FRIDAY 16th July 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £7 adv. / concs
£10 on the door
Fruit for the Apocalypse invite you to participate in a preview of
East London Soundscapes at Cafe Oto. East London Soundscapes has been created for the first World Listening Day, which happens in a secret location on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The purposes of World Listening Day are to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world
around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography.
East London Soundscapes is a music and dance event that seeks to explore, embrace and respond to sounds heard in the East End of London. Four roads run parallel out of the city; to major ports in the
East of England; and under the Thames going south to the Channel and Continental Europe. Goods and humans use East London’s busy roads to leave or enter the metropolis by land. The starting point for all exploration is therefore the sound of rubber on asphalt and the infernal internal combustion engine. What lies beneath this rumble are stories of travel, of sirens and heartbreak and crime; stories of nature, of farms and churchbells and growing with nursery rhymes. And above it all the Lear-Jet whispers hubristically.
Several pieces have been created by the company: They have explored noise and its meaning as complimentary pairs of sound artist and movement artist. They will share their experience as travelers and residents, artists and spectators in an underground venue made of concrete and brick where chinks of light filter through the walls to
remind us that there is indeed a future, but only when we accept the present .
Performing at the preview will be:
Gregory Emfietzis
Ben Felstead
Victoria Karlsson
Alexandra McGlynn
Aurelia McGlynn-Richon
mimosa| moize
Roberto Rusconi
Burkard Weber
Joseph Young
Biographies:
Gregory Emfietzis
Born in Thessaloniki (Greece), Gregory started his musical life by learning the violin and singing in a children's choir. Later on, he recorded three albums with a heavy metal band as violinist, participated in numerous international festivals, concerts and operas as member of vocal ensembles and was also involved in many projects as composer and multimedia performer. Gregory moved to Huddersfield (for his MA) in 2004 and is currently completing his PhD (Brunel University). His work is focusing on the theatricality of music performance, audio scenography and manipulation of space, as well as the interaction between performers and the audience.
www.emfietzis.com
Ben Felstead
Ben Felstead is a UK based sound artist. A lot of his work has been about our natural soundscapes. Contrasts of how manmade sound can intrude and in reverse sometimes sit contrapuntally with natures tones. Ben studied for his degree in Sonic Art at Leicester de Montfort. His recent work is a portfolio of compositions exploring the aesthetic contrasts in composing natural soundscapes.
Victoria Karlsson
Conducting sonic experiments in the noise of everyday, what I find, hear, see, feel filtered through my own fractured reality. These end up somewhere in the landscape between sound and music. Victoria Karlsson’s work is exploring various approaches to sonic art and design, such as the distortion of every day or 'found' sounds, the
displacing of familiar sounds, decaying and echoes of reality as we know it. Examining the connection between sounds and their associated emotions within the listener, and sometimes how the correlation breaks down.
I see sound and sonic art as part of a bigger whole, often working in
relationship with other media, the environment in which it is heard or
performed, who is listening, where and when.
Originally from Sweden, Victoria has worked on several live art events, including FoolishPeople's performance at the ICA of “Dead Language”, for which she created sonic environments and soundscapes that acted as a part of the performance, not as a sound effect or background noise. She sees sound as a living, interactive part of a physical performance environments and also work with the spatial aspects of sound and sound design.
Alexandra McGlynn
Studied fine art, anthropology and photography. Photographed the Isle of Dogs, where her mother was born and grew up, from 1988-1990. Began making sound pieces in 1996. When her daughter, Aurelia, was born in 1998 she began recording her early 'speech', the sounds of her playing and other daily activities with her out and about in London. From 2002 she began to photograph the ephemeral structures she makes with cushions, dolls and other objects. The home, parent/child relationships, children's creativity and the effects of environment on children are of particular interest to her.
Aurelia McGlynn-Richon
Began studying classical guitar in 2004, age 6, on the First Guitar Course, Royal Academy of Music, London. Attended Asian Music Summer School in 2006 including in introduction to the Chinese pipa, organised by the Asian Music Circuit. Took part in guitar workshop for intermediate/advanced players with the guitarists Eden-Stell, London Guitar Festival, Kings Place, November 2008. Awarded Music Scholarship to St. Marylebone School, September 2009. Performed Vivaldi's Guitar Concerto in D, RV93, (with violin and cello), St. Marylebone Music Scholars' Concert, Wigmore Hall, June 2010. Also composes on Garage Band. Likes Manga and eating crisps.
