Creative Australia Grant

2025

Support material for application

Dham Dham Sonified Plastics, Dinacon 2025, Bali

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Dham Dham Gooliyari/Cooks River, Frontyard Projects, Sydney.

Lucinda Dayhew and Sumugan Sivanesan

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LDDD // DDLD sonifying tree(core) project

Lucinda Dayhew and Dann Disciglio

Extemporization with Strangler Fig (Striation Sonification)

Perhaps it was fate that Lucinda Dayhew and Dann Disciglio arrived at the Digital Naturalism Conference 2019 on the same day, just one hour apart. As their shared taxi from Panama City airport to Gamboa jetted them down dark roads and hurled their bodies from side to side they quietly chatted and realized how similar their interests were. Almost immediately, the question arose: what were they going to be doing at Dinacon? Both Disciglio and Dayhew have backgrounds in sound and performance, combined with with ongoing interests in natural systems. Tucked between hikes to swimming holes, a party bus to Panama City, and endless servings of rice and beans, Disciglio introduced Dayhew to a technique he conceived to gather sounds from trees. It involved affixing an industrial grade accelerometer to a steel probe inserted into the trunk or roots. The sensor allows for the inner acoustics of a tree to be amplified, recorded, and analyzed. As Disciglio demonstrated the technique for Dayhew, they spontaneously began improvising. Both artists were astounded by the rich timbres and tones that they were able to achieve from the trees during their first experiments with a coconut palm and cecropia, and were motivated to explore further. This is their project:

 “The work that we completed at Dinacon in 2019 is entitled Extemporization with Strangler Fig (Striation Sonification). After finding a fig tree growing in the backyard of an abandoned home next to Adopta Bosque (a non profit ecological conservation organisation that generously housed us while at Dinacon) and selecting it for its expansive size and symbiotic relationships with cohabiting bushes and vines, as well as its sonic qualities and overall beauty, we inserted a stainless steel screw into the trunk and attached our accelerometer via a magnetic mount. The inner acoustics of the fig, including its ant and lizard inhabitants, were amplified and recorded with a digital audio recorder and monitored using headphones. We then enacted an improvisational performance with the fig using this system as a way of exploring material fetishism, ecological re-envisioning, and the poetics of digital interfaces. 

For us, both musicians from a young age, playing music has always formed a large part of our social lives, and in catalyzing out ecological encounters - hearing and sounding as a way of belonging with others in a space. With a single camera focussed on our trinity, we engendered that part of ourselves together in Gamboa by developing, researching, and completing this work together.”

This performance (in 2019) marks the inaugural performance of the treecore duo LDDD // DDLD. 

Special thanks to Andrew Quitmeyer, all Dinacon conference organisers, our incredible hosts at Adopta Bosque, Trevor Silverstein for the portraits, and to Gamboa and all its inhabitants, human and non-human alike. 

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 It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye

solo exhibition

Titanik Turku, Finland 9.7.–1.8.2021

An exhibition focussing on boundaries, micro and macro level ecological crisis anxieties, societal rules, self optimisation pressures, morality games, behavioural codes, achievement, and (rough) play. 

It encourages you to shift shape and succumb to the pull of rhythmic spherical objects dropped from palms into olympic pools as they swim around the globe, propelled by their currents from start to finish.  

The show culminated with a performance Closing Ceremony by Lucinda Dayhew and Happy Magic Society’s Mikko Kuorinki and Essi Kausalainen

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.  

Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. 

Supported by the Goethe Institute Finland. 

Exhibition documentation photography by Johanna Naukkarinen

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Luci Lippard 

Since 2014 (ongoing)


Luci Lippard is a performance band formed in Berlin in spring 2014 by artists Lucinda Dayhew and Hanne Lippard. Using drums, voice, synths and songs, the duo make noise out of poetry.

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My role in Luci Lippard is co-creator, music composer, concepts, pre -production, live playing of mutliple instruments (drums, synths. loops with Ableton Live)

Please click on the orange links

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Live recording at contemporary art fair ABC for Berlin Community Radio

Luci Lippard Reviewed in Texte zur Kunst

Luci Lippard interviewed for Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt magazine as part of our performance there

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Swan Song

Swan Song 2 x 12 inch vinyl dubplates produced by Flipping the Coin edition 1 of 30

Swan Song is a work by Lucinda Dayhew involving several Berlin based electronic and experimental/new music composers. It is a reinterpretation of the myth of the dying swan.

The swan songs are being pressed on limited edition vinyl dubplates by Flipping the Coin, Berlin. Flipping the Coin releases records by artists working on the cusp of visual art and music. Losing quality slightly with each play, as is the case with all dubplates, after approximately 500 plays the audio on the records will be rendered inaudible.

Concept and cover art: Lucinda Dayhew

Participating musicians: Clare Cooper . Gudrun Gut . Golden Disko Ship (Theresa Stroetges) . Jasmine Guffond (Jasmina Maschina) . Ari Benjamin Meyers . NSI (Max Loderbauer & Tobias Freund) also part of Moritz von Oswald Trio, with Ricardo Villalobos - ECM remixes & Tobias . Tom Thiel . Lucinda Dayhew