Sunday 24 March 2019, 7.30pm
“I will perform eight violins by Tim Parkinson. I recorded all the parts in 2014 and this will be its first performance in its intended spatial distribution. I will play live with the 7 recorded tracks. At times a space punctuated by violin propositions seeking contact across the room; at others a dense thicket of competing attention; sometimes supporting each other, sometimes ignoring.
My memory of Ben and my duo at the LMC in 2006 was that it was a charged performance. We’re going to do the same thing again!”
Delighted to present a three-day residency curated by London-based, Welsh violinist, Angharad Davies, as a result of the OTO Projects UK Artists Residency Fund. A phenomenal improviser, Angaharad has also amassed a considerable body of work within the fields of composition and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.
This residency is one of three at OTO for UK-based artists/groups at a vital point in their creative development, thanks to the support of Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.
angharaddavies.com
Tim Parkinson, for the last 25 years based in London writing music (described as “homeless”) such as recent albums piano trio 2020, an album, Here Comes a Monster, piano music 2015-16, (also TIME IS OVER w/Travis Just) and hybrid reclaimed opera Time With People performed somewhere in some form every year since 2014 (except pandemic-time), and other genrefluid things such as Pleasure Island and recent Oxford Triptych (for Audiograft and MAO), as well as for example five string quartets, one of which is in a large box, written for the Samuel Beckett Centre, all written for and performed by friends who understand like Mira Benjamin, Anton Lukoszevieze, the great Philip Thomas, Mark Knoop, Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker, Object Collection, and sometimes broadcast on BBC or Resonance FM or wfmu. Also occasionally performing on piano or keyboards or objects own music or others (like Foetus) from hcmf to Tate Modern to Roadburn to ATP. Also making a corner in London for music noone else programmes at Music We’d Like to Hear since 2005 and still going strong. More of all this on www.untitledwebsite.com
Benedict Drew (b. 1977, Kyneton, Australia) lives and works in Whitstable and Margate, UK. He has made installations, video, sculpture, drawing, painting, and music. Solo exhibitions include The Trickle-Down Syndrome (Whitechapel Gallery, 2017), KAPUT (QUAD, 2015), and Heads May Roll (Matt’s Gallery, 2014). Drew has released music on labels such as Mana Records and Bloxham Tapes, he often collaborates with artists and musicians, Currently active collaborations include a duo with Arianne Churchman, who have released two LP’s on Love’s Devotee & Folklore Tapes, the art collective Plastique Fantastique and the quartet Decentred (with Tom Chant, Angharad Davies and John Edwards). Drew founded the label Thanet Tape Centre in 2020 and regularly makes works for radio. He is a lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art and is represented by Matt’s Gallery.
http://www.benedictdrew.com/
https://thanettapecentre.bandcamp.com/
