THURSDAY 7th August 2008
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5
New bi-monthly event showcasing new international underground sounds and experimental music with an esoteric visual backdrop.
Focusing on sound art, drone music and electro-acoustic improvisation, New Departures will attempt to create a friendly atmosphere where people can come and enjoy this combination of sound and visuals in a relaxed and social environment.
Performers:
Robert Curgenven
Working with harmonics, textures and resonance as articulated not only through instruments/objects, in space and place, but also in time and the dislocation of the remote, Curgenven's sound explores slowly shifting layers in the fabric of fields of perception. Creating vast landscapes from carefully detailed recordings through to immersive resonances via deft manipulations of sound pressure - his "old school" background is evident in his working by hand without computor. Playing in a variety of contexts from pure field recordings to instrumental harmonics and feedback - described by one audience member as "like a punch in the face while elsewhere flowers bloomed."
'absolutelybeautiful distillations of sound mixing the familiar textures of fieldrecordings, including falling snow and the period after a thunderstorm, with hyper-sensitive recordings of a grand piano that suggest the openspaces only alluded to by most synthesizers'.
http://www.recordedfields.net
For Barry Ray
For Barry Ray is the husband and wife duo of Carina Thorén (Sweden) and John Chantler (Australia). After a number of compilation appearances, long gone CDrs and lathe cut records under various guises, the pair bunked down over the winter of 06/07 to lay the foundations for their debut album ‘New Days’
"Regardless of what type of music you enjoy, New Days is an example of just how sonic exploration and song craft can be controlled and interwoven while allowed to exist in a relaxed, natural state. The quality of Carina and John's work far outweighs anything this writer can possibly say to describe just how inherently enjoyable and utterly listenable this album actually is.. Instrumental, experimental music rarely gets better than this - 9/10"
http://www.atbob.co.uk/
Website: http://newdepartures.net
Supported by: Sonic Arts Network - http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org
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