Host Darren Copeland NONLINEAR, NONARTICULATED, 2013 by Csenge Kolozsvari live performance and sound installation duration 15:00 the line is a sounding field “I am interested in teaching my body to walk again – to balance on a one inch wide slack line – not as an acrobatic act, but as a strategy for thinking differently. It is through embodied experience that I find this difference.” In terms of the event, there is no sense of linearity in the walking on the line. Through the continuous co-composition of all the factors experiencing it the performer, the spectators, the space, the sounds the line expands its own potential for sounding, balancing and resonating. The sounds created by the balancing movement are recorded through contact microphones. The intimate relationship between the line and the body creates a vibration that will be amplified and accumulated live, referencing the layers of repetitive movements during the learning process and the performance. By observing this movement series in their everydayness, one can discover the details of the process that are populating the experience; the need for alignment with the inner rhythm and the momentum of the movement, the relation between desire for security and overcompensation, the revaluation of minor movements, the role of changes in breathing, the sense of subjective time-in-the-moving, the ways movement sounds through. The result is an open ended, unstable and dynamic system of mutating thoughts, sounds and movements a space to invent, create and experiment. To learn how to balance or rather: to learn how to be able to lose it and get it back again. Csenge Kolozsvari is an emerging interdisciplinary artist exploring the embodied relationship between thought, movement and sound through the process of change - a transformation by repetition. Using sound, video, sculpture, light and human presence she creates synesthethic, multisensory pieces. Her artworks has been exhibited internationally, most recently at the HTMlles Festival, Montreal (2012), Scale 46, Bristol (2012), the Helsinki Festivals’ Night of the Arts, (2012) and the Art Hall /Kunsthalle, Budapest (2011). She has participated in residencies across Europe and is the recipient of awards including the National Cultural Fund of Hungary Award, the Stanley Mills Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Eötwös Hungarian National Scholarship and a Concordia Merit Scholarship. Sea Swim Sounds by Dr. Robert Mackay Rob Mackay (Sound) John Wedgewood Clarke (Poetry and Readings) Lara Goodband (Curation) Sea Swim Sounds is one of a number of artworks created for the Sea Swim project. Sea Swim explores how swimming transforms the way we feel ourselves to be in our bodies and the liberating effects these changes have on the imagination. Taking a phonographical approach, the sounds of Scarborough’s South Bay and the sea swimmers was captured over a period of 6 months using a range of recording techniques. Hydrophone, binaural, and ambisonic soundfield recordings have been combined to convey different perspectives, from the intimate to the panoramic. At times, simultaneous recordings were taken, both above and below the waves in order to create an immersive experience. The poet’s voice has been recorded both in the studio and in situ, further exploring notions of internal and external space. Sea Swim is part of imove: a Cultural Olympiad Programme in Yorkshire – www.imoveand.com/seaswim Rob Mackay is a composer, sound artist and performer. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Music Technology at the University of Hull. He is the director of the ‘Sounds of Our Surroundings’ research group (http://icpcluster.org/page/sounds-of-our-surroundings). Prizes and honours include: IMEB Bourges (1997 and 2001); EAR99 from Hungarian Radio (1999); Confluencias (2003); La Muse en Circuit (2004 and 2006). His work has been performed in 18 countries (including several performances on BBC Radio 3). He has held composer residencies at Slovak Radio (Bratislava), La Muse en Circuit (Paris), the Tyrone Guthrie Arts Centre (Ireland), and CMMAS (Mexico). He has worked in a number of groups, including the Welsh Hip-Hop collective 'Tystion', collaborating alongside John Cale on 'A Beautiful Mistake', as well as two John Peel sessions on BBC Radio 1 and supporting PJ Harvey. More recently, he has collaborated with percussionist Evelyn Glennie on the Ruskin Rocks project (www.leeds.ac.uk/ruskinrocks). John Wedgwood Clarke trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and holds a D.Phil. in Modernist poetics from the University of York. He is currently Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the University of Hull, Scarborough. Lara Goodband is an curator and artist. She studied art history and English literature at the University of York and holds an M.A. in art history from Manchester University. Since then she has worked continuously in art galleries, first as an in-house curator and now as a freelancer, specialising in temporary and touring exhibitions, in museums and galleries throughout Yorkshire. Tuned City by Robin Koek and Marieke van de Ven The work Tuned City touches the surface of the city, exploring sounds produced by its inhabitants and the municipal architecture, placed within a radiophonic context. Moving within the aural urban sphere the composition portrays the transversal landscape of the radio. Departing from the concept of transmission as a mediator through time and space, bringing together people and ideas by establishing collective auditory experiences. Radio-specific concepts like bandwidth, tuning and scanning guide the arrangement for electronic sound, acoustic instruments and field-recordings. The composition explores the relation between the expressions of the musicians and the dynamics, sound colours and rhythm of the city. The composition was commisioned by Gaudeamus Muziekweek and broadcasted on the Concertzender. It has been performed at several venues in the U.S. during the tour of Duo-X. Tuned City will see its Canadian premiere in the form of a tape piece, covering the radio version and the live registration. Marieke van de Ven (Netherlands, 1985) studied Composition and Sound Design at the Utrecht School of the Arts. Inspired by concrete sounds, instruments and field recordings she explores the intersection between acoustic and electronic sound. Within the stratification of different musical elements she investigates the narrative quality of her music. Her work was performed at FAQ Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek and broadcasted on the Concertzender. Over the last years she established a repertoire of various multidisciplinary collaborations with choreographers, dancers and theatremakers. Recently she composed the music for 'Corporalis' by Retina Dance Company in Antwerp. Robin Koek (Netherlands, 1987) is active as a composer, musician and designer of artistic systems. Koek studied Sound Design and Composition at the Utrecht School of the Arts. Over the last years he established a repertoire of various multidisciplinary collaborations. With a main focus on sound art and interactive systems he was involved in projects that range from installation art to interactive dancepieces. His works explore states wherein acoustic, digital and analog signals intertwine and form in to one body of sound. Currently his focus is on compositions and sculptures that explore the spatial potential of sound. The Best is Yet to Come by Elizabeth Shores and Vikram Patel How can we come closer to understanding seemingly unquantifiable systems? Is it possible to hear the differences between the frequencies of statistical events? What does it mean to commit ourselves to exploring them together? In ‘The Best is Yet to Come’ we explore our understanding of existence and objectivity through performance, transmission, and lecture. Inspired by the concept of a ‘New Year’ and its related arbitrary system of time, we create a series of tones scaled to cover the range of human hearing with the smallest theoretical unit of time as it’s highest frequency in order to express the frequencies between different contemporary events. Elizabeth Shores explores self-sufficiency and presence as a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of geography, ecology, and infrastructural development. Her research is made visible by producing work that reflects the energy and emotional tone of her environment, blending media, theory, and investigative research practice to work in whatever medium best fits the idea or situation at hand. Having received her BFA in Intermedia from The University of Iowa, she is currently pursuing an MFA at The University of New Mexico and has exhibited in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally. Vikram Patel has primarily explored his interests through scientific means having received his BS in Math and Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas and his MS in Physics from the University of Iowa. He has been using radio for the past several years as a medium to examine the interactions between politics, religion and philosophy.