More Reconstructions in Brass
This is what you might have heard if you happened to be walking your dog in Barrow Park last Sunday… Noise Club performing a 2hr set as part of the FON AIR series for the Park bandstand.
Archive for March, 2011
More Poulpe in Progress…
Octopus’ John, Andrew, Fern and Glenn working on Poulpe in the upper floors of Islington Mill in Salford, Monday 21st March. Poulpe is a commission for the Merzman festival to be performed on Sat 26th.
The piece takes charity shop audio books collected in Cumbria and Manchester as source material for a short wave radio installation and series of live performances. Creating a variable audio collage from fragments of throwaway fiction, ‘Poulpe’ will be presented on the Mill’s upper floors during the Merzman cabaret on Sat 26th March from 7pm.
‘Poulpe’ is Octopus’ second foray into Schwitters-inspired audio work following ‘Morsonata’, a radio piece by Mobile Radio that was commissioned for the inaugural FON Festival in 2009. ‘Morsonata’ saw Schwitters’ ‘Ursonate’ performed by two Morse code operators from Barrow-in-Furness Submariners’ Association as part of an hour long transmission that was broadcast live from the festival’s base in Barrow Shipyard.
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Reconstructions in Brass by Noise Club
Established in 2003, Noise Club is a sound art group based in Liverpool and Edinburgh. Straddling the divide between stage performance and interactive intervention, the group creates dynamic soundscapes using homemade electronics, specially-constructed sonic sculptures, found objects, toys, plants, and even smells.
For this commission from Octopus, they have created a new work that mixes interactive installation and performance piece. The work explores the creative possibilities of brass instruments refashioned to new purposes, bent, twisted, and reconstructed in ways that they were never meant to function: from a sawn-off trombone to a circuit-bent tuba.
Poulpe in progress…
Octopus’ John, Andrew, Fern and Glenn working on Poulpe, a commission for the Merzman festival to be performed on Sat 26th at Salford’s Islington Mill.
The piece takes charity shop audio books collected in Cumbria and Manchester as source material for a short wave radio installation and series of live performances. Creating a variable audio collage from fragments of throwaway fiction, ‘Poulpe’ will be presented on the Mill’s upper floors during the Merzman cabaret on Sat 26th March from 7pm.
‘Poulpe’ is Octopus’ second foray into Schwitters-inspired audio work following ‘Morsonata’, a radio piece by Mobile Radio that was commissioned for the inaugural FON Festival in 2009. ‘Morsonata’ saw Schwitters’ ‘Ursonate’ performed by two Morse code operators from Barrow-in-Furness Submariners’ Association as part of an hour long transmission that was broadcast live from the festival’s base in Barrow Shipyard.
Octopus at DIY Music Day @ Liverpool World Museum
Octopus’ John Hall and Glenn Boulter warming up in the aquarium in Liverpool World Museum as part of DIY Music Day, produced by Sound Network.
Dan Fox at Barrow Park Bandstand
Pictures from number 4 in our series of sound works for Barrow Park Bandstand – Dan Fox’s Boom Bike and directional speaker.