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Humming, vibrating, twittering, pulsing, glowing, whirring, and shimmering sound + light installations in Oxford this weekend. We’d love to see your
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Humming, vibrating, twittering, pulsing, glowing, whirring, and shimmering sound + light installations in Oxford this weekend.
We’d love to see your photos discovering our sound + light installations. Use #OxLightFest14 in your tweet and tweet @OCMEVENTS. |
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'Bish Bash Boom'
by The North Wall Noise Band + Horns of Plenty
At The Story Museum, we have The North Wall Noise band. This makeshift street band arose from a weekend of workshops in early November, led by Tim Hill, (Tongues of Fire), practising the very English tradition of 'rough music', carnival and outdoor celebration.
Join our merry throng as children and their adults make a seasonal, celebratory noise in and around the Story Museum Courtyard to ring in the start of the Christmas Light Festival 2014.
Would you like to be part of the fun? Come along at 5pm to rehearse, and play in the band at 6pm & 7pm. E-mail Sherrell if you’d like to join in, for free.
Fri 21 Nov, 6pm + 7pm
The Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford
Produced by OCM + North Wall Arts Centre |
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 Image credit: Dan Fox |
//Sound Explorers
by Dan Fox
Don wireless headphones and be plunged into a world you never knew existed as Dan delves into the sounds of water, of buildings, of everything! Revel in the sounds for the rest of the day through Dan’s own Wok-a-bolic speakers!
For any age, children must be accompanied.
Come dressed for the weather.
Sat 22 Nov
Free -Register from 10am onwards. Sound Tours every hour on the hour from 11am – 3pm
The Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford
More info |
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 Image credit, Alex Allmont |
Play House
by Alex Allmont
Play House is an automata that mechanically performs ever changing hooky, hypnotic acid house.
Like a generative musical loom, its sequence of LEGO gears, levers and latches mutate riffs and rhythm patterns. These are played out on analogue drums and synthesisers from the halcyon days of 1980′s dance music, whilst the machine gradually shifts the timbre and space of the sound.
Sat 22 Nov, 12-6pm
Sun 23 Nov, 12-5pm
The Old Museum, Town Hall, St Aldate's, Oxford
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 Image credit: Alison Ballard |
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Pod
by Mike Blow + Alison Ballard
Tactile and alluring sonic sculptures which hum and vibrate with pulsing low frequency sound. Audience members are encouraged to place hands and ears on the giant orbs, to feel and hear mysterious sounds coming from within.
Discover Pod nestled in the Oxford University History Faculty Garden, an undiscovered corner right in the heart of the city.
21, 22 Nov
4.30pm - 10.30pm
Oxford University History Faculty Garden, George Street, Oxford.
More info |
 Image credit: Kathy Hinde |
Twittering Machine
by Kathy Hinde
Motors flutter and twitch, pulling at the tails of toy swanee whistles whilst a customised pipe-organ sends sporadic short blasts of air resulting in a playful bird-imitation machine housed in an old chestnut tree.
21, 22 Nov
4.30pm - 10.30pm
Lamb & Flag Passage next to Lamb & Flag Pub, St Giles', Oxford
More info |
 Image credit: Alison Ballard |
We are looking for someone to collaborate with Mike Blow and Alison Ballard to create a new sonic artwork to inhabit their installation, ‘Pod’.
The deadline for submissions is 12:00, 28th November 2014. Visit www.ocmevents.org/ocm/contact_us/press.html
Come and see it at Christmas Light Festival and there will be a chance to meet the artists and ask questions about the work. Please let us know if you'd like to come and we'll inform you of meeting arrangements. info@ocmevents.org. |
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Registered Charity No.1062845 |
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