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Here is an audio introduction to my work by The Wire
Jan 17 2021
Telepresent:
Willfull Devices (Pat O'Keefe, clarinets; Scott L. Miller, Kyma) + Viv Corringham (voice & electronics) + Carla Rees (flutes)
Online telematic concert presented by Minnesota's Studio Z.
Streaming live on YouTube and studiozstpaul.com
Jan 9 2021
NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble
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.
Attend online in the NowNet Arts Virtual Venue.
2020
Dec 21 2020
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
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.
Oct 21 2020
Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Live:
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.
Oct 18 2020
Mopomoso Digital 5
Guitarist John Russell's London club Mopomoso, for improvised music, went online in 2020. This is my contribution to the October edition. I've been sheltering by the sea on Long Island and enjoying the sound of voices far out at sea - plus I'd bought a hydrophone and wanted to see how it recorded my singing underwater ...
Aug-Sep 2020
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.
Aug 8 2020
My first live performance with an audience since Covid.
At Guild Hall, E Hampton, NY.
Jul 27 2020
An online gig at The Horse Club, London in May 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
Listen/watch here
Jun 30 2020 (repeated Jul 1)
WALKER INSIDE (singing the walks we can’t do in the pandemic)
on Resonance FM radio, London
A one-hour programme of tales by walkers and singing in which I restyled my longterm project “Shadow-walks” (see website page) to suit the times. Instead of accompanying a person on their chosen walk I gathered recorded descriptions of walks and my singing reflects how I imagined them. I called them Shadow-walks (at home).
Walkers are Geert Vermeire in the Alps, Amanda Gutierrez in Abu Dhabi, Rick Wilson in Wales, Yang Yeung in Hong Kong and Catherine Clover in Australia.
DURING THE PANDEMIC I've kept busy- making work for radio shows, compilation albums, walking art projects and an artist talk for the organisation "Walk Listen Create"
I perform regularly on Zoom with NowNet Lab Ensemble led by Sarah Weaver, who has worked with telematic performance for years. And I'm part of Doug Van Nort's Electro-Acoustic Orchestra who perform bi-weekly. Below is an example of a solo show I did for Iklectik, London.
Apr 20 2020
IKLECTIK (off-site) solo performance. Watch here
Mar 27 2020
Happy to announce the release of my new solo album
“This random rhythm of notes and sounds”
on “Intelligent Noise Music” label Zeromoon. You can download it here
Mar 8 2020
The Cow Stubbornly Stands
While in Bangalore, I began reading books by local women writers. When a book mentioned a place I went there and read an excerpt out loud, and sang with the sounds I heard there. This show combines stories, improvised singing, environmental sounds and my own experiences.
Feb 14 2020
Creative Field Recording
Union Docs, Brooklyn NY
Guest instructor at 3 day event.
https://vimeo.com/384848437
Feb 2 2020
Listening for Pauline and IONE
photo by Gloria Waslyn
Dream Festival,
Fair John ArtSpace, Kingston NY
I wrote this work while on an artist residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice in March 2019. It’s based on Pauline Oliveros and Ione’s previous experiences there, at the same residency. I followed their footsteps, trying to sense their traces and their listening presence in Venice. This is its second public performance, in Pauline and Ione’s hometown.
Performers: Jonas and Joshua Brasch, Viv Corringham, Susie Ibarra, Lisa Barnard Kelley, Al Margolis & Peter Wetzler.
2019
Oct 20-27, 2019
Acoustic Ecology Forum and Shadow-walks project, Mexico City
UK tour
Sept 29 2019
with Alan Tomlinson and Lawrence Casserley
Hundred Years Gallery
http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/events/upcoming/
Oct 1 2019
with Pat Thomas and Lawrence Casserley
Oxford Improvisers
http://oxfordimprovisers.com/events/
Oct 7 2019
with Lawrence Casserley
boat ting
Oct 13 2019
Arts Cafe Lewisham
https://www.linearobsessional.org/live-events.html/
Oct 13 2019
Solo: new multichannel work with live voice
Iklectik
Sept 21-22, 2019
Phonofemme festival, Austria
July 25-27, 2019
The Secret City, Woodstock, NY
I went back to the garden to lead sound walks in Woodstock as part of this wild and enjoyable annual festival.
June 30 - July 7, 2019
Shadow-walks in Prespes
Walking Practices/Walking Art/Walking Bodies International Encounters/Conference, Prespes, Greece
Prespes is a national park in a remote part of Greece at the borders of Albania and North Macedonia. I met with many other artists with a walking practice and made another in my Shadow-walks series, which I performed live at the Byzantine Museum there and will use the recordings as basis for a new sound work.
