SOUNDASART CONFERENCE
SOUNDASART CONFERENCE: BLURRING OF THE BOUNDARIES
Bill Thompson aka prof_lofi and Patrick Keenan
and Keith Rowe, Rajesh Mehta, and Rohan de Saram
Three New Releases
SOUNDASART CONFERENCE: BLURRING OF THE BOUNDARIES, Nov 24 -26th
A conference in Aberdeen focusing on the emerging art form Sound Art. Keynote speakers include Dr. Jonty Harrison, Dr. Christina Kubisch, and Rajesh Mehta. Guest artists and performers include Keith Rowe, Rohan de Saram, Giancarlo Toniutti, James Wyness, Karen Hay, Pete Stollery and the scottish invisible arts group, Patrick Keenan, myself and others. Visit the urbanNovember website for more details. Register Now!!! (It’s free!) part of the SOUND FESTIVAL.
Liminal Passage, sound Festival, Nov 21st
Premier of new works for organ and electronics, performed by Dr. Roger B. Williams III. pieces by myself, Claire M. Singer, and others. Kings College, Chapel. 7:45pm, Nov 21st
Performing at Huddersfield, Nov 18th
Performing a new live electronics work at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to be recorded for future release on Seven Things, Nov 18th
St Andrews Cathedral, sound Festival, Nov 7th
Performing live electronics set at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Aberdeen. 9pm, free. Part of the SOUND FESTIVAL Nov 7th.
Speaking on Radio Cafe, BBC Radio Scotland, Nov 2nd.
AROHA Oral History Converence, Oct 28th.
Speaking at the AROHA Oral History conference in Fraserburgh about community sound art projects with children. Oct 28th.
Salon International, Switzerland. Oct 12 – 15th
Speaking and performing with urbanNovember at “Salon International” in Emmenbrücke/Luzern, Switzerland, Oct 12 -15th.
Awarded PRS Foundation ATOM Award 2006, Oct 16th.
New release, August/September. Sept 23rd
New release with Brent Fariss on Spectral House Records: August/September. Sept 23rd.
New release, untitled (mcalpine) on bremsstrahlung recordings. Sept 23rd.
TEXAS TOUR, Sept 06 – 24
09/11 El Paso: Rubin Center-artist talk and performance (solo live electronics) [press release] [Rubin Center Activities]
09/14 San Marcos: Texas State University in San Marcos- artist talk and solo performance (live electronics), world premier of ‘for gates’ by the Gates Ensemble, other performances by Dr. Russell Riepe, Richard Hall, and others. 8pm, Recital Hall.
09/15 Austin: ToneBurst Experimental Music Festival-Ceremony Hall-solo live electronics and in ensemble w/ Rick Reed, Gates, and others.
09/16 Austin: Performing Cage’s “Variations II” and “Sculptures Musicales” with the Gates Ensemble at Michelle Shumann’s “Happy Birthday Mr. Cage” Concert at Hyde Park Methodist Church, 8pm.
Avantgarde Festival in Hamburg, Sept 01 -03
Performing with Faust and Mickel Mass at Faust’s Avantgarde Festival in Hamburg. Sept 01 -03
tripartite collision, State Sanctioned Records. Aug 23rd
Performing with Simon Gall and crew at Kef’s on Belmont street, Aug 17th.
Conducting a circuit bending workshop with young people at Whitespace Gallery. Aug 7 – 11th
Performing with Mickel Mass, The Tunnels, Aug 2nd
Performing with Mickel Mass, Tunnels, Aug 2nd . Also on, Welfare Mothers and Auto Da Fe.
Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow, July 26th
Performing live electronics with Diana Simpson and Josh Kopecek, 7.30pm, Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow. July 26th
Participating as workshop leader for MPSIX program in Aberdeen and Dundee. BBC interview here. Details here. July 2006
Performing at the Sound and Anthropology Conference at St. Andrews University. June 19th
Participated with the Sonic Arts Network as workshop leader for the Sonic Postcards Project at Southpark and Lochpots primary schools in Aberdeen. May 31 – June 16
Performing with Mickel Mass, The Tunnels, May 30th
AVP Festival, May 9th
As part of AVP and the Sonic Research Group of Nottingham Trent University, performing with Keith Rowe at Southwell Artspace. Also conducting an artist talk and workshop with Rowe and David Reid.
A new cd featuring last year’s performance of feb’23rd and tripartite collision being released by state sanctioned records. more info [here]. April 2006
Playing with prog/punk improv group, Mickel Mass, at SNAFU in Aberdeen, April 14th.
Participating with the Sonic Arts Network as workshop leader for the Sonic Postcards Project at Westhill Primary in Aberdeen. March 2006.
Video of last year’s performance at the AVP Festival in Derbyshire are now available on Misha David’s site [here] and [here]. March 2006.
HARPSICHORD:BURNING March 10 – 11th
On March 10th, 8pm, Bill Thompson premiers a new work for prepared harpsichord and live electronics at Peacock Visual Arts. He is assisted by Patrick Keenan and the evening will open with James Wyness performing on homemade instruments and live electronics. Doors open at 7pm. Free. http://www.peacockvisualarts.co.uk/
On March 11th, 9:30pm, on the beach of Footdee, Bill Thompson presents his outdoor installation, HARPSICHORD:BURNING.
***a dvd of both nights is scheduled for release later this year .email for details.
[news 1] [news 2] [BBC interview] [mp3] [vid 1] [vid 2] [vid 3] [vid 4]
BBC Radio Scotland interview concerning HARPSICHORD:BURNING [mp3] March 9th
Performing untitled(mcalpine) at Soundpractice 2006, at Goldsmiths College, London. Feb 11th
Performing a live mix of tripartite collision on ResonanceFm’s Framework program. 8-9pm. Feb 10th.
untitled(mcalpine), St Andrews Cathedral, Jan 21st
Performing untitled(mcalpine) at St Andrews Cathedral (28 King St), noon, admission free. [map] . Details of the work [here] and free download of piece [here] Jan 21st.
The gates ensemble’s cd release 16 october 03 on SpectralHouse was reviewed in Vital Weekly here, and in the February issue of the Wire here. Jan 16th
Field recordings playing on soundtransit, a great new website dedicated to phonography by Derek Holzer, Sara Kolster, and Mark Boon. Jan 3rd.
SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places. If you are a phonographer, you can also contribute your recordings for others to enjoy.