extrasensory presents < sound . light . space > :: a week-long festival of light + sound art :: London 11-17 Oct 2001

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sound . light . space

extrasensory presents a week-long festival of light + sound art, featuring an exhibition plus evening music performances, including debut appearances in the UK by cutting edge, award-winning sound artists.

WHEN

Thursday 11OCTOBER - Wednesday 17 OCTOBER 200112.00 noon - 01.00 am
(Except Sunday 14 October 12.00 - 18.00and closed all day Monday 15 October)

Exhibition free between 12.00 and 18.00
Due to the light works featured in the exhibition, evening attendance is recommended.

Performances:
Thursday 11, Friday 12 + Saturday 13 OCTOBER £7 / £5 after 18.00
extrasensory Lounge DJs:
Tuesday 16 + Wednesday 17 OCTOBER £2 after 18.00
There is limited seating available for performances so please arrive early to avoid disappointment. No advance bookings.

WHERE

291 Gallery
291 Hackney Road
London E2

HOW TO GET THERE

Tube: Old Street / Bethnal Green
Bus: 26, 48, 55
Rail: Liverpool Street > Cambridge Heath
Car Parking also available

INFO CONTACT

020 7265 9760 / 07880 611758 - Darren (extrasensory)
020 7613 5676 - Lisa / Xenia (291 Gallery)
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / http://www.extrasensory.org

THE EXHIBITION: sound . light . space

Sound, light, space - the essential qualities that form the basis of our surrounding environment and how we perceive it. The exhibited works in  sound . light . space  share a minimalist approach, employing simplicity to highlight the subtle and imperceptible. The audience is invited into the art works - moving within them, and directly experiencing shifting visual and aural impulses that ask for the surrounding space to be reappraised. 
The works have a direct relationship to the unique gallery environment, and encourage us to examine the way we perceive our surroundings and how we relate to them. The exhibition extends this questioning of space out into our urban environment, through installation and photographic work.

MAIN GALLERY
JOHN FORSTER Lowdown
The artist creates a fluid architecture with lines of light that are strung out across the gallery space - based on the building's structural lines. The interpenetrating hyperbolic forms allow for a sense of spatial ambiguity when viewed or walked through.

DAVE CARTER & JOE WATSON Tetrahedron of Interferences
This interactive work, which uses electronic signal conversion, feedback circuits and a specially built concrete speaker system, produces static, yet ever-changing, patterns of sine waves that are tuned to standing waves of the gallery space. This sound alters dramatically as the listener moves around the space.

SOUTH WING GALLERY 1
SIMON & LARS Blown: Composition No.2
Freestanding discarded fluorescent tubes are placed in the gallery space. These tubes flicker on and off at various speeds and hues creating an electric field of light, revealing a music of hum, buzz and ping.

SOUTH WING GALLERY 2
ETIENNE CLEMENT Demolition in Progress
Photographs taken during the recent destruction of the brut concrete Holly Street housing estate in London, focusing on empty living cells whose outer wall was removed, revealing the difference within ostensibly identical spaces.

FOYER
DAVE CARTER Inside-Outing
A blue neon-tube installation is appropriated, using transformers and microphones, and made into an audio-visual instrument, modified by audience interaction.

BAR
ULRIKE LEYENS We Shape The Things We Build, Thereafter They Shape Us
An ongoing photographic series that explores our complex relationship with the urban environment.

FANTASMAGRAMMA Digiterminal
Video work based on metronomic audio-visual impulses.

GARDEN
ALAN PEACOCK Just About Ambient
Audio installation using 2000 x slowed down samples taken from domestic machinery and devices, reproduced using manipulated generated wave forms and noise, to react with the environmental ambience of the gallery's exterior vicinity.

MUSIC PERFORMANCES: sound . light . space

Dedicated to genuinely NEW audio experience, sound . light . space  presents a selection of cutting edge electronic music performances from critically-acclaimed sound artists, including not-to-be-missed debut UK performances.

THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER  £7 / £5

20.00 PAUL SPRECKLEY (UK)
Electronic constructions using stripped down and uptight sounds in minimal rhythmic structures.

21.30 C M von HAUSSWOLFF (SWEDEN)
A multiple award-winning artist who uses the basic sonic resonance of electricity, via the electro-magnetism of equipment, to present electrical sound as an aesthetic statement within a stringent conceptual framework.

FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER  £7 / £5

20.00 IMMEDIA (UK)
immedia employ subtle yet powerful sounds, created through digital equipment error, to make ultra-minimal music that demands close listening, exploring the grey area between silence and noise. Source material for Bernhard Gunter's latest works.

21.30 FRANCISCO LOPEZ (SPAIN)
1st ever UK performance by this legendary artist whose aim is "to reach an ideal of absolute concrete music" through the creation of intense environments of sound, using an extensive palette of creatively edited field recordings.

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER  £7 / £5

20.00 BLISSBODY (UK)
A choreographed performance by a multi-person group that uses various electronic consumer objects as its instrumentation, employing microphones to intensify internal noise, to create a music of hums, buzzes, pulses and clicks.

21.00 MAIN GALLERY DAVE CARTER + JOE WATSON (UK)
A live performance by the artists of their installation work.

22.00 FANTASMAGRAMMA (ITALY)
1st ever UK performance by the duo fantasmagramma, who create ultramodern music using the glitches of digital equipment as their sound source. Futurist music NOW.

SATURDAY13 OCTOBER sees the launch of fantasmagramma's debut CD release on the new extrasensory label. Copies available on the evening at a special reduced rate.

LOUNGE

During sound . light . space  the lounge bar will host an international array of Invisible DJs - invited sound artists who have produced a 
special DJ mix CD for the occasion, plus extrasensory DJs on 16 & 17 OCTOBER presenting a mix of cutting edge electronic music, including exclusive and unreleased tracks.

ABOUT THE MUSIC PERFORMERS

THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER

C M von HAUSSWOLFF (SWEDEN)

C M von Hausswolff is one of the mot respected figures in experimental music, having been active in this area since the 1970s. Over the past few years C M von Hausswolff has stripped away any sense of the ornamental from his sound work, which have become pure, intuitive studies of electricity, frequency functions and tonal autism, within the framework of stringent conceptual concerns.

C M von Hausswolff has performed throughout Europe and in North America, and featured his installation work around the world, including biennials in Istanbul and Johannesburg, as well as at the critically-acclaimed Manifesta 1, Documenta X and Musée d'Art Moderne shows. More recently his work was included in Sonic Boom, at the Hayward Gallery in London, Audible Light, at the MOMA in Oxford, and in Sound Art - Sound As Media, at the ICC in Tokyo.

"To CM von Hausswolff, sound is not a graceful category of formal expression, but a way of creating conscious activity and contact, and to determine the direction in which they develop. For him, sound is a way of stating your position and making it influence others, a way to declare something, perhaps the existence of an unknown phenomenon, and at the same time ironically to demystify it." - SIKSI, The Nordic Art Review.

"CM von Hausswolff manages to capture a natural ambience through artificial means better than any other proponent of atmospherica than I know".

PAUL SPRECKLEY (UK)

Paul Spreckley is a total unknown to most people, even within the realms of experimental music and sound art. He only began performing in public earlier this year, but his work confounds this lack of recognition. Paul Spreckley has a long history of private investigation into the technical and sonic aspects of electronic music, and brings this experience to bear through extreme attention to detail. His music is a rhythmic, yet minimal, framework of digital sonic events that would not be out of place on the critically-acclaimed Noton or 12k record labels.

Paul Spreckley is destined for bigger and better things.

FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER

FRANCISCO LOPEZ (SPAIN)

Since 1991, Francisco Lopez has released around 100 experimental music CDs on more than 50 labels worldwide. He has exhibited installation work in galleries, museums, universities and institutions all round the world, and is one of the most respected and controversial sonic art masters currently practicing.

Francisco Lopez' compositions are intended "to reach an deal of absolute concrete music." His experiments in this quest explore the extremes of both silence and noise, creating "minimal, sonic sculpture that will fire your synapses". Lopez' sound material is often sourced from environmental field recordings that he edits and overlays, resulting in powerful sonic statements.

