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Maja SK Ratkje & Ikue Mori + guests at Lanternhouse

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Pics from our recent co-production with Tusk which took place in March, featuring a first time collaboration between Maja SK Ratkje and Ikue Mori. Performing alongside the duo were Ola Szmidt and Dave Dhonau plus an electronics and Shamisen set from artist in residence Ryoko Akama.


Octopus Hackers – April

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Documentation from our first hardware hacking event in March – a Noise Box workshop with Mr Underwood.

Our next session is on Thursday 26th April at Piel View House, Barrow-in-Furness Park, 7-9pm.

This month we’ll be making and playing with contact microphones as well as sharing ideas for future projects. New members are welcome!

There will be a materials fee for the session of £4, for which you’ll be able to make and keep at least 2 contact microphones.

Contact glenn@octopuscollective if you’d like to come along.

Residencies 2012/13

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Octopus encourages artists to come and spend time with us to research and make new work at our Piel View House studio space in Barrow-in-Furness Park.

Previous resident artists have included:

AGF, Mobile Radio, Haco, Tetsuo Kogawa, Philip Jeck, Paul Rooney, Susan Matthews and Hildur Gudnadottir

During 2012/13 we will be offering 4 residencies for artists working with sound, consisting of up to 3  visits to Barrow leading to a performance, presentation or talk. Work produced during residencies will also feature as part of our next edition of the FON Festival in Summer 2013.

Selected artists in residence for 2012/13 are: Ryoko Akama, Tom Scott and Lee Gamble.

A fourth residency will be offered via an open call to North West based emerging and early career practitioners in June. Please re-visit this page for details or contact glenn@octopuscollective.org to be added to our mailing list.

We also offer free use of our studio spaces for short projects and subsidised rent for longer term occupancy. Please contact us for details.

Octopus Hackers – Piezo Mics

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Documentation from the second hardware hacking group meeting at Octopus HQ in Barrow Park, Thurs 26th April 2012.

A two hour session around making, playing and experimenting with contact microphones.

Participants: Andrew Barker, Geoff Hodgson, Neil Wade, Steve Povey, Shaun Blezard, Pete Dent, Gemma Hall, Kirsten Taylor, May Davies, Fiona Ogilvie.

Jazz Badges

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Honorary Girl Guide badges received by Octopus’ Glenn and John following their free jazz parsnip meltdown workshop sessions at John Ruskin school in Coniston. Thanks to Grizedale Arts for the invitation and Boom Dang for the lift home! Video to follow soon…

Octopus at Hai Art – pt.1

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This week I have been invited by FON Festival veteran and fellow dweller on the periphery Antye Greie to participate in a conference looking at art in remote places. The conference is taking place on the island of Hailuoto (near Oulu in Northern Finland) in various spaces including the village cafe, a hotel in the fishing port and various places only accessible by walking through the woods that cover most of the island. I’ve now been here for 5 days so have had plenty of time to prepare and get a sense of the place. So far this has included watching Finland win (then lose) an important ice hockey match, exploring the North shore at night (it doesn’t get dark), cycling into town through the woods for supplies and collecting flat stones for a piezo workshop. I also visited Sasu (Vladislav Delay) and Antye’s amazing home studio and picked up a few ideas for the Octopus radio room…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Friday I visited the local school with Antye to sit in on an editing session for the City Rings project – an international project for young people to create and exchange sound and sonic postcards drawing upon their environment. In this session we caught up with sounds that the other groups in Enfield and Portugal had been recording and composed 3 sonic postcards using Radial and Garageband. Here’s what they sounded like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The attic of the Marjaniemi tourist info centre is hosting a series of installations and residencies by sound artists, starting today with Carsten Stabenow’s ‘Line-Tilt’ a series of long strings that resonate in response to the wind. By the evening the whole building was starting to gently sing, accompanied by the whirring drone of the radar tower next door. Carsten is the initiator and artistic director of the Tuned City project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sound Room installation in progress yesterday. The room opens to the public on Friday. The conference starts tomorrow – read more about it and the Hai Art project in general here.

FON Air: Octopus Rising

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Pictures from our most recent hacking group session on Saturday 29th June at Piel View House.

Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann of Mobile Radio made their 3rd visit to Barrow to lead a radio hacking workshop and devise an hour long radio piece performance that was broadcast as part of our FON Air project and live to the RadialX Radio Festival in Lisbon.

Video footage to follow soon…

Mobile Radio’s residency was made possible with support from the Goethe Institut London.

Intro to PD 18/07/12

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Introduction to Pure Data Weds 18th July 19:00 – 21:00, Piel View House, Barrow Park

The first in a series of informal get-togethers looking at open source software for generating sound. The first session is an introduction to Pure Data, led by Ulverston based sound artist Pete Dent. Download Pure Data for free here.


