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What Was Music? Monday
15th - Sunday 28th April (various open times) Twelve fantastic sound collages created by Brighton schoolchildren aged 7 - 14. Now available to stream below - listen in to works from: Betty Cowan, Dorothy Hepburne Scott, Bjorn Nielsen, Pearl Thomas, Eda Gardner, Elkka Nyoukis, Fin Brook, Issy Hartley, Milly Trotter Roberts, Dexter Nimmo, Thomas Vintcent and Ursula Major. The pieces were created using the free app Audacity in workshops led by Ian Murphy (artist and teacher) whose Rottenslushy radio show is broadcast monthly on Resonance Extra FM, and Duncan Harrison (Brighton based artist/musician). Participants
worked with soundsamples sent by COOS artists past and present:
Jan Anderzén: Unia Loimussa (Dreams Inside a Glow) Friday
26th - Sunday 28th April For COOS (8), ONCA hosted Jan Anderzén’s first UK solo exhibition which focused on his vibrant work with textiles. Jan Anderzén is a Tampere based artist producing experimental music and creating images using a multitude of techniques. He layers plotted and formulated elements with splashes of accident and contingency, focusing on themes that roam the foggy borderlands of the wild and domesticated. For the past 20 years Anderzén has been at the core of the ever evolving experimental band Kemialliset Ystävät (Chemical Friends). Launch Event | Thursday 25th April, 6 – 8pm ALL WELCOME
Chie Mukai - Improvisation Workshop Saturday
27th April 1.30 - 4.30pm 'We need no genre! No technique! No borders!’ We're excited to bring Chie Mukai's world renowned improvisation workshop to the UK. Sharing experiences from thirty years of site-specific performance and improvisation, the workshop continues a teaching practice begun in 2001. It is open to all practitioners of sound and movement regardless of level - 'Beginners, therefore, can be fine artist here as far as they have will and inventive sensitivity to feel the energy on the spot. Everybody who shares this direct art and time andspace, plays the important role in this activity.' Chie Mukai is a composer, musician and master improviser from Osaka, Japan. She's the founder of the underground improv-folk group Ché-SHIZU, one of the most original and mystifying groups to ever emerge from Japan's musical underground. Mukai became involved in improvisation and free music in 1975, when she joined the East Bionic Symphonia group under the leadership of Fluxus violinist-composer Takehisa Kosug. Her primary instruments are the bowed Chinese er-hu, piano and percussion. Chie says 'Bring instruments, ideas, books to read, sounds, toys - anything you’d like'. Sorry - Sold Out.
Richard Youngs - Music Out of Emptiness Sunday
28th April 11am - 1pm How do you
make music when you have no inspiration, little time and few resources?
This workshop will lead you through writing a choral work to be
performed later in the day. Music making will be seen as a productive
mindfuck whereby with minimal input a state of extreme confusion
can be created thus inducing the necessary illusion of inspiration
very quickly with nothing more than a few simple ideas. Richard Youngs has been involved with music for most of his life. He discovered the power of the art form by thumping the family piano as an angry 5 year old. In the intervening 45 years he has attempted to harness the same experimental, naive, playful power in his live performances and in all of his 140 releases. This creative openness has led him to explore different musical genres. He is classically trained in piano and guitar, but musically he grew up in the shadow cast by punk rock. Adopting guerrilla recording techniques, the independent D.I.Y. ethic is at his core. “Imagine Richard Youngs as the junior member of a cabal of prolific and puritanical English musician--mystics, including The Fall’s Mark E Smith, Van der Graaf Generator’s Peter Hammill, Martin Carthy and The Clangers’ composer Vernon Elliot, and still his nature will elude you” - Stewart Lee, Sunday Times. Sorry - Sold Out.
In The Future You’ll Be Able To Get All The Expensive Designer Wallpaper That Your Heart Desires For Free: Live from Lubberland Friday
26th - Sunday 28th A COOS Residency + Workshop with Ali Robertson and Ash Reid A
radio play for and from the future in three parts. A different
time running on different time, broadcasting live from the job
centre, where we want you to tell us how you will be well enough. Ash
Reid Ali Robertson is an improviser and organiser who has often, but not exclusively, worked under the Giant Tank banner or in the duo Usurper to make hundreds of events and experimental recordings that exist on the periphery of music incorporating elements of composition, chance, performance, comedy, visual art and storytelling. Recently Usurper were the featured artists at Counterflows 2018. HOME / TIMETABLE / EXHIBITIONS + WORKSHOPS / LIVE AT COOS / INFORMATION / ARCHIVE
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