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Date: August 4th, 2011
Cate: Community, FON 2011, Residencies, Uncategorized
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FON 2011:PHILIP JECK LIVE AT STATION VIEW HOUSE, BARROW

 

Over the last few months Octopus has been visiting the residents of Station View House, playing records and talking about music, how we experience it and what it means to people . In the coming year we will be working on a project called Voices Of Station View, with the support of our County Council. Today  composer Philip Jeck performed for  the residents,  drawing on records sourced from local charity shops.  At the end of the performance a member of the audience told Philip ” I could have listened to that all day.”

 

Date: August 4th, 2011
Cate: Education, FON 2011, Residencies, Uncategorized
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FON 2011; TETSUO KOGAWA’S TRANSMITTER WORKSHOP, LANTERNHOUSE, ULVERSTON.

The first event of FON 2011.  Japanese Free Radio pioneer Tetsuo Kogawa presents his Transmitter workshop at Lanternhouse , Ulverston,

Date: August 3rd, 2011
Cate: FON 2011, Full of Noises Festival, Uncategorized
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FON 2011. THE RESIDENCY WEEK BEGINS. AGF, PHILIP JECK, TETSUO KOGAWA AND LEE GAMBLE AT OCTOPUS HQ

Lee Gamble,  Philip Jeck and AGF at Piel View House , Barrow , at work on their pieces for FON 2011.  Lee, Antye and Philip will join Barrow’s own Tom Scott and  Japanese Transmissions Artist Tetsuo Kogawa. Tetsuo presents a Transmitter workshop at Lanternhouse tonight alongside a performance and origami workshop from Ryoko Akama.

Date: June 29th, 2011
Cate: Events, Uncategorized

Second Layer Records

 

For the benefit of any younger Barrovians, this is a Record Shop.  Second Layer is in London, just up from Highgate tube, and they stock a huge and excellent array of cd’s and vinyl ranging from what our friend Davydd Pattinson calls Harsh Noise to the English Bucolica of Shirley Collins. They were  among the first friends of FON 2009 and they’re well worth a visit, have a look at their site .

www.secondlayer.co.uk

Date: April 17th, 2011
Cate: Bandstand, Commissions, Uncategorized
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Ellie Chaney and Mary Stark in rehearsal at PVH.

FON AIR artists Ellie Chaney and Mary Stark tweak the files prior to thier performance of “Think Outside The Phone Box” in the park today.

Date: September 29th, 2009
Cate: Uncategorized
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FON tickets on sale at Jumbo, Leeds

Jumbo Records, Leeds’ finest independant record shop, has FON tickets for sale from this weekend. You can call in at the shop in the St Johns centre ( quite near Leeds Met and opposite the Merrion Centre) or book online at Tickets – Jumbo Records. Buy some records while you’re at it.

Leeds has been good to us over the last couple of days. FON apparatchiks John and Glenn have been active in the EXPO festival, appearing at Late Expo and working with Young Expo at Leeds City Museum. EXPO was good as ever. As well as seeing two fine nights at Left Bank (particularly enjoyed Family Underground) I went to see Paul Rooney’s piece “Thin Air” concerning the various histories conained within Leeds Poly Art departments H Block, and met a lot of nice people, forcing FON print on most of them.
Date: September 18th, 2009
Cate: Uncategorized

Owl Project to play Barrow Sixth Form College for FON

If youve been reading Wire lately, (and if youre reading this then you probably have) youll know of Owl Project and thier work..if not, have a look at Owl Project, iLog, Sound Lathe, Log1k..

Owl Project is a collaborative group of Manchester based artists who share interests in human interaction with technology and process led art.
The group currently consists of Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons. Over the last few years (they )have become known for a distinctive range of wooden musical and sculptural instruments that critique human interaction with computer interfaces.

Owl Project will present thier work to students at Barrow Sixth Form College on Oct 21 of FONweek as part of our education programme. Thanks to Colin Aldred at B6FC for setting this one up. Tony Hall met the FON team recently while working at Ormsgill school in Barrow lately, wowing the kids with home made space rockets and his portable slime-lab. There were nowt like that at Tupton Juniors. Here’s Tony launching one of the kid’s rockets . Try it at home kids, go on, try it.
Date: September 18th, 2009
Cate: Uncategorized

Susan Matthews meets FON

Susan Matthews is one of FONs Resident artists during the week of the festival. She was up here with her family on a recce the other week, and is seen here re-creating the Smiths Salford Lads Club photo, possibly, outside our front door.
Susan is based in Kidwelly, Wales. She’s an experimental composer, known for her intense, ambitious, hypnotic harmonies and industrial noise creations. our very own
In 2005 she founded the independent record label Siren Wire Recordings through which she has released nine commercial albums and seven eps. She has also recorded music for highly regarded local net label Earth Monkey Productions. last time we saw Susan she was thinking of involving south lakeland tunes , local musicians and the Canteen’s battered piano in her FON piece.

You can hear Susan’s work on www. myspace.com/susanmatthews
Her son Fenn has a myspace page too with some great stuff on it, well worth a listen.
Date: September 8th, 2009
Cate: FON 2009, Uncategorized
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A bed for Zappi

Outstanding among the list of requirements from Faust at FON is “A large Couch for Drummer.” “Big Man” they add. If you’ve seen Faust you’ll appreciate the understatement. Zappi Diermaier is the equivalent of several Big Men. After combing the furniture shops of Barrow I found nothing . Everything looked like Dolls House Furniture. How about a big bed we thought? OK, but have you seen the cost of a decent King Sized bed lately? It’d mean cutting back on the tech budget…so I got up today with half a plan about scrounging something from a local shop in a hastily cobbled sponsorship deal… I left my flat to find my yard and most of the street awash with mattresses, bedboxes, bedframes… dozens of them… seems my landlords are using the spaces benaeth my place as a storeroom. When I bought the Faust Tapes 30 summat years ago I never thought I’d be lugging the drummers bed around the cellars under Barrow Shipyard. Zappi will rest easy, thaks to Jimmy and his gang.