This week! this week! The launch of Coventry’s first and best electronic arts festival launches on Thursday at The Herbert from 6pm and carries on all weekend. There is loads happening so have a look at the website: www.athingaboutmachines.co.uk. It’s going to be amazing.
I’ve been meaning to do this for a few weeks and didn’t get round to it. This version of Vortgeist (my piece from the Birmingham Sound Matter project) is closer to what I played at the concert. Enjoy/comment.
Vortgeist (live mix) 128kps, 9.3mb. 10:10
Thanks to everyone who came to the SOLD OUT concert at Ikon Eastside. It was a great gig and I thoroughly enjoyed the night. The Birmingham Sound Matter CD is available now from here: www.audiobulb.com
… it’s coming but in the meantime if you want to get involved here is a call for artist participation:
Here is a new piece created using three simple field recordings and minimal processing. The elements were recorded last weekend in Donegal at my parents house. Enjoy/comment. (laptop speakers won’t be much use.)
The Miller’s Acre, 2009 (96kps, 4.7mb)
I will be performing at Ikon Eastside on the 8th July with Francisco López / Helena Gough / Bobby Bird / Nicholas Bullen / Annie Mahtani / Mark Harris and Martin Clarke (tickets available 1st June)
Full press release here: http://www.sonicgraffiti.co.uk/BSM_PR_Bio.pdf
and more info here: http://modulateav.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/francisco-lopez-birmingham-sound-matter/
p.s. I’ve broken my arm so I will explain more when I can type with two hands.
Title: Birmingham Sound Matter
Artists: Francisco López / Helena Gough / Bobby Bird / Nicholas Bullen / Annie Mahtani / Cormac Faulkner / Mark Harris / Martin Clarke
Format: Live concert and CD release (Audiobulb Records – limited edition 500)
Date: 08/07/2009
Venue: IKON Eastside, 183 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B5 5SE
Time: Doors 7.30 pm performance begins 8.00 pm
Tickets: £6.00 advance only from www.modulate.org.uk
I have put together a limited number of CDs containing three special arrangements of the staircase compositions and a booklet with information of each work. They are available in The Herbert shop, The Tin Angel Record Shop and by email request directly from me. I have only produced a very small number of these CDs and when they are gone they are gone. They cost £5.
This is the final composition for the staircase at The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. The piece will be launched as part of A Thing About Machines festival on 19th September and will remain there until further notice.
Re:Construction is a large-scale work which transforms the staircase into a place for exploration, meditation and performance. The staircase acts as an instrument that can be played by anyone using it and encourages interaction with the architecture and with other visitors. There are three commissioned works for this staircase each based on an aspect of Coventry’s history.
Since the Blitz in 1940 Coventry has sustained numerous construction and reconstruction works. The city has always hummed, whirred and buzzed with the sound of industry. Re:Construction draws on the sounds of Coventry’s past and present using the sounds of tools, machines and engines. The recordings were created using a mixture of electronic and acoustic sounds including drum machines, bowed cymbals, bicycles, spanners and oil drums.
For more information:
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP
T: 024 7683 2386 E: info@theherbert.org W:www.theherbert.org
I will be performing at Flux-Fest in Birmingham on 27th June.
Ensemble Interakt and A.A.S. are hosting a fluxconcert at St. Paul’s Church, St Paul’s Square, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham.
“The Re:Flux Fluxconcert, curated by a.a.s. and Ensemble Interakt, on Friday 27 June is a one day audio performance event exploring collaborative and participatory working as developed by Fluxus. Contributing artists include Ana Benlloch, Cormac Faulkner, Jonathan Green, Phillip Henderson, Calum F. Kerr, Sian Macfarlane, Niki Russell, Stuart Tait, Keir Williams and Dan Williamson. (tickets £3/ £2, booking essential)”
The Flux-Fest is hosted by Vivid and there are loads of other excellent events including an appearance by the wonderful Ergo Phizmiz. More details in the flyer below.
I have an exhibition of gum dichromate prints at The Tin Angel, Medieval Spon Street, Coventry, CV1 3AX. The exhibition will run for three months from today. Here is some information:
‘Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.’ Paul Cezanne.
Cormac Faulkner’s large gum dichromate prints toy with our perception of light and shadow. The work combines elements of painting, printing and photography.
These are the first seven prints of an ongoing series. Each print contains two images, one taken with the sun behind the subject and the second taken with the sun behind the camera observing another object’s shadow. The printing process mirrors the subject – using ultra violet light through a negative onto the paper.
The image on each pane is handcrafted, coloured and tinted. Using a process that is unpredictable forces ‘errors’ that distinguish this work from the normally clean photographic print and allow traces of the artist’s physical actions to enhance the image.
