Post by runningonair on Jul 26, 2010 4:14:06 GMT -5
Hi, Just hoping to share a little of my work with who ever may be interested. At the moment I only have one completed project that is genuinely “experimental”, although to be honest most of what I do is a bit odd, so you might want to check that out too. We had a very successful run of the initial CD/DVD release through Boomkat and as a result I’ve just completed a reissue. Here’s some info on the project in question, there’s loads of free samples through the associated links. Any comments welcome!
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www.runningonair.com/SooC.html
Systems out of Chance CD/DVD – Press Release
“The Systems out of Chance project was the result of a series of dialogues: a dialogue between image maker Craig Burston and composer Joe Evans working in collaboration; a dialogue between the subjective and the objective; a dialogue between chance and structure; a three-way dialogue between text, image and sound.”
Sam Gathercole, art writer, March 2010
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A collaboration between composer Joe Evans and image maker Craig Burston resulted in Systems out of Chance being shown at the Parfitt Gallery, Croydon, March 2010. Six speakers and three portrait monitors were synched to create an immersive audio-visual triptych born out of a shared love of systems, chaos and the everyday. The Fibonacci sequence was adopted as a formula to take the initial photographs shown in temporal sequence and transpose them into other sensory forms.
The soundtrack throws light on Joe’s lightness of touch and knack of making the mathematical sound human and the chaotic sound warm. Naked piano is within touching distance of low key drones and machine noise.
The companion DVD is the latest result in Craig’s on-going quest to find the beauty within the banal and dark within light. Lost and discarded gloves are transposed into colour charts and dry descriptions akin to witness statements or blog tags.
Notes: Ltd edition CD/DVD in hand screen printed packaging. DVD comes with exclusive surround sound remix version. This is the second official release on Runningonair music.
For more information, licensing, distribution and interviews:
j.evans at runningonair.com www.runningonair.com
craig at skip-rat.net www.skipratmedia.blogspot.com
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Parfitt Gallery - Press Release
Craig Burston & Joe Evans: Systems out of Chance
22 March ~ 31 March 2010
Opening Party: 22 March 6:00 - 8:00pm
Glove#1. 2010. Video still.
The Parfitt Gallery is pleased to present Systems out of Chance an audio-visual installation by Craig Burston and Joe Evans. As a graphic image maker, Craig Burston has often explored the lost and fragmented through the use of democratic technologies. The small press volume Talking Bread Heads, credited to skip-rat comics documented the everyday and the overheard - the ‘raw lumps of thought’ that we expose one another to. Joe Evans’ work under the name runningonair is an amalgam of melody, tone, mechanical rhythms, found sound and even spam e-mails. A chance meeting and a shared interest in the imposition of systems upon the random or chaotic has developed into their first collaboration.
Burston’s visual triptych offers a record of lost or discarded gloves via photographs taken with the ubiquitous camera phone, unspoken verbal textural descriptions and an informational colour field, in reference to the dominant colours within each photograph.
Positioned so that it is impossible to view all three depictions at once, the viewer is asked to engage with the interdependent images whilst simultaneously experiencing the auditory interpretations, calling at once upon immediate thoughts, memories and unspoken descriptions.
Evans’ musical triptych was written to be heard as a whole or as three separate pieces and has a co-dependent relationship with the imagery. The first part was written via the employment of a mathematical system (the Fibonacci sequence dictating time and notes) combined with his emotive response to the photographs. In turn this influenced the second series of images and the cyclical response between seen and heard resulted in three audiovisual constructs that are equitable in status to one another.
The scored music creates the environment in which to view each piece. By evoking sensations alluding to the melancholic, the music furthers the emotion of the imagery. The cacophony of image and sound produces a temporal experience, one where the viewer becomes aware of their own position within the space.
Michael Hall MA RCA
Parfitt Gallery Curator
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www.runningonair.com/SooC.html
Systems out of Chance CD/DVD – Press Release
“The Systems out of Chance project was the result of a series of dialogues: a dialogue between image maker Craig Burston and composer Joe Evans working in collaboration; a dialogue between the subjective and the objective; a dialogue between chance and structure; a three-way dialogue between text, image and sound.”
Sam Gathercole, art writer, March 2010
-
A collaboration between composer Joe Evans and image maker Craig Burston resulted in Systems out of Chance being shown at the Parfitt Gallery, Croydon, March 2010. Six speakers and three portrait monitors were synched to create an immersive audio-visual triptych born out of a shared love of systems, chaos and the everyday. The Fibonacci sequence was adopted as a formula to take the initial photographs shown in temporal sequence and transpose them into other sensory forms.
The soundtrack throws light on Joe’s lightness of touch and knack of making the mathematical sound human and the chaotic sound warm. Naked piano is within touching distance of low key drones and machine noise.
The companion DVD is the latest result in Craig’s on-going quest to find the beauty within the banal and dark within light. Lost and discarded gloves are transposed into colour charts and dry descriptions akin to witness statements or blog tags.
Notes: Ltd edition CD/DVD in hand screen printed packaging. DVD comes with exclusive surround sound remix version. This is the second official release on Runningonair music.
For more information, licensing, distribution and interviews:
j.evans at runningonair.com www.runningonair.com
craig at skip-rat.net www.skipratmedia.blogspot.com
……………………………………………….
Parfitt Gallery - Press Release
Craig Burston & Joe Evans: Systems out of Chance
22 March ~ 31 March 2010
Opening Party: 22 March 6:00 - 8:00pm
Glove#1. 2010. Video still.
The Parfitt Gallery is pleased to present Systems out of Chance an audio-visual installation by Craig Burston and Joe Evans. As a graphic image maker, Craig Burston has often explored the lost and fragmented through the use of democratic technologies. The small press volume Talking Bread Heads, credited to skip-rat comics documented the everyday and the overheard - the ‘raw lumps of thought’ that we expose one another to. Joe Evans’ work under the name runningonair is an amalgam of melody, tone, mechanical rhythms, found sound and even spam e-mails. A chance meeting and a shared interest in the imposition of systems upon the random or chaotic has developed into their first collaboration.
Burston’s visual triptych offers a record of lost or discarded gloves via photographs taken with the ubiquitous camera phone, unspoken verbal textural descriptions and an informational colour field, in reference to the dominant colours within each photograph.
Positioned so that it is impossible to view all three depictions at once, the viewer is asked to engage with the interdependent images whilst simultaneously experiencing the auditory interpretations, calling at once upon immediate thoughts, memories and unspoken descriptions.
Evans’ musical triptych was written to be heard as a whole or as three separate pieces and has a co-dependent relationship with the imagery. The first part was written via the employment of a mathematical system (the Fibonacci sequence dictating time and notes) combined with his emotive response to the photographs. In turn this influenced the second series of images and the cyclical response between seen and heard resulted in three audiovisual constructs that are equitable in status to one another.
The scored music creates the environment in which to view each piece. By evoking sensations alluding to the melancholic, the music furthers the emotion of the imagery. The cacophony of image and sound produces a temporal experience, one where the viewer becomes aware of their own position within the space.
Michael Hall MA RCA
Parfitt Gallery Curator
