Simon Scott interviews me - click here to read

UK arts organisation 'sound & music' have published online an interview with myself (from the ear room project):

http://soundandmusic.org/features/ear-room/jez-riley-french

Festival Paivascapes #1 com programa fechado

Paivascapes #1 – River Paiva Sound Festival, a five-day celebration dedicated to the exploration of riverside landscapes and communities through sound and multimedia art, which is produced by Portuguese sound art organization Binaural/Nodar, has its program complete.

During Paivascapes #1 festival, to happen between March 4th to March 8th, 2011, twenty five artists will have their works shown or performed and six key speakers will participate in a series of conferences on creativity, rurality and environment.

List of participant artists:

Alicja Rogalska (PL), Anna Hints (EE), Charles Stankievech (CA), Craig Dongoski (US), Ignaz Schick (DE), Jez riley French (GB), John Grzinich (US), Katherine Liberovskaya (CA), Lasse-Marc Riek (DE), Luis Costa (PT), Maile Colbert (US), Manuela Barile (IT), Marc Behrens (DE), Marja-Liisa Plats (EE), Martin Clarke (GB), Masayo Kajimura (DE), o.blaat (JP), Patrick McGinley (US), Phill Niblock (US), Rui Costa (PT), Rui Silveira (PT), Sérgio Cruz (PT), Tiago Carvalho (PT), William Lamson (US), Yasuno Miyauchi (JP).

List of key speakers:

Tiago Monteiro-Henriques (PT), Sérgio Caetano (PT), Marcos Medalon (PT), Nuno Martins (PT), Domingos Cruz (PT), Tiago Carvalho (PT).

audible silence - 12 hours
audible silence - 2 days
audible silence - 10 days
audible silence - 2 months

- gathering the recordings
- not recording
- listening
- intuitive listening, moment to moment pleasure of each moment


- composed 2010-2011 by Jez riley French
- realised: often