Lawrence English, head-honcho of ::room40:: will be packing his warm winter clothes and heading over to colder climates this November and December. Start organising the street parties...
Dates are...
NOVEMBER
01 - PORTO - Passos Manuel
02 - LISBON - Fábrica Braço de Prata (with anthony pateras) also CD Launch for It's Up To Us To Live on Sirr
04 - PALERMO - Teatro delle Balate
06 - ROMA - RialtoSantambrogio
07 - VALENCIA - OCCC, ((Vibra)) series
09 - ZURICH - Kunstraum Walcheturm w/ Steinbrüchel.
10 - FREIBERG - Hörbar, Freiburg Haslacher Str. 43, 79115 Freiburg
11 - KOLN - Hallmackenreuther, Brüsseler Platz 9, 50674 Köln
14 - MARSEILLE - Montévidéo
15 - GENEVA - Cave 12
16 - TOULOUSE - Lieu-Commun, 25 rue d’Armagnac, 31500 Toulouse
19 - BERLIN - Kule (w/ Chris Abrahams)
20 - METZ - Theatre Du Saulcy, Fragment
22-24 - KRAKOW - Unsound Festival
25 - AMSTERDAM - MC Stubnitz
27 - AARHUS - Aarhus University
29 - COPENHAGEN - Plex
DECEMBER
30 - BRISTOL - Cube
02 - LONDON - Advent Sprawl @ The Fleapit
04 - LONDON - The Event Gallery
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Following his astonishing sell-out show at the new Peter Harrison Planetarium in Greenwich, Fernando Corona, aka Murcof, returns to London for a one-off audio-visual show at Corsica Studios on Sunday 2nd December.
The event will feature special film work made in collaboration with Italian visual artists xx+xy. Corona’s swift return to London will allow more fans to experience his music as it was meant to be heard. The performance will benefit from Corsica Studios’ spectacular sound system, and we are guaranteed a genuinely overwhelming sonic experience. Support acts for the show will be Rothko and V.I.
Corona's current album, 'Cosmos' been hailed as a masterpiece, taking his work further into the realm of contemporary composition, a process which Corona describes as ”expanding the possibilities of acoustic instruments through electronics”. The result is perfectly balanced: haunting and deeply atmospheric, like peering into a vast and unspeakable darkness.
The recent Planetarium show was the first music event to take place at the venue and coincided with the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first Soviet satellite, Sputnik 1. The performance, which sold out within days, made use of truly mindblowing visuals (some of which had never been seen in public before) to complement the monumental sound of the new album, rendering members of the audience literally speechless...
Murcof + Rothko + V.I.
Corsica Studios, Unit 4, Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB
Sunday 2 December
Tickets £10 adv/£12 door
Doors 8pm
www.theluminaire.co.uk
www.wegottickets.com/event/22445
Presented by The Luminaire, 5000 and Qu Junktions
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Vessels will release new single, Two Words & A Gesture, on November 5th.
The follow up to Yuki/Forever The Optimist will again be available on limited 7" (500 copies) and download. You can hear Two Words & A Gesture by clocking on the following links:
MySpace
Cuckundoo Records
The Leeds-based experimental rock band have added a fifth member to their ranks, Peter Wright. Pete played much of the band's UK tour in July, including the Latitude festival, earlier this year.
Vessels have a couple more shows lined up in 2007 including a rather special one with Efterklang and Caribou at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on Saturday 24th November. Early December will see the band jetting off to Minneapolis to record their debut album at the Pachyderm studio with producer John Congleton (Explosions In The Sky, Polyphonic Spree). The album is expected to be out early in 2008, with a plenty of shows to follow its release.
Vessels live:
Saturday 20th October - Brainwash Fest, Brudenell Social, Leeds
Saturday 24th November - Brudenell Social, Leeds with Efterklang, Caribou and Peter Broderick
"Evocative music that can rage like a tempest or induce Zen-like calm" The Independent
''Dynamic post rock which stalks around your room before launching itself through a window.'' Steve Lamacq
"A thoroughly engaging and entertaining musical brew" The Metro
"Vessels could be described as one of the most unique bands in the country today." Drowned In Sound
"You don't have to be much of an optimist to predict that this assured offering will catapult Vessels to wider renown." Gigwise
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Following the broadcast earlier this month of AHAAH's session for Rob Da Bank on BBC Radio 1, we can bring you details of more session tracks being played on Stuart Maconie's FreakZone on 6 Music.
