Title: Sound Escapes
Location: Space / Mare street
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-07-24

Co-curated by Irene Revell (Electra) and Angus Carlyle (LCC)

Sound Escapes is an exhibition to mark the culmination of a radical interdisciplinary
research project that brought artists together with acousticians, engineers and social
scientists from institutions across the UK in an endeavour to move beyond the notions
of negative noise towards the idea of positive soundscapes.

Alongside a public interpretation of the central research strands of the project, the
exhibition includes artists who work with soundscapes across a wide range of practices
and whose work is in conversation with the scientific and sociological questions posed
in the research. Significantly, the works have emerged from a listening process that
challenges what counts as positive; work that understands the auditory world in a more
inquisitive way, indeed an interrogation of what even counts as sound.

Title: Talk Show ICA
Location: ICA
Description: Talk Show: A month-long season of artworks and live events addressing that central feature of human life - the act of speech
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-05-19

This event brings together live performances by four figures who experiment with sound poetry and musical structure, tracing a lineage from Dada and Fluxus. Poet Ann-James Chaton and guitarist Andy Moor have collaborated frequently, most recently on an album which tells the story of a journalist through his articles and broadcasts. The Australian sound poet Chris Mann moved to New York in the 1980s, and is known for performances which involve the reading of dense texts at great speed. They are joined by the composer, musician and curator Alex Waterman, whose work explores experimental music and its relationship to language.

Received an email from Will Holder describing the event a bit longer:

We’re into the third week of Talk show at the ICA, and I thought I’d write to tell you about what should be one of my favourite evenings on the programme: I DO understand that you might be less familiar with these names than others, but nevertheless:

Alex Waterman
Chris Mann
Anne-James Chaton + Andy Moor

Alex is a musician and writer, and my collaborator on a few publications, and as you may know we’re working together on Robert Ashley’s biography. Alex will perform a solo (”Night Driver”).
Chris is an Australian friend of ours from NY, who Ashley dedicated “Yes, but is it Edible” to (published in F.R.DAVID “Stuff and Nonsense”). Chris just described tomorrow night as “animated Beckett” and “wanting, but unable to be phone sex”.
Ann-James performed at my first celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s birthday, after I first saw him (with Alex) at The Ex’s 25th birthday in Amsterdam. The Ex was a punk band who’ve got older and are now easily called ‘improvisers’. Andy Moor is their guitarist. Together Ann-James and Andy will perform “Le journaliste”.

Tuesday May 19th, at 7pm.
Free
(Booking required. Please call the Box Office on 020 7930 3647. Tickets must be collected 30 minutes before the event starts, or they will be released.)

Title: Audio Forensic
Location: IMT Gallery- Image Music and Text
Description: Comprising of ambitious works by nine artists who employ sound as the principle media of their practice, Audio Forensics demonstrates the breadth of engagement with sound in the arts, and how it can be re-evaluated in the context of an increasingly noisy world. The artists exhibiting are Libero Colimberti, Jan Hendrickse, Simone Izzi, Nitin Lachhani, Luc Messinezis, Maria Papadomanolaki, Vytis Puronas, Mark Shorey and Mark Wright.

I M T
UNIT 2/210 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD
LONDON E2 9NQ UK

Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university’s Department of Sound Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by ELECTRA and IMT
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-27

Sound art encompasses a wide range of forms and concerns and has its
precedence across many creative fields, yet, as these artists demonstrate, the
acknowledgment of sound’s significance in the arts is becoming of greater
importance as technologies develop, and as the public become ever more
aware of the interactions between sound, space and artistic practice.

Some of the works make one aware of interactions with sound that are often
overlooked, such as the effect of sonic frequencies on the body in Shorey’s
work. Puronas’s audiovisual installation immerses the visitor in questions
of reality, hyper-reality and the authenticity of digital technology, whilst Izzi
turns installation against the audience as an analogy of the psychological
pressures of contemporary society. Others, such as Messinezis’s collection
of sonic curiosities, in an audio equivalent to the Wunderkammer, or
Lachhani’s extraordinary 3D sculptures of sound waves, translate sound
into contexts more familiar in the visual arts presenting experiences that are
at once recognisable and alien.

Other work in the exhibition explores and re-evaluates major disciplines in
sound art, whether through Hendrickse’s compositional use of air currents
to play both musical and non-musical instruments, or Colimberti’s
subversion of the use of music and the sound effect in film. Likewise
Papadomanolaki and Wright explore the field recording as a discipline
through which to narrate place, the space outside the gallery and the Abbeys
of the north of England respectively, demonstrating the capacity of sound to
evoke absent environments in very tangible ways.

As a whole the exhibition provides an extraordinarily comprehensive enquiry
into how sound, and its manipulation, influences our experience and
understanding of our environment.

On Sunday 30th November there will be a symposium in which keynote
speakers Ben Borthwick, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, and Steven
Connor, professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, will address
issues of sonic practice raised by the exhibition. This event will also give
visitors the opportunity to talk to the artists personally about their work.

Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of
the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The
groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical
debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university’s Department of Sound
Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by ELECTRA and
IMT.