Hannah Festival Open Day – 13/06/17
Hannah Directory Launch
Open studio day at Piel View House
Tues 13 June, 10:00-16:00
Ever wondered what goes on in that sightly sinister looking house in Barrow park? We're holding an open studio on Tuesday 13th June to celebrate the launch of this year's Hannah Directory - drop in to pick up your copy and hear/see some of the work we've been doing since we moved into Piel View House back in 2010.
'Hannah Directory looks for outstanding contributions in any activity that is for the common good of the place it happens in. Octopus / Full of Noises joins artists, musicians, community groups, digital technology companies, policy think tanks, a music festival and a volunteer-run cinema in the fifth edition of the directory, which celebrates people and organisations living and working in places in England's north
More than a hundred different organisations have made it into the five editions of the directory so far, covering a geographical area from Barrow to Sheffield and Newcastle to Liverpool. Bringing them all together in one directory means ideas and inspiration can be exchanged between people and places in the north.'
Read more at: hannahfestival.com
How to find us:
Piel View House image by Sam Underwood
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Delia Derbyshire Day Cumbria – 5/8/17
Delia Derbyshire Day
Cookes Studios, Barrow-in-Furness
Saturday 5th August
Workshop 10.00- 13.00
Performance 19.00-21.00
Click here for workshop tickets (free admission)
Click here for performance tickets (£3/£5)
As part of this year’s Full of Noises programme, Octopus are excited to be hosting two special events celebrating the life and work of 1960’s electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), most well-known for her work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where she produced the version of The Dr Who theme loved by generations of fans.
Workshop (ages 8+)
10:00 -13:00
Free (booking required)
Make your own music inspired by Delia Derbyshire. This hands-on workshop is led by sound engineer/
music producer Caro C and composer/producer Mandy Wigby. After deconstructing Delia’s iconic
rendering of the original Dr Who theme tune and looking at some working notes from Delia’s archive,
you will have the opportunity to explore and play with found sounds, sampling and creating loops.
No experience necessary - just bring your ears and your imagination!
Concert
19:00 - 21:00
An intimate evening of live performance and film brought to us by Delia Derbyshire Day - a Manchester-based organisation which celebrates the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and commissions new work based on the DD archive. The evening programme includes:
- Full of Noises have commissioned prize-winning Cumbrian sound artist Jenn Mattinson to make a new piece inspired by the time Delia lived in Cumbria in the 1980's which will receive it's first performance this evening.
- A selection of work made for previous editions of DDD including:
- Caro C - “Audient, my dear” (2013) for electronics, voice, ping pong ball and ruler.Caro C is an electronic music producer, performer and sound engineer with a passion for found sounds and languages, but operating at a time when the technology available is in stark contrast to the complex and time-consuming techniques used by Delia and her peers. With live digital visuals by Andrea Pazos.
- The Architects of Rosslyn - "The Waking Sleep" (2016). Mandy Wigby Producer/Composer feat. Howard Jacobs Composer/Musician – performing a live electronic and acoustic/foley soundtrack to a collage of films by artist and ‘movician’ Di Mainstone.
- DD Audio archive collage by David Butler with film by FON favorite Mary Stark - A camera-less 35mm film in response to the Delia Derbyshire Archive.
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Full of Noises 4.5 – 28/10/17
Full of Noises 4.5
Saturday 28th October 2017
Venues around Barrow-in-Furness
This year’s edition of Full of Noises takes place over a single Saturday in October, bringing new music and sounds to the unique surroundings of the Furness Peninsula. Revisiting one of our favourite venues, the Nan Tait Centre and setting up stall in Barrow’s bustling indoor market, we’ve invited an exciting mixture of artists, musicians, composers, field recordists and makers to populate the town with new work.
Tickets: £15 full price / £12 concession or with proof of Barrow postcode.
Workshops tickets £5 / £3
On sale now from: eventbrite.co.uk
In Barrow market, SoundCamp (Maria Papadomanolaki, Dawn Scarfe, Grant Smith) present work from their research residency with South Walney Nature Reserve alongside vintage text adventures from Domestic Science and a special Shrimping It workshop exploring Cumbria’s uneasy relationship with all things nuclear. We welcome Laura Cannell back to FoN as a curator and performer with Modern Ritual, an evening of performances, words and sounds from Charles Hayward, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Ex-Easter Island Head and Hoofus/Andre Bosman. Ex-Easter Island Head also lead a special prepared guitar workshop, whilst Jenn Mattinson presents a newly commissioned piece investigating Delia Derbyshire’s lost years in Cumbria.
