We thought it was time for a change, and are currently in the process of updating and adding new info and pictures to the blog. We've added to our About section, including a potted history of DIY film fun with EXP24.
The Workshops section has been updated, and we have a few new features including an automatic mailing list signup (to the right of the page) and a Search function to help you find what you're looking for!
An OKO Filmmakers page, with stills and descriptions of our films/performances will be coming soon... plus a (hopefully) easy to navigate contents list for different happenings and events.
We'll also be posting more about our own ideas/films/performances and experimental film events and screenings in Leeds and beyond...
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
The Illuminated Room: FILMS BY ROBERT FENZ & BRUCE BAILLIE [Thursday 10/11/11]
The Illuminated Room is curated by Will Rose [Olsen, Evolution, Nowhere], and is a programme of avant-garde film/video screenings at Leeds College of Art and Design. Screenings start at 5pm and are free.
This week he's showing films by two of Mark's favourite experimental documentary filmmakers - Bruce Baillie and Robert Fenz...
The Illuminated Room
FILMS BY ROBERT FENZ & BRUCE BAILLIE
Leeds College of Art, Vernon Street Lecture Theatre, LS2 8PH
Thursday 10 November 2011, at 5pm
FREE and open to all
The Illuminated Room is a series of free screenings that survey the field of artists’ film and video. Contemporary moving image work is screened alongside films and videos from the histories of experimental/avant-garde film, video art and underground cinema.
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Robert Fenz's 16mm films are at once lyrical, ethnographic and acutely personal. His starting point is often a person or place, and from there he works intuitively to ‘reflect a deeper understanding of the human condition.’ To make CORRESPONDENCE he travelled to the locations of three influential films made by the pioneering ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner: West Papua, Ethiopia and Benares (India). "CORRESPONDENCE is not a straightforward commentary on Gardners’s films; it is an elegy for a kind of image-making that is in the process of disappearing." (Fenz)
Bruce Baillie was a key figure in the independent filmmaking scene of the '60s and '70s, and his film MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX, is one of the canonical works to emerge from that period. The film is both a requiem conceived on the occasion of the murder of President Kennedy, and a tribute to the Lakota Sioux, the native people of Dakota, USA. "The film a celebration of what has passed away from our hysterical milieu of materialism and technological redneckery!" (Baille)
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Films:
CORRESPONDENCE, Robert Fenz, USA/Germany, 2011, 30min, 16mm
MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX, Bruce Baillie, USA, 1964, 20min, 16mm
. . .
Further 2011/12 screening dates for The Illuminated Room:
10 November, 17 November, 1 December, 19 January, 23 February, 15 March, 26 April, 17 May, 7 June
This week he's showing films by two of Mark's favourite experimental documentary filmmakers - Bruce Baillie and Robert Fenz...
The Illuminated Room
FILMS BY ROBERT FENZ & BRUCE BAILLIE
Leeds College of Art, Vernon Street Lecture Theatre, LS2 8PH
Thursday 10 November 2011, at 5pm
FREE and open to all
The Illuminated Room is a series of free screenings that survey the field of artists’ film and video. Contemporary moving image work is screened alongside films and videos from the histories of experimental/avant-garde film, video art and underground cinema.
. . .
Robert Fenz's 16mm films are at once lyrical, ethnographic and acutely personal. His starting point is often a person or place, and from there he works intuitively to ‘reflect a deeper understanding of the human condition.’ To make CORRESPONDENCE he travelled to the locations of three influential films made by the pioneering ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner: West Papua, Ethiopia and Benares (India). "CORRESPONDENCE is not a straightforward commentary on Gardners’s films; it is an elegy for a kind of image-making that is in the process of disappearing." (Fenz)
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| Correspondence [Robert Fenz, 2011] Image credit: www.markwebber.org.uk |
Bruce Baillie was a key figure in the independent filmmaking scene of the '60s and '70s, and his film MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX, is one of the canonical works to emerge from that period. The film is both a requiem conceived on the occasion of the murder of President Kennedy, and a tribute to the Lakota Sioux, the native people of Dakota, USA. "The film a celebration of what has passed away from our hysterical milieu of materialism and technological redneckery!" (Baille)
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| Mass for the Dakota Sioux [Bruce Baillie, 1964] Image credit: blipmagazine.net |
Films:
CORRESPONDENCE, Robert Fenz, USA/Germany, 2011, 30min, 16mm
MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX, Bruce Baillie, USA, 1964, 20min, 16mm
. . .
