Patrick Farmer has been working with Sound and Music and the Forestry Commission for the last two years. He has been taking sporadic trips up to Grizedale in the Lake District, staying in a log cabin, watching Luis Buñuel films over and over, writing his third publication, yew grotesque, and composing a series of event based prose scores for a performance in Lancaster, with Hughes, Rodgers, and Stephen Cornford, later on this year.

Farmer, Hughes and Rodgers will take up residence in the Project Space for four days, they will spend time discussing and developing Farmer's compositions, performing them into the wall, so to speak.

This residency will culminate in a free performance, talk, or something else. More info TBA.



Patrick Farmer plays motors as if they were spinning drums and tries to write books. Recently he has picked up on some old habits, such as turning bass drums into plant pots, and recording greylag geese. He is a founder member of the Set Ensemble and co-founder of the Compost and Height label. When he finishes his PhD, he's promised himself he'll walk the Norfolk Coast.

www.patrickfarmer.org

Sarah Hughes plays zither and piano in improvising groups and as a founding member of the Set Ensemble, a group of musicians dedicated to the performance of contemporary composition. She performs with long-term collaborators Patrick Farmer, Daniel Jones and Stephen Cornford and has also performed with musicians such as Antoine Berger, Seijiro Murayama, Angharad Davies and Jurg Frey. She has performed internationally and has participated in various festivals such as Blurred Edges in Hamburg, i and e in Dublin, Sounds Like in Canada and Cut and Splice in London. She is the co-founder of Compost and Height, curating projects such as Michael Pisaro’s Only [Harmony Series #17] New Works by Manfred Werder, Ben Owen and Patrick Farmer, and the Water Yam Project.

sarahhughes.org

Samuel Rodgers is a musician and sound artist working across improvisation, sound recording, performance and installation. His work is concerned with exploring acoustic phenomena and developing haptic relationships to sounding objects and spaces - sound reproduction and recording being key in the articulation of these spatial relationships. Samuel is a member of the Set Ensemble and co-curates the Consumer Waste record label.

samuelrodgers.info/
consumerwaste.org.uk/


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OTO PROJECT SPACE

The OTO Project Space is located just around the corner from Cafe OTO at 1-7 Ashwin Street - E8 3DL.

It was created as a space for artists to develop new work and for OTO Projects to present workshops, talks, film screenings and installations relating to the core programme at Cafe OTO. The building was designed by Assemble - a young, critically acclaimed design practice based in London - and built by a team of more than 30 volunteers.