THU 24 JULY, THE CROSS KINGS, 126 YORK WAY, LONDON 8pm £5
THE RADIOACTIVE ENSEMBLE
This event is a rare chance to see a meeting of New Zealand and UK sound artists in one night. It will be an adventurous mix of electro-acoustic, improvisation, found sound and noise.
Nigel Wright has been creating audio for over 8 years and is known for his spacious, expansive sound pieces. Dense layers of tonal drones adumbrate the field recordings, guitar, and tape loops that Wright uses as source material for his laptop-based live performances. This performance is part of his European tour.
http://www.myspace.com/nigelwright
Julien Ottavi is part of a generation of audio artists to emerge in the 90s that indicated some of the directions that music and sound art is taking. While at art school, he organized a series of concerts, bringing international artists from the experimental scene to Nantes, drawing touring musicians to movements happening outside of Paris. This became not just a destination but a nexus for collaborations.
http://www.noiser.org/
Ben Spiers is a Member of: Empty Mirror (w/ Karl Willis); Seen Through (w/ Antony Milton); Glory Fckn Sun (w/ Antony Milton & Simon O'Rorke); Black Window (w/ Andrew Weeks). "Solitary notes dropped into a gloom of taut scraping"
http://www.myspace.com/transientrecordings
Peter Wright - London resident and New Zealand native Peter Wright maps the same guitar/noise outlands as his NZ predecessors The Dead C, an acknowledged influence, first blazed through. His kit is an electric 12-string, pedals and, when recording, a laptop. He improvises a digital drone or melody fragment, the loops, layers and adds field recordings. Since 1998, he has released 30 discs of solo material, much of it honing the same massive, blissful drift of decay and evolution. This is Peter's last U.K show before returning to New Zealand.
http://www.myspace.com/distantbombs
The Radioactive Ensemble is an international collaborative art and music project. We have members in the U.K, Italy, U.S.A, Germany, France, Japan, Brazil and New Zealand. Founded by Rick Jensen the Ensemble explores various collaborative sound art experiments.
www.myspace.com/theradioactiveensemble.