BA(Hons) Music Production 3rd Year Final Degree Show

Weds 15 - Fri 17 May - Doors 6pmThe Media Factory, UCLan,Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 1JN

www.uclan.ac.uk/cf

SWERVEInnovation In Music Production

CHRISTINA ASTLE-ALVAREZ Fragile

Fragile is a soundscape piece in which the participant is invited to explore a representation of the fragile and distant forest away from the bustling cities.

There is resonance with works by R. Murray Schafer, Horacio Vaggione and Chris Watson.

Christina Astle- Alvarez is an experimenting music producer and sound engineer with studio, music festival and live music events.

Please note that for this piece the participant shall be blindfolded and guided through the space by an assistant, and will need to wear headphones.

Thank-you to: Pets at Home, Noah’s Pet Store.

KATIE BRADLEY SPACE An audio exploration of space travel.

Katie Bradley is a producer from a live performance background with a keen interest in sound design, presenting her first solo audio installation. Combining original composition, narrative and sound design to create a fifteen minute radiophonic piece, SPACE aims to transport the listener lightyears away.

Drawing inspiration from Laurie Anderson’s ‘The End of the Moon’, SPACE displays the development in Katie’s skills within sound design and composition, utilising original NASA recordings within the piece to create a narrative.

The piece will be presented in quadraphonic surround within a darkened room to ensure an immersive listening experience.

JAMES BROOKSAlphabuttons

Alphabuttons is an interactive, educative, audiovisual piece. It will encourage children between the ages of three and five years old to learn the alphabet in an innovative way. The audiovisual, alongside the accompanying booklet will be used by the children either on their own or with the aid of parents, guardians or teachers. The twenty-six letters of Alphabuttons are clearly identified both in the audiovisual and in the booklet. Vividly coloured buttons and the technique of stop motion have been utilized to animate the buttons in chronological order. Firstly, the buttons will illustrate the letter, which will secondly morph into a pictorial object beginning with that letter.

DANIEL BRYANTSupernova

Supernova is a 6 track E.P producedby Urban Hip Hop and R&B producer Daniel Bryant. The stylish and modern R&B sound featured in this auditory work was influenced by producers Doc Mckinney, Illangeo and Noah “40” Shebib particularly in the works of albums titled House of balloons and Take Care.

The Body of work envelops the listener into a spacey reverb drenched sound world that follows the life cycle of a star as they ascend further away from their audience until they reach their final stage of extinction.

Producer and DJ Daniel Bryant has worked with artists from varying backgrounds and has worked for independent labels such as WhiteLab and Triangle House Records.

Credits

Produced by Daniel BryantPerformed by Ellite

MATTHEW BUGGINSHydrocarbon

Hydrocarbon is the first in a series of Prospector’s works that explores humanity’s addiction to the black gold that is crude oil. This work taken from the forthcoming album CRUDE explores the unique timbre of the internal combustion engine through Electroacoustic and Musique Concrete compositional approaches and production techniques.

Taking influence from Matthew Herbert’s One Pig project, WilliamBasinski’s Disintegration Loops and the works of Pierre Schaeffer, this work contemplates the cycle of oil’s impact on humanity and the implications for our environment and the fabric of modern society.

Matthew Buggins’ career to date extends over a twenty year period, working extensively but not exclusively within the genre of electronic dance music. With releases on notable labels such as Skint Records, EMI, Sony, Blueroom Released and Harthouse Germany.

Artwork by Ben Hunt, Vogarth Comix.

ADAM BURN / MARRS TV Panic

Adam Burn, better known in the music industry as Marrs TV has produced the album ‘Panic’ which features 9 tracks that focus on the underground side of electronic music whilst also emphasizing melody to create a more unique style of electronic club music. As producers are ever changing their sound in an attempt to stand out, it is important to have a fresh and notable style that reflects your own productions and ‘Panic’ is an effort to do that. Adam combines his skills of creating synthesized sounds together with recorded material and found sound.

