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SightSonic 2005, 14th - 16th October
York International Festival of Digital Arts

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Date: Untill 29th October 2005
Time:10am - 5.30pm (Closed Sunday)
Venue: Impressions Gallery
Price: Free

Impressions Gallery

During the festival weekend and until 29 October: in an
ambitious new commission, international artist Mariele Neudecker has created a five-part moving image installation in response to Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children).
This is a unique project that fuses contemporary visual art with classical music and literature.

Sadly, Impressions Gallery has announced its intention to relocate after 33 years in the city of York. It will close its doors to the public at its York location on Saturday 29 October 2005.

SightSonic owes a great debt to Impressions. Not only was the gallery one of the founding members, but Anne McNeill and Emma Cheshire were in the group that thought up our name. Helen Rice is again running this year's FLUID trail.

It is a great loss to the city after 33 years of actively contributing to the contemporary cultural life of this heritage rich city. We wish the Gallery continued international, national and regional success.

(See www.impressions-gallery.com for news of their new developments).

Date: 13th - 29th October 2005
Time: 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday & 9am – 2pm Saturdays
Venue: National Centre for Early Music
Price: Free

Come and create your own Water Music at the NCEM with the return of the interactive fountain. First featured at SightSonic in 2001, the new, improved fountain returns for the 2005 festival. Get wet, get other people wet and create your own Symphony of Sound. Something for all the family!

In association with Immersive Media Spaces Ltd and the National Centre for Early Music.

Date: 10th - 16th October 2005
Time: 10am - 10pm
Venue: Melbourne Centre
Price: Free

CUBE MEDIA & ACCESSIBLE ARTS OPEN WEEK

CUBE MEDIA and ACCESSIBLE ARTS (featuring the inspirational Hands & Voices Choir) invite you to celebrate an exciting new era in our development. Both organisations have a proven 25 years plus history of excellence in delivering innovative community media projects (audio/ visual/ educational), all of which are wholly inclusive and accessible to everyone, irrespective of ability/disability.

This is an ideal opportunity to drop into the Melbourne Centre, Escrick Street, off Fishergate from 10 am - 10 pm Monday 10th - Sunday 16th October and find about both charitable organisations, the Melbourne Centre, Studio Cube and …..

What can we do for you?

We host and facilitate a wide range of community, educational and training projects and are always keen to talk about your particular needs or just offer impartial advice about potential projects you may be considering.
We will freely offer advice/details of our comprehensive range of professional services in audio, film and media. You can also find out about hiring the Melbourne Centre for your local group, as well as and the various community groups whose future has been secured through our relocation.
These include Melbourne Terrace Toddler and Playgroup, The Gateway Club (a youth club for young people with disabilities), The York Woodcraft Folk and Gravity Control (a hip hop dance club).
All groups would be more than delighted if you would just like to call in & see what we do, tea/coffee & entertainment guaranteed!

Please go to the newspage of our website for the full Open Week timetable: www.cubemedia.biz , e mail: rose@cubemedia.biz or phone: 01904 626965 to find out more.

Date: 28 October 2005
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: University of York, Music Research Centre
Price: £6/£5 (conc)
E-mail: boxoffice@york.ac.uk
Phone: 01904 432439
Web: www.yorkconcerts.co.uk

Sanso Xtro

Melissa Agate guitars, ukulele, synthesizer, kalimba, drums
Enrico Glerean guitars, synthesizer, live processing
Nik Tafra synthesizer, guitar, glockenspiel, percussion

Melissa Agate began her musical career as drummer of the Australian avant rock outfit Sindog Jellyroll before arriving in the UK and refining her style to create a personal sound. She takes acoustic instruments and uses live processing to make a rich soundscape with echoes of jazz, blues and experimental electronic works. Her first album, Sentimentalist, was released in May to acclaim in the new music press: 'Carefully selected fragments of musical history are lovingly woven together creating a magical album, and one not to be taken lightly under any circumstances.

Antarctica | Musical Images from the Frozen Continent is an original new DVD/Book that describes through music, sound, film, photography and literature, one man's three month journey into the mysterious frozen world of Antarctica. Composer, Craig Vear set out with the British Antarctic Survey to discover the silence and the music of this awe inspiring continent; the music of ice, sea, wind and wildlife, the melodies and rhythms of the intonation of voices and the resonant cavities of glaciers.

More info (pdf)

Contact: antarctica@ev2.co.uk
URL: www.ev2.co.uk
ISBN: 0-9550616-0-1
Price: £24.99

Date: 11 November 2005
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: University of York, Music Research Centre
Price: £6/£5 (conc)
E-mail: boxoffice@york.ac.uk
Phone: 01904 432439
Web: www.yorkconcerts.co.uk

Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer

Stephan Mathieu, from Saarbrücken, bases his work on recordings of acoustic events and esoteric software processes. London-based sound artist Janek Schaefer creates music that explores the spatial and architectural aspects of sound. Together, they have released and performed their music to critical acclaim and created site-specific pieces around the world.

Stephan and Janek formed their audio/visual duo following a spontaneous duo concert in Szczecin, a city by the sea in Poland. They met again at the home of composer John Tavener to make recordings of his collection of classical and exotic instruments. For this project, these recordings are used to create soundscapes that weave together lush drones and sparkling tones to produce various intimate, hypnotic, and exhilarating experiences.

Date: 6 May 2006
Time: 8pm
Venue: University of York, Music Research Centre
Price: £6/£5 (conc)
E-mail: boxoffice@york.ac.uk
Phone: 01904 432439
Web: www.yorkconcerts.co.uk

Taylor Deupree

New York sound artist, graphic designer and photographer Taylor Deupree creates soundscapes inspired by sculpture, architecture and everyday life. He says of his work that: 'timelessness, nature, understatement and simplicity of form are key to my aesthetic. I believe that the single sound, color or line delivers the strongest emotion, and this simple vision runs through everything I do.' He presents his current work in a rare UK appearance.