I’m pleased to announce the 9th event of my extended residency at Hundred Years Gallery – Mercury Over Maps
The evening will feature three sets: Iris Garrelfs and Viv Corringham (duet), Spencer Grady, Phil Julian and Mark Wastell (trio), and Bill Thompson with special guest, Ian Stonehouse.
More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-9
Mercury Over Maps #9
Iris Garrelfs works on the cusp of music, art and technology across improvised performance, multi-channel installation and fixed media projects. She is interested in the relationship between listening to and thinking about our world. She often uses her voice
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including Tate Britain, National Gallery London, Royal Academy of Arts (London),
Garrelfs lectures in Sonic Art at Goldsmiths,
VIV CORRINGHAM – Voice and electronics
Viv Corringham is a vocalist and sound artist who has worked internationally since the late 1970s. Her work includes performance,
“Ululating, humming and chanting to produce not
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(Richard Sanderson, programme notes)
http://vivcorringham.org/home
SPENCER GRADY – Banjo and Electronics
Spencer Grady balances his love for country, bluegrass and folk idioms with an inquisitive approach to music-making that has inevitably led him to fathom the potentials of improvisation. Most usually found making phantasmal porch music as one half of Padang Food Tigers, who’ve previously released records on Northern Spy, Bathetic, Scissor Tail Editions
https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com
PHIL JULIAN – Modular Synth
Phil Julian is a UK based composer and improviser active since the late 1990’s principally working with modular electronic devices and computers.
Audio works by Julian (and under the Cheapmachines alias) have been published on labels including Entr’acte, Banned Production, The Tapeworm, Harbinger Sound, Confront Recordings, Conditional, Staalplaat (Open Circuit imprint), con-v, Beartown Records as well as numerous compilation appearances.
He also runs the Authorised Version label.
Julian has collaborated on remixes, recordings and performances with Tomas Korber, Michael Renkel, Jason Kahn, Daniel Jones, Kostis Kilymis, Tom Mudd, Angharad Davies, John Macedo, Dominic Lash, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Andie Brown, Dale Cornish, Ryan Jordan, Maurizio Bianchi, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders and GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers and perfroming as part of Mark Wastell’s improvising group The Seen.
MARK WASTELL – Amplified Textures
Mark Wastell has been active as a musician since 1995, making his initial concerts with the trio IST featuring Rhodri Davies and Simon H. Fell. He has performed and recorded extensively and has collaborated with the likes of Derek Bailey, John Butcher, Evan Parker, Lasse Marhaug, John Tilbury, Mattin, Mark Sanders, Tony Conrad, Tim Barnes, Bernhard Günter, Keith Rowe, John Zorn, Peter Kowald, Joachim Nordwall, Otomo Yoshihide, Burkhard Beins, Paul Dunmall, David Toop, Alan Wilkinson, Max Eastley, Hugh Davies, Julie Tippetts and David Sylvian. Mark also runs the Confront Recordings record label.
IAN STONEHOUSE – Solo Modular
Ian Stonehouse is Head of the Electronic Music Studios at Goldsmiths, University of London, and lectures in sonic art practice. He originally trained as a fine artist at Wolverhampton College of Art with experimental filmmaker Guy Sherwin. Ian is a member of the noise-improv-playback group Rutger Hauser and their splinter faction Rutger Hauser Digest (with Lisa Busby). Rutger Hauser’s eponymous debut album was released on the ADAADAT label in 2016. Ian’s album ‘Voyage en Kaléidoscope’ (secretly made in 1995) finally escaped to the surface in 2016 thanks to the folks at the Lumen Lake. He was part of the ensemble who performed Bill Thompson’s ‘Gates 2017’ at Goldsmiths and contributed tape loops to saxophonist Colin Webster’s recent release ‘vs. Tape Loops’ on the Fractal Meat label. Rutger Hauser are reportedly off on a mini-tour of the Faroe Islands in January 2018.https://magneticsoundreport.blog thelumenlake.bandcamp.com/album/voyage-en-kale-idescope www.adaadat.co.uk/rutgerhauser www.rutgerhauser.co.uk
BILL THOMPSON – Live electronics
Touch Radio: “Live at the Brunswick Club, Bristol, June 19th 2017”
Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs as a soloist and with a number of groups including M/H/T with Jan Hendrickse and Tom Mudd, Airfield with choreographer Ian Spink, and in the past with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. Since 2016/17, however, he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining built in electronics with miscellaneous table top devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2012. For more information visit:
www.billthompson.org
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Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Hundred Years Gallery featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.