Rogue Wave Sound Art Collective
Rogue Wave are a sound art collective bringing together a diverse range of practitioners in the North West of England. The concept for the group is one of collaboration, to share skills and ideas with a vision of creating work that is greater than the sum of its parts. The emphasis of our practice is strongly on the use of technology, both new and old, to make, harness and manipulate sound as a medium for artistic expression and to explore and expand the contexts in which it might be presented.
Each participating artist brings a particular speciality to the group; the variety of backgrounds and experience covers science, electronic engineering, classical and popular music, video and dance.
The members of Rogue Wave:-
Daniel Barrett,
Simon Blackmore,
Ross Dalziel,
Alex Decoupigny,
Alan Dunn,
Benjamin Gwilliam,
Antony Hall,
Tim Lambert,
Lee Patterson,
Imogen Stidworthy and
Steve Symons
Daniel Barrett
Daniel Barrett is a musician, sound artist and sound researcher who uses the ambient sonic qualities of the environment to explore contextual, historical and personal issues in the many forms of the urban and natural environment.
Daniel established and co-runs the electronic music label and collective Monatronic since 2004. Monatronic has been established to provide a platform for the exposure of electronic music, sound art and new video, film and animation. Monatronics aim is to release innovative quality music and promote and support events to offer artists exposure.
Nunatak is Daniel’s musical title under which he has performed nationally and internationally. He has performed at events such as Futuresonic (2005), Alphabetset (Dublin 2005), Folly (2005) and The Family Room (FACT 2004). Daniel has had music commissioned for a BBC Radio 4 production (Ice Dreams 2005), which was nominated for a BBC 2005 post-production award.
Simon Blackmore
Simon Blackmore gained a first class honours degree in sculpture at The University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 1999. In 2001 he completed an MA in Creative Technology at Salford University.
He now lives and works in Manchester and works primarily with sound and custom-built technology. Recent projects include 'Weather Guitar', shown at Ikon, Birmingham in 2005, "Sound Lathe" with the artists' group Owl Project, shown at Q Arts Derby and Ultrasound, Huddersfield, 2005. With Owl Project he has performed internationally, including Emergences, Paris and Garage Festival, Stralsund.
www.simonblackmore.net, and www.owlproject.com
Ross Dalziel
Ross Dalziel is an artist working in installation, sound art, music, technology and project development for a range of partners in fine art, education, design, collaboration, including technology based art organisations and agencies, local councils and other artists.
Recent projects have involved FACT, TATE Liverpool, BBC Radio 4, Acoustic Research Unit at Liverpool University, Creative Partnerships, Artists in Education, Arup, Urban Design Group, Arts Council England and Knowsley Borough Council.
He is currently using field recording and a variety of sample processing and generative systems to create sound and installations.
Between January and April 2006 he will be carrying out practice based research looking at where sound art, acoustics, public space and architecture cross over at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Columbia through the British Council and Visiting Arts.
Alex Decoupigny
Alexandre Decoupigny is a sonic artist, musician and composer.
Alexandre grew up in Germany, studied law, worked in off-broadway Musical Theatre and came to Liverpool to study at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, from which he graduated.
Initiated by a performance of Phillip Jeck, Alexandre developed a strong interest for sonic art away from his studies. The writing and works of Trevor Wishart, Bill Fontana, Andres Bosshart, Murray Schafer, Hermann Hesse and Michail Bakunin had a profound influence on his journey.
Alexandre recently worked for the Bluecoat Arts Centre on the project 'Pool of Sound'. In a series of workshops together with a group of young people, acoustic ecologist Phil Morton and performance poet Trevor Kane he developed a sound art exhibition, which was presented for a month in the Out of the Bluecoat premises on Paradise Street, Liverpool.
He currently investigates the use of open source software in composition and installation to create space related sonic artworks that reflect the human interaction with the environment.
Alan Dunn
Alan Dunn (born Glasgow 1967) established the DIY CD project cantaudio in January 2003 in response to Stockhausen's Helikopter String Quartet of 1993 and as a forum in which to create to 'anticipated' sound. For example, what one expects Helikopter String Quartet to sound like after reading about it but prior to hearing it. cantaudio productions place key pieces of 20th Century audio within, around and next to new bedfellows, are produced in small editions and are all home-produced. cantaudio works have explored Love Will Tear Us Apart (removing the word Love), Can't Get No Satisfaction (removing the word Can't), Gloomy Sunday, the DIY legacy of Guided by Voices, The Lord's Prayer, Leaving on a Jet Plane and, in a recent work commissioned in Liverpool, the role of the jukebox in shared urban audio experience.
www.alandunn67.co.uk/cantaudio.html
www.vibrofiles.com/artists/artists_cant_audio.php.
Benjamin Gwilliam
Benjamin Gwilliam is a Manchester based sound artist. He is co-founder the record imprint 'new acoustical pleasures' with colleague and collaborator Lee Patterson, which set out to release sound documents. His practice focuses on the act of sound recording and its documentation. Recordings are treated as pure source materials, informing intrigue by inherent physical and functional qualities to initiate critical dialogue with the audience. Using his investigations, he develops performances, installations and presentations.
