JANUARY
2008.
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January : Solo instrumental exploration with dan-bau and viola d'amoré at the Pod. Digging out old pedals and valve amps, studying taut wire recordings from Alan Lamb bush project 1999, Charles Ives, Thanh Tam Ban and Britten, revisiting distortions and mouse dragging them so slow around the room whilst processing. Playing physical instruments again. Summer broken elbow aches with the viola and its amplification experiments confirm that this instrument is for acoustic work. It is lain aside. This preparation is ultimately for act 2] Betrayal in upcoming 2 hour performance within 12 hour sonic performance Moving Forest at transmediale.08, Berlin. Using LiSa and Bench developed Max softwares, Kaffe develops shifting matrix to be feed live with the dan-bau, processings, lines of falsetto - (news finally comes through that an able voice in Christian Kelsen has been found, fabulous) - male Scottish voice reading 37 of Matthew Fuller's 500 slogans (old collaboration renewed through the generosity of the awesome Tam Dean Burn, what an addition!) and play and diffuse from a lit stage (horror) through an eight channel sound system. The audience will be conference perambulators, an ideal open laboratory show. However, Pod diffusion preps are
thwarted by confused neighbours who after visiting for a demo calm,
but headphones become the rule post 11pm. This restriction, however,
adds to the January start, inviting stereo making once more. Not
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FEBRUARY 2008.
| Friday 1st: 2
hour performance within 12 hour Moving
Forest at conspire,
transmediale.08. Moving Forest AKA THE CASTLE, conceived and directed by Shu Lea Cheang and Martin Howse, is a 12 hour 5 act sonic performance which mapped an imaginary Castle and camouflage forest revolt (Transmitter network) onto HKW and the surrounding Tiergartern. This conceptual transformation heralded further everyday magic, with the final 12 minutes of Kurosawa' film Throne of Blood rendered into 12 hours of sonic coded action. Inside the Castle, a classic tale of remorse, betrayal and overthrow is underway,transformed by sound artists Mattin, Leif Elggren, Joachim Montessius, Phil Niblock and Kaffe each in 2 hour chunks with all the MainFrame artists, the Film Eater Graham Harwood, Arrows and Blood Linda Dement and G8 blockade in continuous action.....Image Ilze Black. |
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Saturday 2nd: The
Lappetites in conference to confirm next move. AGF ~ solo performing, touring, recording, releasing,
producing, mother of 20 month old daughter. Base Berlin, Germany. Reconfirmed committment to push and perform the Opera post a month residency in Japan, January 2009. Joy in new member Kyd Campbell brought on board to facilitate this. |  |
Wednesday 6th - Thursday 14th : solo
residency at
GRM, (Groupe Recherche Musicale) Maison de Radio France, pièce
3519 Stunning to have 7 days of total sonic
absorption in this paradise of multichannelled play, assisted by
Francois, Philippe Dao and Valerie Vivancos when needed. Dan_bau
focus produces serious result, but clear monitoring proves plucking
technique whilst holding the note with the side of the hand - oh-
ANY DAN BAU TEACHERS OUT THERE? |
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Saturday 16th - Friday 22nd : Vivien and her Shadows in discussion in Scotland. Hosted by TheatreWorks in residence in Edinburgh, director Okeng Sen, manager Tay Tong and assistant KC Hoo (Singapore) organised Julie Atlas-Muz (NYC), Charlotte Engelkes (Stockholm), Karen Kandell (NYC) and Kaffe (London) into a weeks investigation of methods of human survival and the art of copying in traditional Eastern Opera, Dance, Theatre and Music practises through a close inspection of sexuality, copyright law and Vivien Leigh being Blanche duBois in Elia Kazan's directed A Streetcar Named Desire. Outcome: to make a 2 hour 3 minute performance to premiere in North Carolina, US, October 2008. Kaffe to make the music using the original soundtrack as her score. |
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MARCH 2008
Monday 17th - Wednesday
2nd April: The Marvelo Project workshops running
in the Lab at UCF, Tontine Street, Folkestone ,Kent, UK.
