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Passages— to Yuki18/11/07
Everyone is invited to dress in white clothes— to banish the darkness. Feel free to bring your own food and drink.
The Alphabet Set Collective presents:
A night of collaborative art/ sound/ movement and visual experimentation.
Visuals by Kavi.
Bluefood with Emma Martin
As a classically trained dancer Emma Martin has over the past few months been attempting to tap into the memories and impressions that classical movement has imprinted on and in her physical being. With Paul’s soundscape performed live, Emma will use this to scratch the surfaces of instinctual movement to explore and experience the patterns of movement memory.
Emma Martin and Paul Rowan have worked together previously on a Theatre Dance performance of “Play3sum”, by Jeff Gormley, in association with the Soulgunwarriors which was presented with great success at the Electric Picnic 2007. This is Emmas second time to collaborate with Bluefood.
Soundpainting (also known as Conduction) is a term referring to a conductor of sorts, but in this case someone who leads a group improvisation. There are techniques using symbolic notation, text, graphics, the body and oral sounds. The participants will be lead this way at times and also offered the opportunity to lead the group if they desire.
Enagh Farrell with Ebauche
Especially for Passages, multi–disciplinary artist Enagh Farrell is teaming up for the first time with Alphabet Set’s Ebauche, who slowly builds layers of textured noise giving way to
ambience while Farrell performs, slowly altering the audiences view, revealing and unraveling to create something unexpected. The collaboration is at once dark, yet strangely beautiful.
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Kavi— Visuals
Kavi will artistically build a visual enviroment with the musicians, fine artists and dancers involved. The conception lies in projecting a real time feed as well prefilmed material, that have been prepared with Emma and Enagh. The real–time feed will build up the existing mood of the performance while being mixed with other video samples which will resolve more deeple the storers of the people involved. The video footage is very interpersonal and especially created for this particular performance. Projections will be streamed on multiple screens and manipulated live with a midi controller.
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Paul Rowan
Paul Rowan has been producing and showing his own crossbreed of electronic compositions as the solo project called Bluefood since around 2000. Bluefood is one man adventure in sonic and visual communication. His music has been released with Spitroast records and The Alphabet Set but having played live sets in many of the venues in Dublin, prefers the smaller intimate events with a site specific theme–ing.
As part of the Body and Soul area in The Electric Picnic this year Bluefood mixed his sound with Jeff Gormelys’ play “3sum” and The Soul Gun Warriors Theatre and Dance to produce a cross genre exploration of sexual and philosophical experimentations. He also played the Rathlin Island festival and the Mantua Lives festival. Paul is currently doing a masters in Music and Multimedia Technology in Trinity college. Bluefoods’ musical style is constantly questioning, questioned and in flux.
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Emma Martin
Emma Martin graduated from the John Cranko State Ballet School, Stuttgart, Germany as a professional dancer in 2000. Since then she has worked and performed with the Trier Dance Company and the Stuttgart Ballet, Germany, Ballet Ireland, Wexford Festival Opera and Coisceim Dance Theatre. As a freelance dancer she has worked with choreographers Nathan Garda, Paul Estabrook, Tadeusz Matacz, Renaud Doucet, Ronald Malzer amongst others.
In 2006 Emma became a member of Muse Innovative Dance Theatre in New York where she has developed and performed the choreographies of Christopher Morgan, in association with Brooklyn Arts Exchange, DanceNow NYC, and the Irish Arts Council. Since 2007 Emma has been a member of the Genesis Project, a dance collective, developing her own work as well as collaborating with other participating artists.
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Ebauche
Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard) currently resides in Letrim and has been producing music for 4 years. Musically his output covers a range of dark beat driven electronica to sublime ambient cascades to simple piano compositions.
Last year (2005) Ebauche released his debut album through his own website www.ebauche.net which has been played by John Kelly on RTE Radio 1’s Mystery Train. The album is an ambient work, with layers upon layers beautifully interlacing and falling apart. Other releases include 2 EP’s, as well as a number of tracks on compilation releases from Invisible Agent, The Alphabet Set and Elusive Recordings
Recently he has started composing music for film, and has worked on a number of shorts including The Boy with the Ever Open Jaw, Joyriders (Best Short Film at the Galway Film Festival 2006) and The Dropping Well. He is currently working on a new 8 minute short film called The Masterpiece.
He started out playing live sets with Blue Murder Music in Dublin, and since then has played with notables such as Biosphere, Hrvatski and Ambulance.
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Enagh Farrell
Enagh Farrell is a multi–disciplinary Carlow based artist who graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2003 with an Honours Degree in Fine Art Print. Her work has been shown in The Fringe Festival, Eigse, The Hotel Ballymun Project and The Project Arts Theatre.
Through various disciplines such as performance, photography and drawing she deals with recurring fragile and intangible themes. An expression of transience, what was, and what is now, is integral to the work. Veils and layers separate the viewer from a thought or a previous expression. Building up layers to create a new moment and then uncovering the pretence, she attempts to reveal something that may be hidden or perhaps was lost in a long forgotten memory.
Email: nenoisti@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/enagh
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Kavi—Biography
Kavi is cross–discipline artist working in such fields as painting, illustration, photography, animation and film. She always tries to find new ways of expression using mixed media. Lately she has performed as a video artist for numerous electronic music artists and djs in Dublin.
www.myspace.com/kkavi
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The Alphabet Set
Initially formed in the late Spring of 2002 as a platform for a group of bedroom producer friends to play live, The Alphabet Set has grown in size into a loose electronic–oriented collective of musicians, visual artists and djs consisting of over 20 people who have been throwing parties, releasing and promoting Irish electronic music for over the last five years.
From tones in the smallest of spaces to allsorts at large scale art + music fundraisers for charity to mashups in marquees and walls of sound at festivals via every kind of pub, club, theatre, hall and venue in between, we thought it would be good to do something different again in a space that is outside the usual cash register cacophony / beat manifesto and is open to multi–disciplinary collaboration.