Friday, May 16, 2008

instruments / sources

I play / make use of....

. field recordings
. piano
. zithers - english box zithers, autoharps, kantele & Guzheng
. dulcitone (tuning fork piano)
. organ
. guitar (acoustic / electric)
. cello
. clear-input methods
. inside-methods
. contact microphones
. hydrophones
. coil pick-up's
. objects (pebbles, shells, paper, salt, polenta, glass lenses, plants, grasses)
. clarinet
. gen sx1000
. xylophones
. melodica
. alto recorder
. bells
. pitch pipes

concerts

July 2011 - below is a list of main performances from the early 2000's until 2010. I haven't updated this section later in 2010 - the reason ? well, simply one of time....

25th September - solo @ the old vicarage, Bradford

August 13th - solo @ Moor music festival, Skipton

18th March - performance with Hankil Ryu / Daniel Jones / Patrick Farmer / Paul Khimasia Morgan, Coachwerks, Brighton

14th March - performance with Hankil Ryu, seeds & bridges, RED gallery, Hull

5th February - performance with Rowan ForestierWalker, Cella venue, Brighton

2009:

12th December - photographic score performed by Phillip Thomas (piano), Ferens art gallery, Hull

7th November - performance (inc photographic scores) with Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes, Rachel Dean & Shayla Reynolds, Holy Trinity, Hull

1st October - performance, Arnolfini gallery, Bristol

Sept 27th - sound and music expo, Leeds

Sept 26th - freesonic, Bloc gallery, Sheffield

July 18th - Pollau church, Austria

June 29th - q-02, Brussels

June 18th - Victoria hotel, Leeds

June 13th - Seven arts, Leeds

June 10th - r.o.d., CalArts, Valencia, California, USA

May 22nd 2009 - Goiya, Riga, Latvia

May 21st 2009 - Riga radio, Latvia

May 18th 2009 - y gallery, Tartu, Estonia

March 31st 2009 - Adelphi, Hull

March 28th 2009 - Street Level gallery, Glasgow

March 18th 2009 - East street studios (installation & performance) - with Stuart Bannister

February 15th 2009 - Cube cinema, Bristol - duet with Patrick Farmer

February 8th 2009 - Cafe Oto, London

January 29th 2009 - Newcastle University

November 21st 2008 - Zlin university, Czech Republic

November 8th 2008 - Canton uniting church, Cardiff - duet with Heleen Van Haegneborgh

November 7th 2008 - Sussex Uni - duet with Heleen Van Haegenborgh

November 6th 2008 - Cafe Oto, London - quartet with Heleen Van Haegenborgh, Patrick Farmer & Matt Davis

November 4th 2008 - Ferens Art Gallery, Hull - duet with Heleen Van Haegenborgh

November 3rd 2008 - Peel hall, Slaford - duet with Heleen Van Haegenborgh

October 14th 2008 - Logos foundation, Ghent - solo field recordings + Pauline Oliveros piece (in quartet)

September 12th 2008 - Seeds & bridges, Hull - trio's with Angharad Davies & Catherine Kontz (works by Wolff, Oliveros + intuitive composition for trio)

September 4th 2008 - Artlink Gallery, Hull

July 19th 2008 - Bloc gallery, Sheffield

July 9th 2008 - Port Mahon, Oxford

June 19th 2008 - Skolska 28, Prague

June 14th 2008 - duo with Ivan Palacky - Brno, Czech Republic

May 28th 2008 (trio with Patrick Farmer & Dom Lash) - LMC festival, London

January 2008 - Spike Island gallery, Bristol

December 2007 - duo with Daniel Jones (+ Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Mark Wastell and Graham Halliwell) - Chisenhale dance space, London – Dec 2007

December 2007 - 'audible architecture # 6’ - Bloc assembly, Sheffield

November 2007 - solo & with Taku Unami, Noid, Klaus Fillip & Tim Blechmann – Amann studio, Vienna

October 2007 - duo with Ivan Palacky - No-Fi, Newcastle

October 2007 - trio with Daniel Jones & Ivan Palacky - seeds and bridges, Hull

April - November 2007 - ‘east riding’ (4 part audio / visual work) - various venues in Hull

July 2007 - ‘mouth of the humber’ (audio / visual performance) - Humber mouth festival, Hull

July 2007 - Duo for field recordings & strings (with Rhodri Davies) – St Mary's Church, Hull

April 2007 - solo & duet with Daniel Jones (+ Toshimaru Nakamura & Billy Roisz) - Hull Time Based Arts, Hull + 'The Art Space', Nottingham

May 2007 - Skolska 28, Prague

May 2007 - Amann studios, Vienna

May 2007 - solo + collaboration with Ivan Palacky - Sklenena Louka, Brno

May 2007 - Rhiz, Vienna

May 2007 - Quitch gallery, Linz

March 2007 - leeds (private house)

March 2007 - trio with musicforone & Charlie Collins - Red Deer, Sheffield

March 2007 - duo with musicforone - Lamp, Hull

February / March 2007 - duo with Lee Patterson + trio wth Angharad Davies - Nottingham (Knee Knees), London (Omega works, Ray's Jazz / Foyles), Brighton (Westhill hall), Manchester (Salford Mill).

February 2007 - with Okkyung Lee, Matt Bourne, 7 Hertz & Will Guthrie - Leeds, Hull, Nottingham.

