Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey

Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey – Sound Designers
Performers/composers/sound designers/researchers/writers/creators/socially engaged artists working across performative artforms. Their curiosity about sound in space and cultural engagement with sound/music has led them to develop links with artists in dance, theatre, installation, film and public art.

Their new mixed media sound installation work, Epi-thet, based on an ANAT Synapse Residency on sonifying genetic processes, will premiere at the 2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival (MIAF). Constellation, a durational exhibition created for 12 contemporary Australian composers, currently presented as part of Liquid Architecture 2010. Other projects include John Cage's Musicircus (MIAF 2007) and for MIAF 2008, an installation with Californian sound artist Alex Stahl (Pixar productions), Echolocation, and a new duet for theatre, This Map is Not to Scale.

The megaphone project, an ongoing sound installation, toured nationally in 2009/2010 and will tour internationally in 2011 (www.themegaphoneproject.com). Long-term collaborations with dancer Tony Yap, and Japanese visual artist Naomi Ota have created works that toured to Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Malaysia.

Awards include a Green Room Award for Outstanding Composition/Sound design, Melbourne International Arts Festival Award, ANAT Synapse Award and two Asialink Residencies in China and Japan. Tim has a PhD in music from Monash University and is currently a lecturer at Griffith University. Madeleine is completing her PhD in choreomusical analysis at the University of Melbourne. They are secretaries of New Music Network and members of the Programming and Community Partnerships panels of Arts Victoria. Madeleine is also a board member of Melbourne Fringe Festival.
http://madeleineandtim.net