Whitstable Bieannale [Satellite Programme] 11th June 2022
https://satellite.whitstablebiennale.com/project/

BandCamp downloads:

https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/sounding-shore-coast-to-coast-volume1-pre-recorded-2022

https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/sounding-shore-coast-to-coast-volume2-live-2022

https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/sounding-shore-coast-to-coast-volume3-live-2022

programme:

LIVE on the beach – channel 1 (11.00 – 18.30/19.00)

11.00 – 11.30 Marcus Leadley (Hidden Sounds of Whitstable) 
11.30 – 12.00 Two Wheels (Mercedes Maresca/Tote Rubio) 
12.00 – 12.30 Michael Zbyszynski 
12.30 – 13.00 Szalwia (Kacper Werkowicz) 
13.00 – 13.30 Concrete and Green (Edwin Hind) 

13.30 – 14.00 break 

14.00 – 14.30 Sarah Holly Sayeed/Daniel Mulligan/
Benjamin Sayeed/Elizabeth Blackwell 
14.30 – 15.00 Luca Venerus 
15.00 – 15.30 Monty Williams 
15.30 – 16.00 Tansy Spinks and Iris Garrelfs 
16.00 – 16.30 Ingrid Plum 
16.30 – 17.00 Hardworking Families (Tom Bench) 
17.00 – 17.30 Oishi (Hao Zheng/Ren Shang) 
17.30 – 18.00 LFIEL (Luke Fielding) 
18.00 – 18.30 Dog on a Deckchair 

Notes:

11.00 – 11.30 Marcus Leadley
Hidden Sounds of Whitstable: A sonic kaleidoscope of times past and present 

11.30 – 12.00 Two Wheels (Mercedes Maresca/Tote Rubio) 
Thalassa: a special improvised ambient set 

12.00 –12.30 Michael Zbyszynski 
Laridae Camerata: It will be all about seagulls; I hope some live ones show up. 

12.30 – 13.00 Szalwia (Kacper Werkowicz) 
Live sampling of the environment + digital processing 

13.00 – 13.30 Concrete and Green (Edwin Hind) 
A Wild Place and What If: Soundscapes with added voice and acoustic guitar. 

13.30 – 14.00 break

14.00 – 14.30 Sarah Holly Sayeed/Daniel Mulligan/ 
Benjamin Sayeed/Elizabeth Blackwell 
A set of 5 sea related songs/art/rock 

14.30 – 15.00 Luca Venerus 
Live set with laptop, house tempos and ambient sounds. 

15.00 – 15.30 Monty Williams 
London to Whitstable by bike: sonic adventure with field recordings 

15.30 – 16.00 Tansy Spinks and Iris Garrelfs 
A site-specific piece for voice, beach debris and recycled instruments. 

16.00 – 16.30 Ingrid Plum 
Atmospheric vocal techniques woven around field recordings and electronics 
16.30 – 17.00 Hardworking Families (Tom Bench) 
Sparse electronics and augmented environment. 

17.00 – 17.30 Oishi (Hao Zheng/Ren Shang) 
Electro-acoustic duo improvisation sampling the raw field recording from the coast, focus on decomposition and reorganization. 

17.30 – 18.00 LFIEL (Luke Fielding) 
Psychoacoustics, avant-garde, drone, techno, field recording, noise and minimalism 

18.00 – 18.30 Dog on a Deckchair 
Little happening….

PRE-RECORDED on the beach – channel 2 (total running time: 2 hours 30 minutes)

Freda D’Souza 
I cannot return to the womb but I can return to the sea (29:00) 
I cannot return to the womb but I can return to the sea aims to capture a submerged womb experience. The wave like compositional structure links the prebirth sensation of existing inside a parent’s breathing, with the expanding and contracting of the communal oceanic womb. Designed to be looped, the piece represents an eternal space, rather than a linear narrative. It was all recorded underwater, both in the calm of my bathtub, and whilst being bashed around by the Southampton coast. The reoccurring melody is Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, a song my Mother sang to me in her womb.

Sam L Taylor 
FLOSS (12:35) 
This music is about fishing and falling, dirt and dizziness, swimming and crawling. Prayer and crowds, ripples and spray, spit and breath. Piercing and ruining and singing and sleep. Floss and pencils and falling rocks, splash! Sorry. It’s made with a music box and a coil, and small replica emergency alarm toys.

Sam L Taylor 
LOSS (12:17) 
This piece of music is for the left ear only. Please remove the headphone from your right ear and place it comfortably elsewhere on your head. Some recordings of the Japanese coast, public bathing with the sounds where you are. Split, left behind, or found, if you like. Tannoy friends, or ghosts, always for your own good.

Two Wheels. (Mercedes Maresca/Tote Rubio) 
Thalassa’s dream (3:06) 
Improvised ambience.

LFIEL (Luke Fielding) 
ISLSHPPY (9:01) 
Psychoacoustics, avant-garde, drone, techno, field recording, noise and minimalism.

Gerauschhersteller 
Sound Fishes (21.54) 
Improvising ensemble from Dorset, specialising in interpretations of works by experimental composers. Here the group perform Pauline Oliveros’ piece ‘Sound fishes’ (1992), featuring plastic drainpipe and plastic objects sourced from Bournemouth beach.

ivon oates and David Rogers 
P L A S T I C : : O C E A N (40:00) 
ivon oates and David Rogers, improvisation using prerecorded sounds, mimicking the sounds of sea creatures, made using the material that pollutes the oceans – PLASTIC…..

Nemeton 
Inside the forest of plasticity (20.48) 
Sound artist based in Dorset, investigating deep ecology. This is a recording of a live performance featuring sounds entirely sourced from plastic objects collected from Bournemouth beach.

All performances will be recorded, and artist will have the opportunity to release the work on the DIVAContemporary label. 

For previous compilations see: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com

We will be providing a ‘stage’ (think gazebo and tables), analogue mixer, live mics from the environment, RF transmitter to broadcast the work and wireless headphones for our audience; the Sounding Shore is a ‘silent’ event.

We’ve been a part in the biennale since 2010 and there’s always a good crowd of spectators. This is an international art biennale – and it’s a great excuse to hang out on the beach and around the town where multiple events will be taking place on the day.

*note: our system is powered by a 12V battery/inverter set up so it’s fine for laptops, interfaces, and other instruments/equipment running on 9 – 18V supply only. If you require special cabling/connectors you will need to provide these yourself. 

Dr. Marcus Leadley