8pm Tonal Chaos
9pm Trio:
Viv Corringham - Voice (United Kingdom)
Gino Robair - Percussion/etc
Tim Perkis - Electronics
TONAL CHAOS is a sextet that is mainly a capella (but sometimes uses piano, percussion, acoustic guitar, accordion, kazoos, and water bottles), mainly wordless (but occasionally adds to their notes and other noises improvised lyrics, sometimes inspired by audience suggestion), mainly improvised (but does one song composed by member Kirk Livingston for his former group, The Flips). The rest of the group is Barbara Scott of True Fiction Magazine, Gerri Lawlor and David Norfleet of BATS Improv and the Sexy Liliputians, Amos Glick of the SF Mime Troupe, and multi-hatted Joshua Raoul Brody.
Viv Corringham is based in London and has performed internationally since the early 1980s, recording eleven albums. She works with improvisation, listening, Mediterranean music and soundscapes. Her solo project, Vocal Strolls, in which she sings live with the London soundscape, has been broadcast on radio and TV - BBC Radio 3's Mixing It, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, weekly on London Resonance fm, and Channel 4's Richard and Judy Show.
A Vocal Stroll piece performed by a construction site was selected for the 2003 Australian sound symposium, Hearing Place and is featured on the CD that promoted this event. Other pieces have been programmed for New Media Scotland's 2004 Drift festival and for the CD that accompanies the Spring 2004 issue of soundscape journal Earshot. An article about the artist and this work appears in the June 2003 edition of Musicworks magazine, published in Canada.
Recent soundwalks, Urban Song Paths, have involved the collection of found objects and the creation of texts and photographs. Some of these were displayed in January 2004 at London Freeform's Hothouse studios, as part of a Landscape and Arts exhibition.
Current collaborations include a longstanding performance duo with electronics/environmental sound musician Peter Cusack, explorations with sound sculptor Derek Shiels and phonographer Dallas Simpson, and performance/installation work using the resonant characteristics of drain-pipes with Dave Lawrence. Recent improvisation projects have involved Pat Thomas, Charles Hayward,
Gino Robair, Torsten Muller and Paul Burwell.
In 2003, work included a site-specific environmental sound project with children of Greenwich Millennium primary school, funded by London International Festival of Theatre, participation in the Leleg symposium of Live Art in Turkey, and residencies with Colourscape, the multi-chambered walk-in sculpture of colour and light, creating improvisations and electronic soundscapes with early years pupils. There were also performances and festivals in USA, Britain and Switzerland.
Scheduled work for 2004 includes concerts in Sweden and North America, leading workshops on "The Listening Body" with dancer Rachel Gomme, and a seminar and residency for the Cork Soundworks festival, in which she will work with local inhabitants to create new sound pieces.
She has an MA Sonic Art with Distinction, and is currently studying under American composer Pauline Oliveros for a certificate in "Deep Listening". She has received awards from the Arts Council, Jazz Services and Awards for All.
Cost: $6-10
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Gino Robair and John Butcher, 2008