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Here is an audio introduction to my work by The Wire



Album release
time trout
stuck like jane austen



Jan 2023





Time Trout - the band I sing with in New York - releases its first album on Otoroku, London's Cafe Oto's label.

(Viv Corringham, Marcus Cummins, Dave Mandl and Stephen Moses.)

"...Viv Corringham’s astonishing spoken word vocal performance. A restless stream of consciousness that seems to have the primal urgency of a message delivered in a dream, Corringham mixes Delphic abstractions with bracingly lucid implorations, the whole performance delivered with such seamlessness that it’s hard to tell whether the lyrics are channeling the music or vice versa. The answer, of course, is both." Otoroku

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https://cafeoto.cmail20.com/t/r-l-tjdkkdil-dlikkyliij-tt/




live performance
Nostalgia for the here and now
at harvestworks fluid exhibition, governors island, ny



Oct 2022





Performance with live vocals by me, distributed within the installation by technology wizard Paul Geluso.

I sang responses written by exhibition visitors to my two questions: "What sound would you most miss if it disappeared tomorrow?" and "What object do you most value - what would you save from the hurricane?"

The performance marked the final weekend of my two-months long installation at the Harvestworks exhibition on Governors Island, NY.


LISTEN HERE to binaural version of installation.

HEADPHONES/EARBUDS NEEDED

photo Dave Mandl



Nostalgia for the here and now
at harvestworks fluid exhibition, governors island



Aug - Oct 2022





Fluid- an art and tech exhibition Aug - Oct 2022 Harvestworks Art and Technology Program, Governors Island. The exhibition features major new works by NYSCA awardees and Harvestworks Artists in Residence, in a variety of media.


“Nostalgia for the here and now” Viv Corringham

An audiovisual installation which combines environmental sounds, objects found in the streets, my own singing and people's responses to the questions "What sound would you most miss if it disappeared tomorrow?" and "What object do you most value?" As if someone from the future gathered together memories of our soundscape, along with our quotidian objects as a record of how we lived and what we cared about here and now.


LISTEN HERE TO BINAURAL VERSION

HEADPHONES/EARBUDS NEEDED




girona resound



Jul 2022





Art del Caminar in Catalonia was a meeting and conference for walking artists.

I presented my score "Girona Resound" - a collaborative walk through memory and imagination in which we used breath and voices, instead of feet, to trace our inner maps of Girona.



Slow light -seeking darkness



Jun 2022





A solo performance in Hrelji, Croatia, in the festival that was the culmination of this year-long project. Many wonderful artists performed, including the incredible Tuvan singer Sainkho Namtchylak. I worked with students in Klagenfurt before the festival and they came along too and presented several pieces we had worked on, as well as taking a soundwalk in the dark night.



Eco vs ego Artist Residency



2022 - 2023





A two year artist residency with 7 - 8 year old students at Springs School, Long Island, NY, dealing with environmental concerns. I'm focussing on listening to the sonic environment and taking soundwalks together. They are recording environmental sounds that interest them and we will work with these to present at Guild Hall, East Hampton at the end of the project.



nostalgia for the here and now 2022



Apr 2022





This is my (slightly ridiculous!) way of organising my sound files as I make the score for my 4 channel installation later this year - thanks to a year long residency at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center NY. Pink card for my interviews with people, blue for recordings made as a result. Green for miscellaneous…



shadow/text for radio art zone



Apr 2022





A collaboration with writer Julia Lee Barclay-Morton for a 22 hour radio project we have been commissioned to do by Radio Art Zone. We first met in 1999 in a workshop Julia was leading at FringeNYC in techniques for performing non-linear text and movement while I was performing as a vocalist in another piece. For this project we are combining our practices- recording Julia's texts plus environmental sound and my singing in places related to the texts. To be presented in September 2022.

#radioara #mobileradio #radio #esch2022 #radioart #art #luxembourg #europeancapitalofculture



Earth day art model 2022



Apr 2022





WALKING BY THE PECONIC BAY


An audio/visual meditation on the Peconic Bay region of Long Island NY. I have spent a great deal time there during the pandemic, walking along the shore and observing the environment. Includes my spoken words on a narrated walk there (eg horseshoe crabs older than dinosaurs). 2. Vocal music composed and sung by me, blended with the environmental sounds of the Bay. 3. A video and still views of the place and of myself singing

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winner of sound walk september award



Jan 2022





I'm delighted to be one of the two winners of the Sound Walk September Awards 2021 for "Where am I? A dislocated soundwalk”.

