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SVA members supper club A night of Mexican cusine offering Nacho chips topped with black bean frijole, sour cream, melty cheese and fresh salsa for starters. This will be followed by: Vegetarian or Chicken Chimichangas (freshly fried deep filled burrito parcels) drizzled with mole, served with rice and a leafy lime cilantro salad.These regular supper clubs bring members together in a convivial atmosphere hosted by specially chosen culinary experts. Our chef is the wonderful Sally Kinnear. These supper clubs are open to full and associate members only. Our new SVA Associate Membership is open to everyone.If you enjoy SVA’s artistic and educational programme as an artist, participant or audience member then we’d love you to join up as a member to get some extra benefits and also to help support SVA with its future work. If you would like to join or need to renew your membership (it’s only £2.08 a month) check the website or email:briony@sva.org.uk. We have limited places so please book your place by Tuesday 21st 12 noon. |
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Miserable Poets’ Cafe “April is the cruellest month...” as T S Eliot once said, but, really, how much worse can it get? Miserable Malcolm, Stroud’s gloomiest poet, presents Miserable Poets’ Cafe, a chance for poets of all persuasions to read their poems of heartbreak and despair in front of a suitably sombre audience. At the end of the night a bottle of cheap supermarket wine will be awarded for the most miserable poem and, throughout the evening, points will be allocated for existential angst, agony, self-pity and a general refusal to look on the bright side. Any glimmers of hope will be treated very sternly indeed.There will be intervals with achingly sad music and ample opportunities to mingle with other bereft souls. The bar will be open throughout serving various dispiriting spirits and pitiful whines. Miserable Malcolm (Bill Jones) is a regular performer at Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny Gaff at SVA. He performed his one-man show Graveside Manner at the Stroud Theatre Festival and is currently touring it to some of the happiest places in Britain.Bill Jones “... spreads his unique brand of miserablism to great comic effect.” Gloucestershire Echo Tickets: £4 on the door, performers free |
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Resound presents - Music is Wires Left-field, lower case, eccentric - Resound is Stroud’s own experimental music laboratory. An occasional series of performances that reveal the wilder and more marginal side to what might loosely be termed music. Resound has devised an exciting programme of events for this year’s Site Festival, that range from untamed electronica to ambient soundscapes with a few stops off along the way. ‘Music is Wires’ is a common theme across the performances presented here. They may be wires that link electronics together, generating sounds from another world or they may be virtual wires of connection that link artists in improvised synchronisation. Whichever it is… music is always wires! |
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Resound Experimental musicians and artists will be hosting this special John Street Social Club for the Resound weekend. Hogge from the Cube in Bristol will be sharing some sounds and visuals. Joining them will be Modularity - Gareth Brock, both sound designer and sonic abstract expressionist. The John Street Social Club is a series of weekly Friday night club socials hosted by different artists each week with internet-scavenged film clips and audio, vinyl on the decks and the occasional special perfomance. |
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Resound Audio lounge A library of work, live impromptu performances and interactive sound pieces will be presented for your leisurely delectation. The bar will be open for drinks. |
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Beyond the Event Horizon Beyond the Event Horizon is part installation and part performance, showcasing the sonic mayhem from modular synths at full tilt. Modularity carves pure electronic tones shaped by the endlessly interchangeable electronic modules that he works with giving rise to a sound that is firmly based in the grand traditions of electronic music. With influences ranging from the early German electronic scene and film scores such as Forbidden Planet, to more recent offerings from Node. A large scale, custom-built modular system will take you on a journey through electronic sound... Exploring alternative ways of controlling these machines has led Gareth to The Soundbeam Project. An offshoot from the legendary English Synthesiser company, EMS, they design tools allowing disabled people to interact and create music through a variety of sensors. Soundbeam have kindly lent equipment especially for this performance – audience members are invited to come along and interact with the work to influence the noise! |
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The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble As one half of the electronic music sensation Goldfrapp, Will Gregory is passionate about creating new sounds and reinventing old ones. Here a stellar line-up stretches the possibilities of the Moog synthesiser through newly composed music, transcriptions of classical works, and their own versions of music from popular culture and film. Marvel at 10 musicians on stage, including Portishead’s Adrian Utley and composer Graham Fitkin, performing works by Bach, John Carpenter, Burt Bacharach and Oliver Messiaen on a fascinating array of vintage instruments. To mark the 10th anniversary of Robert Moog’s death, a new piece by Will Gregory features a clocking device specially built for the ensemble that enables all 10 synths to be synced, producing music previously impossible to perform live. The result will be the audio equivalent of a Bridget Riley painting; full of colour and interlocking complexity whilst driving and immediate. Produced by sounduk. Funded by Arts Council England. As a prelude to The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, Resound presents Anne Chris Bakker, an experimental musician from the Netherlands, whose work lies somewhere between electroacoustic, ambient and minimal. His guitar playing using a violin bow and electronic treatments will leave you spellbound. A perfect antidote to a hectic world. £10 advance and £12 on the door for tickets. |
