Hive Twilight City 2008
Hive Twilight City is a series of four high profile audiovisual performances over the course of 2008 paying tribute to a potentially overlooked part of Liverpool's essence: its industrial and business buildings, its bricks, Liverpool the space - the iconic and mundane, the city centre and the suburb. Each event will work as a celebration of existing city structures as the city itself moves onwards, a snapshot prior to the city’s ongoing mutation into a premier 21st Century City. In each event familiar sounds are reworked, familiar sights distorted in a feast of the best in new electronic music and state of the art projected visuals.
Hive Twilight City: Shopping remixed
Saturday 12 July 2008
NOISE CLUB
St John's Shopping Centre
3pm - 5pm
FREE
MACHINEFABRIEK
The Box at FACT
6pm - 8pm
FREE
For the second event of their Twilight City project, the Hive collective presents Shopping remixed, an interactive audiovisual event which explores and interacts with the soundscapes of the city's retail environment. The first section of the event will take place in the St John's Shopping Centre in the heart of Liverpool's retail area.
In an inversion of the usual passive, 'background music' associated with shops and malls, sound artists and musicians will engage with shoppers and the physical environment to turn the shopping centre itself into an interactive musical instrument. Utilising the science of musical sound used in electronic synthesisers, the sound artists Noise Club will use elements of the shopping environment (such as the physical space of the centre and shoppers themselves) to control sound producing electronic circuits. These sonic interventions will combine with an especially composed ambient sound work which will be simultaneously broadcast throughout the centre. The event will be linked to the BBC Big Screen in Clayton Square.
Footage of the St John's intervention will then form the visual core of an electronic music event which will take place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). The event will see Hive's visual artists mixing footage from the day's events with other visual responses to Liverpool's retail spaces to themed DJ sets. The event will culminate in a performance by the electronic musician Machinefabriek, an artist internationally renowned for weaving the acoustic ambiences of everyday spaces into beautiful, dreamlike and often unsettling music.
Hive Twilight City: Industry versioned
Static Gallery
Friday 7 March 2008
8pm – 3am
£8 advance (£10 on door)
Jah Wobble / Jaki Liebezeit / Philip Jeck
The Bug feat. Warrior Queen
Shackleton
mugstar
Djs Furness / Venom / Dreadnought
Dj Alextronic
Hive visual artists
About the Artists
Jah Wobble / Jaki Liebezeit / Philip Jeck (UK/DE)
Jah Wobble has established a worldwide reputation as a dub innovator since he helped reconfigure the post-punk landscape as a founder member of PIL alongside John Lydon. Likewise, Jaki Liebezeit's precision rhythms propelled Can to seminal status as one of the most influential rock groups of the 1970s. Liverpool based sound artist Philip Jeck creates sound collages from the grooves of ancient and forgotten records, evoking contemplation of the past as the future happens. An unmissable collaboration.
The Bug featuring Warrior Queen (UK/JA)
Kevin Martin’s work as The Bug has seen industrial noise blend with Jamaican influenced rhythm and bass to staggering effect. For this event The Bug is teamed with the incredibly exiting Jamaican MC Warrior Queen. This promises to be one of the most explosive live shows of 08.
Shackleton (UK)
Co-runner of the Skull Disco label, Shackleton has seen his dubwise melodies and intricately percussive workouts championed across the globe, making connections between diverse audiences of techno lovers and bass junkies alike.
Mugstar (UK)
Remaining Events
Details of our remaining events coming soon:
Event#3 The Spectacular Suburb
Hive commission a world renowned sound-recordist to work with a visionary producer/artist to re-imagine Gormley’s ‘Another Place’.
Event#4 Solitude and Sanctuary
The project culminates with a concert contemplating the city’s sanctuaries in one of its newest and most splendid venues.
Sponsors
Hive Twilight City is supported by the Liverpool Culture Company Ltd as part of the European Capital of Culture 2008 programme.
