Symposium Events

Since posting his sound-activated recorder to Brian Eno's "Self Storage" exhibition in 1995, Janek has established a fascinating career of sound art work and performance. He will present his steps to date which have led to "Vacant Space", the new immersive audio-visual installation commissioned by Sonic Arts Network, in which he has collaborated with sound recording artist Chris Watson, and programmer, David Tinapple.

"Recorded Delivery" remains one of the wittiest and most interesting in the field of Sound Art. It is elegant, economical and clever, and makes me wish I'd thought of it first" Brian Eno (2005)

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3.00pm: Dr. Aaron Watson "Acoustic Research of Megalithic Monuments"

As artist and archaeologist, Aaron Watson explores the ways in which prehistoric monuments and landscapes are perceived and experienced. Ultimately, Aaron's work seeks to communicate beyond the language of archaeology; to make tangible something of the awe, inspiration, uncertainty and strangeness that colours encounters with prehistoric places.

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4.15pm: Ed Baxter (Resonance FM) "Radio and Locale"

Audio is characterised by its fluidity, plurality and sense of dislocation. The analogue signal itself has become displaced in the digital realm. From this displacement, this apparent obsolescence, arises new meanings for radio. All music has become incidental. “CDs sound better when heard in the next room.”

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5.30pm: Discussion Panel feat: Richard Whitelaw (Sonic Arts Network), David Prior (Liminal), Mike Barnett (Beyond Recs/Earthwind), Neil C. Smith (artist)

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11.00-6.30pm: Open Source Audio Software Lab
Hands on exhibition of Open Source audio tools and toys from around the world.

11.00-6.30pm: Sound:Space Screen
Audio and video documentation of 16 superb international spacial sound installations and projects, ranging from tower block demolitions in Hackney to sound installations in the Catskill Mountains, USA.
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11.00-6.30pm: Sonic Exhibitions
Bracknell Gallery: Janek Schaefer "Vacant Space" • Mirror Gallery: John Stokes "Pop, Skip & Jump" • Small Gallery: Julian Konczak "Cracked Cities" • Nick Moore "Tone Poems" • Long Gallery: Barbs Attwood "Looks like Sound" • Atrium Projector: Stanza "America is Bleeding".
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Food wil be available in the Atrium Bar, and then......

Evening Performances

8.00pm: Janek Schaefer (Recital Room)
9.30pm: Neil C. Smith (Cellar Bar)
10.30pm: Kode9 & The Spaceape (Cellar Bar)

The evening sessions open with a performance/installation in the old library by Janek Schaefer creating looping soundworlds, using his custom multi-arm turntable, sampling specially made vinyl records.

Neil C. Smith's Radio Access Memory performance opens the Cellar Bar sessions, sampling live from radio transmissions picked up from the ether around South Hill Park.

Dubstep kingpins, Kode9 & The Spaceape work out the sub-woofers in the final session of urban Bass Poetry.

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