ANTJE VOWINCKEL - TUNING BUTTERFLIES
21st May 2019 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm (UK)
Dialect compositions combined with an poetic essay about the difficulties to catch dialect melodies in the field. Imitation voices: Antje Vowinckel, Serge Baghdassarians and Marc Sabat. Cd edition coming soon (errant bodies press)
Antje Vowinckel is a sound artist, radio artist and musician. She works for a variety of public radio stations and creates live performances and installations in public space. e.g. In places of Logic for text projections, organ and objects and Inside-out (Bucharest). Works have been presented on international festivals e.g. Issue-Project-Room, NYC, ZKM and others. Her focus is on the musicality of the spoken wordin works based on automatic speaking or dialect compositions. For her work she was awarded with the Karl-Sczuka-Förderpreis, Plopp-Award, Prix Europa, ZKM-Award „Ferrari recouté“, Ars Acoustic Award of RNE Madridandbalonbabel, CMMAS, Mexcio.
NICOLA WHITE - A NARROW SOUL LIVE IN THE STUDIO
21st May 2019 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm (UK)
The story of Marina Abramović, the Newcastle snake-handlers, and the missing python in the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
Nicola White grew up in Ireland and New York and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. She lived in London and Belfast before moving to Glasgow to work as a contemporary art curator, moving on to produce arts documentaries for BBC radio and television. In 2008 she won the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writer Award, and began to publish short stories in a range of journals, anthologies and for broadcast on Radio 4. In 2012 she was Leverhulme Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
Her novel, In the Rosary Garden, won the Dundee International Book prize and was shortlisted for the 2014 Deanston (now McIlvanny) Prize. It was selected as one of the four best debuts by Val McDermid ‘New Blood’ panel at the Harrogate crime festival and was one of the Glasgow Herald’s 2014 ‘books of the year’.
She publishes non-fiction with The Dublin Review and has contributed essays to numerous visual art publications, such as the National Galleries of Scotland’s 2014 ‘Generation Reader’.
Nicola currently splits her time between Glasgow and the Highlands, which means she lives mostly on the A9.
KRISTOFFER RAASTED & RAGNHILD MAY - ONOMATOPOETICA
21st May 2019 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm (UK)
The piece consists of voice, modular synthesizer, cymbals and recordings of new year communal bell ringing in Tokyo and is a collaboration between Ragnhild May (electronics) and Kristoffer Raasted (vocal). With Raasted’s lyrics as a staring point, the duet creates atmospheric sounds in the intersection between acoustic and digital. The piece is recorded in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
Ragnhild May (1988) is a sound artist from Copenhagen DK. She received her MFA in Music/sound form Bard College (US)
Kristoffer Raasted (1988), Copenhagen Denmark, is a sound artist, singer and percussionist. He studied media arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art.
https://soundcloud.com/ragnhildmay/
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