Network Exchange Commission: Stewart Baxter x Creators and Explorers of Sound in Hull

The fifth Network Exchange event to announce has been put together by Hull based artist Stewart Baxter via his new record label platform DØTE. The event is a space to encourage people interested in experimental sound and music to network, learn, and take part in workshops as well as an open music session on minimal sound performance. It is open to artists and also people who have no previous music experience, allowing space to empower those who may be underrepresented in this field.

Sound Space for Creators and Explorers of Sound in Hull will be held on Saturday 1st March at the Pier Street Pop-Up space off Humber Street in Hull between 12-7pm. Entry is free but it is encouraged to sign up to secure a place.

12:00-2:00 – Sound Sauna

An informal gathering and networking opportunity to meet others, share experiences and ideas, and immerse yourself in landscapes of tape loops and drones. Presented by DØTE archives

2:00-4:00 – Through Boundaries

The act of listening in explorative music / sound with Jez riley French & Pheobe riley Law. Taking apart borders placed around creativity is empowering and vital. During this performative conversation we’ll talk about how the (corrected) histories of sound culture opened up space, duration, gesture and expression, including through the use of text and image based scores. We’ll make use of instruments, objects and actions, building a collective sounded-space. You are welcome to bring small objects or yourself as a sounding elements.

4:30-7:00 – Open Session

A collective soundspace and invitation to take part in a performative conversation inspired by Mieko Shiomi’s ‘Boundary Music’ (1963)

‘Make the faintest possible sound to a boundary condition whether the sound is given birth to as a sound or not. At the performance, instruments, human bodies, electronic apparatus or anything else may be used.’

It is the listening that matters.