The show airs on Sunday 7th October from 1700-2000 on BBC 6 Music, and will be accessible online for a week after the show.
The session features AHAAH regulars Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost, as well as cimbalom maestro Balazs Ungar.
You can catch A Hawk And A Hacksaw live in Turkey, France and Italy in October and November. In December, the band play the Portishead-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, UK, along with a mini tour of the UK and Ireland.
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Shining will be on tour with Enslaved on selected European dates in October, including two UK dates.
Sunday 21st October Mean Fiddler, London
Monday 22nd October Junktion7, Nottingham
The press dropped many names when trying to place Shining’s previous album on the musical map, from The Mars Volta and Slayer via King Crimson and Mahavishnu Orchestra to Henry Cow, This Heat, Ornette Coleman, Ligeti and Messiaen. One thing they all agreed on was the striking originality of this young group who had gone through a radical transition from starting out as a postbop jazz quartet. Their second album, Grindstone was released earlier this year.
Praise for Grindstone:
"A frighteningly intelligent, original and wide-ranging album, viscerally powerful and perplexing in the best way possible"
Rock-a-Rolla
"Shining have produced one of the most compelling records released so far this year; a beautiful conglomeration of songs ranging from playful lullabies to apocalyptic suites"
Fact
"Sheer joy"
Terrorizer
****
Buzz
"Frankly Terrifying...startlingly crisp and clean delivery plunges you, dazed and panting, right into the middle of the action"
Plan B
"You might find yourself rocking out against your better judgement"
Jazzwise
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Scanner Lloyd Webber Reportage
October 2007
Hello
September began in a grand style with the world premiere of Kirikou & Karabato an extremely enthusiastic sell-out crowd in Lyon France. Watching the enraptured faces of countless children and adults immersed in the world of this little African boy and his adventures with the Sorceress was unforgettable. Hearing my soundtrack accompany live dancing squirrels, a sexy slinky snake man, sinking boats, burning huts and a quest through the underworld, was an even more strangely surreal experience. Moving onto Paris this month, with over 60,000 tickets already sold, we’ve got 100 shows at Casino de Paris until the New Year, and then it begins touring the world. Remember to call me Scanner Lloyd Webber next time we meet!
This month my permanent installation, Turning Light, finally opened at Walkergate Park in Newcastle, one of the most advanced units of its kind in Europe. It offers comprehensive , highly specialist services for people with neurological conditions, such as head injury, multiple sclerosis, stroke, Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease. The therapeutic benefits of sound and light in physical and emotional therapy are well documented, and Turning Light explores these in this work installed in the swimming pool area. The LED lights produce a field of colour across the space, complimenting the ambience sound, encouraging a healthy balance and harmony in both patients and staff working in the pool area, creating a positive energy in a functional space.
Any visitors to the West Midlands in the UK might be interested to take a look at the inspiring show, The Equiano Project, which celebrates the life and times of the 18th Century writer and campaigner Olaudah Equiano which runs from 2006 until 2008 at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. I designed and composed the soundtrack to a series of walkthrough installations and multimedia works to highlight the life of this former slave, writer and abolitionist, who was instrumental in abolishing the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 25th March 1807. The passing of this Act was the first significant legislative attempt to deal with the reality of slavery, and had unimaginably far-reaching social and economic consequences in both the Old and New World, touching lives of all British people. Open until 13 January 2008, FREE admission.
My film project with British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen, Gravesend, continues to show at the Venice Biennial but can now additionally be seen at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. The subject of this 35mm film is coltan, a mineral so very valuable it is proving to be the new blood diamond. Used in all cell phones and computers, eighty percent of this mineral comes from the Congo. Symbolic of a new global economy unable to shake the vestiges of neo-imperialism, McQueen’s approach is unapologetically abstract. Compressing within the space of 17 minutes a poetic narrative of empire as told through a series of formally striking shots with sound design by Scanner, it’s a work that hopes to open up a dialogue.
FREE items are always appealing so here are a couple this month that could appeal. The Storung Festival over in Barcelona, where I performed back in May 2007, has uploaded live performances for download by myself in addition to Murcof, Kangding Ray and many others. At present you can watch the videos but audio is forthcoming too.
