Variable 4

Archive for June, 2011

amazing night. heads now collectively spinning. thanks to all who came, and our fine panel @lumintwitts @ceciliawee @musicandsound & daniela

Thursday, 23 June 2011

en route to @TheBookClubEC2 to set up for the showcase tonight. an indoor weather station seems a little perverse.

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Daniela Cascella on sound art panel discussion

Sunday, 19 June 2011

We’re very excited to have one last addition to the night we’re curating this Wednesday at The Book Club. Writer and curator Daniela Cascella will be joining us on our sound art panel, discussing sound-related practices from composition and storytelling to the issues involved in curating, presenting, documenting and archiving live sound works.

In her words:

“Not being a musicologist or a musician, I never seek to examine the construction of a sound piece per se – I am interested, rather, in what comes after the piece: in the space between the work and what occurs around it. Working in the realm of sound and all types of leakage, expansion and cross-border transitions of sound toward other art forms, I also had to search for new ways of presenting sound and discussing it.”

Alongside an extensive history of curation, Daniela has written for Frieze, The Wire, Sound and Music, Il Giornale della Musica, and many more. We’re delighted to have her along.

hear us talk about variable 4 in this interview with @dazedmagazine: http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/10593/1/variable-4

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

fantastic photoset from fts: soundfields, featuring @blasttheory, diluvial, + us looking pensive: http://is.gd/EwWS6h

Friday, 10 June 2011

Field recordings from Aldeburgh and Snape Maltings

Friday, 10 June 2011

A set of field recordings, made by Giles Stogdon in and around Aldeburgh and Snape Maltings – part of our research for the Variable 4 installation at Snape Maltings in May 2011.

Variable 4 showcase at The Book Club

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

On 22nd June, we are holding a Variable 4 showcase, discussion and post-Aldeburgh celebration at The Book Club, EC2. We’ll be presenting the piece and showing audio and video excerpts, demonstrating how it works under the bonnet and introducing some of the musicians and technicians involved with the piece.

Alongside this will be an informal panel discussion on sound in art, featuring some luminaries within the field: producer Joana Seguro (Faster Than Sound, Lumin), curator Cecilia Wee (Sound and Music, Rational Rec), BAFTA award-winning sound designer Nick Ryan (The Fragmented Orchestra, Papa Sangre), and writer and curator Daniela Cascella.

We’ll then be doing an eight-channel DJ set featuring some of the spatialisation methods devised for the piece — controllled with a windvane and anemometer interface. The world’s first meteorological DJing, as far as we know.

The event runs from 7pm on 22nd June, just off Curtain Road, Shoreditch.

More info and advance tickets: The Book Club
On Twitter: Joana Seguro, Cecilia Wee, Nick Ryan, TBC.

Recordings from Variable 4 at Snape Maltings

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Recordings of the Variable 4 installation at Snape Maltings.

The recordings are unedited and un-effected and were made by walking around the site at dawn using a Audio Technica BP4027 stereo shotgun microphone, Rycote windshield and Tascam HD-P2 portable recorder.

Wind Knitting Factory

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Here in our headquarters inside the Variable 4 windmill, we keep an ear to the ground for innovative and engaging weather-related artworks. We’re putting together a collection to publish shortly, but in the meantime, we couldn’t resist mentioning this piece. Merel Karhof’s Wind Knitting Factory is a mechanical device which harnesses wind power to produce a neverending scarf, which is occasionally harvested to produce wearable garments.

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In a charming touch, the product is linked to the process with a label indicating the date and time taken to knit each garment.

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The group’s blog includes a collection of images of urban windmills, and an adaptation of the idea into wearable brooches which convey the air movement created when the wearer moves around.