| 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.
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