Sound

Patty Preece

Patty Preece is a musician, electronic music producer and sound artist who works with hacked domestic objects to critically explore aesthetic and relational hierarchies at the intersection of sound, gender and technology. Preece’s practice spans performance, instrument design, production and installation. This Cairns based artist creates performance ecosystems using discarded domestic steam irons, ironing boards, DIY sensors and electronics. Their live performances engage with augmented domestic objects, noise and the relationship of performer, instrument and context. Preece’s creative practice research explores themes of labour, instrument design, sonic cyberfeminisms and sound art. Most recently, Patty is exploring themes of post-human feminisms, climate change, and immersive audio, using deep listening techniques to inform the practice. By investigating ecologies and the interplay of connection, ecosystems, and technology, Preece aims to translate these ideas into immersive sound spaces. 

Patty is an Ableton Live Certified Trainer, an associate Lecturer in Music Technology at CQUniversity, Cairns, currently engaged in a PHD Program through University of QLD.

Sound Designer. The Trees. September 2020 - present Collaboration with Victor Steffenson, resonance arKsts Natalia Mann and Merindi Schreiber. 5 channel, 2 projector installaKon for the NaKonal Museum commissioned in 2021.

Sound Designer. Sonic Earth 2019 Collaboration with resonance artists Natalia Mann. 6 channel, 3 projector InstallaKon and live concert presenting works developed from bio feedback sessions with trees in the Cairns Botanic Gardens.

Podcast Editor. Jabu Birriny – Land and Sea 2019 Flying Arts Alliance Podcast to accompany the touring exhibiton.

Podcast Editor. Dangerous Women. 2020 State Library of QLD Podcast series on influential women.

Sound Recordist. Summer’s Day, ABC Me. July 2017 Location recording of short film for ABC’s Day of the Girl celebraKons.

Sound Recordist. Get Grubby TV, ABC kids TV. April – May 2017 Location recording of award winning ABC Kids production Get Grubby