Further 2011/12 screening dates for The Illuminated Room:
10 November, 17 November, 1 December, 19 January, 23 February, 15 March, 26 April, 17 May, 7 June
Monday, 10 October 2011
Drawing on Film at National Media Museum (6 & 7 October)
We had a great two days at the National Media Museum, Bradford. As part of the Co-operative Film Festival (now celebrating it's 45th anniversary), The Drawing on Film workshop ran from 11-2.30pm each day on the 1st floor of the museum. The workshop attracted over 200 people across the two days, who collaborated on creating in total around 700ft of hand-drawn film.
Although we were upstaged slightly (!) by the Weasley twins of Harry Potter fame on day one, school groups from Manchester, York and Bradford as well as families and young people who were visiting the museum got stuck in; producing some really nice frame-by-frame and abstract animation directly onto the surface of the film.
The two days concluded with a screening of both films in the Cubby Broccoli Theatre. The films will be made available for online viewing, as yet to be arranged, and will also be added to the ever-expanding Unravel project, to become part of the longest hand-painted film in Britain.
Many thanks to Rachel Preston and all the staff at NMM for your help and support.
Although we were upstaged slightly (!) by the Weasley twins of Harry Potter fame on day one, school groups from Manchester, York and Bradford as well as families and young people who were visiting the museum got stuck in; producing some really nice frame-by-frame and abstract animation directly onto the surface of the film.
The two days concluded with a screening of both films in the Cubby Broccoli Theatre. The films will be made available for online viewing, as yet to be arranged, and will also be added to the ever-expanding Unravel project, to become part of the longest hand-painted film in Britain.
Many thanks to Rachel Preston and all the staff at NMM for your help and support.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
GHOSTS: A tribute to Albert Ayler... this Friday 7th October 2011
PAUL HESSION + DEREK HORTON + LEON THOMAS JOHNSON + EOIN SHEA
7 October 2011 – from 7pm - at Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds.
GHOSTS, a tribute to Albert Ayler
[The following write up is from http://www.ayler.co.uk...]
Ghosts is a collaborative work by the artists Derek Horton and Eoin Shea, and the musicians Paul Hession (percussion) and Leon Thomas Johnson (tenor saxophone). Hession and Johnson improvise to two twin-screen film projections by Horton and Shea. The project is a tribute to the legendary musician Albert Ayler, 41 years after his death in New York at the age of 34. After falling from the Staten Island ferry in mysterious circumstances, Ayler’s body was found on 25 November 1970.
Ghosts has its origins in an earlier collaboration between Derek Horton and Leon Johnson several years ago: an animated sequence of Horton’s photographs of three significant locations in New York - Sonny Rollins’ practice spot on the Williamsburg Bridge, 48 East 3rd where Sun Ra and his Arkestra lived, and Congress Street Pier, where Albert Ayler’s body was washed up after he drowned in the East River. This was sound-tracked with a recording of a Johnson saxophone improvisation multi-tracked in post-production by Horton.
This work can still be seen at http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/001/002/articles/dhortonljohnson/index.php.
For the current project, Eoin Shea has re-worked the original footage in one film, and also made an entirely new film, in collaboration with Horton and in response to recordings of Albert Ayler’s music. This utilises video footage shot for the project in the vicinity of Congress Street Pier by New York-based artist Les Joynes, together with especially commissioned typography by Andrew Wilson Lambeth. The resulting twin-screen black-and-white projection is focused on textural and rhythmic image qualities and will provide the starting-point as well as the backdrop for Hession and Johnson’s improvisation.
Ghosts is the second collaborative production between Eoin Shea and Derek Horton. The first, The Man Who Saved The World, took place in the abandoned shell of a former shopping space in Leeds city centre on 23 Sept 2010. Within 22,000 square feet of reclaimed space, Home of the Brave sound-tracked Shea’s ten screen circular cinema of re-cut science fiction imagery with free jazz inflected renditions of classic western film tunes. Documentation can be seen at http://www.themanwhosavedtheworld.co.uk/ and http://vimeo.com/19129342
The first performance of Ghosts will take place in the landmark 18th century Holy Trinity Church in Leeds city centre on Friday 7th October from 7pm. It is a self-funded project and attendance is free. Subsequent touring dates are planned and should be announced shortly.
Paul Hession, born in Leeds, is one of the major free-jazz drummers in the world. He took up the drums in his teens and has played in many European & Scandinavian countries as well as Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, USA and Canada, performing with many world-renowned improvising musicians including Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Sunny Murray, Marshall Allen, Frode Gjerstad, Peter Kowald, Joe McPhee and Borah Bergman. Other collaborators include Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), Otomo Yoshihide, Alan Wilkinson, Simon Fell, Mick Beck & Hans-Peter Hiby and Paul Woolford.
Leon Thomas Johnson is a member of The Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra, a Leeds-based afro-beat band influenced by Fela Kuti and others. In 2009 the band were signed to independent record label First Word Records and released their self-titled debut album in 2010. As an improviser Leon has worked with Paul Dunmall and others, and regularly with Paul Hession in their duo Gunboat Diplomacy.
Derek Horton is an artist, writer and teacher. After working in community arts, adventure playgrounds and alternative education in the 1970’s, he spent many years as a university-based art school academic. He now works independently on art projects, writing and publishiing, including the online magazine Soanyway.
Eoin Shea is an artist working with film, video, painting, collage and installation, often collaborating with musicians to produce large-scale live events. These include work with Vibracathedral Orchestra co-founder Michael Flower, Richard Ormrod's Home of the Brave, The Telescopes, and Ashtray Navigations, making film and video for live improvised sound-tracking and working with the textural and sensorial impact of film in a live performance environment.
Albert Ayler - playing with a wild, atonal sound in his hometown of Cleveland in the 1950s, an era in which a good deal of jazz was getting quieter and smoother, the other-worldly Ayler focussed obsessively on a contemporary vision of the long-gone ragged polyphonies, street-marches, gospel songs and spirituals of the earliest African-American music. He once said of his music: “If people don't like it now, they will.” He didn’t live to see that happen, but history was on his side. The Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek was a devoted Ayler disciple in the late-1960s, as was Coltrane acolyte and subsequent acid-jazz star, Pharoah Sanders. The unique British improv original Evan Parker still has Ayler inflections, and even Sonny Rollins and the late Michael Brecker, despite greater acceptance in a more conventional contemporary jazz world, appreciated the intensity of Ayler's extraordinary sound.
7 October 2011 – from 7pm - at Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds.
GHOSTS, a tribute to Albert Ayler
[The following write up is from http://www.ayler.co.uk...]
Ghosts is a collaborative work by the artists Derek Horton and Eoin Shea, and the musicians Paul Hession (percussion) and Leon Thomas Johnson (tenor saxophone). Hession and Johnson improvise to two twin-screen film projections by Horton and Shea. The project is a tribute to the legendary musician Albert Ayler, 41 years after his death in New York at the age of 34. After falling from the Staten Island ferry in mysterious circumstances, Ayler’s body was found on 25 November 1970.
Ghosts has its origins in an earlier collaboration between Derek Horton and Leon Johnson several years ago: an animated sequence of Horton’s photographs of three significant locations in New York - Sonny Rollins’ practice spot on the Williamsburg Bridge, 48 East 3rd where Sun Ra and his Arkestra lived, and Congress Street Pier, where Albert Ayler’s body was washed up after he drowned in the East River. This was sound-tracked with a recording of a Johnson saxophone improvisation multi-tracked in post-production by Horton.
This work can still be seen at http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/001/002/articles/dhortonljohnson/index.php.
For the current project, Eoin Shea has re-worked the original footage in one film, and also made an entirely new film, in collaboration with Horton and in response to recordings of Albert Ayler’s music. This utilises video footage shot for the project in the vicinity of Congress Street Pier by New York-based artist Les Joynes, together with especially commissioned typography by Andrew Wilson Lambeth. The resulting twin-screen black-and-white projection is focused on textural and rhythmic image qualities and will provide the starting-point as well as the backdrop for Hession and Johnson’s improvisation.
Ghosts is the second collaborative production between Eoin Shea and Derek Horton. The first, The Man Who Saved The World, took place in the abandoned shell of a former shopping space in Leeds city centre on 23 Sept 2010. Within 22,000 square feet of reclaimed space, Home of the Brave sound-tracked Shea’s ten screen circular cinema of re-cut science fiction imagery with free jazz inflected renditions of classic western film tunes. Documentation can be seen at http://www.themanwhosavedtheworld.co.uk/ and http://vimeo.com/19129342
The first performance of Ghosts will take place in the landmark 18th century Holy Trinity Church in Leeds city centre on Friday 7th October from 7pm. It is a self-funded project and attendance is free. Subsequent touring dates are planned and should be announced shortly.
Paul Hession, born in Leeds, is one of the major free-jazz drummers in the world. He took up the drums in his teens and has played in many European & Scandinavian countries as well as Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, USA and Canada, performing with many world-renowned improvising musicians including Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Sunny Murray, Marshall Allen, Frode Gjerstad, Peter Kowald, Joe McPhee and Borah Bergman. Other collaborators include Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), Otomo Yoshihide, Alan Wilkinson, Simon Fell, Mick Beck & Hans-Peter Hiby and Paul Woolford.
Leon Thomas Johnson is a member of The Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra, a Leeds-based afro-beat band influenced by Fela Kuti and others. In 2009 the band were signed to independent record label First Word Records and released their self-titled debut album in 2010. As an improviser Leon has worked with Paul Dunmall and others, and regularly with Paul Hession in their duo Gunboat Diplomacy.
Derek Horton is an artist, writer and teacher. After working in community arts, adventure playgrounds and alternative education in the 1970’s, he spent many years as a university-based art school academic. He now works independently on art projects, writing and publishiing, including the online magazine Soanyway.
Eoin Shea is an artist working with film, video, painting, collage and installation, often collaborating with musicians to produce large-scale live events. These include work with Vibracathedral Orchestra co-founder Michael Flower, Richard Ormrod's Home of the Brave, The Telescopes, and Ashtray Navigations, making film and video for live improvised sound-tracking and working with the textural and sensorial impact of film in a live performance environment.
Albert Ayler - playing with a wild, atonal sound in his hometown of Cleveland in the 1950s, an era in which a good deal of jazz was getting quieter and smoother, the other-worldly Ayler focussed obsessively on a contemporary vision of the long-gone ragged polyphonies, street-marches, gospel songs and spirituals of the earliest African-American music. He once said of his music: “If people don't like it now, they will.” He didn’t live to see that happen, but history was on his side. The Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek was a devoted Ayler disciple in the late-1960s, as was Coltrane acolyte and subsequent acid-jazz star, Pharoah Sanders. The unique British improv original Evan Parker still has Ayler inflections, and even Sonny Rollins and the late Michael Brecker, despite greater acceptance in a more conventional contemporary jazz world, appreciated the intensity of Ayler's extraordinary sound.
Thursday, 29 September 2011
"Drawing on Film" workshop @ National Media Museum: 6 & 7 October 2011
Now that the Unravel tour is winding down, we're starting to think about running different workshops, activities, screenings and events over the next few months. We'll post more about what we'll be up to as we go...
As a start, OKO will be facilitating "Drawing on Film": two days of hands-on, direct filmmaking workshops and screenings at the National Media Museum, Bradford, as part of the Co-operative Film Festival.
The workshops are free, open access and run from 11-2.30pm on both Thursday 6th and Friday 7th October. The film created at the workshop will be screened in the Cubby Broccoli Theatre at 4pm on each day. You'll need to book tickets to come to the screening, but again, entry is free.
There's plenty of activities to get involved with during the festival - see the Co-op programme for more info.
We'll also be checking out the Daniel Meadows and Donovan Wylie exhibitions currently at NMM - both are part of the Ways of Looking festival which runs from 1st-30th October 2011.
And watch this space for more on what we might be contributing to the closing party of Ways of Looking!
As a start, OKO will be facilitating "Drawing on Film": two days of hands-on, direct filmmaking workshops and screenings at the National Media Museum, Bradford, as part of the Co-operative Film Festival.
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| Image: Unravel at Tate Britain |
The workshops are free, open access and run from 11-2.30pm on both Thursday 6th and Friday 7th October. The film created at the workshop will be screened in the Cubby Broccoli Theatre at 4pm on each day. You'll need to book tickets to come to the screening, but again, entry is free.
There's plenty of activities to get involved with during the festival - see the Co-op programme for more info.
We'll also be checking out the Daniel Meadows and Donovan Wylie exhibitions currently at NMM - both are part of the Ways of Looking festival which runs from 1st-30th October 2011.
And watch this space for more on what we might be contributing to the closing party of Ways of Looking!
Unravelling update....
The Unravel workshop tour is nearing completion (only a few more workshops to go until the longest hand painted film in Britain is finished!)...
...Over the next few months the Unravel crew... that's OKO, fellow filmmakers Chris Paul Daniels, Maria Anastassiou and DJ/sound artist Kelvin Brown... will be preparing this epic collaborative work for installation and exhibition, telecine-ing 16 HOURS of hand-painted 16mm film and editing and overlaying over 100 HOURS of interviews to create the soundtrack.....
If you're interested in finding out more about the project, do check out the Unravel blog.
If you're interested in finding out more about the project, do check out the Unravel blog.
Monday, 15 August 2011
Friday, 29 July 2011
Unravel at Manchester Mela - 23/24 July 2011
Unravel had a spot in the Arts tent on both days of the Manchester Mega Mela, alongside stalls run by local artists & educators, the Whitworth Art Gallery and the Musuem of Science and Industry.
As well as inviting people to collaborate on making film, we had a projector set up so that participants could have a go at experimenting with live loops all day. We had a busy and fun two days at this vibrant and inclusive festival!
As well as inviting people to collaborate on making film, we had a projector set up so that participants could have a go at experimenting with live loops all day. We had a busy and fun two days at this vibrant and inclusive festival!
Monday, 11 July 2011
Unravel @ Tate Britain, Friday 8th July 2011
Wow, what a day! Unravel was invited to run a day workshop at Tate Britain. As well as facilitating the classic Unravel collaborative 16mm film workshop in the Manton Studio, we also had a smaller room just off the Duveens to introduce participants to experimenting with live 16mm loops - drawing and scratching onto to looped filmstrips as they ran through the projector.
We had over 80 participants over the course of the day who all got involved with creating their part of the longest hand-painted film in Britain...
The workshop screening took place in the North Duveens: the main hall of Tate Britain, attracting other visitors who stopped to check out the film that everyone had made.
More photos can be found at OKO's Flickr photostream and the Unravel blog. Thanks to everyone who helped out and joined in on the day!
We had over 80 participants over the course of the day who all got involved with creating their part of the longest hand-painted film in Britain...
The workshop screening took place in the North Duveens: the main hall of Tate Britain, attracting other visitors who stopped to check out the film that everyone had made.
More photos can be found at OKO's Flickr photostream and the Unravel blog. Thanks to everyone who helped out and joined in on the day!
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Unconscious Archives #1 Tuesday 12th July, London
If you're about in the Big Smoke this week... check this out!
JAMES HOLCOMBE & ADAM ASNAN | LONDON | no.w.here
Thames Walks, black and white 2 screen 16mm projection by James Holcombe with live sound diffusion by Adam Asnan.
Bearing little resemblance to documentary or reconstruction, Thames Walks is more an exhibition of extractions; a series of optical/audible, concrete/anecdotal artifacts, gathered at locations along the River Thames from it's source to the sea.
Performable for any combination and number of screens and projectors Thames Walks can be seen to follow a polyptych scheme - a fragmented, but thematically reciprocal collection of discrete parts. These parts are offered without a specific linear order, diffusing any sense of a teleological direction. This increases the capacity for each walk to be appreciated independently, as well as part of a greater, episodic structure.
James Holcombe seeks to film perfect rolls of film in camera, following a structure that determines the sequential outcome of each section of image.
Adam Asnan captures his source material using both conventional and expanded recording techniques, re-presenting these with a range of minimal compositional agitations.
Both artists engage with their subjects via a highly considered and sensitive approach, thus in collaboration, the meeting of disciplines is treated with equal respect and attention.
www.no-w-here.org.uk
www.adamasnan.blogspot.com
BEN GWILLIAM | MANCHESTER | thosesoundsbetween
Ben Gwilliam is a sound artist active in the fields of sound installation, film, improvising new music and performance. He works live with reel to reel machines, punctured tape, feedback and assorted amplified sources.
He has been active in the experimental improvising music scene over the last ten years, mustering collaborations with people such as Claus van Bebber, Helmut Lemke, Lee Patterson, Matt Wand, Michael Vorfeld, Jason Zeh and others. He is currently Embedded Artist in Residence with Sound and Music & no.w.here (London).
http://www.thosesoundsbetween.co.uk/
JOEL STERN | AUSTRALIA | OtherFilm, Abject Leader, Disembraining Machine
Joel Stern is an artist and performer based in Brisbane, Australia primarily working with experimental music & sound. His interest is in manipulating and shaping ‘noise’ material into new forms that generate uncanny emotional, psychological and physical resonances for the listener.
