SOUND MUSIC ROBOT :: a sound improvisation

A collaborative project, with artists Alex McKechnie, David Rogers and Adrian Newton improvising live electronic sound on the theme of world religions.

Joined on stage by Muffy, who will be listening to what they are playing and responding with sounds and images. Muffy is a piece of DIY software, designed to improvise sounds and images in response to live musicians.

SOUND : MUSIC : ROBOT from David Rogers on Vimeo.

Thursday 18th August 18.00 – 20.00
The Methodist Chapel, West Bay, Bridport, DT6 4EN
Directions

sounds of the Neolithic CD download

Produced 4 track sounds of the Neolithic CD download on Bandcamp.

Link to download :: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-the-neolithic

Recorded as part of Land Bone & Stone
South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership, Heritage Lottery Funded Project

produced by David Rogers
at DIVAcontemporary STUDIO, Bridport, Dorset

IDCD 2016 CD download

Produced 5 track (plus bonus items) International Dawn Chorus Day 2016 CD download on Bandcamp.

Link to download :: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/international-dawn-chorus-day-2016

Recorded as part of S O U N D C A M P :: Reveil 24 hour live Broadcast, on WAVE Farm USA and Resonance FM UK.

images by Julia Hutton | Mandy Rathbone | ivon oates | Nigel Slight | David Rogers

produced by David Rogers
at DIVAcontemporary STUDIO, Bridport, Dorset UKa big thank you to SoundCamp [soundtent.org] – Dawn Scarfe, Grant Smith and Maria Popadomanolaki for the opportunity to be part of this years project.

S O U N D C A M P supported by Arts Council England, B3Media, Heritage Lottery Fund, Southwark Neighbourhoods Fund, private supporters, SHED, DIVAcontemporary STUDIO.

sonic coast :: sounding shore 2016

Whitstable Biennale 2016
Saturday 4th June 11am-5pm on the beach near Keams Yard

Collaborative project, with Marcus Leadley and Mandy Rathbone, part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite programme.

link to programme notes

Channel 1 : Live Performance
Xylitol • Nemeton [Adrian Newton] • Lab of Sonic Possibilities [Tansy Spinks and Iris Garrelfs] • Greg McLaren • Emmanuel Spinelli • Luke Scott and Lewis Wolstanholme • Douglas Benford • Daniel Ross • Ingrid Plum • Charles Vaughan and Tim Gardiner

Channel 2 : Recordings
Magz Hall • David Rogers • Marcus Leadley • John Levack Drever • Rob Mackay • ivon oates • Marjorie Van Halteren & Jeff Gburek • Benjamin Dallimore-Symonds • Jasmine Guffond • Jon Pigram • Rob Mackay • Jess Irvine • Mandy Rathbone • Salad Producer

supported by

and DIVAcontemporary STUDIO [Dorset]

Observation 1 by Marc Yeats

Audio and video documentation (with Mandy Rathbone) in St. Thomas’ Church, Lymington, Hampshire.

Link to listen.

Marc Yeats Composer-in-Residence to SPUD’s The Observatory at Winchester Science Park.

S O U N D C A M P 2016

Link to download audio.

David Rogers [electricbackroom] will be hosting a ‘SoundCamp’ in and around DIVAcontemporary STUDIO on Sunday 1st May beginning at 5am. David Rogers will be working with Mandy Rathbone, ivon oates, Victoria Pirie and invited artists.

‘SoundCamp’ is a series of outdoor listening events on International Dawn Chorus Day, linked by Reveil: a 24 hour broadcast of the sounds of daybreak, relayed live by audio streamers around the globe.

Reveil broadcast: 05.00 on 30 Apr – 06.00 UTC+1 on 1 May 2016

Further details about ‘SoundCamp :: International Dawn Chorus Day 2016’.

SoundCamp is coordinated in London by:
Grant Smith self-noise.net
Maria Papadomanolaki voice sound text
Kirsty Collander Brown Roundhouse
Dawn Scarfe

Listen online at Wave Farm Radio, Acra, NY https://wavefarm.org/listen or http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/reveil.mp3.m3u and participating stations.

Use the #Reveil2016 hashtag to join us online.

Soundcamp 2016 is supported by Arts Council England, B3Media, Heritage Lottery Fund, Southwark Neighbourhoods Fund, private supporters, SHED.

All Work and No Play :: Bob the Farmer

‘Bob the Farmer’ an oral history recording, recorded and produced, has been included in ‘All Work and No Play’ an exhibition at the People’s History Museum, Manchester.

All Work and No Play
Responses to Grafters: Industrial society in image and word
5 March 2016 — 17 April 2016
People’s History Museum
Left Bank
Spinningfields
Manchester M3 3ER

DADA nights

Curated a programme of work from associate artists and more marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Cabaret Voltaire.

Link to download.

PNEM Sound Art Festival 2015/16

Sound piece ‘Dungeness Tower’ featured in PNEM Sound Art Festival 2015 and 2016 ‘The Wood Walk Experience’. http://www.soundartfestival.nl/2015.html#59

click on issuu see more below for 2016 festival wood walk publicity.

PNEM Sound Art Festival 2015
Saturday 14 + Sunday 15 November
The festival is located in Uden in the south of The Netherlands, close to the borders of Belgium (Eindhoven) and Germany (Nijmegen). An international platform of new experimental music, noise and sound installations, acoustic and electronic, performance and visual music made by today’s talent.

‘The Wood Walk Experience’ has grown into an app, which can be heard now on 365 days a year in the nearby woods. The first artists will be: Alan Dunn UK, Barry O’Halloran IE, Bart van Dongen NL, David Prescott-Steed AU, David Rogers UK, Sam Marshall UK, Katherine Trimble USA, Osvaldo Cibils IT, Sandrine Deumier and Alx P.op FR and Simon Perez AR.

sonic coast :: sound week

sonic coast :: sound week programmed and facilitated a week of sound events, including sound walks, audio workshops, listening walks and ‘in conversation’ (live studio and broadcast event). Link to documentation.
A DIVAcontemporary Studio project.