>Following the success of SPIN last year and as part of Year of the
> Artist, the British Library National Sound Archive plays host to
> another programme of sound based work. Artists-in-residence the Ken
> Stanton Archive will be presenting a series of performances every
> Sunday throughout September in the British Library's St Pancras
> building.
> Video and audio of the events will be displayed in the Library's
> entrance hall,alongside still imagery, text, documentation and
> ephemera. Enter the archive on line for its first entry, "Arches" and
> monitor www.kenstantonarchive.com as it builds.
>
> The planned events are:
>
> 3rd September 'Mr Ray'
> American musician Mr. Ray muses on his residency and the primacy of
> his instrument - the bass guitar. Composing and performing as he
> speaks, a soundtrack is formed in words and music.
>
> 10th September 'Blue Cylinder'
> Councillor William Buchanan discusses Bonnybridge and its UFO
> phenomenon. When asked why Bonnybridge ? he replies `why Bethlehem?'
> Soundtrack music recorded live.
>
> 17th September 'Artists in Residence'
> Four practicing artists, via Art Education in Pentonville Prison,
> paint in situ, pictures in reverse on transparent easels. Their
> recorded, spoken contributions form the soundtrack.
>
> 24th September 'St. Pancras and St. John'
> The architecture of the library features during 'open day' the
>busiest
> day in the BL Calender. Contributions both live and recorded include
> Colin St. John Wilson - the artist of the residence.
>
> and will occur between 1pm and 4.30pm.
>
> The residency will culminate in a performance in the piazza at St
> Pancras on Saturday 25th November which will incorporate elements
> gathered from the earlier events, archival recordings and live
> performances, which will be recorded for subsequent radio broadcast.
>
>
> The Ken Stanton Archive is many things: a collaboration, a
>collection,
> a narrative and a critique. Their work is about the character of
>sound
> and how it is experienced through recording, live performance,
> broadcast and digital transmission - although what they produce may
>be
> in any medium; some elements shot on DVD, some written in chalk on a
> blackboard.
>
> Through residencies at the Harris Museum in Preston and the Czech
> Centre in London the KSA have developed a distinctive approach to art
> in a public place, allusive, elusive and slyly humorous, unfolding
> episodically as a daily dialogue with the institution and its users.
> Each step of the process wil be documented and the evidence will
> accumulate as a multi-media collection in the National Sound Archive;
> the permanent form of the Ken Stanton Archive - a unique record of a
> unique artwork.
>
>
> The residency has been sponsored by: Year of the Artist, London Arts
> Board, Kings Cross Partnership and Camden Leisure Services.
>
> All events are free.
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