Music for a Floating Room

Join us on DRIFT as Matilde Meireles and Adam Denton perform music for a floating room.

If you have visited Drift before, you are likely to have met sound artists Matilde Meireles and Adam Denton and listened to the work by Meireles created exclusively for the Drift Space.

Join us for a live performance at dusk by the Big Fish.

About the artists:

Matilde Meireles [https://matildemeireles.com/] is a sound artist and researcher who works with field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Her work is deeply exploratory, blending improvisation and other sonic flows with multiple approaches to recording. Her work often takes shape through live performances, installations, album releases, community-driven projects, workshops and academic publications. Matilde’s work embraces the inherent blurriness of field recording, acknowledging its varied interpretations and (mis)understandings. She also takes a multi-sensory, durational, and multi-perspective approach to site, exploring the potential of listening across different spectrums and scales to attune to diverse ecosystems and articulate multiple experiences of the world. Some examples include, complex water ecologies, resonances in everyday objects, the architecture of radio signals and the ways in which different communities engage with sound.

Adam Denton [https://linktr.ee/zonal_markings] is a sonic artist/performer working across media and materials. He has worked on projects such as The Old Police House (TOPH), a place for exploratory sonic art in Newcastle, alongside Mariam Rezaei, and the Abandonment project with Hardi Kurda & Space21 Festival, exploring so-called abandoned spaces in Slemani, Kurdistan region of Iraq. He is a member of No Hevdem, a new multi-locational collective of artists working with archive and live performance.

This event is accessible to wheelchair users - contact Drift for more details if needed.

Capacity is limited, so if you can't attend this event, please be kind and return your ticket.

The Drift Space is sheltered but unheated so please dress for the outdoor temperature. Blankets and cushions will be available but we recommend bringing an extra warm layer as there can be a cool breese down on the water.

Please bring drinking water if required.

Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

In the event of extreme weather, this event will be rescheduled or cancelled.

Photo: Colin Davidson