Artist: Fiorenzo Palermo Title: Dead as Disco Location: Office Corridor Descrition: Dead as Disco is a multilingual sound poem which is displayed as a graphic score, with a performance by the author on headphones. Biography: Fiorenzo Palermo is an Italian artist based in London. His works include soundscapes, live electronics, interactive installations, video art and sound poetry. He has participated in events such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Cybersonica Festival and exhibited at the Chisenhale Gallery and the Truman Brewery Gallery in London and the Museum of Sculpture in Wales. He is currently researching for a doctorate thesis on his teacher the late Hugh Davies.
Artist: Ed Crooks Title: 24 Silences for John Cage Location: Café information screens and sound system Descrition: Ed Crooks relocates Cage's idea of silence within the romantic tradition and the notion of the sublime. 24 Silences for John Cage was filmed and recorded in 24 randomly selected locations in the British Isles.
Biography: Ed Crooks is a multi-media artist and music historian whose recent work has involved merging musical forms and concepts with video based installation. He has a particular interest in the music and concepts of the composer John Cage which has led to both theoretical work and the video/sound installation '24 Silences for John Cage': a series of 24 one hour long films recorded in randomly chosen locations in Great Britain to be played in any order and in any combination. Previously he has shown video pieces at the ICA's Uncut series and at Arts Depot, both in London. He is currently preparing to do a PhD on aspects of John Cage's theory of 'silence' and lives in the Chiltern Hills with three goats.
Artist: William Turner-Duffin Title: Chime Box Location: Foyer Descrition: A computer is wired to a collection of objects hung as wind chimes. The movement of the chimes triggers virtual random processes playing manipulated recordings of the objects using a 17note scale derived from the spectral content of the objects themselves. Biography: William Turner-Duffin studied BA(Hons) Creative Music Technology at Bath Spa University, graduating with a 1st class in 2003. Following completion of the course the Hewlett Packard funded Submerge undergraduate/graduate show awarded his final undergraduate project 'The 32 Switch Automaton (32A)' First prize for creativity. This led to a position at Bath Spa University as a Business fellow where a commercial proof of concept for the 32A was developed.
Artist: Tom Castle Title: The Symbol of Bush Reliability Location: Foyer Description: A play on words, a 'bricolage' of found bits and pieces. Memories of listening to the war on the radio - mixed with street cries, adverts, a chorus of birds (in the hand) and peeling bells. President, which one? Bush? Which one? Kate is so damned and beautifully honest - that makes one of them. Visits to malls & the urge to buy - you can always use a new table/chair/bookcase/shelf. They look so nice in the showroom....and the names... Biography: Tom Castle is a collector of things that will come in handy sometime, the maker of undisciplined, unboxed, somewhat cumbersome and perverse performances and installations. He mixes and matches and melds the seemingly unmeldable. He is also an erstwhile furniture designer, community arts worker, lighting technician, peripetetic PC maintenance man, a psychodynamic counsellor and currently helping to create the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Archive at the School of Oriental and African Studies and, when he gets round to it, proposing research in 'Sonic Tropes' - whatever they are....
Artist: Richard Crow Title: Imaginary hospital radio Location: Utility Room Description: Utilising recordings made in situ, 'treated' environmental, ambient and 'medical noise', poetic narratives, archive recordings and audio contributions from invited collaborators and guests, IHR subtly mimics and 'subverts' (through ironic appropriation) conventional Hospital radio and its supposed aim to pacify its patients. IHR creates experimental radio broadcasts, in which the hospital, its "unwanted" sounds and noises become the sound source par excellence. IHR both inhabits the psychological and physical space (of the hospital), rather than offering an alternative space outside of itself. Biography: Richard Crowis a multi-disciplinary artist who uses sound and noise in a performative way, for its spatial and subjective qualities and above all for its psychological implications for the listener. Over the past decade his solo and collaborative site-specific installations and performances have consisted of highly conceptualized interventions into base materiality, investigations of alternative systems of organization and research into a certain material decadence, most notably with the project The Institution of Rot.
Artist: Wojciech Kosma Title: I owe two thousand pounds for my Sonic Arts degree Location: Upstairs Bar Descrition: An interactive text / sound installation based on a real life predicament. Biography: Wojciech Kosma, born 1981 in Poland. Graduated from Sonic Arts, Middlesex University London. Sound artist and freelance programmer. Kosma creates performances and installations. He improvises with the technology. He writes computer programs and composes.
Curator: Nye Parry Biography: Nye Parry is a composer and sound artist based in Deptford. He has created sound installations in a number of major museums including the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. An ongoing interest in Oral History as a material for sound art led to the creation of an interactive sound installation The Memory Machine, with frequent collaborator Cathy Lane at the British Museum (2003). His work has been broadcast internationally including BBC radios three and four and has been presented at numerous festivals. In addition he has produced many soundtracks for contemporary choreographers including Yael Flexer (Bedlam) with whom he has established a 10 year working relationship. Fuzzy Logic (2005), a commission from the LSO Discovery Project for Balinese Gamelan orchestra, electronics and five members of the London Symphony Orchestra combined Nye's two long standing interests in spatial audio and the music of Java and Bali the latter also leading to performances of his music at the Bali Arts Festival in Denpasar by Gamelan Lila Cita a London based group of which Nye is a founder member. Nye is the programme leader for the MA in Sonic Arts at Middlesex University.
Thanks to: Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University, Matthew Couper and all at Deptford X Albany staff, especially Gavin, Paul, Stuart, Alex, Cameron, Cat, Senay, Bert and Ro Mike Roberts and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama All the Artists
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