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This year’s edition of Full of Noises takes place over a single Saturday in October, bringing new music and sounds to the unique surroundings of the Furness Peninsula. In Barrow market, SoundCamp (Maria Papadomanolaki, Dawn Scarfe, Grant Smith) present work from their research residency with South Walney Nature Reserve alongside vintage text adventures from Domestic Science and a special @ShrimpingIt workshop exploring ‘things that go bump in the day’. We welcome Laura Cannell back to FoN as a curator and performer with [Modern Ritual], an evening of performances, words and sounds from Charles Hayward, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Ex-Easter Island Head and Hoofus. Ex-Easter Island Head’s Benjamin Duvall leads a special prepared guitar workshop earlier in the day, whilst Laura Cannell and Charles Hayward invite you to take part in a unique public performance. At Cookes’ Studios, Jenn Mattinson presents a newly commissioned piece investigating the time electronic music pioneer (and Dr Who theme arranger) Delia Derbyshire spent in Cumbria in the mid-1970s alongside a programme of artists’ moving image works taking an alternative look at the Cumbrian landscape. The festival wraps up with in the windswept surroundings of Walney Island on Sunday lunchtime with a listening walk led by Grant Smith and warden Sarah Dalrymple. Fri 27th October 13:00 - 17:00
SoundCamp - Gull Spit, Barrow Market Hall
Sat 28th October 10:00 - 16:00
SoundCamp - Gull Spit, Barrow Market Hall
11:00 - 16:30
The Interactive Non-Fiction Arcade, Barrow Market Hall
13:00 - 15:00
Fear Itself workshop with @ShrimpingIt, Barrow Market Hall
13:00 - 17:00
Film programme & Out of Place: Delia Derbyshire in Cumbria, Cookes Studios
14:00 - 15:30
Prepared Guitar Workshop, the Nan Tait Centre
16:00 - 17:00
These We Hold Close, These We Hold Dear, Nan Tait Centre
18:30 - 21:15
[Modern Ritual] concert, Nan Tait Centre
Sun 29th October 12:00 - 14:30
Soundwalk, South Walney Nature Reserve
(meet 11:30 at Barrow railway station for minibus transport to the reserve)
Barrow Market Hall
Overview / timetable SoundCamp - Gull Spit Fri 27th, 13:00 - 17:00 Sat 28th, 10:00 - 16:00 Work in progress from the first Full of Noises / Cumbria Wildlife Trust residency on South Walney. Over Friday afternoon and Saturday, SOUNDCAMP will take over a unit at the covered market, to share sounds, video and writings made in the course of their residency, together with real time links to The Spit, where a streambox and webcam allow sounds of seals, waders, wind and water to be heard in real time from an area off limits to visitors. A listening booth, video installations and works on paper will also run throughout the two days. Events on Friday 27th: 16:00 - A screening of Signals for Survival, a film exploring gull communication, shot on Walney in 1968. Events on Saturday 28th: 12:00 – A talk by Sarah Dalrymple, warden of South Walney Nature Reserve for the Cumbria Wildlife Trust about the history of the reserve, the work of the CWT and how people can visit and get involved. 15:00 – South Walney Radio. Maria Papadomanolaki will set up a low power FM radio transmission in the covered market and the street outside, relaying live sounds from The Spit. SoundCamp is an artist collective based in London. We coordinate a network of soundcamps at locations around the world in the first weekend of May each year. Sounds of these and other locations, relayed by streamers with DIY transmitters, provide the raw materials for Reveil: a live 24 hour transmission of daybreak as it loops the earth. Soundcamp’s work on sound and place has been supported by Sound and Music, Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Biosphere Soundscapes, TCV, CRiSAP at LCC/UAL, local funders and small donations. Current activities include the development of a network of open microphones in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and work with Time & Talents and the Rotherhithe Shed around the the sounds of Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe. soundtent.org cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/south-walney
