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 3: The Spectacular Suburb
Saturday 13 September 2008
Matthew Herbert
Chris Watson
Hive DJs + VJs
the Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool L1 3BX
8pm - 11pm
£5/£7
Tel: +44 151 702 5324
Tickets on Sale Now
The Hive Collective has commissioned two of the world’s most accomplished sonic pioneers, Matthew Herbert and Chris Watson, to collaborate on a unique composition constructed entirely out of recordings from Crosby Beach – the site of Antony Gormley’s Another Place installation.
A one-off event at a specially prepared performance space within the Bluecoat will see Watson explore Another Place through a series of source recordings, followed by Herbert’s presentation of a brand new musical composition based on those recordings.
By considering what these impassive iron men ‘hear’ as they gaze on the changing seascape and a changing Liverpool, the audience will, in turn, be encouraged to reimagine both the installation and the surrounding area, as well as reflect on how definitions of place vary, yet hold a truth, as they pass from person to person.
Challenging yet accessible, the event aims both to introduce new audiences to music composed from field recordings, as well as explore questions relating to what can constitute ‘music’ in a city dominated by more traditional definitions of authenticity.
About the Artists
Matthew Herbert
Restless innovator, sampling wizard, classically trained pianist and superstar collaborator, Matthew Herbert is one of electronic music's most versatile and prolific figureheads. Herbert has produced and remixed artists as diverse as Björk, REM, John Cale, Roisin Murphy, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg. An alchemist of avant-garde sound in the tradition stretching from Stockhausen to the Aphex Twin, Herbert combines playful pop sensibility with a strictly imposed experimental agenda.
Chris Watson
Chris Watson is a world renowned sound recordist and one of the pioneers of UK electronic music. Chris has travelled the world exploring the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres for some of the BBC’s most popular natural history programmes, such as Life in the Undergrowth, Talking with Animals, Big Cat Diary and The Life of Birds for which he won a BAFTA . Beginning his career as a musician in the Sheffield band Cabaret Voltaire, he has released three solo CDs through Touch.
Hive Twilight City 2: Shopping remixed
Saturday 12 July 2008
Part 1
NOISE CLUB
St John's Shopping Centre
3pm - 5pm
FREE
Part 2
MACHINEFABRIEK (NL)
MATTHEW FAIRCLOUGH/ KATHY HINDE (UK)
HIVE VISUAL ARTISTS
HIVE DJS
The Box at FACT
6pm - 8pm
FREE
Part 1: The Hive Collective invite you to transform the St John’s Centre into an interactive musical instrument
Part 2: Live Perfomance: Retail Envoronments and Everyday Objects
Hive Twilight City: Shopping remixed
Hive present a unique interactive audiovisual event which explores and interacts with the soundscapes of the city's retail environment.
Part One: You Are Sound, St John's Shopping Centre/BBC Big Screen 3pm - 5pm
In an inversion of the usual passive 'background music' associated with shops and malls, Shopping remixed will engage with the city’s physical environment and its shoppers to turn the St John’s Shopping Centre into an interactive musical instrument.
Noise Club
Sound Art collective 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.
Part 2: Retail Enviroments and Everyday Objects remixed, FACT, The Box 6-8, Free
Footage of the St John's intervention will form the visual core of an electronic music event which will take place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) culminating 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.
MACHINEFABRIEK
Machinefabriek is one of the rising stars of electronic music. His prolific output of releases on numerous labels such as 12K and Type have earned him international critical acclaim. In this performance he will be integrating specially recorded ambient soundscapes of Liverpool’s retail environment into beautiful, dreamlike and often unsettling music.
Matthew Fairclough/ Kathy Hinde
Internationally renowned audiovisual team Matt Fairclough and Kathy Hind bring everyday objects to life an eclectic mix of electronica inspired by the musique concrète tradition. Fairclough and Hinde have collaborated with some of the most famous names in contemporary music such as the Elysian Quartet and Joanna McGregor and have toured extensively in Europe and China. For this event they will use the everyday objects of commerce (such as a bicycle, a Le Creuset dish and some decorative wind chimes) for a performance in which music and visuals are created in real time.
Hive Twilight City 1: 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 event coming soon:
Hive Twilight City 4: Uncanny Space
The project culminates with a concert contemplating the city’s sanctuaries in one of its newest venues.
Sponsors
Hive Twilight City is supported by the Liverpool Culture Company Ltd as part of the European Capital of Culture 2008 programme.
