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Gorfinkel, Dale: Switches & Hose [VINYL] (Splitrec)

Dale Gorfinkel is a multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, instrument creator and installation artist, creating unexpected aural environments exploring acoustic phenomena or creating acoustic sculptures using common materials like switches, balloons, hoses, cages, &c.
 

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Label: Splitrec
Catalog ID: 25
Squidco Product Code: 20289

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2014
Country: Australia
Packaging: LP
Recorded in Australia in 2014 by Dale Gorfinkel.

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"Dale Gorfinkel is a multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, instrument creator, installation artist, educator, and community builder. His work aims to reflect an awareness of the dynamic nature of culture & the value of listening as a mode of knowing people & places. He is interested in finding fresh ways of presenting and making music, bringing creative communities together & shifting perceived boundaries of scenes, styles & artforms.

His first solo release reflects this diversity of interests and approaches. He often uses common materials to create unexpected & immersive sonic environments. Some installations seek to reframe technology through the intersection of electro/acoustic and new/old mediums. Some installations illuminate acoustic phenomena and are effected by solar & wind activity. Many works also welcome a tactile interactivity especially popular with children. He's recently been playing around with footpumps, garden irrigation and balloons.."-splitrec

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Artist Biographies

"Dale Gorfinkel is a musician, artist and facilitator whose stylefree improvisational approach informs his multi-instrumental performances, instrument-building, kinetic sound installations, videos and animations. Dale's work aims to reflect an awareness of the dynamic nature of culture and the value of listening as a mode of knowing people and places. He is interested in finding fresh ways of presenting and making music, bringing creative communities together and shifting perceived boundaries of scenes and artforms.

Dale has presented installations and performances throughout Australia and internationally. Amongst numerous creative collaborations, his current projects include Prophets, Sounds Like Movement, Snacks, and Music Yared. He is a lead facilitator for Art Day South, an inclusive arts studio with Arts Access Victoria and has recently taught Instrument Building for Artists at RMIT.

In 2014 he was awarded an Emerging Artist Creative Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts."

-Dale Gorfinkel Website (https://dalegorfinkel.com/about-dale1/)
6/12/2025

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Track Listing:



SIDE A



1. Switches & Hose 9:43

2. Gong Cage 6:02

SIDE B



1. I'm Walking In A Room, With Two Vibraphones 7:24

2. Enoggera 8:34

Related Categories of Interest:



Vinyl Recordings
Improvised Music
Electro-Acoustic
Sound, Noise, &c.
Solo Artist Recordings
Installation Sound Work
Australian Improvisers, Composers and Experimenters

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