Dear CRUMB list
Iım pleased to invite you to an in conversation discussion between artist
Jen Southern and Laura Sillars, Director of Site Gallery, Sheffield. This
talk will introduce Southern's new work Polyrhythmia, a participatory audio
installation developed through Sound and Musicıs Embedded Residency at
Pervasive Media Studio.
When: Wed 25 Jan 18:00
Where: Watershed, Bristol
Polyrhythmia is an orchestra of kinetic machines that play live rhythms of
the city. Participants are invited to take a Space Metronomeı on a journey
and as they move, they hear the rhythm of the speed they are travelling.
They slow to appreciate the calm ticking, and speed up to make the metronome
race. Their speed of movement through the city becomes something to play
with, hopping on and off buses or bicycles to hear the different rhythms of
their journeys. As they travel, their movements are transmitted to the
orchestra, to one of a set of kinetic machines that taps out their rhythm.
In concert with other journeys, each walker becomes part of a polyrhythm of
machines, tapping at different speeds and with different notes, a combined
orchestra of movement.
Read more about the project here: http://tinyurl.com/polyrhythmia
Polyrhythmia is inspired by the work of French sociologist and philosopher
Henri Lefebvre; and the way in which reindeer and whales use sound to
communicate. It also builds on Jenıs previous collaborative mapping works
Comob (http://www.comob.org.uk/) and Running Stitch
(http://www.satellitebureau.net/p8.php).
Join us to experience a live demonstration of the work, learn more about the
project and the challenge of using GPS to sonify movement.
To book a free place for this event, please visit:
http://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/3311/artists-talk-jen-southern-and-laura-
sillars/
This talk will also be followed at 19:30 by The Beauty of Digital: New
technologies, old aesthetics and where the two meet - a free event at
Pervasive Media Studio (situated within Watershed), in which a panel of
digital creatives share their experiences of the interplay between old and
new, followed by an audience Q&A. Introduced by Chris Sharratt, Editor of
Creative Times. Why not join us for both events? You can register for The
Beauty of Digital here:
http://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/3263/new-technologies-old-aesthetics-and-
where-the-two/
Best, Victoria
Victoria Tillotson
iShed Producer
T +44 (0)117 9157233 / http://www.ished.net / http://www.watershed.co.uk
Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
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Jen Southern: Jen is an artist and PhD student at the Centre for Mobilities
Research at Lancaster University. From learning to fly a light aircraft to
stitching live GPS routes her work plays with the idea of what it might mean
to inhabit mobile technologies. http://www.theportable.tv/
Embedded: is a Sound and Music initiative delivered in partnership with
iShed, a part of Watershed, supported by Pervasive Media Studio and funded
by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
http://soundandmusic.org/projects/embedded
Pervasive Media Studio: is Watershedıs city-centre research studio that
brings together artists, technologists and academics to explore the future
of mobile and wireless media. http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/
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