What They Could Do, They Did

Kardy, as she is more frequently abridged, is showing work at Exmouth Market's Medcalf until August. She's showing a whole plethora of new drawings and paintings.

Where does the apostrophe go in "fathers' day"? This, and many other questions, answered this Fathering Sunday at the Dream Machine record fair, a newly beloved regular event at the Half Moon. Dad-centric events include 10% fathers' discounts and an open-mic for musically doting paternal types to perform odes to their offspring.

However, they do advise: Please do not kidnap any children to try and claim your discount.

More info on The Dream Machine website.

Tomorrow night is the second edition of OOXXOO's fine nights at the Albany, Deptford. We'll be there manning a stall with current and past editions of They Did magazine and other publications, plus all manner of other WTCD trinkets.

The lineup looks awesome, and it's also made some waves in the Guardian and Time Out's hot lists. Come down, say hi, buy stuff.

David Tudor's environmental sound piece Rainforest IV is to be performed at Area 10 Project Space, Peckham, from July 3-4. It's a monumental piece, in size, scope and time, making use of the resonant properties of physically installed objects to create a strongly immersive and collaborative work.

Tudor himself describes it thus:

"In 1973 I made 'Rainforest IV' where the objects that the sounds are
sent through are very large so that they have their own presence in
space. I mean, they actually sound locally in the space where they are
hanging as well as being supplemented by a loudspeaker system. The
idea is that if you send sound through materials, the resonant nodes
of the materials are released and those can be picked up by contact
microphones or phono cartridges and those have a different kind of
sound than the object does when you listen to it very close where it's
hanging. It becomes like a reflection and it makes, I thought, quite a
harmonious and beautiful atmosphere, because wherever you move in the
room, you have reminiscences of something you have heard at some other
point in the space. It's (can be) a large group piece actually, any
number of people can participate in it. It's important that each
person makes their own sculpture, decides how to program it, and
performs it themselves. Very little instruction is necessary for the
piece. I've found it to be almost self-teaching because you discover
how to program the devices by seeing what they like to accept. Its
been a very rewarding type of activity for me. It's been done by as
large a group as 14 people. So that was how our Rainforest was done."

-- David Tudor

The performance features several luminaries of the London DIY/noise scene.

Read more on the Area 10 website.

This Saturday evening WTCDTD take over Herne Hill's formerly abandoned Apollo Video for a night of space exploration.

Musical programme featuring:

The Capsized Smiles
B-Movie tales of horror and woe
http://www.myspace.com/capsizedsmiles

AEO
One man's battle against the machines. The light of victory, shine on.
http://aeo.noise.org.uk/

Mesonoche
"every day a day dream", the holy beast (distorto-destructo)

AND, for the first time in the celluloid temple of Apollo:

Short films from The Pictures
http://www.myspace.com/thepicturesnight

& treats & that

FREE ENTRY (always to the Apollo)
AFF[ord]ABLE BAR

Apollo Video is at 29 Norwood Road, SE24 9AA

for more info on the Apollo project, a month long programme featuring photography, film, music and performance see:

http://www.liveattheapollo.org/

This Saturday evening WTCDTD take over Herne Hill's formerly abandoned Apollo Video for a night of space exploration.

Musical programme featuring:

The Capsized Smiles
B-Movie tales of horror and woe
http://www.myspace.com/capsizedsmiles

AEO
One man's battle against the machines. The light of victory, shine on.
http://aeo.noise.org.uk/

Mesonoche
"every day a day dream", the holy beast (distorto-destructo)

AND, for the first time in the celluloid temple of Apollo:

Short films from The Pictures
http://www.myspace.com/thepicturesnight

& treats & that

Apollo Video is at 29 Norwood Road, SE24 9AA

for more info on the Apollo project, a month long programme featuring photography, film, music and performance see:

http://www.liveattheapollo.org/

From 6pm tonight the long-deserted Apollo Video in Herne Hill rises from the ashes, reborn as a space for art, music and much more during the month of June, and possibly beyond.

We'll be heading down to contribute to the fanfare.

Also just confirmed we'll be hosting a night at Apollo on 13th June, featuring a mixture of music, performance and a film programme curated by Garry Sykes of The Pictures, the underground film night airing monthly at Barden's Boudoir in Dalston.

Tonight's party is from 6pm-10pm, featuring a DJ set from Fab Fatale.

More info at the Apollo Video website. See you there!

Our friends at Crunch are putting on their first party in South London, this Saturday 6th June at the Dogstar in Brixton. Expect a mixture of afrobeat, funk, dubstep, dnb, electro and techno to name a few. Entry is free, email siri (at) crunchlive.co (dot) uk for more details.

