A one night event which presents the visual and sonic results of collaborations between seven artists and musicians.

Originating from a recognition of the influence and emotive power of the cinematic soundtrack this project seeks to experiment with the language of the film score through a process of collaboration between seven artists and their chosen musicians/singers/narrators. The results of this creative process will be presented as live performances of the soundtracks with the simultaneous screening of the artists films.

The visual subject matter of the films varies widely, from a lyrical study of life’s poignancy through a man’s desire to build his own home, to the dynamics of a car chase and a holograph- like projection with all its sci-fi connotations. The musical response has been correspondingly broad - here the familiar sonic cues of the film score may be usurped or emphasised, be undone altogether in silence or reach a physical crescendo.

The decision to have the live performance of the soundtracks accompanying the screening of the films is a deliberate attempt to emphasise the experiential nature of the event. The live aspect adds the extra dimension of immediacy to the understanding of the visual work. The audience is being offered an immersive experience in which improvisation and chance play a large and welcome part, and where they themselves are necessary to close the performative circuit.

Artists:
Zoe Dorelli, Karolina Hedstrom, Will Hutchinson, Gabrielle Iwelumo,Nicholas Pankhurst, Kevin Quigley and Marianne Walker

Musicians:
Jussi Brightmore, Miles Copeland, Oli Don, Will Hutchinson, Mrs AliceIwelumo, Nicholas Pankhurst, Mark Wagner, Roberto Crippa and Massimo Franco



ZOE DORELLI

Zoe Dorelli's work is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious. The link that she establishes between these two states fascillitates the emergence of archetypal imagery unadulterated by influence, whether external or self motivated. The numinous conversations which emanate from this Cimmerian shade speak to us all through our collective unconscious. The resulting allegorical drawings, sculpture andperformance construct a dramatic and romantic world, reminiscent of William Blake and Dante, which illustrates the diaphanous nature of our understanding of reality.

Zoe Dorelli website

JUSSI BRIGHTMORE & MARK WAGNER

Jussi Brightmore and Mark Wagner are both London based musicians. Brightmore, who has been involved in a number of projects such as Infants, Blood Stereo, Milche Grand and Chrome Hoof, currently plays in the psychedelic noise duo Gum Takes Tooth. Wagner, formerly known as analog one-man-band **K, is one half of deathly blues duo SundayMourning. Together they will perform an improvised loop based set to the film of Zoe Dorelli.

Sunday Mourning Band on Myspace
Gum Takes Tooth on Myspace

KAROLINA HEDSTROM

Karolina Hedstrom is a Swedish illustrator based in London, with a background in photography. With inspiration from black and white photography, comic books, folk art and storytelling she creates work which deals with poetic anthropology, cultural symbols and the history of the world. She has an evident interest in the hand drawn and the spontaneous creativity that man holds.

Her work has been exhibited in various group shows across London and her illustrations have been used on record covers, music posters, clothes, walls and editorials. Hedstrom has collaborated with Nicholas Pankhurst – working here as a musician – on the soundtrack to her film.

Karolina Hedstrom website

WILL HUTCHINSON

Will Hutchinson is a designer and short film maker. His zero budget film making began in 2009 with an improvised and opportunistic location horror, shot in a now demolished asylum which was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Southern California Film Festival 2010. He is currently editing the second of two short films shot in Lithuania.

Writing the musical score himself, Hutchinson has invited a narrator to participate in the live performance of his soundtrack.

Will Hutchinson website

GABRIELLE IWELUMO

Gabrielle Iwelumo is an artist originally from the West Coast of Scotland. Her practice is open, working with varied mediums such as film, text, found objects and portraiture. Over the years she has found herself using her work as a way to understand and explore the nature of the place she grew up in and the people who shaped its culture.

Mrs Alice Iwelumo, the artists mother, will be singing her soundtrack live on the night.

NICHOLAS PANKHURST

Nicholas Pankhurst's work comes in lots of different forms and mediums. The work relates to the individual and its constructs of reality, trying to follow the internal and externalanthropic mutating of the laws of this relationship. His works consist of paintings of the English countryside, drawings made from black powder, Jukeboxes that run on teardrops, log cabins in garden sheds, soundtracks to un made movies and bronze Hawaiian trinkets.

Pankhurst is collaborating with Miles Copeland of the Superimposers for the live performance of his soundtracks.

Wonderful Sound

KEVIN QUIGLEY

Kevin Quigley is an artist, curator and musician based in London. His main interests are to re-examine ‘process’ as art and his continuing development of ideas as the ‘a priori’ of thought - 'thought made real'. Since graduating from his Masters in Contemporary Art and Music in 2003 he has produced various platforms/event/exhibts in music, print, live art. Many of these works have been developed and devised through collaborative processes. Through his ongoing platform Galvanised! he has produced a series of explorations in art and music including an annual 'festival of other music' at Cafe Oto and other one off events for 1234 festival, ICA, Stag and Dagger festival.

In 2007 he conceived THE EXPERIMENT, a monthly experimental music podcast for the ICA, producing and presenting over 30 monthly programmes. He also helped curate the successful ten day ICA experimental music festival - 'Calling out of context' in November 2009.

He is currently developing a series of works looking at Occult histories and modern thinking on the properties of magic and mysticism. The first of these was his solo exhibition 'Occult Dreams' at Madame Lillies Gallery in 2009 and then recently a live art / music piece called 'An Echoing Bell (Sacred places/bells/percussive sounds) at the Whitechapel Gallery in December 2010, which looked at leylines/occult histories of Whitechapel and the east end of London.

Quigley has invited two individual drummers: Roberto Cripps and Massimo Franco - both will respond to Quigley's edit, live on the night.

Roberto Cripps is a Sound Artist, Composer and Improviser based in London. His work includes live electronic music and installations investigating the responses of physical bodies to architechtural acoustics. His music combines realtime performance on custom analogue oscillators and effect pedals with acoustic sound sources such as zithers, bells and percussion instruments.

Massimo Franco is an artist/ musician who is currently involved in various music projects, and teaches at the Prince of Wales School for drawing.

Galvanised Festival on Myspace
ICA / The Experiment

MARIANNE WALKER

Marianne Walker’s work lies directly on the intersection between sculpture and drawing, exploring the sculptural properties of light and darkness through the physical properties of drawing. Drawing is used as a sculptural tool and her pieces are not only representations but also have a physical and three dimensional presence. Her recent work has predominantly been concerned with studying the paradox of darkness, its simultaneous absence and presence. These studies have resulted in the production of sequences of drawings which have been built using layer upon layer of pencil, which then, through their projection, attempt to reconstruct a physical darkness.

A recipient of the Observer New British Artist award in 2002 her work has been exhibited in various locations around the world, from the Californian desert to the Old Vic Tunnels.

Marianne Walker website

OLI DON

Oli Don is an experimental musician based in East London and will be producing and performing the soundtrack to Walkers projection. He plays a low baritone guitar in the instrumental heavy rock band Tetragrammaton, and other guitar based experimental solo projects. The latest of these experimentations, named Flight, is the basis for his contribution to Alchemical Reactions. This project involves loud bass guitar drones and unusual amplifier placement, designed specifically to create a visual stereo listening experience.

Oli Don on Myspace