Ben Gwilliam

IN/(from the out)

~ theotherroom ~ Leave a comment

Exhibition: 19th -26th October 2012 at BLANKSPACE (43, Hulme Street, Manchester M15 6AW)

Public Preview: 18th October 6-9pm Symposium: 27th & 28th October

IN/(from the out) is a collaborative project from Ben Gwilliam & Helmut Lemke working with listening and location sound (& their contexts) at the site of BLANKSPACE in Manchester. As practitioners in the ‘between’ areas of sound/music and the Fine Arts they are fascinated by the value of listening; to be engaged with the human relationship of sound in the environment, looking at three distinct urban ‘scapes’ (land, sound and texture).

READ MORE

Exhibition Opening Times: Wednesday-Sunday: 11am-5pm | Thursday: 11am-7pm | Closed: Monday-Tuesday

Address: BLANKSPACE | 43 Hulme Street | Manchester | M15 6AW | Tel: +44(0)161 222 6164

I married a foley footstep

~ theotherroom ~ Leave a comment

As part of the UnSpooling exhibition/events Matt Wand & Ben Gwilliam will be showing for the first time ” I Married a Foley Footstep! ” a Super8 movie – live Foley Sound performance,, it’s aprox. 27 minutes long, it’s black & white and it will be first up at 7.30pm sharp.

Though the night is billed as an evening of ‘Expanded Cinema’ in fact I would describe this piece as ‘Reductionist’ & possibly ‘ ad absurdium ‘

Synopsis: The mandatory Comedy-Nihilist journey of life towards an end we all know but avoid mentioning and keep walking despite.
Influences: Many… but possibly most significantly Cleo Ubelmann’s little seen ‘Mano Destra’

Other cinematic niceness that will probably knock our modest effort for six during the evening :
Sally Golding and Kerry Laitala toy with cinematic conventions in several new expanded cinema performances,
Greg Pope’s Cipher Screen, with a live processed soundtrack performed by Lee Patterson, gets a UK debut;
and Cartune Xprez will perform a surreal blend of animation, video theatre and general psychedelic madness.

£5, 5th October

The Greenroom, Manchester

Via Matt Wand

What’s on this week

~ theotherroom ~ Leave a comment

Events this week from The Other Room calendar. The calendar is open access. If you have an experimental poetry, art or music event you want to publicise, feel free to post. If you would prefer us to post for you, email us at otherroomeditors@gmail.com

Wednesday 25th November

Openned – the final reading: Andrea Brady; Ian Heames; Antony John; Geraldine Monk; Linus Slug; Timothy Thornton. The Foundry, London. 7.30 PM start. Free. More here.

Thursday 26th November

Alec Newman at Manchester Central Library: Reading from Alec Newman, poet and editor of Knives, Forks and Spoons press, with John G. Hall and Simon Rennie. 6 PM start.

Lemke/Gwilliam CD launch: Castlefield Art Gallery, Manchester 6-8pm. fourmill plus quarterinch is the duo of sound artists and improvising musicians Helmut Lemke and Ben Gwilliam. In this collaboration the two artists use different formats of audiotape; pre-recorded, prepared and unprepared. From individual banks of sound recordings on tape comes a subtle and often dense music that is both composed and improvised in concrete time.More here.

Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinchback

~ theotherroom ~ Leave a comment

Do not miss this –

Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinchback
Category: Launch
Profile: Castlefield Gallery
Opening hours: (For Castlefield Gallery) Wednesday – Sunday. 1 – 6 pm
Event Date: 18:00 – 20:00 Thursday, 26th Nov 2009
Organisation: Castlefield Gallery
Venue: Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester, M15 4GB.
Contact: Castlefield Gallery
Email: info@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
Website: http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk

Description: Performance and CD Launch of Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinch

fourmill plus quarterinch is the duo of sound artists and improvising musicians Helmut Lemke and Ben Gwilliam. In this collaboration the two artists use different formats of audiotape; pre-recorded, prepared and unprepared. From individual banks of sound recordings on tape comes a subtle and often dense music that is both composed and improvised in concrete time.

This CD comes in a 5inch tape reel box, including 5 prints made in conjunction with the recordings. http://www.thosesoundsbetween.co.uk

FREE EVENT, BOOKING REQUIRED To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places.

If Not This – Ben Gwilliam, Helmut Lemke, Lee Patterson, Matt Wand

~ theotherroom ~ Leave a comment

As part of the Exhibition Not At This Address (1 August – 7 November), Bury Art Gallery presents an evening of new performances from four of Manchester’s most active Sound Artists working today. If not this is a survey of works that explores sound in performance, crossing the terrain where music and sound often meet inside and outside of Contemporary Art.

Ben Gwilliam performs ‘molto semplice e cantabile’ a new work for ice records and turntables on the relationship between opus 111 and listening descriptions. Helmut Lemke will perform a durational piece specifically for the gallery that utilises live sound and amplification. Lee Patterson will present a new work containing pre-recorded and improvised elements, where the recordings used are sourced from wire fences in Birtle and within bodies of water in the Bury Metropolitan area. Matt Wand will probably perform ‘I owe it to the girls’.

Bury Art Gallery
Friday 4 September

19.00-22.00 FREE
Refreshments

Claus Van Bebber

~ theotherroom ~ Leave a comment

Deserving of much attention for his early use of turntables and prepared records. This German based artist of longstanding comes directly out of and is contemporary to the late 70’s Milan Knizak ‘Broken Music’ school of playing physically ruined records.

If you missed Bebber at The Text Festival he performs again at The Salford Concert Series on Thursday 7th May.

bebber
Link

A Few Traces Left

~ theotherroom ~ Leave a comment
As part of The European Night of Museums 2009 and Museums at Night, sound artists and musicians will perform a collaborative durational improvisation. Dense and sparse, loud and quiet, dialogues will evolve on and around one big table that will be their common work place in the gallery. Traces, marks, drawings plus projections of their actions will be left on the same table for the duration of the subsequent exhibition. 

Venue: Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, Chapman Building, Peel Park Campus, Salford, M5 4WT
Curated by Helmut Lemke & Ben Gwilliam
Saturday 16 May – Friday 05 June
Mon – Fri 10.00am – 4.00pm
Admission:Free

Performance Date: Saturday 16 May, 7.00pm – 11.00pm