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WEDNESDAY 10th JUNE at the most Sofa-centric venue in town: ISLINGTON MILL, James street, Salford, (for the sat-nav savvy: M3 5HW)
doors opening: 8.00pm, your financial outlay: a mere £5.
Its only a stroll from Manchester city centre, there is a basic map and directions at the following link: http://www.islingtonmill.com/contact.php
the Artiste- ( yes, singular this time, its just one man and an army of boxes & reed instuments to keep you occupied this evening, which means proportionally
much much less bad dress sense on the stage for you to snicker at. )
LUCIO CAPECE:
He's from Argentina but lives in Berlin now ( geographically hip at least! ) He has some roots in the Jazz &
Improvised scenes BUT you wouldn't really notice that reference when listening to him. His collaborations have been
with architect & speaker designer Lorenzo Brusci and very recently Editions Mego have released this much talked about
duet CD with Capece playing alongside Panasonic's Mika Vainio. I think just the mere idea of that CD will quell
anyones fears that this guy is from the Hodgkinson school of parp and futter. Hell No! but maybe he is somewhere
close to a lower frequency John Butcher. I said 'Maybe'!
This evenings trajectory will be structured around Mr Capece's 4 part work called “Marfa- Inside the Outside”
which appears to mirror ( see what I did there movie fans? ) several scenes from Tarkovsky's film 'Andrei Rubilev'
The parts go something like this:
part 1: 'A WOMAN ESCAPES' for Prepared soprano saxophone.
part 2: 'MARFA' for Sruti box + filter.
part 3: 'EL ANTERIOR Y EL OTRO' for Sruti Box + Ring modulator + no input equalizer + Bass clarinet neck +
Cassette + Mini Disc Walkmans + prepared Soprano Saxophone.
part 4: DE L'ETERNEL ET DE L'EPHEMERE. for Prepared Bass Clarinet.
Several parts of the piece have been performed in various parts of the world over the last year or so BUT this is the first time the whole piece has been heard complete.
Its definitely not Pokemon BUT finally you can collect the set and only here in sunny mancunia!
The Holiday (1408): Years later on the way to the city of Vladimir, Andrei, Danil, and Foma encounter a pagan ritual on a river bank, whose celebration implies
sensuality and lust. Andrei feels attracted by the scenes he witnesses. He is captured and bound in a stable by villagers who do not want him to interfere with their
sacred rite. They know the official church is trying to stamp out pagan ritual. A woman named Marfa, dressed only in a mantle approaches Andrei. She drops her mantle,
kisses and then frees him.The next morning Andrei returns to his associates on the river bank. They ask where he’s been. The crude boat filled with the smoldering ashes
of the effigy floats by behind the group as they breakfast on onions. It strikes their boat with a dull but sonorous thump. The local landlord and his men-at-arms on
horseback appear the next morning, accompanied by clerical enforcers. They hope to run down participants in last night’s ritual. Marfa and her partner are chased by the
authorities. He doesn’t get away, but she swims toward the middle of the river, immediately past the boat carrying Andrei, but he will not look at her. She splashes bravely
out to deep waters.
“Andrei Tarkovsky" (from Andrei Rubilev)
This Salford Concert Series brought to you by fortunate happenstance & Ben, Matt & Lee.
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a few left traces
Neil Carver, Ben Gwilliam, Tomas Korber, Helmut Lemke,
Lee Patterson, Matt Wand, Hainer Woermann
Chapman Gallery, University of Salford
Performances Saturday 16th May 7-11pm
Exhibition open: Monday 18th May – Friday 5th June
‘a few left traces’ is a performance and exhibition concept initiated and curated by Ben Gwilliam and Helmut Lemke. It will be taking place at the Chapman Gallery at the University of Salford as part of the European Night of Museums and is organized and funded in co-operation with the Arts Unit. Following on from a previous event in 2007 (then the silence increased), ‘a few left traces’ is both a performance event and a subsequent exhibition that unpicks sound/music as an Interdisciplinary Art Practice, bringing together thought and debate as part of the process of making.
On Saturday, the 16th May from 7pm to 11pm, 7 musicians and sound artists collaborate together on one communal surface (20ft x 8ft table). The invited participants are established artists from the UK and abroad. Central to the performance is making new improvisations and to try new collaborations between players who have not done so before. Risk and experimentation are important.
The Audience will experience a performance evening of various improvisations and collaborations that happen in different arrangements of performers.
It is from this performance that the exhibition will form as a document to the processes that took place within the collaborations.
A body of work will be left in the gallery that comprises of:
- Recordings of the process in sound, video and drawing, individually and as a whole and
- Collected objects left over from the sound generating events.
These 'Left Traces' are assembled and projected back onto the table as the exhibition, exposing the temporal and musical processes (traces) that happened in time.
More info at www.arts.salford.ac.uk
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Salford Concert Series 2009 : Upcoming Performances
Thursday 7th MAY at the most laidback venue in town: ISLINGTON MILL, James street, Salford, (for the sat-nav savvy: M3 5HW) doors opening: 7.30pm, your financial outlay: a mere £5.
Its only a stroll from Manchester city center, there is a basic map and directions at the following link: http://www.islingtonmill.com/contact.php
the artistes-
CLAUS VAN BEBBER:
Deserving of much attention for his early use of turntables and prepared records. This German based artist of longstanding comes directly out of and is contemporary to the late 70's Milan Knizak 'Broken Music' school of playing physically ruined records. In 1982 he co-founded the artists' collective Heinrich Mucken, an intermedia platform animated by a handful of experimental musicians, visual and performance artists.
