Compline

Compline at Octagon Chapel by Aether Collective

Aether is an ongoing, live audio-visual collaboration exploring the synergy between organic bio sonic sounds, live drawing , and live projection.

We are delighted to have been asked to reimagine the Octagon Chapel Space as part of the Heritage Open Days to perform on Friday October 12th between 7.30 – 9pm .

We are a collective of artists and performers who are interested in live collaborative art .

The event will be 2 sections of approximately 30 – 40 minutes minutes each during the course of the evening with some time for questions, reflection or trying out making bio sonic sounds in the second part.

Notes for Audience

Refreshments are not supplied but please feel free to bring your own (including wine and beer if required )

This is a free event but donations towards the artists costs are greatly appreciated.

ARTISTS

Cat Jones

Cat Jones is an audiovisual bio-artist, who uses bio-sonification of plants, fungi and other organic matter to sonify and visualize internal patterns in nature. Having recently specialised in Moving Image and Sound arts at MA level, Jones has honed a multidisciplinary and rhizomatic approach to her practice. Her work aims to reconnect us to the natural world and the largely imperceptible circadian and circannual rhythms that regulate individual states and our environment. Jones is currently exploring this sound work within dementia care, using bio-sonification and nature soundscapes to alleviate symptoms of dementia and promoting wellbeing within dementia specialized care-homes.

Insta @catjones.av

Maria Pavledis

Maria’s work explores the sensory and emotional interconnections and interdependence between humans and other animals, and a wider sense of patterns and forms in nature.

Images are made using smoke to create an image.The smoke is used as a co – creative medium its flow forms and patterns are used to build an image and then worked into. It is a technique linked to both surrealist ideas of accessing the unconscious and, more widely, smoke has a ritual and magical significance.

Recent work has seen collaboration and dialogue with other artists becoming a central part of her practise through performance, curation and publication.

Facebook Maria Pavledis Artist Instagram @mariapavledis Website : www.mariapavledis.com

Marian Saunders

Marian Saunders is an artist specialising in improvised, live visual performance. Fusing her hand-made analogue imagery with digital real-time technologies, her visuals respond to sound, space and audience in an evolving collage of colour, shape and light. The edges of her creativity are constantly evolving as new

projects, technologies and the sharing of ideas through interdisciplinary, collaborative work inspire innovation in her developing practice

Insta @marian_saunders www.mariansaunders.com

Jillian Bain Christie

Jillian is a Scottish visual artist and soprano currently based in Norfolk, specialising in Nordic Art Song, Oratorio, and contemporary repertoire. She is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London.
Jillian’s electroacoustic vocal work _An Gleann Sàmhaichte_ was shortlisted for the 2023/24 Scottish Landscape Awards. Other projects include premiering the soprano solo in Paul Mealor’s Symphony No.1 ‘Passiontide’; Stockhausen’s _Stimmung_ at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre; and a solo exhibition at the Barbican Library.

Insta@queenofthebain www.jillianbainchristie.com

Jonathan Lambert

Storyteller Jonathan Lambert founded Hare Moon Storytelling Festival in Cambridgeshire in 2013 and ran it until 2023. He hosts Males' Tales, a monthly gathering in central Norwich, and performs frequently for both children and adults. As half of Sky Circle he released, earlier this year, A Storytelling of Rooks which is available on all streaming services. This evening he will tell how Odin sought the wisdom of Mimir's Well

David Farmer

Dave Farmer is an educational drama trainer and author of several books on drama. He was director of Tiebreak Touring Theatre for over twenty years, and enjoys clowning and making electronic music. www.dramaresource.com

Photo Credits Alisdair Vaughan Jones