Adam Burn is fast becoming an established name in electronic music with releases on such labels as Mutants, Harem Records, Neon Records and Tiesto’s Musical Freedom, also remixing for the likes of vocalist, Arlissa. Adam continues to release material on some of the industries biggest labels whilst always striving to create an enhanced sound.

SCOTT CHATTERTON Organ-nic

‘Organ-nic’. A multimedia presentation that takes the form of an electroacoustic composition made entirely from the sound created by fruit as it begins its journey in soil to how it is ultimately consumed.Melodies and rhythms will be perceived from the natural and processed that are integral part of the ‘Music’.

‘Organ-nic’ draws influences from various electroacoustic artists such as Mathew Herbert and Simon Emmerson but more particularly the works of Coldcut where compositions tones and textures are the result of recorded, acoustic, art of noise.

The piece is a complete departure for a composer and producer who has, for years, specialized in the creation of Pop and Rock music genres. Scott has previously worked with various artists in the popular music field throughout the 1980s and 1990s and more recently enjoyed introducing music and its technology to students in various colleges and schools.

JACK CHEETHAM Disparities

Disparities, is a three track EP that spans the rhythms and sound worlds of minimal techno, down-tempo, and ever-haunting electronica. The compositions explore the notion of ‘bittersweet’, through an investigation into the harmonic relationships of both melancholy and euphoria, thus ensuring a more nocturnal affair for the listener.

You are invited to interact with Kolektiv Organika’s debut EP in the space in which the material was recorded, mixed and mastered. Disparities draws influence from Bristol based trip hop trio Portishead, Danish maestro Anders Trentemøller, and ambient innovator Brian Eno, as well as resonating with various other artists concerning themselves within similar genres and fields of creative practice.

Jack works for Kolektiv Organika, which is an international musical and visual collective created in 2011 alongside Krzysztof Kryg and Antonia Lewis. The collective’s organic aesthetic consists of a mélange of live instrumentation, synthesized soundscapes and found-sound recordings. The sounds are processed using predominantly analogue hardware, thus remaining in keeping with the organic aesthetic associated with the group.

Jack focuses on promoting European musical culture, whilst encouraging both diversity andinnovation through multi-disciplinary artistic collaboration.

JAMIE CHORLEYVicarious

“vi·car·i·ous” (adj.)“Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another”

Our perceptions of a simple day-to-day life are guided and informed by our senses. These senses allow us to adequately fabricate an image of our surroundings, as well as to inform our sense of self. However, to experience the world through one’s own perspective merely offers a limited and one-dimensional view of our own existence. It can however be argued that such an issue could be remedied by the exploration of the sensory perspective of others. “Vicarious” addresses such a concept and places the listener into the audio sensory perspective of others through the use of binaural recordings.

Jamie Chorley, who founded his own productions company “Jamie Chorley Productions” in 2012, is a Preston based music producer and graphic designer. After receiving the National Diploma in Music Practice in 2010, he commenced his Bachelor Degree in Music Production at the University of Central Lancashire. Originally, specialised in Metal production, he is now exploring various musical genres, such as Ambient and Electronic. This is Chorley’s first exploration into the use of binaural microphone captured sound, leading into new creative outlets.

TIM CROMPTONBOXT

BOXT is a six track EP produced by Tim Crompton working under the pseudonym ‘OtherChannels’. Based in Preston, usually workingwithin genres such as IDM and Electroacoustic music. This EP was produced with a different stylistic approach.

BOXT integrates Hip-Hop with ambient and electronic elements using a combination of lo-fi and hi-fi sounds. Ambient basement recordings are contrasted by groove driven beats, melodic vocals, and saturated tape loops that give BOXT a very characteristic aesthetic. The creative use of a hardware sampler, cassette machine and old tape were the source of achieving a sound that is both unique and interesting.