His overall sound shifts between almost classical improv and abrasive moments more derived from the field of extreme noise music. This is truly Turntable-Concret and in a not to be missed evening we are presuming he will play a solo set and some spontaneous collaborations with one or two of the following artists......
MICK BECK:
Mick is known for his manic energy and originality: his playing covers the full emotional gamut from heartbreaking to mischievous,Beck's ground-breaking work and technical innovations with the mysterious and blackly humorous bassoon are often the best source of inspiration to his collaborators on stage. He has worked with many ( could that be ALL!! ) of free music's best-known exponents so I won't bother to name check, just think of your favorite player and chances are he's been there and raised an eyebrow and flapped a few trouser cuffs with his triple-tongued double reed dissonances!
BEN GWILLIAM:
Ben works with open reel tape, cassettes, field recordings and magnetic objects but that's really just the start of it, his process often uses the space itself and even more often the sounds from inbetween the spaces, the recordings, the magnetic fields themselves..
His sound palette explores time, space, harmonics and decay and in a live way similar in effect to placing your tongue on the contacts of a 9volt battery. A duet between him and Mr Van Bebber will crackle like a hundred balloons rubbed on a small hairy child's scalp.
SONIC PLEASURE:
Also known as Marie-Angelique Bueler, a contemporary classical composer and flautist coming out of Twentieth Century Music Studies at Sussex University ( where she worked with Martin Butler and Michael Finnissy.) She now predominantly devotes her sound making activities to playing Bricks in an improvised stylee. YES! Bricks! but don't expect a high-heeled version of Einsturzende Nuebauten, this amazing performer founded the band LIMESCALE with Derek Bailey and her intricate dance of scrapings and inner-ear percussives has graced a good 3 dozen CD's on the Fenland Highbrow Label and others. Dust will fly! safety goggles recommended.
MATT WAND:
I play electronics, I improvise and have done since way way back. I recall the mocking tones of those many many self important players of 'REAL' musical instruments back then: " Just a button pusher! " they would shout! " You can't improvise on a Sampler!!" etc, now there isn't one of them that doesn't have a laptop player or samplist in their trendy 4tet and yet, why do I not feel vindicated? The suspicion remains in many eyes "its just not proper music".
This Salford Concert Series brought to you by the painstaking persuasions and babysitter bribing of Ben, Lee & Matt, make use of it whilst its still happening.
Group Exhibition
'Any number can play' will be part of the exhibition 'The Agency of Words' at Bury Art Gallery. The exhibition is a survey of works exploring the performative landscape of language and identity. Provocatively playful and deadly serious, the agency of words overlaps words as material, words as gesture, words as constructs of meaning and fiction.
Artists: Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Ming Wong, Patrick Pannetta, Sarah Sanders, Ben Gwilliam, Irene Barberis, Spencer Roberts, Liz Collini, Debbie Booth and Catherine Sargeant.
Runs from 2nd May - 18th July 2009, more info at Text Festival
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Salford Concert Series 2009 : Upcoming Performances
With only some loose change salvaged from behind the sofa cushions of the University of Salford Arts Unit and a vaguely old fashioned urge to see like-minded people gathered together in 3 dimensional space rather than some mybook-spaceface-twitblog-webroom, New Acoustical Pleasures and Hot Air have put together and offer up to you the first in a series of 4 to 5 evenings of rare quality noises, music and pregnant silences.
Monday 6th APRIL at the current hotspot ISLINGTON MILL, James street, Salford, (for the sat-nav savvy: M3 5HW)
doors opening: 7.30pm,
your financial outlay: a mere £5.
the artistes-
firstly and foremostly- :zoviet*france:
this band/mysterious fog of sound need no introduction, if you don't know who they are or what they have done historically to define an area of music currently bleeding into every avant-garde audio nook and crack known to man, then you'd better start googling double smartish. Not that that will help you as the Z*F entity has remained aloof from the record industry and any normal modes of promoting an 'Image'or a 'Product' for nearly 3 decades. We are very very proud to give them a space, some speakers and let them get on with it..
secondly but most certainly first classly - Seth Cluett, Benedict Drew & Lee Patterson performing in a trio.
Seth Cluett: Modified cassette decks, oscillators and Amplified Objects.
Lee Patterson: springs, objects, natural & un-natural acoustic investigations.
Benedict Drew: amplified paper. balloons, wire and charcoal.
the triangulation of these particular three performers promises some wonderfully intricate, tense and eyebrow raising tones. Quiet please! for this one we recommend you pay full attention and save your popcorn rustling and champagne cork popping until later in the evening..
This Salford Concert Series brought to you by the kindly actions of Ben, Lee & Matt.
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A recent sketch from studio
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New work at the Liverpool Biennial
Horizon (2008), an installation of found and collected fluorescent tube starters. Shown as part of the Gaia Project 'Urban/Ecology' as part of the independants section of the Biennial. more info here
Documentation to follow in the work pages
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New CD out on NurNichtNur
Fourmill plus quarterinch
Duo cd with Helmut Lemke on Tapes
Limited edition boxed with prints
More info at NurNichtNur