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Chris Watson on Sound Mind | 5th April 2018

April 19, 2018 » Permalink: Chris Watson on Sound Mind | 5th April 2018

Graham Duff interviews Chris Watson, about his groundbreaking work with the experimental music groups Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio, his career as one of the world’s most celebrated wildlife recordists, his albums of field recordings released on the Touch label and his new site specific sound installation ‘No Man’s Land’. Contains extensive examples of both Watson’s music and field recordings. Headphone listening recommended throughout.

totallyradio.com/shows/sound-mind/episodes/sound-mind-chris-watson

A River of Steel | BBC Radio 4 1st & 7th May 2018

April 16, 2018 » Permalink: A River of Steel | BBC Radio 4 1st & 7th May 2018

There’s another chance to hear A River of Steel which was first broadcast in 2016, on BBC Radio 4 on Tue 1 May at 11.02am and Monday 7 May at 21:02.

Chris Watson returns to Sheffield, the city of his birth to follow the course of its rivers across landscape and time in a tale of industrial development, little mesters and steel blades. Producer Sarah Blunt.

No Man’s Land; Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts | Brighton Tuesday 27th March – Friday 13th April

March 28, 2018 » Permalink: No Man’s Land; Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts | Brighton Tuesday 27th March – Friday 13th April

No Man’s Land is an audio installation celebrating the sounds, rhythms and music of the world’s seas and oceans.

No Man’s Land is at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts until Fri 13 Apr.

Interview for BN1 magazine can be read here

Sound Mind: Graham Duff interviews Chris Watson, about his groundbreaking work with the experimental music groups Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio, his career as one of the world’s most celebrated wildlife recordists, his albums of field recordings released on the Touch label and his new site specific sound installation ‘No Man’s Land’. Contains extensive examples of both Watson’s music and field recordings. Headphone listening recommended throughout.

Future Science, Leeds | 8th March 2018

March 6, 2018 » Permalink: Future Science, Leeds | 8th March 2018

Alan Dunn writes:

“For the past 10 years, Chris has been working with visual arts students at Leeds Beckett University and artist Alan Dunn on a series of sound recording projects. Last year they collaborated with the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and Noise Orchestra on the ‘Journey through the Mirror Pool’ installation and this year are developing new audio content as part of the LATES: FUTURE SCIENCE event on Thursday 8th March. Students from across the School of Art, Architecture and Design, along with artist Louise K. Wilson and students from University of Leeds have been exploring the theme of engineering through recordings of burning Brazil nuts, rust and beds of sand”

www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/lates

You can see more photos here

Surrey Moog Symposium | 3rd February 2018

January 22, 2018 » Permalink: Surrey Moog Symposium | 3rd February 2018

The Surrey Moog Symposium 2018 will take place on 3rd Feb 2018 in PATS Studio 1 at the University of Surrey, Guildford. Surrey’s Department of Music and Media, in collaboration with the Moog Soundlab UK and Moog Music Inc. (USA) will present a day of performances and discussions celebrating the life and legacy of Dr Robert ‘Bob’ Moog and the lasting impact of his sound synthesisers.

The Symposium will feature live performances by Chris Watson, using modular sound processing systems and recordings of New York environments, Chris Carter will give his second live performance using his own new modular system, and one of the world’s leading authorities on electronic music, Thom Holmes will present the symposium’s keynote lecture “The Sound of Moog”.

www.chriscarter.co.uk www.thomholmes.com/Noise_and_Notations/About_Thom_Holmes.html

Chris Watson’s performance will be supported by Finlay Shakespeare.

The symposium also marks the launch of the new Moog Recording Library record label, who release a series of new recordings on vinyl of work created with the Moog Soundlab UK over the past three years.

The Symposium will also feature a roundtable discussion Bob Moog and the “living machines”, and live demonstrations of the Moog Soundlab UK and new modular-synthesis developments by Finlay Shakespeare.

Only 200 tickets are available.

Details of all events and online tickets sales:

www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/music/20180203-moog-symposium

Surrey Moog Symposium 2018 PressRelease

Interview Ina/GRM | Paris, France

January 20, 2018 » Permalink: Interview Ina/GRM | Paris, France

Soniccouture Releases Haunted Spaces for NKS / Kontakt Player

December 20, 2017 » Permalink: Soniccouture Releases Haunted Spaces for NKS / Kontakt Player

RECORDINGS BY CHRIS WATSON VECTOR SYNTHESIS
400+ PRESETS
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The idea that certain places take on the weight of past events is familiar to all of us. Renowned field recordist Chris Watson has spent years collecting audio recordings from such places in one of his most personal projects.