The EP features guest artists Carl Brown (Foreign Floods) and Elizabeth Vince (Laekyn).

For more information visit:

https://soundcloud.com/otherchannels-1

JUSTAS DAUGINTISEbb & flow

Ebb & flow - is a collection of compositions, which encompass a blend of ethereal ambient soundscapes/textures, instrumental motifs and rhythmic elements. The above were created utilizing a selection of sound textures and timbres derived from a variety of live acoustic and electronic instruments as well as sampled sources. The overall aesthetic follows the lines of ambient/down-tempo/trip-hop genres.

Justas Daugintis is a music producer/composer, instrumentalist/improviser and sound designer. He has experience in various multi-disciplinaryprojects, ranging from sound/video installations to sound design for animations and theatre productions. This experience has enabled Justas to broaden his approach to creative work, which he incorporates into his musical compositions.

Credits:

Artwork: Dima Kalenda

More info:

https://soundcloud.com/justasd

ATANAS DINCHEVMusic of Movement

In recent years we have evolved the tools to not only collect, but to also analyze and a great deal of data from our surroundings.

This new realm of analysis is called “data visualization” and it aids us in understanding vast amounts of information. This audio-visual installation aims to inspire new ways of looking at that information.

Where every person is a potential artist in his ability to create different tools for expression of information. It transforms real time traffic information taken from the London Tube and re-maps it according to a perceptually relevant musical algorithm - creating a living composition device. What would you do with information?

Let us know: atanasdinchev@gmail.com

TOM ENTWISTLESound Stories

ANDREW FAIRCLOUGH / COLD READER Outsider Techno

Outsider Techno is a very personal work that explores notions of place and identity, and how music both evokes and represents both. Snapshots of a life, in auditory and visual forms are manipulated and de contextualised to create a textural work that documents the current state of an ongoing search for expression.

Utilising field recordings, found sound, organic instrumentation and virtual analogue synthesis, it presents a sound deeply influenced by years of listening to House, Techno and Ambient Electronica.Sounding at once familiar and unique, it’s positioned between the

dancefloor and home listener, and between the abstract and rigid.

It is hoped that presenting in this way will enable an audience not accustomed to listening to what tend to be thought of as experimental techniques, to engage more fully with them, perhaps providing a gatewayto further listening within the “art musics”.

Music from the outside, looking in.

JOE FOSSARDRevolve

The installation explores a changing compositional process using the computerised control of customised musical devices. These have been constructed with various materials from past projects, retaining a strict D.I.Y ethic, including turntables used in warehouse raves, microphones used by established artists and parts of musical instruments that otherwise could have been considered redundant.

This piece is the result of a combination of ideas, materials and influences accumulated throughout his career as a sound engineer since the mid eighties. He has produced albums, composed music and engineered a wide range of live events from live bands in stadiums to experimental sound installation.

MATTHEW FOSTER What is “Drum & Bass”?

What is “Drum & Bass”? is a documentary that explores certain aspects of the genre, including the electronic and live elements of this underground dance movement. The audience will be taken on an audio-visual journey through Drum & Bass, detailing the construction of the music and how it exists in our contemporary society. Matthew Foster has been passionate about Drum & Bass since discovering it nearly a decade ago. He produces under the moniker Sub:Conscious and has had his music featured on national radio shows including BBC 1Xtra and BBC 6Music. He is also a DJ and has been booked to support some of the scenes most prominent artists, with Dillinja, Photek and Calyx & Teebee being the biggest. He also runs ‘Relapse’, which has quickly become one of the most successful Drum & Bass club nights in the North West.

ANDREW GLASSFORDOrbis Deos

For thousands of years civilization used mythology and religion to help understand the world we inhabit. Contemporary society is underpinned by science and fundamental rules of physics as we understand it. “Orbis Deos” brings these two discussions together, taking inspiration from Holst’s “Planet Suite” and scientific information from our solar system. Andrew Glassford recreates the planetary system in his second multichannel speaker installation and he continues to explore this medium.