Ways of Strings

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Ways of Strings

Friday 27th / Saturday 28th July, Piel View House, Barrow Park, 10am – 5pm

Following her performance at FON in 2011, sound artist Ryoko Akama returns for a research residency in collaboration with dancer Mariko Satomi. As part of their project, Ryoko and Mariko invite you to build your own traditional three-string Japanese lute and work with them to create a collaborative piece together in the park.

Pictures from the two sessions:
 

Balloon Vortex

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Last weekend, Octopods John and Glenn joined Ross Dalziel and Dave Lynch in Whitehaven for our latest family-friendly public realm collaboration Balloon
Vortex
in which five industrial fans and a cloud of giant balloons (under Dave’s video projections and live audio) created a whirling audio-visual installation in the Civic Hall. We had a great response from the people of Whitehaven who turned up in high numbers on a baking hot weekend to stoke the vortex, make some sounds and make a souvenir LED Cyclopod.
“Fab installation…dark ambience very relaxing, chilled out and brilliant.”
(George and family,  Whitehaven)

Other highlights: performing at AND Festival’s Mobile Republic, Pixie’s Pasties and getting accused of car theft in St Bees.

Thanks to Anne Timpson at Copeland Arts Development, and Paul and Kevin at the Civic Hall for all their support.

GPS Orchestra with Nikki Pugh

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Nikki Pugh joined in the park during August us a day of making noise with devices triggered by GPS.
After an introduction to networked devices and ways in which GPS might be used to influence things, we spent the day collaboratively contriving and constructing our orchestral oddities and programming  Arduino microcontrollers.
We are hoping that this will be the start of a series of activities developed with Nikki over the next few years – give your walking boots a clean and have a look at her Manifesto to see what may be in store.

Chasing Nimbus

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Chasing Nimbus is a project that explores digital and analogue techniques for projecting moving images onto ‘water vapour canvases’: clouds, urban vents, cooling towers and the billows of steam trains. The project is the work of artist, director and inventor Dave Lynch, who has been developing prototypes through conversation and collaboration with a host of contributors including weapons experts, scientists, cloud chasers, artists, pilots and sailors.

Follow the project’s progress at: nimbus.davelynch.net and look out for  a future incarnation of the project at FON 2013.

Co-commissioned by AND Festival and Octopus Collective.

[in]audible

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Broadcasting Wednesday 9th January, 13:00-14:00

If this player does not work in your browser then you can listen in any media player here.

The latest in our series of FONair micro-commissions is a piece by Pablo Sanz, a Sound Artist currently based in The Netherlands.

[in]audible | 30’ | 2012

unheard, out of earshot; indistinct, imperceptible, faint, muted, soft, low, muffled, whispered, muttered, murmured, mumbled; silent, soundless, noiseless, hushed; ultrasonic.

“[in]audible is a piece for headphones based on the exploration of hidden acoustic spaces. Departing from the notions of indirect listening and blind field recording, unconventional listening technologies have been used to capture phenomena beyond the thresholds of our perception.

Magnetic fields, vibrating structures, infra, ultrasonic and underwater sounds have been amplified and used as source material in the composition, focusing on the spatiality, details and textural patterns of the original recordings.”

Sounds recorded between 2008 and 2012 in natural and built environments in Karlsruhe, Germany; Den Haag, The Netherlands; Bratislava and Mala Fatra, Slovakia; Madrid and Sant Bartomeu del Grau, Spain.

Pablo Sanz

http://pablosanz.info
http://soundcloud.com/pablosanz

Lauren Redhead research visit 11/01/3

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Octopus artist in residence Lauren Redhead reports back on her research visit to Barrow earlier this week to meet Dalton Town Band:

http://weblog.laurenredhead.eu/post/40439782648/weekend-in-barrow

Hannah Broadcast 6/6/14

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Octopus presents:
FON Air
10:00 – 18:00, Friday 6th June

Barrow-based sound art collective Octopus present a day of live broadcasts from their studio in the park as part of hannah festival.

hannah takes place in Leeds, and is accompanied by a directory that takes in groups and organisations across the North working in a wide range of areas from art and music to social and scientific projects. The festival takes it’s name from Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956), a suffragette and lifelong fighter for democracy and fairness, who went on to become a councillor in Manchester.

To coincide with the hannah directory launch,Octopus will be rummaging through their archives and playing a selection of recordings from the Full of Noises festival alongside weird and wonderful radio pieces produced by sound artists from around the UK and Europe. Octopus members will also be experimenting live in the studio with modified turntables, homemade tabletop guitars and a room full of easy listening records rescued from Barrow’s charity shops. Phil Powell of iPad improvisors Hugs Bison will also be joining us for a slot saround 2pm and we will be broadcasting the contents of a soiled C90 sent to us by frequent FON Air offender Lynden St John.

