Concrete and Glass 2010 launches on Thursday 13th May with the first of a series of specially commissioned live performances at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen and 20 Hoxton Square Projects, in Hoxton Square, east London.
Commissioned especially for Concrete and Glass, with support from Sound and Music:
VOLCANO THE BEAR live soundtrack to FISCHLI AND WEISS’S THE WAY THINGS GO
THE OWL PROJECT
Thursday 13th May 2010 at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen (doors 8pm, tickets £5)
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Arch experimentalists VOLCANO THE BEAR will provide a live soundtrack to Fischli and Weiss’s acclaimed chain reaction film, The Way Things Go. This will be a one-off gig, and will be performed by Aaron Moore and Daniel Padden. Volcano The Bear’s own music is an often-absurd meeting of unlikely instruments, objects and sounds. Narratives and momentum are created and sabotaged, and accidents happen.
OWL PROJECT straddle the worlds of sound and visual art, with their peculiar sculptural musical instruments, including the mLog, their woodcraft interpretation of an iPod, which contrasts the disposability of modern technology with the labour intensive processes inherent in traditional handcraft objects. This group of process-orientated artists has recently won a coveted grant to create one of the major projects for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Also on 13th May, at 20 Hoxton Square Projects, presented by LUMIN:
‘TECHNO HARMONIUM’ by FELIX THORN and WEIRDCORE.
Techno Harmonium is a collaboration between FELIX THORN and digital visuals artists WEIRDCORE. Used to doing reactive live visuals for cutting electronic acts and bands, Weirdcore have been asked to focus their attention on Felix’s new machine, the Harmonium. The piece will open with an improvised live visual and audio performance on the evening of 13th May followed by a weeklong installation.
Felix’s Harmonium is a kinetic musical sculpture. Characteristics of electronic synthesizers can be traced back to mechanisms in early organ designs. The Harmonium make use of these pre-existing mechanisms by automating them for performance. The design of this machine aims to not only to match, but also to surpass the human performer by enhancing the machine with LEDs and movement that creates a truly multi sensory performance on the demand. For Concrete and Glass Lumin has invited visual artists and programmers Weirdcore to create video response for the piece. This will add a truly digital dimension both as a performance and visual installation. The Harmonium will then become the ultimate performer.