Andrew’s main focus of work entails the recording and producing of music in the folk genre including recent work collaborating with the Susie Jones Band. He has just begun his own producing and recording company working under the name Delta Glass Recordings.

VICTORIA GREAVES If Instruments Could Sing

Victoria is a musician, composer and producer. From the age of seven she has sung in several different choirs including some solo work. When she was a little older, she began learning piano and cornet; also eagerly taking up any opportunity to learn new instruments to expand her music knowledge. Victoria enjoys working with film music and vocal compositions and has been composing for many years.

Here we look at methods that can be used to produce different and unusual sounds by the human voice. Which, when executed efficiently, can sound like a variety of different musical instruments. These mimicked instrumental sounds can be comprised together to produce a vocal acoustic song. Essentially any song, classic or current, can be transformed into an acapella piece by imitating the instruments used with effective voice replicas. ‘If instruments could sing’, shows just what that would sound like.

ROBERT GREER / BOBBY ESMOND ‘It’s not what you know…’

Having worked in several groups whilst producing songs for various artists over the past 10 years, ‘it’s not what you know…’ is Bobby Esmond’s first production EP under this moniker. Alongside performing shows including Bestival, London’s O2 Arena, and in Germany, he has had releases on labels such as ‘Grand Central’ and ‘Playaz’ whilst receiving radio play on stations including BBC 1Xtra and BBC Radio 1.

‘Its not what you know…’ showcases one producer’s ventures in various areas of urban music through his own experiences, environment and influences whilst exploring how they interact with external artists lyrical ideas and performance styles when using instrumental elements of the songs as initial inspiration. In this way the EP creates an audio collage consisting of a variety of artists’ creative responses to one another’s work.

All music within the piece is written and produced by Bobby Esmond. The featured rappers were responsible for their own lyric writing. The external artists featured are Dr Syntax, Suave Debonair, Assa, Jay Madden, Dyson, Mia Wilson, Chronicle and Bill Sykes.

JAMIE GREY Conviction EP

‘Conviction’ is the new three track ambient electronica EP from ‘Cosmic Crow’, a musical moniker of musician and producer Jamie Grey.

This EP was created with the intention of reflecting the darker side of the urban landscape, and utilises found sound recorded around the city of Preston in order to convey this.

Jamie Grey has been involved in the composition and production of music since he was 14 years old, and has been producing ambient electronic music under the Cosmic Crow pseudonym for 3 years.

RICHARD T. HOLMESLAMENTS 20 / 2

A project of personal expression, Laments 20 / 2 is an audio/visual archive of examinations in personal expression.

Created using a variety of differing experimental techniques, methods and mediums, Laments 20 / 2 is a collection of twenty instrumental compositions, each two minutes in duration and accompanied by its own short film. The project explores a personal outlook on the world and the human condition, veering through sombrous, melancholic and mournful textures, while aiming to offer a sense of life-affirmation.

Richard T. Holmes is a music producer and multi-media artist from Lancashire, England. Working with music and film as an art form, he aims to evoke strong imagery, emotion and feeling in his work. Laments 20 / 2 is his first significant release, reflecting a personal creative vision.

Without art, we are only animals.

Follow on twitter: @RichardTHolmes

KEVIN HOLTWaiting For…

“Waiting is enchantment” – Roland Barthes

‘Waiting For…’ is an audio installation set in the space of a waiting room, where the participants will gain a unique insight of a waiting room with no one waiting. Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, ‘Waiting For…’ removes the question ‘What are we waiting for?’ and focuses on what it means to wait. The installation features subtle changes in the composition and alters depending on the presence of individuals engaging with the installation, turning participants into a key element of the composition, simply by waiting. Kevin Holt is predominantly an Electronic Dance Music producer, signed to Skjni Records and he is also a member of Preston band, ‘The Watch’. Kevin has had his productions used by companies such as Nokia and Solomon Freeski.

