Calling Out Of Context
Calling Out Of Context is a new festival of experimental music and sound. For nine days our main gallery becomes a performance space; the upper gallery a working recording studio; and the theatre hosts gigs, workshops and discussions. The festival features more than 40 performers and groups, revealing the vitality and relevance of the sonic avant-garde with new work and performances from participants including Lucky Dragons, Rhys Chatham, Gravetemple, Aaron Dilloway, Alexander Tucker, Seb Rochford, Micachu, Kammer Klang, The Red Krayola, AGF and Mira Calix
The festival concludes with a weekend symposium dedicated to the British avant-garde musician and activist Cornelius Cardew . All of the participants in Calling Out Of Context push at the boundaries of sound, but importantly they also use it to inspire ideas and actions.
For more information download the Calling Out Of Context Guide (PDF, 1.5MB).
Media Partner:
The Wire magazine
Technical Partner:
Tickle Music Hire
Additional support from:
Red Bull Music Academy
The Japan Foundation
PRS Foundation for New Music
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Recording Studio
14 - 22 Nov 2009
Throughout Calling Out Of Context the ICA’s upper gallery operates as a fully equipped recording studio, with artists and musicians producing work which will be posted online as the season progresses.
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Teppich
14 November 2009
Teppich – the collaborative name of artist Ei Arakawa and composer Sergei Tcherepnin – present Sky, Horse & Death, an 8-channel soundwork and performance.
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Lucky Dragons
14 November 2009
Lucky Dragons mix electroacoustic ambient tones with simple folk instrumentation and psychedelic layering, and play amongst their audience rather than on a stage.
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Robin Watkins
14 November 2009
Watkins presents The Luminiferous Aether, a new soundwork created through a series of field recordings made in the Arctic Circle.
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Rhys Chatham
15 November 2009
Rhys Chatham performs his 1977 piece Guitar Trio, a highly influential work that combines the textural intricacies and repetitions of minimalism with the elemental energy of punk.
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Mark Fisher
15 November 2009
Mark Fisher (aka influential music blogger k-punk), considers the passivity of listening and discusses the possibilities for collective, intimate and fresh ways of hearing.
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Rhys Chatham and David Toop
15 November 2009
Composer Rhys Chatham in conversation with musician and author David Toop.
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Gravetemple / Aaron Dilloway / Chocolate Monk
16 November 2009
A night of experimental music from Gravetemple and Chocolate Monk.
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Steve Noble & Alex Ward/Seb Rochford & Pamelia Kurstin/9!
17 November 2009
9! Drummer Eddie Prévost, Seb Rochford and theremin player Pamelia Kurstin, and Steve Noble and Alex Ward all play tonight.
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Plus Minus Ensemble & Kammer Klang / James Beckett
18 November 2009
Experimental music group Plus Minus Ensemble joins forces with other musicians under the umbrella of Kämmer Klang.
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The Red Krayola / Rude Pravo / Petit Mal
19 November 2009
The Red Krayola perform Five American Portraits, a new album of songs made with Art & Language.
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Artists' Film Club: Lucile Desamory
19 November 2009
Lucile Desamory creates surreal, mystical vignettes reminiscent of early cinema.
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Mira Calix/AGF
20 November 2009
AGF and Mira Calix both work with the fluid states of production encouraged by new digital technologies.
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Ultra-red: The Cardew Object
21 - 22 Nov 2009
On both days of the Cornelius Cardew conference, artists and activists Ultra-red will be in the lower gallery with the School of Echoes.
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Play for Today: Cornelius Cardew Conference
21 - 22 Nov 2009
This two-day symposium, involving participants from the worlds of art and music, focuses on the legacy of the British composer and activist Cornelius Cardew.
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Jan St Werner and Stefan Streich
22 November 2009
As a culmination of A Series of Actions, Jan St Werner and Stefan Streich direct the performance of two individual works.
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Jan St Werner: A Series of Actions
22 November 2009
Jan St Werner, one half of German electronic duo Mouse on Mars, creates a new composition for the ICA that uses the structure and daily sounds of the building.