April 18 and 19, 2019
Solo gigs in Red Room Baltimore and Rhizome Washington DC using voice, field recordings and voice processing:
https://soundcloud.com/ivorringham/improvisation-1
April 16, 2019
WISE/:CT-SwAM Fridman Gallery New York
Another outing for “Shattered Song Shadow City,” my piece for 6 channels with live voice. It started out as a Harvestworks commission for NY Electronic Festival at Issue project Room. It’s based on walking with lots of people in different countries in 2016, when most people had troubled tales to tell me. Seems that still resonates- in 2018 I performed it in festivals and venues in Hong Kong, Taipei, Shantou China, London and Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore, India.
April 11-14, 2019
Sound Ethnographies workshop at Union Docs, New York. I spoke about my longterm project Shadow-walks and did some Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros.
April 5, 2019
Studio Z, St Paul, Minnesota
“Listening for Pauline and IONE” was premiered by Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble with me in St Paul, Minnesota, as part of the Zeitgeist Early Music Festival, which this year celebrated Pauline Oliveros.
March, 2019
New Release
On The Hour In The Woods
Reviewed in the Wire.
March, 2019
In Venice, invited back for another artist residency by the Emily Harvey Foundation. I made a new work based on Pauline Oliveros and her partner Ione’s time in Venice, called “Listening for Pauline and IONE”.
February, 2019
New Release
Until I Learn the Language of Vegetable Mineral
6 Concerts in London, including the label Linear Obsessional’s Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert at St Alfege Church, Greenwich, where I launched my new cassette release.
Reviews of Until I Learn the Language of Vegetable Mineral:
“songs for the human inhabitants of planet earth from an idiosyncratic observer”
“she croons, like Annette Peacock teleported into an Arthur Machen story while a warped choir moans and gurgles behind her.”
Viv Corringham: She is a vocalist, currently based in New York, who has the most extraordinary voice. Whilst she does all the experimental extended technique stuff, she also has a voice trained in folk and world music and has a fantastic sense of melody and can be very moving. Her cassette Until I Learn the Language of Vegetable Mineral is reassuringly bonkers.
Richard Sanderson, Resolution Mag
WALKER INSIDE (singing the walks we can’t do in the pandemic)
Viv Corringham
on Resonance FM radio, London
http://resonancefm.com
30th June 8pm, repeated 1st July 10am (BST)
A one-hour programme of tales by walkers and singing by presenter Viv Corringham, in which she restyles her longterm project “Shadow-walks” to suit the times. Instead of accompanying a person on their chosen walk she gathered recorded descriptions of walks and her singing reflects how she imagines them.
Walkers are Geert Vermeire in the Alps, Amanda Gutierrez in Abu Dhabi, Rick Wilson in Wales and Catherine Clover in Australia.
WALKER INSIDE (singing the walks we can’t do in the pandemic)
Viv Corringham
on Resonance FM radio, London
http://resonancefm.com
30th June 8pm, repeated 1st July 10am (BST)
A one-hour programme of tales by walkers and singing by presenter Viv Corringham, in which she restyles her longterm project “Shadow-walks” to suit the times. Instead of accompanying a person on their chosen walk she gathered recorded descriptions of walks and her singing reflects how she imagines them.
Walkers are Geert Vermeire in the Alps, Amanda Gutierrez in Abu Dhabi, Rick Wilson in Wales and Catherine Clover in Australia.
WALKER INSIDE (singing the walks we can’t do in the pandemic)
Viv Corringham
on Resonance FM radio, London
http://resonancefm.com
30th June 8pm, repeated 1st July 10am (BST)
A one-hour programme of tales by walkers and singing by presenter Viv Corringham, in which she restyles her longterm project “Shadow-walks” to suit the times. Instead of accompanying a person on their chosen walk she gathered recorded descriptions of walks and her singing reflects how she imagines them.
WALKER INSIDE (singing the walks we can’t do in the pandemic)
Viv Corringham
on Resonance FM radio, London
http://resonancefm.com
on Resonance FM radio, London
“Fragments of her voice flicker like the light bouncing over water... 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.”
“Fragments of her voice flicker like the light bouncing over water... 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 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, THE LISTENING BODY workshops aim to find greater physical release, acoustical awareness, environmental connection, and overall playfulness in our breath, body, ears, and voice.
Led by vocalist, composer, and Deep Listening™ Practitioner, Viv Corringham, and Director of Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts, Jolie Parcher, each session will uniquely combine exercises in sustained listening, vocal exploration, gentle yoga, and movement.
The Listening Body: Workshop with Viv Corringham & Jolie Parcher
Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Live:
Hosted by Digital Arts Resource Centre, Ottawa Canada
for Independent Media Arts Alliance Digital Shift Victoria Canada,
January 9, 2021
NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble