AUDIBLE FIELDS: BINAURAL NIGHT
THE CUBE CINEMA, SUN 22 NOV, 8pm

A special edition of audible fields devoted to the three dimensional world of binaural sound: 108 headphone inputs will be installed into the Cube auditorium, allowing invited artists to fully control the spatial perception of each listener. Featuring field recordings, films and live performances from Dallas Simpson and Phill Harding.

Please bring your own set of stereo headphones.

Binaural is a term used to describe the method of recording sound using tiny microphones placed inside the ears or mounted onto the side of a dummy’s head. When the recording is played back through headphones, the result provides the listener with a realistic representation of the space the sounds were original captured in.

This event is part of the All Around You season of sound art events heard during the autumn season in and around Bristol.

For information please see below.

http://allaroundyoubristol.blogspot.com

Dallas Simpson has spent over 10 years involved with recording and performing binaural soundworks. The subject of each recording varies from natural surroundings, to artificial environments. In addition to recording these soundscapes, Dallas Simpson has also performed live. A number of samples of his work are available for download from his website.
http://www.dallassimpson.com/

Phill Harding is a freelance composer/sound artist based in the Pennine Hills of West Yorkshire, England. much of Phill’s current work involves the use of environmental field recordings—focusing on the sounds we usually ignore or filter out—to point out the beauty in the mundane.
http://www.phillharding.org/

audible fields 8pm Thursday, 17th September 2009

Audible Fields; Francisco López
Thursday 17th September 2009
Doors open at 8pm, Tickets £4 Advanced, £5.00 Door

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in 60 countries. His extensive catalog of sound pieces has been released by more than 180 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival.

In this special edition of audible fields, Francico Lopez will discuss how his creative practise has been shaped over the past 30 years by two main environments of influence that divert from common music training: the independent home-music worldwide network (starting in the late 70s) and the influence of ‘real world’ sonic
environments, particularly from nature. His work with field recordings is not informed by representational goals but rather by the intention of creating new worlds of sonic experience based on a transformation of that source / inspirational ‘reality’.

This talk is in prelude to Francisco’s performance at the Arnolfini on the 18th September 2009 and forms part of the ‘all around you’ series of events taking place in Bristol and beyond over the coming autumn season.

http://www.franciscolopez.net/

audible fields 8pm Sunday, 12th July 2009

Featuring performances from

Weather Machine (Robert Curgenven)
Elemental Music (Z'ev)
Also two exclusive field recordings from Francisco Lopez
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Individual Biographies


ROBERT CURGENVEN: WEATHER MACHINE
Returning to sound as the physical articulation of space through vibration, resonances and the body beyond merely hearing. Room harmonics and subtle feedback combine with pristine elemental field recordings - choruses of twittering insects from the verdant tropical rim, Aeolian fences underscore detailed recordings of desert storms.
“These unearthly visions reveal something about the palpable strangeness and near-alien experiences that can be encountered when one visits these extreme, physical zones. Far from offering us the comfort of a canopy, [this sound] is intent on exposing us to the rawness of desert winds and the heat of a merciless sun.”
http://www.recordedfields.net


Z’EV: ELEMENTAL MUSIC
Since 1984, Z’ev has been concentrating on performing in a more traditional mallet-percussion style, albeit with highly idiosyncratic and 'extended' mallet percussion techniques and 'self-made'/adapted instruments and accoutrements. In point of fact, Z'EV doesn't actually consider the results as “music" per se, but more as orchestrations of highly rhythmic acoustic phenomena.
It is also worth noting that Z'EV does not consider his performances as solos, but rather as the unique inter-reactions between five elements:(himself), (his instruments), (the particular physical space of the performance), (the particular time and geographic location of the performance) and (the energies of the audience). While the first two will of course remain the same, a change in any of the last three will result in a totally different performance.
http://www.rhythmajik.com


Francisco López: Mamori Sound Project
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in 60 countries. His extensive catalog of sound pieces has been released by more than 180 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival.

Mamori Sound Project is a 2-week workshop/residency for professional and semi- professional sound artists and composers with previous experience in the area of sound experimentation and field recordings. It takes place at Mamori Lake, in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon , and involves theoretical/discussion presentations, field work and studio work. The workshop/residency has a special focus on creative approaches to the work with field recordings, through an extensive exploration of natural sound environments. It does not have a technical character but is instead conceived and directed towards the development and realization of a collective project of sonic creation with the interaction of all participant artists/composers.
http://www.franciscolopez.net

Audible Fields, 8pm Sunday 31st May 2009

Featuring performances by

Benedict Drew and Louisa Martin
Matthew Lovett and Ian Watson
Plus field recordings played within the darkened auditorium

Biographies


Benedict Drew
Benedict Drew is an Artist who works in performance, sound and video. Current projects include a collaboration with artist Emma Hart and the trio Portable with Rhodri Davies and Louisa Martin. Benedict has also worked with Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M and with various improvisers including Tom Chant [as duo Suscete] Angharad Davies, Lee Patterson, Steve Beresford, Seymour Wright, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell and Matt Davis. He has travelled widely performing. Benedict has also composed the soundtracks for five films by Emily Richardson. A CD of these soundtracks was released in September 2004. Radio work includes producing and presenting Instant Radio Meeting and the Kchunk Radio series Resonance FM.
http://www.benedictdrew.com



Louisa Martin
Louisa Martin is an artist who works with live sound and performance. Interests include the idea of art as transmission; presentation, expression or action by non-linguistic non-representational means. Recent projects include a soundtrack for a film by Kathleen Herbert, and a collaborative cd release on Another Timbre with Rhodri Davies, Michel Doneda, Phil Minton and Lee Patterson. In addition to the trio ‘Portable’ with Benedict Drew and Rhodri Davies, Louisa has performed with various musicians and artists including Otomo Yoshihide, Dominic Lash, Angharad Davies, Tomas Korber, David Toop, Ivan Seal.



Matthew Lovett
Matthew Lovett is an improvising musician with a background in free jazz as well as computer-based performance. He trained under Keith Tippett and has recorded and released music with Full Circle as well as the multi-instrumentalist Deri Roberts. Recent work includes a collaboration with percussionist Javier Carmona and electronics/turnablist Kamil Korolczuk on an extended Techno-based improvisation for night clubs.



Ian Watson
Ian Watson Produces sound from broken down, found and re-kindled electronics and tape for 'The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain' and 'Lowe Opta'.
He has self-released several projects alongside Richard Bowers, Mark Jollliffe and Dsic on Phantomhead Recordings and has 2 forthcoming releases on Dielectric Records in the U.S.

http://www.myspace.com/matthewlovettianwatson