Playing the Heygate (w/Sophie Mallett) [sample]
A sample from an audiovisual installation created by Robbie Judkins and Sophie Mallett to take part at the Barbican Centre, 10th-12th May 2013 as part of Nico Muhly’s ‘A Scream and an Outrage’ weekend.
A Scream and an Outrage
Something that’s hideous has become beautiful;
and something that’s beautiful has become hideous.”
- Nico Muhly
Playing the Heygate is an audiovisual installation created for Nico Muhly’s A Scream and an Outrage. Artists Sophie Mallett and Robbie Judkins make the estate both the instrument and the player: using contact microphones to turn surfaces, objects and spaces in to an urban orchestra. The installation not only documents these performances, but combines them with sound recordings and original footage from the estate in its current state of abandon.
Cinematography by Beth Atkinson
Thanks to
Jez Riley French
LCC
Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre
10-12 May 2013
http://www.barbican.org.uk/scream
Spring’s arrived. Time for a jam. Made with contact mics, mini auto harp, drone jar, weevil, no-input, multi effects & delay pedals.
Another review of the recent Armed Within Movement split cassette release with Bad Suburban Nightmare.
“The organic nature of some of the sounds contained within other tracks leads me to believe LHCOTR collects field recordings to scramble with other sources to create this. Guessing what these sounds are is part of the fun and the unpredictable nature of the sonic wash here is what makes it stand out.”
Idwal Fisher have also reviewed the Armed Within Movement Records split cassette release with Bad Suburban Nightmare,
“…here’s that Robbie Judkins again making micro drones and teeny ectoplasms of rattles and Kagel like toy noises. Especially on ‘Habibi’ which comes over like a Joe Jones machine tumbling down the stone steps in Whitby or a group of over zealous Alpine cow bell ringers on speed. Judkins uses improv techniques, radio interference and field recordings [and probably lots of other techniques which are lost on me] all on show with second track here ‘Seventy Heads With Seventy Tongues’ which sounds like a Van der Graff generator spitting sparks into an ominous drone whilst a New Dheli school teacher takes charge of her pupils.”
I have recently got some reviews on the Must Die Records release, Goma.
“… A throbbing, a swelling, a pulsing thing, tiny cymbals all a-crackle, drum rim rubbed drone, at least half a dozen things layered over one another with new sounds coming and old ones going, the whole thing rolling along like it has a life of its own until we get to the halfway mark where we’re left with just one huge bass bomb resonating into its own collapsing self… Things of such beauty rarely come this way and its with a sad heart that I put it to one side to continue with the rest of the review pile. The urge is to play it just one more time, to soak it up, to take it with me on my travels, to push it on to people in pubs, in restaurants, stood at bus stops, here look at this, the new Pussyfooting.”
Upcoming concert with Mecha/Orga and ANY. I have helped organise this show with the other performers and will take place at the Gallery Cafe in Bethnal Green, east London.
Ornamental Decay presents an evening of live performance from three contemporary sound artists working with voice, field recordings, loops, noise, improvisation, circuit bending and more.
MECHA/ORGA
Mecha/Orga is the project and recording name of Greek sound artist Yiorgis Sakellariou.His practice is founded on the digital manipulation of environmental recordings. His palette of sounds is all encompassing; from vibrating rail-tracks to refrigerators’ static, and from noisy waterfalls to the humming of insects. His performances foster a profoundly submerging sonic experience.
http://mechaorga.wordpress.com/
A.N.Y.
A.N.Y. (Angela Nina Yeowell) is a somatically based vocal-noise musician. Along with processed samples, A.N.Y. plays broken melodies on misshapen instruments, and sings to the resulting waves of intensity, silence and interruption. Her work can sometimes result in visuals, such as the creation of, and performance with non-musical instruments and sonic costumes.
http://soundcloud.com/angelanina
LEFT HAND CUTS OFF THE RIGHT
Left Hand Cuts off the Right is the moniker of London based sound artist and performer, Robbie Judkins. His performances and recordings aim to create an immersive sonic environment utilising DIY ethics and sound sources. Found sounds, circuit bent devices, tape loops, feedback, broken instruments, hand percussion and radio interference are presented in his improvised performances.
Left Hand Cuts off the Right/Bad Suburban Nightmare split (cassette/DL)
New split release is available from today. Either digitally or physically through the Armed Within Movement Bandcamp page. Artwork by Wil Judkins.
Left Hand Cuts of The Right is the moniker of Robbie Judkins. Currently based in London, Robbie uses a combination of techniques in his work. These include improv, field recording, radio interference and more.
lefthandcutsofftheright.tumblr.com
Bad Suburban Nightmare is the project of Dan Hrekow. Dan uses a minimal guitar set up to create his emotive drones and slow echoing riffs
soundcloud.com/badsuburbannightmare
New track, Habibi, which is part of the cassette & DL split with Bad Suburban Nightmare to be released later this month on Armed Within Movement Records.
