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.

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.

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…

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.

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"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.

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

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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