FUAIM Lecture - Danny Bright - 07/11/24, 脫 Riada Hall, 11:00

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FUAIM Lecture - Danny Bright - 07/11/24, 脫 Riada Hall, 11:00

Acts of sonic fracture: working with Sonic Ghosting as an experimental music practice

Abstract:

Sonic Ghosting is a critically informed experimental practice that spans composition, performance and installation. As a mode of creative endeavour, it offers a way to interrogate the relationship between space/place/memory and sound/music/noise by fracturing the soundscape of the present with the echoes, phantoms and potentialities of the soundscapes of the past/future. It uses multimodal sonic fracture to mobilise the ghostly, creating a 鈥渢emporal disturbance鈥� (Blanco & Peeren, 2010) that helps to deconstruct notions of a singular sonic present, and instead reveal the 鈥渢he layer-upon-layer overlap of semantic fabrics鈥� (Kim-Cohen, 2009) that sit underneath the surface, in between 鈥減resence and non-presence鈥� (Derrida, 1994). It offers a way to listen out for the ghosts that are revealed in the moment where 鈥渢he present betrays us, where the future leaks out鈥� (Bright, 2020) and where we can experience the 鈥渋ntersecting temporalities/spaces/memories that collide, cross, fold, pierce, to create a landscape of asynchronous sonic timespace鈥� (Bright, 2020). This lecture explores the mobilisation of 鈥榓cts of fracture鈥� as a methodology for conjuring the ghostly in Bright鈥檚 recent performance work.

Danny Bright is a composer, sonic artist, sound designer, musician and researcher working across the fields of music, performance, installation, theatre and media. His creative and critical work explores space/place/memory through a Sonic Ghosting practice; develops multi-modal composition, performance, critical and installation work; and explores contemporary guitar technology-based performance systems. Danny performs on guitar, samplescapes, tape, electronics, and text/voice as an ensemble member/leader, solo artist and improviser, and as half of no-input pedalboard duo Noise Peddler with Lee Westwood. He also works as a sound designer and composer for arts, theatre and media companies, and as a producer, recordist, sound technologist and audio engineer.

Danny鈥檚 work has appeared at the Hatton Gallery, V&A, Prague Quadrennial, World Stage Design, Edinburgh Festival, Brighton Digital Festival, Semaine des Arts, International Conference on Live Interfaces, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, World Soundscape Conference, British Science Festival, on the BBC and Channel 4, and throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. Commissions and supporting organisations include: Catalyst Arts, Arts Council England, Canada Council for the Arts, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, British Council, Heritage Lottery Fund, Octopus Collective, MAGNA Trust, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

He is currently Head of the Music Department at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Sussex.

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