A BIG MESS / A Sound Drawing performance by Jody Graham and Mark Cauvin

About the performers

Jody Graham – Visual Artist

Drawing is at the core of Jody Graham’s multidisciplinary art. She relentlessly explores new techniques and investigates contemporary drawing practice. To do this she builds on and then moves beyond conventional drawing processes in search of new methods and tools that connect drawing with the fundamental need to make symbolic marks.

From the earliest days visiting scrap metal yards and her father’s factory in western Sydney – inspired by the action of machinery and the draftsmen’s tables where they drew designs for machinery by hand – the recurring themes in Jody’s work have centred on the broken, the displaced and the forgotten.

Whether expressed in drawing, sculpture, installation or performance, this speaks to her long-nurtured urge to rescue and restore, with the objective of recycling and re-purposing materials and techniques.

Mark Cauvin – Musician – Double Bass

Based in Portland, Australia, Mark Cauvin is a double bass and electronics musician who composes, interprets music scores, and improvises. His practice and technique is underpinned with his classical avantgarde double bass schooling originating from Australia, Italy, and Germany.

Mark is in influenced by the experimental music explorers from the 1950s to the Present in music composition, Double Bass, Electronic Music, and Musique Concrete spanning the analogue to the digital age.

As a performer on the double bass, Mark investigates improvisation using a mapping system to fluidify the physical size of the Double Bass in conjunction with the anatomical structure of the body with the bow.

In Sound Drawing, Mark excavates from decades of experience using unconventional visual representations to create sonic events. His interest is with the timbre/colour of sound rather than the pitch/rhythm conventions of Western Classical tonal theory-based graphic notation.