December 2006 - Holy Trinity, Leeds

November 2006 – Kinetica gallery, London

further 2006 concerts:

‘Tristesse 22102006 1 & 2’ – New Work Yorkshire perambulator,South Square gallery, Bradford

Re-soundtrack performance - digital Scarborough festival, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough

UK tour (with Pamelia Kurstin) – venues inc. e:vent gallery London, Generator arts Dundee, Nottingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Brighton, Bristol

Hommage to Ozu 1 (film & live performance) - Slack video, Hull

Solo & trio performance with Lee Patterson & Ben Gwilliam - resound exhibition, Mid-Pennine gallery, Burnley

Two presentations / performances @ Sonic Arts Group events – Leeds Uni, Leeds

Two performances for Hull Art Lab’s rolling performance series – Hull Art Lab, Hull

selection of earlier concerts:

‘two-teburi-koe’ (audio / visual) – ‘humbermouth’ festival, Hull

‘dliamansctlndpls’ – ‘imetexture 2', Hull

‘quartet avj2004-1’ – NewWorkYorkshire, Bretton Hall, Wakefield

‘quartet avj2004-2’ – EICH gallery, Hull

‘duet – images of sky’ (audio / visual) - Platform 2 exhibition, Hull

‘for guitar, zither & microphone’ – performance & radio broadcast (resonance fm & artradio, Berlin)

‘goodbyes’ - Anlaby road school of fine art, Hull

‘limitedspace’ – limited space performance – Tokyo

‘piano / ice’ – HTBA live art weekend, Hull

‘september start’ & ‘september end’ – Hull school of Art

‘brzeska quartet’ – HTBA, Hull – 2003

‘k-foundation – burning a million’ (live soundtrack) - Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

‘blue book / sun-wed’ – humbermouth festival, Hull

compositions

photographic scores: a pdf publication featuring a number of my photographic scores is available to view online or download by clicking here

below is a short list of compositions completed from 1979 - 2007

Pollau - for field recordings

four approaches to quietude, bruxelles - for field recordings

Thornwick Bay # 2 - for field recordings / hydrophone recordings

Czech waters - for hydrophone recordings

Estonian lakes - for hydrophone recordings

Estonian rivers - for field recordings / hydrophone recordings

as (urfaces) - 6 pieces for field recordings / surface vibrations

pelure # 9 - gathered wire - for field recordings / internal electronic signals

pelure # 6 - for field recordings / surface vibrations

....audible silence - enter (Kettle's yard, Cambridge) - for field recordings / surface vibrations (2009)

....audible silence - a next moment (JdP, Oxford) - for field recordings / surface vibrations (2009)

....audible silence - towards evening (Czech republic) - for field recordings / sonic architecture (2009)

The view from the studio window - for field recordings (2008)

instamatic # 4 - Ghent (beguinage) - for field recordings (2008)

instamatic # 3 - Ghent (bird market) - for field recordings (2008)

instamatic # 2 - Vienna - for field recordings (2008)

instamatic # 1 - Bridlington harbour & Thornwick Bay - for field recordings (2008)

Jez riley French / Heleen Van Haegenborgh - 'in place series # 1 - 5' (2008) - intuitive composition for piano, field recordings, zithers & objects

intuitive composition for trio (2008) - with Angharad Davies & Catherine Kontz

pocklington canal (2008) - for field recordings / hydrophones

Wansford canal and watton beck (2008) - for field recordings / hydrophones

'audible architecture # 7 - Prague' (2008) - for field recordings

'Generator pieces - onsite # 1' (2007) - for field recordings

'Generator pieces - onsite # 2 (2007) - for field recordings

'Generator pieces - offsite' (2007) - for field recordings

'east riding parts 1 - 4' (2007) - for field recordings

'mouth of the humber' (2007) - for field recordings

'audible architecture # 6 - Sheffield' - for field recordings, zither & objects

'two events - east yorkshire' (2007) - for clear inputs, inside methods, zither & field recordings

'two events - west yorkshire' (2006) - for church flower stand, piano & field recordings

'church flower stand # 2' (2006) - for church flower stand

'Lake Konstanz' (2005) - for field recordings

'book series # 1 - 4' (2005) - for clear inputs

'64 short pieces - sudek' (2004) - for guitar

'temperature' soundtrack (2003) - for guitar & field recordings

'piano / ice' (2003) - for piano & ensemble

'intuitive compositions # 5 - 8' (1991 - 1997) - for various solo instruments

'intuitive compositions # 1 - 4' (1987 - 1990) - for various solo instruments

'tape pieces # 1 - 6' (1980-1982) - for tape

'doppel trio' (1981) - for guitar & tape

'feedback works' (1979) - for guitar

biography

Jez riley French (b. 1965)

composer | musician | artist | listener

born & lives in East Yorkshire, UK.

Using intuitive composition, field recording, improvisation and photography, Jez riley French has been exploring his enjoyment of detail, simplicity and his emotive response to places and situations for the past 3 decades.

Alongside solo performances and exhibitions he collaborates with other artists, runs the ‘in place’ project on field recording – a subject on which he also lectures, organizes the ‘seeds & bridges’ event series and runs the ‘engraved glass’ label.

In recent years Jez has been working extensively on recordings of surfaces and architectural spaces, some results of which make up the ‘....audible silence’ project and has also been developing the concept of photographic scores.

His work has been performed, exhibited & published widely, including in France, Austria, Japan, Korea, the Czech Republic, UK, Belgium etc.


‘I am fascinated and passionate about the infinite detail and expanding vistas of life around us, its sights and sounds, often overlooked or hidden. My creative output focuses on this never ending, joyous exploration via intuitive composition, conventional & extended field recording techniques, photography & photographic scores. The music / sound I create has evolved from improvisation to what I prefer to term 'intuitive composition' and has increasingly involved elements such as a love of audible silence & stillness & the empathy of compositional arcs. These evolved from my need to always remain open to my emotive, intuitive response to situations & environments’ - JrF