Saturday 25 August 2018, 1pm, OTO Project Space
SCHEDULE
1pm - 4 pm Workshop: Field recording with Peter Cusack
Tickets presale £25/ £30 otd ( Limited to 8 participants)
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Peter Cusack will share his practices, knowledge and reflections on field recording. During the workshop we will visit the local soundscapes around Dalston. The aim is to listen to what is there and ask how sound in the environment can be interestingly recorded and mapped. We will make audio field recordings but also explore ways of using other media to document what we hear.
Bring your sound recording devices. We will also provide some gear.
4pm - 6pm Exhibition at OTO Projects
6pm - 7pm: Performance : Gina Southgate + Cath Roberts (to be confirmed) Tickets £5 otd
Peter Cusack is a field recordist, sound artist, and musician with a long interest in the environment. He initiated the Favourite Sounds Project to discover what people find positive about soundscapes where they live and Sounds From Dangerous Places (sonic journalism) to investigate major environmental damage in areas such as the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Azerbaijan oil fields, brown coal mining in Germany and the Czech Republic and the Bialowieza Forest in Poland.
He produced Vermilion Sounds - the environmental sound programme - for ResonanceFM Radio, and was DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin 2011/12, starting Berlin Sonic Places that explores relationships between soundscape and urban development.
He is currently working on Aral Sea Stories, about the destruction and subsequent partial restoration of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan - a much-needed positive example in today’s climate change debate.
Musically he plays guitar and field recordings, improvises, writes tunes, and has worked with Alterations, Kahondo Style, Clive Bell, Nic Collins, Ute Wassermann, Viv Corringham, Michael Thieke, Blanca Regina, and others.
http://favouritesounds.org
http://sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/
Coming up through the world of freely improvised music and spontaneous site specific performance happenings on the avant garde fringe, namely the London Musicians collective, The Klinker Club, The Termite Club, The London Film Co-Op, The China Pig, The Mopomoso, Southgate was encouraged by the absurdity of that scene to 'have a go'. In The early 90's already a bit jaded of making artworks solely in response to musicians own creativity she looked to making performance work herself. She took advantage of the arts council's improvised music touring scheme to co-organise three large scale nationwide tours. These saw site specific artworks made, manipulated, trashed, dismantled and moved on at every venue. Props and costumes were chosen for their absurdist qualities as well as for their visual and sculptural potential and their sonic abilities. Extravagant sets were made from street finds, domestic objects mixed with art materials, ladders, poles, foam, polystyrene. Southgate's degree training in metalwork gave her an ability to construct real time sculpture using anything to hand within the whole environment of the gig.
Cath Roberts is a musician, artist and organiser whose work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point. The primary outlet for this is the band Sloth Racket, formed in 2015 by Cath on baritone saxophone and compositions, which has toured widely and released several albums. More recently, improvisation using live electronics and objects has led to a solo release plus the beginning of several new collaborations.
Cath has a long-standing duo with guitarist Anton Hunter (Ripsaw Catfish), as well as regular collaborations with Tullis Rennie, Benedict Taylor, Graham Dunning, Bill Thompson and others, and bandmate duties in several groups including Alex Ward’s Items 10 and 7, Madwort Sax Quartet and Article XI.
As an organiser, Cath has co-run LUME with Dee Byrne since 2013, producing concerts, tours and festivals and releasing music on their offshoot label Luminous. Tom Ward, Colin Webster and Cath organise BRÅK, an improvised music series taking place in Brockley, South East London. Cath’s visual work can be seen on many Luminous releases, Sloth Racket tour flyers and LUME publicity materials, and appeared in 2021 in the form of a giant, fragmented graphic score created for a hcmf// commission, And then the next thing you know.
