Past event: audiograft
This event has now finished. Please see our events website for details of upcoming events at Brookes.
Tuesday 28 February 2012 19:00 - Saturday 3 March 2012 22:30
Open to all
Location
Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Campus
Modern Art Oxford, Old Fire Station, Holywell Music Room, Jacqueline DuPre Concert Hall
Details
audiograft is an annual festival of Contemporary Experimental Music and Sound Art curated by the Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) at Oxford Brookes University. The festival aims to engage the widest possible audience from Oxford and beyond with the challenging contemporary practices that are the focus of the Research Unit. SARU provides a focus for dialogue between the fields of Composition and Sound Art; including acousmatic, collaborative, electroacoustic, experimental, interdisciplinary and site-specific practices alongside engagement with field recording, and soundscape studies. Creative Practitioners based at the SARU are involved in a wide range of Sound-based research including investigations of the domestic soundscape, our everyday encounter with sound, experimental approaches to composition, improvisation, the creation of kinetic sound art, the use of geophones to record subterranean sound, transforming found sound with MaxMSP and PureData, exploring the auditory and cultural life of obsolete technology and creating sound sound-making devices using Lego.
audiograft 2012 includes performances and installations at Modern Art Oxford, the Holywell Music Room and the Jacqueline DuPre Concert Hall, an exhibition curated by Compost and Height at the Old Fire Station, and installations on the Headington Hill Campus. The festival launch on 29 February will feature a performance of John Cage's iconic aleatoric composition Cartridge Music directed by Stephen Cornford from SARU.
Artists featured at Audiograft 2012 include Ray Lee, Max Eastley, Trevor Wishart, Stephen Cornford, Ben Gwilliam, Compost and Height, [rout], Paul Dibley, Lee Patterson, Rob Curgenven, Jason Kahn, Paul Whitty and many more… Full details of the Festival can be found on the audiograft website.
This event will be recorded and a podcast made available post event.
