Jony Easterby and Mark Anderson
For:
Sounding The River
Event date:
20th September 2012
Event venue:
MAC Birmingham
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Sounding the River is a new sound and light installation created by members of the team that made Power Plant for the Oxford Botanical Gardens in 2005 – a show which has subsequently toured to Liverpool, Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Australia. Artists working on the project include Anna Lucas, Nathan Hughes, Alec Finlay and Ulf Mark Pedersen, with sound led works by Jony Easterby and Mark Anderson. The piece will run continuously for around three hours on each of the four nights it will be presented.
Live performers will include fiddle and accordion players, and percussionists playing semi-submerged gongs with hydrophones. Further sound devices and installations along the river will be created and operated by Mark Anderson and Jony Easterby.
Jony Easterby’s work is characterised by the diversity of artistic practice used and the range of technologies employed. Each project is different but there are key ideas and interests informing the approach. Using both digital and analogue media Easterby investigates the boundaries between raw elemental materials, sound technology, composition, landscape and architecture. A breadth of expertise in a wide range of artistic skills has found him developing projects as varied as the construction of intricate sound sculptures, audio visual installations, architectural constructions and the artistic direction of large scale performance projects.
Jony Easterby’s work is characterised by the diversity of artistic practice used and the range of technologies employed. Using both digital and analogue, ancient and modern, Easterby investigates the boundaries between raw elemental materials, sound technology, composition, landscape and architecture.
A breadth of expertise in a wide range of artistic skills has found him developing projects as varied as the construction of intricate sound sculptures, audio-visual installations, architectural constructions and the direction of performance. He has also worked as a sound designer and collaborator with Geir Jenssen/Biosphere, Red Earth, NVA, Fevered Sleep, Stan’s Café and the BBC.
Permanent sound installations can be found under the White Cliffs of Dover, Sustrans route 24, the Aberfoyle Forest and in the Ashbourne Tunnel, Derbyshire.
Mark Anderson is an artist who works with sound, video, kinetics, projections, and pyrotechnics. He is a founder member of the Birmingham based multi-media performance group Blissbody formed in 1992. He also works with other installation/performance groups and individuals on site-specific work where a number of different artistic practices are combined. His productions vastly differ in size and location from intimate to large scale and he has made work for festivals, parks, clubs, arts centres, galleries and streets.