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Event
SOUNDkitchen Series 2014 #03
SOUNDkitchen's 2014 series continues on Saturday 13 September at Vivid Projects, Birmingham. This event presents three duo performances from Midlands based artists including our third New Collaborations commission from bass player Chris Mapp and electronic musician Ben Ramsay. After performing for the first time as a duo earlier this year SOUNDkitchen's own Annie Mahtani and Iain Armstrong will play a live laptop set featuring field recording and live electronics. The third act was selected from our call for Birmingham based emerging artists and presents a live AV set from Formuls a.k.a. James Dooley and Matt Parker. This series is presented with support from the Sound and Music Composer-Curator programme.
Tickets £5
PERFORMANCES
CHRIS MAPP & BEN RAMSAY
For the thirdin ourNew Collaborationsproject we bring together two Midlands based musicians,Chris Mappand Ben Ramsay.
Mapp is a bass player, improvisor and composer using electronics to manipulate the sound of his instrument creating soundscapes and un-bass like sound worlds.As a composer Chris uses found sounds and field recordings as inspiration and staring points, connecting them together with improvisation through graphic scores and traditional notation.
Ramsay is an electronic musician preoccupied with the relationships between acoustic music and electronica and recently completed a PhD on the topic. He is one half of electronica duo Soundhacker and works on various other solo projects. Hecurrently leads the Creative Music Technology degree programme at Staffordshire University in the West Midlands, UK.
FORMULS
Formuls is the algorithmic performance environment built with Pure Data by James Dooley. James performs slowly emerging feedback patterns that gradually build into a rich, oscillating backdrop of finely tuned noise. He performs alongside collaborator, Matt Parker who works with real-time fractal visualisations that are responsive to both the feedback systems generated by Formuls as well as the external environment.
James Dooley is a digital artist and creative coder based in Birmingham. James' performance and installation works focus on creating a sense of place -- a meta-environment. Influenced by complexity science, his works rely on the interactions between many simple elements acting autonomously that coalesce to produce emergent forms.
Matt Parker is an audio/visual artist creating immersive experiences that reveal and amplify hidden connections between every-day technology and the environment.
SOUNDKITCHEN
The third duo to perform at SOUNDkitchen Series 2014 #03 are SOUNDkitchen members Iain Armstrong & Annie Mahtani. This is a new permutation of the collective, performing as a duo for the first time earlier this year.
With backgrounds in studio composition SOUNDkitchen have been developing a performance practice that brings the techniques and aesthetics of acousmatic music into a live performance situation. On this occasion Mahtani and Armstrong, working with their respective sound libraries, will perform a structured improvisation mixing and manipulating their material in real time. They are both using Ableton Live as host software extended by Max For Live and MAX/MSP. An ongoing area of research is how the integration of software and hardware devices such as midi controllers and live audio input (e.g. via contact microphone) might enable greater gestural control, subtlety of expression and sonic complexity when making music with recorded sounds in a live context.
The music they make is representative of a shared interest in field recording and the integration of found sounds into an abstract musical discourse that is both immersive and evolving.
Iain Armstrong is a composer and sound artist based in Birmingham, UK. Working almost exclusively with recordings of the sound environment, he aims to expose the inherent musicality of this material through reduced listening, digital manipulation and the act of composition and performance. He creates works for fixed media that receive regular presentations in the UK and internationally. His work spans acousmatic concert music, sound design for theatre and visual media, multi-channel sound installation and live electroacoustic performance.
iainarmstrong.net
Annie Mahtani is a Birmingham based composer and sound artist. Her music is created from recorded sound objects and field recordings which are then transformed, manipulated and restructured, exploring the juxtaposition of real, abstract and surreal sound worlds. Annie composes concert and installation works, collaborates with dance and theatre companies and performs live electroacousic sets. Her work has been performed extensively internationally.
anniemahtani.co.uk
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LocationVivid Projects (View)
16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street
Birmingham B5 5RS
United Kingdom
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