This Thursday July 1 from 5-7pm West Space holds the opening for Semantic Clutter and Lionel Marchetti’s ‘Natura Morta’ in conjunction with Liquid Architecture- Australia’s premier sound arts festival. The exhibition runs until July 17 and will be a celebration of sense-specific indulgence.

If that sounds good to you then just you wait. The ten sound artists that make up Semantic Clutter will have your ears tingling before you even realise you’re listening. It is an exhibition of creative debris- those fleeting and forgotten moments of artistic genius that result from experimentation and the spontaneity of creation. Exhibiting in galleries 1 and 2, these ten sound and new media artists have collaborated to create an aural masterpiece over the 17 days of the exhibition. You can experience their Semantic Clutter first-hand through a range of openhouse events, including alternating exhibitions, access to the rehearsal studio where you can witness the disordered beauty of a “Work In Progress,” and closing night performances on July 17.

In gallery 3 some serious chemistry will be taking place. Lionel Marchetti’s ‘Natura Morta’ explores the concept of rotting sound. Piling fruit on a table with a single loud speaker underneath and letting it rot for two weeks might seem like a bizarre (and smelly) concept but as the flesh of a living thing rots, have you ever wondered if sound rots too? Lionel Marchetti has and through an installation of dead things and electric technology he will investigate this question.

So stumble through some Semantic Clutter and listen closely to some fruit at West Space from July 1. You have to hear it to believe it.