Her Noise - The Making Of
 

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Her Noise - The Making Of
Authors: Electra with Emma Hedditch
Duration: 60 minutes, 2007

Her Noise brochure with full liner notes (PDF)

Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes. The exhibition included newly commissioned works by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Hayley Newman, Kaffe Matthews, Christina Kubisch, Emma Hedditch and Marina Rosenfeld. A parallel ambition of the project was to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and the curators set out to create a lasting resource in this area.

Throughout the development of the project, the curators conducted dozens of interviews, whilst also compiling sound recordings and printed materials which would eventually form the Her Noise Archive. The Her Noise Archive is a collection of over 60 videos, 300 audio recordings, 40 books and catalogues and 250 fanzines (approximately 150 different titles) compiled during the development of this project. The archive remains publicly accessible at the Electra office in central London.

Much of the material available in the archive was shot specifically for this project, and is uniquely available as part of this archive. The documentary 'Her Noise - The Making Of' was commissioned by Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen on the occasion of the 'Sound' festival and 'SoundAsArt' conference at University of Aberdeen.

The video documents the development of Her Noise between 2001 and 2005 and features interviews with artists including Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Peaches, Marina Rosenfeld, Kembra Pfhaler, Chicks On Speed, Else Marie Pade, Kaffe Matthews, Emma Hedditch, Christina Kubisch and the show's curators, Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset. The documentary also features excerpts from live performances held during Her Noise by Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether and Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata), Christina Carter, Heather Leigh Murray, Ana Da Silva (The Raincoats), Spider And The Webs, Partyline, Marina Rosenfeld's 'Emotional Orchestra' at Tate Modern, and footage compiled for the 'Men in Experimental Music' video made during the development of the Her Noise project by the curators and Kim Gordon, featuring Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke.

To find out more about the Her Noise Archive, or to make an appointment to visit the archive please go to www.electra-productions.com


ABOUT EMMA HEDDITCH

Emma Hedditch (1972 Somerset, England) is a visual artist and writer living in London. Her productions include: "A Pattern" (since 2000), an ongoing collectively shot and edited video; "This Is What We Have Done, And This Is What We Are Doing" (2005), animated drawings by persons in the context of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; "Video Home, Come On" (2004), a home-video viewing session and archive, with Electra and Electric Studios, Brixton; "A Political Feeling, I Hope So" (2004), Cubitt Gallery, London, a social situation exploring conditions of belonging. Ongoing research into Feminist thought and writing has informed much of her activity, as well as a desire to expose the economics of art production. She has been engaged in collaborative dialogue with The Copenhagen Free University since 2001, and has worked for Cinenova Women's Film and Video distributor since 1999.

www.andiwilldo.net


ABOUT ELECTRA

Electra is a London-based contemporary arts agency founded in 2003. Electra commissions and produces artworks across sound, moving image, performance and the visual arts, which it presents in the UK and internationally. Recent projects include a film/performance commission "Perfect Partner" by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison (Barbican Centre), group exhibition "Her Noise" (South London Gallery), "Sound And The Twentieth Century Avant Garde" lecture series (Tate Modern and Stavanger, Norway), soundtrack consultancy on films by Daria Martin working with composers Zeena Parkins and Maja Ratkje respectively, "The Sounds Of Christmas" installation by Christian Marclay (Tate Modern), "Emotional Orchestra" and "Sheer Frost Orchestra" by Marina Rosenfeld (Tate Modern), "Once Seen" Programme for The British Council (Oslo and Tromso, Norway).

Electra gratefully acknowledges the support of the following funders for the Her Noise season:

Arts Council England, South London Gallery, Elephant Trust, Feminist Review Trust, Goethe-Institut London, Henry Moore Foundation, Performing Rights Society Foundation and Women In Music.

Media sponsor: The Wire Magazine.

Her Noise was curated and produced by Electra in association with Forma.

 

RESOURCES:

This UbuWeb resource is presented in partnership with Electra

VIDEOS FROM THE HER NOISE ARCHIVE IN RESIDENCE AT THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Screening of 'Her Noise: The Making Of' Tuesday 15 May, 6.30pm
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
Monday 14th - Friday 18th May 2007

'Her Noise: The Making Of', 60 mins will be screened for the first time in London followed by a discussion with Lina Dzuverovic, Director, Electra and artist Emma Hedditch.

Throughout the week the following videos from Electra's Her Noise Archive will be on show for one week at the Architectural Association in London:

1. Her Noise - The Making Of, 60 mins, Electra with Emma Hedditch, 2007

2. Documentation of the Emotional Orchestra, Marina Rosenfeld, performance at Tate Modern as part of the Her Noise season, 21mins; Interview with Marina Rosenfeld, 15mins, produced by Electra 2005

3. Live performances and interviews with Erase Errata, by Victoria Yeulet, 15mins, UK, 2004.

4. Men in Experimental Music, with Thurston Moore and Jim O'rourke, by Kim Gordon, Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset, 35mins

5. The following interviews carried out exclusively for the Her Noise Archive with:
Diamanda Galas, 30mins; Kevin Blechdom, 16mins; Lydia Lunch, 28mins; Kim Gordon, 18 mins; Peaches, 10mins; Kembra Pfahler, 31mins; Chicks on Speed, 15mins, all produced by Electra, 2005

Moshe, that second one has already happened, you little teaser!

oops.

Nice online doc though, so you're forgiven :)

(I've never particularly noticed before what an annoying speaking voice Lydia Lunch has)

Nice Documentary. Thanks.

excellent, is there anyway to downland this FLV file?

My only complaint is that there's no footage of the improvisation that Kim and Jutta did at there presentation at the Tate Modern. That would have been a nice piece to have seen.

yes, you can download it as .flv too (156.3 MB)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/Her-Noise.flv

but the .mp4 is much better quality (462.5 MB)
http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/Her-Noise_2005.mp4

How do you know that? Were you in London when the exhibition was on?

Don't know if this has been posted yet.

2 days left to see it in Vienna.

Installation “Reverse Karaoke” by Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether
16 to 22 May, Tue 10 a.m. to midnight, Wed-Sun 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
MAK, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

Free admission

With their installation “Reverse Karaoke”, visual artists and musicians Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Jutta Koether (Texte zur Kunst) invite visitors to make their own music. Starting with a bass track featuring the prerecorded voice of Kim Gordon, anybody can do what they want according to the do-it-yourself principle.

“Reverse Karaoke” is made up of a yurt-type tent, in whose interior a small low-fi recording set-up is installed. Decorated like a small, Bohemian-style oasis with canvas, glitter, wood, velvet and fake fur, the tent also harbours music instruments and recording devices. In keeping with the do-it-yourself philosophy, visitors are encouraged to make music – either alone or together with others – parallel to a vocal track by Kim Gordon. In addition to an instruction video with Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether for making music in the tent, five rubber stamps are provided for CD cover designs. Two CDs are burned of all recordings produced – one is taken along by visitors, while the second remains in the tent throughout the exhibition (for the “Reverse Karaoke” collection) so that other visitors can listen in.

http://www.electra-productions.com/current/index.html

swa(y), photographed yesterday:



By the way, it's horses that say "neh", asses say "ee-aw". Perhaps you're actually a mule?

:D

thanks a lot moshe.