Soundtrack for a small exhibition | Aaron Angell

Soundtrack for a small exhibition

The artist describes several SF films from memory.

For further information, see http://www.aaronangell.com/

Historical Speech | Junko Otake

Martin Luther King 28.08.1963 (Extract)

Adolf Hitler 1934 (Extract)

Hirohito (Emperor Showa) 15.08.1945 (Extract)

Mahatma Gandhi 17.10.1931 (Extract)

Diana Frances Spencer 09.08.1993

Mixed Media / Sound Installation
2009

Bridge String Melon | Melis van den Berg

Bridge, String, Melon
watermelon, string, bridge, valley

Site-specific installation: Watermelon suspended on a string from a road bridge near Rethymnon, Crete.
The traffic on the road over the bridge, and the wind blowing through the valley made the string vibrate and sing.

This work was made whilst on the Slade Utopia Residency in Crete.
E75 road bridge and valley, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 2009

Melis graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see http://www.melisvandenberg.com/.

It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down | Holly Slingsbury

It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down – performance documentation from Holly Slingsby on Vimeo.

‘It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down’ was a performance made especially for Christ Church Spitalfields in 2009. The work juxtaposes live and videoed action. The live performance consisted of gestures of lifting deflated balloons. This was contradicted by the videoed gesture seen with it, of dropping a handful of ash. The naively hopeful act of lifting the balloons – as if they might float again – is in direct disagreement with the melancholy release of the ash.

Holly is a currently completing her MFA in Media, look out for her degree show this summer.

Magnificent Tits | Dante Rendle Traynor

Sound installation consisting of muzak soundtrack from 1980s porn flick, ‘Magnificent Tits’ (groans removed) playing in the lift shaft of the Slade Research Center.

Dante is in the undergraduate Media department at the Slade.

Dolls / Orgasmo 3 | Tim Long

Audio:

Orgasmo 3

Video:

Dolls and Orgasmo 3 were shown as an installation for the Slade / BBC event ‘The View from Here’ at BBC Bush House 20/02/2009.

For more information on this event please see The View from Here at UCL.

The Voice and Nothing More | Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck

The Voice and Nothing More, January 2009, was a week-long festival exploring the voice as both medium and subject matter in contemporary arts practices. Both established and emerging artists worked with leading vocal performers and composers in an exploration of the voice outside language.

Invited performers included Mikhail Karikis, Lore Lixembourg and Juice, as well as a specially formed large-scale vocal ensemble.
Performers, working with the artists and resident composer Claudia Molitor created new score-objects that culminated in a series of new performances. Artists included Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Estelle Thompson and Bruce Mclean.

Video: Kathryn Faulkner and Robin Sewell
Editing: Sam Belinfante

Curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck.

For more information, images and press please go to the Voice and Nothing More website.

Cheek to Cheek (A Family Portrait) | Allison Maletz

Cheek to Cheek

I had each of my six family members (and myself) sing Irving Berlin’s song “Cheek To Cheek,” from the 1935 film Top Hat. I recorded each of us separately singing the song to completion at our own paces.  Then I overlapped the seven tracks so that we are all singing it together, as a family unit, made up of individuals. It perfectly demonstrates the push and pull affect I am trying to create within my art, of the subjects being so happy together that they are in heavenly bliss, while at the same time there is something unbearably uncomfortable, out of sync, and wrong. The installation of this sound work exists within a domestic setting, and all of the tracks are played simultaneously out of one Gramophone horn.

Allison graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see allisonmaletz.com.

Drip Piece | Sam Belinfante

Drip Piece
6-Channel Sound Installation
Dimensions Variable

First shown at Slade Interim Show, Woburn Square, October 2007.

Sam graduated from the Slade MA in 2008. Degree show website.
For more information on this and other works please see sambelinfante.com.

Dirty Furniture 1 | Allison Maletz

Dirty Chair

An armchair is the base for this audio sculpture. The armchair is domestic, used, and out-dated. It looks as though it could be comfortable, but its worn and uncleanly appearance is not particularly inviting. Yet from within the chair a seductive voice asks to be sat on… literally calling in a soft whisper “Sit on me… sit on me…” repeatedly.  This sculpture is about constant need and lack of acknowledgment.”

Allison graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see allisonmaletz.com.