Interactive Sound Exhibition / Electronic-Experimental Music Performances / Lectures and Workshops on Sound art and Music Technology / Audio-work Presentations
Entry to all the lectures, workshops and performances at the Redsonic festival are free, but voluntary donations at the door will be greatly appreciated.
Please RSVP to the particular performance (worksop or presentation) you would like to attend at info@redsonic.co.uk
The RSVP guest list will close 30 minutes before the start of the performance and after that we will operate "first come first serve" entry
policy. The performances will start on time! Please note that there will be no entrance to the performances after they started!
IMPORTANT! All bookings must be made 24 hours before event begins. We will not accept bookings for events within stated time.
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what's the story?
Redsonic Festival takes place at the Red Gallery in London from the 19th to the 29th of January 2012. The festival aims to raise people’s awareness of sound as a creative art-form. RedSonic Festival also would like to create a communal forum where sound artists and electronic musicians can meet each other in order to share their knowledge and experiences.
For the event we have planned a series of activities encompassing exhibition, performances, workshops and lectures, distributed across three separate spaces within the Red Gallery.
The first of these spaces will hold a week-long collaborative sound-exhibition, while the second one is allocated for presentations, workshops and lectures on sound art and music technology.
The last space is the largest and will be equipped with projectors and a high-end multi-channel diffusion sound system. This room will hold performances on certain days as well as regular listening sessions throughout the week.
We strive to cover some ground and include pioneers and artists from around the globe, thus presenting a wide and varied landscape of Twentieth Century + artistic expression through sound.
RedSonic Festival also supports and encourages emerging sound artists; sound-art and design students and electronic/experimental musicians to show perform and present their work to the public through live performances, workshops, a week long interactive sound exhibition and lectures on sound art and music technology.
Entry to all the lectures, workshops and performances at the Redsonic festival are free, but voluntary donations at the door will be greatly appreciated.
Please RSV to the particular performance (worksop or presentation) you would like to attend at info@redsonic.co.ukThe RSVP guest list will close 30 minutes before the start of the performance and after that we will operate ‘first come first serve’ entrypolicy. The performances will start on time! Please note that there will be no entrance to the performances after they started!
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who's involved?
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Jonty Harrison
Jonty Harrison, Director of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) and the Electroacoustic Music Studios, is a composer and conductor, whose two main areas of research – acousmatic electroacoustic music, and the development of software tools for multichannel composition and performance – are fused in a presentation and performance on Day 5 of RedSonic festival.
Harrison deals with acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. Acousmatic music is sound which is delivered via loudspeakers to conceal its original source, so that the listeners attention is focused on the sound itself, rather than the object that produces it, and has its historical basis in musique conète.
Harrison will begin with a talk and presentation about his approach to the multi-channel diffusion of acousmatic works, and will then play four of his compositions which exemplify this approach: Klang (1982), Unsound Objects (!995), Streams (1999), Internal Combustion (2005-06).
The event takes place in the basement gallery, a cavernous space, decked out with multiple speakers surrounding the encounterer Please note that the performance will begin promptly at 7pm, and there shall be no admittance thereafter.
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David Toop
David Toop is a British musician, composer, author and curator, whose work explores experimental, often electronic, music and sound art practice. His compositions have varied greatly in nature, from recordings of shamanistic ceremonies in Amazonas to collaborative improvisation with electronics. Toop has released 12 albums, three of which were written in collaboration with sound artist Max Eastley, and published 5 books exploring themes in music and sound. Amongst other projects, Toop curated Sonic Boom, in 2000, the UK’s largest sound art exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, and is a respected critic and essayist on the subject of experimental music and its related concepts and environments. Toop also directs an improvisation ensemble – Unknown Devices: The Laptop Orchestra – at London College of Communication, and his sound works have been exhibited worldwide.At RedSonic Festival, Toop will perform live amongst an array of speakers, the audience seated within their parameter. Toop will use a variety of electronics and voice, no doubt fed through many of his unusual devices, to produce unknown to us yet sounds and surprises.
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Michel Chion
Michel Chion is a world famous composer of experimental music, and film and video director. Chion is the author of many books and essays on the subject of the interaction between sound and image within the medium of film, and principle historian and musicologist of electroacoustic music.
He worked as assistant to the seminal Pierre Schaeffer, pioneer of musique concrète, as a researcher for the French Radio and Television organization, in 1970. Musique concrète is a form of avant-garde music, electroacoustic, utilizing acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. Musique concrete was not to be limited to traditional musical structures, or the timbres of usual instruments, but allowed all sound into its composition. Acousmatic sound, is where the original sound source is hidden, and the listener can therefore focus his attention fully onto the sound itself, without visual information to impair the experience with associations.
Michel Chion will be performing a Concert de Musique Concrète, acousmatic music with multi-channel sound diffusion. The event takes place in the basement gallery, a cavernous space, decked out with multiple speakers surrounding the encounterer Please note that the performance will begin promptly at 7pm, and there shall be no admittance thereafter.
