If Wet #19 – our penultimate in 2014 – is looming large. Sunday 26th October, 2-4pm! JOIN US.
We are delighted to have two artists presenting their work: Pete Ashton and Ben Gwilliam.
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We will kick things off, demonstrating our latest work as MortonUnderwood. We will be bringing along the units we will have exhibited at the Longbridge Light Festival only the day before.
Then, it’s over to artist and If Wet regular Pete Ashton. Pete describes himself as more a photographer than a musician, but he is interested in whether the two disciplines are that different. In his own words, this is what he has planned for us at If Wet:
Since attending the first If Wet I’ve been thinking a lot about transduction – moving a signal from one medium to another. I’ve also been investigating slit-scan processing and whether the act of photography can be a performance. Using a digital variation on the classic Russian ANS synth (used by Tarkovsky amongst others) I will be presenting the first iteration of what I hope to be a long-term project and invite comments, criticism and collaboration.
To give you a better idea it’ll run like this:
- I take a photo of someone. This goes straight onto the computer and is turned from a rectangle into a flat disc
- I then print that disk out, cut it to a circle and place it on one of a number of turntables
- Next I point a camera at the spinning disk which reads the image and produces sounds which are sent through the mixer to the speakers
- This is repeated a number of times to see how changing the composition of the image can change the rhythms and sounds from the cameras
We look forward to seeing and hearing the results!
Then we have Ben Gwilliam, an artist whose work spans sound, film, installation & performance.
Ben will be presenting elements of two new pieces from a body of research into how the materiality and experience of sound media reframe/transduce time and/or space. He will be bringing the bare bones for a new installation (albeit scaled down for this occasion) & will preview a new video work that will be released on his new imprint molt in 2015.
Ben’s practice is something of an in-between, binding together concepts and material experiences that are explored through sound media. Considering ‘sound media’ in the plural sense, the perception of sound itself is both physical and one that exists through recorded media. Through Installations, films & videos, performances and publishing he explores sound at the interaction of looking & listening, analogue & digital and music.
As ever, we also welcome short, informal presentations in our Run What Ya Brung section. Just bring any sonic oddity along and you can present it to the audience for their wonderment.
All accompanied by the usual local ale, home-made grub and cake. JOIN US.