ANDREAS KAILAS Neurolee

About the performance:Neurolee, a live music performance project that was conceived three years ago, transmits the artist’s own musical influences with the exploration and use of emerging technologies and techniques. The performance contains a variety of music genres fused together through the use of live sampling, mixing and effecting. Additionally, the artist draws musical inspiration from genres such as Electronica, Jazz, Blues and Rock; the technical approach taken coincides with the likes of performers such as Richie Hawtin, Jeremy Ellis, Gramatik, Joris Voorn and Ean Golden. The audience is invited to experience a 29 minute long performance, in a uniquely shaped room.

About the artist:Andreas Kailas is a Greek-Cypriot music producer and live performer with an outstanding background as a DJ. He currently holds seven years of annual residencies and appearances in the most significant clubs and bars in Cyprus. Likewise, he performed in major cities around the UK such as Manchester, Sheffield and Brighton.

Credits:

Chrysostomos Iosifides – Graphic Designer

Kryzysztof KrygKilling the truth in TELEVATOR

TOM LEARMOUTHNEVO

SAM LORD / IDOL MINDS Sound Of My Soul

Idol Minds Debut single is a driving pop song aimed at todays Indie pop market with the intention of projecting them into the current scene and gain confidence as a new working band, after supporting big names such as Mcfly and members of the Smiths and The Jam.

The Sound of My Soul single launch will showcase an exclusive accompanying promotional video and free copies of the single, that also features a B side, entitled, Just another Dream. The video displays the band performing the track and excerpts of a local artist creating a painted canvas.

The exclusive video showcase is highly anticipated after a single launch party held in Morecambe in early April. All artwork and promotional material were also created by Sam Lord for this project as well as the event organisation.

MICHAEL MAGUIREHome Sweet Music

Michael Maguire presents a musically constructed piece developed from found sound orientated samples captured in a particular audio landscape.

‘The Home’, for many their musical history is developed whilst living at home, and many draw their inspiration from within their own home. The un-noticed sounds within our home are unique for their own right, edited to retain the aesthetic qualities and presented in a musical composition this acousmatic performance is designed to allow a never before realisation of the musical qualities these unique samples withhold.

With a computer based composition of electronic synthesizers and the unique home microphone captured sound, you are invited to indulge in a deeper listening of arcane everyday sounds that would have other wise been unappreciated.

RYAN MORRISON‘Ignorance’

This installation is an auditory representation of how people are often unnoticed at times of tragedy and desperation. Exploring the notion of texture and mood created through a vocal performance, it will challenge the listener’s ability to differentiate between testimonies of a contrasting nature.The testimonies will be played simultaneously through a multi-channel speaker installation in a dark environment.

Ryan Morrison is a creative practitioner and multi-instrumentalist specialising in ambient soundscapes, working within composition and sound design for games, animations and audio/visual exhibitions.

JULIA NEUBAUERFrame-by-Frame An exploration of texture and colour

Frame-by-frame utilizes methods of direct animation with time manipulation techniques, in an audio-visual installation. 16mm film leader was painted with inks & acrylics and scratched, to create a piece capturing unique images exploring texture and colour. The films of Len Lye, Norman McLaren and Jose Antonio Sistiaga, particularly inspired the artist to work in this medium. The audio composition in the installation was developed with the sounds of the film projector and the hand crafted processing techniques. These were recorded and manipulated, to construct an experimental soundscape in surround sound.

Julia Neubauer is an audio-visual artist with a strong interest in non-conventional filmmaking techniques and experimental music production. Previous works such as ‘I am the Beach’, have explored the creative use of found sound, location recording and time manipulation. She is currently working as a freelance producer and composer across Europe.

SAM NOLANRecording Rejection

Recording Rejection is an installation that intentionally exploits a number of conventionally undesirable characteristics inherent in both the audio recording and playback process to create a performance that can only be experienced in full by the audience in physical attendance.

