Using varying layers and levels of rehearsal, structure and improvisation my work plays with the space for spontaneity and leaves it open sharing the heightened energy of live decision making with an audience.

I am obsessed with improvisation and its relationship to deviance. I work with objects, often metal objects, arranged into installed self made instruments­ -I use  tools, implements and devices to extract sound from these arrangements in a live situation­­. Arrangements reworked live take the body into it and then remove it leaving something touched­ - often with the soundtrack to the space and objects left behind as an installed sound piece which can be reworked again at any point. The voice is heavily featured in my current approach­ with my main experiments being producing noises from the throat­ the internal voice before projection. My work often aims to reveal a boundary of what we are all comfortable with in terms of being in the same room together whilst something is created and then decides whether to cross it or not. 

Artist Website: www.rosannerobertson.com

Blog/ online journal: https://rosannerobertson.tumblr.com/ 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/r0sanneR

Bandcamp: https://rosannerobertson.bandcamp.com/

Image: Anne Louise Kershaw for Manchester Finest (Article) 

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Debbie Sharp (Resident Penthouse Artist Suite 4)

Debbie Sharp is an artist working with sound, image, text and installation- her live works often engage themes of memory using repetitive action and live sound making with amplified live plaque making, radio/TV static, voice and amplified time keeping. Her durational works often start as a murmur and build slowly  and heavily into dense noise that surrounds dark installations casting shadows in trancing environments. 

Debbie is the founder of The Penthouse and is co director with artist Rosanne Robertson.

My practice often works within a space of memory and mortality
I’m interested in the history of time the ancient and fragments
of life, within a public and personal place.

an actionist

thinker

doer

only things we can’t imagine, can’t be achieved. 
If it can be imagined then it can be achieved.

Artist Website: https://debbie-sharp.com/

Image: Anne Louise Kershaw for Manchester Finest (Article) 

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Gwendowlen Osmond/Triangle Cuts (Noise Above Noise artist in residence) 

Gwendolen Osmond/ Triangle Cuts is an English / French artist who uses loopstation technology to create haunting atmospheres using mainly voice / piano / synths. She is currently developing practise around the tensions between performance, authenticity and disembodiment in contemporary music creation. She is keen to develop site specific work that enables a reversal of the conditions of musical performances - using more personal darker private spaces as opposed to public space.

Previous work include live sound tracks for Videojam at Whitworth Art Gallery / Blank Media Arts. Solo and band performances (Cherrypip band) around Manchester. Video/film work shown at the Cornerhouse/ BBC Big Screen/Berlin Zebra Poetry films / Moves Festival.

Artist Website:  https://trianglecuts.tumblr.com/

Gwendolen Osmond is the Noise Above Noise artist in Residence between 6 Feb- 20Feb. This is an opportunity tailored to artists wishing to develop into new areas of performing with sound with emphasis on the physicality and use of space when performing with sound. Gwendolen will be producing a new live work during this residency period to be performed for Noise Above Noise _Three.

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Kim Foale

The Art of Noises

The Art Of Noises is a game of abstract musical performance for 3-5 people. Players take the role of avant garde performers, attempting to communicate various nouns, verbs and adjectives using a variety of toy instruments. Each player takes it in turn to select a card and perform the word on it. The other players guess which word is being performed. At the end of the game, the person with the most points wins, and is declared the most avant garde.

Kim Foale is an academic, activist, web developer,(fledgling) sound artist and general tinkerer, with an overall interest in sound, sense and human interaction. This game is the second in a planned series of works aimed at challenging, exploring and learning about listening, in creative ways.

Website: https://alliscalm.net/

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Now Wash Your Hands

Nathan Nothing began his power electronics project in 2009 as an outlet for his grumpy foul tempers, and to humiliate himself onstage for others’ amusement, wearing special costumes. There is nothing more important than being clean and nothing cleans the head out better than a healthy blast of noise!

David Birchall