2012 a go-go! Beyond Zero Festival & Other Event Treats

Hello Shambolicans!
Apologies for the lack of blogging of recent months but 2012 has been go, go, go! Super positive though amd most productive. I will endeavour to do a mini catch up with this blog and get right back on track and blog as the rest of this marvellous year progresses.

In March, Shambolica were involved with Beyond Zero Festival, submitting a soundscape for their exhibition. Beyond Zero was ProjectOroom in collaboration with CIA (Creative Intelligence Agency) and Stockwell Studios , inviting artists worldwide to submit exciting, thought provoking art work for a Climate Change themed exhibition at Flexi Space – Stockwell Studios London.
BeyondZero aims to explore the impact of climate change and its effects on our environment and societies.
http://stockwellstudios.org.uk/
We were truly honoured to be part of this festival (as they were initially not incorporating sound work), highlighting worthwhile causes and issues as well as exhibiting in London for the first time, a true premiere for Shambolica! You can hear the soundscape HERE and download it! Get the HEADPHONES on and PLEASE Enjoy!

Additionally in March and in Feb, ILLUMINATOR IMAGINATORS was BACK for the special late night event "AFTERLIFE: Light my Fire" at the Centre for Life and Newcastle Science Festival 2012! Appearing at the Cowgate Community Centre & Beacon Centre in Fenham for the Roadshow and then at the Science Festival Weekender at the Centre for Life. All were extremely successful, fun, interesting and interactive events with hundreds of people participating in Illuminator Imaginators and creating some absolutely fantastic light paintings which can be viewed HERE! PAGE 11 ONWARDS!
I would like to take this oppurtunity to specially thank Sheela Joy and Marissa Buckingham for commissioning and supporting Illuminator Imaginators to return and an additional thank you to the Centre for Life.

January saw the one man, pop up, installation, performance, pop quiz, sonic exhibition CINEMORGUE take place at Studio 41 in Glasgow.
http://thestudio41.wordpress.com/programme/2012-2/let-be-be-finale-of-seem/
A hugely successful evening with many people coming along to view the work, be invovled and share! Huge props and love to Filterbeast for his efforts. A short manipulated audio visual work is to follow, when the gods of time release some more moments of reality for me to play with!
The work was created primarily by Ben "Filterbeast" Newell with a soundscape created by Thomas F Newell. This can listened to HERE! A haunting piece and a must for fans of death in cinema, can you hear all the sound samples??? Headphones on, answers on a postcard!

Think that brings up pretty much back up to speed on events and exhibitions we have been involved with but it doesn't stop there! Stay tuned for the next blog that will bring you nice tasty links to other bits and pieces (old and new) for you to enjoy as well as news of exciting new projects.

Thank you for reading!
BE CREATIVE, BE SHAMBOLICA!

CINEMORGUE COMETH!

Look out Glasgow, CINEMORGUE COMETH! On wednesday the 11th of January 2012 SHAMBOLICA! Presents a collaborative one man, pop up, sonic, performance, installation experience!
As part of "Let Be Be Finale of Seem"; a series of events presenting works about death and the way it structures life., CINEMORGUE will be an enlightening and humorous exploration of famous deaths in cinematic history both in front and behind the screen. It will involve a performance that re-creates famous deaths scenes in film history and examines how "death" in cinema reverberates throughout culture and then bursts through the "fourth wall" into real life.
Taking place 6-8pm, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 @ STUDIO 41, glasgow. Click HERE for event page.
Hope you can make it.
BE CREATIVE, BE SHAMBOLICA!
*T*

"CONVERLUTIONS" soundtracks new exhibition THE ART OF CONVERSATION!

Shambolica! Was very kindly commisioned to create a unique sound installation for the exhibition; 'The Art of Conversation' by the collective BEWARE THE BLACK RABBIT who consist of Chris Folwell, Dan Ash and Len Allwood. Click here for the blogspot and more lovely info!
It premiered on the opening evening of the exhbition, 28th November 2011 at the Sanctuary Art Space in Gateshead.
Taking the title of the exhibition as its only brief, the sonic creation involves numerous themes ideas and involves snippets of Conversation, chit chat, banter, evolution and communication.

A huge congratulations to BEWARE THE BLACK RABBIT collective on an excellent show, real great and for letting SHAMBOLICA! be involved. It was an honour and as ever, great inspiration.
Enjoy the sound scape here
and please free to download and share!
Be Creative, Be Shambolica!
*T*
All music & production by Thomas F Newell

NE ILLUSTRATION NOW 2011

North East Illustration Now 2011!
An exhibition featuring some of the most exciting and talented illustrators from the North East. A showcase of both traditional and digital illustration under one roof, it’s a show not to be missed! All work is for sale between £10 -£50 and a percentage of the sales go towards funding other art projects within the Gateshead area.

