16 Sept 2011: TALLINN, ESTONIA, as part of Tallinn European City of Culture. Featuring Joel Cahen and La Horrox on distinct overwater and underwater soundsystems. Video projection featuring Crystal Video by La Horrox and The Committee by Cahen. The gorgeous spaceship like architecture of Kalev Spa lit by Heiki Parn.

18 July 2011: MACKAY, AUSTRALIA as part of Mackay Festival of the Arts. Featuring Joel Cahen and La Horrox on distinct overwater and underwater soundsystems. Lighting by Andy Rom.

8th May 2011: AARHUS, DENMARK as part of SPOR Festival for sound art and interesting music in Aarhus, Denmark. Installed at a great sounding pool and also hosted several tracks from artists from Nordic Sound Art collective such as Signe Lidén and Oscar de Carmen

14-15 May 2011: All Tomorrow's Parties at Butlins Holiday Camp in Minehead, UK curated by Animal Collective. Featuring three separate sound system at the swimming pool.

FESTIVAL SCOPITONE, NANTES, FRANCE
18th - 19th Sept 2010 at Piscine de la Durantiere
http://www.scopitone.org
Video

IMPACT FESTIVAL, CAEN, FRANCE
8th October 2010, 17:00 - 19:00
www.nordik.org
Video

FESTIVAL ELECTRONI(K), RENNES, FRANCE
13th - 14th October 2010
Screening on a hanging screen above the water of Herman Kolgen's Inject with live soundtrack above and below the water.
www.electroni-k.org

20 - 22 August 2010 Zollverein, Essen, Germany

Wet Sounds has been invited for three installations in the gorgeous pool at the industrial plant Zollverein near Dortmund.
As part of a week long International Syposium on Electronic Arts and as part of the events in Ruhr European Cultural Capital
Joel Cahen played live for three days through an overwater and underwater system. Additional live music by La Horrox.
More on ISEA Ruhr 2010 here

Oxford

Fri, 16th July 2010: Joel Cahen gives a talk about Wet Sounds at The Culture of Rowing and Swimming initiating dialogues into sports and art at Oxford University chaired by Dr. Tracey Warr of Oxford Brookes University.

Sheffield

Sunday 25th July 20101.30pm - 3pm at Heeley Pool
Part of Cultural Olympiad events in Sheffield Link here

Standon Calling Festival

Sunday 8th August 2010 ≈≈≈ Standon Calling Festival
DJs Spax (Resonance FM) and La Horrox playing Aquadelica and eclectic pool disco all day on Sunday. The theme is murder mysteries and classic crime.

London Fields Lido

10th July 2010
Summer afternoon at The London Fields Lido.Wet Sounds installed to a pool full of bathers and sunbathers. Live performances from Z'EV on percussion, FRANK PERRY on tibetan bowls, THE CITY SHANTY BAND a ten men acapella shanty band and JOEL CAHEN abstract sound collages to mix it all up. All throughout MAT HUMPHRY was typing passionate poetry at an underwater typewriter and desk.

AV Festival

8th March 2010 Wet Sounds at the Sunderland Aquatic Centre
10th March 2010 one of the highlights of AV Festival was Big Water

The sold out event hosted CLUSTER and :ZOVIET:FRANCE in a special gig through overwater and underwater speakers.
Curated and produced by AV Festival and Wet Sounds in partnership with Sunderland Aquatic Centre and Sunderland Council

Helsinki (F)

21st Aug 09 at the Olympic Pool as part of Helsinki Festival
The sunny day begins with alternating sessions of sound art gallery and Aquadelica sessions and ends with a unique performance by surrealist Finnish musicians KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT and an underwater dance performance by JUTTA AALTO

Kotka (F)

Monday 24th Aug 09 at Uimala Katariina :: 13:00 - 17:00
Aquadelica session by SPAX and La HORROX including the sound art gallery

Stavanger (N)

Saturday 12 Sept 09 Stavanger Svømmehall as part of NuMusic Festival
Aquadelica session by SPAX sound art gallery and live performances 3pm - 6pm
Also performances by PÃ…L ASLE PETTERSEN,ANDERS GJERDE and KURT BOLIANATZ

Bergen (N)

Tuesday 15 Sept 09 at Sentralbadet
Aquadelica session by SPAX, sound art gallery and live performances 7pm - 10pm by ESPEN SOMMER EIDE (ALOG), MAGNAR ÅM and MAIA URSTAD
In association with Lydgalleriet and Supported by Bergen Kommune

Oslo (N)

Thursday 18 Sept 09 at Toyenbadet as part of Ultima Festival
Aquadelica session by SPAX, sound art gallery and live performances 6pm - 9pm
performances by JANA WINDEREN and MAIA URSTAD
In association with Ultima, Oslo Kulturnatt and Notam

Copenhagen (DK)

Monday 21st Sept 09 at Dgi Byen
Wet Sounds installs at Dgi Byen. An interesting circular pool and spa. Presenting a bespoke 30min piece by PETER ALBRECHTSEN sound designer for Lars Von Trier's 'Antichrist'. The mix was included in the radio show Soundsoup on resonance 104.4fm London and can be heard here: www.newtoy.org/soundsoup

Stockholm (SE)

25th Sept 09 at the gorgeous Art Nouveau swimming pool Centralbadet
Wet Dreams: a surreal underwater soiree. A co-production between Wet Sounds,La Horrox and The Hoochy Koochy Club. Performances in various areas of the pool and spa.