Inspired by Matthews’ innovative Radio Cycle(2003), The Marvelo project is a collaborative composition project with a group of local young residents to score and make new music through exploring Folkestone’s sonic territories, personal routes and maps. The resultant audio work will be laid over the streets of Folkestone which visitors will be able to enjoy by cycling certain routes so triggering specific tracks on the specialist Marvelo audio bikes. Free. The Marvelo Project is Abigail, Bradley, Charlotte, Hannah, Harrison, Holly, Leonie, Paul and William from the Folkestone Academy, facilitated by Lisa Hall, Maria Johnson and Ross with generous support from Niamh Sullivan of the Creative Foundation. The bespoke GPS linked audio system
is being made in collaboration with Alexei Blinov and Wolfgang of
Hive
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Friday 28th March:
8 channel solo at "PRESENCES électronique", 8pm at Salle Olivier Messian, Maison
de Radio France, FREE. Festival runs 27th-30th March, details, including diffusions of works by Pierre Schaeffer, Jean-Claude RISSET, François BAYLE and live performances by Aki Onda,Chris Watson, K.K..Null and ZEV, Al Margolis /If, Bwana, Matmos, Maja Ratkje, and Phil Niblock with Natalia Psceenitdchnikova. Kaffe made a live performance of "Men
being Butterflies" using bespoke diffusion software made for
sonic furniture she now develops for live and "ear" listening.
Even Francois Bayle was intrigued. Photo by René Pichet,
Kaffe in sound check, Salle Olivier Messian. |
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APRIL 2008
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Wednesday 9th April: MOVE TO NEW AND PERMANENT STUDIO
SPACE.
After 11 months patient struggle,
we can finally move into 17B Ellingfort Road, Hackney, London E8.
Kaffe Matthews, Annette Works, music for bodies and audio projects
have a new permanent laboratory space to work from.
17B Ellingfort Road is a unique two
floored, 1000 sq ft space within a collection of 10 units, each built
for and occupied by artists. A mixed bunch of professionals working
in photography, writing, film, design, sculpture, animation, digital
arts, the outdoors and gardening.
With our own sound proofed premises
which we hope to run as a collective resource, hosting residencies,
collective projects, performances, a library, and audio design through
hard + software development, our yard will also give us a facility to develop
weather and vandal proofed works for outdoors.
WATCH THIS SPACE.
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Thursday 11th -12th April:
The Owl Project,
Leafcutter John, Thor (ixi-audio) and Fabulous that the very first thing that happens in 17B is a new audio research project tackling that continuing search for ways of making and playing music using digital technology without being fixed behind a latop. The Owl Project is certainly finding brilliant ways of doing this, focusing on putting simple electronics inside small logs that you can shout into and twiddle knobs on and hear great things happen immediatley. Leafcutter and Kaffe were singing, playing triangles, tambourines, bells and all kinds, the Owls staying noise based with Simon Owl doing much i_Log immediate processing of strands that were being made. Thor arriving on day 2 brought in ixi_Quarks and pushed our discussions around how we play, what we use and what we really need. It seems that this project could produce these things. Local Turkish and Vietnamese cafe's kept us well fuelled and London Fields train from Liverpool St is only 7 minutes, so 17B proves to be well located. Most importantly, 17B sounds good, really good. A fabulous beginning. |
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Tuesday 22nd April: Scratch Project Launch with the DRAWING ROOM and Bridge Academy, Hackney, London E2. Kaffe meets with Kate and Paula of The Drawing Room
and Clifford (Music) and Sarah Phillips (Art)
of the Bridge Academy, currently running out of portacabins
next to Haggerston Park. The Bridge Academy is a new Hackney school
specializing in music and mathematics, now under construction on Laburnum
Street and with only its first year of pupils installed.
