NOISE ABOVE NOISE ++ GARY FISHER RESIDENCY SPECIAL++
Gary Fisher + Helmut Lemke + Tear Fet
NOISE ABOVE NOISE IS A SOUND, ART AND PERFORMANCE SERIES BORNE OF INDEPENDENT DIY ARTIST LED SPACE THE PENTHOUSE IN MANCHESTER’S NORTHERN QUARTER.
“PERFORMANCE SERIES NOISE ABOVE NOISE ELEVATES MANCHESTER’S UNDERGROUND SCENE TO THE FIFTH FLOOR OF A TOWER BLOCK.”
– THE WIRE
Doors 7.30
Live Performances 8pm- 10.30pm
Advance Tickets- £5 (plus booking)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/noise-above-noise-gary-fisher-residency-special-w-helmut-lemke-tickets-16596861660
(Previous events have sold out, we recommend booking in advance to secure your place).
++GARY FISHER++
Gary Fisher has joined us for a residency project- we are excited to welcome him back to The Penthouse following his completion of his very fruitful MA Sound Art at London Communication College- MA show curated by Electra Productions.
Recent Projects include a 30 minute live experimental radio broadcast ‘The Inaugural Terminal Program’ in collaboration with artists Barry Dean and Gilda Manfring and aired on Resonance FM, London. Performing as part of ‘Sculpture’ in Allan Caprow: Yard, The Hepworth, Wakefield, ensemble improvisation and intervention, Sculpture series curated by David Toop and Rei NakajimaIn. In 2015 Gary was invited with other performers to play in a live composition with Christain Marclay and Thurston Moore at Marclay’s major exhibition at White Cube London.
“Gary Fisher works with sound in a continuous process of experimentation and enquiry focussed around instinctive and investigatory responses to objects, actions, ideas words and places. Central to the work is the ongoing development of improvised playing, composing and recording practises, in both live and studio contexts, based around different approaches to sound making including combining analogue and digital, re-working technologies, home-made instruments and electronics and adapting or finding personal approaches to instruments and objects as materials to produce sounds.”
++ HELMUT LEMKE ++
Has been specially invited to perform as part of Gary Fisher’s residency event particularly because of his influence on Gary’s artist practice which turned to a focus on sound arts during his BA at Salford University under Helmut Lemke’s teaching.
Some words from Helmut:
Imagine you have a plastic bottle….
You fill it with water and you hang it upside down….
You make a little hole in the cap….
and then you sit back,
you wait and you listen
– drips appear – they fall – they hit
sounds …
inaudible when the water squeezes through the little hole …
imaginable when it falls …
audible when it hits
Events like this drive Helmut Lemke’s curiosity.
Since he started his journey into the world of sound more than 30 years ago, he investigated sounds that are around us, some are obvious, some are familiar, some have to be found… and he has performed and exhibited process based work responding to his investigations. His endeavour has taken him to concert halls and outdoor markets, to Galleries and Museums and to the frozen seas off Greenland, to Function Rooms of Pubs and to International Festivals. He has presented his work all over the globe, collaborating with other Sound Artists and Musicians, with Dancers and Scientists, Visual Artists and Architects, Poets and Archaeologists, Performance Artists and Wildlife Rangers.
Helmut Lemke is still listening.
++ TEAR FET ++
Tear Fet is the sound project of Manchester artist Matt Dalby. In recent years he has concentrated solely on developing his voice, and beginning to explore extended techniques. Tear Fet draws on a range of influences from blues and folk music through to contemporary improvisation. Tear Fet can be found (among other places) at https://soundcloud.com/matt-dalby
His CD Underpath was released through Chocolate Monk in October 2014; his most recent collection is the self-released Islands : Wind, part of a year-long project called Islands.
As part of Islands Matt will walk round the outside of the M60, Manchester’s orbital motorway, on 30 May 2015. A variety of artworks will be created from this event.
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Tickets are £5 in advance (plus booking) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/noise-above-noise-gary-fisher-residency-special-w-helmut-lemke-tickets-16596861660
Tickets are £5 on the door but only subject to availability. There is a capacity limit. Please book at least one day in advance to avoid disappointment.
This event has a licensed bar- it is not permitted to bring your own alcohol into the space.
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The 2014/15 series of Noise Above Noise residency projects are supported by Arts Council England- Grants for the Arts.
Quotes:
“A BRILLIANTLY CURATED AND VISUALLY STUNNING NIGHT OF SOUND ART AND PERFORMANCE. THE ATMOSPHERE IS ALWAYS INTERESTING, RELAXING, WELCOMING AND OVERALL INSPIRING.”
– MANCHESTER’S FINEST
“THE PENTHOUSE ARTISTS FROM ENGLAND. KNOWN BACK HOME AS MANCHESTER’S FINEST SOUND ART SHOW” – BUSHWICK DAILY, NEW YORK
