CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Simon Whetham (UK)

Schedule

Fri Jul 26 2024 at 07:00 pm

Location

Volta 7, 10411 Tallinn, Estonia | Tallinn, HA

❏ C L O S E E N C O U N T E R S: “C h a n n e l l i n g” S i m o n W h e t h a m (U K) ❒
Simon Whetham, currently in residecny at Narva Art Residency, has been developing a practice of working with sonic activity as a raw material for creation since 2005. He uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. When presenting work in a performance or installation, for him the space and the objects within become instruments to be played. Since 2018 he has been creating works that repurpose the mechanisms and moving parts of various pieces of obsolete consumer technology, combining and reconfiguring them to be presented as kinetic sound-making sculptural works.
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“Channelling” is a kinetic sound performance project, in which a collection of motor devices salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology is reanimated by environmental sound recordings. In turn, this produces new sounds from the devices, which are amplified using various microphones and techniques.
The recordings feature seemingly mundane sound phenomena that occur unpredictably and irregularly in everyday life – passing traffic, wind, doors closing – and also sounds of other machines malfunctioning. Because of this, the movement of the devices is random, variable, and autonomous. This means the relationship between performer and devices is a collaboration rather than a master and servant type situation.
“Channelling Reduction” follows the trend of technology to miniaturise as it evolves, becoming smaller and lighter, but more powerful.
❐ 19:00 doors
❑ 20:00 Simon Whetham "Channeling"
❐ 21:00 Simon Whetham in conversation with Mia-Stella Aaslaid
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS event entries are donation based.
https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/channelling
https://www.simonwhetham.co.uk/

Where is it happening?

Volta 7, 10411 Tallinn, Estonia, Volta 7, Põhja-Tallinn, Tallinn, 10411 Harju Maakond, Eesti,Tallinn, Estonia

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

$Cabaret Volt\u00e1$

Host or Publisher Cabaret Voltá

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