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Fields, Tablets and Skins – 24th Jan 2015

Posted on January 5, 2015

Doors open 8pm, Georgian Gallery, Talbot Rice. Ticket reservations below. This concert features three sets by performers with very different backgrounds and styles, but all re-purposing contemporary technologies for live performance. Marco Melis will perform Silence, a provocative set made up of micro-sonic gestures driven by a Wacom graphics tablet. Christos Michalakos will premier Torrrque performance around his installation skins and stones. This involves a drum kit augmented with lights,.. Read More

silence by Marco Melis performed on 24th Jan 2015

Posted on January 6, 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:

Torrrque by Christos Michalakos

Posted on January 5, 2015

This piece will be performed on the 24th January at our Fields, Tablets, Skins concert, 8pm. Reserve tickets. Torrrque is a new work by Christos Michalakos using light, space and his electronically augmented drum-kit, to be premiered at the Talbot Rice Gallery on the 24th January in Edinburgh. It follows Frrriction, performed at the Reid Concert Hall, and Trrraction, performed at Inspace, as part of the What is sound design…?.. Read More

reach overview

Posted on October 13, 2014

2–20 December – reach explores sound as a connector across distance. Selected from an open call to international artists reach is an endless playlist of 3D sonic art from around the world, reflecting the vast range of contemporary sonic arts practice, played through a specifically installed 16 channel ambisonic (3D) sound system. 8 December – A special workshop led by composer Marcin Pietruszewski allows participants to use Supercollider software to.. Read More

place overview

Posted on October 13, 2014

15–29 November – Complimenting the Georgian history of the building, Disinformation’s installation The Analysis of Beauty is based upon William Hogarth’s thesis of the same name. Hogarth, fascinated by ‘Serpentine Lines’, argued that ‘S’ shaped lines were active, lively and stimulating and therefore beautiful. As Serpentine lines correspond to what we today call sinusoidal waves, a fundamental visual form derived from mathematics and from musical acoustics, these lines present numerous.. Read More

reach – sound art workshop

Posted on December 10, 2014

15th December 2014 2pm in the Georgian Gallery: This session invites, gallerists, technicians, curators, teachers, academics and students to explore the powerful world of MaxMSP. As an introductory workshop this session is intended to expose those with an interest in sound, sonic art and live electronic sound to some of the processes behind realising and presenting sound art. Bring a laptop, headphones and install MaxMSP on your system (www.cycling74.com ).. Read More

the reach playlist

Posted on December 4, 2014

The reach playlist is up featuring sounds and music from around the world. Special thanks to all contributions, it sounds fantastic in there and the range of work is incredibly rich. Below is a listing of the main contributors with links to details of each submission: Spanish online label Audiotalaia submitted an expansive collection of works released between 2009 and 2014, curated by Edu Comelles. Full details of the.. Read More

reach playlist – audiotalaia

Posted on December 4, 2014

Works released between 2009 – 2014 Curated by: Edu Comelles. Audiotalaia is an online platform, a netlabel and a joint venture devoted to release, promote and produce works based on sound in Spain and abroad. We are a very open minded platform seeking to present to the world a wide range of ways to work within what’s being known for the last few years as sound art. Audiotalaia might be.. Read More

reach playlist – Owen Green

Posted on December 4, 2014

Danger in the Air (2006) is an improvising space for a performer (or possibly more), interacting with the electronic component through a Soundfield microphone with the aid of objects of limited musical potential, known as ‘infra-instruments’ . Most often, I use infra-gongs in the form of track shelving brackets—along with direct handling of the microphone—as my central sound making means. At work in this piece is a quite deliberate juxtaposition.. Read More

reach playlist – José Rafael Subía Valdez

Posted on December 4, 2014

José Rafael Subía Valdez QUANTUM – [duration 7:34] Quantum is an electroacoustic/audiovisual piece that works a recurrent conceptual idea used by the artist. It consists on the rescaling of different objects/phenomenons, like shrinking an explosion or magnifying a piece of cotton, allowing a different appreciation of them. Quantum is inspired in the idea of “atomic sound”. It was composed using different synthesis and and DSP techniques like VASP and granular.. Read More