Michelle Macklem

sound designer

and mix engineer

Sound design and mixing

Documentary

Podcast producer work

Film

Art

Writing and talks

Art

There is Space for You Here (Remember)

Crafted entirely from fragments of discarded words, mouth sounds and breaths, There Is Space For You Here (Remember) explores the spaces we dispose of in the editing process. All sounds are rooted in land, even when we try and remove that context through studios and closets and doonas (duvets), our soundscapes and field recordings and voiceovers are complicit in the act of colonisation, in the process of capturing and taking. I’m interested in ways we can recognize this and have more conversations about audio recording and the politics of land and voice. In making this piece, I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land. I recorded this audio on the lands of the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. I pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge that Aboriginal Australians have one of the oldest storytelling cultures and ties to land in the world. It was stolen by white settlers and the struggles for decolonization of this land continue. It always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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Feel the Sky

I curated a duo of sound works released on cassette tape as the artistic director of Constellations . These works were composed by Jaye Kranz and Bassel Al-Rahim.

Both extend from the same starting point – a recording from 1992 made by a news reporter unfamiliar with field recording, but entranced by a chance encounter with trumpeter swans on an icy lake. Originally recorded on cassette, we digitized the material and commissioned Kranz and Al-Rahim to compose their own landscapes – both real and imagined – in response.

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Resonant Bodies

I curated a sound art exhibition alongside Jess Shane and Aliya Pabani about the sonic reflections between bodies and their environments. The physical exhibition which took place at the Toronto Media Arts Centre from August 11-17th, 2019, and the works were released in an online exhibition in late 2019.

The exhibition eaturing new works by participating artists Aliya Pabani, Chandra Melting Tallow, Cheldon Paterson, Kaija Siirala, Jon Tjhia, and Phoebe Wang.

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