17.11.2007 - 14.12.2007, DCR, The Hague, Netherlands
A Matter Of Fact - an exhibition curated by Eelco van der Lingen and David Muth.
Private View: Saturday 17 Nov, 5pm, with a performance by Julien Clauss
Gallery Opening Times: Thursday - Saturday, 1-6pm
Participating Artists:
Frank Halmans, Tijmen Hauer, Annja Krautgasser, Eelco van der Lingen, Josh Müller, David Muth, Lynn Pook, Oscar Stegehuis and Edd Vossen.
Kindly supported by Stroom, Heden, and the Gemeente Den Haag.
Intersection Magazine is running an article on the We Are Car project in its upcoming spring issue, featuring interviews with XperXr and myself.
21.11.2006 Tue 9pm-10pm
Kaffe Matthews, Shri and I will talk about the past, present and future of the Music For Bodies project during the “No Music Day” on Resonance104.4fm.
15.11.2006 Wed 6pm-7pm, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, UK
Kaffe Matthews and I are hosting a special pre-dork at Rich Mix in order to encourage a dialogue about the Music For Bodies project.
Dorks are invited to bring around their electronic sound sources of choice in order to plug it into our sonic furniture (which operates with 1/4 inch jack inputs) and play their music / patches while it can be heard and felt by others.
10.09.2006 Sun, ICA, The Mall, London, UK
The We Are Car CD Launch will take place within the radio.territories event organised by Resonance104.4fm - a day of radio-art Speed-data-radio: three dozen people talking for ninety minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, mixed live to air before a theatre audience.
Music For Bodies is a NESTA funded research project initiated by Kaffe Matthews, focusing on the construction and exploration of new instruments in order to create sonic experiences for both body and ears.
A series of multidisciplinary think tank meetings is taking place to identify possible directions for the project, whilst the core team consists of architect Alex Haw, music artist Kaffe Matthews, and musician and programmer David Muth. One of the team’s current research strains focuses on how to combine the experience of the body, space and sound, with the aim of establishing a compositional vocabulary for “Music For Bodies” instruments.
For information on events and exhibitions please visit the Music For Bodies website.
07.08.2006 - 11.08.2006, San Jose, USA
Julie Freeman and I are presenting The Lake at the ZeroOne San Jose ISEA2006 Symposium.
We Are Car employs a running motorbike engine controlled via MIDI as a musical instrument in order to record and subvert selected rock classics, exploring parallels of emotional thrills induced by acceleration, speed and rock.
The project’s final outcome eventually manifested itself as a CD release, with each CD being accompanied by an especially commissioned perfume based on motor oil. The launch event took place at the ICA in September 2006.
We Are Car is a collaboration with Chris Lum aka Xper.Xr, and was funded by Arts Council England.
A few more images can be found here.
22.02.2006 - 26.02.2006, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
I am giving a talk about the Sodaconductor project at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art.
Tryptichon is an audio-visual performance combining contemporary dance, psycho-geography and GPS technology. The project was realised in concert with Mukul Patel and Manu Luksch from AmbientTV.net.
After the first stage of development of the location-aware performance environment, which was funded by Arts Council England, the project was shown at the DMZ festival at Limehouse Town Hall, London, in November 2003.
The project’s framework was then extended, explored and further experimented with during a one-month residency at NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art) on the small Finnish island Suomenlinna. At the end of the residency the work was presented at the Pixelache 2004 festival, with a performance at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland.
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