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7 Days of Sound Festival kicks off on Monday 2nd December at Althorpe Studios and Gallery in Leamington Spa:

7 Days of Sound is a festival exploring the types of practice which exist between contemporary visual art and experimental music which has been organized by [RHP] CDRs, is hosted by Althorpe Studios and Gallery and was funded by Warwick District Council.

7 Days of Sound is filled with exciting events, new performances, art works, talks and many other projects made by over 50 regional, national and international practitioners at all career stages.

The festival is built around a large exhibition, titled 365 Days of Sound, which both celebrates the past year of [RHP] CDRs activity and looks forward to the coming year. Included in the exhibition are a range of art works, objects, merchandise, articles and other contextual information from the archive which has been built around the artists we work with.

Net Artist Music Videos

On Friday 6th December I’ll be doing a performance following the Net Artist Music Videos screening, curated by Prosthetic Knowledge. The event starts at 7pm and also includes a performance from Michael Lightborne. It’s gonna be noisy, but I think you probably already knew that.

On Thursday 5th December I’ll be at Hare and Hounds again (this time with functioning hardware) to provide visuals for Attack of the Synthesizers #3.

The night will feature Elmo Sexwhistle, Swoomptheeng and Monoform. So basically nearly the same lineup as BYOB Birmingham 2013 except with a lot less projectors and less chance of fire.

From Friday 6th I’ll be part of the Auto-Suggestion group exhibition curated by Declan Ackroyd (glitchee)

I’ll have a print on show from the Exhausted image series. Other artists being exhibited include: Daniel Temkin (Rottytooth), G1ft3d, Grant Charteris (GHSdude), Haydiroket, Kim Valcourt (Torngarsuk), Nick Kegeyan (Extracrispy), Royal Smith (Jamopi), Sam Mattacott, Stallio!, Vince Mckelvie, Jamie Boulton (Questionsomething), Spencer Kelly (Somethingfunnyishappening) and Declan Ackroyd (Glitchee).

The exhibition will run for two weeks at Rock Paper Scissors in Lincoln. I can’t be there but you should be!

On the 16th November, my last evening of my visit to Barcelona, I performed with Gabriella Gardosi and Kerian Lao as Feedback Symphony at Molécula/The Wrong Biennale. We were joined by musicans Diego Lara, Evgeni Krane and Hugh Tetley.

For our performance we projected onto several layers of translucent fabric that were installed in the space. This allowed the projections to be seen from both the front and the back. It was interesting to visuals being interacted with instead of just being observed. It’s an idea that I’ll definitely explore further in the future!

Photos don’t do this experience (you had to be there), but to give you an idea watch this video of a rehearsal from August or just view the photos and videos below:

From this performance I think I’ll be looking into exploring the use of animation, drawing and sculpture/installation in my future work. I wonder if there are other local artists who I could collaborate with…