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Aquilles Pantaleão
Aquiles Pantaleão is an artist and composer whose preoccupations with texture, occupancy of space, gestural contour/dynamic and temporal flow found a suitable environment in the acousmatic genre. His works are set to a diffusion space, the arena where sounding waves – but peaks and troughs of present, past or remotely imagined events - pulsate in seamless ebb and flow affirming their true essence in energy and motion. Besides composition and performance, Aquiles also creates installation work. Aquiles Pantaleão holds a PhD in Acousmatic music composition from City University, London. Particularly concerned with spectral morphology, texture, gesturality and spatial movement, his compositional work has been widely diffused, being awarded a number of mentions and prizes, including a compositional prize in the 1998 edition of the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica for digital arts. His compositional works can be found published by Fundação RioArte (BR), INA/GRM (FR), ORTF (AT), and Paradigm Records (UK). Aside from his own concert music he has also engaged in many collaborations for film, theatre and gallery/exhibition work. Research interests and creative activities include among others the history, composition and aesthetics of acousmatic music, sound diffusion/spatialisation, live electronics, digital signal processing, sound and image interaction, and interactive systems responsive to ambiental/environmental changes. Aquiles is a lecturer at the London College of Communication – UAL for the Sound Arts Dept. (since 2000), and Film&TV Dept. (since 2007).
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A Guy Called Gerald
A Guy Called Gerald is an iconic name in the electronic music scene worldwide. One of the founding members of 808 State, Simpson kick started the UK’s acid house frenzy with his ’88 classic ‘Voodoo Ray’ and 808 State’s ‘Pacific State’ – gatecrashing the charts in the process – and went on to lay down the blueprint for jungle music with the dark breakbeat experiments of 93’s ‘28 Gun Badboy’ LP and the classic ‘Black Secret Technology’ in ‘95. He has collaborated with the likes of Finley Quaye, Tricky, David Bowie, Flora Purim, Goldie, Lady Miss Kier and Lamb. He has persisted as one of the UK’s most dedicated producers ever since. On top of releases on seminal labels like Perlon, Sender, !K7 and Beatstreet over the past 10 years, he released his 9th album ‘Tronic Jazz: The Berlin Sessions’ in 2010 on specialist Berlin label Laboratory Instinct. He continues to push the boundaries of electronic music and touring worldwide in clubs and festivals.
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Gergely Konrady
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Karl Gibson aka DJ Fingers
Karl Gibson received an Ma in Sound Arts and Design from The University of the Arts, London College of Communication in 2009. • He is the author of the book: The Misappropriation of Hip-Hop (2010) ISBN : 978 – 0956311801 • DJ Fingers has been DJ-ing since 1979. He was one third of hip hop group, The Mixmasters, and later joined the legendary hip hop crew, Family Quest, as DJ and producer. The group featured the UK’s first female MC, Mystery, and is often mentioned as major unsung hero’s for many of the UK’s finest B-boys & B-girls. As one of the first turntablists in the UK, DJ Fingers cites his fundamental influence as Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation, with their running theme of “Peace, Love and Unity” and he has always strived to push that concept through his many projects. • DJ Fingers is featured in the seminal hip-hop documentary, “Arena: Bad Meaning Good’ (1987), in a sequence which became inspirational for many aspiring UK hip-hop DJs. • In 1987 he was invited to hold a weekly DJ Residency at famous B-boy club Chez Roger along side the early foundation of the French hip-hop movement, DJ’s Deenasty, Assassin, Yella, the Paris City Breakers, NTM, and others. • He is a founding member of the Sindecut (Virgin Records) – one of the first UK hip hop groups to sign to a major label. The Sindecut are responsible for the late 80’s legendary Swiss Cottage Jams, which soon became a place to showcase the new generation of UK hip-hop recording artists. The group continues to release today. Karl Gibson is going to present a lecture during the festival on the original intention of hip-hop culture related to his book called “The Missapropriation of Hip-Hop”. To find out more about the presentation go to section: What’s on.
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Migro records
Migro presents a multichannel surround buffet of sound and image:
- Laure Prouvost – “It Hit Heat”: Video/sound installation (surround sound design: Panos Ghikas)
- Ryo Ikeshiro – Live algorithmic performance
- Dimitris Bakas – “Absolute continuity”, “Contra Kavala”: acousmatic pieces with video
- Yannis Kyriakides – “Varosha”: acousmatic piece with video
- Ghikas & Walshe – Unreal-time surround improv duo with Panos Ghikas and Jennifer Walshe
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Agnes Nagy
Agnes Nagy is a Hungarian born producer of music and sound design. She has gained a BSc Music Technology Audio Systems diploma in 2010 in London. She studied Audio Recording, Sound Synthesis, DSP Programming and Psychoacoustics, and frequently utilises aspects of this experience in the creation of her sounds. Her music is influenced by a diverse range of styles such as electronic dance, industrial, experimental, ambient, dub and urban. During her 10 years folk dance experience she developed a deep passion for dance and performance, which became her inspiration for creating music and sound for movement and story. Her Hörspiel, Yvette’s New World, was played at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and Conference in 2009 in New York, where she also took part in Douglas Geers’ concerto, Sweep, as a member of the Laptop Orchestra.
