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Recordings

We’re just finishing up this year’s sound art season with the final “Circuit Bending” weekend on 22/23 November. Many thanks to my team of assistants, all of the artists who participated, and everyone who attended Sound:Space on 1st November. 

Recordings from some of the presentations at this year’s event are available via our Gene Pool Podcast. Subscription details can be found on the Digital Media Centre web site, or for iTunes users, directly on our iTunes Channel page.

Programme-makers from ResonanceFM and Radio Reverb were in attendance during Sound:Space and will be airing features about the event during the Clear Spot and Sound Laboratory shows respectively.

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Symposium 01.11.08

Max Eastley's Wind Flutes on the beach

Saturday 1st November sees the second Sound:Space sound arts symposium and performance event held at South Hill Park, Bracknell UK.

Speakers this year are: Max Eastley, Jana Winderen, Ray Lee, with Mike Harding of Touch moderating a panel discussion with Tony Myatt (Sight Sonic), Peter Cusack and Jana Winderen.

Max Eastley’s “Kinetic Drawings” installation occupies our Gallery, which will also be venue for the closing performance by Max Eastley and Peter Cusack. A curated selection of sound-related art works is on show around the South Hill Park Mansion, and our Cinema plays host to an amazing Chris Watson surround recording, “Beyond Ol’ Tokai” plus a curated reel of 9 international sound art and A/V works.

Full details over on the Programme page.

 

Gene Pool Podcast

Gene Pool PodcastMax Eastley’s “Kinetic Drawings” installation is the subject of the new Gene Pool Podcast. Chance music, coincidence and the limits of human perception are discussed during a tour of the new exhibition, with Max speaking about each of the pieces and some of the ideas and thoughts involved in his way of working.

Gene Pool is a quarterly talk format podcast centred on media and sound arts and contemporary art practice. You can subscribe to the podcast feed directly from the  channel page in iTunes, or listen to individual items from the channel via the list on the right of this page. More info from the Digital Media Centre site

Digital Developments

Circuit BendingOur series of artist development weekends following Sound:Space includes two unique workshops for artists with an interest in sound. 

Sat 8/Sun 9 November: Sound Installation: Interior & Exterior, led by Max Eastley

Known for his wind and water-powered kinetic sound work, inclusion of chance composition elements in gallery environments and his recent journeys recording in the Artic with the Cape Farewell project. Max leads this weekend covering location and field audio recording, installation design and creation using scale drawings and models. 

Sat 22 / Sun 23 November: Circuit Bending

The art of modifying the circuits of children’s electronic toys is taken to greater heights by Leicester-based artist Stu “Professor ASMO” Smith. In this weekend, ASMO will guide you though Day 1, ending with the creation of a unique Dub Siren from a Vtech Tiny Touch phone, followed by Day 2 exploring his speciality of of device control via analogue modular synth sequencer. All components supplied.

Examples of ASMO’s astonishing circuit-bending projects can be seen on his YouTube channel

• Download the Digital Developments Flyer (PDF)

SoundLAB

We’re happy to be able to present “soundSTORY – sound as a tool for storytelling” the 2007 series of audio pieces curated by SoundLAB, Cologne, Germany, during the symposium on 1st November. These pieces will be installed on eight computers in our Digital Media Centre media lab at South Hill Park, and allow headphone listening to audio works by: 

4th World Orchestra, Mauro Arrighi, Tautvydas Bajarkevicius, Nat Bates, Andrea Callard, Bronwen Casson, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Matthew Claire, Jessica Curry, Martin Desloovere, Paul Devens, Marcin Dopieralski, Dorsey Dunn, Jared Dunne, Chad Eby, Edward Ficklin, Satoshi Fukushima, David Goard (unclejim), Ido Govrin, Scott Hall, Le Tuan Hung, Zoe Irvine, Margaret Jameson, Sirpa Jokinen, Leonel Kaplan, Jane Fenton Keane, Elsa Lankford, Dario Lazaretto, les riches douaniers, Matt MacKissack, Isabelle Mairiaux, Wittwulf O.Malik, John Maters, Jenni Meredith, David Mooney, Jeff Morris, Monica Ong, Jo Pearson, John Plenge, Ailis Ni Riain, Roland Roos, Benjamin Rossignol, Khaled Sabsabi, Mukherjee Sayandeb, Janek Schaefer, Yolanda Spinola, Aleksei Stevens, Eldad Tsabary, Yohann Walter, Simon Whetham, Robyn Yost.

Sound:Space 2008: Atrium wall-based work selection

The call for the wall-based work is now closed. We are pleased to announce that the wall-based exhibition will include new work by Wil Bolton, Andrew Dodds, Johanna Hällsten, Dawn Scarfe, Katherine Skeldon and Ellen Sylvarnes. We would like thank all artists for their submissions. The opening reception of the Sound:Space 2008 is on Fri 19 September 6.30pm-8pm. All welcome.

Sound:Space – Screen

Sound:Space Screen will present audio and video documentation of spacial sound installations, audio and architecture projects, radio art, environmental sound interventions during the symposium day, and also as part of the ongoing exhibition programme in the Atrium Projection Space running 20th September- 9th November 2008.

We invite proposals from visual and digital artists exploring the field of sound art and the representation of sound.

The Sound:Space season also includes the “Kinetic Drawings” exhibition by Max Eastley and the international Sound:Space symposium on 1 November 2008.

Deadline: Tuesday 27th May
Application Form: • RTF • DOC