Ov London Presents:
‘ART OF THE MOMENT’
A FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE ART OF CROSS-DISCIPLINARY IMPROVISATION
May 11th & 12th 2013
The Albert
1-5 Albert Road, NW6 5DT London, United Kingdom
Book Your Event Tickets Here
Art of The Moment is a 2 day event integrating music, dance and visual arts in fresh new ways and re-examining the relationship between the different medium. It is a celebration of art created in the glorious uncertainty of the here and now, deep in the heart of spontaneous composition.
The festival will feature contributions from the likes of the amazing Oren Marshall (collaborations include Radiohead and Charlie Haden), Maggie Nicols, Anton Mobin, Phil Minton, The Irrepressibles, Matt Black (Ninja Tune, Coldcut), h2dance, Mixmaster Morris and many other leading artists in the field.
It takes place in one of London's most fascinating art hubs, The Albert in Queen’s Park, and is open to everyone to come and enjoy, explore, experience and get involved.
Ever wanted to hear a dance piece, paint with music, learn about live cinema or become a dancing tape-loop troubadour?
The festival features discussion groups, interactive installations, performances, the official launch of The Ov London Free Improv & Experimental Music Show on K2K Radio - listen here - as well as many other surprises.
In true improv spirit, the evening performances will feature duets, trios, quartets and larger ensembles, spontaneously formed by the artists in residence (see list below) as their names are drawn out of a hat.
And on Saturday night, we're going to have an after party
featuring special guest DJs from Ninja Tune and beyond and spectacular digital, light, sound and visual artists.
Daytime festival tickets are £7. Evening performance tickets are £8.
Combined day and evening pass £13.
Daytime tickets allow you entry into any event, although workshops and masterclasses must be booked in advance.
OptiSonic after party ticket £8.
Book Your Tickets Here
**Advanced booking for all workshops and masterclasses is essential. Please contact us **
The workshop programme is as follows:
Saturday 11th
Community-Dance Free-Improvisation Class –
This is a dance improvisation workshop designed and facilitated by community dance artist Lavinia Cascone. It is open to everyone to come and join in. There are no steps to learn, and no special aptitude for dance is necessary. The session is open to all ages and backgrounds, to people with and without disabilities.
Saturday May 11th @ 11am
Duration: 1.5 hours
Live Looping Master Class –
Georgina Brett is a performer, producer and a fantastic musician/sound artist. The skilful use of her own voice through delays and looping produces incredible live performances in festivals and concerts in the UK and overseas. In this master class she will be joined by free improv cello and guitar artist Steve Moyes. Together they will be teaching the basics of live looping and share their knowledge of the creative processes involved in making a performance. Not to be missed!
Saturday May 11th @ 2pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hours
Mayra - Making a Difference Through Art –
e-Gaia is a community of artists who believe that art has a powerful part to play in bringing about positive change to our world. Mayra will use this hour to present a short audiovisual project about climate change, to spread the word about the project and to engage other artists in discussing the part that the arts can play to bring awareness and action to the world around us.
Saturday May 11th @ 3.30pm
Duration: approx 1 hour
h2dance - Improv / Open Studio Session –
h2dance produce multi award-winning provocative performance work that addresses political issues with humour and emotion. This open studio session offers a window on the creative processes of artistic director Heidi Rustgaard as she improvises with violinist Sylvia Hallett to generate ideas for new material.
Saturday May 11th @ 4pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
‘A Living Score’ Workshop – Ov London’s special 1st Anniversary Workshop & Performance –
An improvisatory workshop, A Living Score is a seedbed of possibilities for a spontaneous living art using a tight interdependent relationship between movement & sound as its basis. It is run by Ov’s driving forces Illi Adato and Lavinia Cascone, is open to dancers and musicians practiced in improvising and will lead to a performance on the same evening.
Saturday May 11th @ 5pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
Living Score Performance - Sat. May 11th @ 7pm
Our menu of spontaneous live performances starts on Saturday evening at 7pm with A Living Score, and continues on until 11pm
**Advanced booking for all workshops and masterclasses is essential. Please contact us **
Sunday 12th
Creative Play with Maggie Nicols -
Anything can happen when we open to The Muse and let ourselves be inspired.