The process of phase cancellation serves as a key element in this installation. Audience members will initially be invited to preview the ongoing performance via a live audio stream captured by a number of microphones located within the exhibition space. The same audience will then be invited to experience the multi-speaker performance in person from within the exhibition space, allowing them to experience elements of the live sound that the microphones are unable to capture.

Sam Nolan is a Suffolk based recording artist specialising in both the sound and technology associated with recordings of the 1970s and 80s. Experimentation with hardware electronic instruments is present in his compositional work and this piece demonstrates that interest for real world processes appropriated for the purposes of an installation.

MARIOS ORFANIDESDeep concentration and relaxation

You are invited to the presentation of ‘Deep concentration and relaxation’, a soundscape composition, which explores sounds of nature and binaural beats. Have a seat, feel comfortable, put on the headphones and enjoy the audio experience, which will ‘travel’ you to the world of Binaural Beats and its effects to the brainwaves.

Inspired by Fred Bouchal’s ‘Relaxing Music and deep Sleep’.

Marios has devoted himself to music from an early age, by studying and learning the theory and harmony of music. He has been thought piano and voice performance lessons and he has so far collaborated with professional musicians and producers. Marios is a music producer – composer and musician, who is currently exploring and experimenting to the field of sound perception. He has undertaken research related to Music Therapy as an alternative treatment, primarily for mood disorders and other psychological diseases.

JORDAN PARTRIDGE Urban Gothic

This piece showcases four of the artist’s original compositions, created to feature in an innovative audio-visual project. Drawing on the discourses of contemporary gothic, this project seeks to provide a lens through which to view beneath the cosmetic, superficiality of a society and culture that has sought to turn away from depression, death and decay. The aim of the piece is to take the listener from a place of familiar surface comfort to the dark corners of modern life, the physical post-industrial wasteland of urban decay that speaks of unemployment, exploitation, decay, and death.

Jordan Partridge is a practising electronic musician performing under the alias ‘Decyfer’. He has several releases on various record labels and has featured on a number of stations, such as BBC Radio 1, XFM (Mary Anne Hobbs), and Rinse.FM, with DJ support from, for example, Groove Armada, Claude VonStroke, Marcus Nasty, and Foamo.

MATTHEW RYDEROnce, In Wonderland...

Welcome! to Mr Mymble’s psychedelic journey through sound. A sonic adventure through varying forms of contemporary, psychedelic music; ‘Once, In Wonderland...’ is a linked series of compositions that draw upon the narrative of Lewis Carroll’s children’s book, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, to direct the course of the music. Behind all the silliness and nonsense lies a more serious exploration of sound. The ability to capture and/or generate a sound within an electronic medium opens up vast worlds of potential for the reproduction and enhancement of these frozen moments of time. From the innovative works of Pierre Schaeffer and Musique Conrete, to the studio experimentation of The Beatles to modern day electronic artists, people are seeking to understand sound in this new state and effecting it in such a way that could otherwise never be found within our normally perceived ‘reality’.

These ‘slices of reality’ have become something of an obsession for Mr Mymble and will undoubtedly be the focus of much of his coming future work. Now, if you’d like to come in, be comfortable, we’d love to tell you a tale. Once, in Wonderland...

Image credits:

Alice in Wonderland by Jonas Joedicke

Deviant Art - http://sanguisgelidus.deviantart.com/

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/JojoesArt

KAINE SMITHShades of Past

Shades of Past is a thirty five minute album with a full length music video, encompassing the notion of freedom whilst prompting the listener/viewer to perceive long-distance travelling as an enjoyable experience. ‘Shades of Past’ sonically references the ‘road music’ found in the late-1960s and early-1970s with a distinct mix of Rock, Country and Blues. The visual aspect of this project is a video of a 100-mile drive, through the picturesque scenery of England and Wales, which once merged with the soundtrack creates a...

