C e l e b r a t e S p a c e
With
S p A c E ~ L i F e
@
Manchester Central Library
A Radar Works Production
In Partnership with Creative Tourist Manchester & Library Live
Radar Works plus Guests bring you SpAcE~LiFe & places Manchester at the centre of the Universe for one-night – ONLY – SpAcE~LiFe - an extra-terrestrial adventure of Music, Art, Performance.
Saturday 4th October 2014
Anniversary the Sputnik Flight
plus
European Space Agency World Space Week
RadarWorks move into Manchester’s most iconic building Central Library and uses the Reading Room as a launch pad to take you to the moon and back on board the 1968 Apollo 8 flight with Michael Mayhew's large-scale electro acoustic Mass - is interlaced with live Flute by Gavin Osborn.
For this performance RadarWorks are joined by vocalist Nina Whiteman.
Out in space we float and watch our world spinning in the vastness of space.
Radar Works hosts
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The Sun at Night - David Henckel
The Sun at Night is an immersive, audio-visual installation that allows audiences to experience a year in the life of our nearest star. Utilising High Definition images of the sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, one year’s worth of footage has been compressed into a 30 minute film which is accompanied by an appropriately deep and sinister soundtrack that compliments the solar activity and seeks to heighten the awareness of the audience lifting them out of their everyday experience.
Funded by Arts Council England, The Sun at Night (co-created by Dan Wilkinson) was originally shown in Preston’s Victorian covered market in November 2013 and was commissioned for the BBC’s Stargazing Live 2014 outside broadcast event at Royal Holloway University, London in January 2014.
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You will also hear a re-mix of the infamous ‘Golden Disks’, (Messages From Earth)
as placed on Voyagers 1 & 2 by Carl Sagan and now re-mixed by Portland USA Ben Fitzhugh aka DJ Entropy
In 1977 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 left Earth carrying golden gramophone records, intended to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth for any intelligent life form who may find them. DJ Entropy is going to mix the Golden Record for you, utilizing all of its sounds and images for the ultimate experience.
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Learn All You Can in SpAcE~LiFe Exchange:
Engage with space by meeting members of Manchester's oldest Astronomy Observatory Group Godlee who will take you through the patterns and structures of the universe.
Professor Donald Kurtz takes you on a quest of questions across the Universe, “Are we Alone?” “Are we the only living species in the Universe?” “Is there a music of the Spheres? Do stars sing? What do they sound like?”
Meet Professor Kurtz and travel with him alongside the Kepler Space Mission and enter a revolution of how we Perceive, Hear and Experience Space, Stars & Planets – from every angle!
Professor Kurtz is based at the University of Central Lancashire teaching Astrophysics. He spends much of his time researching the skies from locations all over the world.
Kurtz is an original star traveller; he will show you worlds that you never knew existed.
Meet Andy Newsam from the European Space Agency who are celebrating 50-years of Space inquiries.
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DIE HEXEN is the alter ego of performance artist, electronic musician and composer D Lucille Campbell. DIE HEXEN is a hypnotic audio-visual presentation that takes place under the commanding gravitational pull od the Moon, DIE HEXEN’s textured otherworldly, ethereal, bleak, electronic sound-scape will take you on a journey that transcends our time, focusing on the space between life and death, the moment between here and the unknown.
RadarWorks
are avant-garde flautist Gavin Osborn and Nominated British Composer of the Year Michael Mayhew who is cited as ‘one of the most original and searching artists currently working in the UK’ (John E McGrath, Director National Theatre of Wales.) Mayhew has been nominated and awarded on a National & International level as writer, choreographer, performer and composer, his work is cited as something that “changes lives”.
RadarWorks are exponents of the Hyper~Graphic Score, a notation system for composing Music Art Performance that ‘challenges complacency and hypocrisy' of compositional and notational languages.
Mayhew’s Epic Hyper~Graphic score is animated by Motion Graphic Artist Johny Byrne & projected onto the magnificent dome of the Reading Room by Video Mappers Matt Birchall & Tao Lashley - Burnley.
Mayhew’s electro-acoustic Mass for Mechanical Air fills the Reading Room with the mechanised sound score of an industrialised atmosphere, whilst Osborn infiltrates the electronic with the very essence of human existence the breath, by employing the flute as a hypodermic to inject life into the world.