Plus more to be announced...
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Full of Noises 4.5 – These We Hold Close, These We Hold Dear Workshop – 28/10/17
These We Hold Close, These We Hold Dear
Workshop with Charles Hayward & Laura Cannell
Saturday 28th October, 16:00 - 17:00
The Nan Tait Centre, Barrow-in-Furness
Free - click here to book
Take part in a special vocal workshop with musicians Charles Hayward and Laura Cannell as part of this year's Full of Noises festival!
Work with Charles and Laura to create new performance by making a mental list of the names of people you love; of neighbours and work colleagues, of friends far away, of long lost friends. Moving through different zones and vocal spaces, the performance will gradually build to a swarm of names.
Participants will be invited to perform the piece as the finale of the evening's [Modern Ritual] performance at the Nan Tait Centre with music by Charles, Laura, André Bosman and guests (19:00 - 21:30).
Ages 16+. No experience neccessary. Please arrive for 16:00 promptly - we expect the workshop session to last for 30 – 40 minutes.
Listen: Laura Cannell
Listen: Charles Hayward
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Full of Noises 4.5 – [Modern Ritual] 28/10/17
[Modern Ritual]
with Charles Hayward & Laura Cannell, André Bosman, Luke Turner, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Ex-Easter Island Head
Saturday 28th October,
18:45 (for 19:00) start – 21:30
Nan Tait Centre, Barrow-in-Furness
Tickets, 15 / £12 – click here to book
[Modern Ritual] – is a night of new performances exploring ideas of ritual through music and words, evoking real and fictional landscapes. It features sets from acclaimed musicians Charles Hayward, Laura Cannell, Hoofus & Ex-Easter Island Head and new sound performance/talks from writer/researchers Jennifer Lucy Allan and Luke Turner and a new collaboration between all of the artists and members of the audience. [Modern Ritual] is ancient, modern, experimental, real, fictional, personal, folkloric. It explores human and mechanical rituals, failure of ritual and provides a platform to premier new works in the UK.
[Modern Ritual] takes place at 8 venues throughout the UK, between Autumn 2017 and Spring 2018. There have been two previous Modern Ritual performances at Café Oto in London, one of which was featured in a half page review in the Financial Times. [Modern Ritual] was awarded Arts Council of England/National Lottery Funding. This series takes place throughout the UK and ends at LSO St Luke’s for the Barbican on 16th June 2018.
Performer Biographies
Charles Hayward (born 1951) is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock group This Heat. He also played with Mal Dean's Amazing Band, Radar Favourites, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with old schoolfriend and "Pooh and the Ostrich Feather" member Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project as well as a short stint with Gong. On one occasion he also played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass.
“As impassioned and animated offstage as behind his massive drumkit, Charles Hayward radiates a genuine intensity. He first came to wide attention as drummer with the highly influential This Heat as the embers of Post-Punk simmered off into wilder experimental tangents. He has released a dozen solo and colaborative albums, and puts on rare solo live shows which pull the raw muscular percussion at the heart of Rock into new shapes with devastatingly powerful results.” – Freq
"Telepathic magic……. Hayward is one of the most life-affirming people who stalks this dark globe." - SOUND PROJECTOR
Laura Cannell – Fiddle/Recorder
‘Critically acclaimed Laura Cannell deconstructs her bow to produce haunting melodies from her violin, deconstructs our stuffy view on the recorder by blowing through two simultaneously and harmoniously and in doing so, constructs a flourishing fragmental sonority heralding the ancient, traditional music of the instruments into the present through experimental improvisation. Her sensitivity, emotiveness and wild flare will transport you into a new realm of tranquil solitude’. Supersonic Festival 2017
Laura Cannell is a performer and composer based in East Anglia. UK. She has produced three critically acclaimed solo albums over the last three years including 'Simultaneous Flight Movement’ which was one of BBC Radio 3’s Top Twelve Albums of 2016, Beneath Swooping Talons which was in The Guardian's Top 5 Experimental Albums of the Year 2015. Laura’s music has received regular broadcasts on the BBC including Radio 3, 4 and BBC 6Music. 2016 saw Laura’s debut solo performance at The Barbican and her music for a short film was screened at The British Museum and BFI. Laura regularly performs throughout the UK and Europe. Recent collaborations include a new commission with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Ex-Easter Island Head, a duo with Charles Hayward (This Heat), an experimental fiddle duo with André Bosman, she recently toured with the cellist Lori Goldston (Nirvana, Earth), and is the curator of the [Modern Ritual] Series. www.modernritual.co.uk www.lauracannell.co.uk
André Bosman /
Hoofus uses drifting oscillators, cryptic rhythm and tactile interaction between performer and machines to create music of wayward eerie wonder. Drawing on rustic, alienation and the reclamation of the manmade by nature, Hoofus explores the uncanny beauty of the intangible and occult seeping through into our post-industrial world.
