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Piano Migrations II at Concrete and Glass Festival

Piano Migration II: Video responsive instrument.Curated by Lumin, as part of the Concrete and Glass Festival,

The inside of an old upright piano, rescued from destruction, is transformed into a light activated instrument. Video projections move across the surface of the piano strings, triggering small machines to twitch and flutter causing the strings to resonate. For one night, this installation becomes a site for performance. Video projections activate the piano strings, and simultaneously provide a graphic score for improvisation. Audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde is joined by laptop musician Matthew Olden, cellist Simon McCorry and multi-instrumentalist Nahum Mantra to present a performance where image becomes sound and sound becomes image through a series of transformations realised through acoustic sound, live sampling, automata and projections.
EXHIBITION – 20th to 27th MayPERFORMANCE – 7pm, Thursday 20th May

Beauty and Brains

Just finished working on an audio edit on a documentary feature Beauty and Brains. This has kept me occupied for the past two weeks as today was my deadline to hand over the audio mix. The film documents the Blue Diamond Society's 2008 Beauty and Brains talent contest that promotes awareness and rights for Nepal's third gender community. The words of →

Creative Communities

Last November I finished work on a community project in Addlestone, Surrey. I worked with a group of teenagers at Addlestone Youth Centre, exploring all sorts of stuff. Stop frame animation, time lapse, interviews with the older generation, found sound, and ended up with a 25 minute movie. The final work was exhibited at Chertsey Museum in a space designed →

Venus In Transit

A few weeks ago me and two other artists (Jan-Willem van den Bosch and Caroline Collinge) applied for a Museumaker art residency at Orleans House in Twickenham, London. We got to the last three with our proposal and we made this short film to give a flavour of how we work in terms of connecting ideas, interweaving fiction and fact →

One Day by Stock-pot Productions

A few years ago I stepped in writing music for a short film "One Day" when another composer dropped out after not seeing eye to eye with the director and producer. I had three days as the film was booked in for the final sound post production to be completed at Aquarium. The director (James Barriscale) and producer (Tanya Franks) →

Charlie Gillet World on 3

A few Fridays back, driving back from London,  after a meeting with two artists I'm working with and seeing the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy, listening to radio 3 - that's my main listening nowadays, I find everything else does my head in - after 10 in the evening, I came across Charlie Gillet presenting World on 3. →

SVA exhibition

Just took a quick look at the SVA - Stroud Valley Arts - exhibition. Some good and intriguing and some truly dreadful and poorly executed. Oogoo Maia's sonic found object sculptures tickled me. The first, I thought a poorly executed play on music by Steve Reich, using feedback from swinging microphones over speakers - the sonic part was not interesting or →

Footage from opening of Colston Hall

Memory Machine

A journey through moving image and sound. A series of thoughts and stories from the older generation filtered through the eyes and ears of young people. Informal interviews combined with animation, sound and film exploring the townscape of Addlestone. This has not intended to be either historical, or a reminiscence. The aim throughout has been to allow people to be themselves →

High Life

In tech week for a play at the studio space at Hampstead Theatre. This is a new play by Lizzy Dijeh. The play revolves around Nigerian familiy, living in East London, coming to terms with the death of their daughter. It is a fantastically written and structured play and deals with grief with a lot of insight and sensitivity. I hope →