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From Scratch 02 - 17 July 2009 A series of events exploring the legacy of experimental British composer Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981) and the Scratch Orchestra (1967-71).
From Scratch from The Drawing Room on Vimeo From Scratch involves artists, musicians and writers in an exploration of the legacy of Cornelius Cardew through a forum, a performance of Cardew’s seminal work ‘Treatise’ (1963-7), workshops and a multi-disciplinary performance by DEME. These events will introduce new audiences, in particular students and young people. From Scratch anticipates The Drawing Room’s winter programme of events which will include an exhibition of ‘Treatise’, Cardew’s impressive 193-page graphic score, original manuscripts, Scratch Books and other archival material brought together for the first time in the UK. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication, film screenings and symposia. Please follow this link for further information. From Scratch is conceived in collaboration with ICFAR (International Centre for Fine Art Research) University of the Arts, London. From Scratch: A Forum Thursday 2 July, 11.00 – 18.30 A canal boat duo scratch style. Performed by pupils from the Bridge Academy with Kaffe Matthews and Shane Waltener Thursday 2 July 16.00- 17:00 Jude Walton: ‘Dancing the Book’ Monday 6 & Tuesday 7 July, 10.00 – 16.30 John Lely - Performance of Treatise Saturday 11 July 2009, 14.00 – 20.00 Live visual and audio performance directed by Adam Melvin Friday 17 July 2009, 18.30 – 20.30
Events are free but booking is essential.
Thursday 2 July, 11.00 – 18.30 This Forum brings together individuals who were involved with the Scratch Orchestra (1967-71) and practitioners and theorists who have engaged with collaborative, participatory and improvisatory practices across art forms since this time. Participants include George Barber, Horace Cardew, Walter Cardew, Carole Finer, Janna Graham of Ultra Red, Kaffe Matthews, Eddie Prévost, Andrea Phillips, Frances Rifkin, Adrian Rifkin, Laurie Scott-Baker, Brigid Scott-Baker, John Tilbury and others. If you wish to participate in or attend in this Forum please contact The Drawing Room. A canal boat duo scratch style. Performed by pupils from the Bridge Academy with Kaffe Matthews and Shane Waltener. Thursday 2 July 16.00- 17:00 Regents Canal between Acton Lock (Broadway Market) and Kingsland Basin. This performance is the outcome of a collaboration between the Bridge Academy, Hackney and The Drawing Room. Artists Kaffe Matthews and Shane Waltener led students through visual and sound workshops to explore the activities and methodology of Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra. Jude Walton: ‘Dancing the Book’ Monday 6 & Tuesday 7 July, 10.00 – 16.30 A two-day workshop, led by Australian artist Jude Walton, exploring the relationship between gesture, mark and movement, and the documents and records that result. This workshop is for artists, performers and writers. Jude Walton is a Melbourne based interdisciplinary artist who is a Summer Fellow at ICFAR. Jude Walton is an artist/academic currently teaching performance at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Her art practice includes interests in writing, philosophy, dance, spatial design, architecture, video, and all sorts of ephemera. An ongoing project is ‘dancing the book: looking at artists’ books and dance’ and is based around the artists’ book collection in the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It explores the possible relations between body and book, dance and writing, action and the word. For more details visit www.icfar.org.uk John Lely - Performance of Treatise 11 July 2009, 14.00 – 20.00 Composor and musician John Lely will collaborate with contemporary musicians to perform Cardew’s Treatise. The group will create an environment and a sustained space through installation and performance, which would develop over a period of time and will culminate in a 5-6 hour performance. They will use the score as a way of producing a situation, following the score but exploring the instruments and the space.