Any regular readers may remember I was working on an artist’s residency at the Museumsquartier in Vienna back in July. Well, now they are celebrating their five-year anniversary and I was commissioned to compose a mobile ring tone in celebration, which can be freely downloaded. Entitled Snipe, it’s meant to creep up on your silently but be quick as there’s only 1000 free downloads before it ends! I hope to hear it ringing out loudly in cinemas and theatres soon!
Still over in Austria, this month a new work of mine will be broadcast on Kunstradio. Entitled Draussen Drinnen, this commission takes an improvisatory approach to a very simple idea – what exists between the outside and the inside? Marked by a central point in the piece of a recording of a boys choir recorded in a Paris cathedral in the early 1930s, captured from the street, not inside the building itself, the work begins on the outside. Using local recordings of Vienna at the time of the recording session itself, spoken word, a walk through the snow in Lithuania at night, a boat ride in Stavanger, through the boys choir, you disappear ever more into the ether, into a collective memory. The second half moves to the interior, using domestic recordings, movements through a building and closes as it begins, with a choral voice and a drum beat. It can be heard on 14 October at 23.05 CEST and online.
This month also heralds the publication of Night Haunts (Verso Press), compiling the writings of Sukhdev Sandhu, reclaiming the streets of London from dusk until dawn. With ‘Sleep’ as the last tale just published online at our site, we’ve spent over 18 months now taking a journey into the urban heart of darkness. This project takes you through the sewers and across the skies in a police helicopter, via exorcisms, taxi ranks and Samaritans. With a remarkable private launch of the book at London’s City Hall in late September, this month we’ll be creating a very special event at the Curzon Cinema in London with film showings and readings and live music. Night related films will be screened including Jesus Blood which was the inspiration for the now legendary work by composer Gavin Bryars, Nice Time that captures Piccadilly Circus in 1957 whilst Boys from the Brown Stuff documents the sewage flushers of the city. You’ll never see or hear London the same again.
ArtGit debuts this month in Strasbourg. It’s a compressed version of Githead where we expand upon our songs in extended live versions, treating voices, looping, transforming and finding new directions for familiar structures. I will also be performing in a very unusual context later in October at the Museum of Garden History in London as part of their Atmospheres: Field Recording and the World of Natural Sound festival With a week dedicated to shows and presentations by Chris Watson, BJ Nilsen, Leafcutter John, and Biosphere, I will be presenting an exclusive commission for this unique occasion.
So another typically lazy month for me :-)
Best wishes
Robin
::: listen :::
PJ Harvey: White Chalk
LCD Soundsystem: 45.33 (EMI)
Klaus Schulze: Kontinuum (Synthetic Symphony)
BJ Nilsen: The Short Night (Touch)
::: read :::
Paul Auster: Oracle Night (Faber & Faber)
Monica Ali: Alentejo Blue (Doubleday)
Sylvia Plath: Ariel, the Restored Edition (Harper)
Eric Duboys: Industrial Music for Industrial People (Camion Blanc)
::: film:::
The Nomi Song, Andrew Horn, Germany
Planet Terror, Roberto Rodriguez, USA
Moscow Zero, María Lidón, USA
Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy, USA
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::: Diary Dates :::
2007
2007 03 Oct-31 Dec-Kirikou & Karaba Casino de Paris France
04 +06 Oct-Switch ballet Brussels Belgium
06 Oct- Githead La Laiterie Strasborg France
12 Oct-Night Haunts Curzon Cinema London
26 Oct-Museum of Garden History London
30 Oct-Faultline Laban Centre London
03 Nov-Blindscape with TeZ La Casa Encendida Spain
08-09 Nov-Brainport Masterclass Einhoven Holland
09 Nov-Future of Sound British Library London
10 Nov-William S Burroughs event Paradiso Amsterdam
14 Nov-Eurostar Launch London Paris Brussels
16 Nov-Plexus +Praxis Maison de la Musique Nanterre France
16 Nov-Mariam Théâtre Louis Aragon Tremblay-en-france
23 Nov-Brainport Masterclass Einhoven Holland
24 Nov-Blindscape with TeZ at STRP Festival Eindhoven Holland
24,25,27-30 Nov-Forsythe-Soto-Moles-Elo Theater 't Eilandje Antwerp Belgium
28 Nov-Lecture De Montfort University Leicester UK
