Here I am turning a pile of rubbish into an instrument for a piece called Incidental Music. It’s made for the Open Studio family space at the Tate Modern and is a response to Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky’s film piece Incidents. I hope it’s finished by Friday 17th December.
I’ve been recording and editing Iain Sinclair for a forthcoming release on Test Centre. Watch this space.
Our film Performance Review was just shown as part of a retrospective of John Smith‘s work at the Curzon in Wimbledon. Trish and I love John Smith, so we were very happy to be part of the event. It was also satisfying to see our piece on a proper cinema screen. We chatted to John afterwards, he’s the most unassuming and unpretentious man, so now we like him even more.
We’ve just finished the Embodying Transformation show at the Tate Modern. A crew of 30, a spectacular light show from Pip Rhodes, Duran Audio’s pristine sound system and work by myself (with Brian Rotman and Jeanine Thompson) as well as Julian Henrique’s sound sculpture. Expertly curated and presented by Marko Daniel. The whole show will be on Tate TV soon. Our piece was a dance and sound work based around a topological rendering of the number 5. My sound featured a fuzzy, low slung rocknroll group moving through space/time and merging with location recordings made of the same band around the Tate Modern. A kind of synchronicity of everyday space/sound occurred around the audience. Faraway places were bent around the East Room, in denial of distance or perspective. All topologically inspired. The dancers were incredible. I’m still recovering, psychically. Further thoughts will emerge soon.
If you’re in Peckham, go and see Sonia Boyce’s multi-channel film Network at the Peckham Space. I helped Sonia with the sound in the piece. Detail here http://www.peckhamspace.com/project/network/sonia-boyce
Trish and I had a productive couple of weeks in rural Estonia at the Moks residency centre. Here’s a blog about it:
http://pairworkproject.wordpress.com
Here’s a blog about my work at Binaural in Portugal.
I’m currently in Portugal completing a residency at Binaural in the mountains of North Portugal. Details here, and poster for the end of residency festival is below:
