Wet Sounds UK Tour 2009
27th June - 22nd July 2009.
Curated by Joel Cahen
WET SOUNDS is a deep listening experience.
It embarks on its second tour of the UK with a new gallery of sound art curated around the theme of Audio cinema :: narrative based sound compositions which immerse the listener in abstract sonic fictions.
Check out the Schedule on the menu above for dates and locations.
Wet Sounds appears as part of the following festivals: Create09, Cardiff Festival, West Leeds Festival, Heeley Pool Centenary Events, and Camberwell Arts Festival.
LIVE PERFORMANCES 22nd JULY
Live performances by Francisco Lopez & Stefano Tedesco, Leafcutter John & Tom Haines and Sonic Fiction.
Using a separate overwater soundsystem and underwater soundsystem
It presents three distinct soundspaces, each of which may be differently experienced by members of the audience, as they move above and below the surface of the pool.
Wednesday 22nd July 09, 19.30 - 22.00
at Clissold Leisure, Clissold Road, London N16 9EX
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- Tickets £12 available here / only limited amount available -
FRANCISCO LOPEZ & STEFANO TEDESCO
Francisco Lopez is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the experimental music scene. Over the last twenty five years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. Since 1980, he has released over 200 musical works, with labels such as Alien8 Recordings, Mego, Staalplaat, Table of the Elements, Touch Music, and V2_Archief. In 2000, Lopez started the music label Absolute. He works with sound objects and microsounds.
He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, and sound installations in 50 countries of the five continents. His extended catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 150 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded twice with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. www.franciscolopez.net/
Stefano Tedesco, musician and sound artist. He specialises in percussive instruments such as the vibraphone. He has collaborated with many Italian symphonic orchestras and opera theatres. He also has collaborated with the contemporary music group Arcana Ensemble of Brescia. Stefanos research is focused on sound and space, in particular through the live performance. His music is mainly of an electroacoustic nature and during his performances he aims to establish a dialogue between the music and the space within which he works. Stefanos music is basically experimental improvisation that explores silence, noise, live electronics, texture and abstract sound. His practice includes unconventional instruments often using unusual techniques. He currently works in two trios: with David Toop (laptop) and Phil Durrant (laptop) and Okanagon with Rhodri Davies (harp) and Joe Williamson (double bass). www.stefanotedesco.net/
LEAFCUTTER JOHN & TOM HAINES
Leafcutter John is the recording name of John Burton, a UK-based musician and artist. He makes frequent use of Max/MSP in his compositions. Much of Burton's style is based in computer music and use of samples of everyday sounds. However, he also has roots as a folk musician, and this influence is apparent in his more recent work. http://leafcutterjohn.com/
Tom Haines is a sound designer and composer for film and animations. http://www.tomhaines.co.uk/
SONIC FICTION
Written by Clare Gasson based on an idea by Anna Neil.
Performed by J Milo Taylor, Anna Neil and Amir Shoat.
Sonic Fiction is proposed as a novel and new form of creative auditory expression. while drawing inspiration from electro-acoustic music, horspiel and experimental radiophonics, text-sound composition and cinema, the work succeeds in defining its own territory as a exploratory extension of these pre-existing creative practices.
A fragmented, yet strangely coherent sound world emerges populated by broken pianos, retro-futuristic industrial soundscapes, peculiar characters and a quest for absolution.
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