Kaine is a Rock guitarist who has played in Rock and Metal over the past 8 years. On this project, after influence from Tame Impala’s ‘one-man band’ first album, he decided to go for a solo approach, playing all instruments. Kaine was also the driver for the journey of which the footage was taken.

THOMAS STARKIEChair

Thomas Starkie invites the viewer to ‘Chair’, an audio installation that explores the concept of sound as a by-product of another medium. By moving between two spaces, the viewer is encouraged to draw a comparison between the two compositions each played in their own space. The aim is to highlight the sonic differences between the capitalized, monotonous world of mass production and that of creating something hand made.

The recordings for one piece where taken whilst building a chair at home, with no time limit or agenda, these recordings where then arranged and sampled to create a piece with no two parts the same. While the other is a recording from a factory, with minimal compositional factors from the creator, implying we have no control over the products we get from a mass-produced source.

Thomas is a music producer from a recording based background who, throughout his studies has come to appreciate the unique timbres of ‘found sound’ and utilizes them amongst his own compositions for percussive elements.

JONATHAN THOMSONPaled For Pleasure EP

Under the pseudonym Iain Feeko, Jonathan Thomson explores the notions of expressionism and surrealism in which he presents a concept which enables the listener to experience the mind of his created character Iain Feeko from a surrealistic and somewhat voyeuristic point of view. Paled For Pleasure is a four track EP created by Jonathan for his first official musical act known as Brain Dump. Combining elements of Industrial Metal and punk with an abundant mix of electronic drums and beats from all electronic genres, whilst also drawing inspiration from producers ranging from the underground (Robert Tubb of Cursor Miner) to the world renowned (Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails). Brain Dump will offer you an unusual tour of an alternative mind.

Jonathan Thomson is a freelance producer and founder of Mucky Pup Recordings. A small and newly starting independent music label which focuses on all genresof electronic music.

PHIL THOMSONRefraction

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde

An Artist often only shows the confluence of their experiences,loves, admiration and influence. When the fluidity of synthesis detains the volition, what is omitted? Direct music through a prism and identify the refractive quality of musical identity. If each influence was not limited by its cohort or medium, and given its own stage, where would it take its opportunity.This is not an attempt to explain art, rather an exploration of how ideas, moments and limitations come to a resolve.

Phil Thomson is a producer and sound enthusiast with an untamed interest in the social implications of our audio landscape.

MATTHEW WARBURTONA Familiar Evil

Matthew Warburton is a freelance musician and music producer, who over the last couple of years has gained an abundant appreciation for the “Dub” style of production. He is currently working in numerous projects surrounding the genres of Dub, Reggae, Punk and Ska Music.

A Familiar Evil is a chronicling of his influences towards these projects and explores an uncommon avenue of dub production using digital software based processes. It explores the art of the “groove” within music, the use of delay units, heavily driven rhythm and bass sections, as well as subtle melodies to create an undulating soundscape across different and diverse musical styles conveying the narrative with the music as opposed to the vocal line.

A Familiar Evil is a collection of works mixed as an EP containing a mixture of samples, live instruments and synthesis. You are invited to join in and listen on one of the available listening stations. While the length of your participation isn’t determined, it would be appreciated for all to engage with the material.

TOM WATHERSTONLast Orders

AARON WILLIAMSIndividuation

“Individuation” invites us to consider the drastic effect that certain aspects of our childhood has upon our emotional and cognitive development, and the holistic benefits that exploring and examining ones former self can present us with.

These ideas are presented to the viewer through examinations of the artist’s own childhood via the use of VHS home films, accompanied by digital manipulation of Phillip Larkin’s poem ‘This Be The Verse’.

