This series of three concerts curated by Cathy Lane for Reel Lives will feature performances and works from emergent and established sound artists from the UK and Europe.

Through these events you will be invited to sonically engage with aspects of the voice and language, places near and far and recent and current events through the different styles, ears and perspectives of each of the artists. The performances will take place in the main gallery space at LCC which will feature an eight channel system surrounding the audience to reconfigure the gallery as an immersive listening space.

Artists include Ain Bailey, Caroline Bergvall, Kate Carr, Viv Corringham, Poulomi Desai, Caroline Devine, Lisa Hall and Hannah Kemp-Welch, Cathy Lane, Lina Lapelyte, Brona Martin, Else M’bala and Karen Power.

Concert 2: There

This concert will feature works and performances from Ain Bailey, Lisa Hall & Hannah Kemp-Welch, Karen Power and Brona Martin.

Ain Bailey is a sound artist and DJ. Her current practice involves an exploration of sonic autobiographies, architectural acoustics, live performance, as well as collaborations with performance, visual and sonic artists. Bailey has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally and Oh Adelaide (2010), her collaboration with the artist Sonia Boyce, has shown at Tate Britain, the Whitechapel Gallery and The Kitchen, New York. In 2016, Bailey was commissioned by Art Basel Miami Beach to compose for the Soundscape Park. Bailey also devised a Study Week at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, that considered the role of sound in the formation of identity. Bailey was guest professor in sound at Kunsthochschule Kassel for the winter semester 2017/2018.

Lisa Hall & Hannah Kemp-Welch

Hannah is a social practice sound artist, working collaboratively with communities, educators and artists, to listen to the world around. Using a range of strategies such as sound recording, audio interventions, broadcasts, performance and digital making, works explore communication and ask how do we listen? and who can be heard?

Lisa is a London based sound artist exploring urban environments using audio interventions and performative actions. Interrupting behaviour and questioning design, these works aim to make space for something new.

Hannah and Lisa have worked together since 2012, on commissions for galleries including Tate Modern, Firstsite, and October Gallery.

Karen Power’s work utilises two primary sources; acoustic instruments and everyday sounds, spaces and soundscapes. Her output is diverse - both in its approach and delivery - and her primary aim is to capture and translate the essence of an idea through any artistic means necessary. Recent projects include; Gorging Limpet, a collaborative project between sound and experimental film with Max le Cain; where lost weight is found for UK pianist Andrew Zolinsky - focusing on the subtle individual tuning of pianos; hearSpace - an exploration into the world of Radio with a new interactive radio art composition, sounds of a time and place for Bozzini Quartet, a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Award, Instruments of Ice (2015) for Quiet Music Ensemble (QME) + Arctic Ice, once below a double installation + soloists based on Berlin’s underground bunkers, veiled babble for Ensemble Mosaik + underwater Spree River sounds + here not here for Sonar Quartett merging string quartet with Laotian ricefields + Berlin.

Brona Martin is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist from Banagher, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Brona's research interests include narrative in Electroacoustic music, soundscape composition, acoustic communication and spatialisation. Brona's portfolio of works explore the layers and textures of sounds that contribute to the overall sonic-makeup of specific places both real and imaginary and offers an in-depth and alternative listening perspective and experience where the complexity of everyday sounds are examined and rearranged into a new context. Her acousmatic works composed in stereo, 5.1 and 8-channel have included the creative exploration of soundscapes from Ireland, Manchester, East Coast Australia, Spain and Germany. Her works have been performed internationally at EMS, ACMC, ICMC, NYCEMF, ISSTA, ZKM, BEAST, Balance/Unbalance, SSSP, iFIMPaC, Sonorities and MANTIS.

This is a seated event with limited capacity. Booking is essential. Supported by CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice).