ArtCast in association with moves08, Week 1
 Released 10th April 2008
This is the first of four weekly podcasts in association with moves08, in which audio and video art exploring the theme of this year's moves festival, the interaction of movement and sound, has been selected from an international open call. For the first week two audio and three video pieces have been brought together, all of which have a shared wit and communicative sensibility. Image: still frame from "D012345" by ClaudiusMaximus |
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Programme:
Audio Podcasti:
Rosemary Hudson: Darlin Instrumental (1 min 25 sec)
Richard Higlett: SPIN (1 min 05 sec)
Video Podcast:
Claudius Maximus: D012345 (3 min 46 sec)
Jo Pearson aka 'One Minute Wanda': Airhead (0 min 57 sec)
N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg): Green Baby Head (2 min 30 sec)
Further Information:
Audio Podcast:
In this podcast Rosemary Hudson's “Darlin Instrumental” has been paired with Richard Higlett's “SPIN”.
Using sound, and basici recording equipment, London-based Rosemary Hudson has re-created the XX teen’s song Darlin’ using only her own voice and layering sound upon sound. Her solo efforts are called me me me because the choir consists only of her.
The integration of movement and sound comes into Rosemary Hudson's music through the concept of her borrowing and re-arranging familiar songs to a kind of choral, very humanistic sound, she moves the songs that people know well and brings them right down to a very basic level, which is raw and unpolished. Rosemary's myspace page is www.myspace.com/themechoir
“SPIN” is part of a series of sound pieces where effects have been added to artists’ dialogues sometimes in a comedic manner, at other time for the purpose of imposing a false tension in the narrative. In Spin, Marcel Duchamp describes the condition of the ready-made ‘Bicycle Wheel’ in a deliberately non-sensationalist, ‘matter of fact’ way. The subsequent mythology surrounding Duchamp has been added as the interview negotiates a neutral viewpoint between Hitchcock like music refrains of high suspense and canned laughter. As in the work and life of the artist he avoids falling on either side of the debate. Richard Higlett is an artist/curator from Cardiff, Wales. His website can be accessed at www.richardhiglett.com
Video Podcast:
In this compilation, three videos have been brought together, from London based ClaudiusMaximus, Barnsley's Jo Pearson aka 'One Minute Wanda' and North America's N_DREW.
Claude Heiland-Allen (aka ClaudiusMaximus) is a digitali artist. He likes interaction between visible and audible things, feedback loops, and mathematics. "D012345" is an exploration of a five-dimensional space. http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org
“Airhead” by Jo Pearson aka 'One Minute Wanda' has been made in a way which is typical of the artist's working methods: She neither writes nor reads music and works at her laptop generating random sounds and playing with them until she hears something which
resonates with her. Sometimes she also has words or images in her head - on this occasion it was the word 'Airhead'. She happened also to be thinking of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice'. Durer's 'A Young Hare' and print works such as his 'Apocalypse' series and Hokusai's 'Great Wave of Kanagawa' all came to mind: works which use line and pattern in a way to bring movement and life to their subjects. All this led to an animation made from a mish-mash of manipulated images, where movement was kept to a minimum, allowing the patterns and movements of the soundtrack, which are both giddy and full of foreboding, to breathe.
Jo Pearson (www.jopearson.com, www.myspace.com/oneminutewanda) is a multidisciplinary artist whose previous film and web work has been funded by the Arts Council (e.g.New Collaborations, Experimenta, One Minute Television), Channel 4 and the BBC. Her work has been shown on British television as well as in dozens of festivals worldwide. Screenings and exhibitions include ICA New Contemporaries, Video Positive and ICA Bienniale.
In her unique performance and sound work Jo explores, through various online and 'live' personae, often from an absurd perspective and with an acerbic wit, wide-ranging themes from life in general to life in detail. She regularly defies classification and willingly treads a very fine line between art, popi, poetry, musical, music hall, cabaret and karaoke.
Jo studied at Leeds University, Central St Martins, Birkbeck College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and more recently Manchester Metropolitan University
“Green Baby Head” by N_DREW is a music video which takes inspiration from the history of visual music and experimental animation. It explores light and 2-dimensional forms. Sound - Aerostatic www.aerostaticmusic.com. Visuals - N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg) http://organicode.net
N_DREW creates audio-visual/VJ performances and interactive works, exploring organic and abstract forms, live A/V processes and participatory technoculture, enthralling audiences with images, beats, ambient sounds and pixilated atmospheres.
N_DREW is a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. N_DREW 's work and interests reverberate in the space of new interactive technology/media practices and theory. As an experimental interaction artist, N_DREW concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support tactics of ambiguous, autonomous social creativity and exchange.