Aaron Williams is an artist from the North West of England. His first foray into music was as a small child; blistering his stubby digits on an offensively fashioned half size acoustic guitar, eventually he discovered and was forced to study classical guitar and Jazz. These experiences (amongst others) traumatised the child and led him to reject traditional instrumental approaches, as well as leaving him tragically unable to express himself in anything other than the third person.

ALEX WISEMANSink or Swim?

Sink or Swim is a short film aiming to pay homage to silent films of the early 1900s while embracing modern digital technologies. The film was shot with and is composed completely of footage captured using a head mounted camera.

The film invites the audience to follow our protagonist on a seemingly everyday journey however as the film draws to an end you are left to decide, sink or swim?

Alex Wiseman is musician and film maker from Liverpool. Primarily working as a singer/songwriter under the pseudonym SpiritBEAR, he often branches out into other areas of work including film making and writing as a means of finding new inspiration to draw from.

HARRY WOODROWWoodwork

Woodwork is an audio installation featuring sounds created using instruments which have been constructed through drawing on a range of influences, from homemade blues instruments to the unique monochord improvisations of Max Eastley. The piece explores a selection of playing techniques, experimenting with the capabilities of the instruments. The sounds have then been recorded and processed in order to create an extended and structured arrangement which gradually builds in texture, mirroring the process of building the instruments. The melodic and harmonic form within the arrangement utilises improvisational techniques, working around the microtonal scales produced by the instruments and the interaction of sounds when layered together.The piece has been created and performed by music producer and instrumentalist, Harry Woodrow, who expands upon his keen interest in sonic art and exploration of innovative sound creation.

SWERVE SCHEDULE 2013 Media Factory PR1 1JN Weds 15 - Fri 17 May Doors 6pm

FRI 17 6PM - 10PM MEDIA FACTORY

Matthew Buggins Hydrocarbon Theatre 1Jamie Grey Conviction Theatre 1 Kaine Smith Shades of Past Theatre 1Andreas Kailas Neurolee Theatre 1Julia Neubauer Frame-by-Frame Theatre 2Victoria Greaves If Instruments Could Sing Theatre 2Tom Watherston Last Orders Theatre 2Thomas Learmouth Neuo Theatre 2 Andrew Fairclough Outsider Techno Main TheatreRichard Holmes Laments 20 / 2 Main TheatreMatthew Ryder Once, In Wonderland… Main TheatrePhilip Thomson Refraction ME011Matthew Warburton A Familiar Evil ME011Sam Nolan Recording Rejection ME011Krzysztof Kryg Killing The Truth TELEVATOR Ground Floor Lift

THURS 16 6PM - 10PM MEDIA FACTORY

Adam Burn Panic Theatre 1Timothy Crompton BOXT Theatre 1Matthew Foster What is “Drum & Bass”? Theatre 1Robert Greer It’s not what you know Theatre 1Harry Woodrow Woodwork Theatre 1Katie Bradley SPACE Theatre 2Thomas Entwistle Sound Stories Theatre 2Kevin Holt Waiting for… Theatre 2Aaron Williams Individuation Theatre 2Atanas Dinchev Music of Movement ME011Joseph Fossard Revolve ME011Jack Cheetham Disparities Studio 1Jonathan Thomson Paled For Pleasure Studio 2Marios Orfanides Deep concentration ME016 and relaxation

WEDS 15 6PM - 10PM MEDIA FACTORY

Daniel Bryant Supernova Theatre 1Justas Daugintis ebb & flow Theatre 1Samuel Lord Sound of my Soul Theatre 1Jordan Partridge Urban Gothic Theatre 1Alexander Wiseman Sink or Swim? Theatre 1Christina Astle-alvarez Fragile Theatre 2Andrew Glassford Orbis Deos Theatre 2Michael Maguire Home Sweet Music Theatre 2Ryan Morrison Ignorance Theatre 2Scott Chatterton Organ-nic ME011 Jamie Chorley Vicarious ME011James Brooks Alphabuttons ME011Thomas Starkie Chair ME109