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Argir Ziovsky
Argir Ziovsky is London based Designer, Illustrator, Print Maker and Street artist who graduated from LCC – BA(Hons) Graphic Product Innovation in 2011, and MA- Mechanical Engineering for Industrial Design in 2000 (Czech Republic). His work is interdisciplinary, combining different art techniques (i.e. drawing, stencils, linocut and photo-collage). His strengths have developed from a technical education coupled with a sense for geometrical shapes. His design is inspired from everyday life and all things surrounding him. He is currently writing and illustrating picture books for children.
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KONTRATONE
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D-Fuse
D-Fuse are a group of London based artists founded in the mid 90’s by Michael Faulkner who explore a range of creative media, from art, architecture, photography + film to live A/V performances. Working in a trans-disciplinary method with cutting edge technology D-Fuse encourage their audience to reflect on the process of experiencing art in a multi-dimensional, multi-sensory way with emphasis on the key relationship between sound + image. D-Fuse’s visual art has been shown internationally – incl. The V&A Museum [London], Sonar [Barcelona], onedotzero festivals, Nokia Labs [St Petersburg & Moscow], Mori Arts Center [Tokyo], Rotterdam + Seoul film festivals, Eyebeam [NYC], San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Prix Ars Electronica [Linz], TriBeca Film Festival [NYC], Lisbon + Valencia Biennales and Get It Louder [China]. Their first solo exhibition in 2006 entitled Transmit at the prestigious MU Gallery in Eindhoven, Holland presented a retrospective of D-Fuse’s diverse practice. In 2007 D-Fuse were commissioned by The British Film Institute to create a large scale public installation interpreting London film from their expansive archive – 2007FPS- A London Conversation Widely recognized as pioneers of VJ culture, [authors of VJ audiovisual art + vj culture] have collaborated with groundbreaking musicians including Beck, Scanner, Burnt Friedman and Swayzak. As well as the contemporary classical composer Steve Reich [performed with The London Symphony Orchestra]
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Red Pig Flower
Red Pig Flower, like a red pig that cross-pollinated with a flower and thereby mutated into a new species, works as a professional DJ, producer and artist. After feeling the good vibes while exploring clubs in Japan, she made the decision to become a DJ.her dexterous skill with all types of controllers and equipment continues to widen in spectrum. Armed with a mind for experiment, she will never cease to produce only her very own unique sound. And from 2010, she has moved London and playing and organizing events at the exclusive east london clubs, furthermore not just at the london, as an international dj, she spending busy life to fly around lots of different European countries like German,France, Turkey etc to play.
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about red:
RED means reality. She’s found all the nice red things. Blood, cherries, berries, lipstick, sunrise, sunset, sign of warning. Rose, Chinese flower, heart, red carpet and excitement. She represents her red works in paintings and photography. PIG means desire. Smart and greedy animal, smarter than dogs. But loved as a food because of its ugliness. She rejects the notion that greed is a bad thing and tries to represent and see people’s desire through her art. She expresses her desire through “receipt projects”. FLOWER is originally a “plastic flower”, which means dreams and idealistic beauty. She denied all the real flowers, which die and fade away easily. She tries to find out something which is eternal and infinite, one within her life. She represents her flower work in video and sound arts. And of course these 3 works are related to each other. And she continues her art work to make dreams become real.
So she can talk about “dream” and “reality” and “desire” , and she use any material which can express her notion and emotions.
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Delfin Ortiz Djian
Delfin is a Spanish born artist and designer based in London since 2004. He is in the final year of his BA in Fine Art at Middlesex University. His main interest is installation, focusing on the qualities of light, space, reflection and repetition. His geometric work, being highly influenced by Minimal and kinetic art, also investigates and experiments, through an extensive process, with the viewer’s perceptual movement. Using design methods, he creates the illusion of a physical space inside a limited spatial construction. Besides installation, he also works on painting, sculpture, video and printing, exploring the sensuality and obscurity of geometry through patterns, sounds and textures. His work has been shown in group exhibitions and festivals in London, Budapest, Porto and Zaragoza.
Work:
‘¾ = 3’, 2010. Sculpture: painted mdf, acrylic mirror, LED lights. Dimensions: 500x500x500mm.
‘Bark’, 2009. Video/performance (collaboration with Gergely Konrady). Duration: 2’30’’
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Exhibition Programme
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where & when do I go?
Red Gallery is one of the East End’s most exciting cultural hubs, a collective of creative individuals and organisations bringing together art, music, film and related cultural events, and as an instigator of national and international collaborations. From the gallery’s inception one of the guiding principles has been to work with, and seek input from the local artistic and creative communities, to build new business models and strengthen local, national and international ties in order to further the Red Gallery’s vision of an expansive artistic culture.
19th – 29th of January 2012
RED GALLERY
3 Rivington Street
London EC2A 3DT
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Sounds great, how can I find out more?
For any further information please use the form opposite to contact us, or alternatively email us via: info@redsonic.co.uk.