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If Wet 2014 Tour #1 at Sompting Village Hall – Preview

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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 first event is at Sompting Village Hall, West Sussex, 21st 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…

Giant Feedback Organ

MortonUnderwood – Giant Feedback Organ

Next up, we are delighted to have Leslie Deere presenting her work.

California Coast

Leslie Deere – California Coast

Leslie will be talking about several projects, including an ongoing sound sculpture series, works in progress and KPPG live performance work. Her recent work in progress project, which revolves around field recordings and projected images, will be the starting point. Photographs and sounds were captured in California and Nevada last summer and she has been experimenting with analogue techniques to process the material. Deere recently transmitted some of these sounds live to a sound silo in California for her first KPPG performance. Leslie will also be talking about her ongoing time capsule project, preserving thoughts, musings and moments in time through sound.

Amplified Science

Leslie Deere – Amplified Science

Following on from Leslie we are delighted to have Sarah Angliss back at an If Wet.

Sarah Angliss and Hugo

Sarah Angliss and Hugo

Sarah charmed our audience when she came to the village hall we call home so it seemed like a good idea to invite her back when we were so close to her home of Brighton. She will talk about her automata and how she uses them in her live performances. She has also hinted at a couple of other pieces she would like to discuss and demonstrate. Most exciting!

Here is a recent video of Hugo to whet your appetite:

All being well, this will be accompanied by the usual local ale, grub and cake. JOIN US.

If Wet at Supersonic – Preview

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We have never published an If Wet preview so close to an event before but we wanted to tell you because we are delighted with the extended line-up and events we have put together for Supersonic Festival – taking place tomorrow, 31st May 2014. JOIN US. The day will go something like this:

We will kick things off as usual, demonstrating our latest piece of work, Descent, which you can actually go and use during the time of the festival.

Sarah Kenchington

Sarah Kenchington

The first visiting artist to present is Sarah Kenchington. Sarah is a musical instrument builder. She makes wondrous acoustic machines, which she amalgamates into one large instrument that she does solo performances with. It is a sight and sound to behold.

Sarah will present her work and musical instruments in the salon part of our event, which starts at 5.30pm. She will then delight us with a performance (also in the Theatre Space) from around 8:45pm.

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Ryan Jordan

Next up we have Ryan Jordan, who is a noise artist working with derelict electronics. He is also an instrument maker but Ryan’s work is predominantly electronic; building crude instruments that replicate fundamental electronic components. His sound is very far removed from that created by Sarah but this is what If Wet is all about. We hope you will find parallels in their work that go beyond the end product.

Ryan will present his work and creations in the salon part of our event, which starts at 5.30pm. He will then perform his liveset on the Second Stage at 8:45pm.

Richard Windley

Richard Windley – doing a RWYB

From 7.30pm we have the most full-on Run What Ya Brung section ever at an If Wet, with a number of artists presenting work and sonic curiosities. This is co-organised by Stryx.

We have always been lucky enough to have wonderful work presented in our Run What Ya Brung section. You can expect lots to relish and ponder from this one!

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Graham Dunning

Lastly, we are delighted to welcome Graham Dunning back to If Wet. Graham will perform a set for us using his latest set-up; a sort of mechanical techno thing. This will take place in the Theatre Space from 9.45pm.

I have no doubt we can convince Graham to explain it more on the night but here is a video to whet your appetite.

We hope to see many friendly, and lots of new, faces tomorrow. JOIN US.

If Wet at Southbank Centre – Preview

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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.

JOIN US.

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If Wet at Flatpack – Preview

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The first If Wet of 2014 is upon us and it’s also our first outside of the village hall. On Saturday 29th March, 3-6pm we will be at Flatpack Festival in Birmingham. We are delighted to present a double-bill made up of Trevor Cox and Sebastiane Hegarty. JOIN US.

Sonic Wonderland

Sonic Wonderland, Trevor Cox

Trevor Cox is Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford and author of Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound. His book is contains examples of some of the most fascinating sounds on the planet, including sand dunes that drone and the world’s longest reverb.