SpAcE~LiFe is a unique moment in the history of our time to take a trip on ‘spaceship earth’ with some of Manchester's most original and considered composers, musicians & artists.
For this performance RadarWorks are joined by vocalist Nina Whiteman.
Out in space we float and watch our world spinning in the vastness of space.
Radar Works hosts
1
The Sun at Night - David Henckel
The Sun at Night is an immersive, audio-visual installation that allows audiences to experience a year in the life of our nearest star. Utilising High Definition images of the sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, one year’s worth of footage has been compressed into a 30 minute film which is accompanied by an appropriately deep and sinister soundtrack that compliments the solar activity and seeks to heighten the awareness of the audience lifting them out of their everyday experience.
Funded by Arts Council England, The Sun at Night (co-created by Dan Wilkinson) was originally shown in Preston’s Victorian covered market in November 2013 and was commissioned for the BBC’s Stargazing Live 2014 outside broadcast event at Royal Holloway University, London in January 2014.
2
You will also hear a re-mix of the infamous ‘Golden Disks’, (Messages From Earth)
as placed on Voyagers 1 & 2 by Carl Sagan and now re-mixed by Portland USA Ben Fitzhugh aka DJ Entropy
In 1977 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 left Earth carrying golden gramophone records, intended to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth for any intelligent life form who may find them. DJ Entropy is going to mix the Golden Record for you, utilizing all of its sounds and images for the ultimate experience.
3
Learn All You Can in SpAcE~LiFe Exchange:
Engage with space by meeting members of Manchester's oldest Astronomy Observatory Group Godlee who will take you through the patterns and structures of the universe.
Professor Donald Kurtz takes you on a quest of questions across the Universe, “Are we Alone?” “Are we the only living species in the Universe?” “Is there a music of the Spheres? Do stars sing? What do they sound like?”
Meet Professor Kurtz and travel with him alongside the Kepler Space Mission and enter a revolution of how we Perceive, Hear and Experience Space, Stars & Planets – from every angle!
Professor Kurtz is based at the University of Central Lancashire teaching Astrophysics. He spends much of his time researching the skies from locations all over the world.
Kurtz is an original star traveller; he will show you worlds that you never knew existed.
Meet Andy Newsam from the European Space Agency who are celebrating 50-years of Space inquiries.
4
DIE HEXEN is the alter ego of performance artist, electronic musician and composer D Lucille Campbell. DIE HEXEN is a hypnotic audio-visual presentation that takes place under the commanding gravitational pull od the Moon, DIE HEXEN’s textured otherworldly, ethereal, bleak, electronic sound-scape will take you on a journey that transcends our time, focusing on the space between life and death, the moment between here and the unknown.
RadarWorks
are avant-garde flautist Gavin Osborn and Nominated British Composer of the Year Michael Mayhew who is cited as ‘one of the most original and searching artists currently working in the UK’ (John E McGrath, Director National Theatre of Wales.) Mayhew has been nominated and awarded on a National & International level as writer, choreographer, performer and composer, his work is cited as something that “changes lives”.
RadarWorks are exponents of the Hyper~Graphic Score, a notation system for composing Music Art Performance that ‘challenges complacency and hypocrisy' of compositional and notational languages.
Mayhew’s Epic Hyper~Graphic score is animated by Motion Graphic Artist Johny Byrne & projected onto the magnificent dome of the Reading Room by Video Mappers Matt Birchall & Tao Lashley - Burnley.
Mayhew’s electro-acoustic Mass for Mechanical Air fills the Reading Room with the mechanised sound score of an industrialised atmosphere, whilst Osborn infiltrates the electronic with the very essence of human existence the breath, by employing the flute as a hypodermic to inject life into the world.
SpAcE~LiFe is a unique moment in the history of our time to take a trip on ‘spaceship earth’ with some of Manchester's most original and considered composers, musicians & artists.
Arrive and leave the planet experiencing AWE
with Radar Works @ SpAcE~LiFe
with Radar Works @ SpAcE~LiFe
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Key Words:
Music: Art: Performance: Visuals: Dance: Animation: PoP uP BaR: Life: Changing: Experience: Manchester: Central Library: Reading Room: SpAcE: LiFe: Search: Awe:
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