Collaborative musicians: Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, James Saunders, Lee Patterson, Tim Parkinson. The audience are invited to drop in and stay as long as they wish. Admission free, booking essential. John Lely studied at Goldsmiths College with Roger Redgate and John Tilbury, and privately with Michael Parsons. He currently teaches experimental sound at Chelsea College of Art. As well as working in the fields of electronic music and free improvisation, he has composed acoustic works for various musicians including harpist Rhodri Davies and Apartment House. Recent performances at Yale, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in New York, HCMF, Tate Modern's Open Sound Systems and MaerzMusik in Berlin. He also co-curates the annual Music We'd Like to Hear concert series with Tim Parkinson and Markus Trunk. From 2007-8 he was tape archivist at the Daphne Oram Collection. Angharad Davies is a violinist based in London. She is an active performer in contemporary, improvisation and experimental music both as a soloist and within ensembles. Her classical background lead her to further violin study with Charles-Andre Linale in Dusseldorf, Germany and subsequently Howard Davis in London. Her studies with these two eminent violinists inspire her own teaching practice. Since making London her base in 2002 she has developed a specific approach to the violin, extending the sound possibilities of the instrument by attaching and applying objects to the strings or by sounding unexpected parts of the instrument's body. She is dedicated to exploring and expanding sound production on the violin. 2008 has seen Angharad perform a live radio broadcast with Apartment House for WDR Koln, and in June she took part in Tony Conrad's 'Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective' which was specially conceived for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. Tim Parkinson (b.1973) is an independent composer and pianist, based in London, UK since 1997. He studied at Worcester College, Oxford, studied privately with Kevin Volans in Dublin, and in 2001 he participated in the Ostrava New Music Days, attending seminars with Jean-Yves Bosseur, Petr Kotik, Alvin Lucier, Zsolt Nagy and Christian Wolff. He has composed music for various groups and ensembles including Apartment House, Reservoir, London Sinfonietta, [rout], Chroma; and for various instrumentalists including Stephen Altoft, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Julia Eckhardt, Anton Lukoszevieze, Tanja Masanti, Andrew Sparling, Craig Shepard, Philip Thomas, Stefan Thut. Music has been performed in UK, Europe, USA, Armenia, New Zealand, Japan.He is also active as pianist and performer, both independently and also by invitation, having been an occasional performer with Apartment House, and Plus-Minus, and having performed in the UK in venues such as Tate Modern, Barbican, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and further afield in Europe, and South America. James Saunders' music is regularly performed in the UK and Europe, notably at Darmstadt where his Six Pieces won the Stipendienpreis at the 1998 Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik. He was one of the featured composers at the Ostrava New Music Days in 2001 and at the 13th International Composers' Seminar, Boswil, Switzerland in 1997, subsequently undertaking a composition residency at the Kunstlerhaus, Boswil in May 1998. In 2003 and 2007 he held residencies at the Experimental Studio fur Akustiche Kunst in Freiburg. James' music has also been played at numerous international festivals, including Bludenz Tage fur Zeitgenossiche Musik, Brighton Festival, The Cutting Edge (London), Darmstadt, Donaueschingen, Gothenburg Arts Sounds, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Inventionen (Berlin), The Kitchen (New York), Music We'd Like to Hear (London), Rational Rec (London), Roaring Hooves (Mongolia), Ultima (Oslo), and Wittener Tage fur Neue Kammermusik. It has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM (UK), WDR3 and SWR2 (Germany), and national radio in Norway, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden. DEME - Entropy Flux Live visual and audio performance directed by Adam Melvin 17 July 2009, 18.30 – 20.30 Like the original scratch orchestra, DEME “are a large number of enthusiasts pooling their resources (not primarily material resources) and assembling for action (music making, performance, edification).” 1
For From Scratch DEME will use a combination of both live and automated content, creating a dialogue between both chance elements and pre composed installations. By adopting the methods outlined in Cardew’s original draft constitution for the Scratch Orchestra, DEME will assemble material from the various disciplines within their number and evolve a piece whose creative process will only reach its full realization once in the Drawing Room space. Incorporating a range of visual and aural elements as its ‘score’ and using a live feed from the Stock Exchange as a means of generating material for the final stage of its performance, the piece involves the City of London itself as an active member of its creative collective, providing a unique and dynamic take on Cardew’s notions of what ‘consitutes’ music. 1: Cox, Christoph and Warner, Daniel - eds. (2008) Audio Culture – Readings in Modern Music, Continuum, New York Admission free, booking essential. DEME: deme (dem) noun, Etymology: Greek demos people, deme
DEME is the in-house, interdisciplinary arts collective at Foyle Arts, University of Ulster in Derry, Northern Ireland. They specialize in collaborative work that exploits the use of technology and live performance to explore, cross and reconfigure the boundaries of Music, Dance, Drama and Design. They have presented performances and installations as part of the 2008 SIEF conference, Guildhall, Derry and 2008 ISBC/ISBE Congress at the Europa Hotel Belfast and recently supported the vocal ensemble, Juice at Sandino’s bar, Derry. Deme is the only ensemble of its kind on the island of Ireland. DEME are: Director, musician, composer: Adam Melvin. Musicans/composers: Daniel Acheson, Jason Blyth, Neil Burns, Kristine Donnan, Christopher Norby, Colin Norrby, Aaron O’Hare, Fiachra Ó Longáin Video design: Laura MacDowell. Actors:Nicky Harley, Liam Green. Dance: Janie Doherty, Oona Doherty, Katie Harkin, Bridget Madden, Breda McNulty, Kelly Quigley. |
