Collaborative
Pursuance
Collaborative Projects: Pursuance I have a collaboration with my good friend Laura Cole, pianist, composer and poet. I have worked with Laura in the last few years in a small band, “Deep Tide Quartet”, along with Martin Archer and Kim Macari, and also in the larger groups Juxtavoices and “Engine Room Favourites”. I am responding…
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Collaborative Projects: Node / Mass / Flow ‘Node / Mass / Flow’ or ‘Disaster Box’ 2012 The co-curators of this project were Walt Shaw, Geoff Bright, Gillian Whiteley and Matt Harling. ‘Node / Flow / Mass’ was an improvised sound and action piece, bringing together over 50 vocal and musical improvisers from the Midlands and…
Read MoreAlchemy / Schmalchemy
Collaborative Projects: Alchemy / Schmalchemy Alchemy / Schmalchemy are Walt, Gillian Whiteley and Geoff Bright. Gillian and Geoff are highly experienced performance artists and musicians with a wealth of past projects. Visit Gillian’s website: www.bricolagekitchen.com. Geoff Bright and Gillian Whiteley write .. ‘Alchemy/Schmalchemy conjures a disruptive oscillatory space of mischief, a laboratory of possibility. It plays…
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Collaborative Projects: Migration Walt writes about the project: ‘Migration’ is a collaborative project that explores the many facets of the migration of animals. The migration of humans is especially focused on, with all its contemporary resonances. We are living in a world where the movement and displacement of people is occuring continuously and exponentially, driven…
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Collaborative Projects: Surface 2006 Gigs at Deda Derby and Liverpool University, Chester College. ‘Surface’ was a fusion of contemporary dance and experimental percussion / electronics, involving improvisation in a tight structure in a visual art setting. The work ranged from great subtlety to raw, even visceral expression. The set for Surface was created by Joanna…
Read MoreMahood
Collaborative Projects: Mahood ‘Mahood’ live art collaborations with Graham Foster 2004 to present In addition to pure music gigs ‘Mahood’ carried out a number of projects that fused live art with their improvisatory music (see music section). For example, an installation and live performance in the watertower of the Kunsthalle, Lingen, Germany, June 2006 ‘Pile…
Read MoreSynaesthesia
Collaborative Projects: Synaesthesia January 2006 through to 2010 Joint project with visual artists Antoinette Burchill, Kevin Burnley and Paula Whirrity, alongside a number of musicians including Walt Shaw, Bruce Coates, Graham Foster, Corey Mwamba, Jonny Marks, Alan Jenkins, Mark Miller and others. The project explored how improvised sounds can trigger the production of spontaneous painting…
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Collaborative Projects: Dialectic Joint Arts Council England project with Corey Mwamba and Ben Shaw. This involved recording members of the public in conversation with the artists in a range of locations. The recordings were then electronically manipulated and incorporated into a number of improvised performances. In the gigs, Walt played percussion and electronics; Corey played…
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Collaborative Projects: BET4 The Midlands-based BET4Artists collective began in the late 1980s as a group of diverse visual artists aiming to create and exhibit original work. Founder members Walt Shaw and Kevin Burnley were concerned to generate a platform for exhibiting original artworks, but the group’s events soon began to embrace more multi-media elements. Sound…
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