Gold Dust – a series of intimate headphone performance at The Ceramic House, exploring sound and domestic space, with invited guest artists. Part of HOUSE festival. May 11th: Joseph Young, Paul Morgan, Michail Mavronas May 18th: Joseph Young, Neil Luck, Paul Morgan, Michail Mavronas May 28th: Joseph Young, Jon Aveyard, Marcus Leadley Tickets available online from Brighton Ticket…
I’m currently working on a commission for RNIB Culturelink – a pilot collaboration with seven museums in the West Midlands to improve creative access to museum and gallery collections for visually impaired people. I’ve been at Tate Modern all day documenting a number of responses to the existing Tate Collections from the participating museum curators, and it’s been a wonderfully inspiring event. I…
I’m going to Soundfjord tonight for the opening of Exquisite Corpse, as one of the exhibiting artists. It’s a group sound show inspired by the Surrealist practice of Exquisite Corpse, using common rules and starting points (similar to the parlour game of Consequences). In this case an artist makes a piece of work and then passes it onto the…
As part of the Artist Resource events around Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet, I have been invited to give an Artist Talk at Fabrica in Brighton on 14th April at 6.30pm. I will be discussing my work and methodologies and, in particular, my latest collaboration with Public Art Ceramicist J Kay Aplin for HOUSE, part…
Background “Walter Benjamin quotes reports that during the Paris Commune, in all corners of the city of Paris there were people shooting at the clocks on the towers of the churches, palaces and so on, thereby consciously or half-consciously expressing the need that somehow time has to be arrested; that at least the prevailing, the…
I was commissioned as Associate Performance Director and lead performer for this large-scale site specific work by Secret Cinema in February 2011. Staged in an empty warehouse in Wapping, London the project was based on Powell and Pressburger’s famous and tragic film about a dancer who is bewitched by a pair of ballet shoes –…
I’m working on a fantastic project for the next few weeks with Secret Cinema. I am the Associate Performance Director as well as a performer, and have responsibility for a large number of actors and dancers, in creating a site-specific, film-inspired experience in a huge industrial space, somewhere in East London. Their Facebook page has some…
First review of my installation at Brighton’s a&e gallery, and it’s a cracker…
The End of Listening (ReAwakening of a City #5) a&e gallery, Cheltenham Place, BRIGHTON. Jan 7th – 23rd (weekends only) In this latest solo work, I have created an immersive sound installation for iPods at a&e gallery in Cheltenham Place, Brighton. You are invited to download the work at home and then bring along your iPod/iPhone/mp3 player…
Sue Gollifer invited me back for a second year to work with her MA Digital Media students at Brighton University. Thanks Sue! A great bunch of people to work with – very focussed and motivated; that’s the beauty of working with postgrads…
A lovely autumn day at Edge Hill University, just outside Liverpool, working with a small group of BA Performing Arts students… They created some interesting work and were extremely receptive. Thanks to the talented Karen Lauke for hosting the day.
I’m premiering a live work tonight at a benefit concert for Amnesty here in Brighton at Concorde 2. Given the nature of the evening, I’ve kept it short, but essentially I will be attempting to read a live feed from the US stock markets as I mix a series of field recordings captured on Wall…
“Active Crossover II, Various Artists” (review) Founded by Bristol (UK) based sound artist Simon Whetham, Active Crossover started in 2008 from a residency in Tallinn, Estonia, as guests of the Non Grata Collective. Presenting workshops in field recording and composition, it culminated in Whetham working with John Grzinich, providing a live sound track to a performance by renowned Estonian artist…
A commission for the inaugural World Listening Day in an underground car park in Hoxton, London – commissioned by Fruit for the Apocalypse (FFTA). The work Start – a neo-futurist opera in 5 movements was made in partnership with dancer/singer/choreographer Christine Lockhart. Manifesto Pomodoro is a sung adaptation of the Manifesto of Neo-Futurism, created and performed…
Marc Garrett interviews Joseph Young. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=389 Founded by Joseph Young in 2007 – The Neo Futurist Collective consists of a group of highly accomplished artists who have come together to celebrate urban noise in all its’ visual and aural forms. Inspired by the Milan Futurists and the Art of Noises manifesto (Luigi Russolo, 1912), as…
So, Stage Three (see earlier post) and, predictably, there isn’t enough time… Not sure about the weather and if it will be possible to do the listening session and talk on the terrace. Eventually around 5, it brightens up and we decide to go outside for a shortened session; but even that’s a bit chilly…
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If yesterday was a day of wading through treacle, then today was the day when I had the breakthrough I was looking for… All thanks to the generous and talented help of my friend and colleague Ms. CiCi Blumstein!!! (Give it up please Ladies and Gentlemen…) I knew what it was that I wanted to…
It doesn’t matter how long you have to develop a piece (whether it’s a week or several months) it always goes through the following stages… 1) Initial excitement and enthusiasm – a bursting dam of ideas 2) The middle bit – wading through treacle 3) Final dash to the finish line – not enough time…
