Lecturing in Composition, University of Surrey
I’ll be lecturing in computer composition this term at the University of Surrey, Guildford (in addition to UEA).
Fault Planes featured in Dancelive Promo
SEXTOYS at University of East Anglia, Dec 5th
Featuring Sean Hay, Ian Spink, Bill Thompson and students of UEA with Simon Limbrick).
fast+Dirty, University of East Anglia, Dec 3-5th
Delivering a fast+Dirty workshop with Ian Spink for music, dance, and drama students at the University of East Anglia. Showing on December 5th, location tbd. Email for more details.
SEXTOYS at The Tunnels, Aberdeen, Nov 1st
The Burning Harpsichord Series presents: SEXTOYS at The Tunnels, Nov 1st, Aberdeen.
Fault Planes, Aberdeen, Oct 31st
Performing Fault Planes with Airfield as part of Aberdeen’s sound festival and Citymoves Dance Festival. Oct 31st, Newton Dee Phonex Hall.
Fault Planes is a dance/sound production for three performers (two dancers and one sound artist) exploring our earth and the shifting environment in which we live, subject to social and geographical fault lines. There are at least 4 major fault lines in Scotland, creating 5 separate areas between them, and two major regions: Highlands and Lowlands, as well as a great rift valley within which Scotland’s major cities are located. Using this as inspiration for our movement and sound: exploring different surfaces moving over each other and how this can be used choreographically and sonically, the work also uses this as a metaphor to explore how communities come together as well as pull apart over time and the social tensions/opportunities this creates.
More info here.
Guildhall Leadership Project, Sept 19, Oct 22 – 25th
Leading a workshop/seminar with Jan Hendrickse for Guildhall’s School of Music and Drama Leadership Project, as well as taking on mentoring and supervisions for Masters students.
SEXTOYS, Aberdeen, Nov 1st
Sextoys – Punk, Art, Noise. Bill Thompson, Ian Spink plus guests at The Tunnels, Aberdeen Nov 1st 7:30-midnight. http://www.thetunnels.co.uk/whats-on/
Night of the Tin Tabernacle, London, Sept 27th
Performing a transducer set with found on-site objects on Friday, Sept 27th at The Tin Tabernacle, London. The evening will include several artists working in various disciplines. Details.
fast+Dirty Workshop with NEPAN, Sept 10-12th
Delivering a fast+Dirty workshop with Ian Spink for NEPAN in Aberdeen. Sept 10-12. More info here.
Aledeburgh Young Musicians Exchanging Worlds Project
Round two of working with Jan Hendrickse and Tim Steiner as workshop leader with the excellent Aldeburgh Young Musicians as part of the Eschanging Worlds Ensemble this year. Performance on September 3rd streamed live starting 2pm. Info here.
Shifting Currents Double CD on Mikroton Records
Squid’s Ear: “Shifting Currents actively works the crowd, the room ambience, and the surrounding environment, all of which are necessary components just as key to the overall sonic fabric under development. Improvisation, what that entails, masks, and reveals, divvies up the environment in an ever-widening process of wow and flutter.”
Get the CD or Digital Download here.
More info here.
Fault Planes Residencies, Scotland, July 30-Aug 10th
Developing Fault Planes with Ian Spink during two residencies in Scotland at The Tramway’s The Workroom (Glasgow), July 30-Aug 4 (showing Aug 4, 4pm, free) and Citymoves Dance (Aberdeen), Aug 5-10 (showing Aug 10, 4pm, free).
Delicate Destruction, Whitechapel Gallery, July 26th
Delivering a workshop with artist Catherine Yass at Whitechapel Gallery in London, July 26th. The workshop involves ideas of destructive art and relates to her upcoming Piano Falling project.
Aledeburgh Young Musicians Exchanging Worlds Project
Aledeburgh Young Musicians Exchanging Worlds Ensemble project with Aldeburgh Young Musicians – 22-26 July
I’ll be working with Jan Hendrickse and Tim Steiner as workshop leader with the excellent Aldeburgh Young Musicians as part of the Eschanging Worlds Ensemble this year. Info below and here.
