Container - Video Installation

CONTAINER - video installation created for the LEVEL Centre, Derbyshire, UK. This installation is a part of a process to create a video wall for a touring performance entitled SENSE. 

Traction Sub Bass for a new project

This week I managed to get to Manchester Met. University to meet with Dr Toby Heys (Digital Technologies Research Fellow, Research Centre, MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art) and begin work on the Furniture Music Project (working title).

The project has been developed by Toby and will start with a sound installation at the LEVEL Centre on the 29th of April 2017. Furniture Music is based around creating sound at the edge of, and just beyond, our (human) sensory perception. To do this Toby has been working with some bespoke speakers and had just taken delivery of a TRACTION Sub Bass - see images below.

Toby (Left) & Myself (Right) with the Traction SUB

Contexts 2015 Festival, Poland

I have just completed Pulse - a four chanel sound installation for Contexts 2015, Sokolowsko, Poland - organised by IN SITU and curated by Małgorzata Sady.

Limestone Journeys

A commission to create a new installation to open at Creswell Crags Visitor Centre on the 18th of July 2015. The installation will comprise a 10 minute film mixing images from three locations together with visual art and performance material filmed at the LEVEL Centre(Derbyshire UK). The Limestone Journeys project has been developed as a part of my role as Artist in Residence at the LEVEL Centre.

Karla Henry performing in mud during a R&D session for the project.

Trajectory at LEVEL

Some of the video and audio used for the Trajectory Installation was incorporated into a four wall video projection at the LEVEL Centre in March 2015.  The commission was a part of my role as Artist in Residence at LEVEL and transformed the Centre into a relaxed gallery and club space making use of all of the building.

MIRROR at the LEVEL Gallery

Have just completed the installation of MIRROR [s] at the LEVEL Gallery, Derbyshire, UK. MIRRORS comprises three interactive screens programmed to react as people pass. Each screen is located in the corridor and has an optical camera which is used as a motion sensor as well as a image capture device. This work forms a part of the Inter-ACT + Re-ACT programme at the LEVEL Centre and has been commisioned as a part of my role as Atist in Residence. Images from the screens below.

SUB Installation at Manchester Met University

The 2008 version of the live video performance entitled SUB, was installed at Manchester Metropolitan University for a day during October 2014. SUB was used to demonstrate the potential of a mobile gallery/installation space within future projects, festivals and events connected to the University [For more info about SUB - see below].

The Mobile Gallery takes the form of a large lorry which deploys to create a 25ft x 25ft space. The space can be completely dark and has programmable LED lighting, video projector points, camera points and flexible points for audio (in and out). It also has disabled access and heating for winter months.

Sponteneous Combustion

A new commission for a multi media production for Sinfonia ViVA. This potentially exciting project has not been finalised yet, but a poster has been designed! The new work will be created with Event FX and as the poster and title suggests, it will involve burning pianos, musicians on roof tops and lots of explosions and flame.

Pulse

Just completed my first real installation as Artist in Residence at the LEVEL Centre. This multi media event formed a part of the large-scale environmental artwork, DERWENT PULSE created by Charles Monkhouse. This work comprises pulsing spheres flowing along the river Derwent from its source to the point it merges with the river Trent in Derby.

Image above: Light costumes worn by children to create an electric parade for PULSE.

AKT - Video Installation

Currently working on a new video + audio installation based upon images of the body in performance art events. This project is the result of a collaboration with performer and model Jojo Shaw and will be completed by the end of December 2014. Currently material comprises still images and video taken of improvised live performance events at the Studio @ Via Gellia, Derbyshire and in two rural locations.

More Images of the Trajectory Installation

Some more images of the Trajectory Installation at Leicester University, Richard Attenborough Centre for the Arts in November 2013.

Projects for 2014

Over the next few months I am looking to develop some of the projects listed below. These are in early stage development and thought I would use this blog site as a means of sharing information throughout the process.  As each project grows (or dies) I will post the new details here. I am particularly keen to make contact with people, organisations and artists I do not currently know and hope that sharing information at an early stage may stimulate interest and new creative opportunities.

Some Images from the first Trajectory Installation

Images taken by Dave White & Lucy Stevens at the first Trajectory Installation at the Richard Attenborough Centre for the Arts, Leicester University, November 2013.




IMAGE: Dave White

CHORUS 1 - A New Audio Composition

A Short Documentation of DIMENSION (V1)

Images from DIMENSION at the South Bank Centre, London

September 13th, 2013 - DIMENSION [VI] installed at the South Bank Centre.

Images from Dimension: a multi media video installation created by Andrew working with members of Random Line - see previous blogs for more information



Image: part of the large video screen for DIMENSION

DIMENSION - a 5 screen video installation for the South Bank Centre, London

A new commission to create a 5 screen audio visual installation at the South Bank Centre, London. This project has been developed by Random Line Media and Heart n Soul with the support of Lloyds TSB Foundation. It will have its first showing on the 13th of September (from 6.00 - 12.00pm).

Transported - Four new commissioned works for Sinfonia Viva

 

In May Andrew was commissioned by Sinfonia Viva to create four site specific music/sound performances using orchestral musicians situated on four rooftop locations within the centre of Boston (UK). The locations were chosen to provide good lines of visibility (for a maximum potential audience) together with interesting sound diffusion possibilities, making possible the interaction of sound from all four locations. This is a unique project developed by Andrew and supported by Transported Arts (Lincolnshire) through funds made available by Arts Council of England.

Musicians on Rooftop in Boston (Lincs UK)

Sixteen separate performances took place in late June each lasting 7/12 minutes with the last performance of each day taking place at 7.00pm. The timing of performances referenced the Islamic Adhan (call to prayer) and although there was no religious content the performances served to provide ritualistic markers wthin each day – for example the 7.00pm performance marked the passing of day and welcoming the evening. Each performance started with the hour bell sounding on Boston Stump (the bell sounds an E flat and became a part of each opening section).

Mathew Dunn performing on the Roof of the Assembly Rooms (Boston)

The performances provided stunning, unusual and stimulating aural and visual events making use of the unique architecture and space provided by Boston town centre and providing moments where the harmonic properties of the sound was affected by the space in which they are heard. (The relative distance of the sound together with reflective and absorptive properties of buildings and foliage affected the audio perception for audience members as they move around the town centre) They were highly visible within the town and proved to be accessible to all while undoubtedly stimulating discussion and providing a unique sense of occasion.

Musicians involved in the project:

Matt Dunn (Clarinet)

Anthony Thompson (Trumpet)

Fiona Asbury (Sop Sax)

Richard Wainwright (French Horn)

Bethan Roberts (Oboe)

Peter Mainwaring (Trumpet)

People in Boston become aware of the rooftop performances

Trajectory at Embrace Arts

It has just been confirmed that Embrace Arts will hold a series of Trajectory events over a two day period in November (8th & 9th) These will take place within a multi media installation using still images, video and sound. Trajectory (working title) will display some of the material developed during the residency at the Space Research Centre and will also provide the opportunity to present current research to a wider audience. The programme is very much still under development.

Trajectory - is currently a research and development project which will lead to more events in the future at a regional and national level. As a result this event gives scope for experimentation and the opportunity to develop new ways to communicate or comment upon research and the work undertaken by the SRC.

See Current Work for further details

also

www.spaceresearchcentre-artist.blogspot.co.uk