aaamusic | On 18, Feb 2013

The Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University are delighted to announce the 3^rd annual Audiograft Festival of experimental music and sound art, taking place around Oxford from Monday 25^th February to Sunday 3^rd March. There are numerous installations and performances from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 2 March. Audiograft is co-promoted by OCM.

 

Over the last three years Audiograft has consistently presented challenging and exciting contemporary work by musicians and sound artists of international repute to the widest possible audiences in and around Oxford.

 

Highlights of this year’s festival:

• 2012 Sonic Art British Composer of the year Ray Lee’s latest work, Chorus. An extraordinary, monumental outdoor sound performance, towering above the audience giant metal machines spin into life, their rotating arms generating a chorus of pulsing, musical tones. Red LED’s at the end of arms trace the whirling motion conjuring up images of planets in orbit, or swarms of fireflies.
• An exhibition of works at Modern Art Oxford by pioneering German sound artist Rolf Julius. Julius coined the term ‘small music’ to sum up his conviction that the sound of his installations should not detract from nor overpower their acoustic surroundings.
• 60×60, sixty one minute compositions from composers from around the world, present at Oxford Brookes on Wednesday 27^th February.
•  On the Friday evening the current Director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Daniel Teruggi will present his own compositions alongside a programme of classic works made at the GRM during its distinguished history. Virtuoso recorder player Susanna Borsch performs works for recorder and live electronics, including the British premiere of Sohrab Uduman’s composition, Chants, Airs, Dances
• An evening of text, sound and action; in the Holywell Music Room featuring a realisation of Samuel Beckett’s radio play Cascando by John Tilbury; and  the SET Ensemble performing James Tenney’s Swell pieces; whilst Tim Parkinson performs Phill Niblock’s bracing Pan Fried 27.5. Austin Sherlaw-Johnson’s Explicit Sounds completes the evening and features activities including throwing forks at an oven shelf and gaffer taping two keyboards to a table!
• Maverick minimalist composer Phill Niblock, will present his dense microtonal droneworks at the closing night of the festival, at Modern Art Oxford on Saturday 2 March.
• REF4mation: Paul Dibley will be performing with Tim Howle (university of Kent), Iain Harvie and Brett Gordon to present a performance incorporating piano and electronics.
• HEARth a series of events that will provide a space for discussion, listening and talking to the artists and audience. Including a tour of the exhibition at Oxford Brookes, a sound walk, a pub quiz and daily podcasts which will be posted on the Sound Diaries website –  http://www.sound-diaries.co.uk/

FULL LISTINGS 

Exhibitions

25/02 – 02/03 – The Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University
Helmut Lemke – Klangeln

26/02 – 03/03 – Project Space, Modern Art Oxford
Rolf Julius

28/02 -02/03 – Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University
Pierre Berthet / Ray Lee / Max Eastley / Kathy Hinde / Stephen Cornford / Ian Harvie and others

Performances

27/02 – 18.00 Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Hill Campus
Pierre Berthet / Ray Lee / Felicity Ford / Henrique Portovedo / Ref4mation

28/02 – 19.30 Holywell Music Room
John Tilbury / Tim Parkinson / Austin Sherlaw-Johnson / The Set Ensemble

01/03 – 19.30 Modern Art Oxford
Daniel Teruggi / Susanna Borsch

02/03 – 19.00 Modern Art Oxford
Phill Niblock / Thomas Ankersmit / Valerio Tricoli / Ornis

Anyone can get involved with Audiograft by submitting work to the Audiograft Jukebox (presented online and at the festival).

 

Tickets from free – £5

 

www.audiograft.com