An evening of improvised sound art performances featuring:

The Quiet Club with guest David Toop

Anthony Kelly & David Stalling

Strange Attractor -
Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea, David Stalling with guest David Toop

After a very successful gallery residency project in the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland, Strange Attractor return with a new series of durational live performances in venues across Ireland and England in conjunction with the publication of a new Book & DVD about the project.

The Strange Attractor project (featuring Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy, Mick O'Shea, David Stalling) comes to Cafe Oto, London, to perform live with special guest David Toop and to launch their new full colour book and DVD. Strange Attractor will give an improvised sound performance; an experiment with technology and combined media to explore creative possibilities resulting in an experience that offers multiple points of entry for the audience. The audience can expect a wide range of sound making devices including stones, self-made instruments, electronics, amplified textures, tabletop percussion, theremins, field recordings, radios etc. During tonight’s event, David Toop will say a few words about the project and his involvement with it over the past year.

These performances are in support of the new publication about the Strange Attractor project. This full colour Book and DVD covers all aspects of the project - including images from the live performances and gallery installations, live excerpts and other related recordings amongst specially commissioned essays from the likes of David Toop, Stephen Vitiello, Steve Roden, Jed Speare and Bernard Clarke. Signed copies of this publication will be available from Café Oto, The Crawford Gallery, Farpoint Recordings, The Pigeon Wing and Soundfjord.

DAVID TOOP

Tonight’s special guest David Toop has published five books including Ocean of Sound, Rap Attack, Haunted Weather and Sinister Resonance. Exhibitions he has curated include Sonic Boom for the Hayward Gallery, and Playing John Cage for Arnolfini Bristol. His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975; since 1995 he has released eight solo albums, including Black Chamber and Sound Body. As a critic he has written for many publications, including The Wire, The Face and Leonardo Music Journal. His sound works have been shown in Beijing, Tokyo and the National Gallery, London.

THE QUIET CLUB + ANTHONY KELLY & DAVID STALLING

Also included on tonight’s bill are The Quiet Club (Danny McCarthy and Mick O'Shea) who have been recognised as one of Ireland's leading sound art improvisation groups, and duo Anthony Kelly and David Stalling who are becoming known at home and abroad for their improvised live sets and sound & video based installations.

STRANGE ATTRACTOR

The Strange Attractor project began in November 2010 (at The Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland) with a series of monthly four hour durational sound performances within the gallery spaces inviting, international guests including David Toop & Mary Nunan, Stephen Vitiello, Alessandro Bosetti, Rhodri Davies, Lee Patterson, Mel Mercier and Steve Roden amongst others. These performances attracted large audiences who have experienced with the artists developing relationships between sound, visual art, music and choreography.

An audio CD, Soundcast 4x4 (+1) is currently available from www.farpointrecordings.com. The CD features audio extracts from the first Strange Attractor performance and comes in a specially designed fold out sleeve containing texts by Peter Murray (Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland) and Francis Halsall (NCAD, Dublin, Ireland).

Strange Attractor - with Guests David Toop and Mary Nunan from Farpoint Recordings on Vimeo.

Strange Attractor 1: System
Anthony Kelly, Irene Murphy, Danny McCarthy, Mick O’Shea, David Stalling. Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
(Photo: Patricia Klich)