Head to the Crunch site for archival mixes from their previous events.

Hope to see you there!

What is to be made of art writing?

Resonance104.4FM invites antepress to explore the contemporary position of art writing through an ongoing experiment with radio.

Digestives is an assorted collection of new radio works by antepress and their invited collaborators, comprising performance, discussion, storytelling and sound.

Julia Calver describes the event of twilight as a moment of obscurity using speech and sound. Patrick Coyle explores the multiple meanings of words through a collage of memory, music and misunderstandings. Cressida Kocieński explores a language of diagrams of time and space. Claire Nichols hosts a series of discussions with her collaborators about processes of making. Tamarin Norwood traces the desperation of catching time through an interior dialogue. Gemma Sharpe presents a sound work co-produced with international performance artists Lundahl&Seitl.

As the good weather continues to tease London, you know it's time to hit that disconcertingly-hued stretch of River Thames sand for the first Reclaim The Beach party of 2009.

It's this Saturday, May 16, 10pm - 4am, featuring Speakers Quartet live plus "funk, cuban, brazilian, african and every other kind of breaks they can find aswell as a massive healthy dose of Roots Reggae, Mash Up, Bashment & Dancehall Vibrations to keep the party rocking til' the tide comes in..".

More info on the Facebook event.

Bit short notice but tomorrow night is the fourth in the now-almost-veteran series of DIY noise and hacked-up electronics, Beyond Signal. Expect devastating volumes of digital viscera in the makeshift surrounds of Area 10 Project Space.

Lineup:

J MILO TAYLOR (real time A/V 3D)

DAWN SCARFE & MEL GOUGH (live radio tuning and resonant soundscape)

JOHN RICHARDS (Diy electronics & power noise)

MARIE VERRY (A/V punk noise)

SZ,BERLIN (Extreme industrial electronic music)

THENOISER aka JULIEN OTTAVI (audio freak & oscillators battle)

RYAN JORDAN / LUKE JORDAN / PATRICK TRESSET (Diy electronics, home built instruments and python)

ODDSCENE & MAGMA (ICED video noise installation)

Our tip is the Jordan/Jordan/Tresset combo, featuring ritualistic strobe fx, light sensors, and generative visuals driven by live facial recognition software. Bring earplugs.

Two thrilling events featuring WTCD cohorts appearing around central London this week:

Heavy Pencil (ICA)
Thursday 7 May | FREE
info

Mimi Leung is taking a break from drawing landscapes and recording dingo songs in the Outback in order to visit the ICA with her cohorts, visual and sound artists Tom Moore and Ad Hoc. They will be drawing in response to music produced by each other, plus better-known songs remixed live by Ad Hoc, and they might even play a live song or two.

Transformations (National Gallery)
Friday 8 May | FREE
info

Princes, showgirls, painted ladies and dazzling gentlemen descend on the Gallery in May to take part in a series of live art events and costume parades.

Models wearing costumes designed and interpreted by students from Wimbledon College of Art – and inspired by paintings in the National Gallery Collection – perform outside the Gallery between 5.30pm and 6pm (weather permitting).

After the parade outside, the Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing Theatre stage becomes a catwalk for a special free show. Here, the costume designers and makers will talk about their creations.

In T-minus one week, it's the second edition of our new monthly night of cosmic sounds at 93 Feat East, Signals From The Cosmos.

This month we have joined forces with London record label Thisisnotanexit (responsible for records from artists such as Hatchback, Detachments, Brain Machine and Spectral Empire) to celebrate their latest release, the new Ultralight EP from soon to be massive Canadian duo Parallels. Unfortunately we can't afford to get Parallels to London to play for us, but we do have TINAE label boss Simon A. Carr performing a rare DJ set. Expect future music of the highest order.

In addition we will be giving away a copy of this awesome record to one lucky winner. Best of all, entry is free.

Featuring:

Simon A. Carr (Thisisnotanexit)
http://www.thisisnotanexit.net

and your regular hosts:

Urlaubshits
http://www.urlaubshits.co.uk

Ad Hoc
http://www.adhoc.fm

Also find us on Facebook or last.fm.

Our good friends from beyond Hadrian's Wall, Edinburgh's marvellous Forest Publications, are embarking on a Europe-wide tour of their poetry, prose and songsmithing. The Golden Hour passes through London tonight, appearing at The Camden Head for an evening's varied entertainment.

Entry a meagre £3, including a free copy of their Stolen Stories book.

The Times reports that a Dulwich independent school has been shut down due to cases of swine flu. SE London, don your surgical masks...