Friday 8 January 2010

Quiet Voices, curated by former Big Chill visuals resident John Rixon, is an ambient audio-visual feast. Featuring Roger Eno and Dom Theobald, Jon Hopkins, Laura B and Graina, John Rixon and Simon Wild, Animat and Alucidnation. Together with a short film programme exploring the nature of 'quiet’, expect an evening of beautiful aural soundscapes and lush cinematic projections.

General Information
Main pay bar in the Octagon 18.00–21.30
Pay bar in Room 9
Refreshments available on Manton Foyer coffee cart 18.00–21.30
Refreshments available in the Café on Level 1 18.00–21.30
Restaurant Tasting Menu for 19.30 sitting £60 per head
Main Shop Level 2 open until 21.40
Exhibition Shop open until 21.40
Collection displays open 18.00–21.40
Half price entry to Turner and the Masters

North Duveens
18.00–21.30
The Stones Speak, John Rixon and Simon Wild
A collaborative installation conceived and set in Jökulsárlón, Iceland. A magical place where icebergs are calved from from the glacier Vatnajokull, and quiet is a tangible reality. Soundtrack composed by Jon Hopkins.

South Duveens
18.00–21.30
Alucidnation
Bruce Bickerton aka Alucidnation will be showcasing his 35 mm slide photography accompanied by his own luscious soundscapes.

Room 9
18.00–21.30
shuffle play stop repeat, Laura B and Graina
A mesmerising and otherworldly audio-visual experience inspired by the methods of Oblique Strategies, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s set of influential dilemma cards.

Manton Studio
18.00, 19.00 & 20.00
Flood, Roger Eno and Dom Theobald
A collaborative audio-visual work combining Theobold’s colourful, semi-abstract images and Eno’s ambient sound.

Auditorium
19.00 & 20.30
12 short films exploring and responding to the theme of Quiet Voices.

RayV: 3 Steps, 3 min 18 sec
Alex Pearl: Lodgings, 4 min 19 sec
Annabel Dover: Imperial, 4 min 8 sec
Bonny John/soundtrack by Input Junkie: A cloudless sky, 7 min
Animat: A promise of snow, 7 min 36 sec
Sounds for the Ground - video by MachV: First Light, 5 min 47 sec
Another Fine Day: Buckets & Spades, 11 min 36 sec
Emily Richardson: Redshift, 4 min 9 sec
Lulu Horsfield - soundtrack by Amy Mallet: one hundred, 5 min 6 sec
Phoebe Rixon - soundtrack by Enrico Coniglio: Mothlight, 2 min 31 sec
makemassair: Sevenzero, 5 min 40 sec
Lucy Wilson: 5:48, 5 min 40 sec

Total running time: 1 hour 7 minutes