gap in the air: a festival of sonic art

Talbot Rice Gallery, 15 Nov 2014 - 14 Feb 2015

playroom – multispeaker live performance 15th Feb

playRoom is around 30 minutes long and was written as an anti-sweetspot mutli-speaker rant, come and sit where you like. You may never hear any of the courageous orators whose passion inspired the piece but the music is propelled entirely by the conviction of innumerable speeches harvested from youTube and other soapbox platforms. Voices on the verge of tears, laughing, arguing, defending, attacking and reflecting give this piece both its.. Read More

journeyMan by Martin Parker

journeyMan has been composed for ambulant listener and smart phone. Walking, moving, turning and standing still are the actions that propel this piece forwards. Rather than playing from start to finish (like most songs you’ll listen to on mobile phone), this piece is spherical in form. Start the piece and the phone will perform for you. Change direction and harmonies might shift, stop moving and the piece may hover, until.. Read More

silence by Marco Melis performed on 24th Jan 2015

This performance, conceived during the sanguinary Gaza bombing of 2014, is misleadingly and provocatively entitled Silence. Silence as antonym of sound, which disintegrates into non-durational atoms. Silence as antonym of speech: the faculty that allows “the disclosure of the agent … of who somebody is”, writes Hannah Arendt. Speech as antonym of scream, scream that struggles to be speech. Tension, conflict, dialogue between human and artificial imaginations. Video:

Agostino Di Scipio live concert in the White Gallery 20th Feb 2015

Composer and sound artist Agostino Di Scipio explores the generation and transmission of sound, often experimenting with the phenomena of emergence in chaotic dynamics. He’s best-known for his live solo electronics concerts and sound installations where cybernetic principles and ‘man-machine-environonment’ networks of sonic interactions are implemented and creatively elaborated (e.g. the Audible Ecosystemics series of pieces, and the more recent Modes of Interference series). Sell Tickets Online through Eventbrite