STREETLAND! "Crank Ensemble"

Streetland Community Festival, Glasgow, 4 & 5th May 2012 was the setting of the premiere performance of "Crank Ensemble".
In a back lane, the sound of the crank could be heard winding up a mystical, ramshackle group of music makers.
The crank provided the backbone to the never before heard orchestrations of sonic mischief.
The gathering was enchanted and bound by its haunting spell.
Caught up in the enthusiasm, the crank was hammered round and round.
Little notice was given to the warning, "YOU MIGHT BREAK THE BAND!"
The kids ran amok, the band was broken but not without leaving behind a musical experience that drifted out across the city.
A gift given life by the magic of the street and the CRANK!

Special thanks to the performers Alistair Quietsch, Lewis MacDonald, Robbie Burry and Neil Smith
and Streetland for the oppurtunity to perform.

You can watch the performances PART 1 HERE and PART 2 HERE, Enjoy!
You can see lots of wonderful images via fb HERE and via Streetland HERE.

Shambolica Presents...CRANK ENSEMBLE!

Shambolica! and Public Spaces is putting on a fantastic new interactive performance as part of "STREETLAND" for Glasgow International Festival 2012!

Saturday 5 May 2012
2.15pm-2.45pm
Westmoreland Street Lane (adjacent to Westmoreland Street Gardens), Glasgow.

The art collective Shambolica presents a one off spur-of-the-moment crank up band where families are invited to help power the band to play their own strange take on jazz and groove tunes. For all the family. Bring an "interactive audience mindset".

Please spread the beautiful word and get involved!
Check out the streetland website HERE! for more info.

STOP! REWIND! PLAY! PANIC & PICNIC IN THE PAVILLION

Let us take a moment to re-cap, re-focus and remember on what was a positive catalyst performance for a few of the members of the Shambolica! collective on Halloween 2011.


The Suburban Pavilion presents: Panic and Picnic in the Pavilion
Curated by Sara Sinclair & Rebecca Green, they asked for you to;
"Bring your sacrificial offerings to us. What do you fear? High Priestesses of your demonic souls are here to welcome and nurture you. Bring your desire to spew forth those monstrosities you hide while you keep polite company. Deal us your deck and cast incantations in the name of artistic hedonism for we shall all feast upon your repertoire."
Benjamin Newell & Alistair Quietsch gave a unique, powerful, intense, dark, humorous slice of theatrics that enthralled as part of this wonderful evening of performance, buffoonery, doppelgangers, imagery and poetry.

Videos (evidence) will follow. A wee taster is HERE! Plus please check out Sara Sinclair's blog HERE to follow future events/artistic endeavours especially the fantastic BACK GARDEN BIENALLE 2012. BE CREATIVE, BE SHAMBOLICA!

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