Wednesday 1 April 2009, 7.30pm
Seth Cluett (Troy, NY/USA lives in Paris, France) is an artist and composer whose work includes photography, drawing, video, installation, concert work, performance, and theoretical writing. His work focuses on the creative misuse and repurposing of technologies, acoustic phenomena,
and perceptual attention. He has exhibited and presented at galleries, museums, festivals, and performance venues across North America, Europe, and Asia. His work is documented on Errant Bodies Press, Sedimental, Crank Satori, BoxMedia, Stasisfield, and Wavelet Records.
Benedict Drew is an Artist who
works in performance, sound and video. Current projects include a collaboration with artist Emma Hart and the trio Portable with Rhodri Davies and Louisa Martin. Benedict has also worked with Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M and with various improvisers including Tom Chant [as duo Suscete] Angharad Davies, Lee Patterson, Steve Beresford, Seymour Wright, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell and Matt Davis. He has travelled widely performing. Benedict has also composed the soundtracks for five films by Emily Richardson. A CD of these soundtracks was released in September 2004. Radio work includes producing and presenting Instant Radio Meeting and the Kchunk Radio series Resonance FM.
Lee Patterson: Encompassing various forms, including improvised music, field recording, film soundtrack, sound installation and radio broadcast, Lee Pattersons' work is characterised by the revelation of subliminal or barely audible sounds. Utilising commonplace materials and invented methodologies, his practice aims toward a new understanding of his surroundings through altering perceptions of everyday reality. His unorthodox and idiosyncratic approaches to generating sound have led to collaborations with a host of international artists and experimental musicians.
http://www.myspace.com/therealleepatterson
Rhodri Davies works in the field of new, experimental and improvised music. He explores noise, live electronics, silence, texture and abstract sound. He has been based in London since 1995 and has performed in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe.
