Writing
Gail has written extensively about sound and media arts predominantly for the cross-disciplinary arts magazine RealTime for which she was the Associate Editor (2003-2015) and Online Producer (2011-2015). She was the editor of the historical survey Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia (UNSW Press 2009), part of a four part Australia Council music book series. She has contributed catalogue essays for various artists and was writer-in-residence for Chamber Made's Hi-Viz Symposium 2021. She is currently on the editorial board of the academic journal Sound Stage Screen (University of Milan). She has partiuclar creative and critical interests in science fiction, short form poetry and creative non-fiction. Her PhD, Languages of Listening was on mediated ficto-critical approaches to sonic art-focused sound theory. Below is a selection of her writings across the last 20 years.
See also her sporadic blog - sound/s/words
Academic
Forthcoming: Mediated Sounds
Encyclopedia of New Media Arts Vol 2: Artists and Practice
Editor: Paul Thomas, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Sound Theaters of the 21st Century: Material Functions and Voltaic Performativities
Guest editor of Forum section for Sound Stage Screen, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021)
Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia
Editor and contributor. University of NSW Press, 2009 [Out of Print]
Arts Reviews & Commentary
The Saturday Paper
The Forest Collective: Sun Songs and Cycles
26 November 2022
Chamber Made Writer-in-Residence
Hi-Viz Practice Exchange 2021
November 2021
RealTime archive
Since 2001 Gail has written regularly for RealTime magazine, Australia's leading contemporary arts magazine, prodcuing over 150 articles covering sound & music, media art and hybrid performance. She has also produced over 40 video interviews and mini documentaries for the online version of the magazine.
Sound & Music
Notes from the Sound Underground
RealTime online closing edition
Sonica’s good-looking sounds: Cryptic, Glasgow
RealTime 130 Dec-Jan 2016
You can dance if you want to..., Unsound, Adelaide Festival
RealTime 126 April-May 2015
In Profile: Lawrence English, Wilderness of Mirrors
RealTime online, July 30, 2014
The signals have been waiting for us, Douglas Kahn’s Earth Sound Earth Signal
RealTime 120, April-May 2014
Hectic, eclectic, enthralling, MONA FOMA 2014, Hobart
RealTime 119, February-March 2014
Laurie Anderson: Do dogs aspire to Nirvana?
RealTime April/May 2013
John Cage Centenary, Bang on a Can All-stars: legacies and liberties
RealTime 113, February/March 2013
Laurie Anderson: We are meaning machines
RealTime 112, Dec 2012-Jan 2013
Sounding the festival factory: Ars Electronica 2010, Linz
RealTime 100 December 2010/January 2011
A branching practice: interiew with Haco
RealTime 88 December/January 2008
Time slips in an other place: Yokohama Triennale
RealTime 88 December/January 2008
Listening to the turning world: Sydney Biennale 2008
RealTime 86 August/September 2008
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Catalogue Essays
Our being, our doing, our knowing
Catalogue essay for Alexandra Spence's exhibition The Cities, They Tremble, Metro Arts, 2019
The rational and the fantastical: the morphology of Nigel Helyer
Catalogue essay for Nigel Helyer's BioSonics exhibition, Western Plains Cultural Centre, August 2008
Memory slips, trips and trades
Catalogue essay for Nigel Helyer's Quint de Loup II, January 2007
Creative and Ficto-Critical Writing
Sounding the Future
Shortform speculative fiction developed as part of the Sounding the Future project, in iBook form including audio.
Epiphany in 3 parts
Short speculative fiction, published in Sight Lines, UTS Anthology, XOUM, 2014