Monday 21st-Friday 26th. Spaces Between goes hard hat.
Collaboration with CandoCo dance Company and Royal Festival Hall, South Bank London.
A research project to make a film for future installations inspired by current redevelopment scheme.
Working in retail Unit 7 at river level in the snow with 2 choreographers, 12 dancers from New Vic College,lighting designer, film maker And CandoCo's ass. AD Claire Russ.Also Mark from Interiors Exteriors(Health and Safety on site). Hard but worthwhile week. Freezing temperatures throughout, dead laptop, so I worked with microphones and vinyl and cd and thermals and ferried pieces made at Annette Works inbetween for movement lift and space transformation the next day. My left eye had also freaked out, totally bloodshot and throbbing ache behind. The doc had said I had pulled an eye muscle, yes, too much computer gazing with no breaks, so maybe laptop collapse was a good thing. Fast work. The whole team, fantastic.

Monday 7th - Friday 11th am. In Helsinki, Finland.

Tuesday 3rd- Sunday 8th: Red Chair in CIRCLE OF SOUND Exhibition, London,UK.
at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern St, London EC2 . Free. 7-11pm_weekdays; 3-11pm_ weekend.
All showing artists produce programs as volunteers for Resonance 104.4FM, which celebrates its 3rd year on air on 1st May. See images on site.
Including Disinformation, Sharon Gal,Iris Garrelfs, Magz Hall,Jason Synott, DJ Wrongspeed. Check ResonanceFM for further info.
Red Chair is my 2nd sonic armchair,commissioned by Art at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for the Don't Worry Exhibition, 2000.
It will be playing a remixed work," Heart of Train " in research for summer build of sonic bed.Check in the artist and works/solo section for more info.

Tuesday 17th- Friday 27th: In residence with MIMEO in Nancy, France, as part of the Musique D'Action festival, Vandoeuvre.
For this residency, MIMEO players will be Gert-Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler, Thomas Lehn, Peter Rehberg, Marcus Schmickler, Jerome Noetinger, Phil Durrant and Kaffe Matthews.
18th-22nd: work in CDN, Nancy.18th: small combination performance in Nilvange, library.
22nd: MIMEO perform the Art gallery, Vandoeuvre cultural centre, using many small speaker systems spread all over.
24th: MIMEO perform in small combinations, Salle des Fetes, Vandoeuvres.
25th and 26th : MIMEO perform as MIMEO, (with Keith Rowe and Raphael Toral on 26th)

Tuesday 14th- Quadraphonic 'Radio Play' solo at The MOUSONTURM Kunstlerhaus, Frankfurt, Germany.
HorRaum Audio Art series in collaboration with Hessischer Rundfunk(National Radio Station). And I had completely forgotten that Frankfurt according to me Feb 2004(calendar) houses the best Italian food I have yet met outside of Italy. I was of course informed that I was certainly mistaken for now the thing was a hidden house in a remote suburb where the best Italian food Japanese style (ie raw) is it. Another good thing here is that the fabulous Soundman headphone mics(Berlin) are distributed by PA Sound(another remote suburb) but that the tech folk at Mousonturm are so helpful its possible to do anything.
Starts 9pm. See Oliver Ausgt ,Audio Art series at www.mousonturm.de for details.

Thursday 16th, Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th - with the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. at The Barbican Theatre, Silk St, London, UK. - A fantastic series, each night, a different event with choreographed pieces selected by Merce + dice, different décor, different costumes and another trio of musicians. Playing in the pit, we musicians couldn't see the dancers, were outside the quad space surrounding the seated audience and had the instruction to play independantly of each other and be silent for a total of 15 minutes within the 72 we played for. The audience therefore were able to each make their own event out of the chance collisions of mood, pace, activity+/-, pace and timbre. Invariably they couldn't believe this was the case. Astonishing that this kind of performance making work has been going on for 50 years or so yet was received with such new excitement here. The whole project remarkable and an honour to be a part of.
16th:
Musicians: John King, Kaffe Matthews and Philip Selway (Radiohead)
Decor: David Batchelor.
18th
Musicians: Takehisa Kosugi(MD), Kaffe Matthews and Steve Montague
Decor: Darren Almond
19th:
Musicians: Takehisa Kosugi(MD), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) and Kaffe Matthews
Decor: Enrico David.
"My work has always been in process. Finishing a dance has always left me with the idea, often slim in the beginning, for the next one. I do not think of dance as an object, rather a short stop on the way." Merce Cunningham

Friday 1st: presenting Field 61 show,Resonance 104.4FM.9.30-10.30pm. Airing binaural recordings I made today at the 3 installations in the 6 sites for sound exhibition opening last night in Hackney, London at MOT gallery(Michael Schumacher), Fortescues,(o-blaat) and Alma Enterprises(Jem Finer). Check sixsitesforsound.net for details. So much for the effort though; it cost me my good old trusted bike of ten years that I had just got serviced at last. oh grief.

Wednesday 20th to Saturday August 6th.
SOUNDING ARCHITECTURE : a collaboration with visual artist Lynn Cox, sound engineer Bob Field and a committed group of visually impaired participants, based in the Serpentine Gallery current exhibition of Rikrit Tiravanija,the summer pavilion and local spaces. A practical project and exploration into non visual perceptions of architectural space and the environment. This is a collaborative project between the Serpentine gallery, Shape and Art through Touch and will also broadcast live from Wednesday to Saturday every week from 10-12am on Resonance 104.4FM from the Gallery, as well as two Clear Spots on Resonance from 7pm to 8.30pm on Friday 29th July and Friday 5th August.
Tackling analogue and digital portable recording equipment to document non visual experiences of places such as paddle boating on the Serpentine pond, the lecture theatre at the Victoria and Albert museum, Kensington Gardens and the pavilion were some of the tools, along with a huge analogue mixing desk to 8 moveable speakers, much active listening and finding ways of working with audio software when you can't see. Audio software that doesn't demand so much looking has to be developed.
Of course the architecture of a Korg analogue synthesizer came well into its own as well as much tea and talking.

Saturday 6th a site specific celebration to complete the SOUNDING ARCHITECTURE project,at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London,UK, 6.30 to 8.30pm. Free
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Head in a Sauna, Feet in a cloud, an 8 channel audio work made for the pavilion by the participants, projected live as well as a treasure hunt and audio balloons, broadcast live on Resonance FM.
More information at education@serpentine gallery.org and tel:020 7298 1533.
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington gardens,London W2 3XA. From the 7th to 12th August, a stereo version of the work available from the Serpentine Gallery reception, 10am-6pm.
These August photos by David Bebber.