Our thanks to Steve Davismoon, Gordon Munro and James Kelman.
Our thanks to Steve Davismoon, Gordon Munro and James Kelman.
FRIDAY 27TH APRIL
2pm-5pm @MCUK 0.06 the EGG Afternoon Workshop on the work of Cornelius Cardew led by Richard Craig and Alex South (click to read the related Drouth article)
‘Sketches towards a Performance of Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise’
Richard Craig and Alex South
7:30pm @MCUK 0.11 DPL Evening Concert: Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise
In his Treatise, a graphic score of epic length and visual beauty, Cardew subjects a set of 67 elements (including numerals and symbols of musical notation) to various transformative processes, creating a continuous visuo-musical narrative akin to a novel or symphony in its dramatic scope. Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, Treatise is similarly ambitious; but whereas Wittgenstein attempts to untie philosophers from the conceptual knots of their thinking, Cardew attempts to release classical musicians from their often self-imposed constraints and musical habits. Asserting somewhat paradoxically that “the sound should be a picture of the score,” Cardew’s Treatise contains both an invitation to improvise and an admonition to be governed by the score. Occupying him for four years of his short but very intense compositional life, Treatise embodies Cardew’s creative evolution from Stockhausen’s assistant to founder of the Scratch Orchestra, but remains somewhat mysterious in its meaning. “Treatise: What is it?” Cardew wondered in 1965, before answering: “Well, it’s a vertebrate...”.
Featuring:
RICHARD CRAIG on Flutes
PETER NICHOLSON on Cello
ALEX SOUTH on Clarinets
DANIEL PADDEN on Percussion
SATURDAY 28TH APRIL
10:30pm Maxwell Hall UoS Later event: audio-visual concert II
Tonight’s event will feature performances by Gordon Munro and Stephen Davismoon in their recent collaboration Kelman Stories. See a related Drouth article.
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- Gordon Munro and Steve Davismoon: Kelman's short stories as Music
- Music from Clark Innes, Raymond Burke and Joyce Falconer
- Unseen documentary film of Kelman, Noam Chomsky, Douglas Gordon, Alasdair Gray, Tom Leonard and other from 1990
-Kelman dialectograms
- and more...
...did we mention there is also wine, and beer - and the event is FREE?
Find out more about the book and other special launch events throughout October in our Kelman & the City tab.
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Line up in full:
David Shrigley
Frank Quitely
Gary Erskine
Jamie Grant
Sorcha Edwards
Stuart Murray
Anna Tanner
Mitch Miller
Chris Connelly
Penny Sharp
Curt Sibling
Innes Smith
Evy Craig
Lewie Wicksted
Helen Shaddock Honeypears
Event description: Graphic novels such as Kick Ass have recently infiltrated the main stream through their translationonto screen. Market Gallery presents graphic artists contributing to this creative boom, juxtaposingthem with contemporary fine artists who also use storytelling and narrative to construct their own unique worlds.
Scotland is world renowned for its story telling. This exhibition aims to celebrate this legacy whilst examining the relationship between illustration, film and fine art and encourage discussion about how these seemingly autonomous media share common themes and motivations.
The opening is Friday 11th February 6pm-9pm. And the Exhibition will run until March 6th. For more information see www.marketgallery.org.uk
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NYOS Futures- Vanishing Boundaries
A cross art form project combining elements of film, music, animation, electronic soundscapes, story telling and live performance. Drouth editor Johnny Rodger provides the writing talent for this vibrant performance which looks at the themes of vanishing boundaries.
20 February 2011, 19:30, Peel Hall, Salford University, free but ticketed---Box Office: 0161 295 7240
21 February 2011, 20:00, The Arches, Glasgow, £9 (£6)---Box Office: 0141 565 1000
For more information visit the NYOS website.
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To launch the latest issue of the Drouth, "Foundation", an event was held on the 19th January at the CCA with talks from filmmaker Chris Leslie, photographer Nicky Bird and Mitch Miller, presenting his dialectogram illustrations.
Event description:
UN figures show that by the early 1960s Scotland’s percentage public housing building output was the highest in the world (ie higher than Soviet Russia, Communist Eastern Europe or China). From the late 50s when government subsidies for each floor over the 6th were introduced, much of this housing was high-rise. Glasgow itself is said to have built more high-rise housing per head of population --largely in the 60s and early 70s- than any other city in Europe. It is now said to have the biggest high-rise demolition programme in the whole of Europe. What is the significance of this story? Three artists engage with this momentous social history.
These artists--a filmmaker, an illustrator and a photographer-- give presentations of their work on an important part of Scotland’s history. We show a film, present and discuss a new form of drawing developed specially for representing life in this form of housing, and a photographic project, which all record, remember, and investigate the high rise social housing, particularly those built in Sighthill and Red Road in Glasgow, and Adler in Dundee.
Chris Leslie's photographs of Haiti are featured in the latest issue of the Drouth.
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The speaker’s notes and presentation are available from the website http://www.raggeduniversity.com/about/index.html
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Drouth editor Johnny Rodger and regular contributor , photographer Andrew Lee, wrote a critical feature on Elder & Cannon’s Shettleston Housing Association for the London based Architects Journal which helped in the push to win the £25000 award for the building. See the images and read the article here.
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First podcast out now
The exciting Drouth-Montage combination has finally arrived. The first Montage podcast to include work by the Drouth is available. It includes Drouth work on 3D films by Miriam Ross along with great chat on Inception, Toy Story 3, and Part 2 of an interview with the Pixar animators.
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