Saturday 17th June 2006 A day of live music, sound performance and talks with insights and insounds into collaborations between architects and musicians. The results of these alliances can be seen and heard at The Venue, Leeds College of Music on 17th June from 1pm. Between the afternoon programme and the evening concert is a 4x4 Making Places Special on Building Sounds with an international selection of speakers including Max Dixon, Policy Adviser on the Mayor of London’s ‘Sounder City’ strategy, Hans Peter Kuhn, Berlin based composer and sound artist and Richard Cowell, Director of ARUP and founding father of Arup Acoustics. Acoustic planning, noise strategy and sound art and public space will be brought out into the open for discussion. To find out more about the events please contact Robert Wilsmore at Leeds College of Music: To book a place at the 4x4 please email 4x4@makingplaces.com or call Kate on 0114 221 0353. For information about 4 x 4 Making Places and other special events during Architecture Week, go to www.makingplaces.com or email 4x4@makingplaces.com For Architecture events across the region and the UK, go to www.architectureweek.org.uk
Architectural music: surround sound music from Dale Perkins, performances from pianist/composer Graham Coatman and Saxophonist Gemma Wild, Sound Poet Bruce Barnes will create a ‘sound building’ with audience. Musicians will be holding improvised dialogues around the space (weather permitting) and the audience are invited to walk in, out and through performance spaces at their leisure. 3.00pm ‘Breeze Block’ created and performed by The Composers Ensemble’ under the direction of Didrik Ingvaldsen and students of LCM, in response to newly commissioned work by digital artists Paul Emery and Joe Gilmore who have created an animated photo-study of Joseph Stones House; by using thousands of still images processed through custom build software, the artists have created a personal, flickering study of the architecture and its surrounding environment. 4.00pm Chair: Speakers: Hans Peter Kuhn (Berlin), composer and sound artist with international array of both public and gallery based installations in Odense, Warsaw and New York; currently working in Leeds on a public project for Leeds’ Neville Street gateway Max Dixon, Policy Adviser on the Mayor of London’s ‘Sounder City’ strategy John Levack Drever, (University of London), academic and researcher, sound artist, instigator of Sonic Art Network and editor of Earshot publication on architecture and sound. 6.30pm 6.30pm 7.00pm
Invaluable contributors to this event have been: Leeds College of Music, AW 06, RIBA Yorkshire, Arts Council, 4x4 Making Places Ltd.
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