He has realised short and ongoing projects nationally and internationally. He worked on the collaborative project 'Hothouse' for the theatre company IOU at Liverpool's Sefton Park, and completed a short residency for the annual show 'in editos' in Madrid at La Casa Encendida. Most recently, he has contributed to group exhibitions such as 'stance', Market Gallery Glasgow, and 'unsilently', The CAC, MA USA, and completed a research trip in 'Artoll Labor', Bedburg-Hau Germany. He will be performing a new piece for The SAN Expo06 in Manchester.
Antony Hall
Working within contexts such as universities, zoo's or museums Hall investigates biological and physical phenomenon. His work exists as projects; experiments, text, diagrams, notes, and documentation, which are produced through his interactions within these research environments. Specific interest include the development of alternative interfaces for ecological and bioelectric systems.
Antony Hall (b. 1976) Studied MA Art as Environment, Manchester Met. University. Recent projects include; Residency at Manchester Museum (Alchemy program 2004-5), and Biotech Art workshop, Arts Catalyst/Symbiotica, Kings College, London 2005. His research and education projects have been supported by Arts Catalyst London, and received funding awards from Arts Council England between 2003 to 2005.He is currently completing a residency through the Mapxxl, Pépinières program, at ENSADs Interactive Research Laboratory (ARI), Paris, Jan-Aprill 2006.
He also works collaboratively (with Simon Blackmore) as the Owl Project, (electronic music, instruments and physical computing) who regularly perform in the UK and Europe. Recent projects include; Garage04 Festival , Germany. Sonic Undergrowth, Cornerhouse, Manchester 2005. Festival Emergencies, Paris 2005. Ultrasound05, Huddersfield 2005. WORM, Rotterdam 2005.
Tim Lambert
Tim Lambert is a sound artist and recording engineer who is exploring the possibilities of applying his experience in the music industry to making art with sound. He is the founder of the Rogue Wave sound art collective.
Tim was in residence at FACT in Liverpool during the spring of 2005 as 'The Audio Modeling Agency'. Two pieces were made in that time. A 5.1 surround piece called '7 Days Walk' and a 10.2 surround piece called 'Cloud cover, strong wind'. He is also co-director of SoundNetwork, the network for artists working with sound in the North West, alongside fellow Rogue Wave member Ross Dalziel.
Tim's interest lies primarily in location and field recording and multichannel surround sound systems. He uses these to express ideas about space, time, location and identity. Using recordings of real environments, often wide soundscapes, his work largely attempts to place the listener in situations that are texturally and dynamically familiar but have a more sinister and unstable perspective that changes or moves over time.
His working practice is largely influenced by his experience in music. His editing techniques rarely differ from those commonly used to make records. Despite this Tim would be reluctant to consider his work to be musical, and the hard cuts and edits that create contrast and colour are perhaps more evocative of a cinematic style.
Lee Patterson
Lee Patterson is a sound artist and improvising musician based in Manchester, U.K. His activities include live performance, composition, installation and field recording. These have featured in a number of european shows and festivals since 2002. Working alongside David Toop and Rhodri Davies, he will soon feature in Sound Body, at the Donau festival, Austria, and also in this years' Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Imogen Stidworthy
Imogen Stidworthy uses the voice as a sculptural material of sound, space, body and language. She is interested in the idea of the 'threshold of language' as a space in which to question the nature of communication and the translation of experience. Her audio works, short films and installations have been shown recently in exhibitions such as (2005) Frieze Art Fair; SENEF International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea; 'Dummy', a solo show at FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon; 'Be What you Want but Stay Where you Are' at Witte de With, Rotterdam and 'Murmur' at TENT, Rotterdam; (2004) 'Versions' at Bergen Kunsthalle Norway; 'Becks Futures' at the ICA, London; 'With Hidden Noise' at Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, 'Shrinking Cities' at Kunst-Werke in Berlin, 'Governmentality: figure and ground' at Miami Art Central USA and (2003) a solo show at Matts Gallery, London: 'The Whisper Heard'.
After taking a BA in sculpture in the UK, from 1992 she studied at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, then living in Belgium and Germany (Akademie Schloss Solitude) before coming to Liverpool in 2002.
Steve Symons
Steve works exclusively with technology as an art medium exploring open and semi-open audio systems.
Current work explores the interaction between sound and environment in a project titled 'aura - the stuff around the stuff around you' (an Arts Council funded project). 'aura' is a sonic multi-user augmented reality and has been exhibited at Fururesonic04 in Manchester and at Deleite, Barcelona June 2004 and recently in New York.
An almost designerly or scientific rigour to Steve's work is deliberate and frames his thought processes. The project 'neuralMix' is a good example of this. 'neuralMix' is a piece of software for listening to, managing and breeding of autonomous gene-based sonic agents. Based upon abstractions of computer science neural networks and real neural systems neuralMix is a generative audio system that makes the creation audio akin to horticulture. neuralMix has been exhibited as a piece of software, it has been used to create particular agents installation and has been streamed online.
From April 2000 Steve was a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. He left in October 2003 to set up muio.org an Art and Technology Research organisation.