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SOUNDINGS: THE SYMPOSIUM , THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER 11AM 9PM
XAVERIAN COLLEGE AND THE WHITWORTH ART GALLERY, MANCHESTER
£7 students and concessions
£10 adults
£5 evening performance only
An introduction to and exploration of contemporary horizons in sound, art
and music. A day of talkshops, workshops, master-classes and evening
performances. Artists, commentators and producers presented in association
with the Futuresonic02 Festival.
Note: the Symposium will be of interest to those studying, practising or
commenting on contemporary art, sound, music and media.
For a booking form please contact Clare Gannaway, Post-16 Coordinator, The
Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester
M15 6ER, 0161 2758451 or [log in to unmask]
For further programme information please contact John Brady on 0797 6610581
or [log in to unmask]
SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS:
Audio Research Editions
Colin Fallows founded audio Research Editions in 1998 as a limited edition
imprint for artists' soundworks. Using the limited edition print as a formal
model, the imprint has to date published over two hundred works by artists
from over twenty countries. Colin Fallows is Professor of Sound and Visual
Arts at Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores
University.
Sonic Art: time and place
Drew Hemment is director and founder of futuresonic, the UK's annual
festival of electronic music and audio-visual arts. In addition he is a
freelance writer, curator and producer.
Big Bang and Beyond!
The history and context of improvisation in sound and music: from found
object, Scratch Orchestra, to the Wiffum Woffum band of Keighley. Scott
Hawkins, experimentalist, presents a review of Outsider Art in the Sound
Age. Scott Hawkins is director of the MAXIS Festival and the Experimental
Music Collective.
Sound and Vision
Rodney Wilson is an independent arts television programme producer. He has
been executive producer for the Sound-on-Film series for BBC TV that include
In Absentia (Karl Heinz Stockhausen and the Quay Brothers) and The New
Math(s) (Hal Hartley with music by Louis Andriessen and Michel Van Deraa).
Sound Commissioning
Work&Leisure International commission contemporary art and curate
exhibitions and events and have a particular interest in sound. They will
illustrate some recent commissioned projects and preview Band Wagon Jumping,
an exhibition of artistsı work for 7" vinyl recordings that will open at The
International 3 Gallery in Manchester on November 16 2002. Band Wagon
Jumping includes three new commissions for 7" vinyl recordings by Hayley
Newman, Die Kunst and Matt Wand. Work & Leisure International is a
partnership between Paulette Terry Brien and Laurence Lane based at
Manchesterıs International 3 Gallery. Since 1999 Work&Leisure International
has commissioned / co-commissioned 19 artists to make new work in addition
to curating exhibitions in the UK and overseas.
SYMPOSIUM PERFORMANCES:
grapevine Ben Ponton
grapevine uses the game of Chinese whispers as a compositional determinant.
A sample of sound / music will be chosen as an original source from which
the sound work will be constructed. This is played to a single listener
(once only) who then vocally repeats as closely as possible the original
sound. The vocalisation is recorded and is used as a new original sound
which in turn is played to another listener who also vocalises the sound
heard, which is recorded, played to another listener and so on. This
process will continue throughout the Symposium day to maximise the
opportunity for interactive participation in the construction of an artwork.
The final performed soundwork will be presented during the Whitworth Art
Galleryıs evening programme.
Ben Ponton is a sound artist and performing musician based in Newcastle upon
Tyne. In addition to his own projects, he works with the innovative music
group, :zoviet*france: and, with Fiona Wright, is part of the performance
art group ultr.
Sonic Territories Scott Hawkins
An active installation and live musical (organised sound) performance
derived from a symposium masterclass. It is a three-dimensional diffusion of
sound in a given space using a twenty-four speaker surround sound system
known as SELENE. Designed and built by Scott Hawkins using redundant
information and communication technology (ICT). SELENE incorporates up to
eight performers at once, playing together in a free-improvisation manner,
or pre-arranged and conducted by a ninth member of the group. SELENE has a
flexible 10M Diameter where the audience are invited to sit (or lay down)
inside the perimeter of the circle.
SYMPOSIUM SCREENINGS:
In Absentia Karl Heinz Stockhausen and the Quay Brothers.
The New Math(s) Hal Hartley with Louis Andriessen and Michel Van Deraa.
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Clare Gannaway Post 16 Coordinator
The Whitworth Art Gallery The University of Manchester Oxford Road
Manchester M15 6ER United Kingdom
Telephone: + 44 161 275 7450 Direct Line: + 44 161 275 8451 Fax: + 44 161
275 7451
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.whitworth.man.ac.uk/
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