CUTTING THE CORD- Foundation: A Work In Progress by Flying Eye Date: Thurs 25th June | Doors: 7pm & 9pm | Entry: FREE - TWO SHOWS!!
Where did you come from? Where are you going? Can you recall the exact voice of your mother? Memories that flutter past and silently leave their traces. Cutting The Cord is a promenade performance exploring the sense of what it means to belong.
SOUNDS LIKE... - University Of Sussex MA Contemporary Opera & Music Theatre Showcase Date: Mon 22nd June | Doors & Installation: 7pm | Performances: 7.30pm | Entry: FREE
Sounds Like...is an evening of newly devised music-theatre, musical installation and composition from the practitioners on this MA course at Susses University. The pieces are linked through their investigation of and conflict with the tradition of opera and musical theatre, fuelling a challenge to what Opera and Music Theatre should sound and look like now...Come and find out!
Hearing Me Watching You? - Gregory Mickelborough
Voice Manifested - Adele Bates
Presents - Riikka Jokelainen
My Brain and Tongue Just Met - Vicky Tremain
TYPE PR PRESENTS...- AXXONN Featuring Tom Hall & Ian Rogers, Power Up & The Vainglories Date: Fri 17th July | Doors: 8pm | Entry: £5 in advance (£6.50 on the door)- Tickets available on the door or in advance from Resident Records: 01273 606312.
AXXONN takes all things beautiful - unicorns, showbags, stolen pens, J-Pop - and mashes it into noise, dirt and distortion to come up with what can only be described as a mix between 'Powernoise & Icecream'. AXXONN consists of solo artist and Room40 (Tenniscoats/Tujiko Noriko/Lawrence English & John Chantler) collaborator Tom Hall.
http://www.tomhall.com.au
http://www.myspace.com/ambrosechapeldestroysyou
Power Up Casio + Guitar + Violin + Voice + Xylophone + Boy + Girl + Computer = Power Up
http://www.myspace.com/powerupup
The VaingloriesGillian Alder has been writing scores for imaginary films as The Vainglories since 2003, The first live performance for The Vainglories was, as described on the tin: beautifully crafted electronica with dark undertones and scary undercurrents. Sat at a keyboard, laptop and FX Melbourne native Gillian Allder worked her songs by building up a background through the laptop into concisely structure songs with haunting piano leads over the top.
http://www.myspace.com/gilliealder
SUPPER CLUB AT THE BASEMENT: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
For an art event deep underground. A core of The Basement's supported artists curate the best of new and experimental arts from the UK. We invite proposals of new works to showcase in 2009- all disaplines considered. Please send one A4 page clearly outlining your proposal, CD, DVD, technical requirements, and brief biog- with all contact details to: supperclub@thebasement.uk.com. Supper Club is a not-for-profit event. Please submit the lowest possible fees.
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