Joel’s work incorporates DIY electronics, homemade instruments, text, field recordings and flashing lights.
Joel's key projects include Abject Leader (with filmmaker Sally Golding) a duo widely recognised as Australia's premier exponents of contemporary expanded cinema, and Sky Needle (with Sarah Byrne, Alex Cuffe and Ross Manning) a primitive music ensemble using handmade and recycled instruments.
His numerous releases have come on labels including Naturestrip, MusicYourMindWillLoveYou, Breakdance the Dawn, Alberts Basement, Ground Fault, Impermanent Audio and many others.
www.disembraining.com
www.otherfilm.org
youtu.be/MhQ4ZoGmgNQ
SALLY GOLDING | AUSTRALIA | OtherFilm, Abject Leader
Golding combines film projection with performance and installation creating live cine-sculptures and interactions. Folly and foray into physiological cinematics, embodied beams and alchemical projection performance. Photographic compositions from printed optical sound and uprooted vinyl library music. Deconstruction of cinematic materials and apparatus, creating slippage between materialist investigation,
sculptural forms, and bodily intervention. Cracked cinema for darkroom compositions, light bleed, contorted projection sports, dismembered narrative, strained sonorousness, whimsical instructional and wanton optics.
www.otherfilm.org
youtu.be/LrElkVYpRIw
ADAM ASNAN | LONDON
Four of One and One of the Other (12'00)
A simple study for four sets of identical apparatus and one different, each relaying its part in a cooperative arrangement. For this performance Adam is joined by James Holcombe, Louie Rice, and Vasco Alves.
Adam Asnan is a London based composer-performer of musique concrète. Adam's work promotes the aesthetic potential of fixed (recorded) and amplified sound, with certain technical principles that activate wider notions of acousmatic reception, and of the 'image' subject to the artifice. His compositions, live performances and audio-visual collaborations have been presented and staged across Europe and has recordings published by Entr'acte and Senufo Editions.www.adamasnan.blogspot.com
HELM | LONDON | Birds of Delay
Elements of musique concrete, noise, drones and tones all play a role in a world where the sound of the human voice morphs into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation. Helm is the solo project of Luke Younger, one half of the London/Berlin noise duo Birds of Delay. Drawing equally upon noise and ambient elements, the music on Impasse illustrates Younger’s continuing development within the field of experimental electronics and drone composition. Utilising synths, feedback systems and effects, these two long-form tracks offer a dense mixture of blistering yet melodic walls of sound. Younger has previously toured extensively through Europe and the US as a member of Birds of Delay with artists such as Emeralds, Pain Jerk, Son of Earth, and has shared bills with the likes of Wolf Eyes, Sonic Youth, The Ex, The Skaters, Sightings, Aaron Dilloway.
http://www.myspace.com/birdsofdelay
http://snd.sc/lWEzJi
UNCONSCIOUS ARCHIVES #1
Presented by OtherFilm www.otherfilm.org & no.w.here www.no-w-here.org.uk
Tuesday 12th July
7pm - 10pm
Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Rd, London, E2 9EG
£4 donation, byo poisons
::: Strained Sonorousness. Wanton Optics :::
Inauguration of Unconscious Archives Lab
JAMES HOLCOMBE dredged microcosm
BEN GWILLIAM labyrinthine magneto-euphoria
HELM patterned panic
JOEL STERN leghorn foghorn crackle
SALLY GOLDING psychotropic distendencies
ADAM ASNAN w/ James Holcombe, Louie Rice, Vasco Alves
and featuring horrific, scientifically accurate film digests and library sounds
from the Unconscious Archive vaults...
Supported by Apiary Studios apiarystudios.org, Netaudio London www.netaudiolondon.org, Penultimate Press penultimate-press.blogspot.com
JAMES HOLCOMBE & ADAM ASNAN | LONDON | no.w.here
Thames Walks, black and white 2 screen 16mm projection by James Holcombe with live sound diffusion by Adam Asnan.
Bearing little resemblance to documentary or reconstruction, Thames Walks is more an exhibition of extractions; a series of optical/audible, concrete/anecdotal artifacts, gathered at locations along the River Thames from it's source to the sea.
