Programme


10:00 – 11.30: BFI Southbank, NFT3
Workshop: Live Performance with Film

TCM

Dominic Murcott – Head of Composition at Trinity College of Music – will lead a 90-minute workshop with TCM’s Contemporary Music Group. Issues covered will include notated and improvised material, using the film as score, empathy and anempathy, points of structural identity, plus practical matters such as visual presentation and the challenges of synchronisation. There will be time for participants to suggest ideas to the ensemble. Includes a performance of a new work by Martin Iddon, spnm shortlisted composer, to accompany a short silent film from the BFI Archives Lights and Shades on the Bostock Circus Farm (1911).

 


10:00 – 13.00: BFI Southbank, room tba
Workshop: Photographic Sound

no.w.here

no.w.here present this workshop which focusses on optical sound and celluloid film as a medium for the creation of experimental audio. The session will focus on the photogram in the construction of image making, starting at the beginning of photochemistry, and using examples of movie film work which make use of artificially created optical sound alongside image, or where the image creates the soundtrack. Participants will have the opportunity to physically engage with notated sound sources such as musical scores, sheet music etc, using these in the darkroom to make photograms onto 16mm film
£8
If you would like to book a place, please send an email with the subject header 'Photographic Sound' to Cecilia: stating your name, phone number and where you heard about the workshop.
For more information, please contact Cecilia on 020 7407 1640 or cecilia@spnm.org.uk

NB. This session has a limited number of places. Advance bookings only.

 

11:45 – 13:15: BFI Southbank, NFT3
Workshop: Liquid Music: Landscape and Location for Camera and Microphone
Jon Wozencroft, editor of Touch, designer and Senior Tutor at Royal College of Art, leads a workshop on live visual projections, based on a collaboration with guitarist and electronic musician Christian Fennesz.

 

14:00 – 15:30: BFI Southbank, NFT3
Metaphors of Sound and Image
Artist and composer Conor Kelly presents ‘Circling the Square’, exploring off-screen sound and narrative, looking at hierarchies within cinema and gallery, referring to Bruce Naumann and Robert Bresson alongside his own work.

Conceptual artist, writer and composer Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, presents ‘Listening at the Pictures’, a variety of works that use the moving image as a blending of the aural and the visual.

Chaired by Nicholas Brown, composer, videographer and writer

 

16:00 – 17:30: BFI Southbank, NFT3
Audio-Visual Collaborations
Filmmaker Jayne Parker and cellist Anton Lukoszevieze present Searching for a Musical Equivalent, their collaborative practice, based on filming musical performance, that attempts to convey the feeling and structure of music through film.

Chaired by Andrew Chesher, filmmaker and Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art

And artist David Ryan presents Synthetic Spaces, looking at the construction of visual and musical spaces in non-narrative video.  He will illustrate these issues with recent collaborations with music and video he has made with Italian composer Nicola Sani (AchaB 1,2 and 3) and musician Gianni Trovalusci (Lucrezia). 

 

18:30: BFI Southbank, room tba
Mark Wallinger: The Lark Ascending
Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger introduces his film, inspired by the eponymous orchestral work by Vaughan Williams, in conversation with Eddie Berg, BFI Southbank Artistic Director.

‘extremely beautiful… it raises the stakes’ – The Guardian