, Indonesia). As a sound designer, he has worked on a range of projects including the feature-documentary A River in the Middle of the Sky, multichannel installation work Skin Shade Night Day, and short films Each Other and Cuckoo Roller.

Ange Crawford is a writer, editor and PhD student at RMIT, studying spatial writing. Her contemporary YA novel, How to Be Normal, won the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize and will be released in early 2025, and she also has an essay in the forthcoming UQP anthology of personal essays by Autistic women, trans and gender-diverse writers. Apart from writing and editing, she is a fan of cats and synthesisers, and can often be found with an armful of books in a local independent bookstore.