Eva Birch (Ritual Community Music)

Folk, Noise, Electronics, Improvisation – how can radical music help us manifest new possibilities for thinking and imagine new ways of organising community through ritual behaviours, actions and languages? Eva Birch talks through her shift into sound poetry; the parallel influences of Dada and psychoanalysis on her practice; and reflects on her recent performance with J, at The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent for Liquid Architecture’s Ritual Community Music series. Eva Birch is a poet living in Melbourne on Woiwurrung country. She has published her work in Cordite Poetry Review, Sick Leave, and Un. Magazine, among others, and is the author of three chapbooks: Megalodon (SoD press, 2019), We Eat Out Together: My Heart Cam (WEOT collective, 2020), and Sun’s Window (Eva Birch and Kieren Seymour, 2021). For this performance she collaborated with J, a dj, musician and founder of the record label and publishing platform daisart. https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/adam-golebiewski-eva-birch-with-j-alexandra-spence Ritual Community Music 24 July 2022 The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent Presented by Abbotsford Convent and Liquid Architecture Produced by Mara Schwerdtfeger. https://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture Financial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture’s weekly podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month. https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/ For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.