Lucia H. Chung & Martin J. Thompson – mimosa | moise
mimosa | moize is sound artists Lucia H. Chung (Taiwan, b.1979) and Martin J. Thompson (UK, b.1978). Their work consists of creating concept-led minimal and ambient electronic music, utilizing resonant qualities found in sound, space and objects. They work with an attention to that of the experience found in the perception and reception of sound, and how this relates to the person and a given context. Mostly they work with sounds consisting of a more narrow frequency range, thus allowing other sounds heard outside the music the space to move into and out of the fore. This interest is fundamental in influencing their preference of sounds and is subsequently contributing to the continuing development of their style.
www.moize.net
Roberto Rusconi
Born in Venice in 1972, Rusconi developed an early interest in both classical and contemporary music. He studied first under the supervision of his grandfather, outstanding first violin under Toscanini. He graduated from Padova Conservatory in Composition, Piano, Choral Conducting and Electronic Music. Rusconi won several international prizes and was invited in many continental residencies and fellowships. Rusconi studied with C.A.Grandi e W.Dalla Vecchia, A.Guarnieri. In 1994 he moved to the UK, as cultural refugee, where he now lives and works as freelance producer, composer and teacher. He has been Artistic Director of Intrasonus Festival in Venice. In 2008 he was Shortlisted for SPNM and he is a Founder Member of Sound and Music. His composer catalogue includes a wide number of acclaimed chamber and ensemble works, but he is also known for his electronic music productions. His music has been played by outstanding performers as Klangforum Wien, Contrechamps, members of the Arditti Quartet, JACK String Quartet and Trio Fibonacci. His works have been performed all over Europe, in Russia and USA. He also worked to record a production of his own supported by Unicef: the CD “Blue Gold” on the worldwide water shortage issue. In October 2009 his score for large orchestra
“Lo Sguardo di Ecate “ was performed at World Music Days ISCM in Sweden by the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. He was selected as an active composer for Experimental Studio Academy Freiburg and for a 2009/2010 residency at Aldeburgh www.intrasonus.eu
“Rusconi seems to me to combine tenacity of purpose with excellent
organizational and interpersonal skills , intelligence , intellect and
vision.” (David Alberman)
Joseph Young
Joseph originally trained as an actor at Drama Centre, London and performed in theatre and television for over 25 years. Since re-training as a sound artist at the University of Brighton in 2005, Joseph has developed a body of work for installation, public spaces and performance. These include commissioned workshops for Sonic Postcards and Creative Partnerships; a series of films working with disabled artists for Architecture Inside Out at Tate Modern and Woking Lightbox http://www.architecture-insideout.co.uk/; a short film collaboration with live artists Curious for Channel 4’s Three Minute Wonders www.placelessness.com; and the founding of The Neo-Futurist Collective - an artist group inspired by the Art of Noises manifesto and the creative transformation of urban noise www.neofuturist.org.
Recent works include a walking performance on Wall Street USA, in September 2008, as part of Conflux Festival www.confluxfestival.org
Fruit for the Apocalypse
Are a new artist collective who focus on live art, theatre and music. Their principal curator is Robber Wagner, who, as Richard Wagner’s celebrity Newfoundland dog, is a fitting avatar for a curatorial praxis which aims to conquer the fin de siècle apocalyptic stasis which post-capitalist art has suffered for a while. As a culture are we in fear of shipwreck as we aimlessly escape debt collectors east of Baltic Sea? We have yet to conquer our fears and embrace the joy of living.
LINKS
www.fruit-for-the-apocalypse.eu/peaches
www.fruit-for-the-apocalypse.eu/marmalade
East London Soundscapes Preview:
July 16th 2010 at 8pm
Café Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
East London Soundscapes Première:
July 18th 2010 at 4pm
Secret Shoreditch Location
Ticket price: £7 Concessions | £10 adv
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