Improvisation is a natural part of our everyday lives, something we are not always aware of, because of the straitjackets which we find ourselves in. When we focus creatively and trust the muse, magic and liberation can be experienced. The workshop will start with warm ups that bring about the relaxed awareness which awakens the imagination and invites the muse to play with us. From there we will explore a variety of strong, simple structures that encourage freedom of expression. The aim is to build a creative vocabulary that can be expressed spontaneously,in any form that feels safe and inspiring; vocally, instrumentally, through movement, theatre ,painting, dialogue etc
Everyone is creative. It is a birthright. In our different rhythms together we are all magnificent.
All welcome.
Sunday May 12th @ 11am
Duration: 2 hours
Introduction to Madmapper and Resolume Arena -
Projection mapping is a fast growing medium. MadMapper is a simple and easy tool for video-mapping projections and LED mapping. Resolume Arena is a live digital motion graphics programme. Matt Sharp will lead a workshop to get you started with these tools. Participants will need to bring their own macs. Software (with expiry date) will be supplied at the session.
Sunday May 12th @ 1pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hrs
Lavinia Cascone's Body Choir –
Lavinia says "The Movement Choir will feature a group of performers, with or without experience, who will respond to a conductor using their whole bodies as well as their voices. The conductor will freely choose his or her cues for conducting spontaneously, following the inspiration of the moment. The cues are not pre-arranged. The only rule for the conductors is to use the body, not the voice. The voice will come from the choir only. Everybody can have a go at conducting the choir. The choir responds as a unique organism, as in the original tradition of Greek Choir, naturally attuning its response to the cues. This workshop is open to everybody, so come and check it out!"
Sunday May 12th @ 1pm
Duration: approx 1 hour
'The Gathering' Free Improv: an open for all session –
The Gathering is the UK’s longest running regular free improvisation music session and provides a meeting ground for improvising artists of all ages, levels of experience and walks of life to journey together into this unique musical world. The Gathering at the festival will offer everyone an opportunity to join in the fun. Bring your own instruments if you can, as only a limited number will be available on the day.
Sunday May 12th @ 1pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
Your Ninja Way into AV Production Workshop/Showcase –
Matt Black, pioneering music producer, artist, DJ and founder of Ninja Tune will talk about audiovisual jamming and music production in this workshop showcasing the new Ninja Jamm iphone app. The session is open to experienced as well as aspiring musicians and producers. Participants collaborate to create a new tune, contribute still images and video clips to mix in on Matt's new HD VJ setup and work towards building an AV jam which will be recorded.
Sunday May 11th @ 2.30pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hours
OPENLAB at Art of the Moment –
OPENLAB is an ongoing research group run by dance artist Antonio de la Fe. The lab's frame revolves around the basic question: 'what does it take to perform?' and explores different aspects of that question. Antonio will lead a workshop aimed at all movers/dancers/physical performers and musicians/sound artists interested in or working within the field of improvisation. The workshop will progress from OPENLAB's initial explorations in presence through perception training to then create an environment that invites all performers to cross over from their disciplines and experience what they already possess from that 'other side'. OPENLAB is a two-way experience: participants can expect to influence explorations as much as be led through them.
Sunday May 12th @ 3.15pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hours
Phil Minton and The Feral Choir –
Encouraging playful experiment, vocal leaps and much enjoyment of the voice through a series exercises and improvisations, Phil Minton's Feral Choir voice improvisation workshop is for professional and amateur alike and will lead up to performances later on the same night.
Sunday May 12th @ 5pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hours
Feral Choir Performance - Sun. May 12th @ 7pm
The Feral Choir opens the second evening of improvised performances beginning at 7pm and continuing through to 10pm
**Advanced booking for all workshops and masterclasses is essential. Please contact us **
Book Your Event Tickets Here
List of participating Improv Musicians:
Maggie Nicols - Voice
Blanca Regina - Voice / Objects
Veryan Weston - Piano
Oren Marshall - Tuba
Phil Minton - Voice
Sylvia Hallett - Violin
Colin Webster - Sax
Georgina Brett - Voice / Electronics
Alan Wilkinson - Sax
Alison Blunt - Violin
Iris Ederer - Voice
Guy Harries - Flute / Electronics
Thomas Michael Kumlehn - Flute
Graham Dunning - Found Tapes / Electronics
Steve Moyes - Electric Cello / Guitar
Sharon Gal - Voice
Moshi Honen - Guitar
Dave O'Connor - Sax
Anton Mobin - Objects / Electronics
Howard Lane - Percussion
Grahame Painting - Guitar
Illi Adato - Percussion / Electronics
Matthew Randle - Flute / Voice
Nadav Masel - Double Bass
Benedict Taylor - Viola
Kevin Poulton - Electronics
Stu (Genghis Attenburgh) - Electronics
Steve Beresford - Electronics and Objects
Terry Day - Flutes and Objects
Matthias Kispert - Electronics
Ricardo Tejero - Sax
Sue Ferrar - Violin
Dave Tucker - Electric Guitar
Craig Cigar Tamlin - Drums / Percussion
Noel Taylor - Clarinet
Cat Hope - Flute
John Coxon - Electric Guitar
Portia Winters - Voice
Kay Grant - Voice
Girao Imaizumi - Voice, Mojo Bow and Electronics
Michael Shepherd - Conjurer of Light and Sound in a tent in the garden
Agnes Hay - Vocals
And shhh... don't tell anyone but The Irrepressibles will play two sets over the weekend, the first at 5.30pm on Saturday and the second at 3.30pm on Sunday.
