Day One: Thursday 7 November
Bathway Theatre
8.30-9.30pm: Concert 2 – VR, XR, AV, Sound
Patrick Hartono – Parakletos
‘Parakletos’ is an interactive audiovisual composition that is the first outcome of an ongoing experiment investigating the relationship between sound and visuals. Parakletos is a Koine Greek word for advocate, where can interpret as ‘pendamping’ in Indonesian or companion in English. Hence, the individual role of sound and visuals elements means to “espouse” each other, packaged and present through compositional approach interactively in real-time.
Patrick Gunawan Hartono is a composer, audiovisual artist, and music researcher with an extensive academic background. He was born in Makassar, Indonesia, in 1988, and has dedicated himself to the realm of music and technology.
Patrick Gunawan Hartono is a composer, audiovisual artist, and music researcher with an extensive academic background. He was born in Makassar, Indonesia, in 1988, and has dedicated himself to the realm of music and technology.
Brass Art + Annie Mahtani – this voice; this life; this procession
this voice; this life; this procession was developed after visiting Virginia Woolf’s writing shed at Rodmell in Sussex. Public access to her writing shed is limited to a viewing window, but Brass Art were permitted access to scan themselves inside this intimate, creative space and surrounding garden using non-invasive, laser-based technologies, over the course of a single winter’s day.
Brass Art is Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneké Pettican, based in Manchester, Glasgow and Huddersfield, UK. Within their collaborative art practice they use analogue and digital technologies as a means to disrupt conventional narratives and to capture themselves in real and imagined situations. Manifest as miniature 3D models, morphic silhouettes, drawings and shadowy digital sprites, their artwork returns to themes of the double, the in/animate, the limen and the atemporal.
Annie Mahtani is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and performer working and living in Birmingham (UK). Her output encompasses electronic music composition from acousmatic music to free improvisation. As a collaborator, Annie Mahtani has worked extensively with dance and theatre, and on site-specific installations. Her work often explores the inherent sonic nature and identity of environmental sound, amplifying sonic characteristics that are not normally audible to the naked ear. Her music explores abstract and recognizable sound worlds and all the spaces in between. Annie works extensively with multichannel audio both in fixed medium works and in live performance. Annie Mahtani is Associate Professor in Music at the University of Birmingham and co-director of BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre).
Force Majeure – The Permanence of Decay
Live electro-acoustic performance of dark ambient, industrial and IDM tracks stemming from the debut self-titled album on french label Concrete Collage and from the forthcoming binaural/ambisonic album The Permanence of Decay. Gestural controls and digital spatialisation collide with analogue distortion and cinematic sound design.
Force Majeure is one of the latest musical projects from Nick Feldman, a London-based audio/visual artist with an eclectic and visceral set of production and performance works that span a twenty-five-year history. This project is a new stepping stone in the artistic career of someone who was born from a rave-orientated British underground DIY scene. The lack of a dancefloor focus here provides a good opportunity for him to explore the more experimental and abstracted side of his musical tastebuds. His forthcoming new album contains a unique hardware instrument and performative workflow for each piece and is mixed for both binaural or full ambisonic playback.