The latest Network Exchange commission is inspired by Sophie Cooper‘s trip to Rath’s Trombones in Huddersfield. During that visit, Sophie spotted a trombone so broken and bashed that it looked to be almost melting over the edge of a high shelf and it made her question – in a world where overconsumption is rife and common, is there a possibility to make instruments like this have one final blast at sounding again?
This event realises an extensive response to this musing, expanding it into a performance that uses a collection of brass instruments at the end of their career, along with donated and borrowed audio equipment, to create a bespoke sound system. The composition sounding through the system is written for a brass quintet made up of members of the Milnrow Brass Band and was composed using concepts of recycling and reuse. The piece itself uses principles from traditional brass band composition as a central point and the work evolves from there.
Furthering the concept, artists from Ebor’s community were asked to contribute their own responses, which will be presented as part of the event.
21st – 27th June
[opening: 21st June, 15:00-17:00]
17 Market Place
The Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre
Newgate
Rochdale
OL16 1BA
Sophie Cooper
Sophie is a sound artist based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Sophie produces project based works that are often positioned in community situated locations. She works across composition, sound design, spatialized sound, education and performance often using literature and site-specific narratives to inspire new pieces.
www.sophiecoopermusic.com
@sophiecooper_music
Stephen Cranston
Stephen is a visual artist located in Littleborough; a small town nestled in the Pennine Hills of North Manchester. With a background in drawing, painting, printmaking, and music, for the last twenty years he has specialised in hand cut paper collage, combining various subjects such as chaos, magic, semiotics, and impossible geometry.
www.stecranston.com
Angela Tait
Angela is a sculptor and ceramicist from the North of England. She is interested in the fundamental form of the vessel and the relationships between ceramics practice and the domestic. She holds a PhD in contemporary ceramics practice from the University of Sunderland. Angela is a lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Salford and works out of her own studio on the edge of the Pennine hills in Lancashire.
www.angelatait.co.uk
Ellie Waters
Ellie is a documentary photographer from Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Her practice is centred in storytelling for which she uses photography, audio, video, text and archival material to portray her topic. She often works on long-term projects, collaborating with community groups on themes of home, place and identity.
www.elliewaters.com
@_ellie_waters
