Vanishing is the work of Gareth Smith, artist and ex-engineer. Using a shifting cast of collaborators, Smith assembles words, music and film that reflects his industrial roots, reworked over and again until meaning and purpose is foundNew album 'Shelter of the Opaque' is an atmosphere of modular electronics, strings and woodwind that economically weave around poetry and prose - the city, dreams, isolated spaces, an ornate wilderness. Images and music, glacial and elegant, compelling and troubling. Journalist John Doran:"ambitious and ..affecting, retaining intensity and industrial grind, but as a single colour among many on a vivid new palette. Today the musical backing – which is as much informed by cold wave electronics, free jazz, Japanese ambient and discrete minimalism as it is by DIY noise – serves to aid Smith’s lyrics, not to obscure them”
Support comes from long time Vanishing movement collaborator Trianglecuts. Trianglecuts are performing as a trio with Doug Gordon (of Futures We Lost) soundtracking a movement piece by artists Gwen Osmond and Bethany Weaves. This piece reflects on Manchester’s industrial past, focusing on the female experience within the textile mills — particularly the long, arduous labour involved in cotton spinning and weaving.
