Staging Sound

Open improv follows Staging Sound

Porter Cellar Bar / 8.30pm 14 George Street / Bath

Matt Davies, Nick Rothwell and Adrian Smith will kick off the evening...

Following the Staging Sound forum will be an informal open jam session at the Porter Cellar Bar with an emphasis on the improvisational and experimental. We would like to invite sound artists, musicians and all other music/sound/noise makers to participate in this one-off event. It can be as relaxed and informal as you like, we are simply looking for some enthusiastic and confident participants used to working experimentally and collaboratively! This session will draw out some of the ideas under discussion in the forum and give people the chance to continue the dialogue in a sociable and relaxed atmosphere.

Matt Davies

Matt Davies? field recordings seek to show the hidden and ignored sounds of everyday life. His sound archive explores and captures the secret vibrations that penetrate objects, architecture and the landscape around us, exposing his fascination for the found melodies, drones and natural rhythms contained within these forever changing audible fields. Recent projects include: ?Live Art Falmouth 2007?, where the audience listened to recordings in the location that they were captured; researching spatial recording techniques in a rural church in Dorset; and a sonic survey of a 1940?s Lido in Cheltenham during its renovation. He is currently working on a collaborative project with the sound artist Simon Whetman recording swing bridges in Bristol. http://www.myspace.com/mattedavies

Joseph Hyde

Jo Hyde (b. London 1969) uses digital media to make sound and multimedia works, installations and performances. Particular features of his work are the complex interaction of abstract sound and image, and the integration of interactive technology into live performance. His background in music is apparent through an emphasis on sound and time-based structures.

Nick Rothwell (aka CASSIEL)

Cassiel plays live sets of pulse-based electronica utilizing a combination of vintage and custom-built technology: a Sequentix P3 analogue-style step sequencer trades blows with the highly experimental and unpredictable Shard Sequencer. The musical style shifts between Berlin-school electronica, soothing ambient, tribal and glitch, depending on whether the P3, the Shard, or the composer has the upper hand. Nick Rothwell (aka. Cassiel) is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer. He has worked with choreographers and dance companies (Laurie Booth, Ballett Frankfurt, Russell Maliphant, Lea Anderson, Random Dance) and on projects at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris), ZKM (Karlsruhe), TECHNE (Istanbul) and CIANT (Prague). He is a regular performer at Different Skies (Arcosanti, Arizona) and is currently working with Body>Data>Space in London.

Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith generates sounds through the creation of closed feedback loops within each of his devices or chain of devices. The effects pedals and mixing console link to become a kind of modular synth with its own oscillators, filters and LFOs. Unlocking the circuit using EQ to control level of isolated frequency bands allows more precise control over the resulting feedback then further processing and live looping is used to create repeating cycles. Working like this is an exciting and often risky way to perform as the circuits can react differently in combination and to the slightest change in level or frequency. Adrian has played at the ICIA supporting the Ecosonic Ensemble and is currently putting together material for an experimental music show in Stroud and for an event at the 2008 Frome Festival. He organises a regular experimental music event called 'Resonate'. http://www.resonantfrequency.co.uk