TARAB

TARAB (né Tarab Sprod) has been working on the fringes of the Melbourne sound world for the last eight years, primarily examining the interplay of field recordings and sounds generated from found objects. His work explores the possibilities of personal chartings and reactions to the urban environment, revelling in the decay and detritus to be found there. Interested in more than documentation, tarab attempts to sonically trigger, form, and recreate the interior environments which occur through our interaction with the commonplace and often overlooked.

His first album surfacedrift, was release on Naturestrip in 2004, and has performed and exhibited in various galleries, festivals (Liquid Architecture, Immersion, Variable Resistance, and Whatismusic?) and other spaces around Melbourne, and has collaborated with, among others, Ernie Althoff, Tim Catlin, and Rod Cooper.

Tarab performed at 23five's Activating the Medium festival in 2007, and published his second album wind keeps even dust away through 23five also in 2007.


Education

2006 Fine Art Honours (Sound), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2003-2005 Bachelor of Media Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2000-2001 Associate Diploma of Fine Art-New Media, Swinburne Institute of TAFE


CD Publications

wind keeps even dust away, 23five inc. 2007
Flesh vs. Machine, various artists, w/ Rod Cooper, Rhett Wade-Ferrel, Teknikunst, 2005
Outer 04, various artists, Bus Gallery, 2005
surfacedrift, Naturestrip, 2005
Overland, various artists, Naturestrip, 2005


Exhibitions

2006
Groundfault, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy
Entropy, Victoria Park Gallery, Abbotsford

2005
HEX, Ethel Osbourne Hall, RMIT, Melbourne

2004
This Sudden East Listening, Liquid Architecture 5, RMIT First Site, Melbourne

2002
The Silence, PB Gallery, Swinburne Institute of TAFE, Prahran


Selected Performances/Festivals

2007
Activating The Medium X, The Exploratorium, San Francisco
DIVA Centre, Eugene, Oregon
Gallery 1412, Seattle, Washington
Someday Lounge, Portland, Oregon

2006
Liquid Architecture 7, w/Sean Baxter, Rod Cooper and Anthea Caddy, Old Melbourne Watchhouse, Melbourne
Microphonics, w/Rod Cooper and Tim Catlin, Ethel Osbourne Hall, Melbourne

2005
Flesh vs. Machine, w/ Rod Cooper, Rhett Wade-Ferrel, Teknikunst,
Ding-Dong Lounge, Melbourne
WhatisRodCooper?, Whatismusic? Festival, South Yarra Tunnel

2004
Outer 04, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
Immersion 03, w/ Anthea Caddy, WestSpace gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne International Improvisation Festival, w/ Rod Cooper, Clare Cooper, Natasha Anderson, Make It Up Club, Fitzroy

2003
Variable Resistance 04, WestSpace gallery, Melbourne
2002

Whatismusic?, w/ Ernie Althoff, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Footscray

2001
Whatismusic?, w/ Ernie Althoff, Reachabite Hall, Northcote


Sound Design

2005
The Backs of Things, Choreographer: Siobhan Murphy, Melbourne
Gleam, Choreographers: Siobhan Murphy and Michaela Pegum, Dancehouse, Melbourne