A programme of sound and vision in three sets; presenting new music by four unique performers.


JENNIFER WALSHE

Jennifer Walshe is a composer, vocalist and performer. Her work has been performed all over the world by ensembles such as Alter Ego, ensemble recherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, Crash Ensemble, Con Tempo Quartet, The Rilke Ensemble, The Irish Chamber Orchestra, Musica Nova Consort, and The Scottish Chamber Orchestra. In addition to her activities as a composer, Jennifer frequently performs as a vocalist, specialising in extended techniques.

'The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years' - The Irish Times

'The wild girl of Darmstadt' - Frankfurter Rundschau




SHARON GAL

Sharon Gal is a UK experimental vocalist, performer, artist and improviser. She performs solo and in collaborations with Alex Ward, Steve Beresford, Steve Noble and Phil Minton. She is involved with London¹s Resonance 104.4 FM and has produced and presented radio shows, including the acclaimed DIGGERS with Sav X (Edwin Poucey).
www.sharon-gal.com


ANDIE BROWN

Andie Brown began playing music as a bassist before developing These Feathers Have Plumes in 2007. She creates sonic landscapes using traditional and non-traditional instrumentation including, glass,double bass, found-sound and field recordings. Andie frequently collaborates with others including Sharon Gal; Adam Bohman and Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides.
thesefeathershaveplumes.com/




PEOPLE LIKE US - Preview of "CITATION CITY"

Citation City is inspired by 'The Arcades Project' by Walter Benjamin, created from 1000s of clippings of text and visual media from 19th Century Paris, collaged using a system of "convolutes", collated around subjects of key motifs, historical figures, social types, cultural objects from the time. By gathering and assembling such groups of similar yet unrelated, he revealed a hidden, magical encyclopaedia of affinities, a massive and labyrinthine architecture of a collective dream city. On reading Benjamin, his forward thinking approach to editing astonished Vicki Bennett, and the similarity of their creative processes of cutting and collating extensive lists of subject matter by context. Vicki focuses on collaging and editing from 300 major feature films where content is either filmed or set in London - creating a story within a story, of the film world, living its life, through extraordinary times of change, to see what happens when these multiple narratives are combined, what will the story tell us that one story alone could never tell?

http://peoplelikeus.org/2014/artist-statement-for-people-like-us/

Citation City Trailer from Vicki WFMU on Vimeo.