SOUNDkitchen will be transforming one of the Zellig gallery spaces into a ‘Cinema for the Ears’ at Capsule’s at Supersonic Festival. On 22-23rd October let SOUNDkitchen tantalise your aural senses with a site-specific immersive sound sculpture designed in collaboration with BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre). Over the festival weekend we will bring you an eclectic concoction of sound installations, live performances and cinematic audio experiences in giant-sized portions of SOUNDkitchen recipes.
PERFORMANCES
Saturday 22 October
1400-1500
BEAST performance 1
A chance to hear multichannel work composed by past and present BEAST members. Featuring Annie Mahtani, Julien Guillamat, Daniel Barreiro, David Hindmarch, Jonty Harrison. Curated by Jonty Harrision.
1600-1630
Imaginary Landscapes – Through the moors… Chris Tarren
Through the moors… tracks a journey from my home in York, out to the coast of North-East England. The inspiration for the piece came after standing on a river bank in York and being amazed by the complexity of the sonic landscape and the sense of panorama I felt as the various sounds – trains, boats, people etc. – interacted. This installation extends some of my recent compositional investigations – multi-channel spatialisation, the use of field recordings and experimentation varying sensations of reality in the material used – over a longer time-span, and with a greater focus on the acoustic environment created.
chris-tarren.co.uk
1700-1800
Entre Terre et Ciel Annie Mahtani and Julien Guillamat
Entre Terre et Ciel is a performance based on field recordings made around Azet, a small village in the middle of the Pyrenees. Three days of trekking and field recording resulted in sonic explorations on three different levels: the bottom of the Vallée d’Aure at 800m, the valley of Arsoué and Azet at 1200m and the mountain path of Azet at 1580m. The sonic environments on these three levels were dramatically different from very populated towns to deserted open spaces. This performance is the first stage in a long-term collaborative project
anniemahtani.co.uk / julienguillamat.wordpress.com
Sunday 23 October
1400-1500
BEAST performance 2
Another chance to hear multichannel work composed by past and present BEAST members. Featuring Scott Wilson, Norah Lorway, James Carpenter, Rosalyn Coull, Chris Tarren, Andy Lewis. Curated by Jonty Harrision.
1600-1630
Iain Armstrong
Iain will be performing a live, multichannel laptop set working with selected material from his sound library including raw and processed field recordings and other found sounds. For this occasion he has been particularly drawn to noise, both as it exists in nature and through man’s creation, and he intends to explore some of the complexities and subtleties of this sonic palette. He’ll be joined by Annie Mahtani who will be diffusing his set.
iainarmstrong.net
1630-1700
Shelly Knotts
Shelly Knotts will perform a live laptop set surrounding the audience in a collage of sounds from the steel pan, weaving intricate metallic textures in an improvisation diffused across SOUNDkitchen’s site-specific sound sculpture. The performer in the recordings is Jenny Gilberg, British Association of Steelbands (BAS) Pan Explosion UK Soloist Champion 2008.
shellyknotts.wordpress.co.uk
INSTALLATIONS
Throughout the weekend we will be airing field recordings and composed pieces in our site-specific immersive sound sculpture. To tie in with Capsule’s Home of Metal exhibition we have asked phonographers and sound artists to contribute material based on the notions of home and metal which will be brought together in two different installations. We will also be airing material used in our immersive listening room, created for SOUNDkitchen’s SONICpicnic in July this year.
Home
Martin Clarke / Christiaan Cruz / Claudio Curciotti / Diane Duta / Bjorn Eriksson / Seth Guy / Felipe Otondo / Coryn Smethurst / Martin A. Smith / Joe Stevens
1200-1300 Saturday and Sunday
1500-1600 Saturday and Sunday
Metal
Iain Armstrong / Paulo Chagas / Martin Clarke / Pierre Clemens / FI<LDS>T / Jex Riley French / Gordon Hempton / Marinos Koutsomichalis /Maria Papadomanolaki / Dallas Simpson / Coryn Smethhurst / Simon Whetham
1300-1400 Saturday and Sunday
1630-1730 Saturday
1730-1830 Sunday
SOUNDkitchen
Jonty Harrison / Shelly Knotts / Chris Tarren / Iain Armstrong / Mark Harris / Antti Saario / Els Viaene / James Carpenter / Julien Guillamat /Charles Céleste Hutchins / Norah Lorway / Annie Mahtani
1830-2000 Saturday and Sunday