Next week, The Beatabet Collective will be invading the Shunt Lounge to provide four days of live music, installations, performance art, contemporary dance, trapeze artists and much much more. With over forty artists performing over the duration of the residency (and only a few months left to experience the sprawling underground caverns before it closes its doors to the public forever!) it is an event not to be missed!
We will be performing on the 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th of March. For more information please visit our microsite:
I also have been recently working for Drake Music on a very exciting project based in Tower Hamlets. Over the last few months we have been holding workshops at three schools in the area, and The Roundhouse in Camden towards a performance at the V&A Musuem of Childhood on the 20th of March. For more information please visit the project blog - ‘Connecting Across Difference’.
‘Memories Part 3′ was a collaboration born out of this years residency at Beatafarm in France - the piece was choreographed by dancer Pepa Ubera with an improvised score provided by Jules Arthur (Violin/Viola) and myself. This performance was filmed at the Phoenix Gallery as part of Brighton’s White Night festival on 25th October.
Apologies for the severe lack of updates recently - but unfortunately the website always takes a backseat when I’m working on lots of exciting projects! Most recently I’ve been working on a 15 minute composition to introduce Rebbecca Frankel’s multi-sensory film screening called ‘Celluloid Dreams’ at the Loop Festival in Brighton this weekend. Taking the John Water’s Smell-O-Vision films of the 80s as a starting point, it promises to be an eclectic collection of short films with sensory surprises! It starts at 3.30pm on Saturday the 16th of August so pop along and check it out!
I’ve also been engaging with a few Supercollider ideas following John Eacott’s fantastic Supercollider summer school a few weeks ago. Also in the pipeline for an update early next week is video footage of the last few months work including an interactive installation at Shunt, several laptop/guitar improv performances from Meat Dungeon, and some audio of various new music projects involving some double bass and some trumpet too!
I’ve been working on a tape installation for Schadenfreuding as part of Camberwell Arts Week that starts on Monday 16th June. ‘Hypnic Jerk 4′ is an exercise in sleep disruption and will be exhibited in The Crypt (St Giles Church, Camberwell Church Street, SE5) from 6pm on Tuesday 17th of July. Full details below or at http://www.schadenfreuding.com/
Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann * Suzy Moxhay * Hannah-Rae Alton * Gary Whitworth * Duncan McAphee * So-Ha Au * Nick Wilsdon * Amy McDonough * James Alec Hardy * Mr Hand * Ed Oliver * Rob Sherwood * Hector Castell
And Special Guests including Meat Dungeon & Michael Garrad
I just returned from a trip to Shunt to check out the space - and all looks set to be an amazing week of events! Fred also told me that there is an archive of the pre-launch from a few weeks ago, and you can listen online to some samples of what took place in the Basement Bar by clicking here!
For the last week or so I’ve been working on a number of different sound elements to be installed as part of Ella Barclay’s ‘Stone Soup’ exhibition in Sydney. Its running for the next 10 days and I highly recommend a visit if you’re in that part of the world! You can catch ‘Stone Soup’ from today until the 20th of April at GAFFA, 7 Randle Street (above Ding Dong Dang Karaoke) in Surry Hills. There’ll also be some documentation of the event following shortly on this site.
The prelaunch for the Brussels Meets Brighton Metahub event will be taking place in The Basement in Brighton tonight. Unfortunately I can’t make it down in person tonight but I’ve prepared a patch to process audio feeds algorithmically in my absence so head on down and check it out - it’ll be a great night! And if you can’t make that, the main event is still to come with several days of installations, performances and much much more at Shunt in London from the 30th of April to the 3rd of May.
The website for the Brussels Meets Brighton Collaboration is up and online now! Between 30th April and the 3rd of May London’s exciting Shunt Lounge will host a massive exhibition involving Arts Collectives from Brighton, Brussels and London. The event will incoporate a feast of fascinating performance including: live music, puppetry, dance and physical theatre, video and sound installations, photography, slam poetry, scientists, robotics and more. As part of the Beatabet collective I will be involved in both some live performances and a sound installation too! Click to visit http://www.brusselsmeetsbrighton.org/ for more details.
Last week I made a move to Brixton in South London, and I’m currently in the process of setting up shop in my new home! I’m uploading some new audio tracks to the listen section of the site as I write this, and theres already a number of interesting activities in my sonic pipeline! I had a great time last night working with a Community Project at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston giving a demonstration of microphones and helping the group record some sounds for their forthcoming show. Later today I’ll be assembling a soundscape from everything we recorded and theres a show penciled in for the 9th of March.
In November last year I was involved in the performance of a composition by Stephen Deazley entitled ‘Thrie Heids’ - which was performed at the Music & The New Musicians conference in the Fruitmarket, Glasgow. Thrie Heids was a great project that involved a lot of innovative programming and sensor application by sound designer Martin Parker to create instruments for 5 young disabled adults to perform with along side the Music at the Brewhouse ensemble. Not only was it a great pleasure to be involved, and see a few of my own creations put to good use - but I have just found out that the composition won the award for ‘Community or Educational Project’ at the British Composer Awards 2007! Many congratulations Stephen!
