Richard Bowers

and The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain

"The 'noise' you hear is the sound of freedom."

News:

'Revolution by Night' on limited edition CD 'Music for a Revolution'. More info at www.alandunn67.co.uk

Video of Pandaemonium produced by Peter Telfer at Culture Colony. Watch a clip...

Artificial head recordings.

Gone:

'Pandaemonium' - performance with Gwilly Edmondez for Experimentica '08 at Chapter - 16th October. 9.30pm.

Gwilly Edmondez: Pandaemonium

ANNEXE: 'Atlas' at Tactile Bosch during Eisteddfod week.

A with Atlas

'Thaw': Atrium, 13th June. Listing. Video clip viewable here.

Talk and reception for 'Marginalia Prt. 2' at the School of Psychology - Friday, 6th June at 4.45 pm.

'Oil II' at Art Radio, Cornerhouse, Manchester. (July 11th).

'Oil II' at Futuresonic: Soundnetwork page

Marginalia...

[Review at University Site].

'Supporting Creativity': Arts Council for Wales logo

The project is documented here. [With support from Arts Council for Wales and School of Psychology, Cardiff].

A Song for Europe:

Gwilly Edmondez and Richard performed A Song for Europe at the AVFest08 in Newcastle University's CultureLab on March 1st and 2nd. This work took the form of a performance installation, based on Artaud's 'To have done with the judgement of God', using extended vocal techniques and digital processing. This piece will be developed further and presented elsewhere. [Part of the 'Music and Machines VIII: Broadcast' conference.] An excellent video by David Float can be found at http://www.musicfilmbroth.com .

CD release:

'Brave New Wales' is 4 hours of challenging music spread over 3 discs, with 32 page booklet, housed in a custom foil-embossed box. Limited edition of 1000.

Brave New Wales CD

Available from Fourier Transform

Currently working on...

'The Velvet Lantern' - performers: Gwilly Edmondez, Caroline Pugh and Ludo Bunel sound/visuals: Ian Watson and Richard Bowers. Performed: Experimentica09 at Chapter, 13th November 2009. Short video available at Culture Colony - http://www.culturecolony.com/videos?id=1042

'Oil IIb' - an improvisation for violin and electronics. Soloist: Valerie Pearson. First performance took place on 20th June in the Cockpit at St. Fagan's Folk Museum (audio) with a second performance that evening at Chapter, Cardiff (audio). The piece shall be developed further.

'The Fall of the House of Usher' - film accompaniment with Ian Watson and Matthew Lovett first performed on 20th June at Chapter, Cardiff as part of the 'Hawks' improv night. Audio file here (note that there is about 3 minutes silence at the start). This commemorates the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth.

Still from 'La Chute de la Maison d'Usher'

'Pandaemonium'

Photo © Cathy Boyce 2008.

S.A.A.B. shall be developing Pandaemonium for future performances. Peter Telfer has produced a video of the events at Experimentica, including Pandaemonium, and a clip is available here.

'Coda'

Audio:

'Oil' (broadcast on BBC's Mixing It 3/2/06)
'Oboe 1996' (diffused - Electroacoustic Wales, University of Wales, Bangor 11/01)
'In the Spring'
'Incident'
'Succubus'
'Passion' (draft)
'Nocturne'
'Of Landscapes'
'Procession'
'Incident 2' (for 'Sounds recorded for an empty nightclub" diffusion and CD curated by HOST artists group, Sheffield)
'Creation Myth'
'Invocation' (derived from 'Nocturne' for "Works for Peace", Sheffield)
'Autoharp 1'
'Hymn' (broadcast on Resonance FM 16/10/05 for European Radio Day: repeated 02/11/05)
'Incubus'
'Swastika Nights'
'Reichmann Berlin 1' (for 'Sounds Electric '05' festival 03/12/05)
'In Memoriam RB' (audio component of mixed media sculpture produced for 'Reworked' - Washington Gallery, 2006)

'7 Intermezzos': [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] (Broadcast on 209Radio, Cambridge, Feb 2006 and released in part on their CD "you are listening"): [buy from http://www.209radio.co.uk/shop/] See also 'Brave New Wales' CD.