The symposium event on Saturday 1st November attempts to pack in a rich and diverse selection of work and presentations into the day. We begin at 11.00am with the presentation of the Chris Watson surround sound recording in our Cinema and run through to 7.30pm when the event will end with a performance by Max Eastley and Peter Cusack inside the “Kinetic Drawings” installation in the Gallery. There will be breaks during the day to allow viewing of the other works in the exhibition programme, Sound:Space – Screen in the Cinema, and the SoundLAB V “Sound Stories” collection in the media lab.
Speaker Schedule
11.30am: Max Eastley
12.30pm: Jana Winderen
2.30pm: Tipping Point (Discussion Panel)
4.15pm: Ray Lee
Recital Room
South Hill Park’s beautiful wood paneled old library is the venue for the presentations during the symposium.
• Max Eastley “Kinetic Drawings”
Since the late 1960’s Max Eastley has been exploring the relationship between chance music and art alongside environmental forces such as wind and water. As a musician, composer and sound designer, his work creates moving forms which produce or play with sound. Max Eastley is an innovative figure in the field of sound art, exhibiting at the Sonic Boom show at the Hayward Gallery in 2000. He has exhibited his sound installations internationally, and worked closely with a wide range of interdisciplinary artists, musicians and filmmakers, including Brian Eno, Peter Greenaway, Evan Parker, Thomas Köner, Eddie Prévost and The Spaceheads.
Eastley’s current exhibition, which will be on show here in the Bracknell Gallery brings together many strands of his kinetic an sound sculpture work, making use of a selection of discrete pieces which take on a new relationship with each other and the space itself.
Jana Winderen, Sound Artist, (Norway) is currently exploring and researching sounds from under the oceans and their invisible topographical soundscapes. Using the latest hydrophone technology, she seeks to describe a hidden and mysterious world. Recent projects have included field trips to Greenland, Iceland, The Barents Sea, and fjords and glaciers in Norway. Jana is also working with Chris Watson, recording the communication between cod following their migration from the deep ocean to their spawning grounds.
She is currently working on an album to be released later this year through Touch. Performing regularly, she also has produced sound installations in Asia, Europe and Canada.
Here she talks about her field trips, their relevence to her work, and reveals possible ways of transforming the work into a live or installation space.
www.janawinderen.com
• Ray Lee “Invisible Forces”
Ray Lee is an artist, composer, performer and lecturer. Over the past twenty years he has made work that includes performance, installation, composition, and photography.
Ray Lee’s work investigates his fascination with the hidden world of electromagnetic radiation and in particular how sound can be used as evidence of invisible phenomena. He is interested in the way that science and philosophy represent the universe and his work questions the orthodoxies that emerge and submerge according to the currently fashionable trends. He creates spinning, whirling and pendulous sound installations/performances that explore ‘circles of ether’, the invisible forces that surround us.
His large scale perfomance/installation “Siren” has been seen at The Shunt Vaults, London, British Council Showcase, Edinburgh Festival 2007, Ars Electronica, Austria 2007 and is about to tour internationally during 2008. He lectures in contemporary arts and music at Oxford Brookes University.
www.invisible-forces.com
• “Tipping Point” Panel Discussion
Touch’s Mike Harding chairs proceedings, with guests Peter Cusack, Jana Winderen and Tony Myatt of Sight Sonic exploring the details of the artist’s motivations, processes and modes of presenting sound work.
Bracknell Gallery
1.00-6.00pm: “Kinetic Drawings” Max Eastley’s current work will be on show in the Bracknell Gallery, alongside a curated selection of submitted works.
Cinema
Chris Watson Surround-Sound Installation
We will use the Dolby audio system in our 60 seat Cinema to play back an amazing surround recording by master sound recordist and artist, Chris Watson.
11.00am/4.00pm: “Beyond Ol’ Tokai”
In Beyond Ol’ Tokai, he has collected sounds from the no-man’s-land between Kenya and Tanzania, a place populated by elephants. Chris Watson describes: “The matriarch rumbles “let’s go” and the herd of 29 animals starts to move, munches its way through the grass, takes a break to drink at that thorny brushy waterhole, around them the air is beating with infrared sounds, nothing can stop them, they move in an area beyond any map, somewhere beyond Ol’ Tokai”.
Sound:Space – Screen
1.15-2.30pm/5.00-6.30pm: Curated collection of international audio-visual work submitted in response to our call for works. 13 audio and video pieces presenting interactive work, sound installation documentation and a/v pieces by artists from UK, Taiwan, Norway, USA, Switzerland and France.
Download a PDF of the full list of works
Digital Media Centre
11.00-6.00pm Our media lab will host an exhibition of interactive and recorded sound pieces. Artist Jorn Ebner and Cologne’s SoundLAB will showcase computer-based projects.
Evening Performance
7.00pm: Max Eastley & Peter Cusack
A short performance inside the “Kinetic Drawings” installation to end the day.
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