Performable for any combination and number of screens and projectors Thames Walks can be seen to follow a polyptych scheme - a fragmented, but thematically reciprocal collection of discrete parts. These parts are offered without a specific linear order, diffusing any sense of a teleological direction. This increases the capacity for each walk to be appreciated independently, as well as part of a greater, episodic structure.
James Holcombe seeks to film perfect rolls of film in camera, following a structure that determines the sequential outcome of each section of image.
Adam Asnan captures his source material using both conventional and expanded recording techniques, re-presenting these with a range of minimal compositional agitations.
Both artists engage with their subjects via a highly considered and sensitive approach, thus in collaboration, the meeting of disciplines is treated with equal respect and attention.
www.no-w-here.org.uk
www.adamasnan.blogspot.com
BEN GWILLIAM | MANCHESTER | thosesoundsbetween
Ben Gwilliam is a sound artist active in the fields of sound installation, film, improvising new music and performance. He works live with reel to reel machines, punctured tape, feedback and assorted amplified sources.
He has been active in the experimental improvising music scene over the last ten years, mustering collaborations with people such as Claus van Bebber, Helmut Lemke, Lee Patterson, Matt Wand, Michael Vorfeld, Jason Zeh and others. He is currently Embedded Artist in Residence with Sound and Music & no.w.here (London).
http://www.thosesoundsbetween.co.uk/
JOEL STERN | AUSTRALIA | OtherFilm, Abject Leader, Disembraining Machine
Joel Stern is an artist and performer based in Brisbane, Australia primarily working with experimental music & sound. His interest is in manipulating and shaping ‘noise’ material into new forms that generate uncanny emotional, psychological and physical resonances for the listener.
Joel’s work incorporates DIY electronics, homemade instruments, text, field recordings and flashing lights.
Joel's key projects include Abject Leader (with filmmaker Sally Golding) a duo widely recognised as Australia's premier exponents of contemporary expanded cinema, and Sky Needle (with Sarah Byrne, Alex Cuffe and Ross Manning) a primitive music ensemble using handmade and recycled instruments.
His numerous releases have come on labels including Naturestrip, MusicYourMindWillLoveYou, Breakdance the Dawn, Alberts Basement, Ground Fault, Impermanent Audio and many others.
www.disembraining.com
www.otherfilm.org
youtu.be/MhQ4ZoGmgNQ
SALLY GOLDING | AUSTRALIA | OtherFilm, Abject Leader
Golding combines film projection with performance and installation creating live cine-sculptures and interactions. Folly and foray into physiological cinematics, embodied beams and alchemical projection performance. Photographic compositions from printed optical sound and uprooted vinyl library music. Deconstruction of cinematic materials and apparatus, creating slippage between materialist investigation,
sculptural forms, and bodily intervention. Cracked cinema for darkroom compositions, light bleed, contorted projection sports, dismembered narrative, strained sonorousness, whimsical instructional and wanton optics.
www.otherfilm.org
youtu.be/LrElkVYpRIw
ADAM ASNAN | LONDON
Four of One and One of the Other (12'00)
A simple study for four sets of identical apparatus and one different, each relaying its part in a cooperative arrangement. For this performance Adam is joined by James Holcombe, Louie Rice, and Vasco Alves.
Adam Asnan is a London based composer-performer of musique concrète. Adam's work promotes the aesthetic potential of fixed (recorded) and amplified sound, with certain technical principles that activate wider notions of acousmatic reception, and of the 'image' subject to the artifice. His compositions, live performances and audio-visual collaborations have been presented and staged across Europe and has recordings published by Entr'acte and Senufo Editions.www.adamasnan.blogspot.com
HELM | LONDON | Birds of Delay
Elements of musique concrete, noise, drones and tones all play a role in a world where the sound of the human voice morphs into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation. Helm is the solo project of Luke Younger, one half of the London/Berlin noise duo Birds of Delay. Drawing equally upon noise and ambient elements, the music on Impasse illustrates Younger’s continuing development within the field of experimental electronics and drone composition. Utilising synths, feedback systems and effects, these two long-form tracks offer a dense mixture of blistering yet melodic walls of sound. Younger has previously toured extensively through Europe and the US as a member of Birds of Delay with artists such as Emeralds, Pain Jerk, Son of Earth, and has shared bills with the likes of Wolf Eyes, Sonic Youth, The Ex, The Skaters, Sightings, Aaron Dilloway.
http://www.myspace.com/birdsofdelay
http://snd.sc/lWEzJi
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