Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of
iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.
Watch trailer.
NeAnoNeNoNo is a new publication concern, and this performance
will celebrate a new issue of the zine with that name. Most of the
characters you will meet in this performance have work in this
‘paginated exhibition’, and maybe someday they all will, maybe all
of you will too.
NeAnoNeNoNo celebrates indecisiveness, prods the
clouds for surprise, seeds snowbanks and sandbanks, and deposits
crystal treasures to be covered over by barchan dunes, petrified
or melted to reveal the imagined colour, newly discovered, or
carried forward.
For our purposes, the difference between a shaky
or out of focus photograph and photograph of clouds close-up is
equivocal, useful.
In this performance, we have assembled a group
of people to do things: We will show you, with/out telling you, or
each other, what it is we are doing, in the manner the modern,
morden ballet of birds both avian and waterfowl. Whether we know
it or not, we use diverse languages to do this: singing, dancing
bat-acrobat, telepathic-telephonic, southern, synthetic,
syntagmatic, spiderwebbed, semiotic, funk, musical, form, from the
spots on the neck of giraffe, otherwise animalian (i.e. whale),
substitute, computational, prehistoric, accidental, stegnographic,
footprints on staff lines indicating the need to go outside, get
somewhere, to remain.
Everyday life is suspended between us: we
float. Sous les pavés, la plage.
Stephen Chase Like a crummy counterfeit Con Colleano, Stephen Chase's music-making teeters on the precipice of the spontaneous [Whoaa, now], quivering gracelessly on an unthreading wire of compositional conceits [TWANG! THWACK!], flailing limbs akimbo in a whirl of acoustical phenomena [~WOBBLE~], plummeting to a mesh of performer cooperation [aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa], bouncing anvil-like to a dusty floor of participatory scores [kmnpff...].
Lucy Cheesman "Not mumbling you meathead, rumbling!" For fans of
moistening mortal springs with tears and fresh and rosy-fingered
dawn. Books - heavy - books - heavy - books - heavy - books -
heavy - books - heavy - books - heavy - lifting A zine about the
months of the year and a dream about being eaten by a bear.
heavy-lifting.org
Theo Gowans Territorial Gobbing is a Leeds based STUPID music
maker and improvisor wrangling tapes, vocal leftovers, contact
mics, broken pedals and wave generators and whatever else is to
hand into high speed dada cutup nonsense.
https://territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com/
Jorge Boehringer Sound Artist, Noise Fanatic, Amp Worshiper, Music
Composer, Environmental Artist, (as installations and for
ensembles or soloists (with or without electronics [and/or
computers]) self as solo performer: (processes with instruments,
objects, electronics)); writer, researcher, educator (themes
include: {morphological: pattern formation & recognition (plant,
animal, water, weather, mineral)}, {phenomenological: (visible &
invisible, temporality, real and unreal situations and
circumstances)}, {environments (ecology, interactivity)}, {(pre-)
history (& post-)});
www.jorgeboehringer.com
‘Gritstone’ combines John's new found passion for rock climbing and his popular audio software Forester. The performance focuses on the material qualities of Gritstone, which was quarried in the Peaks for use in milling flour and grinding blades. The gritstone edges of the Peaks are now a much loved climbing areas. During the performance John will create sounds using pieces of gritstone as well as using field recordings he has made across the Peak District.
Bradford-born, Wakefield-raised, John Burton grew up fascinated by
sound but it wasn’t until halfway through his painting degree at
the Norwich School of Art and Design that he discovered a computer
he was using to write his dissertation could take him on new sonic
adventures by recording and manipulating sound.
Since 2000, John
has released seven studio albums, toured widely, built expressive
interfaces for electronic music, and received the prestigious Paul
Hamlyn Foundation award. His most recent work ‘Lockdown Patchwork’
was commissioned by HCMF and Leeds Art Gallery and used interview
material, publicly submitted field recordings, and new music
written by John.
Aside from his solo work, he’s written for
theatre, dance, and radio. He was also a key member of
experimental jazz band Polar Bear, recording five albums with them
and picking up two Mercury Prize nominations.
John has performed
with Shabaka Hutchings, Talvin Singh, and Imogen Heap and
supported Matmos, Otomo Yoshihide,Yo La Tengo and Beck.
Lau Nau plays a solo concert with modular synthesizer, vocals and field recordings, creating a soundscape of the island where she lives.
Lau Nau is a Finnish composer and performer who works with
analogue synthesisers combined with acoustic sounds and field
recordings. Her music is imbued with a breadth of vision and
idiosyncratic, finely honed sound world.
Photo credit: Kirsi Kukkurainen
