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Ernie Althoff was recently amused when his earliest experimental music performances at the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre were documented in /WIRE/ magazine - 28 years later. Since these beginnings, he has created a large and diverse body of work. He continues to be charmed by sound worlds generated by his and other people's aleatoric systems, be they score-based repertoire, improvisations, works for the recording and broadcast media, or kinetic sound installations.
He views his ever-popular and still increasing collection of machines and implements as merely a means with which to access sonic potential and possibilities (In a 1994 article, San Jose sound-poet Larry Wendt compared them to surveying instruments used for mapping out a musical territory.). In March 2007, he participated in an international instrument builders' event hosted by the Auckland Festival. There, he again stated his position of composer/artist first, and technician/craftsman an obvious second. In retribution, one of his machines tumbled from the top of a speaker stack during a performance.
All the standard hallmarks of success: international recognition, residencies, journal articles, government funding, twelve minutes of programming on public broadcast television, are featured in his career.
Ernie performed in JOLT's ROBOTICON.
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