PLACE AS A COMPOSITIONAL TOOL

STUDIO SYMPOSIUM: PLACE AS A COMPOSITIONAL TOOL
SOUND YOUR SPOT

On February 6 2025, we explore physical locality of sound as a compositional tool. Sound recorded on tape has a physical place in the world, it can be traced, held and retraced. But place can also be regarded as a way of creating sound through field recordings, being in dialogue with the environment, or in the proximity of a community that inspires collaboration and experiment.

February 6, 15:00-17:00
Free entrance
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For this studio symposium we’ve invited Nic Collins and Peter Todd for a special performance of Stuart Marshall’s Ayton Basement from 1976, using two portable Uher tape recorders and a range of percussive instruments. The piece was first performed at Ayton Basement, a legendary artist-run performance space in Newcastle Upon Tyne. In 2019, Peter Todd and Nicolas Collins reconstructed the performance from memory. Following the performance, we will host a panel talk on the physical domain as an incentive to sound in relation to artist-run spaces.

We open the symposium at 15:00 with a group performance of Stuart Marshall’s Ideophonics in the parking lot, performed by conservatory students following instructions by Nic Collins and Peter Todd.

15:00     group performance of a version of Stuart Marshalls Ideophonics in the parking lot
15:30     talk by Nic Collins & Peter Todd: recollection of Ayton Basement as a place and a piece
16:00     performance of Ayton Basement
16:15     performance by Het Concreet
16:30     panel talk with Peter Todd, Nic Collins & Het Concreet
17:00     end program, drinks until 18:00

The main language will be English