30 Nov-Mariam Théâtre Paul Eluard Choisy-le-Roi France
01-02 Dec-Forsythe-Soto-Moles-Elo Theater 't Eilandje Antwerp Belgium
01 Dec-Switch ballet Porto Portugal
01 Dec-Lenz Rifrazioni Festival Parma Italy
06 Dec-Forsythe-Soto-Moles-Elo C.C. De Spil Roeselare Belgium
08 Dec-Forsythe-Soto-Moles-Elo Cultureel Centrum Hasselt Belgium
12-15 Dec-Forsythe-Soto-Moles-Elo Opera Gent Belgium
19 +20 Dec-Switch ballet Creteil Paris France
2008
28-29 Jan-Workshops Istituto Europeo di Design Milan Italy
30 Jan-Kirikou & Karaba Isle D'Espagnac France
02 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith D'Orleans France
03 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Limoges France
06 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Le Musikhall Rennes France
09 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Nantes Metropole St Herblain France
16 Feb-Night Haunts, Stockholm Sweden
27 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Vinci Tours France
01 March-Kirikou & Karaba Ampithea 4000 Angers France
02 March-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Rouen France
05 March-Kirikou & Karaba Docks Oceane Le Havre France
09 March-Kirikou & Karaba Le Zenith Caen France
16 March-Kirikou & Karaba Antares Le Mans France
29-30 March-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Arean Lille France
17 May-Kirikou & Karaba Summum Grenoble France
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Exhibitions
Klusterblock
TONSPUR 21
Artist-in-Residence
Passage
Museumsquartier Vienna Austria
FREE
Daily 10.00-20.00
22 July - 31 October
This sound installation explores an idea of the ensemble voice. Traditional choirs use a series of voices to compliment each other in an elegant formation, but here you listen to the singular voice of the artist in a choral manner. Using breaths and pauses within the piece to echo around this open location, the work suggests a collision between physical space and the human voice.
Klusterblock, a playful amalgam of German/English, suggests the use of the voice as a wall of sound, leaving subtle traces of the human, embedding the walls with harmonies of an imaginary nature.
www.tonspur.at
www.mqw.at
Night Haunts
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Design Mind Unit
Sound Design Scanner
Artangel Interaction invited writer and historian Sukhdev Sandhu to write a nocturnal journal unfolding over the course of 2006. His postings will appear sequentially at this microsite specially designed by Mind Unit. Sandhu's forays see him prospecting in the London night with the people who drive its pulse, from the avian police to security guards, zookeepers and exorcists. Acclaimed artist and musician Scanner has collaborated with Sukhdev and Ian Budden of Mind Unit to compose the sound for the site.
An exposition about the reactivation of the paranormal in contemporary art, especially the recurring interest of artists in forms of possible communication with "other worlds" via electronic media. Scanner presents 'Breakthrough,' a work that uses recordings from highly amplified recordings of empty haunted spaces, to demonstrate the redundant and undesired flotsam and jetsam of environmental acoustic space, and the 'ghosts' of our natural world.
www.nighthaunts.org.uk
www.artangel.org.uk
Bittersweet Songs for the Sleepless City
Artangel Interaction
NightJam is the latest project in Artangel Interaction’s Nights of London series of artist-led collaborations with people who have a special view on a hidden side of the nocturnal city. Scanner invited young people at New Horizon Youth Centre in King’s Cross to collaborate on a creative project that expresses how the city at night looks and sounds to their ears and eyes. Through music and voice workshops they explored the sense of freedom and fear, celebration and solitude of the concealing darkness. Meanwhile, they captured their nights on disposable cameras, taking images that are at times eerie, startling, contemplative and funny. NightJam presents two elusive visual and musical journeys through the city’s ‘quiet’ hours.
NightJam presents two music tracks, a film, photographs, that can be experienced and freely downloaded. A limited edition CD is also being distributed for free through the website. Now featuring remixes of NightJam by Stephen Vitiello, Hakan Lidbo, Troy Banarzi, Si-cut.db and Pete Lockett.
www.nightjam.org.uk
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