| ARTS EVENTS - MAY FESTIVAL
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ATMOSPHEREs
2
FIELD RECORDING and the World of NATURAL SOUND
Touch
and
the Museum of Garden History
present a second season of performances
and events exploring the sounds of the natural world.
Thursday
8th - Monday 12th May
10:30 - 17:30 daily - INSTALLATION & DEMONSTRATION
TREE LISTENING with Alex Metcalf
For more information please visit www.alexmetcalf.co.uk
Alex is an inventor and artist with a fascination for
the natural world. One of his recent inventions is a
device which records the sound of water as it seeps
through the trunks of trees. The sound is amplified
hundreds of times so it can be audibly heard and as
Alex will demonstrate, each tree has its own particular
'sound'. Alex will carry out demonstrations in the Museum's
garden on Saturday 10th.
Thursday
8th May
20:00 - PERFORMANCE
PHILIP JECK
ROBERT HAMPSON
MARCUS DAVIDSON
The first of the performances sees the acclaimed multimedia
composer Philip Jeck perform alongside the pianist/organist
Marcus Davidson and the ex-Loop and Main founder Robert
Hampson. Performances will start at 8.30pm. £12
Friday
9th May
20:00 - PERFORMANCE
FENNESZ
CHARLES MATTHEWS
MATT DAVIES & SIMON WHETHAM
One of Europe's foremost electronic artists comes to
the UK, also performing alongside the pianist/organist
Charles Matthews. They are supported by the Bristol-based
sound artists Matt Davies and Simon Whetham. Performances
will start at 8.30pm. £12
Monday 12th May
11:00 - 18:00 - SYMPOSIUM
HAUNTOLOGY NOW!
In the past two years, the concept of
‘hauntology’ has emerged as a name for the
zeitgeist. The shades of the past become more vivid
than anything turned up by the present.
The
spirit of the times is itself spectral. Faced with the
apparent triumph of global Capital and the collapse
of cultural innovation, artists and critics impatient
with postmodern culture’s ‘nostalgia mode’
are forced back to a time before the End of History.
They engage in mourning and melancholia for what has
disappeared and what never came to be. Everyday life
becomes ghostly… a saturated culture is unable
to forget that things were not always like this.
Coined
by Derrida in his Spectres Of Marx, ‘hauntology’
now has an unlife of its own. It is in relation to sound,
in particular, that ‘hauntology’ has gained
its second – or should that be third life.
Recent
releases by Burial, the Ghost Box label, Mordant Music,
The Caretaker, Philip Jeck, Gavin Bryars and Chris Watson
have in their different ways exemplified a hauntological
sensibility. The revival of attention upon the post-vinyl
status of groups like Joy Division, The Gang of Four,
The Fall etc. presents a parallel narrative that conditions
development in the present.
This
May 12 event will be the first to deal with the relation
between sound and hauntology, and will focus in particular
on the role of space in generating hauntological effects.
Why do certain places retain the traces of past sonic
events? Why is so much hauntological music tied up with
particular spaces? What has the disappearance of the
concept of public space to do with hauntology?
The
day will be divided into afternoon and evening sessions.
The afternoon will be devoted to theoretical explorations
of sonic hauntology, with presentations by Mark Fisher
(The Wire, k-punk weblog), Jon Wozencroft (Touch, Royal
College of Art), Paul Devereux (author, researcher into
Archaeoacoustics, Royal College of Art), Christopher
Woodward (Director of the Museum of Garden History)
and Steve Goodman, better known as Kode9 (University
of East London). The evening will be given over to performances
and interventions, with The Caretaker, Kode9 and The
Spaceape and Philip Jeck headlining. £8
Monday
12th May
20:00 - PERFORMANCE
KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
THE CARETAKER (aka V/VM)
PHILIP JECK
A night of amazing artists across multiple
genres (Dubstep, alternative electronica/sampladelica,
multimedia composition etc) in whose work can be seen
a sense of haunting nostalgia. Performances will start
at 8.30pm. £12
A combined ticket for both Monday 12th May events is
available for £15 through the Museum of Garden
History box office only.
For
more information on Touch please visit www.touchmusic.org.uk
Festival
Pass: £38. Only
available through the Museum of Garden History box office.
Box
Office:
Ticketweb:
08700 600 100 / www.ticketweb.co.uk
See Tickets: 0870 264 3333 / www.seetickets.com
We
Got Tickets (internet only, but save
on postage fees): www.wegottickets.com
Tickets also available through the Museum - 020
7401 8865
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How to get to the Museum:
Buses – To Lambeth Road C10, 3 & 344
To Lambeth Palace Road 77 & 507 (507 - Mon-Fri only)
Underground – Lambeth North or Westminster
Train – Waterloo or Victoria, then bus.
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