Trondheim (N)

Sunday 18 Oct 09 at Pirabadet as part of Matchmaking Festival
Aquadelica session by SPAX, sound art gallery and live performances, 3pm - 7pm. AUDUN ERIKSEN and ARNFINN KILLINGTVEIT present SNORKEL. With help of small propellers and light sensors attached to free diver´s arms and legs, data will be registrered and transfered through isolated cabels to micro controllers and computers. These signals are used to control the sound processing and composition structures inside of Pure Data (PD). The processed signals are then being played through underwater speakers.
In association with Matchmaking and Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre

Svolvær (N)

Tuesday 20th Oct 09 at the Svømmehall
Aquadelica session by SPAX, sound art gallery and live performances, 5pm - 8pm

Tromsø (NO)

Friday 23 Oct 09 Alfheim Svømmehall
Aquadelica session by SPAX, sound art gallery and live performances
In association with Insomnia Festival and Tromsø Kunstforening

The Scandinavian Tour was kindly supported by Nordic Culture Fund, Arts Council Norway, FFUK Norwegian Fund for Performing Arts and The British Council.

Audio Cinema

Wet Sounds 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. Click on Listening Gallery above to hear works by the curated sound artists.

27th June: Camberwell Baths, London. As part of Camberwell Arts Festival. 4th July: The London Fields Lido in Hackney, London. Part of Create09.
5th July: St. Lukes Pool, Brighton with a performance by Blue Orb
6th July: Stechford Cascades, Birmingham
7th July: Chorlton Baths, Manchester
9th July: Heeley Pool, Sheffield. As part of the pools centenary events.
10th July: Bramley Baths, Leeds. As part of West Leeds Festival. with a performance by Joe Gilmore
11th July: Picton Pool, Liverpool
12th July: Batley Baths, Batley.with live performance by Neil Campbell of Vibracathedral Orchestra and Astral Social Club.
13th July: Felling Pool, Gateshead
14th July: Carlisle Pools, Carlisle
15th July: Portobello Pool, Edinburgh
16th July: Nairn Leisure, Nairn
18th July: Bridge Arts Centre, Glasgow
20th July: Splott Pool, Cardiff. As part of Cardiff Festival.

22nd July: CLOSING EVENT at Clissold Pool, Hackney, London.
Performances through a dual soundsytem by
FRANCISCO LOPEZ and STEFANO TEDESCO.
Francisco played a processed and unprocessed recordings from the Amazon while Stefano played vibraphone and a brick.
LEAFCUTTER JOHN and TOM HAINES.
A narrative piece using voice, guitar, laptop, and found objects played live in an inflatable pool.
SONIC FICTION
Written and Performed by J Milo Taylor, Anna Neil and Amir Shoat based on an idea by Anna Neil. Additional writing Clare Gasson. Sonic Fiction is proposed as a novel and new form of creative auditory expression. while drawing inspiration from electro-acoustic music 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.

Wet Sounds appears as part of the following festivals: Create09, Cardiff Festival, West Leeds Festival, Heeley Pool Centenary Events, and Camberwell Arts Festival.

The 2009 UK Tour is kindly supported by National Lottery through the Arts Council England, The PRS Music Foundation and Hackney Council.
Media Partners: Cardiff Festival and Last FM

Standon Calling Festival

2nd August 09 Wet Sounds returns to the outdoor pool at Standon Calling Festival with an outside pool soundsystem as well. A live 7hr wet mix by Spax submerged the brave swimmers and divers in Aquadelica from the aqueous nebulas of his deep space five.

Sensoria Festival Sheffield

25th April 09 Wet Sounds as part of Sensoria Festival at the diving pool in Sheffield's Pond Forge Pool
Installed with videos by Advanced Beauty - a collection of digital artworks curated by Universal Everything and musician Freeform. These videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack and for the first time will be projected and broadcast underwater Presented in association with Onedotzero.

Brighton & Hove Aqua Festival

21st March 09 at The Prince Regent Swimming Pool

London

20th February 09: as part of Discover Young Hackney at Clissold Pool. Session for 11 - 19yr

Brighton & Hove White Night

20th October 08 Wet Sounds as part of Brighton and Hove White Night with attendance of over 1000.

Standon Calling Festival

2nd August 08
Wet Sounds at the outdoor pool at Standon Calling Festival. A live wet mix by Spax submerged the brave swimmers and divers in Aquadelica. Won the UK Festival Award for Best Innovative Act.

Water

Wet Sounds embarks on its first tour of the UK with a new gallery of sound art curated around the theme of Water and human interaction with it. Click on Listening Gallery above to hear works by the curated sound artists.

6 July - OPENING EVENT - London Fields Lido, Hackney
8 July - St Lukes Pool, Brighton
9 July - Bath University Pool, Bath
10 July - Moseley Road Baths – Birmingham
11 July - Everton Park, Liverpool
12 July - Levenshulme Pool – Manchester
13 July - Bramley Baths, Leeds
14 July - Carlisle Leisure, Carlisle
15 July - Leith Victoria, Edinburgh
16 July - Nairn Leisure, Nairn

19 July - CLOSING EVENT - London Fields Lido, Hackney

featuring live performances by
NURSE WITH WOUND, ANDREW LILES, ERNESTO TOMASSINI and LA COUTEAU JAUNE
A fantastic performance by the masters of the surreal NWW and Andrew Liles, a summery chanson by Ernesto and a giant crocodile flinging rubber ducks to 8bit casiocore by La Couteau Jaune.