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A member of early 80's NZ post punk bands Alms for Children and This Sporting Life releasing a single on REM records and an LP and an EP on Flying Nun Records.
Formed the experimental industrial two piece Massive Stereo Sellout with Steve Roach, releasing an EP on Flying Nun Records in the late 80's.
A member of UK based Expanded Cinema group Loophole Cinema staging and performing shadow engine events as part of European arts festivals and fringe-disruptive alternative spaces or programmes in the UK.
Often working in unused industrial or domestic spaces, Loophole would sample, loop and process the image and sound of the rooms, bringing in the shadows of audiences and the past of the spaces to create immersive events.
Excerpts of original Loophole Cinema publicity text :
Drawing on the influence of the pre-cinematic history of the projected image; Javanese shadow puppets, magic lanterns, and the optical toys of the 19th century, combining these with post-cinematic digital and videorama technologies.
The creation of live environments and events which harness the potential of multi-projection situations in combination with constructed kinetic machinery, sampled, live and recorded sound, shadow play and bodily interventions.
The creation of “interactive shadow engines” that merge audience, performer and architecture into a hybrid shadow of light, sound and apparatus.
Creating audio-visual-physical confrontations and collisions.
Investigation of spaces, revealing and radically transforming the site – exploration of all its dimensions, interior ‘space’, exterior ‘skin’, altitude above and below the space.
Events staged by Loophole Cinema with core members Greg Pope, Bea Haut, Paul Rogers and Ben Hayman ;
June 1997, Light Struck, Artis, Netherlands
Large scale performance in a cigar factory turned Art venue. Collaboration with Karel Doing and Anet van Elzen, making site specific films and soundtracks
New Year’s Eve 1996, Cine Nova, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Film and noise collaboration with various members of Metamkine and LLOG, improvised and presented as a cinematic performance.
Oct. 1996, The International Symposium of Shadows, London
Event with 36 artists from 7 countries, exposing and exploring the nature of the shadow. Devised, produced and hosted by Loophole Cinema. Including the first ‘Shadow laboratory’ an experiment in working in expanded collaborations, in this instant using all the artists.
Jan 1996, Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
film, shadow and sound performance utilising small sound installations
Dec. 1995, Down There,Bridewell Theatre, London
Shadow performance using film and live video with an underground swimming pool and various sound installations
June 1995, Flood, the Castle, London
Large scale multi-projectioninstallation and performance housed within a victorian water pumping station. Live vocals and trumpet, sampled sounds, film and shadow projectionsand live video performances using rock climbing technologies. (with thanks to Ragga and Andy Diagram)
June 1995, Nantes, France
Outdoor film, shadow , sound and smoke projections within wind-driven sailing screens
June 1995, Poitiers, France
Multi-leaved screens lifting above audience during shadow, film , sound projection. Live feed video.
May 1995, Upside, London Film Makers Coop
Live feed video performance and shadow show presented in front of and below the audience. Connecting holes cut in the floor allowed water , sound and smoke to pass between these spaces.
Nov.1994, Myriad, Kino Flasch Flood, Belgium
Partially outdoor shadow performance,film and fire projection, layered installation, sound performance.
Oct. 1994, Ministry of sound, (Nose Paint) London
Multi-screen film and shadow projection with improvised music performance
July 1994, London Underground, Bridewell Theatre, London
Film, shadow and live feed vido projection, low tech sound installations and disappearing screens.
June 1994, Zap Club, Brighton
Multi screen film and improvised sound and noise.
April 1994, Prism Engine, Quick Festival, Purcell Rooms, London
Light, shadow, video, film and sound projection from within a screened pyramid enclosure. The performance that was contained in the end broke it’s boundaries.
New Year’s Eve , 1993, Night of the Fire Cabinets II, The Tannery , London
Fire, video, kinetics, film, sound installation, and “walk through”performance. Staged in a derelict three storey factory and its surrounding courtyards.
Sept.1993, Circus of the Senses, European Media Arts Festival, Germany
Large scale journey performance staged in in a deserted steel works and the surrounding, partly cleared landscape. Site specific kinetics, sound, video, film, shadow and fire projection. Physical performance and factory operation within the audience .
June 1993, Night of the Fire Cabinets I, Brockwell park Lido, London, (Exploding Cinema)
Fire, film, wind and shadow projection cabinets built in 9 metal changing room lockers spanning a cornewr of the empty outdoor swimming pool. Live performance involving the operation and investigation of these cabinets including miniature shadow theatres, light manipulation, distress flares and constructed sound scape.
May 1993, Levitation, red rose club, London Musicians Collective
Miniature shadow theatre performance, gothic horror/humor and circus tricks involving levitation of a body and hand held shadow engines.
April 1993, Shot in the Dark, ICA, London
Shadow and image multiprojection performance culminating in a high, low and no tech walk in installation for the audience. Computor controlled sound and imagery combined with shadow puppetry and light manipulation whilst voice performance and manipulated sound was mapped around the audience. Also usesd in thhis event was a probabilistic text generator and a series of prepared lenses for use in image manipulation.
July 1993, Vacant Procession, Condemned 20 storey estate block, Birmingham
Film projections in constructed”sight lines” through the walls of twelve 2 bedroomed flats. Performance involving th e controlled demolition and creation of new rooms involving the audience in a “walk through” installation.
Created the live performance entity Ethersonic as a vehicle for a condensed Expanded Cinema experience underpinned by ambient-industrial drone and loop based sonics. Ethersonic has active collaboration built into most of its events wth local artists responding to prepared film/s to create original work in the event itself. With one EP released on House of Squirm to date.
Created the live performance entity Unexpected Item as a vehicle for a fresh take on Post-Punk guitar and vocal based songs. Unexpected Item features collaborations with drummers and bass players in locations where it tours and also on released recordings. With one EP released on House of Squirm to date.
Restarted House of Squirm with its originator Steve Roach to provide a digital home for the work of Stridulators, Squirm, Roach, Massive Stereo Sellout, Ethersonic and Unexpected Item. Most House of Squirm releases are available as limited run cassetes and lathe cut disks with digital available on BandCamp.
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