"Senor Lopez' work belongs to the most radical I have heard in some time. The true power of this work (and in fact of all great minimal music) lies in the fact that by the time you think it's the same sound, a slight chance happens, which changes the piece. Beautiful!" - Vital Weekly

"My poor speakers shuddered and shook and could not take the depth this guy has managed to record." - Immerse

"López employs silence to put the brakes on his slow turning movements of sound which have an uncanny ability to alter the perception of time. During the listening experience, these droning sounds appear to crawl forward into infinity. Yet when López crops the volume down to silence or near silence, his more audible elements seem only to take up five minutes of time when more than an hour has passed. Quite simply awesome." - The Wire

IMMEDIA (UK)

Immedia are two artists who are interested in exploring the grey area between silence and non-silence. Their work challenges the audience to listen very closely, and to appreciate the sonic nature of the space they are in. They have released a number of well-appreciated CDs, and exhibited a few installation works, since 1999. Their first work - in audio - has since been appropriated (with agreement) by Bernhard Gunter for his acclaimed CD "Monochrome White".

"Minimalism to the max! Are immedia's18 soundspaces vast or miniscule? They could be the sonic twinkling of a million distant stars, or the fizzling quarks of a dying atom... 2/1 explores the ultimate boundaries of listening by way of computerized sound renderings at ear-testingly low volumes. Compare them to the faint electric hum of some faraway (idle, but plugged-in) appliance, the invisible flow of air through darkened ductwork or the practically-inaudible galaxies between seconds... each track is an extremely quiet and delicate audiosystem: buzzy clicks of quietly deformed data innocuously expand into frizzy little carpets of microfibers. their utter fragility confounds me... like finely wrought crystal of a most frail nature." - Online Review

"Virtual Recordings made at a volume so low that unless you turn the sound up you'll hear nothing. What follows is hard to describe - the barest whisper of a whirr, the thinnest hiss. the noise is so liminal that the act of listening creates a track out of the background noise in your own environment. Surprisingly, the sounds themselves aren't pure, but complex and gritty in their own diaphanous way - the tiniest specks of sound unfolding in their micro-complexity." - The Wire

"Quite unlike anything we have ever heard before." - Vital Weekly

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER

FANTASMAGRAMMA (ITALY)

A young, very exciting duo who have previously shown audio-visual installation work at the Netmage and Clink & Click digital art festivals in their home country.

Here, Fantasmagramma present a performance to coincide with their first CD release on the new extrasensory record label. Their work is made with the utmost care and attention to the quality of sounds used, which are then composed into a post-techno digital music that extends our concept of what music can be. Recognisable motifs - repetition, 'beats' - are morphed into new forms, which sound essentially freeform, and point to a future music light years ahead of most of their contemporaries.

BLISSBODY (UK)

A group of artists who have exhibited sound installations throughout the UK. 'Humdrum' is a performance based presentation, playing inaudible songs from our electronic environment. For this the group explores the electromagnetic auras surrounding everyday electrical devices. Electronic stethoscopes eavesdrop on the pulse, beat and hum of the wired world. Bugging and tapping into the surging rhythms, extended drones and ear piercing pops and whistles manating from post-industrial electronic junk.

A vinyl recording of 'Humdrum' will be available at the event.

DAVE CARTER & JOE WATSON (UK)

A performance of their sound installation work, 'Tetrahedron of Interferences'. This involves the production of ever-changing but static patterns of sine waves that eventually merge to form a single complex waveform, in combination with electronic signal conversion that produces audibly amplified sounds of transformers and circuits. This is played back through a specially constructed concrete speaker system that includes rotating midrange and tweeters, plus a sub-bass driver.

ABOUT US.

extrasensory is a collective of artists dedicated to promoting multimedia art events, with a specific interest in art works that are concerned with sound, light and space. We have been running for 18 months, supporting art works and live performances by new, upcoming and established artists, including many debut UK appearances by acclaimed overseas artists.

extrasensory presents genuinely cutting edge work. We present previously unheard and unreleased audio material, showcase interesting recording labels and concept series, and invite selected artists to DJ and share their extensive knowledge of electronic music with our audience.

extrasensory is located at the 291 Gallery, a beautifully renovated neo-gothic church in the east end, London's new art district. The extrasensory events make use of the whole gallery, providing different spaces for a variety of installations and performances. We also organise monthly lounge events in the gallery bar / foyer.

WEBSITE

See documentation of past events at http://www.extrasensory.org

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