Kaffe will be working with a group
of 15 x 11 year olds, exploring the ideas behind Cornelius Cardew's
Scratch Orchestra and graphic scores. With a copy of Treatise, a room
full of violins, violas, trumpets, trombones, basses, drums, guitars,
clarinets, bongoes, teachers who will collaborate, 6 weeks to work
in and a Park outside, the timing of this project for Kaffe's work
in making and getting new music out of doors, not to mention another
chance to work with 11 year olds, is perfect. This project should
be more than interesting.
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MAY 2008
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Monday 5th -11th: Duo with Jérome Joy in Monte Carlo, France. at Le Logoscope, Early evening multichannelled live
electronics.
Tea at 4pm
Music at 5pm
Apéro at 6pm.
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Monday 5th -11th: Kaffe a.k.a. Mademoiselle Jaune in residency with The Sobralasolas ! team, Southern France, to create new episodes of the on-going networked "radiopera". Sobralasolas ! is a collective project initiated by Jerome Joy with Gregory Whitehead, Kaffe Matthews, Björn Eriksson, Dinahbird and Caroline B. Issued from experimentations and research developed with Locus Sonus about live streaming practices and webmikes, (Locustream Projects), Sobralasolas ! is a kind of a networked "radiopera" with streamed and recorded sounds by playing with different spaces, acousmatic ones and local ones, and by questioning sound composition between radio and performance. Last presentations: Festival
SonoR Nantes (FR) March 2007, Das kleines Field Recording Festival
Berlin (D) August 2007,
Festival Radiophonic Brussels (B) October 2007. |
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JUNE 2008
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Sunday 8th: solo at Mother
of all Parties, part of " 3 Faces of Matmos ". Live music performance-art electronica,
film, eclectic dj’s, curated by Matmos with Beaconsfield,
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Saturday 14th: THE MARVELO PROJECT launches at The Folkestone Triennial. Music made during spring workshops is finally mapped and loaded onto the Marvelo Bikes. Come to the seaside and cycle your own narrative through the work. The map/the score, is laid over and beyond the whole town suiting the town centre cyclist or the most intrepid. FREE and available daily : 11am -
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Thursday 19th - 26th: Back to Quebec City for new composition work with Sonic Bed_Quebec and John Oswald, Magali Babin and Georges Azzaria. Three different composers with three
very different approaches. Interesting. Bed composition tool is
already expanding as required and three new works on the way. Commissioned by Recto_Verso- Oboro, opens at Mois Multi_2, September 9th - 28th, en plein air, Quebec City, 2008. Many thanks to Emile Morin for his
continued support and committment to this project. | 
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Friday 27th: Multispeaker solo at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, New York City. Part of the Floating Points Festival where performers make new pieces for the 15 Hemisphere speaker system hung over the entire performance space in a 5 x 3 grid, Weekend includes:June 26: Koen Holtkamp
and Suzanne Thorpe,June 27: Seth Cluett and Kaffe Matthews, June
28: Stephan Moore and Francisco Lopez. |
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Monday 30th - 7th July: Off to Marfa, Texas for Sonic Bed_Marfa research adventure. I am seeking out natural and local recycled materials to craft this one.Tin. wood. cactus. things we can find and scavenge and still construct into a vibrating tank. The mysterious Marfa Lights will be investigated for the composition. Commissioned by the Relay Project
for the Marfa Sessions, Marfa, Texas. |
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JULY 2008
| Tuesday 22nd
- 9th August: Making " Vivien and the Shadows "
Devising workshop directed by Okeng Sen to make stage
show for premeir in Chapel Hill, USA, October 2008. International
cast, Julie Atlas Muz, Charlotte Engeles and Karen at TheatreWorks,72-13
Mohammed Sultan Drive, Singapore.
Marfa was cool by comparison.
We use the sound track of film " A Streetcar
named Desire" as the score. Essentially I'm rewriting it. MAssive.
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