… 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.
This September (19th-21st) I will be co-curating an Other Art Festival in Coventry called A Thing About Machines.
There will be a load of special exhibitions, screenings and concerts in some really special venues around the city from artists who use technology invented in the last 100 years. Watches, bicycles, cars, Delia Derbyshire, the art and language movement, the cybernetic culture research unit. Coventry has been the birth place for all these remarkable innovations but has suffered a bit of empty nest syndrome since they went on to live elsewhere. It is time to pull all these influences back and create a new Thing for Coventry.
Call for Artists.
who: Early career Artists in any discipline
where: Coventry, West Midlands, UK
when: 19th – 21st September 2008
fee: There is a small budget for expenses
to apply: Please contact us by email for a full brief.
contact: cormac@sonicgraffiti.co.uk
deadline: 25th July 2008
I had a great spot on the mezzanine of The Broadway Cinema where I could spy both on passers by on the street and at people in the bar. The screens were set up so that one was viewable from the inside and one from outside. It was a pretty cold night so it was mainly smokers and people on their way in to the cinema who watched the performance from the outside. But all in all it was a successful show.
Most of the live performances clashed with mine but I particularly enjoyed Heath Bunting’s Status Project and the maps on display were excellent. I also liked Join by Satellite Bureau although it was a little slow on the night but after hearing many talks on locative art it was good to see a project in reality. I only saw a few films but enjoyed ‘3 spots for expo 02′ by Susanne Hofer and Urs Hofer which used lovely low-fi and subtle visual effects.
There is a photo of my performance in the Photo Gallery here (choose Trampoline Year 10 from the menu) – not very informative but a nice shot.
I will be performing at Trampoline in Nottingham this Thursday, 29th November. 9pm.
Broadway Media Centre, 14-18 Broad St, Nottingham NG1 3AL
This will be a special version of my Fontechnique projection performance called “Pursue, Protect, Prevent and Prepare”. The piece will examine some of the civil liberty issues of surveillance. I will be projecting text onto the window of the Broadway cinema that will be based on my observations of passers by and influenced by the official Home Office text on surveillance.
Fontechnique is a projection tool that only uses fonts (text and graphic) that can be manipulated in a number of ways. It was created as an antidote to the abundance of boring graphical VJ projections. It is dependent on direct input from the artist and has no reactive or automatic templates or features.The performance will last for an hour. If you are near by come along and be observed.
CORMAC IS WATCHING.