Aldeburgh Young Musicians: Aldeburgh Young Musicians (AYM) is a distinctive Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) designed to realise the artistic potential of 45 exceptionally talented young musicians (8-18 years) across a wide range of music. Forming part of Aldeburgh Music’s artist development and performance programme, AYM is rapidly gaining a national reputation for pushing the boundaries of what young musicians can achieve.
Liminal Passage, London Premiere, Union Chapel
My work, Liminal Passage, for organ and electronics will have its English premiere by Roger B Williams as part of Union Chapel’s Organ Project Launch week July 14-20. Several artists from various styles (Jazz, Classical, Pop, and Experimental) are taking part in the launch. For more details, visit Union Chapel’s website here.
Here, There, and Everywhere: Ruth Barnes, June 3-12th
Collaborating with choreographer Ruth Barnes on her latest project Here, There, and Everywhere. The project involves Ruth working with 5 other choreographers to create a solo piece about displacement and identity. The choreographers and composers involved in the project include: Ian Spink, Christine Devaney, Steinvor Palsson, Matthew Hawkins, Frank McConnell, Luke Sutherland, and Steve Kettley.
Final show is at Dancebase, Edinburgh on July 11, evening, £5.
More information here.
Eavesdropping on the inaudible: Cryptic songs of fruit flies
Hosting a radio program in collaboration with Maaike van der Linde and Joerg Albert on our latest project involving the Courtship Songs of Fruit Flies. Tune in Sunday June 2nd, 11pm at Resonance 104.4 FM and online. For more information email here.
AirField
Airfield is a contemporary performance company formed by Ian Spink (Choreographer/Director) and Bill Thompson (Composer/Sound Artist).
Drawing inspiration from contemporary events, mythology, art and science, and everyday life, Airfield creates multilayered works that speak to our everyday experience while also exploring other possibilities of how we might understand ourselves, each other, and our place in the world.
More information here.
Guildhall SMD Seminar, April 30th
Delivering a seminar at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Tuesday, April 30, 10am-1pm.
Guildhall SMD Residency, March 25-29th
Leading a workshop/residency for Masters students from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, March 25-29, London.
Rough Mix, Glasgow, March 11-22, 2013
Participating in Magnetic North’s Rough Mix 2 Residency programme in Glassgow.
Rough Mix is Magnetic North’s multi-disciplinary creative development programme. It is curated by Artistic Director Nicholas Bone.
RM2 is a two-week practical opportunity for artists to work together, try out new ideas and introduce them to an audience. It brings together a small group of practitioners from different disciplines and gives them time to start developing new projects in a supportive and collaborative atmosphere. The practitioners work together with a group of performers over a two week period before making a work in progress showing at the end.
Participating artists include:
Christine Devaney, Miguel Rojo, Linda McLean, Janie Nicoll, Kate Temple, Bill Thompson and emerging artist Sarah Bradley.
There will be a work-in-progress sharing of the work developed at 7.30pm on Friday 22nd March in Tramway 4, more info here.
Review by Choreographer Ian Spink: “For me a life changing and immensly memorable gig to be involved in. Bill Thompson….., an exceptional inspirational artist to work with as with the other performers. ‘fall down,stand up, kick shit'”
Dorkbot, February 19th, 2013
I’ll be discussing my recent projects, Shifting Currents and CRA/CKED at the next Dorkbot in Suffolk. Tuesday 19th, 730-10pm at The Cut, New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8BY. Free.
Cracked Exhibition, Videos Released
For more info on CRA/CKED, go here.
Shifting Currents Release on Mikroton Records, 2013
Shifting Currents is now available for pre-order from Mikroton Records. Due out in the next month or so, it was originally commissioned by the PRS for New Music in 2009 and featured in four music festivals that year including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Stirling’s Le Weekend, Aberdeen’s Sound Festival, and Holland’s November Music Festival. It has has subsequently been performed in 2011 at Goldsmith’s University with Claire M Singer and Lucia H Chung. For more info visit my blog here.