Ex Easter Island Head
UK-based musical collective Ex-Easter Island Head compose and perform music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. Primarily performing as a trio, the group incorporate multiple prepared electric guitars struck with percussion mallets to create works that explore group interplay, repetition and melodic invention through purposefully limited means.
Luke Turner
Luke Turner is a writer and editor based in London. In 2008 he co-founded The Quietus, an online magazine devoted to music, arts and popular culture within the context of contemporary society. Turner is currently curating a series of live events as part of Hull City Of Culture 2017's commemoration of the radical art collective COUM and as a journalist, he has contributed to The Guardian, Dazed & Confused, Vice, the BBC, NME, Q, Mojo, Monocle, Nowness and the SomeSuch journal, among other publications in the UK and beyond. Aside from his cultural writing, Turner writes regularly on landscape, place, memory and self for the Caught By The River online magazine, including a regular column on Epping Forest. This writing is also forming the basis for a forthcoming book on urban forests, family, ritual, death and sexuality against the context of Western decline and environmental destruction.
Jennifer Lucy Allan
Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer and researcher interested in the links between weather, sound and our sense of place. She is currently working on a PhD at CRiSAP on the social and cultural history of the foghorn. She runs the reissues label Arc Light Editions with James Ginzburg, and is a writer for The Wire, The Guardian and others.
Foulis’s Daughter: A short history of the foghorn in 30 interrupted acts. A spoken, sounded and interrupted performance/talk, tracing a rhythmic history of the foghorn at the edges of the Atlantic: along the fog-bound Labrador Coast; at a bend on the Firth of Clyde; on the tip of The Lizard and from the cliffs at the South Foreland in Kent.
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Full of Noises 4.5 – Prepared Guitar workshop w/ Ex-Easter Island Head 28/10/18
Prepared Guitar Workshop
With Ex-Easter Island Head
Saturday 28th October, 14:00 - 15:30
The Nan Tait Centre, Barrow-in-Furness
Tickets £5 / £3.50 (free with festival pass)
Click here to book
A special workshop as part of Full of Noises 4.5:
Benjamin D. Duvall of Liverpool-based experimental trio Ex-Easter Island Head presents a workshop exploring the groups' unique approaches, techniques and preparations to the electric guitar and bass guitar through group demonstration and participation.
The session will cover the historical development of extended techniques and mechanical preparations for the electric guitar, and the development of the groups' own music. Participants will be given a crash-course in preparing their own guitars.
The event lasts for approximately 60 minutes (plus time to set up). Participants should bring their own electric guitar, leads, tuner and a small practice amp.
DISCLAIMER: None of the preparations undertaken should result in damage to the instrument but it is recommended that participants don't use instruments of significant monetary value or age in case of accidental damage.
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Full of Noises 4.5 – Gull Spit 27-28/10/17
SoundCamp Residency - The Spit
Barrow Market Hall
Friday 27th 12:00 - 16:45
Sat 28th October 10:00 - 16:45
Free - drop in
soundtent.org
Venue Map
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‘Fear Itself’ workshop with @ShrimpingIt – 28/10/17
'Fear Itself' workshop with @ShrimpingIt
Sat 28 October, 13:00 – 15:00
Barrow Market Hall, 28 Duke Street
Tickets - £3/£5 or free with festival pass
Click here for tickets
Share with us your greatest fear from the streets of Barrow to join in with our playful and absurd experiments in hazard monitoring and control. Fear Itself is open to all, whether you dread the nuclear apocalypse or the laddered stocking. Part self-help group, part craft workshop we explore ‘things that go bump in the day’ to uncover and remix modern rituals and the iconography of risk. Participants will be supported with props and prompts to develop their own theatrical performance demonstrating to the residents of Barrow that they have nothing to fear.