Shambolica! were asked to provide a soundscape to accompany the exhibition. The resulting work was called "Scribbles @ Night" and is entirely made up from the sounds of illustration; pens on paper, paint brushes, computers etc etc all with a beautiful SHAMBO twist. Shambolica! is greatly honoured to be involved and hopes that all that visit the exhibiton enjoys the illustration and sounds.

To listen and download "SCRIBBLES @ NIGHT" please click here!

Huge sparkling congratulations to Laura Cartwright who created the exhibiton, awesome effort girl! And congratulations to all the artists.

This most excellent exhibition ) is highly recommended. Please go and see it.
Tuesday 2nd - 25th August 2011 @ St Edmunds Chapel Gateshead High Street Opening Times: Mon - Sat 10.00am - 4.00pm

REGENERATOR MUSIC

For all those who did not make it along to the performance of "Regenerator" as part of the GIFT Festival, never fear, the audio and visuals are here!
Full break down of the musical parts will be found here!

Short promo video will be found here!

Enjoy! Keep Creative, Be Shambolica

INTERCONNECTER - PQ 2011 SOUND KITCHEN PERFORMANCE

SHAMBOLICA! were kindly asked to perform at the PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL JUNE 2011. Held once every four years in the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the world´s largest performance design event – a presentation of contemporary work in a variety of performance design disciplines and genres including costume, stage, lighting, sound design, and theatre architecture for dance, opera, drama, site-specific, multi-media performances, and performance art.

SHAMBOLICA! participated as part of Sound Kitchen as part of the light and sound section. The Sound Kitchen is a performance space for interactive sound installations and will present sound works for laptop computers or other mobile devices.

We were delighted to participate and were asked by Steve Brown (SK organiser) to do two performances. We decided before we went to Prague that the performance would be called "Interconnecter" with the brief;
This soundscape performance showcases live and recorded audio from the quadrennial - mixed Shambolica! style for the Sound Kitchen at PQ’11. The piece, entitled ‘Interconnecter’ is devised specifically for PQ’11, and about PQ’11. It features live sound manipulation and celebrates the festival by capturing sounds and voices from venues across the city during the run of the festival and linking them with a mobile device for the performance. Sounds will be processed with effects to create rhythmic patterns fused with sounds from previous Shambolica! performances from the UK. This is a fusion of sound design for performance utilising voice through a contemporary multimedia approach. This performance of a sound immersing environment creates a regenerative soundscape. The live audience is intended to be an eclectic mix of creative individuals interested in visual arts, media, sound, theatre and performance.

The first performance was largely an improvised piece involving sounds we had collected throughout the week and the second performance was more retrospective involving visuals and sounds from the "REGENERATOR" performance which took place earlier in the year. Both performances were a huge success and we were thrilled to not only perform as part of this great event but to creative and appreciative audience.

The whole week was a beautiful sparkling adventure for Team SHAMBOLICA! (aka team sparkle) and TEAM PLAYFORD, thank you so much guys, memories forever.

A huge thank you to Steve Brown for putting us and all his support and enthusiasm, we shall meet again soon i hope.

And a big thank you to all we met at PQ.
Keep Creative, Be SHAMBOLICA!
TSW***

REGENERATOR @ GIFT APRIL 2011

On the wedding day, friday the 29th of April 2011, an even more beautiful dress than the one worn by the Duchess of Cambridge took to the streets of Gateshead. This incredible creation took a revolving centre stage in front of GATESHEAD Town Hall for a special, unique installation performance by the SHAMBOLICA! collective for the opening of GIFT - Gateshead International Festival of Theatre (www.giftfestival.co.uk).

Regenerator was a multidisciplinary audiovisual performance creating a new unique symbol of hope and regeneration of our Gateshead landscape. This dynamic piece fused contemporary dance, costume, original music and performance art to create a symbolic architectural environment.
Costume design: Gayle Playford
Choreography: Mona McCarthy
Artists: Tom Newell, Marion Airley
Composer / AV: Andrew Playford
Additional Music: Tom Newell

The performance was a real succes, with many people turning out to see this magical performance. Shambolica! would like to specially thank KATE from GIFT for allowing us to take part in the festival, also all the other performers who particiapted and the all the wonderful people of Newcastle and Gateshead who witnessed a great event.

KEEP CREATIVE, BE SHAMBOLICA!
TSW***