Bastard Structures 2 Theo Burt and Tim Wright
A week long residency at SoundFjord in London from the 10th to the 17th of December 2012. Part of the sequence series of artist residencies.
Bastard Structures 2 at Millers Yard, York, 2012
Digital sound linked with geometry and intense strobe effects are projected over two walls in the corner of a room. This system is used as a platform to explore optical and sonic effects, cognitive processes and the limits of perception. Temporal, sonic and visual structures interact with each other and the geometry of the room - a strange and confusing exploration of the materiality of sound and light.
SoundFjord will be open to the public for the duration of the residency, with a performance on Saturday 15th December. For further details please email us here.
Myself and Theo Burt have been invited to take part in a week-long residency as part of the sequence series at the SoundFjord sound art gallery in London from the 10th to the 17th of December. We will be working on a project called Bastard Structures 2. For part of every day the gallery will be open to the public, with a performance at the end of the week. More details to follow, but you can read a bit about it here.
Another screening of 8 Switches announced at the roBOt Festival in Bologna, Italy tonight, 12th October 2012. More information here.
Viewer gig at the Winning Post, Bishopthorpe Road, York on Saturday 29th September. Information here
Even more delighted to announce that Sonar Barcelona will also be screening 8 Switches. More details here.
Going to be performing live with Monika Naceva at the opening gala of the Prague Writers Festival on April 15th. More details here.
With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white
microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged,
epilepsy-inducing sound and vision; digital hallucinations
drained of colour, synchronized to a soundtrack that is
relentless and unsentimental. Each new section presents
a variation on the same sleek, kinetic minimalism. As each
section progresses, the razor-sharp line between a host
of binary oppositions - black/white, figure/ground, silence/
sound, here/there, on/off - dissolves through sheer
velocity. The rapid-fire alternations between these binary
oppositions acts like the flicker of film frames, accelerating
until sound and sight are wed into a synchronous whole
in which neither the visual nor the sonic takes primacy.
Instead, each acts as mutually constitutive literalisation
of the other. As the distance from eye to ear collapses,
the distinction between the immediacy of one's physical
sensation and its ghostly afterimage - those traces left
on blistered corneas and eardrums and optic nerves and
neurons - can no longer be maintained. Staccato pin-pricks of light and frequency fuse into a single synesthetic
object and single overwhelming experience.
- Joseph Clayton Mills
Details here
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New album due out this autumn. A collaboration between Tim Wright and Monika Naceva.
"I was invited to take part in the "Decadence Now" exhibition taking place in the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague from the 29th of September. I decided to record a whole album and to create a live performance from that." Naceva
Since the exhibition concerns decadence in an international context, Naceva spoke to British sound experimenter and producer Tim Wright (Tube Jerk, Germ, Sand..). The music was put together in Tim's home town of York, England during the spring and early summer of 2010.
This will be the first Naceva album to contain no texts from the novelist Jahym Topol. This time the lyrics are based entirely on her adaptations of the writings of the Czech modern and decadent 19th century poets and the words of William Blake. A recording has emerged full of decadent poetry and experimental sound; a fusion of rich, emotional vocals with vintage analogue synthesisers and algorithmic musical structures. The Sick Rose is an expression of two musical personalities: Naceva and Tim Wright.
more details to follow.
On Friday 14th November Opera North are presenting new soundtracks for five American silent short films as past of the Leeds Film Festival. Tim has contributed the soundtrack for "The Bridge" (dir. Charles Vidor 1929) for electronics and solo cello. Details can be found here.
On Sunday 16th November Tim will be premiering a new electronic audio-visual work at wounded furniture, Guthlaxton College, Station Road, Wigston near LEicester. Details can be found here.
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