Participating Improv Dancers:
Lavinia Cascone
Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot
Antonio De La Fe
Petra Soor
Jan Lee
Flora Wellesley-Wesley
Thelma Sharma
Robert Vesty
Melody Shantala Sacco
Shakti Zapata Gomez
Sarah Kent
Sophie Arstall
Marta Carmona
Jiska Morgenthal
Mafe Toledo
Danai Pappa
Rossella Fiumi
Joane Auber Warren
Yasmin Rotkopf
Daniel Weaver
Participating Visual, Sound, Audio-Visual and OptiSonic Artists:
AboutFace
Alpha Beat Omega
Alphabets Heaven
Aneek Thapar
Artichoky
Matt Black
Carnivore
Chromatouch
Daksyba
Diarmo & L'Aubaine
ElasticEye + MoreBuck$
Evil Zed
Fabrizio D'Amico
Hackspace VJs
Jon Clemens
Kinect Puppet
London VJ Group
Machine Woman
Matt J Sharp
Mr Faff
Mixmaster Morris
Blanca Regina
Rival Consoles
Seb Marx Gush Records
Miki Shaw
Warstware
Ryan West
OptiSonic after party ticket £8
Book Your Tickets Here
“Art is mostly experienced as the aftermath of the creative process. It may be composed, rehearsed, performed or recorded and as such it is but a reflection of that process. Improvisation, as a premise, invites the artist and spectator to share a moment and witness art as a unique event as it emerges, truly in the here and now” - Illi Adato, Artistic Director, Art of the Moment.
1-5 Albert Road, NW6 5DT London, United Kingdom
Book Your Event Tickets Here
Art of The Moment is a 2 day event integrating music, dance and visual arts in fresh new ways and re-examining the relationship between the different medium. It is a celebration of art created in the glorious uncertainty of the here and now, deep in the heart of spontaneous composition.
The festival will feature contributions from the likes of the amazing Oren Marshall (collaborations include Radiohead and Charlie Haden), Maggie Nicols, Anton Mobin, Phil Minton, The Irrepressibles, Matt Black (Ninja Tune, Coldcut), h2dance, Mixmaster Morris and many other leading artists in the field.
It takes place in one of London's most fascinating art hubs, The Albert in Queen’s Park, and is open to everyone to come and enjoy, explore, experience and get involved.
Ever wanted to hear a dance piece, paint with music, learn about live cinema or become a dancing tape-loop troubadour?
The festival features discussion groups, interactive installations, performances, the official launch of The Ov London Free Improv & Experimental Music Show on K2K Radio - listen here - as well as many other surprises.
In true improv spirit, the evening performances will feature duets, trios, quartets and larger ensembles, spontaneously formed by the artists in residence (see list below) as their names are drawn out of a hat.
And on Saturday night, we're going to have an after party
featuring special guest DJs from Ninja Tune and beyond and spectacular digital, light, sound and visual artists.
Daytime festival tickets are £7. Evening performance tickets are £8.
Combined day and evening pass £13.
Daytime tickets allow you entry into any event, although workshops and masterclasses must be booked in advance.
OptiSonic after party ticket £8.
Book Your Tickets Here
**Advanced booking for all workshops and masterclasses is essential. Please contact us **
The workshop programme is as follows:
Saturday 11th
Community-Dance Free-Improvisation Class –
This is a dance improvisation workshop designed and facilitated by community dance artist Lavinia Cascone. It is open to everyone to come and join in. There are no steps to learn, and no special aptitude for dance is necessary. The session is open to all ages and backgrounds, to people with and without disabilities.
