THE COVE Park artist residency centre is to hold the Lights Out Listening Group, hosted by resident artist Mark Vernon, tonight at 6.30pm.
Normally based in Glasgow, Lights Out Listening Group is an event that takes place in almost complete darkness.
For the special taster event at Cove Park, Vernon has selected pieces from the Lights Out Listening Group’s archives that range from sound art and spoken word to experimental music and radio works.
Tuesday’s programme will include underwater singing, a duet with a Hydram pump, the close up snuffling of a Pekingese dog, vocalisations in the Hamilton Mausoleum with its 15-second echo, a sonic tour of the last brewery in Alloa, a recreation of the sounds heard by tinnitus sufferers, cleaning rituals, iPod shufflings, the destruction of a piano and Michael Bay’s ASMR relaxation tape.
This is the first in a series of monthly Hands-On events this summer that offers you the opportunity to meet some of the more than thirty artists resident at Cove Park.
covepark.org
SCOTTISH composer Claire M Singer has received an Oram Award from the PRS Foundation and New BBC Radiophonic Workshop in recognition of her "innovation in sound and music".
The award was given to eight selected female artists: Claire M Singer, Elvin Brandhi, Kathy Hinde, Klein, Mary Stark, Ewa Justka, Sally Golding and Shelly Knotts.
The award is named after Daphne Oram, one of the founding members of the original BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The awards ceremony took place on Saturday at the Turner Contemporary in Margate as part of Canterbury Christchurch University’s Oscillate Festival.
Singer, pictured, is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music recently focusing on performing a mix of organ, cello and electronics. Her debut album Solas was released in June 2016.
clairemsinger.com
THE SCREEN Machine is celebrating a refurbishment with a trip to the Isle of Arran this week.
The mobile cinema has a new hi-tech digital projector, and a new livery devised by Highland-based designer Tristram Woolston. From today to Friday the Screen Machine will be in Brodick with a programme of the blockbusters, favourite classics and an Expanded Cinema screening of The Illusionist. For the first time, Screen Machine will be accompanied by the Travelling Gallery, Scotland’s mobile contemporary art exhibition space.
Owned and operated by Regional Screen Scotland, the 80-seater has been constantly on the road since it launched in 2005, bringing the magic of Hollywood and independent movies to communities from Barra to Bettyhill.
The full refit took place in France at its original builders Toutenkamion, the creators of cinemobiles.
screenmachine.co.uk
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