"In Where Am I? A dislocated soundwalk, Viv captures the disjointed experience of physically being in space as our thoughts drift and take us elsewhere, allowing us to imagine taking a routine walk and observing habitual sights while listening to an audio guide that leads us to unfamiliar voices, landscapes, and sounds." SWS

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ARtist residency, Harvestworks digital media arts center, new york



Jan-Dec 2022





"The Harvestworks New Works Program is pleased to announce our 2021-22 recipients. The recipients are commissioned to create a new work in the Harvestworks TEAM (Technology, Engineering, Art and Music) Lab." I'm delighted to have a residency at this excellent media arts centre. I'll be making an audio-visual installation called Nostalgia for the Here and Now:

Nostalgia for the here and now is pervasive: a feeling that what we have is unsustainable and disappearing. This installation combines environmental sounds, spoken or sung lists of loved possessions along with objects found in the streets: an archaeological trove of relics from our present. As if someone from the future has gathered together memories of our soundscape, along with our quotidian objects, both valued and discarded, as a record of how we lived and what we cared about.





slow light-seeking darkness,
Klagenfurt, austria



Oct 12 2021





A solo performance to start my work with this project. it will culminate next spring with a residency in the Austrian mountains, a series of performances based on the theme, facilitating a listening & sounding workshop, and a podcast.

Photo: Petra Cvelbar






performance at cafe oto london



Oct 17 2021





Solo performance to showcase my new release "Shadow-walks (at home)" on Flaming Pines. Also playing solos were David Toop and Kate Carr- who runs the Flaming Pines label.









performance at Albany deptford london



Oct 15 2021






Trio with Alan Wilkinson and Dirch Blewn at the Albany Deptford, London. A great night with a full house.

All five of my London gigs were very enjoyable- it was so good to play live again.









visit to london and upcoming work



Sept/Oct 2021





After an August spent mainly swimming and walking on Long Island, I'm looking forward to my visit to the UK and some interesting gigs:

October 10th, solo at 100 Years Gallery, London

October 12th, solo performance at start of a 6 months project in Klagenfurt Austria and elsewhere called "slow light - seeking darkness" .

October 15th trio performance of myself, Alan Wilkinson and Dirch Blewn at the Albany Deptford, London.

October 17th solo performance to showcase my new "Shadow-walks (at home)" release on Flaming Pines at Cafe Oto. Also on bill are David Toop and Kate Carr.

October 24th duo with Sylvia Hallett for Mopomoso at the Vortex.

More info to follow...



"full of noises" group walk, east hampton, ny



Aug 19 2021





Full of Noises: A Village Soundwalk Guild Hall of East Hampton, 2021 Photo: Joe Brondo for Guild Hall of East Hampton

I finally got a chance to do my locative soundwalk "Full of Noises" with a group of people. The Guild Hall had commissioned the work and organised this event. And the makers of the Gesso app that we used came too.



LIVE PERFORMANCE with amanda gutierrez, GOvernors island, ny



Jul 16 2021





My first live gig for a year! With fantastic 360 video by Amanda Gutierrez. Presented by Harvestworks Digital Arts as part of their Art and Technology on Governors Island programme.



dislocated soundwalk



Ongoing 2021





A soundwalk made for Walking as a Question, Walking Arts Encounter, Prespa, Greece. Where are we when we walk? Are we here, in this place that our feet move through, or are we lost in thoughts and memories of other times and places? This playful and dream-like soundwalk aims to throw these questions into confusion. It can be taken while in Prespa or anywhere else, including indoors.


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NEW RELEASE! HERE IN OUR DISTANT CORNER WE WAIT BY VIV CORRINGHAM



May 11 2021





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.


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full of noises: a village soundwalk



Apr 24 - Oct 17 2021





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


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duo with amanda gutierrez



April & May 2021





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)


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festivals online:
BEAST, rewire, noisefloor



April & May 2021





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.












NEW RELEASE! Footfalls 3 -
Shadow-walks by Viv Corringham



Mar 23 2021





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.


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Leonardo Music Journal Article



Jan 26, 2021





I'm very happy to be featured in the final issue of the Leonardo Music Journal! A thoughtful article by Stephanie Loveless about me, Amanda Gutierrez and Suzanne Thorpe: "Tactical Soundwalking in the City: A Feminist Turn from Eye to Ear"


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Telepresent: Willfull Devices



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

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NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble



Jan 9, 2021





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.


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Electro-Acoustic Orchestra



Dec21, 2020





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.



Avatar Orchestra Metaverse



Oct 21, 2020





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.


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Mopomoso Digital 5



Oct 18, 2020





Late great 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 ...


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Guild Hall Community residency



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. And my first live performance with an audience since Covid!


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online gig at The Horse Club, London



Jul 27 2020





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


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WALKER INSIDE



Jun 30 2020





Singing the walks we can’t do in the pandemic.

Resonance FM radio, London


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IKLECTIK (off-site) solo performance.



Apr 20 2020





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. Here is an example of a solo show I did for Iklectik, London.


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This random rhythm of notes and sounds



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. For download.


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The Cow Stubbornly Stands



Mar 8 2020





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. It aired on Resonance fm and Radiophrenia.



Creative Field Recording



Feb 14 2020





Creative Field Recording Union Docs, Brooklyn NY Guest instructor at 3 day event.


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Listening for Pauline and IONE



Feb 2 2020





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 the second public performance of the work, in Pauline and Ione’s hometown. 

Performers: Jonas and Joshua Brasch, Viv Corringham, Susie Ibarra, Lisa Barnard Kelley, Al Margolis & Peter Wetzler. 

photo by Gloria Waslyn


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New York - London





Viv Corringham