reductive journal FOUR – book launch event at Hundred Years Gallery
reductive journal celebrates the physical publishing of FOUR, the fourth issue of its free online text-sound journal with two days of events of performances and installations at Hundred Years Gallery.
www.reductivejournal.com (mumei publishing)
reductive journal reflects a particular perception of sonic-text relationships that echo a critical standpoint on emptiness, space, absence or nothingness. FOUR examines sound and text as a particular experience in scores, images, objects, literature, poems, notations and so on.
FOUR includes works by Ryoko Akama, Daniela Cascella, Joseph Clayton Mills, Patrick Farmer, Jürg Frey, Christine Sun Kim, Sarah Hughes and Dave Stent, Daniel del Rio, Manfred Werder, lo wie, Audra Wolowiec.
FOUR is available on the 20th November 2015
format : 155x230mm / 4 colours / 172 pages / naked spine / £16
will be on sale for £13 at HYG
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DAY 1 on 27th November (Fri) : reductive journal FOUR – book launch tour #2
The day includes an exhibition of FOUR & an evening performance of works from the book.
book exhibition of FOUR 13:00 – 22:30 (free entry)
evening concert 19:30 – 22:00 (£3 on door)
works to be performed:
Danella Cascella : Rhythms and Song
Ryoko Akama : proposal_five
lo wie : CLOUD SCISSORS
Audra Wolwiec : between the sea and the sea
Manfred Werder : 6 scores
performed by Daniela Cascella, Heather Frasch, Sarah Hughes, Daniel del Rio, David Stent, Manfred Werder, Ryoko Akama
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BIO
Sarah Hughes is an artist, composer and performer whose work explores the boundaries of interdisciplinary practice, moving between sculpture, installation, musical composition and performance, publishing, drawing and collage. Common to each is the exploration of composition as a medium for production and as a tool for unifying discursive practices. Activities of placement and rearrangement recur across all forms of her work and are used as tools for thinking about spatial, material and social relations. sarahhughes.org
Ryoko Akama is a sound artist/ composer/curator. She approaches the aesthetics of silence and space in her compositional practice which uses diverse mediums such as text, objects and electronics. Akama explores sound performance with sine tones and produces installations with simple objects and electronics. She pursues the minimal, reductive and abstract and introduces quiet sonic experience. She runs melange edition label and co-edits reductive journal. ryokoakama.com
Daniela Cascella is a London-based Italian writer. Her work is focused on sound and literature across a range of publications and projects, driven by a longstanding interest in the relationship between listening, reading, writing, translating, recording and in the contingent conversations, questions, frictions, kinships that these fields generate, host or complicate. She is the author of F.M.R.L. Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound (Zero Books, 2015) and En Abyme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction (Zero Books, 2012). danielacascella.com
Daniel del Río lives and works in Guadalajara, Spain.
David R J Stent is an artist, writer, curator and performer whose work is concerned with relationships between text, image and publishing practices. His most recent work has been concerned with the role of fiction in art practice, particularly in association with artists’ publications, collaborative authorship, and the use of theory and philosophy in contemporary art. He is a founding member of The Set Ensemble, a collective dedicated to the performance of experimental music and contemporary composition, and a founding editor of BORE, a journal of scores for performance. skurrilsteer.wordpress.com
Heather Frasch is a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music, improviser and experimental flutist and works on sound installations. heatherfrasch.wordpress.com
Manfred Werder is a composer and performer. His scores and projects aim at letting appear the world’s natural abundance. manfred-werder.blogspot.pt
