Matt Wand
I married a foley footstep
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
If Not This – Ben Gwilliam, Helmut Lemke, Lee Patterson, Matt Wand
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
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