Poulpe

by Octopus

Saturday 26th March, Islington Mill, James Street, Salford M3 5HW

7pm-3am, £7 admission

Octopus members John Hall, Andrew Deakin, Fern Oxley and Glenn Boulter
have developed POULPE as part of a short residency with Islington Mill.

The piece takes charity shop audio books collected in Cumbria and
Manchester as source material for a multi-channel installation
and a series of live performances. Creating a variable audio collage
from fragments of throwaway fiction, POULPE will be presented on
Islington Mill’s upper floors during the Merzman cabaret on
Saturday the 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.

POULPE was commissioned by Littoral as part of
MERZMAN: Kurt Schwitters in the North West

www.islingtonmill.com
www.merzman.co.uk
www.octopuscollective.com