In-keeping with Flatpack’s aquatic leanings this year, Trevor will present a variety of recordings and stories related, at least loosely, to watery sounds. As ever when Trevor presents there will be a mixture of science and sound, and a deep understanding of and enthusiasm for his subject.

Sebastiane Hegarty

Rain Choir, Sebastiane Hegarty

We are also delighted to welcome interdisciplinary artist Sebastiane Hegarty, who will be presenting a collage of sound and talk around the subject of time and place in relation to sound and field-recording. This will include a presentation of his work Rain Choir, a sound installation he created for the crypt at Winchester Cathedral.

One Water

One Water, MortonUnderwood

Your hosts MortonUnderwood will be presenting their One Water instrument, which was commissioned by Swedish composer Jonas Asplund. Their brief: “make me an instrument that uses water in the way it makes sound”.

We will also have our regular Run What Ya Brung section where anyone can do a brief, informal presentation of a sonic curiosity they might own or have built. Please JOIN US and contribute! If you do wish to contribute please drop a line ahead of the event to: hello@ifwet.org.uk

We hope to see you at Flatpack on Saturday 29th March at 3pm! Tickets here

Note: includes a separate screening of Solipcism Cinema by Stephen Cornford if you stick around!

If Wet #8 Season Finale and fundraiser – Preview

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Our final If Wet of the season is fast approaching; SATURDAY 30th November, 5.30pm – 11pm. Note: slight delay in starting due to a bouncy castle.

For our final event we have a much extended offering, on a Saturday, so people can join us in celebrating our first season. By coming to this special fundraising event you will be helping to make our second season happen.

There will be presentations and discussion, much like a normal If Wet, but this event will feature musical performances more centrally.

JOIN US for a night of sonic exploration and wonderment >> Tickets here

Line-up:
Sarah Angliss / Isle of Everywhere / ORE / Nimzo-Indian / Soundhog (DJ) / MortonUnderwood

MortonUnderwood

Morton

Morton

Morton

Underwood

Your every faithful hosts, MortonUnderwood will welcome you to the final If Wet of the season with a smile – all being well. The evening will start with some time for guests (new and old) to mingle and settle into the space and pace of the village hall – and explore the various goodies in the fundraising auction etc. We will then present a celebratory review of the previous events before moving on to showcase stuff that will feature in the fundraising auction. Then, the latest presentation of work by MortonUnderwood.

Nimzo-Indian

Nimzo-Indian

Nimzo-Indian

Next up there will be a presentation and live performance by Nimzo-Indian, an alter-ego of artist and technologist Fatsuma. Andy will discuss his work and present four mini guitars he has built, before going on to deliver an unpredictable performance with them.

At this point we’ll break for some refreshments. Hot food and drinks will be provided, as will cakes, snacks, wine, local ale and soft drinks.

ORE

ORE

ORE

With your belly full of grub, ease into a satiated transcendental state with a live set from drone doom tuba duo ORE. Again there will be a brief discussion about their ethos and working method ahead of the performance.

Isle of Everywhere

Isle of Everywhere

Isle of Everywhere

After ORE we are delighted to welcome back a band that were at our inaugural If Wet in April, the wonderful Isle of Everywhere (duo). They feature Stuart on tuba (if he has any puff left after playing with ORE) and Simon on santur. A rare combination; together in dub. Note: this is a duo performance without Lydia on drums.

Sarah Angliss

Sarah Angliss

Sarah Angliss

Our last live act of the evening is Sarah Angliss. Her last appearance at If Wet was a delight to behold and we are very pleased to welcome her back; only this time the emphasis will be much more on performance rather than discussion of working methods – although there will be a element of that too!

Soundhog

Soundhog

Soundhog

The rest of the evening will be spent celebrating and discussing, to a soundtrack provided by Soundhog.

We are not really sure what more we can do to entice you to our village hall; it should be a really distinctive experience. Step out of your world and into ours for a night.