Ages 12 and up
The workshop will include:
- Fear Mapping
- Hazard Symbols
- Sounds and Sirens
- Street Performance
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FON 4.5 Film programme – 28/10/17
Artists’ Moving Image Programme
Sat 28th, 13:00 - 14:00 & 15:00 - 16:00
Cookes Studios, Cookes Studios, 104 Abbey Rd, LA14 5QR
Free Admission
A programme of short films presenting an alternative view of the Cumbrian landscape curated by Phil Northcott and Julia Parks, supported by Signal Film and Media. Screenings start at 13:00 and 15:00.
Not giddy yet aerial
Jenny Holt, 25.14 mins. 2011
William Wordsworth’s first sighting of Grasmere vale in the Lake District, his home for many years, was from Red Bank - an established viewpoint from where landscape could best be appreciated by the Lake District’s earliest visitors, tourists of the picturesque.
Over 200 years later, the Lake District's familiarity as image, given rise to through picturesque ideals, has evolved into a brand. Taking this viewpoint as a framework, the film looks beyond the 'scene', invoking the landscape through interwoven lines of observed everyday narratives shot over the course of a year. A loosely symphonic structure counterpoints tensions provoked by a landscape created by farming, and a present day economy sustained by tourism.
jennyholtfilm.wordpress.com
Last Acre
Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan 11.25 mins., 2016
A documentary portrait centred on a remote settlement of self-built shed and cabin homes, located on the sand dunes of England’s north west coastline, near Barrow-in-Furness. The film explores the social and ecological topography of this off-grid, outlying community.
Existing on the margins of a rural, seaside idyll, and its surrounding industrial landscape, this unique place is an example of a ‘Plotland’ development: the improvised homes built in the early 20th century, on neglected, marginal or squatted sites, in response to increasing urbanisation and financial hardship.
The film interweaves history, people and habitat; with a soundtrack featuring Peter Warlock’s pastoral composition The Curlew (1922), based on the bird’s plaintive call and the poetry of W.B Yeats. Voice-over script based on 'Arcadia for All: The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape' by Dennis Hardy & Colin Ward.
www.nickjordan.info
Egremont Red
Alex Culshaw 18mins, 2017
A self-reflexive project that follows the artists’ ambition to make a film about that which cannot be seen or captured.
'Egremont Red’ begins with a preface that introduces two vastly different iron ore mines in Cumbria, England and Kiruna, Sweden as well as, Robert Smithson’s underground cinema. Written as a metalogue the narrative raises the problematic nature of realising an idea, exploring the relationship between ‘potential’ impossible propositions, the unseen, and ability to see.
The disused and flooded iron ore mine in Egremont has been converted into an arts centre. And we are led through footage of Florence Mine as well as the artists' process of research and ambitions for the film.
The film ends with 'Egremont Red - fade to black'; a re-staging of footage from Florence Mine that was originally filmed by ex-miner, Garry Connell. In the audio we hear an actor rehearsing a script formed from interviews with Jenni Payne - a co-founder of the printmakers co-op at Florence Arts Centre. The soundscape, made in collaboration with Jenny Berger Myhre, leads into a dream-like meditation on the process of documenting and reconstruction, in an attempt to get closer to a realisation.
alexculshaw.com
Come and play with Mr Rae
Stephen George Rae, 2.02 mins. 2017
My side project - Bardsea Green Films - creating short experimental works inspired by old B-movies, Surrealism, Dada. Here we blend performance art, abstract painting, some exuberant novice actors, and throw in funky music composed by RobinsWood Studios.
www.stephengeorgerae.com
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South Walney Soundwalk – 29/10/17
Walk at South Walney Nature Reserve, Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria
Sunday 29th October, 12:00 - 14:30
Leave from the Reserve Office at 12 noon
Free transport from Barrow rail station available - click here to book
Join Sarah Dalrymple, Reserve Warden with the Cumbria Wildlife Trust in a walk around the Reserve, with members of Octopus Collective and SoundCamp, who have been working on the island as part of a new residency programme for a guided walk around South Walney Nature Reserve. Looking back towards Barrow across the bay, this reserve has an important and unique shingle flora, great numbers of migrating waders in Autumn, a grey seal colony, and a fascinating history of cultivation, mining and industry.
