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Acoustic Subtraction

jamie — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:05:06 +0000

Acoustic Subtractions are events in public space: Twenty minutes of white noise followed by twenty minutes of “silence.”

The audible world is masked and cancelled out by the potentials of all sound, the act of listening cleansed by its own saturation. Saturate every atom. This piece was devised by Will Schrimshaw and Jamie Allen for Resonator (2010). Acoustic subtractions have been undertaken in a number of locations internationally, including Kielder Forest, UK, Semperdepot, Vienna, Suncheon Wild Tea House, and Platoon Kunsthalle Seoul and the Eyup Sultan Mosque in Istanbul.

Partners: Will Schrimshaw, worm/detour, AV Festival, Platoon Kunsthalle, Mullae Art Space Seoul

MLB

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:08:16 +0000

An international invitational for white-light and noise performance practitioners. Studio recordings at STEIM, as well as video releases highlighting artists involved in noise aesthetics, directness in electronic performance, hardware minimalism and signal synaesthesia.

Partners: Canada Council for the Arts, STEIM.org, worm/detour, Culture Lab, Jo Kazuhiro, Yao Chung-Han, Loud Objects, Phil Stearns, Atsuhiro Ito, OT301, RHIZ, Issue Project Room (Thanks to Adam Parkinson, Michael J. Horan, Ko Le Chen)

Link: mlbmlbmlb.com

Resonator

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:52:58 +0000

Resonator (part of the AV10 Festival) is an event looking at resonance and vibration in the context of sound art and related pursuits. An international group of metaphysicians and artists working with sound are brought together for a week long process: talks and discussions, technical workshops, physical building sessions, sound walks and other ‘field trips’ and collaborative creation of artwork. At the end of the process a gallery exhibition is prepared from sketches, models and prototypes created during the week. Co-organised with Will Schrimshaw.

Partners: AV10, Arts Council England, Culture Lab, Nurit Bar-Shai, James D’Angelo, Martin Howse, Brandon LaBelle, John Stuart Reid, Ann Rosén, Hankil Ryu, Kanta Horio

Link: largervibrationalcontinuum.org

From Here On Out

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:13:20 +0000

A multimedia GPS walking tour of Newcastle city center, exploring the industrial social-history of the city. Energy and infrastructures hardware are digitally layered onto the real cityscape, and experienced in-place. Human performers and physical items spotted in the city are further used to merge uncanny media and real worlds. Commissioned by Wunderbar Festival 2009.

Partners: Wunderbar Festival, Northern Film and Media, Andrzej Wojtas, Guy Schofield, Rachel Gay, Culture Lab

Link: http://fromhereonout.org/

ROBO POEMS

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:11:41 +0000

ROBO POEMS is micro-radio poetry, powered by the city. Urban energy siphoning strategies are used to power hidden radio transmitters in the city – sending out messages of forlorn robotic disenchantment by Kingston, Ontario poet/author Corey Murphy.

Partners: Culture Lab, EYEBEAM

Links: robopoems.com

introducing

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:01:03 +0000

Music concrete composition for multichannel playback. The piece presents preliminary stages of recorded, material musical experience. Cassette tapes jostling, compact disc player hardware mechanism – all the accidental preludes of the listening experience. Remixed for 5.1 surround sound, 2009.

Partners: Culture Lab, ((audience)), Glasgow University

The Age of Wire and String

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:04:13 +0000

The Age of Wire and String is an improvisational trio composed of cellist Peter Nicholson, guitarist Neil Davidson and Jamie Allen on various electronics. Played shared bills with experimental and improvisational musicians Christopher Reiserer, Raymond McDonald, George Burt. (photos by Will Schrimshaw)

Partners: Culture Lab, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Canopy New Music

Links: Age of Wire and String on Myspace

Chiptune Marching Band

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:57:18 +0000

Chiptune Marching Band is a workshop and performance. It involves people from all walks of life making electronic sounds with one another, out in the world and in the open air. Armed with the tools and know-how for hacking together alternative-power systems and square wave sensor circuits, we take to the streets.

Partners: Culture Lab, Eyebeam, Bent Festival, Pixelache, NK Berlin, Space Studios, ACM Creativity and Cognition 2009, Siggraph 2009

Links: chiptunemarchingband.com

Most Music Ever

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:53:30 +0000

A graphical representation of the sound spectrum of selected vinyl records is laser etched onto their surface. Presented as wall-mounted, glass-encased, framed ‘collectors recordsʼ.

Partners: Culture Lab, Eyebeam

Speaker Sketch

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:51:38 +0000

A drawing machine that uses very, very loud music to move a drawing implement. Presented as active installation and drawing exhibition.

Partners: Eyebeam