Category: News

Art within hearing

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Article on Cathy Lane and Viv Corringham: “I hear footsteps, maybe sandals dragging on the smooth concrete floor, and the chatter from multiple conversations around me. In the inky red blackness behind my closed eyelids I hear the distant drone and myriad horn pitches of traffic, my memory discerning autorickshaw from bus from motorbike.”

Cathy Lane, Artist in Residence at The Indian Sonic Research Organisation

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The Indian Sonic Research Organisation is a collective of instrument builders and artists dedicated to the proliferation of experimental music and sound art. During the residency Cathy is leading a workshop with Viv Corringham, Sounding Space: Sound in Space, and performing a live piece, Am I here? as part of the Art-In-Transit programme.

Announced: City Sonic Places’ commissioned artwork programme

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These seven artworks will be exploring and contributing to the sonic places of Elephant & Castle, available between 11am – 2pm, before the Symposium begins at 2pm. 

Locate them in the streets, on benches, in phone boxes or on twitter – join them in sounding out the built environment, through ‘living statistics’; by listening for underground tunnels; listening through bodies or by trying to not listen at all.

Matterlurgy selected for the Creating Earth Futures Commissions

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Matterlurgy, Helena Hunter & Mark Peter Wright, have been selected by The Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities‘ creative commissions to develop a new work Begin with Noticing on the theme of creating earth futures. This project aims for an arts of attunement within the context of global environmental change (GEC) and the comissioning theme of Creating Earth Futures.

Open Call: Urban Sonic Places Commission

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This open call invites submissions of performative, mobile, workshop or intervention based sound art works to take place in the immediate environs of Elephant and Castle, London. Selected artists will be commissioned a fee of £150. Deadline: 20 December 2017.