Barrow Market Hall Fear Itself workshop with @ShrimpingIt Sat 28th, 13:00 – 15:00 Share with us your greatest fears from the streets of Barrow to join in with our playful and absurd experiments in hazard monitoring and control. Fear Itself is open to all, whether you dread the nuclear apocalypse or the laddered stocking. Part self-help group, part craft workshop we explore ‘things that go bump in the day’ to uncover and remix modern rituals and the iconography of risk. Participants will be supported with props and prompts to develop their own theatrical performance demonstrating to the residents of Barrow that they have nothing to fear. Ages 12+ shrimping.it Domestic Science The Interactive Non-Fiction Arcade Fri 27th / Sat 28th, 11:00 – 16:30 Interactive Non-Fiction is all about ways of using data available on the internet to make art through Text Adventure Games (AKA Interactive NonFiction). Domestic Science will be visiting FoN with one of their dedicated arcade cabinets (made with artist James Medd) to present a music and text-based delve into the festival archive alongside games and artworks made by Glenn Boulter, Ross Dalziel and Hwa Young Jung for the public to play and explore. domesticscience.org.uk
South Walney Nature Reserve Walk at South Walney Nature Reserve, Sun 29th October, 12:00 - 14:30 approx
By car/cycle: Meet at South Walney reserve park for 12:00 By foot: Meet 11:30 at Barrow railway station for minibus transport to Walney
Looking back towards Barrow across the bay, this reserve has an important and unique shingle flora, great numbers of migrating waders in Autumn, a grey seal colony, and a fascinating history of cultivation, mining and industry. Join Sarah Dalrymple, Reserve Warden with the Cumbria Wildlife Trust in a walk around the Reserve, with members of SoundCamp, who have been working on the island as part of a new residency programme. Coordinates: 54°02’46.4”N 3°11’34.2”W Map reference: SD 225 620 Google maps: goo.gl/maps/sbaRhVvCfdp
Cookes Studios Artists’ Moving Image Programme Curated by Phil Northcott & Julia Parks Sat 28th, 13:00 - 14:00 & 15:00 - 16:00 A programme of short films presenting an alternative view of the Cumbrian landscape curated by Phil Northcott and Julia Parks, supported by Signal Film and Media. Films include: Not giddy yet aerial Jenny Holt, 25.14 mins. 2011 Last Acre, Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan 11.25 mins, 2016 Egremont Red, Alex Culshaw 18mins, 2017 (image left) Come and play with Mr Rae Stephen George Rae, 2.02 mins. 2017 Out of Place: Delia Derbyshire in Cumbria by Jenn Mattinson Sat 28th, 14:00 - 14:30 & 16:00 - 16:30 This particular story covers the time electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire spent in Cumbria in the mid-1970s. It’s one of those stories that will always remain rather ambiguous, as very little is known about this period in her life, so I have tried to reflect this in parts of the telling, and added my own theatrical interpretations to the piece. It has a foundation of two female oral history testimonies with an original sonic composition, produced to help reflect and re-tell elements of the story. From the Full of Noises Archive Sat 28th, 14:30 - 15:00 & 16:30 - 17:00 Two newly commissioned films compiled from the Full of Noises archive created by artist filmmakers Helen Petts and Mary Stark. Starting life in the former canteen building of a Trident submarine plant, the films include footage of artists ranging from Faust, AGF and Tetsuo Kogawa to Laura Cannell, the Bohman Brothers, Felix Kubin, Lee Gamble and Ryoko Akama. helenpetts.com marystark.co.uk
The Nan Tait Centre
Day 1- timetable
Prepared Guitar Workshop with Ex-Easter Island Head Sat 28th, 14:00 - 15:30 Benjamin D. Duvall of Liverpool-based experimental trio Ex-Easter Island Head presents a workshop exploring the groups’ unique approaches, techniques and preparations to the electric guitar and bass guitar through group demonstration and participation. The session will cover the historical development of extended techniques and mechanical preparations for the electric guitar, and the development of the groups’ own music. Participants will be given a crashcourse in preparing their own guitars. The event lasts for approximately 60 minutes (plus time to set up). Participants should bring their own electric guitar, leads, tuner and a small practice amp. DISCLAIMER: None of the preparations undertaken should result in damage to the instrument but it is recommended that participants don’t use instruments of significant monetary value or age in case of accidental damage. These We Hold Close, These We Hold Dear Workshop with Charles Hayward & Laura Cannell Sat 28th, 16:00 - 17:00 Take part in a unique vocal workshop with musicians Charles Hayward and Laura Cannell, creating a new performance by making a mental list of the names of people you love; of neighbours and work colleagues, of friends far away, of long lost friends. Moving through different zones and vocal spaces, the performance will gradually build to a swarm of names. Participants will be invited to perform the piece as the finale of the evening’s [Modern Ritual] performance at the Nan Tait Centre with music by Charles, Laura, André Bosman and guests. Ages 14+. No experience neccessary. Please arrive for 16:00 promptly – we expect the workshop session to last for 30 – 40 minutes.