We hope to see you at Callow End Village Hall on Saturday the 30th November at 5pm! Tickets on the door, £14. Or we have a few other ticket options available on-line

If Wet #7 – Preview

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Not long until If Wet #7; Sunday 27th October, 2-4pm. For our penultimate event of our first season we have a double-bill made up of the fabulous Helen White and Ian Rawes. JOIN US.

Helen White

Solar-wind Chime, Helen White

Inspired by recent media attention on solar flares and their effects on both positive and predicted negative events (the northern lights / technological disruption), Helen has been exploring creative ways to respond to this natural phenomena. She will be presenting her ‘solar-wind’ chime, a slowly-evolving resonating sculpture that responds in real-time to solar wind data collected from a satellite an hour away from earth, and she’ll be talking about working with complicated scientific principles and aesthetically bereft data sources that finally led her to listen to the sun.

By day Ian Rawes works in the sound archive at the British Library. He also runs London Sound Survey, a growing collection of Creative Commons-licensed sound recordings of places, events and wildlife in the capital.

London Sound Survey

London Sound Survey, Ian Rawes

Ian will present a series of rarely-heard and never-heard archival recordings of vanished customs and daily life from London in the 1920s to the 1950s. Performing dogs, fortune tellers, Mike Stern the mayor of Petticoat Lane, lavender sellers, the singing sewer workers of the New Kent Road, Commander Daniel’s noise nuisances, Godfrey the bagpipe king and how London Zoo’s animals helped win the war.

Sound Trolley

Your hosts MortonUnderwood will be presenting the Sound Trolley they built for their recent artist residency at the Library of Birmingham.

We will also have our regular Run What Ya Brung section where anyone can do a brief, informal presentation of a sonic curiosity they might own or have built. Last month we had Richard Windley with and acoustic guitar (!) and harp combo he had made. Please JOIN US and contribute!

We will also have the usual yummy treats of home-made food, cakes and a local ale.

We hope to see you at Callow End Village Hall on Sunday the 27th October at 2pm! Tickets on the door.

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Oh and GET YOUR TICKETS NOW for our final event of our first season…a fundraiser for Season #2 no less! Or feel free to just donate to the cause. THANKS.

If Wet #6 – Preview

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Not long now until our sixth If Wet; Sunday 29th September, 2-4pm. We have a double-bill for you made up of the fabulous Graham Dunning and Soundhog. JOIN US.

Music by the metre

Music by the Metre, Graham Dunning

Graham will be presenting his Music by the Metre project, including a live build of a Music by the Metre piece. The project is an homage to situationist Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio who made and sold abstract “painting by the metre”.

Each one is a system of sound making machines which will play indefinitely if left to run. The resulting audio is never changing but never the same: loops of different tempos mix with unstable drones and live environmental sound (a mic out of the window) to make a stable but evolving collage. For If Wet Graham will build one of these conglomerate machines and talk through this process.

Graham is also making a run of 10 recycled tapes individually recorded with a different Music by the Metre piece on each side and a handmade cover.

Soundhog

Soundhog

Soundhog (Ben) is a bit of an unknown quantity in the context of If Wet. In fact, we don’t know what he’ll be covering yet. It’s quite likely Ben doesn’t know yet either. BUT we do know that he has a wealth of knowledge, a rich history of making Bastard Pop hits, a fascination for antiquated recordings and technologies, and a near encyclopaedic knowledge of pop music. Soundhog doesn’t come out to play often so miss this at your peril.

Oh, and he only has a Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundhog

A Word In Your Ear

All being well, your hosts MortonUnderwood will be presenting a few projects they have been working on lately, as part of Sam’s artist residency at THSH Birmingham.

We will also have our regular Run What Ya Brung section where anyone can do a brief, informal presentation of a sonic curiosity they might own or have built. Last month we had a delightful performance of viola da gamba and recorder music, a phone based drone synthesis tool and a self-made, bass drone string instrument. Please JOIN US and contribute!

We will also have the usual yummy treats of home-made food, cakes and a local ale.

We hope to see you at Callow End Village Hall on Sunday the 29th September at 2pm!

