Wednesday 5 August 2015, 8pm
An ongoing strand of the ‘Full of Noises’ programme focuses on multi-channel diffusion and spatial audio work so we were really excited to be able to commission Brona Martin to make a new work for the Hub - the UK's only public outdoor 3D ambisonic sound system.
Brona has made a new Electroacoustic work in response to the industry, community and the environment around Workington, an industrial town on the edge of the Lake District. Following the piece’s premiere at the 2015 Full of Noises festival in Barrow in Furness, we are excited to bring the full programme to Cafe OTO, including a programme of fixed media multi-channel pieces by women composers, curated by Brona.
This event is a Full of Noises project curated by Brona Martin with support from Arts Council England and PRS for Music Women Make Music.
Brona Martin is an Electroacoustic composer and sound artist from Banagher, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Her site specific works composed in stereo, 5.1 and 8-channel have included the creative exploration of soundscapes from Ireland, Manchester, West Coast Australia, Spain and Germany. Her works have been performed internationally at EMS, ACMC, ICMC, NYCEMF, ISSTA, NOISEFLOOR, Balance/Unbalance, SSSP, iFIMPaC and MANTIS.
Irish composer Karen Power’s work utilises two primary sources; acoustic instruments and everyday sounds, spaces and soundscapes. Recent projects have been presented as orchestral works, sonic installations, collaborations between sound and dance, image and experimental film, free improvisations and musical happenings. For more information go to: www.karenpower.ie
Annie Mahtani is a composer and sound artist working and living in Birmingham. As a composer, Annie has collaborated with dance and theatre and worked on a number of site-specific installations. Her work has been performed extensively in concerts, conferences and festivals internationally. Commissions have included the University of Birmingham, Rosie Kay Dance Company, Birmingham Hippodrome, Jazzlines and PRS Women Make Music. Annie is also co-director of SOUNDkitchen, a Birmingham based organisation which she founded in 2010, dedicated to promoting local sound artists and composers.
Cathy Lane is an artist, composer and academic. She works primarily in sound, combining oral history, archival recordings, spoken word and environmental recordings to investigate histories, environments, our collective and individual memories and the forces that shape them. She is inspired by places or themes which are rooted in everyday experience and particularly interested in ‘hidden histories’ and historical amnesia and how this can be investigated from a feminist perspective through the medium of composed sound. Books include: Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice (RGAP, 2008) and, with Angus Carlyle, In the Field (Uniformbooks, 2013), On Listening (2013) and Sound Arts Now (2021). Her CD The Hebrides Suite, explores aspects of life, past and present, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, through the medium of composed sound.
Cathy Lane is Emerita Professor of Sound Arts at University of the Arts London.