Saturday May 11th @ 11am
Duration: 1.5 hours
Live Looping Master Class –
Georgina Brett is a performer, producer and a fantastic musician/sound artist. The skilful use of her own voice through delays and looping produces incredible live performances in festivals and concerts in the UK and overseas. In this master class she will be joined by free improv cello and guitar artist Steve Moyes. Together they will be teaching the basics of live looping and share their knowledge of the creative processes involved in making a performance. Not to be missed!
Saturday May 11th @ 2pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hours
Mayra - Making a Difference Through Art –
e-Gaia is a community of artists who believe that art has a powerful part to play in bringing about positive change to our world. Mayra will use this hour to present a short audiovisual project about climate change, to spread the word about the project and to engage other artists in discussing the part that the arts can play to bring awareness and action to the world around us.
Saturday May 11th @ 3.30pm
Duration: approx 1 hour
h2dance - Improv / Open Studio Session –
h2dance produce multi award-winning provocative performance work that addresses political issues with humour and emotion. This open studio session offers a window on the creative processes of artistic director Heidi Rustgaard as she improvises with violinist Sylvia Hallett to generate ideas for new material.
Saturday May 11th @ 4pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
‘A Living Score’ Workshop – Ov London’s special 1st Anniversary Workshop & Performance –
An improvisatory workshop, A Living Score is a seedbed of possibilities for a spontaneous living art using a tight interdependent relationship between movement & sound as its basis. It is run by Ov’s driving forces Illi Adato and Lavinia Cascone, is open to dancers and musicians practiced in improvising and will lead to a performance on the same evening.
Saturday May 11th @ 5pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
Living Score Performance - Sat. May 11th @ 7pm
Our menu of spontaneous live performances starts on Saturday evening at 7pm with A Living Score, and continues on until 11pm
**Advanced booking for all workshops and masterclasses is essential. Please contact us **
Sunday 12th
Creative Play with Maggie Nicols -
Anything can happen when we open to The Muse and let ourselves be inspired.
Improvisation is a natural part of our everyday lives, something we are not always aware of, because of the straitjackets which we find ourselves in. When we focus creatively and trust the muse, magic and liberation can be experienced. The workshop will start with warm ups that bring about the relaxed awareness which awakens the imagination and invites the muse to play with us. From there we will explore a variety of strong, simple structures that encourage freedom of expression. The aim is to build a creative vocabulary that can be expressed spontaneously,in any form that feels safe and inspiring; vocally, instrumentally, through movement, theatre ,painting, dialogue etc
Everyone is creative. It is a birthright. In our different rhythms together we are all magnificent.
All welcome.
Sunday May 12th @ 11am
Duration: 2 hours
Introduction to Madmapper and Resolume Arena -
Projection mapping is a fast growing medium. MadMapper is a simple and easy tool for video-mapping projections and LED mapping. Resolume Arena is a live digital motion graphics programme. Matt Sharp will lead a workshop to get you started with these tools. Participants will need to bring their own macs. Software (with expiry date) will be supplied at the session.
Sunday May 12th @ 1pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hrs
Lavinia Cascone's Body Choir –
Lavinia says "The Movement Choir will feature a group of performers, with or without experience, who will respond to a conductor using their whole bodies as well as their voices. The conductor will freely choose his or her cues for conducting spontaneously, following the inspiration of the moment. The cues are not pre-arranged. The only rule for the conductors is to use the body, not the voice. The voice will come from the choir only. Everybody can have a go at conducting the choir. The choir responds as a unique organism, as in the original tradition of Greek Choir, naturally attuning its response to the cues. This workshop is open to everybody, so come and check it out!"
Sunday May 12th @ 1pm
Duration: approx 1 hour
'The Gathering' Free Improv: an open for all session –
The Gathering is the UK’s longest running regular free improvisation music session and provides a meeting ground for improvising artists of all ages, levels of experience and walks of life to journey together into this unique musical world. The Gathering at the festival will offer everyone an opportunity to join in the fun. Bring your own instruments if you can, as only a limited number will be available on the day.
Sunday May 12th @ 1pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
Your Ninja Way into AV Production Workshop/Showcase –
Matt Black, pioneering music producer, artist, DJ and founder of Ninja Tune will talk about audiovisual jamming and music production in this workshop showcasing the new Ninja Jamm iphone app. The session is open to experienced as well as aspiring musicians and producers. Participants collaborate to create a new tune, contribute still images and video clips to mix in on Matt's new HD VJ setup and work towards building an AV jam which will be recorded.