Ancient Temples, Ice Lagoons, Cold War Bases, Abandoned Silver Mines, Power Stations, Cathedrals, Canyons, Underwater Tunnels, Deserted Art Galleries and Maori Burial Caves all feature in this unique instrument.

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soniccouture.com/en/products/28-rare-and-experimental/g60-haunted- spaces/

Pat Collins – “Twilight” | Ireland 9th September 2017 – 28th January 2018

September 27, 2017 » Permalink: Pat Collins – “Twilight” | Ireland 9th September 2017 – 28th January 2018

Pat Collins
Twilight
9th September 2017 – 28th January 2018

Twilight was filmed by Collins over 2 years close to Baltimore in West Cork, with field recordings by world renowned sound artist Chris Watson. The film has twilight as its central subject and is an attempt to capture the colour and quality of light that is in flux, the fleeting and transient sensations, the sense of the world turning. At its heart is the notion of a film where the viewer is given time to contemplate the texture of the world and their own place in it.

“The sound near where we filmed has few intrusions from the modern world. We could hear the gulls in the distance – though they seemed too far away to be heard. After the sun goes down, here on the southern edge of Ireland, in mid summer, all sounds still and silent – not so much as if the world is holding its breath but as if it is breathing peacefully”.

exhibitions/info/twilight

Environmental Sound Recording Masterclass, Wired Lab | Australia October 2017

September 27, 2017 » Permalink: Environmental Sound Recording Masterclass, Wired Lab | Australia October 2017

SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER 2017
THE 2017 WIRED OPEN DAY FESTIVAL & The ‘agri(culture)’ Project

WEDNESDAY 25th OCTOBER – SUNDAY 29th OCTOBER, 2017
WILD LAB : KOSCIUSZKO – ENVIRONMENTAL SOUND RECORDING MASTERCLASS WITH CHRIS WATSON (UK)

The Wired Lab is hugely proud to be presenting the first Australian Wilderness based workshop with Chris Watson (UK), a seminal field recordist and sound artist.

This four-day intensive field recording masterclass explores audio documentation in a range of natural habitats via various recording techniques and technologies, through to the application of these sounds in fields spanning the arts, film/screen, environmental sciences, gaming, VR, music and sound design.

Co-facilitating the workshop will be David Burraston. David is a recent Watson collaborator, 2017 Create NSW Fellow and founding member of The Wired Lab.

Joining Watson and Burraston will be zoologist and acoustic monitoring guru Chris Watson (AU) who was part of the team that recently re-discovered the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis), a bird endemic to Australia that was thought to be extinct.

CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER WORKSHOP AND BOOKING INFORMATION

Sounds of the City – Seminar with Jana Winderen & Chris Watson | The Munch Museum | 22nd September 2017

September 20, 2017 » Permalink: Sounds of the City – Seminar with Jana Winderen & Chris Watson | The Munch Museum | 22nd September 2017

Oslo has a diverse soundscape – what’s your favourite sound in the city? What can we learn about our cities by listening? Get to know Jana Winderen and Chris Watson’s artistic practices through the seminar Sounds of the City.

Chris Watson will be presenting the sound installation “Inside the Circle of Fire: A Sheffield Sound Map”, and Jana Winderen will be giving an introduction to her work with examples from her recordings of fish, seals, crustaceans and insects under water, and ultrasound recordings of bats and rats. The seminar will culminate in a conversation between Winderen and Watson, opening the discussion up to the audience.

The seminar will be held in English. It is free to attend, and everyone will receive a complimentary copy of the publication “Jana Winderen, Rats – Secret Soundscapes of the City”. Entry to the Munch Museum from kl. 13.30.

“Sounds of the City” is held in connection with Jana Winderen’s most recent project “Rats – Secret Soundscapes of the City”, a sound installation under the bridge in Trelastgata 1 in Bjørvika. Winderen’s project is part of a collaboration between the Munch Museum and nyMusikk.

More information here

The Longplayer Conversation 2017

September 6, 2017 » Permalink: The Longplayer Conversation 2017

The 2017 Longplayer Conversation, between Chris Watson and Sir David Attenborough, will take place from 7pm on Monday 27th November at the Knowledge Centre, British Library, London NW1.

longplayer.org/conversations/the-longplayer-conversation-2017/
bl.uk/events/the-longplayer-conversation-chris-watson-and-david-attenborough