Sound performance at 2b Butler’s Wharf in London, December 18, 1976. Performed by Nick Collins, Jane Harrison, and Stuart Marshall.
Wood striking wood, quick, hard, BOK! Impact sound sprays out, an omni-directional striking of all reflective surfaces and returning through time to the distributed centres of listening, the BOK-space of audition. This is the basis of Stuart Marshall’s composition known as Idiophonics or Heterophonics, a piece performed only occasionally in the 1970s and now about to be revived. …
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New Contemporaries catalogue, an exhibition of work by selected UK fine art students including Catherine Elwes’s ‘Cate and Shauna Play Quietly’ (Performance). The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nash House, the Mall, London, 1979.pdf here …
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Information leaflet for performance ‘Partial Eclipse’; (1981). pdf here. …
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Poster, Newspaper Advert and magazine article for a VAMP performance at the Ikon Gallery (1980). pdf here.
Photographs from VAMP Ikon Performance (1980). pdf here.
VAMP Invitation to a private view (1979) at Intergalactic Arts, London. pdf here.
Flyer and a magazine listing for a VAMP-Sunday Concert at the ICA, London. pdf here.
Photographs from a VAMP performance at Biddick Farm Arts Centre 1978. …
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“Using one bay of the warehouse space containing four cassette recorders hung at head height, I addressed the audience about the nature of the piece and my thoughts about it for one minute, recording this on the first loop. This was immediately re-played and a second minute of spoken observations about the now developing piece was recorded on the second loop with the first loop continuing beside it. The same process was applied to minutes three and four, …
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