Curious? Tune in here any time between 10:00 and 18:00 on Friday 6th June

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Full of Noises – 31/07 – 02/08/15

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BRIDGE WEB FINAL

FON Wire Ad for web Full of Noises 2015 Fri 31st July - Sun 2nd August Venues around Barrow-in-Furness Tickets on sale now at eventbrite.co.uk The fourth edition of Full of Noises, is a chance to see and hear a programme of bold new work in the unique surroundings of coastal Cumbria. Joined by guest curators Helen Frosi (SoundFjord) and Ryoko Akama, with design work from Tom James Scott (Skire), this year's expanded festival programme takes in specially commissioned live performances, talks, installations and workshops by a broad spectrum of composers, musicians and sound artists from across UK, Europe and Japan. Artists include: Oscilanz [Charles Hayward, Ralph Cumbers and Laura Cannell] Andie Brown, Stuart Estell, Floodtide, Mark Vernon, Áine O'Dwyer, Leslie Deere, HearThisSpace, DunningWebsterUnderwood, Brona Martin, Minoru Sato, Ingrid Plum, Lisa Skuret, Mary Stark, Kanta Horio, Jenn Mattinson, Stephan Barrett, Alison Blunt, plus more to be announced. More info at: www.fonfestival.org/artists Day tickets and passes are on sale now from £12 at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/full-of-noises-2015-tickets-16187491222    

Hear Th↓s Space

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4972651_orig Hear Th↓s Space - residency (2014), concerts at FON 2015 Hear Th↓s Space are a collection of composers and curators who put on site-sensitive events. We conjure our events in unique settings, letting the contingencies of the site/space meld the curation of sound based works and the choice of speaker system.  We also work collaboratively  with other arts practitioners and musicians to facilitate multi-speaker sound systems as part of external events. This site provides information on our 'Events' both previous and forthcoming. In addition we host a 'Research' resource that provides a source of information, discussion and debate about site sensitive spatial sound  performance. hearthisspace.com

The Aleph

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THR4 The Aleph - performance at Wray Castle (2013), Beacons Festival (2014) In equal parts a music set with live visuals, as it is a film with live soundtrack, The Aleph will take you on an emotional journey to explore themes of innocence, retrospection and corruption. Come and experience time collapsing in on itself, as music from the distant past to the far future is interwoven to create a spectral, alternative present in the premier of The Aleph’s new show, ‘The Good Eater’.

Ex-Easter Island Head

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Performance - Beacons Festival (2014) Liverpool-based Ex-Easter Island Head compose and perform music on a variety of instruments to build mesmeric layers of sound.Their records Mallet Guitars One–Three and Large Electric Ensemble have been highly rated by the likes of The Wire, Pitchfork, the BBC and the New York Times, and group’s unique sound-world favourably compared to the works of Steve Reich, Brian Eno and Claude Debussy. exeasterislandhead.com

From Poetry to Sound Poetry – 20/06/15

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BLOOD MUSIC web

BLOOD MUSIC web From Poetry to Sound Poetry Workshop with Simon Pomery *Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed. Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive new dates for this event. Sat 20th June Cookes Studios, Barrow-in-Furness 13:00 - 16:00 Tickets £3 Click here to book at eventbrite.co.uk In this workshop you will be exposed to new poems and to sound poems, and encouraged to engage with each discipline, and produce your own work, through a series of exercises. No experience of poetry is necessary, but a willingness to experiment is, as we explore the creative space between text and sound. Could your text be used like a score of music? How might you turn a page of text into a sound poem? You are welcome to bring any instruments/objects to use in your sound poetry, but you can also use your texts and voice alone. Programme 1. Creative listening meditation: music from minimalism and drone - Dennis Johnson, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Laurie Spiegel, Meredith Monk, and CC Hennix. 2. Voice and voices: the poetry of Sappho, Zbigniew Herbert, Guillevic, and Tom Raworth Poetry exercises, workshop, class feedback Readings 3. Sound poetry: an introduction - Bob Cobbing, Emmett Williams, Maya Jantar Sound poetry, exercises, workshop, class feedback Performances --- SIMON POMERY is a poet and musician based in London. A pamphlet of his poems, The Stream (tall-lighthouse), appeared in 2010, and his poetry and criticism has been published online and in print by 3am magazine, The White Review, the Times Literary Supplement, P.N. Review, Poetry London, the Edinburgh Review. He has recently read his work for the Enemies Project, Camaradefest, and Feinde exhibitions in London. Seamus Heaney on The Stream: “This augurs well for the Pomery life and literature”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEF22Va7SCQ https://twitter.com/simonpomery http://cargocollective.com/simonpomery http://simonpomery.tumblr.com/ His next release under the name BLOOD MUSIC is due in June 2015 on Diagonal Records. He is a percussionist and guitar player with an interest in rhythm and noise, using Taiko drumming patterns and drum machines, electronics, samples, and contact mics, muscle and machinery, creating pummelling tunnels of propulsive torque. The Quietus: “A barrage of tribal percussion, squalling guitars and pummelling sub pressure ensues – Blood Music building a titanic pulse, great throbbing waves of brutally effective sound that hinges on disorientating physicality.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V4VSQnJPR4 https://bloodmusicbloodmusic.bandcamp.com/ Venue Cookes Studios, 104 Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA14 5QR More info: contact info_at_octopuscollective.org
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