Tickets can be purchased here.

If Wet #5 – Preview

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It’s just one week until If Wet #5 – Sunday 25th August, 2-4pm. We have a double-bill for you made up of the fabulous Kathy Hinde and Nikki Pugh. JOIN US.

Vocal Migrations

Vocal Migrations, Kathy Hinde

Kathy will be presenting her Vocal Migrations work, which combines live singing with electronically altered voices and is inspired by how bats ‘Echo-locate’ by using sound to ‘see’ their surroundings. The results and implications for music and performance are fascinating. Oh and Kathy has also been using the technology to help people navigate spaces without using their vision.

Come and experience this first hand!

Score for heavy objects and built environment

Score for heavy objects and built environment, Nikki Pugh

Nikki will be presenting her work Score for heavy objects and built environment. As I have experienced before from Nikki this project required some lugging around of odd GPS-enabled objects in preparation (see image above).

Come and hear the results!

Route

Score for heavy objects and built environment, route

Your hosts MortonUnderwood are taking a bit of a back seat for this one, but you can never be quite sure what we might bring along!

We will also have our regular Run What Ya Brung section where anyone can do a brief, informal presentation of a sonic curiosity they might own or have built. Last month we had a (rare-as-rocking-horse-dung) Stroh guitar demonstrated by Richard Windley. Please JOIN US and contribute!

We will also have the usual yummy treats of home-made food, cakes and a local ale.

We hope to see you at Callow End Village Hall on Sunday the 25th August at 2pm!

Tickets can be purchased here.

If Wet #4 – Preview

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Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones

If Wet #4 will soon be upon us – Sunday 21st July, 2-4pm.
Note: this is a week earlier than normal, as Sam is performing at FON the following weekend.

We welcome the wonderful Laura Kriefman of Guerilla Dance Project from Bristol to talk about how a dancer and choreographer started playing with sound. She will present her Rolling Stones project and some work she has been doing on building mechanical birds.

Bird

Mechanical bird

Here’s the promo video from when Laura’s Rolling Stones appeared at The Southbank Centre. Next stop, Callow End Village Hall.

Your hosts MortonUnderwood will be presenting their new release on RHP, entitled Field Augmentation. An overview of how the pieces are created will be provided, along with some demonstration pieces.

Field Augmentation - cover

Field Augmentation – cover image

We will also have our regular Run What Ya Brung section where anyone can do a brief, informal presentation of a sonic curiosity they might own or have built. Last month we had a range of exciting stuff, including: techno clog dancing, a multi-faceted noise box synth and a selection of three-hole whistles / flutes. Please JOIN US and contribute!

We will also have the usual yummy treats of home-made food, cakes and a local ale.

We are most excited and hope to see you at Callow End Village Hall on Sunday the 21st July at 2pm!

Tickets can be purchased here.

If Wet #3 – Preview

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Sarah Angliss and Hugo

Sarah Angliss and Hugo

The next If Wet is fast approaching – Sunday 30th June, at the new time of 2-4pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Sarah Angliss up from Brighton to talk about her automata and how she uses them in her live performances. She has also hinted at a couple of other pieces she would like to demonstrate in public for the first time, which is most exciting!

Musical robots

Sarah’s musical robots

Sarah’s robots looks great but they sound even better – check this video out…

Your hosts MortonUnderwood will be taking a bit of a back seat for this If Wet. We hope to bring a little something along but we wanted to give the bulk of the event over to our guests. As well as Sarah we also have Paul John back, this time with a clavichord to play for you. He will talk a bit about the history and features of the instrument too.

Clavichord

Clavichord

We will also have our regular Run What Ya Brung section where anyone can do a brief, informal presentation of a sonic curiosity they might own or have built (last month we had self-built dual Theremins from Richard Windley) and we will finish with a Sonic Exchange, if time permits.

Social Theremins

Social Theremins

Oh, and all being well we will have the usual yummy treats of home-made food, cakes and a local ale.

We are most excited and hope to see you at Callow End Village Hall on Sunday the 30th June at 2pm!