Name: Wysing Polyphonic
Start: 2016-07-02T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2016-07-02T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Wysing Arts Centre

Wysing Polyphonic

Wysing Arts Centre is a research and development centre for the visual arts set in 11 acres of rural countryside just outside the village of Bourn, Cambridgeshire.

Wysing Arts Centre

SATURDAY 2 JULY, 12 noon -11pm 
Wysing Polyphonic is the seventh annual music event at Wysing Arts Centre and the first to be fully acoustic; with no microphones, speakers, backing tracks, laptops or electronics. Much of what will take place at will be improvised and completely unique to the festival and the specific surroundings and context of Wysing. Running order:
GALLERY 10pm / Evan Parker 8.45pm / Jennifer Walshe and Tomomi Adachi 7.30pm / David Toop with Elaine Mitchener, Sylvia Hallett and Roger Turner  6.15pm / Laura Cannell 5pm / Barnaby Brown 4pm / Sam Belinfante with Elaine Mitchener and Musarc 2.45pm / Jenny Moore with Simon Clark, Andrew Kershaw, Ela Barczewski, Sophie Mallet, Sophie Ramsay, Fay Nicholson, Rachel Horwood, Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, Raimond Wong, Kate Bones, Mario D'Agostino and Rosalie Schweiker 1.45pm / Adam Bohman 12.30pm / Pierre Berthet AMPHIS 10.15pm / Richard Dawson 9pm / Adam Christensen 7.30pm / Rachel Benson, Crispin Best, Megan Nolan, Linda Stupart 6.30pm / Secluded Bronte with Andy Holden 5.15pm / O Yama O 4.15pm / Paul Purgas 3.15pm / Larry Achiampong and David Blandy 2.15pm / Laura O'Neill and Natalie Price Hafslund 1pm / Florence Peake AROUND THE SITE In the Courtyard  7pm / Keef Winter and Steve Ennis 3pm / Pierre Berthet performs 'Galileo' by Tom Johnson In Reception 6pm / Sam Belinfante and Musarc perform 'Tape Music' by Lin Chi-Wei 4.30pm / Emma Smith and the Whistling Orchestra In the Greenhouse 2-6pm / French Riviera consider ideas of post urban living with live performances that contemplate the place of the artist in a contemporary society that increasingly homogenises creativity, alternative living and the creation of a future utopia. Performers include Das Hund, Euan Hinshelwood, Ellen Mara De Watcher and Lucy Woodhouse. French Riviera are inviting ticket holders to the festival to present texts and poetry in The Greenhouse. Readings will be accompanied by live saxophone, melodica and drones. If you would like to sign up to give a reading at this event please email:mail@frenchriviera1988.com. Please note that you will still need to purchase a Day Pass for festival entry to participate. In the Woods 1-6pm / OUTPOST presents 'The Temporary Research Centre for Myths, Stories, Tales and Fables', exploring the nature and themes of stories and how they are remembered, told, and passed on. Festival goers are invited to join the artists in their research hub and, with the help of props and toys, regale their own stories and anecdotes of folklore and mystery. Each story will be gathered into the artists growing research collection. In the Studio 5.15-6.15pm / Primary artists Frank Abbott, Bruce Asbestos, Wayne Burrows, Rebecca Lee, Alison Lloyd and Reactor come together in a variety of combinations to explore the lines between sound and language, sense and non-sense. Spoken and sung performances will include the Scratch Orchestra’s ‘Georgina Cries’, a forgetful cowboy, a live version of Reactor's ‘Peeza Peel’ and an interpretation of songs from Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Cocu’. 2-3pm / Barnaby Brown in-conversation
In the Window Room All day / Bar by The Portland Arms. Food by GoGo Gogi Gui. Teas and coffees by Beanissimo 
There will be no refunds to tickets once purchased. Children under 13 are admitted free of charge. 
Wysing Arts Centre Fox Road, nr Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2TX 
Twitter @wysingartscentre / Facebook Wysing Arts Centre / Instagram @wysing_donna  #wysingpolyphonic

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