Sunday, 20 July
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts Virginia Trioli catches up with British funny-man Lenny Henry; we take a look at The Art Life at The Biennale of Sydney; and feature What The Future Sounded Like, a documentary that colours in a lost chapter in music history.

Lenny Henry

British comedian Lenny Henry started his stand up career in 1975. Since then he has also worked as a writer and actor in film, television and documentaries including a voice acting role in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He has even taken a stab at singing, appearing on the Kate Bush album The Red Shoes (1993), and has worked as a radio DJ. However Henry has always returned to stand up and this July he is coming to Australia with his new show Where You From? following a sell-out season in the UK.

The Art Life At The Biennale of Sydney

Revolutions: Forms That Turn is the 16th incarnation of the Biennale of Sydney. This Tuesday, a special edition of Artscape, on ABC1 at 10pm looks at the work of some of the 186 artists represented in the show and their individual approaches to the notion of revolution - from the literal to the ideological. Presented by Andrew Frost the program takes a tour of the Biennale's various venues, meets and talks to key artists, curators and organisers behind the scenes, samples fine wines at the show's rolling series of grand openings and contemplates a revolution led from the top down. Sunday Arts features part of this documentary.

What The Future Sounded Like

What The Future Sounded Like is a documentary that colours in a lost chapter in music history, uncovering a group of composers and innovators who harnessed technology and new ideas to re-imagine the boundaries of music and sound. The 1960s was a period of sweeping change and experimentation where art and culture participated in and reflected the wider social changes. In this atmosphere was born the Electronic Music Studios (EMS), a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who utilised technology and experimentation to compose a futuristic electronic sound-scape for the New Britain. EMS's great legacy is the VCS3, Britain's first synthesizer and rival of the American Moog. The VCS3 changed the sounds of some of the most popular artists of this period including Brian Eno, Hawkwind and Pink Floyd. Almost 30 years later the VCS3 is still used by modern electronic artists like The Emperor Machine.

Sunday Arts will be repeated on ABC2 - Sunday July 20 at 7:30pm.