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COMMISSIONS
From avant-garde seances to talking backwards, explore EVP’s programme of new commissioned works.
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Ross Sutherland – That Name Rings a Bell
Ross Sutherland will divine a new work in spoken word and reclaimed video from the detritus of pop culture and decaying memory. Ross Sutherland will be performing on all tour dates. _ Ross Sutherland Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. A former lecturer in electronic literature at Liverpool John Moore’s University, Ross works [...]
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Hannah Silva – Total Man
Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2014 In 1972 Stan Gooch published The Total Man, notes towards an evolutionary theory of personality. This extensive volume spans magic, religion, politics, art, morality and justice. Gooch discusses topics including whether or not Labour MPs have larger ears than Conservatives, and neurotics larger [...]
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Outfit – Judas
Outfit take inspiration from the 1990 trial of Judas Priest, which alleged that backwards messaging in their albums had resulted in the suicides of two American teenagers. Exploring the hidden messages in music and the artform’s potential to manipulate, Outfit combine conventional instrumentation with field recordings, guitar feedback and heavily processed samples. This first extended [...]
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SJ Fowler – Electric Dada
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Honor Gavin – 0121 Stimmtausch
The history of telephony is a history of distance and immediacy, lag and overlap; waiting for a connection, cutting in and cutting out. Drawing on telephonic exchanges both past and present on the one hand, and canon or catch construction on the other, 0121 Stimmtausch is a piece for multiple voices by writer/musician Honor Gavin. [...]
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Hetain Patel – I Wanna Be Like You
I Wanna Be Like You is a co-commission between Mercy and Penned in the Margins, and BDE London 2012 Consortium. Hetain Patel will be performing at The Sage Gateshead on 10 May and Norwich Arts Centre on 25 May. _ Hetain Patel Hetain Patel is a UK-based artist. Conceptually driven, his practice begins with ideas [...]
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Richard Milward – The Pillow Talk of Robert Desnos
The Pillow Talk of Robert Desnos takes the form of a short, scattershot biography of the poet, psychic shapeshifter, cat lover, concentration camp casualty and champion daydreamer, Robert Desnos (1900-45). Desnos was renowned for his ability to ‘speak surrealist’ at will, conjuring up incredible puns and wordplay, seemingly half asleep, during the Surrealists’ ‘period of [...]
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Alan Dunn, Jeff Young and Martin Heslop ‘London Road, 1981′
Dunn & Young present excerpts from lost cassette recordings found in the vicinity of the enigmatic ‘RAY + JULIE’ sculpture on London Road during the recent excavation of the Odeon Cinema. A continuation of their ‘Ghost Telegrams’ and ‘Arnold Circus’ works, ‘London Road, 1981′ reignites a specific place through characters – two nineteen year [...]
