Come to Being Human 2016s London Hub, Ministry of Hope and Fear in the Chancellor's Hall on Thursday - immerse yourselves in the sounds of Senate House library and explore life in the iconic Senate House building through an Orwellian sonification experience. This is the final performance a 10month residency funded by Leverhulme Trust, offering … Continue reading Hacking The Silence: Sonification of Senate House Library hosted by Hannah Thompson
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Resonance Live at The Tank by Resonance FM
Live electronic music by Radionics Radio + Viewfound. Join Resonance FM for this special launch party for two CD releases and a live recording for broadcast. The venue, Silver Road, is an amazing converted water tank, a new arts and performance space for South London. Radionics Radio finds Resonance/Sound and Music“Embedded” composer Daniel Wilson joined … Continue reading Resonance Live at The Tank by Resonance FM
William Kentridge – Whitechapel
https://www.facebook.com/WhitechapelGallery/videos/10154680154098149/?autoplay_reason=all_page_organic_allowed&video_container_type=0&video_creator_product_type=2&app_id=2392950137&live_video_guests=0 Revolution, colonialism, exile in South Africa. Discover the work of William Kentridge. http://bit.ly/2abvXRqWilliam KentridgeThick TimeThe Refusal of Time with collaboration of Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison, Film Still. 2012. Courtesy William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, Goodman Gallery and Lia Rumma GallerySecond Hand Reading, 2013, Courtesy William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, Goodman Gallery and Lia Rumma GalleryThe Refusal of … Continue reading William Kentridge – Whitechapel
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Jean-Michel Jarre – The Godfather of electronic music
The Godfather of electronic music 2016 will see Jean-Michel Jarre perform on Friday 7 October 2016 to perform a spectacular live show for the first time in six years. Famed for staggering visuals and the use of cutting-edge digital technology, and seen by millions of people around the world, the new live show promises … Continue reading Jean-Michel Jarre – The Godfather of electronic music
sound is sound is sound
https://www.facebook.com/events/1210439855674987/ TOMAGA > SCULPTURE > Graham Dunning's MECHANICAL TECHNO > Charles Hayward ZIGZAG+SWIRL > JJ Akinlade > Charles Bullen DJ > Sam Weaver & KHOM > SoundHoppers sound is sound is sound showcases and celebrates the curious mix of forward motion and DIY attitudes, the vanguard and the street, which has flourished in the SE … Continue reading sound is sound is sound
Instrument made from foraged flint stones, Jordan Desert
https://www.facebook.com/NBCNews/videos/1508045779215447/?autoplay_reason=all_page_organic_allowed&video_container_type=0&video_creator_product_type=2&app_id=2392950137&live_video_guests=0 Hear the sounds of prehistoric times. Architect Ammar Khammash made an instrument entirely from foraged flint stones from the deserts of Jordan.
Deptford X Fringe 2016
Deptford X - Fringe 2016. Concrete and Green, pulls from his archive of recorded urban and rural sounds "The Deptford Soundscape is very rich"
Deptford X Fringe
Deptford X 2016 Fringe will showcase the work of locally-based artists in Deptford.
MULTI-STORY CHAMBER: Percussion works by LANG / APPLEBAUM / WENJING
https://billetto.co.uk/e/multi-story-chamber-percussion-works-by-lang-applebaum-wenjing-tickets-124270 As part of Multi-Story Orchestra's expanded chamber music series in the Hay Bale Auditorium, a mixture of some of the most exciting contemporary works for percussion ensemble will be presented, including American composer Mark Applebaum's absurdist piece Straitjacket, contemporary-Chinese composer Guo Wenjing's Drama for Three Pairs of Cymbals and Voices of Players, and David … Continue reading MULTI-STORY CHAMBER: Percussion works by LANG / APPLEBAUM / WENJING
Frieze Playlist | Mario Garcia Torres
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTklCxJCFJJmFidCSQjq2099lNOPKhDRm https://frieze.com/article/questionnaire-mario-garcia-torres What is your favourite title of an art work? Oh, I have a list! Ceal Floyer’s Title Variable (2000); Christian Jankowski’s Above All I’m an Art Lover (2009); Ryan Gander’s A Portrait of the Artist Conceiving this Title (2010); Mircea Cantor’s I Shot This Image Because It Is Highly Suggestive Within a Specific … Continue reading Frieze Playlist | Mario Garcia Torres
Deptford X Festival 23/09/16 – 3/10/16
In 2016 Deptford X will pilot a new approach to its long-established fringe event.
