Workshops and Talks:

Saturday 6th September at 4pm
Sharon Gal's Toy Orchestra

The Toy Orchestra is a mixed workshop for adults and children who would like to explore collective music making in a fun, playful environment. Using sound making toys, the workshop will investigate the various possibilities of sound creation, combining simple instructions to create and develop a collective composition. Participants will listen, respond, initiate and reflect, discovering music making as a natural process of interaction and communication. Please bring with you some sound making toys - you can bring more than one. There may even be a chance for a performance!

Toy Orchestra is led by artist, musician and performer Sharon Gal.

This workshop is open to children and adults (with or without children). It is most suitable for children who are 4 years old and over - younger children can participate but would need to be accompanied by a parent.

The Toy Orchestra is free for ticket holders or £7.00 for everyone else. Places are limited so please make your reservation by emailing 'colour.space@yahoo.com', or by leaving a message at 01273 739970.

Sunday 7th September at 4pm
Byron Coley - Sound Poetry in Post-Tongue Culture + Panel Discussion

In an era where the very concept of 'word' has been consumed by its own viral context, a group of composers and improvisors has taken certain
precepts of spontaneous verbal composition and applied them to musical communciation. This has created a mode of conversational sound poetry
that often exists without the impediment of the human voice as a constituent member of the creative team. Noise/music, live/taped/sampled, improvised/composed, psych/volk/free, all of these basic incarnations of individual-spirit engage in variations of phonic regurgitation. This talk will explore the synchretic and editorial roles of defined-thought-process and social-history inside this continuum. From the history of the american mimeo underground to the ghost-promise of internet pornography. Nothing is forbidden.

Byron Coley is an archivist and writer living on an old farm in Western Masschusetts. He has been an editor at a wide variety of cultural magazines over the past quarter of a century, written for Forced Exposure, Wire, Arthur amongst many others, and has written books on topics as disparate as the films of Chuck Norris, the politics of cunnilingus and (just published) the NY No-Wave scene. He is currently operating as ghost editor of the ecstatic peace poetry journal, as well as running a few record labels, Glass Eye Books, the Ecstatic Yod Collective, and the New Grass Center for Underground Culture.