PRESS RELEASE: LOR156 - Viv Corringham - Here in Our Distant Corner We Wait (cassette and DL) Linear Obsessional is very excited to release a new album from the extraordinary vocalist and composer Viv Corringham. "Here in Our Distant Corner We Wait" is an engaging and fascinating collection - Viv uses her voice, both pure and treated, to create intimate explorations within a very human realm. It finds her making some of her most personal and explorative music. This is Viv's third album for Linear Obsessional. Released as a cassette and download.

Through our walking feet we can listen for traces of previous walkers, for stories from the earth, for echoes of history, and for our own memories. The essence of a place is revealed to the feet that move through it and listen.

Full of Noises is a self-guided soundwalk for the Village of East Hampton, New York, that leads the public through known spaces with new, heightened, and playful listening. Composed and narrated by sound artist, Viv Corringham, Full of Noises links the cultural gifts of Mary Woodhouse – Guild Hall, The Duck Pond, and Clinton Academy –, with prompts for finding, imagining, and remembering sounds. Simply download the free app. on your phone, pop-in a pair of headphones, and listen.

Producer, Anthony Madonna Technical Director, Patrick Dawson

Performances at World Through a Window Earth Day Festival and the Quarantine Concerts.

Amanda had taken me on her special walk through Mexico City in 2019, for my Shadow-walks project. We created a piece based on that walk, using her 360 videos and my voice with field recordings made there. Every performance is different because each of us improvises in response to the other person.

(photo by Amanda Gutierrez)

Works from Shadow-walks (at home) were played or performed live by me on several online festivals. BEAST FEaST included the WFAE and wonderful talks by Yang Yeung and Hildegard Westerkamp, among others.

PRESS RELEASE: This release forms part of the Footfalls series, our ongoing exploration of the art and practice of sound walking. We are very pleased to announce our first release for 2021, a set of four Shadow-walks by the US-based British composer Viv Corringham. These walks represent Corringham's sung response to narrated walks undertaken or imagined during the period of the pandemic. Footfalls is presented as a custom compass imprinted USB.

Synthesis Project

We perform on the first saturday of every month: Contemporary network arts (telematic) works by artists performing together live via the internet. The series currently features NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble demonstration performances utilizing network arts technology from home.

Quarantine:

A Telematic nO(t)pera by Doug Van Nort

Created for the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (EAO), for the virtual space of connected isolation, for Casper the cat, and for self-sanity. It is not an Opera, but it is not not an Opera. It is a composition for musical, visual and virtual engagement. Using pre-composed palettes that integrate text, graphics, Soundpainting and software instruments, augmented with additional real-time composition via EAO’s unique Soundpainting conducting. Developed over months of regular online rehearsals.

Breathing Cyberspace

Hosted by Digital Arts Resource Centre, Ottawa Canada for Independent Media Arts Alliance Digital Shift Victoria Canada,  and Manifestations 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands. AOM is a performance group on the Second Life platform. We've been meeting across 9 time zones for many years before this pandemic sent us all online. Pauline Oliveros was an enthusiastic member.

The Listening Body: Workshop with Viv Corringham & Jolie Parcher

A 5 week course at Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY  Drawing on a range of techniques from Deep Listening™, Yoga, Mindfulness, and more. Led by vocalist, composer, and Deep Listening™ teacher, Viv Corringham, and Director of Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts, Jolie Parcher. It's been good to work with actual people not postage stamps on a screen. And my first live performance with an audience since Covid!

I got this very nice review in The Wire :

"Fragments of her voice flicker like the light bouncing over water in her video, later drifting into ambiguous urban sound, a backdrop for her intermittent vocal solo. It’s a gorgeous, calming piece, new age in the best sense.”  The Wire- August 2020