Sunday May 11th @ 2.30pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hours
OPENLAB at Art of the Moment –
OPENLAB is an ongoing research group run by dance artist Antonio de la Fe. The lab's frame revolves around the basic question: 'what does it take to perform?' and explores different aspects of that question. Antonio will lead a workshop aimed at all movers/dancers/physical performers and musicians/sound artists interested in or working within the field of improvisation. The workshop will progress from OPENLAB's initial explorations in presence through perception training to then create an environment that invites all performers to cross over from their disciplines and experience what they already possess from that 'other side'. OPENLAB is a two-way experience: participants can expect to influence explorations as much as be led through them.
Sunday May 12th @ 3.15pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hours
Phil Minton and The Feral Choir –
Encouraging playful experiment, vocal leaps and much enjoyment of the voice through a series exercises and improvisations, Phil Minton's Feral Choir voice improvisation workshop is for professional and amateur alike and will lead up to performances later on the same night.
Sunday May 12th @ 5pm
Duration: approx 1.5 hours
Feral Choir Performance - Sun. May 12th @ 7pm
The Feral Choir opens the second evening of improvised performances beginning at 7pm and continuing through to 10pm
**Advanced booking for all workshops and masterclasses is essential. Please contact us **
Book Your Event Tickets Here
List of participating Improv Musicians:
Maggie Nicols - Voice
Blanca Regina - Voice / Objects
Veryan Weston - Piano
Oren Marshall - Tuba
Phil Minton - Voice
Sylvia Hallett - Violin
Colin Webster - Sax
Georgina Brett - Voice / Electronics
Alan Wilkinson - Sax
Alison Blunt - Violin
Iris Ederer - Voice
Guy Harries - Flute / Electronics
Thomas Michael Kumlehn - Flute
Graham Dunning - Found Tapes / Electronics
Steve Moyes - Electric Cello / Guitar
Sharon Gal - Voice
Moshi Honen - Guitar
Dave O'Connor - Sax
Anton Mobin - Objects / Electronics
Howard Lane - Percussion
Grahame Painting - Guitar
Illi Adato - Percussion / Electronics
Matthew Randle - Flute / Voice
Nadav Masel - Double Bass
Benedict Taylor - Viola
Kevin Poulton - Electronics
Stu (Genghis Attenburgh) - Electronics
Steve Beresford - Electronics and Objects
Terry Day - Flutes and Objects
Matthias Kispert - Electronics
Ricardo Tejero - Sax
Sue Ferrar - Violin
Dave Tucker - Electric Guitar
Craig Cigar Tamlin - Drums / Percussion
Noel Taylor - Clarinet
Cat Hope - Flute
John Coxon - Electric Guitar
Portia Winters - Voice
Kay Grant - Voice
Girao Imaizumi - Voice, Mojo Bow and Electronics
Michael Shepherd - Conjurer of Light and Sound in a tent in the garden
Agnes Hay - Vocals
And shhh... don't tell anyone but The Irrepressibles will play two sets over the weekend, the first at 5.30pm on Saturday and the second at 3.30pm on Sunday.
Participating Improv Dancers:
Lavinia Cascone
Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot
Antonio De La Fe
Petra Soor
Jan Lee
Flora Wellesley-Wesley
Thelma Sharma
Robert Vesty
Melody Shantala Sacco
Shakti Zapata Gomez
Sarah Kent
Sophie Arstall
Marta Carmona
Jiska Morgenthal
Mafe Toledo
Danai Pappa
Rossella Fiumi
Joane Auber Warren
Yasmin Rotkopf
Daniel Weaver
Participating Visual, Sound, Audio-Visual and OptiSonic Artists:
AboutFace
Alpha Beat Omega
Alphabets Heaven
Aneek Thapar
Artichoky
Matt Black
Carnivore
Chromatouch
Daksyba
Diarmo & L'Aubaine
ElasticEye + MoreBuck$
Evil Zed
Fabrizio D'Amico
Hackspace VJs
Jon Clemens
Kinect Puppet
London VJ Group
Machine Woman
Matt J Sharp
Mr Faff
Mixmaster Morris
Blanca Regina
Rival Consoles
Seb Marx Gush Records
Miki Shaw
Warstware
Ryan West
OptiSonic after party ticket £8
Book Your Tickets Here
“Art is mostly experienced as the aftermath of the creative process. It may be composed, rehearsed, performed or recorded and as such it is but a reflection of that process. Improvisation, as a premise, invites the artist and spectator to share a moment and witness art as a unique event as it emerges, truly in the here and now” - Illi Adato, Artistic Director, Art of the Moment.