Coordinates: 54°02'46.4"N 3°11'34.2”W
Map reference: SD 225 620
Google map:
More information
http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/south-walney
The Walney soundwalk event involves a walk of 3 to 4 miles on gravel and sand tracks. Please contact us with any specific access requirements and we will do our best to accommodate your needs:
info@octopuscollective.org / 07907 850432
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Out of Place: Delia Derbyshire in Cumbria – 28/10/17
Out of Place: Delia Derbyshire in Cumbria
Sat 28th October
14:00 - 14:30 & 16:00 - 16:30
Cookes Studios, 104 Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness
Free admission
This particular story covers the time electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire spent in Cumbria in the mid-1970s. It's one of those stories that will always remain rather ambiguous, as very little is known about this period in her life, so I have tried to reflect this in parts of the telling, and added my own theatrical interpretations to the piece. It has a foundation of two female oral history testimonies with an original sonic composition, produced to help reflect and re-tell elements of the story.
Jenn Mattinson is a freelance creative facilitator and sound artist based in Keswick, Cumbria. She has delivered a wide range of community initiatives, including oral history projects, community exhibitions and creative workshops for people living with dementia. She has produced a number of radio and sound art pieces, including a series of commissions from Octopus Collective, a sound art and new music organisation based in Barrow-in-Furness. Jenn is passionate about exploring multidisciplinary approaches to storytelling, and this if often reflected in her range of work.
followed by:
From the Full of Noises Archive
Sat 28th October
14:30 - 15:00 & 16:30 - 17:00
Cookes Studios
Two newly commissioned films compiled from the Full of Noises archive created by artist filmmakers Helen Petts and Mary Stark. Starting life in the former canteen building of a Trident submarine plant, the films include footage of artists ranging from Faust, AGF and Tetsuo Kogawa to Laura Cannell, the Bohman Brothers, Felix Kubin, Lee Gamble and Ryoko Akama.
helenpetts.com
marystark.co.uk
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Full of Noises Archive Night #2 – Islington Mill
Full of Noises - Archive Night #2
With: Leslie Deere, Helen Petts, Mary Stark, These Feathers Have Plumes
& FoN book launch
Islington Mill
Sat 8th Oct
19:30 - 22:30
Tickets: £6 / £4 concessions
Since starting life in the former canteen building of a Trident submarine plant in 2009, Cumbria’s Full of Noises has presented new work by over two hundred sound artists, composers and musicians. To celebrate the launch of a publication looking back at the festival’s first seven years, we’re bringing Full of Noises to Islington Mill for a special event featuring film screenings and live performances.
Artist filmmaker Helen Petts presents a new film compiled from archive footage alongside Solo Soprano, a film portrait of Lol Coxhill commissioned for FoN in 2013. Live performances come from These Feathers Have Plumes (Andie Brown), creating sonic landscapes from glass and electronics, gesture based live sound from Leslie Deere and a 16mm film performance exploring optical sound created from fabric and stitch patterns by Mary Stark.
Join us to relive some of the festival’s many strange and beautiful moments, or if you’ve never made it as far as Barrow-in-Furness, sample a few of the exciting things that have been going on in our remote corner of the world...
Click here to buy tickets at eventbrite.
Andie Brown has been performing and recording as a solo-artist since 2007, under the name These Feathers Have Plumes, primarily working with glass and electronics. Andie performs regularly and has played in both the UK and Europe, including at Full of Noises Festival in Cumbria, the De La Warr Pavilion and Cafe OTO. Additionally, Andie has collaborated live with a diverse range of artists, including Sophie Cooper & Joincey in Remedial Queen of England, Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides, Phil Julian, Piotr Kurek and Adam Bohman. In 2015 Andie played in a percussion and glass ensemble, conducted by Steve Beresford for Christian Marclay at White Cube Gallery.