Cymatics
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Ragnar Kjartansson – Barbican Centre
https://www.facebook.com/BarbicanCentre/videos/10154161070829193/?autoplay_reason=all_page_organic_allowed&video_container_type=0&video_creator_product_type=2&app_id=2392950137&live_video_guests=0 ★★★★ London Evening Standard ★★★★ Time Out London ‘I could not pull myself away' Observer Ragnar Kjartansson exhibition in our short film. Book now: http://bit.ly/22CS6vr
12 Sound Artists Changing Your Perception of Art
12 Sound Artists Changing Your Perception of Art These artists appeal to the ears, not the eyes. Alyssa Buffenstein, August 4, 2016 Samson Young performing Pastoral Music at Team Gallery, New York in 2015. Image courtesy of Team Gallery. For some, abstraction might mean non-figurative painting, but today’s hottest emotive medium is so abstract it can’t … Continue reading 12 Sound Artists Changing Your Perception of Art
Artist Catherine Yass suspends piano over BBC Television Centre as building prepares to B flats
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/arts/turner-prize-nominee-catherine-yass-dangles-grand-piano-above-bbc-television-centre-a3298301.html Dangling: The piano at the Television Centre building site A Turner Prize nominee dangled a grand piano from a crane above Television Centre as part of a “final swansong” for the building. Catherine Yass was one of eight artists-in-residence who were asked to come up with work reflecting the history of the former … Continue reading Artist Catherine Yass suspends piano over BBC Television Centre as building prepares to B flats
Catherine Yass’s piano dropping project pulled in Poplar 14|07|2014
https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/31833/catherine-yass_s-piano-dropping-project-banned-in-poplar Turner Prize nominated artist Catherine Yass hit a bum note recently when a planned project to drop a piano off the top of the empty Balfron Tower was cancelled. The Erno Goldfinger designed residential block in Poplar, East London – currently empty and awaiting renovation – was to be the site of a community … Continue reading Catherine Yass’s piano dropping project pulled in Poplar 14|07|2014
Protected: Young Masters – Edwin Hind Sound & Music
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Yayoi Kusama – Victoria Miro exhibition (trailer)
https://www.facebook.com/victoriamirogal/videos/1272557509435171/?autoplay_reason=all_page_organic_allowed&video_container_type=0&video_creator_product_type=2&app_id=2392950137&live_video_guests=0 Experience three new mirror rooms in Yayoi Kusama's exhibition, now at Victoria Miro, including 'Where the Lights in My Heart Go'. Continues until 30 July 2016.
BMW TATE LIVE: TAREK ATOUI THE REVERSE COLLECTION
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tanks-tate-modern/performance-and-music/bmw-tate-live-tarek-atoui-reverse-collection Experience improvised performance with ten instruments The last chapter of a project initiated in 2014 in Berlin, the performance consists of ten instruments which will be played in the South Tank at Tate Modern Tarek Atoui’s sound pieces will be based on three new scores by the artist and two other composers. They are intended as … Continue reading BMW TATE LIVE: TAREK ATOUI THE REVERSE COLLECTION
Mothers of invention: the women who pioneered electronic music
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/17/daphne-oram-synthesizer-deep-minimalism Mothers of invention: the women who pioneered electronic music A new festival celebrates Daphne Oram, Laurie Spiegel and other female synth wizards French wave: Pop pioneer: Eliane Radigue. Photograph: Yves Arman Jennifer Lucy Allan Friday 17 June 2016 13.00 BSTLast modified on Tuesday 14 February 2017 17.47 GMT It’s not often, if at all, that … Continue reading Mothers of invention: the women who pioneered electronic music
Iranian-born, London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha—Synaesthete
With the release of I AKA I on Ninja Tune, Iranian-born, London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha—Synaesthete, virtual reality pioneer, software humanist, political cause celebre, former rock musician and student of classical music—unveils his new live show in the UK for the first time. Ash Koosha's live show unites exciting strands of technology and cutting edge visuals; including a … Continue reading Iranian-born, London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha—Synaesthete
Is John Cage’s 4’33” music?: Prof. Julian Dodd at TEDx University Of Manchester
https://youtu.be/WTCVnKROlos Published on Jun 8, 2013 Julian is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester with a particular interest in the philosophy of music. He has recently worked on authenticity in musical performance, the ontology of jazz and musical profundity. In this talk Julian discusses the controversial 4'33'' by 20th century … Continue reading Is John Cage’s 4’33” music?: Prof. Julian Dodd at TEDx University Of Manchester
John Cage about Silence
1991, New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y
A performance by William Marx of John Cage’s 4’33 & Audience Response…
https://youtu.be/JTEFKFiXSx4 Uploaded on Dec 15, 2010 A performance by William Marx of John Cage's 4'33. Filmed at McCallum Theatre, Palm Desert, CA. Composer John Adams wrote the following in The New York Times review of Mr. Cage's new biography, "The Zen of Silence" : "John Cage....prodded us to reevaluate how we define not … Continue reading A performance by William Marx of John Cage’s 4’33 & Audience Response…