Saturday 12 February 2022, 8pm
Sophie Cooper will be in residence for a week in Cafe OTO's project space creating a new 8 speaker surround sound work.
Cooper will be using a combination of on site found radio sounds, processed trombone, electronics and voice to create a new piece that ruminates on broken family structures and the unspoken estrangement issue. This new piece is a continuation of exploration into this topic and follows on from her Ivor Composers Award nominated piece 'Intact' that was commissioned by hcmf// in 2019.
This project is supported by ACE as part of Cooper's DYCP award.
Sophie Cooper is a sound artist who Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) refer to as “A crucial member of Yorkshire’s far-reaching experimental music scene”. Sophie’s practice pivots around new presentations of acoustic instrumentation (primarily the trombone) with electronics, challenging conventions around composition, text placement and performance.
In recent years, Sophie has been particularly interested in publicly engaged, site specific, audio work, often in collaboration with visual artists. She has had work exhibited at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Wordsworth Grasmere Museum, Bury Art Gallery, Hereford Courtyard Art Centre and Gallery Frank as well as music venues including Cafe Oto and hcmf//.
Rochdale-based assembled field recordings, spoken word and found percussion create an industrial dubby mashup with a dark, heavy tone.
https://teslatapes.bandcamp.com/album/prangers
Tonia Ko is an American composer based in London since 2019. Her work has been recognised with a Guggenheim Fellowship and performed at HCMF and LSO St. Luke’s. She has collaborated with leading soloists and ensembles across a variety of media – in acoustic ensemble pieces, works with electronics, as well as her ongoing practice of transforming bubble wrap into a sound canvas.