Website
Leslie Deere Leslie is a London based artist with a background in performing arts and dance, though working in a wide range of other disciplines related to sonic art, collage, interactivity and sculpture. She also works with motion arts and photography, and is involved in hacking culture. Commissions include installations for Kew Gardens, Sound UK and London Fashion Week. Leslie has been a Sound and Music Embedded Artist in Residence at the Music Hackspace in London for the past year and most recently performed at the Whitstable Biennale, Cafe Oto and Fort Process in Brighton.
Website
Helen Petts is an artist film-maker who explores rhythm, texture, sound and chance events, both in the landscape and in her long standing relationship with the free improvisation music community. A former television director of arts programmes, she now regularly shows her own art work at film and music festivals as well as in gallery installations. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College and Film at Westminster University. Her work is distributed by Lux Artists Moving Image.
Website
Mary Stark is an artist filmmaker with a background in textile practice based at Rogue Studios, Manchester. Since 2012 Mary has been making 16mm film performances exploring optical sound created from fabric and stitch patterns. The filmmaking technology of optical sound involves visual forms in the soundtrack area of the filmstrip transforming into noise through film projection. Mary's performances summon absent voices and obsolete industries, involving 16mm film projection, light and shadow, mechanical noise and music associated with textile production. In September 2014 Mary undertook a four week artist residency at LIFT, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD). Mary is studying a practice as research PhD with MIRIAD at Manchester School of Art. Recent shows include Supernormal Festival of Experimental Arts & Music, Contact Festival of New Experimental Film and Video, a specially commissioned camera-less 35mm film in response to the Delia Derbyshire Archive, Mono No Aware exhibition of Expanded Cinema in New York and a performance in a makeshift darkroom in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland.
Website
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Radio Revolten – Mary Stark / Howlround / FoN Archive
Radio Revolten
International Radio Art Festival
1st to 30th October 2016
Halle (Saale), Germany
Full of Noises heads to Halle next month with artists Mary Stark and Robin the Fog to take part in Radio Revolten, the largest and most comprehensive festival of radio art ever to be held worldwide.
Radio as a multi-faceted art form will be presented at a four-week festival, which will take place in October 2016 in Halle (Saale) in Germany. 70 artists from 17 countries will present contemporary radio art at 15 locations in the city in the form of installations, performances, concerts and interventions. On air, the festival will broadcast on the FM frequency 99.3 MHz in Halle. 35 radio stations across the world will relay parts of the programme, and Resonance Extra in Brighton (UK) will take it over entirely.
The festival will feature artistic works ranging from the opening performance event of the award-winning Resonance Radio Orchestra (UK), to individual daily encounters with the artist Marold Langer-Philippsen (SK). A performance by Alessandro Bosetti (IT) will take place in cooperation with Deutschlandradio Kultur. The festival programme features performances and installations by pioneers of radio art such as Joyce Hinterding (AU), Tetsuo Kogawa (JN), and Gregory Whitehead (US). The team of curators comprises radio artists Knut Aufermann, Anna Friz and Sarah Washington, the editor of ORF Kunstradio Elisabeth Zimmermann and the programme coordinator of Radio Corax Ralf Wendt.
Read more about the festival at: radiorevolten.net
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Listening to the End of the World
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Publication – Remote Possibilities
Full of Noises - Remote Possibilities
160 pages, perfect bound book
Limited edition of 150 copies
Our first publication, Remote Possibilities launches next week as part of an end of year fundraiser. The perfect gift for the experimental music fan in your life (or yourself) includes photography, essays and reflections from artists that have helped us make the first four editions of the festival so special. All proceeds from sales of the book will contribute to our 2017 events and residency programme.
Prices are £15, or £20 with a limited edition A5 print from photographer Benedict Phillips. Both options include postage and a selection of original flyers and posters from the FoN archive.
To accompany the book, we've commissioned two artist filmmakers to delve into the murky world of the FoN video archive. The first of these by Helen Petts draws upon performances, artworks and the local landscape to capture a sense of 'the festival at the end of the world'. Look out for the second film in the series from Mary Stark later this month.
Click here to visit our page at Indiegogo and order your copy of the book. The campaign runs from Wednesday 7th December until the end of January.
