Train Wreck Mix

Sofie Loizou aka Miss Memory

Sydney, Australia

It all started when Sofie, age 15, borrowed an old synthesizer from a friend. Thus began a long and sordid love affair with electronics and music. Or was it earlier, when she began composing jazz inflected pieces on the piano? Whenever it was, she knew that she wanted to pursue music as a passion and an obsession. As a RBMA participant in Cape Town in 2003 she had the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with legendary music makers. She was particularly influenced by her meeting with Bob Moog, who inspired her to re-engage in her study of synthesis and composition. Most recently Sofie is composing electro-acoustic pieces utilising experimental audio software and found sounds. 'Premonitions By Plants' is a show dedicated to and inspired by her research into the phenomenon of biocommunication via music and sound. It's dedicated to the research of Dorothy Retallack, whose experiments on the effects of music on plants in the 1970s was pioneering and controversial. Her research claimed that plants exposed to classical music, jazz and North Indian sitar music flourished and grew towards the speakers and plants exposed to rock music, like Hendrix, Led Zepellin and Vanilla Fudge, grew away from the speakers and eventually died. We wonder had Ms Retallack played her petunia's the deep bass ditties of Monolake and electronic bleeps of Nathan Fake, how would they respond?