Vernissage – Landscape : Islands April 30th 2016

I am delighted to announce that the collaborative sound and ceramics project I created with ceramist Kay Aplin – “Landscape : Islands” launches on April 30th with a preview of our first exhibition and sound performances at The Ceramic House in Brighton. We will also be unveiling our new micro-gallery that night “IN CAMERA”. It’s a cute…

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Landscape : Islands (2016)

2016 kicks off with an exciting new project that ceramist Kay Aplin and I have been working on for the last 2 years. The project started back in November 2014 with an a-n new collaborations bursary funded trip to the Shetland Isles. We met potential partners for a planned residency and exhibition project at Scalloway Booth…

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Soundman and Ableton – Berlin

A quick report on two meetings in the past week with tech companies based here in Berlin. I’ve been using their kit for a long time in both cases and it was a pleasure and a privilege to meet them to discuss my practice and how I creatively work with their products. The Ableton Live team…

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What is the Sound of Protest?

The vernissage of “What is the Sound of Protest?” opened to a packed and excited audience at Errant Bodies on November 6th 2015, with performances and talks by Janine Eisenächer, Nicodemus, Stefan Römer and my alter ego Giuseppe Marinetti. My thanks to the 15 artists who agreed to be part of the show at short notice and…

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Errant Bodies, Berlin

A performative evening and temporary exhibition Errant Bodies (now Errant Sound) Kollwitzstrasse 97 10435 Berlin Errant Bodies Archive 6-8th November 2015 opening event 6-9pm on Friday 6th performances start at 7.30 sharp continues 11-5pm 7th & 8th Nov Does the sound of a coffee machine in a an artisan coffee shop signal a resistance towards the…

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This Friday in Kreuzberg!

STORYTELLING ARENA – Stories and Sounds of Protest With Guest Artist, Joseph Young from Brighton, UK In German and English. With OPEN MIC for your stories. Fri. 30 October 2015, Wasserturm Kreuzberg, Kopischstr. 7, 10965 Berlin Doors Open 7.30pm, Begin 8pm In the Storytelling Arena in October: We explore modern forms of protest in narratives….

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Revolution #10 (2015)

Over the last few days curators and volunteers have been busy installing the work of 70 artists across the Anglia Ruskin University campus in Cambridge as part of the annual Art : Language : Location festival. This commission marks the final iteration of Revolution #10 for 2015 and is presented as a series of 10 newspaper billboard style…

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An Other World (V&A)

In July 2015, I hosted and organised a symposium at the V&A as part of InTRANSIT festival and “All of this belongs to you”. We invited a number of artists and community activists to present extracts of work exploring the notion of artistic and political utopias in performance. A limited edition catalogue of 200 was produced in the…

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Together the People this Sunday

  Come and see a performance of “A People’s Manifesto” this Sunday 6th Sept, on the Soapbox Stage at Together the People in Preston Park, Brighton at 5.15 pm.

Utopia(s)

Notions of Utopia have been a recurring theme of my work Revolution #10 and its spin-off A Peoples Manifesto. From its original genesis as a participatory public art project in partnership with the residents of Kensington & Chelsea on the Portobello Rd, to its presentation at the Houses of Parliament back in March, the work has consistently wrestled…

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In A Shetland Landscape (residency)

I am collaborating with ceramist J Kay Aplin on an exciting project that merges our respective disciplines of ceramics and sound to explore the beautiful Shetland landscape. We are in residence at Scalloway Booth for the whole month of August, during which time we will be documenting and recording a series of walks in the landscape,…

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The Nimbus (2015)

In 2015, I was commissioned by The Nimbus Group as an audio consultant and sound designer to work on their flagship project The Nimbus, an IOS (and now Android) app featuring the sounds of renowned field recordist Chris Watson. The sounds themselves were selected from Chris’s vast archive and presented as a colour-coded, high-quality, immersive sound…

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World Listening Day July 18th 2015

My contribution to this year’s World Listening Day, celebrated every year on July 18th to mark the birthday of R. Murray Schafer who coined the word “soundscape” in 1977. Via Cities and Memory.

Project profile: A People’s Manifesto

Originally posted on A Manifesto for Digital Messiness:
This article looks at the ‘People’s Manifesto’ project – a radical sound installation and performance that aimed to express the democratic hopes and fears of a nation during the 2015 UK General Election.  A People’s Manifesto started life at InTRANSIT festival 2014 as part of a commission called…

Sound and the Urban Environment (2)

For those of you in Brighton and planning to visit the exhibition in the next week – a) It’s been extended by 2 days, so is now on until June 5th b) If you specifically want to hear my work then visit the gallery at the following times: 12.47 and 15.47 Mon-Fri 10.47 and 13.47 Sat &…

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Q&A with Joseph Young a.k.a. Giuseppe Marinetti

Joseph Young a.k.a Giuseppe Marinetti returns to InTRANSIT Festival this year with An Other World at the V&A. Previous appearances include The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing (2013) and Revolution #10 (2014). In this exclusive interview, he speaks with us about the art of politics and the politics of art. Thank you for agreeing to speak with me…

An Other World INTRANSIT 2015

image by Mike Massaro I am delighted to announce this year’s commission for InTRANSIT festival in Kensington & Chelsea, who supported and premiered both The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing and Revolution #10 in previous years. An Other World is a performance symposium at the V&A exploring the idea of Utopias – what do they…

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Sound and the Urban Environment

My sound works series Six Families of Noise is being exhibited in a group show at Onca Gallery, starting next week. The pieces were recorded binaurally in and around Portslade as part of my residency with Blast Theory back in 2010, and respond to the 6 families of noises that Luigi Russolo identified in his Art…

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“What is the sound of protest?”

Another announcement – this autumn, I will be spending a couple of months in Berlin researching and recording the sound of protest and how to represent it… Errant Bodies Sound Art Gallery and Project Space will be hosting my informal residency and I will be looking for collaborators to take part in some recording and…

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