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Yo no bi: Oshiro Makoto & Suzueri: Islington Mill
Full of Noises & AME present a short UK tour showcasing installation works and performances by two of Japan’s most innovative sound artists, Oshiro Makoto and Suzueri. Starting with two new installations and performances at Islington Mill, Manchester (Tues/Weds 7/8th Feb), the tour continues to Access Space Sheffield (Thurs 9th Feb) and concludes at FUSE, Bradford (Sat 11th Feb).
Islington Mill, Manchester, Mon 6th - Weds 8th Feb 2017
Performance:
With guest artists Ryoko Akama + Ben Gwilliam
Mon 6th Feb, 19:30 - 22:00
Advance tickets £6/£4 from eventbrite.co.uk- click here.
Installations (free admission):
Mon 6th Feb 14:00-18:00
Tues 7th / Weds 8th Feb, 14:00 - 20:00
Venue info: http://islingtonmill.com/
Suzueri (Elico Suzuki) is a Tokyo-based sound artist and improviser. She creates performance and installations with handmade devices, instruments, prepared piano and voice, exploring methods of performing them in the most roundabout ways. Past exhibitions includes Emergencies (NTT ICC, 2008) and Web-based exhibition (Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, 2008) and she released five albums, including a quartet with Makoto Oshiro,Tetuzi Akiyama and Roger Turner [Live at ftarri] (Ftarri Meenna 2015).
suzueri.org
Makoto Oshiro is a Tokyo-based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but he also combines other elements including light, electricity and the movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments based on electronic devices, everyday materials, and junk. His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon, and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference. He released his first solo CD Phenomenal World on Japanese label Hitorri.
torpedoo.net/oshiro.html
Yo No Bi #2 is a Full of Noises & AME project curated by Ryoko Akama with support from Arts Council England, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Society and the Japan Foundation.Oshiro Makoto & Suzueri: Islington Mill 6-8/02/17
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Yo No Bi: Oshiro Makoto & Suzueri: Access Space
Full of Noises & AME present a short UK tour showcasing installation works and performances by two of Japan’s most innovative sound artists, Oshiro Makoto and Suzueri. Starting with two new installations and performances at Islington Mill, Manchester (Tues/Weds 7/8th Feb), the tour continues to Access Space Sheffield (Thurs 9th Feb) and concludes at FUSE, Bradford (Sat 11th Feb).
Access Space, Thurs 9th Feb 2017
With guest artists Ryoko Akama + Neil Carver + Charlie Collins
Performance - Doors 19:00 / Start 19:30
Tickets: £5 / £3 online or on the door
Advance tickets from eventbrite - click here
Venue info: http://access-space.org/
Suzueri (Elico Suzuki) is a Tokyo-based sound artist and improviser. She creates performance and installations with handmade devices, instruments, prepared piano and voice, exploring methods of performing them in the most roundabout ways. Past exhibitions includes Emergencies (NTT ICC, 2008) and Web-based exhibition (Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, 2008) and she released five albums, including a quartet with Makoto Oshiro,Tetuzi Akiyama and Roger Turner [Live at ftarri] (Ftarri Meenna 2015).
suzueri.org
Makoto Oshiro is a Tokyo-based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but he also combines other elements including light, electricity and the movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments based on electronic devices, everyday materials, and junk. His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon, and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference. He released his first solo CD Phenomenal World on Japanese label Hitorri.
torpedoo.net/oshiro.html
Yo No Bi #2 is a Full of Noises & AME project curated by Ryoko Akama with support from Arts Council England, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Society and the Japan Foundation.
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Yo No Bi: Oshiro Makoto & Suzueri: FUSE
Full of Noises & AME present a short UK tour showcasing installation works and performances by two of Japan’s most innovative sound artists, Oshiro Makoto and Suzueri. Starting with two new installations and performances at Islington Mill, Manchester (Tues/Weds 7/8th Feb), the tour continues to Access Space Sheffield (Thurs 9th Feb) and concludes at FUSE, Bradford (Sat 11th Feb).
