We’re pleased to announce the 5th event of Bill Thompson’s extended residency at Hundred Years Gallery – Mercury Over Maps
The evening will feature 4 solo sets by artists well known for their innovation with electronics, instrument design and sound installation: Tom Richards,Dawn Scarfe, Thomas Eisl, and Bill Thompson.
Doors 7.30 pm | £5 donation
Tom Richards is an artist, musician, DJ, researcher and instrument designer working in London UK. He has walked the line between sonic art, sculpture and music since graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2004. Richards has built his own idiosyncratic modular electronic music system, with which he creates slowly evolving and heavily textured polyrhythmic improvisations. His individual approach and reductive palette lead to a taut, rhythmically focused sonic experience. He has performed and exhibited widely in the UK, as well as internationally in the US, Germany, Peru, Japan and Sweden.
Selected works and live performances have taken place at Tate Britain, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Science Museum, Spike Island, Cafe Oto, MK Gallery, Bold Tendencies, and Camden Arts Centre.
For more information visit: soundcloud.com/tom-richards
Dawn Scarfe is an artist based in London working with field recording, sound 
installation and performance. Her work explores things that seem to sound themselves such as resonating glasses, aeolian wires and self-opening swell boxes. Her work has been aired on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. She has shown work at Cafe Oto, ZKM Karlsruhe, Q02 Brussels and New Mart, Seoul.
For more information visit: http://www.dawnscarfe.co.uk/
For a very snippety view of what Thomas Eisl has done over the recent past look here: https://vimeo.com/240738885
and here:
https://vimeo.com/user7307252
Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs as a soloist and with a 
number of groups including M/H/T with Jan Hendrickse and Tom Mudd, Airfield with choreographer Ian Spink, and in the past with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. Since 2016/17, however, he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining built in electronics with miscellaneous table top devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2012.
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Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Hundred Years Gallery featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.
More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-5/
