[microsound-announce] Instrument builder workshop - Hugh Davies Project - 12 & 13 March with Anton Mobin

[Jake Harries]

Instrument builder workshop - Hugh Davies Project
with Anton Mobin

Two day workshop 12 & 13 March
10 am- 5pm each day
£22 per person
All materials supplied
Book at Eventbrite:  http://tinyurl.com/gl3vlxp

Places still available.

Access Space welcomes Paris based musician and instrument builder Anton
Mobin from 1st March as artist and instrument builder in residence.
Anton will be building a new performance instrument ("Prepared Camber ")
based on the ideas of British composer Hugh Davies (1943–2005), an
experimental musician, musicologist, and composer, who became well-known in
avant-garde and improvised music circles for his unique and often playfully
eccentric musical instruments, self-built using every-day objects and
found, re-purposed materials. See below for more info about Hugh Davies.

On the weekend of 12 & 13 March Anton will be leading a two day workshop
where participants will build their own performance instrument. All
materials will be supplied but workshoppers are encouraged to bring their
own effects pedals and any objects they would like to integrate into their
instrument.  You will be using all manner of everyday objects such as
springs, egg slicers, wire. The sounds will be amplified by piezo-electric
contact microphones. There will be an opportunity to perform your
instrument on the Sunday afternoon.

Here's Anton performing with viola player Benedict Taylor
https://vimeo.com/129892681

For more info email jake at access-space.org

Biscuits, tea, coffee and soft drinks will be provided throughout the
weekend

About Anton Mobin:
Anton Mobin is an experimental musician, improviser and radio producer.
He has developed D.I.Y principles for experimental self-built instruments,
which he calls  "Prepared Cambers", in which there are arranged a multitude
of every-day objects amplified by piezo-electric contact microphones.
Anton Mobin has run the label H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record since 2001.
http://h.a.k.free.fr and collaborated  and performed with many musicians
over the last 15 years including Jello Biafra, Sonny Simmons, Bryan Lewis
Saunders, London Improvisers Orchestra, Alexei Borisov, Chrs Galarreta,
Benedict Taylor, Naoto Yamagishi, Daniel Thompson, Ayato, Roberto
Lazzarino, Will Connor and Simon Henocq.
http://antonmobin.blogspot.co.uk/
Audio : https://soundcloud.com/anton-mobin
Video : https://vimeo.com/antonmobin
Radio : http://epsilonia-radio.blogspot.fr

About Hugh Davies:
Hugh Davies (1943–2005) was an experimental musician, musicologist, and
composer, who became well-known in avant-garde and improvised music circles
for his unique and often playfully eccentric musical instruments,
self-built using every-day objects and found, re-purposed materials.
One of Davies’s instruments, called the Shozyg (built in 1968), consisted
of three fret-saw blades, a ball-bearing mounted furniture castor, and a
small metal spring, mounted inside the covers of a book. (The book happened
to be an encyclopaedia covering the alphabetic range of topics from SHO to
ZYG—hence the instrument’s name.) These objects were amplified via
piezo-electric contact microphones, such that the tiny vibrations—otherwise
practically inaudible—could be heard via loudspeakers. It was designed to
be played with the fingers, or with the aid of accessories like
screwdrivers, small electric motors, toothpicks, etc. A brief video of
Davies playing the Shozyg can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPT9A0IsGgs.
>From 1970 onwards, Davies built a family of a dozen instruments that he
called Springboards. These comprised a number of springs—anything from one
to more than twenty—mounted on wooden blockboard in various different
arrangements, and amplified via electromagnetic pickups mounted in holes
chiselled out of the blockboard. On some of the Springboards the springs
were mounted in parallel, rather like the strings on a stringed instrument;
in others they were mounted in a ‘fan’ shape. In some of the later
Springboards, interesting effects were achieved by connecting springs
together in a ‘web’. The Springboards could be plucked, played with
accessories, or ‘bowed’ with a single hair from a violin bow.
Davies built over a hundred instruments in his life time. For some further
discussion of Davies’s instrument-building practice, its background, and
subsequent influence, see:
https://hughdaviesproject.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/conference-presentation-on-hugh-daviess-self-built-instruments/
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The arts programme at Access Space is supported using public funding by
Arts Council England

This workshop is  hosted in collaboration with Access Space (
http://access-space.org/) as part of an Arts and Humanities Research
Council funded project, ‘Hugh Davies: Electronic Music Innovator’, led by
Dr James Mooney (University of Leeds) in partnership with Dr Tim Boon (The
Science Museum, London). Some further information on the project can be
found here:http://hughdaviesproject.wordpress.com.


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All the best
Jake

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Jake Harries, Director of Arts and Innovation
www.access-space.org  +44(0)114 249 5522
@accessspace facebook.com/accessspace
3-7 Sidney St, Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK
jake at access-space.org
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The arts programme at Access Space is supported
using public funding by Arts Council England
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