FUSE, Bradford, Sat 11th Feb 2017
With guest artist Lee Patterson
Performance - Doors 19:00 / Start 19:30
Tickets: £5 / £3 online or on the door
Advance tickets from eventbrite - click here
Venue info: http://www.wearefuse.co/
Suzueri (Elico Suzuki) is a Tokyo-based sound artist and improviser. She creates performance and installations with handmade devices, instruments, prepared piano and voice, exploring methods of performing them in the most roundabout ways. Past exhibitions includes Emergencies (NTT ICC, 2008) and Web-based exhibition (Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, 2008) and she released five albums, including a quartet with Makoto Oshiro,Tetuzi Akiyama and Roger Turner [Live at ftarri] (Ftarri Meenna 2015).
suzueri.org
Makoto Oshiro is a Tokyo-based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but he also combines other elements including light, electricity and the movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments based on electronic devices, everyday materials, and junk. His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon, and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference. He released his first solo CD Phenomenal World on Japanese label Hitorri.
torpedoo.net/oshiro.html
Yo No Bi #2 is a Full of Noises & AME project curated by Ryoko Akama with support from Arts Council England, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Society and the Japan Foundation.Oshiro Makoto & Suzueri: FUSE, Bradford 11/02/17
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Soundcamp Reveil – South Walney
Sound Camp
Starts - 15:00, Sat 6th May
Ends - 9:00, Sun 7th May
South Walney Nature Reserve
£10/£8 - ticket includes admission and camping
Join Octopus Collective, Cumbria Wildlife Trust and invited artists at South Walney Nature Reserve for Soundcamp, an overnight event in celebration of International Dawn Chorus Day.
The Cumbria Soundcamp is part of a network of UK and international sites taking part in the Reveil radio broadcast, which circles the earth at sunrise on a network of live audio streams. Each soundcamp is a chance to explore a place of acoustic and ecological interest through workshops, performances, presentations and an overnight camp.
The day’s activities will include guided listening walks and workshops followed by streaming the dawn chorus from Walney to a 24 hour broadcast of the sounds of daybreak, relayed live by audio streamers around the globe.
This year we are joined by guest artists Linda O' Keeffe and Tony Doyle who will lead a workshop and performance drawing on sounds, objects and texts collected from our surroundings, leading into a performance that will be streamed online and shared with other SoundCamps around the world. Sarah Dalrymple of Cumbria Wildlife Trust will also lead a guided walk of the site, a shingle island reserve that is home to a wide range of birds and wildlife including the only grey seal colony in Cumbria.
Schedule:
Sat 6th May
14:30 - 15:00 - Arrive
15:00 - introduction and tea / coffee
15:15 - Guided walk with warden Sarah Dalrymple
16:30 - 18:30 - Workshop activities with Linda O' Keeffe and Tony Doyle
18:30 - Intro to Hackpad and writing activities
19:00 - Dinner (soup and bread)
19:45 - Workshop / stream preparation
21:00 - Group performance streaming to London SoundCamp
22:00 - Free time / end
Sun 7th May
4:30 (aprox.) - Broadcast dawn chorus stream / listening session
6:00 - Free time / writing activity
8:00 - Breakfast / discussion
9:00 - End
Places are limited - please book a ticket in advance to ensure a place.
Tickets can be booked at eventbrite by clicking here.
* Please note that this is an overnight event and you will need to provide your own camping equipment and a contribution to a shared meal.
Sturdy shoes or Wellingtons and wet weather gear are also recommended.
A minibus to the reserve will be provided from Barrow-in-Furness rail station for attendees using public transport.
Please note that no dogs are allowed on site except for assistance dogs
Read more about Reveil and the Soundcamp project at:
www.soundtent.org
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Hannah Festival Open Day
Hannah Directory Launch
Open studio day at Piel View House
Tues 13 June, 10:00-16:00
Ever wondered what goes on in that sightly sinister looking house in Barrow park? We're holding an open studio on Tuesday 13th June to celebrate the launch of this year's Hannah Directory - drop in to pick up your copy and hear/see some of the work we've been doing since we moved into Piel View House back in 2010.
'Hannah Directory looks for outstanding contributions in any activity that is for the common good of the place it happens in. Octopus / Full of Noises joins artists, musicians, community groups, digital technology companies, policy think tanks, a music festival and a volunteer-run cinema in the fifth edition of the directory, which celebrates people and organisations living and working in places in England's north
More than a hundred different organisations have made it into the five editions of the directory so far, covering a geographical area from Barrow to Sheffield and Newcastle to Liverpool. Bringing them all together in one directory means ideas and inspiration can be exchanged between people and places in the north.'
Read more at: hannahfestival.com
How to find us:
Piel View House image by Sam Underwood
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