16 and 17 August 2007
Broken Voices London by Terry Smith
Artprojx presents on
Thursday 16th August and Friday 17th August (8.30pm)
Broken Voices PERFORMED LIVE
Tête À Tête - The Opera Festival
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith
BOOKING ESSENTIAL: Tickets £8 (£6 concs)
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www.riversidestudios.co.uk
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Broken Voices is a multimedia performance by British artist Terry Smith in collaboration with Ian Dearden and Linda Hirst
Project marketed by David Gryn
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Artprojx presents
Broken Voices London
by Terry Smith
Thursday 16th August and Friday 17th August (8.30pm)
Tête À Tête - The Opera Festival
Riverside Studios
Broken Voices is a multimedia performance by British artist Terry Smith in collaboration with Ian Dearden and Linda Hirst
Terry Smith (Artist)
Ian Dearden (Composer and Sound Designer)
Helen Edwards (Cellist - guest appearance on the 17th August)
Linda Hirst (Vocalist)
Presented by Artprojx and curated by Clare Fitzpatrick
Commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion
Produced by workinprogress
For the last year installation artist Terry Smith has collaborated with the internationally renowned vocalist Linda Hirst and the acclaimed composer and sound designer Ian Dearden to create the new sound installation Broken Voices. It is an innovative multimedia performance and an exciting sculptural intervention fracturing and crashing into a classical music score by Monteverdi, which endeavours to explore the ephemeral notion of sound through performance.
Venice saw the beginning of this series of one off live performances presented by Artprojx, which also travelled to Greenland Street, Liverpool and will now be performed at this year's tete á tete - The Opera Festival in August. Each piece is specifically made for the location allowing the performers to use the architecture of the space to inform the sound and music for the work.
Smith has collated and recorded sounds over a period of time that act as an audio backdrop to the live performances; Hirst and Dearden respond to this in a way that isn't prescriptive yet still gives way to a narrative that Smith explores through Monteverdi's Duo Seraphim a 3 Voci. Smith sees the audience as integral to this process as they occupy the same space, again reinforcing the architectural and sculptural aspect of the work. Each live performance is a one off that will never be seen again and is in a sense a kind of open rehearsal where ideas, sound and images are brought together.
This is the third in a series of performances and is part of an overall piece that is resolved as a sound and video installation at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill as part of the group exhibition Triple Echo 29 September 2007 - 6 January 2008.
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