Simon Whetham, Seiji Morimoto & Crys Cole #162
Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:30
Entrance: 5-10 euro (up to your offer)
Sound art performance by Simon Whetham
In his performance Simon Whetham channels generated and pre-recorded sounds through transducers attached to objects and surfaces in a space. These objects resonate and vibrate in the space, creating a unique and site-specific listening experience.
Duo performance by Seiji Morimoto (electronics) and crys cole (contact mics, objects & voice)
Seiji Morimoto & crys cole met to share a bill in Berlin in 2009 and begun playing together soon after. A shared interest in common everyday objects and simple, sometimes indiscernible gestures modified through electronics unites their work.
Over the past decade Simon Whetham has developed a practice of working with sound recordings as a raw material for composition and performance. These are often environmental sounds he has captured employing a variety of methods and techniques, in order to obtain discreet or obscured sonic phenomena. More recently, when presenting work in a performance or installation, for him the space and the objects within become instruments to be played.
Simon has a number of works published through labels including Crónica (PT), Line (USA), Baskaru (FR) and Helen Scarsdale Agency (USA); performed extensively internationally (most recently Iceland, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia); collaborated with performance artists, painters, video artists and dancers; given listening and field recording workshops in UK, Estonia, Colombia, Chile and Australia; and received a large number of commissions and awards for projects and installations – most notably for curating the collaborative project 'Active Crossover'.
The most recent iteration of the project was hosted by MoKS in Mooste, Estonia and supported by the Artists International Development Grant from the British Council and Arts Council England. For two months Simon and MoKS directors Evelyn and John Grzinich were joined by a further 12 international artists in sonic investigation, discussion and creation of new working relationships. Previously supported Arts Council England and PRS for Music Foundation, the project has toured in the UK, and been hosted in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Norway and Australia.
In a further development of Simon's practice, he has given workshops for groups of children and young people. This began with the participation in the project RED de Artes Visuales in Medellín, Colombia in 2013, and has led to workshop sessions with children in Norway, Australia and South Korea, and with unaccompanied minors in a refugee camp in Munich, Germany.
Seiji Morimoto is a Berlin based artist creating sound performances, installations and videos. He is interested in the uncertain acoustic appearances between usual objects, for example water and stones, and the technical medium. He has collaborated with Takehisa Kosugi, Keitetsu Murai, Olivier Di Placido, Francesco Cavaliere, Olaf Hochherz, Ignaz Schick, Crys Cole, Alessandra Eramo, Nicolas Wiese, Kakawaka, Seijiro Murayama, Katsura Yamauchi, Makoto Oshiro and many others.
crys cole is a Canadian sound artist working in composition, improvised performance and sound installation. By generating subtle and imperfect sounds through simple gestures, she creates textural works that continuously retune the ear, delicately seeking to both reveal, and obscure the intricacy of seemingly mundane sounds and sources. Cole has exhibited and performed in Canada, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, the USA, UK and throughout Europe. she has ongoing collaborations with James Rushford (AU) (under the name Ora Clementi) and with Oren Ambarchi (AU) and also works with Tetuzi Akiyama, Keith Rowe, Lance Austin Olsen, Jamie Drouin, Mathieu Ruhlmann, Seiji Morimoto, Jessika Kenney and Tim Olive amongst many others.