photography by Callum Sherriff

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James Saunders

instruments with recordings (2012)

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Kid Smpl

Promise Emulation A/V (2017, world premiere - a VIRTUALLYREALITY commission)

 

John Cage

Radio Music  (1956)

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Aaron Parker

51°12’N/0°55’W–280615  (2015)

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MICHAELBRAILEY

Intimacy Negator (Feel Me) (A/V version) (2017, world premiere)

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performers:

Dave Bainbridge (electric guitar, James Saunders; electric guitar, Aaron Parker)

Izzy Williams (tenor saxophone, James Saunders; radio, John Cage)

Kathy Hart (clarinet, James Saunders)

Nate Chivers (electric guitar, James Saunders; radio, John Cage)

Sean Clarke (live visuals, James Saunders)

Callum Coomber (radio, John Cage)

George Burrage (radio, John Cage)

Aaron Parker

SGNL (live visuals, Aaron Parker)

MICHAELBRAILEY

Idiotbox (visuals, MICHAELBRAILEY)

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Music concerning itself with location and de-location is the focus for our second event at Manchester's primary hub for projection mapping, Texture.

VIRTUALLYREALITY teams up with electronic music producer Kid Smpl's net-label and music series DISPLAY (sub-label of the Kastle-helmed Symbols) to bring two new tracks to live fruition. Kid Smpl's 'Promise Emulation' is presented alongside a specially-commissioned live visual from the artist himself, where computer-generated environments constructed in video-game engine Unity pulse & flash in accordance with the original track's inbuilt dynamics and frequencies.

 

Additionally, MICHAELBRAILEY's 'Intimacy Negator (Feel Me)' is re-interpreted live by the artist, alongside google-earth-gleaned visuals made in collaboration with Idiotbox.

Also featured is Aaron Parker's '51°12’N/0°55’W–280615', John Cage's seminal 'Radio Music' and a new version of James Saunders' 'instruments with recordings', all performed by students of the Royal Northern College of Music. Performances are accompanied by live visual work by Manchester-based artists SGNL and Sean Clarke. 

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