The Nan Tait Centre [Modern Ritual] Sat 28th, 18:30 (for 18:45 start) - 21:15 [Modern Ritual] is a night of new performances exploring ideas of ritual through music and words, evoking real and fictional landscapes. It features sets from acclaimed musicians Charles Hayward, Laura Cannell, Hoofus & Ex-Easter Island Head and new sound performance/talks from writer/ researchers Jennifer Lucy Allan and Luke Turner as well as a new collaboration between all of the artists and members of the audience. [Modern Ritual] is ancient, modern, experimental, real, fictional, personal, folkloric. It explores human and mechanical rituals, failure of ritual and provides a platform to premier new works in the UK. Charles Hayward is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock group This Heat. He also played with Mal Dean’s Amazing Band, Radar Favourites, Dolphin Logic and gigged and recorded with old schoolfriend and “Pooh and the Ostrich Feather” member Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project as well as a short stint with Gong. On one occasion he also played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass. “Telepathic magic……. Hayward is one of the most lifeaffirming people who stalks this dark globe.” – Sound Projector
Laura Cannell is a performer and composer based in East Anglia. She has produced three critically acclaimed solo albums over the last three years including Simultaneous Flight Movement, which was one of BBC Radio 3’s Top Twelve Albums of 2016 and Beneath Swooping Talons, which was in The Guardian’s Top 5 Experimental Albums of the Year 2015. Laura’s music has received regular broadcasts on the BBC including Radio 3, 4 and BBC 6Music. 2016 saw Laura’s debut solo performance at The Barbican and her music for a short film was screened at The British Museum and BFI. Recent collaborations include a new commission with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Ex-Easter Island Head, a duo with Charles Hayward (This Heat), an experimental fiddle duo with André Bosman, touring with the cellist Lori Goldston (Nirvana, Earth) and curating the [Modern Ritual] Series. lauracannell.co.uk
André Bosman / Hoofus uses drifting oscillators, cryptic rhythm and tactile interaction between performer and machines to create music of wayward eerie wonder. Drawing on rustic, alienation and the reclamation of the manmade by nature, Hoofus explores the uncanny beauty of the intangible and occult seeping through into our post-industrial world. www.hoofus.com
UK-based musical collective Ex-Easter Island Head compose and perform music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. Primarily performing as a trio, the group incorporate multiple prepared electric guitars struck with percussion mallets to create works that explore group interplay, repetition and melodic invention through purposefully limited means. www.exeasterislandhead.com Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer and researcher interested in the links between weather, sound and our sense of place. She is currently working on a PhD at CRiSAP on the social and cultural history of the foghorn. She runs the reissues label Arc Light Editions with James Ginzburg, and is a writer for The Wire, The Guardian and others. Foulis’s Daughter: a short history of the foghorn in 30 interrupted acts. A spoken, sounded and interrupted performance/talk, tracing a rhythmic history of the foghorn at the edges of the Atlantic: along the fog-bound Labrador Coast; at a bend on the Firth of Clyde; on the tip of The Lizard and from the cliffs at the South Foreland in Kent jenniferlucyallan.tumblr.com Luke Turner is a writer and editor based in London. In 2008 he co-founded The Quietus, an online magazine devoted to music, arts and popular culture within the context of contemporary society. Turner is currently curating a series of live events as part of Hull City Of Culture 2017’s commemoration of the radical art collective COUM and as a journalist, he has contributed to The Guardian, Dazed & Confused, Vice, the BBC and NME among other publications. Aside from his cultural writing, Turner writes regularly on landscape, place, memory and self for the Caught By The River online magazine, including a regular column on Epping Forest. This writing is also forming the basis for a forthcoming book on urban forests, family, ritual, death and sexuality against the context of Western decline and environmental destruction.
Venue Map 1. Barrow Market Hall, 28 Duke St. LA14 1HU 2. The Nan Tait Centre, Abbey Rd, LA14 1LG 3. Cookes Studios, 104 Abbey Rd, LA14 5QR 4. Barrow rail station, Holker St, LA14 5QZ
How to find us All venues are within 10 minutes walk of Barrow railway station. All indoor venues are fully accessible. The Walney soundwalk event involves a walk of 3 to 4 miles on gravel and sand tracks. Please contact us with any specific access requirements and we will do our best to accommodate your needs: info@octopuscollective.org / 07907 850432 Train services run from Barrow to Ulverston, Lancaster, Preston, Manchester, and local stations with connections to London and Glasgow. The last train from Barrow on Saturday 29th departs at 21:35. Regular bus services run from Kendal, Ulverston and Dalton-in-Furness. Visit the Stagecoach website for journey details. Car: From the M6 Northbound, exit at junction 36. At the roundabout, take the first exit onto the A590. Take the A590 following signs for Barrow-inFurness. Parking is available at the Nan Tait centre, and on-street for all other venues. Taxis: Avon Cars 01229 471471 Barrow Cars 01229 432432
Credits Full of Noises is an Octopus project. Octopus Collective are a sound art and new music organisation based in a public park on Cumbria’s Furness Peninsula. Starting life in 2009 in a former canteen building on the edge of Barrow’s Trident submarine manufacturing plant, their festival, Full of Noises, has invited over 200 artists to explore the locale and create new work. Octopus is: Glenn Boulter and Andrew Deakin. Programme / poster photography & design: Tom James Scott / Layout: Glenn Boulter [Modern Ritual] curated by: Laura Cannell Film programme curated by: Phil Northcott and Julia Parks With thanks to our staff, volunteers and supporters: Art Gene, Sarah Dalrymple and Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Daryl Pugh, Benedict Phillips, Laurence Campbell, Sue Deakin, Dan Fox, Signal Films, Barrow market management, Chris Bye and our board of directors: Linda O’ Keeffe, Taylor Nuttall, Ailie Robertson, John Hall. Full of Noises is supported by: