8pm:
Jorge Bachman - microcosmic sounds
9pm: Paul Stapleton (Bonsai Sound Sculpture) & Rachel Austin (Voice)
Jorge Bachman is a multi-disciplinary, mixed-media and sound artist. Since the early eighties,he has been exploring the strange, unique and microcosmic sounds of everyday life, collecting field recordings. The sound atmospheres created are meant for deep listening and are composed in symbiosis with the sculptural installations. He creates equally sensual and detailed oriented photo-based work. His art explores social and sensual constructs and experiences.
Paul Stapleton is an improviser, sound artist, inventor and writer originally from Southern California, currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He designs and performs with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics, found objects and electric guitars in locations ranging from experimental music clubs in Berlin to remote beaches on Vancouver Island. Since 2007, he has been lecturing at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), where he teaches and supervise MA & PhD research in performance technologies, interaction design and site-specific art. His recent album ‘FAUNA’ with saxophonist Simon Rose has received acclaim from music critics such as Ken Waxman (Jazzword), Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg (Orynx), Mark Corroto (All About Jazz), Marc Medwin (New York City Jazz Record) and others.
Rachel Austin loves finding the links between sound and narrative, the abstract sounds we hear so much in improvisation and the words that lace my head when filled with sound. An extended vocalist, songwriter and experimental electronic composer, she has toured and recorded throughout Europe and the US. Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, she taught voice and performance at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at my second home in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Having performed in flamenco jazz, free jazz and free improv, punk, choral, folk, electronic and rock outfits, my improv rips sounds from across these boundaries. Now living in Oakland, California and studying electronic composition at Mills College, her work has generally taken on a more sublime bent with impulses toward narrative, noise and computer interventions. She has been featured in multiple publications and radio programs, including BBC Radio 1 (London), BBC Radio 4 (London), the Irish Times (Dublin), the Sunday World (London), Radio Libertaire (France), and other places as a songwriter.