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Kaumwald From Lyon in France, Kaumwald’s music is right on the edge between challenging artistic excursions and curatorial common grounds. Built on penetrating continuums, spitting drum patterns, harsh spasms and drifting echoes, sounds evolve as if driven by some autonomous mutant mechanism, comparable to Jean Tinguely’s “machinery for machineries-sake”. Live, constant changes inside a repeating structure starting with few pre-recorded or locked elements, the duo plays in a krautrock-like improvised/conducted way. This is electronic music rooted in immediate sensations and always re-defined by the dynamic and randomness of the gesture. Using modular synths, looped cassette tapes, voices, field recordings, mechanic driven hurdy gurdy and heavy treatments, Kaumwald recycles techno, noise, musique concrète and dub technics into a spontaneous dubbing act. |
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Tears of Niobe Tears of Niobe is a ten minute looped audio-visual installation with treated images by Kirsty Limburn and specially commissioned music composed by Andrew Heath. It explores the tidal movement of water around rock, investigating its contrasting power to erode and rebuild the organic structures that it makes contact with. The viewer is invited to participate in the film by using it as a moving meditation to focus on the transformational power of water and how our planet forms and reforms itself on a constant cyclical basis. |
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Resound Breakfast A sound based brunch to delight all your senses. Gratify your appetite by all manner of visual, sound and oral materials. This is a time to discuss and listen as well as witness impromptu performances from experimental Penryn based sound artists Dominick Allen and Rob Gawthrop and possibly others. |
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Falling Tides and Chora Perpetua Aka Banco de Gaia, Toby is a Mercury Award-nominated recording artist, performer, producer and label owner, specialising in eclectic global dance and chill-out music. Emerging from1980’s acid house, he has gone on to record and perform worldwide, fusing house, dub, prog rock, jazz and world music elements. He has developed a growing interest in electroacoustic composition and other areas of experimental electronic music. He is particularly interested in immersive sonic environments and the meeting point of deliberate and random composition. Falling Tides (one hour duration) is a self-generating, immersive music composition designed and performed by Toby Marks. He will be joined by Anne Chris Bakker and Andrew Heath.Chora Perpetua is an immersive choral work based on recordings of 12 phrases, each sung by 12 individual voices. Created in 2013 by Toby Marks as an adjunct to his long-form 12-channel piece, The Circle of Perpetual Choirs, it was originally designed for playback on a circle of 12 loudspeakers, with one voice assigned to each speaker. Phrases (sometimes delayed, sometime silent) are randomly selected for each voice and each iteration is a random combination of voices and phrases, resulting in an endlessly mutating chorale. Both Falling Tides and Chora Perpetua are quadraphonic pieces. Members of the audience are invited to move within the sound-space, increasing the immersive qualities of both the performance and the installation. The pieces will cycle between each other for the duration of the event. |
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TORO! Nick Bibby, Jon Buck, Lynn Chadwick, Robert Clatworthy, Terence Coventry, Nicola Hicks, Marcus James, Anita Mandl and Mick Ponting.Sculpture and works on paper exploring and celebrating the bull, a formidable beast with mythological significance. The centrepiece of the show is a powerful series of life-size drawings by new gallery artist, Marcus James, taken from studies of Iberian bulls in corrals and bullfights in Spain and Southern France. The exhibition also includes a broad variety of sculptures ranging from Nick Bibby’s detailed portraits of pedigree champions to Deborah van der Beek’s expressive studies of bulls in action. |
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The Friction Project: a Miniature Museum of Museums. Tara Downs and Bart Sabel Commissioned by Flow Contemporary Arts 18th April-31st May Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-4pm, Bank Holiday Monday, 11am-5pm The Museum in the Park, Stratford Pk, Stroud GL5 4AF T. 01453 763394 www.flowprojects.org.uk www.miniaturemuseum.org.uk The Friction Project presents a unique interactive artwork created by Tara Downs and Bart Sabel inspired by the collections of three Gloucestershire Museums: The Holst Museum (Cheltenham); the Museum in the Park (Stroud) and the Waterways Museum (Gloucester). The Miniature Museum of Museums invites visitors to explore their intriguing inventions through touch, sound and movement. Music, engineering and humble mechanisms are the outcome of curiosity and imagination. Flow is led by Carolyn Black. Funded by ACE. |
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After the Animal 1st-30th April 29 High Street, Stroud GL5 1AJ Is mankind’s fascination with all that is wild a focused way of understanding ourselves? An experimental project space in an empty shop in Stroud High Street provides the starting point for artists to explore this idea further. |
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We Are All Haunted Animals Adam White and Amaury Blow 4th April-31st May Ale House, 9 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA Giant innovative watercolours developed over 20 years by humble watercolourist Adam White and animal inspired sculptures pieces by Amaury Blow. |
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Cream 1st April-31st May Tuesday to Saturday 11am-11pm, Sundays 11am-9pm Closed Mondays Bisley House, Middle Street, Stroud, GL5 1DZ www.robbinsandroberts.com www.bisleyhousecafe.co.uk An exhibition of work by artists Lorraine Robbins and Soozy Roberts, including photographs, drawings and collage, within a relaxed cafe/bar/restaurant setting. |
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Alchemy Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative 10th March-26th April Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-4pm Bank Holiday Monday, 11am-5pm The Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF T. 01453 763394 www.museuminthepark.org.uk This exhibition explores the alchemy of printmaking offering visitors an insight into how prints are created and what Fine Art Printmaking is all about. |
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