AV Festival 2010 at Sage Gateshead
RIVERS: KAFFE MATTHEWS, JANA WINDEREN, LEE PATTERSON
Sunday 14 March 2010, 3.00pm
Tickets available from www.thesagegateshead.org or 0191 443 4661
According to leading electro-acoustic composer Kaffe Matthews, a salmon remembers the taste of the River Tyne and uses that memory to find its way back from Greenland.
Performing alongside fellow musicians Jana Winderen and Lee Patterson, Rivers presents the majestic musical roar and unheard underwater sounds of rivers across Northumberland.
Three world premiere performances by leading experimental musicians; followed by a Q&A with Mike Harding (Touch).
CLOSING NIGHT GALA: ENGLISH JOURNEY REVISITED
ALAN MOORE, IAIN SINCLAIR, STEPHEN O’MALLEY, FM EINHEIT, SUSAN STENGER, GRAHAM DOLPHIN
Sunday 14 March 2010
Tickets available from www.thesagegateshead.org or 0191 443 4661
Award-winning authors and psycho-geographers IAIN SINCLAIR and ALAN MOORE (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) undertake a new journey across England.
This special North East world premiere draws on influences including ghosts on Lindisfarne, Morden Tower poets, the paintings of John Martin and Jimi Hendrix busking in Newcastle – invoking and re-animating these spirits and memories.
It is underscored by a specially commissioned soundscape performed by musicians:
FM Einheit (from influential 1980s German band Einstürzende Neubauten)
Stephen O’Malley (founder of leading drone doom bands Sunn O))), KTL, Gravetemple)
Susan Stenger (leading performer of music by John Cage and Christian Wolff and co-founder of Band of Susans)
The Sage Gateshead
St Mary’s Square
Gateshead Quays
Gateshead
NE8 2JR
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