SOUNDING SHORE :: coast to coast
Whitstable Bieannale [Satellite Programme] 11th June 2022
https://satellite.whitstablebiennale.com/project/
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programme:
LIVE on the beach - channel 1 (11.00 - 18.30/19.00)
11.00 – 11.30 Marcus Leadley (Hidden Sounds of Whitstable)
11.30 – 12.00 Two Wheels (Mercedes Maresca/Tote Rubio)
12.00 – 12.30 Michael Zbyszynski
12.30 – 13.00 Szalwia (Kacper Werkowicz)
13.00 – 13.30 Concrete and Green (Edwin Hind)
13.30 – 14.00 break
14.00 – 14.30 Sarah Holly Sayeed/Daniel Mulligan/
Benjamin Sayeed/Elizabeth Blackwell
14.30 – 15.00 Luca Venerus
15.00 – 15.30 Monty Williams
15.30 – 16.00 Tansy Spinks and Iris Garrelfs
16.00 – 16.30 Ingrid Plum
16.30 – 17.00 Hardworking Families (Tom Bench)
17.00 – 17.30 Oishi (Hao Zheng/Ren Shang)
17.30 – 18.00 LFIEL (Luke Fielding)
18.00 – 18.30 Dog on a Deckchair
Notes:
11.00 – 11.30 Marcus Leadley
Hidden Sounds of Whitstable: A sonic kaleidoscope of times past and present
11.30 – 12.00 Two Wheels (Mercedes Maresca/Tote Rubio)
Thalassa: a special improvised ambient set
12.00 –12.30 Michael Zbyszynski
Laridae Camerata: It will be all about seagulls; I hope some live ones show up.
12.30 – 13.00 Szalwia (Kacper Werkowicz)
Live sampling of the environment + digital processing
13.00 – 13.30 Concrete and Green (Edwin Hind)
A Wild Place and What If: Soundscapes with added voice and acoustic guitar.
13.30 – 14.00 break
14.00 – 14.30 Sarah Holly Sayeed/Daniel Mulligan/
Benjamin Sayeed/Elizabeth Blackwell
A set of 5 sea related songs/art/rock
14.30 – 15.00 Luca Venerus
Live set with laptop, house tempos and ambient sounds.
15.00 – 15.30 Monty Williams
London to Whitstable by bike: sonic adventure with field recordings
15.30 – 16.00 Tansy Spinks and Iris Garrelfs
A site-specific piece for voice, beach debris and recycled instruments.
16.00 – 16.30 Ingrid Plum
Atmospheric vocal techniques woven around field recordings and electronics
16.30 – 17.00 Hardworking Families (Tom Bench)
Sparse electronics and augmented environment.
17.00 – 17.30 Oishi (Hao Zheng/Ren Shang)
Electro-acoustic duo improvisation sampling the raw field recording from the coast, focus on decomposition and reorganization.
17.30 – 18.00 LFIEL (Luke Fielding)
Psychoacoustics, avant-garde, drone, techno, field recording, noise and minimalism
18.00 – 18.30 Dog on a Deckchair
Little happening….
PRE-RECORDED on the beach - channel 2 (total running time: 2 hours 30 minutes)
Freda D'Souza
I cannot return to the womb but I can return to the sea (29:00)
I cannot return to the womb but I can return to the sea aims to capture a submerged womb experience. The wave like compositional structure links the prebirth sensation of existing inside a parent's breathing, with the expanding and contracting of the communal oceanic womb. Designed to be looped, the piece represents an eternal space, rather than a linear narrative. It was all recorded underwater, both in the calm of my bathtub, and whilst being bashed around by the Southampton coast. The reoccurring melody is Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, a song my Mother sang to me in her womb.
Sam L Taylor
FLOSS (12:35)
This music is about fishing and falling, dirt and dizziness, swimming and crawling. Prayer and crowds, ripples and spray, spit and breath. Piercing and ruining and singing and sleep. Floss and pencils and falling rocks, splash! Sorry. It's made with a music box and a coil, and small replica emergency alarm toys.
Sam L Taylor
LOSS (12:17)
This piece of music is for the left ear only. Please remove the headphone from your right ear and place it comfortably elsewhere on your head. Some recordings of the Japanese coast, public bathing with the sounds where you are. Split, left behind, or found, if you like. Tannoy friends, or ghosts, always for your own good.
Two Wheels. (Mercedes Maresca/Tote Rubio)
Thalassa's dream (3:06)
Improvised ambience.
LFIEL (Luke Fielding)
ISLSHPPY (9:01)
Psychoacoustics, avant-garde, drone, techno, field recording, noise and minimalism.
Gerauschhersteller
Sound Fishes (21.54)
Improvising ensemble from Dorset, specialising in interpretations of works by experimental composers. Here the group perform Pauline Oliveros' piece 'Sound fishes' (1992), featuring plastic drainpipe and plastic objects sourced from Bournemouth beach.
ivon oates and David Rogers
P L A S T I C : : O C E A N (40:00)
ivon oates and David Rogers, improvisation using prerecorded sounds, mimicking the sounds of sea creatures, made using the material that pollutes the oceans - PLASTIC…..
Nemeton
Inside the forest of plasticity (20.48)
Sound artist based in Dorset, investigating deep ecology. This is a recording of a live performance featuring sounds entirely sourced from plastic objects collected from Bournemouth beach.
Further information about our event in 2018:
All performances will be recorded, and artist will have the opportunity to release the work on the DIVAContemporary label.
For previous compilations see: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com
We will be providing a 'stage' (think gazebo and tables), analogue mixer, live mics from the environment, RF transmitter to broadcast the work and wireless headphones for our audience; the Sounding Shore is a 'silent' event.
We've been a part in the biennale since 2010 and there's always a good crowd of spectators. This is an international art biennale – and it's a great excuse to hang out on the beach and around the town where multiple events will be taking place on the day.
In terms of practicalities, there are National Express coaches from London and Whitstable has a train station. It's about an hour's drive from Goldsmiths/South London. The biennale has run a shuttle bus (departing from/returning to Bethnal Green) for just £10 - however this has not yet been confirmed for 2022.
*note: our system is powered by a 12V battery/inverter set up so it's fine for laptops, interfaces, and other instruments/equipment running on 9 – 18V supply only. If you require special cabling/connectors you will need to provide these yourself.
Dr. Marcus Leadley
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