Jules Bushell – If Wet…

If Wet 2014 Tour – Weekend #1

MortonUnderwood — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:22:38 +0000

Here are a few pictures from the first weekend of our If Wet 2014 Tour. Wonderful presentations by wonderful artists [thank you!], to an enthusiastic and engaged audience…

The last two events of our tour are this weekend. Preview: Saturday / Sunday. JOIN US.

Leslie Deere at Sompting Village Hall

Sarah Angliss and Hugo at Sompting Village Hall

Fitzhead Tythe Barn

Jules Bushell at Fitzhead Tythe Barn

Hacker Farm at Fitzhead Tythe Barn

If Wet 2014 Tour – Preview

MortonUnderwood — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:10:22 +0000

On the 21st of June we head off around the country, for four events on consecutive weekends. Here is a full list of artists and tour dates. Please save the dates and get your tickets soon, as they are selling and village halls aren’t huge…

It’s hard to overstate quite how delighted we are to be able to bring the following artists to a village hall (nowhere) near you.

Saturday, June 21st, 2-4pm
Leslie Deere / Sarah Angliss
Sompting Village Hall, West Sussex – map
PREVIEW | TICKETS

Sunday, June 22nd, 2-4pm
Hacker Farm / Jules Bushell
Fitzhead Tythe Barn, Somerset – map
PREVIEW | TICKETS
[NOTE: map position updated – was in wrong place before – sorry!]

Saturday, June 28th, 2-4pm
Lee Patterson / Hugs Bison
Bardsea Malt Kiln, Cumbria – map
PREVIEW | TICKETS

Sunday, June 29th, 2-4pm
Paddy Steer
Callow End Village Hall, Worcestershire – map
PREVIEW | TICKETS

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Thank you to Sound and Music for their support with this.

If Wet 2014 Tour #2 at Fitzhead Tythe Barn – Preview

MortonUnderwood — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:02:35 +0000

The If Wet 2014 Tour is looming large! We set off around the country on the 21st of June, for events on consecutive weekends…

The second event in the tour is at Fitzhead Tythe Barn, Somerset, 22nd June, 2-4pm – TICKETS. JOIN US.

We will kick things off as usual, demonstrating the latest work on our Giant Feedback Organ. Originally commissioned by the Southbank Centre, we have continued to develop the sounds this beast can produce and we will share these with you…

MortonUnderwood – Giant Feedback Organ

The second presentation is from a wonderful maker we met at the Southbank Centre, as part of the aforementioned commission. Jules Bushell will talk about his work on this project, known as Bushell’s Amazing Drain-O-Phone – a pedal-powered drainpipe organ – and a selection of other pieces he has worked on.

Bushell’s Amazing Drain-O-Phone

For the second presentation in Somerset we are delighted to have Hacker Farm presenting their work. They have a message for you regarding their intentions.

A few words from HACKER FARM: “When we were asked to appear at If Wet… the first thing we did was hack their web-page. But we hacked them in the nicest possible way – we temporary borrowed the HTML tags that ‘describe’ the web-page advertising the event we were asked to appear at: Fitzhead Tythe Barn, Somerset, on Sunday 22nd, June. The processing is known as ‘scraping’ because it literally scrapes information off a web-page. We took this borrowed data and ran it through an algorithmic script that creates MIDI information. MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface – it’s a protocol for controlling synthesizers and samplers that was used a lot in the 80s and 90s. Many of your favourite classic pop records from that era were played using MIDI information. So, basically, we turned the If Wet… web-page into a tune…

“We’ll be playing that tune using a… ah, well, you’ll just have to wait and see. We will also be bringing along and demonstrating a variety of hand-built / salvaged musical-instruments, incl. the NANDIcams (chip-based synthesisers housed in Kodak Brownie cameras), a synth made from an old paraffin can along with a rusty-broken bucket – now re-envisioned as the Atari-Punk-Bucket. All of this, as well as broken/bent kids-toys and contact-mic’d plastic-instruments – will be played through our purpose-built ‘Farmyard Sound System’…

Hacker Farm – Atari-Punk-Bucket.

Well, there you have it. Somerset, eh? All being well, this will be accompanied by the usual local ale, grub and cake. JOIN US.

If Wet 2014 Tour – full line-up

MortonUnderwood — Thu, 22 May 2014 16:03:01 +0000

Here is a full list of artists and tour dates. Please save the dates and get your tickets soon, as they are selling and village halls aren’t huge…

It’s hard to overstate quite how delighted we are to be able to bring the following artists to a village hall (nowhere) near you.

Saturday, June 21st, 2-4pm
Leslie Deere / Sarah Angliss
Sompting Village Hall, West Sussex – map
PREVIEW | TICKETS

Sunday, June 22nd, 2-4pm
Hacker Farm / Jules Bushell
Fitzhead Tythe Barn, Somerset – map
PREVIEW | TICKETS
[NOTE: map position updated – was in wrong place before – sorry!]

Saturday, June 28th, 2-4pm
Lee Patterson / Hugs Bison
Bardsea Malt Kiln, Cumbria – map
PREVIEW | TICKETS

Sunday, June 29th, 2-4pm
Paddy Steer
Callow End Village Hall, Worcestershire – map
PREVIEW | TICKETS

SO CHUFFED! JOIN US.

Thank you to Sound and Music for their support with this.

2014 Tour poster

MortonUnderwood — Tue, 06 May 2014 21:41:18 +0000

Many thanks to Hugh Cowling for designing this for us!

If Wet at Southbank Centre – Preview

MortonUnderwood — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:10:06 +0000

The second If Wet of 2014 is a special Meet The Makers event, hosted by us and run in an If Wet fashion but providing a platform to showcase the work of the makers of the Wondrous Machines that are currently residing in the Clore Ballroom.

On Sunday 30th March, 2-4pm we will be in the Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, before then heading to the Clore Ballroom to witness the instruments in all their glory. We are delighted to present all of the maker: Jules Bushell, Dominic Allen, Lewis Jones, Harriet Lewars.

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