Hello You. Very excited to announce a two day Howlround residency taking place 11th-12 May at project DIVFUSE in Hackney, both days consisting of a daytime workshop/installation/loop creation session (free to anyone who would like to come along and contribute!) and then a performance in the evening of the day’s recordings, for which limited tickets are available. All are welcome and warmly encouraged to drop in at some point over the weekend and contribute their voices (or indeed any other intriguing sonic material in their possession) to the proceedings. Then in the evening we’ll survey the beautiful wreckage and transform the surviving loops into some kind of performance. Having hosted recent installations at the behest of such luminaries as Hackoustic, the Royal College of Music and the state51 conspiracy, I can assure you that it will provide strange noisy fun for the entire family in the daytime and make for an eerie, otherworldy soundscape once the sun goes down. Further details and tickets can be found here.
From the press release: The installation will consist of an ‘eternal choir’ created by a series of vocal recordings made on a single tape loop stretched across the project space and running continuously throughout the day (or at least until it finally disintegrates and a new one takes over). Visitors and participants will be invited to listen in then contribute their own voices, the only instruction being that they harmonise with whatever was on the loop before them. Removing the tape machine’s erase head from the equation means that theoretically it should be possible to build up multiple layers of interlocking voices that blend, morph and disintegrate together before your very ears. Although given that this is vintage technology, nothing is ever certain. What we can guarantee is that we’ll create sounds that nobody else has ever made before and we’ll create them together. Both days will culminate in an evening performance featuring all the tape loops that have survived.
Robin The Fog 