SERIES 2014
#02

MONTY ADKINS & MARTIN CLARKE / KOSTIS KILYMIS / ROBERT CURGENVEN / ALAN BROOKER

FRIDAY 25 JULY / VIVID PROJECTS, DIGBETH / 7.30PM

Tickets £5 advance.

For the second event in our series SOUNDkitchen bring an exciting cohort of local, national and international artists to Birmingham

MONTY ADKINS & MARTIN CLARKE

For the second in our New Collaborations  project we bring together composers Monty Adkins and Martin Clarke. Adkins’ work is characterised by slow shifting organic instrumental and concrete soundscapes. His work focuses on encouraging a deeper immersive listening experience and his new works draw together elements from ambient, minimal electronica, acousmatic and experimental electronic music. Clarke is a sound artist, recordist and filmmaker. His work makes extensive use of environmental sound and video material to create layered, abstract, formal spaces which are often representational in appearance.

For this collaboration, Clarke will be performing with environmental sound and Adkins will be performing a set of  abstract and ambient materials. 

ROBERT CURGENVEN 

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Curgenven’s viscerally nuanced works created from pipe organs in Cornwall are treated through dub aesthetics via early 20th century acetates, dubplates, new vinyl and custom low frequency oscillators to blend the all important hiss and doubling of displaced time inspired by the deep bass-soaked physical immersion of dub sound-system culture.

Robert Curgenven (1974) is a composer/sound artist drawing on the physicality of sound – not just the physical impact on the body but the way in which the auditory can shape our perception of space and the flow of time, from architectural to open space. His works span pipe organ through to feedback, immersive resonances via turntables and custom-made vinyl, as well as carefully detailed field recordings from remote areas in Australia where he lived for many years. The Wire surmises that “behind the music—to these ears at any rate—lurk such [disparate] presences as Alvin Lucier, King Tubby, Murray Schafer and Eliane Radigue.”

KOSTIS KILYMIS

Kilymis works on audio feedback systems and re-presentation. His practice touches upon music, performance, installation work and video – developed using a mixture of electronic and acoustic approaches. He has collaborated with musicians such as Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Leif Elggren, Phil Julian, Sarah Hughes and Patrick Farmer. He also runs the Organized Music from Thessaloniki music label.

For his performance at SOUNDkitchen he will be performing a set using field-recordings, electronics and live feedback manipulations.

ALAN BROOKER

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting emerging artists we are very happy to welcome Alan Brooker onto our stage.

Alan is a digital media artist with a background in Vjing, glitch aesthetics and creative coding. His work investigates live sounds and visuals gleaned from unusual sources both digital and physical, from the sonification of computer source code, electrical magnetic interference and use of forgotten technology. With Birmingham based Audio/Visual collective FreeCode, Alan has performed at the Fierce, Superbyte and Network Music Festivals

During his performance at SOUNDkitchen, Alan will create a collage of mangled cassette tape ambience, pulsating tones controlled by water purity sensors and live coded bleeps and beeps.