CODA 2022

Time

Event

Location

All day

monday

monday is a film that weaves music and dance together to tell a story about work. composition and concept: Camille De Beus director: Alexander Kaniewski dance: Tanna Chamberlain camera operator: Dan White editor: Ivy Jlassi

Lower Foyer

All day

Motion sound and video in Pure Data

You are in a room of Pure Data. You are monitored by Pure Data. Your movement and light data are analyzed by Pure Data. Pure Data responds with sound. Move! And switch on your flashlight in your mobile phone, feed more data to Pure Data. We are in the world with just Pure Data.

Workshop 2

10.30-11.30am

Shipwreck Wanderers

Shipwreck Wanderers is a new piece by Peter Bell for Modular Synth, Electric Guitar and Voices. Be prepared for folk melodies, drones and algorithmically generated (non) music. Will be preceded by ambient duo OPEN UNION (Patrick Ellis + Peter Bell) playing collaborative works by composers Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono and May Wong.

Eastside Jazz Club

12-1pm

S L U G C A T

What's missing from your life? Are you feeling the void? Bored at WORK? We have just the thing for you! An experience like no other, who even is Van Gogh anyway?? Taking place at none other than The Lab, join Slugcat Corp. for a three-day special event showing the history, insight and work from the ever elusive yet very famous company! You will learn the Real Truth. Come on in! The coffee's still hot. Believe in the SLove.

The Lab

1.30-2.30pm

New Airs for Woodwind

New Airs for Woodwind is an exciting collaboration between the Composition and Woodwind departments of RBC. Composers were matched with chamber groups and soloists and have produced nine completely new pieces for this. From electronics to Tibetan singing bowls to the use of spoken word, woodwind players and their friends will be heard in a range of dazzling new contexts in this event. We hope that you can join us for the ride.

Eastside Jazz Club

3.30-4pm

the title is not important but the music is

I’m going to play my 30-minute vibraphone piece named the title is not important but the music is. I’ve tried to explore how long I can use small fragments of ideas without threatening the engagement of the listener. I also use the speed of the vibraphone motor as a focal point for the piece. It’s not too full on so you might like it.

The Lab

4.30-5.30pm

Kinna (the band) + i one to (singer-songwriter series)

This concert will feature Kinna and the band, supported by ‘i one to’ - performing live in the Eastside Jazz Club. Kinna will perform a set of original songs, alongside films made for each piece. The band includes Tom Philips on drums and Adam Roberts on bass. As well as the acoustic sounds of Kinna’s work, the gig will also include synths and experimental music from i one to - featuring James McIlwrath, Camille De Beus and Victoria Benito. Come along for a thoughtful and entertaining afternoon :)

Eastside Jazz Club

5.45-5.51pm

SKIN

SKIN is a multimedia piece for violin, spoken word with tape accompaniment, and video. The message of this piece is about being comfortable in your own skin and appreciating everybody's differences and uniqueness. The concept for this piece was created when I felt uncomfortable with my appearance, and through the process of producing the video element, I have learnt to accept that my body is wonderful and allows me to live the life I want. I am hoping this piece helps to empower others who may feel uncomfortable in thier own skin; helping them realise their appearance is what makes them unique and special.

The Lab

7-7.40pm

Working Classical Music

'Working-classness' can be described as the ways of being in the world because of your precarity. Classical Music can be described as a music genre struggling with the history of expression through ambiguous sound. Working-Classical Music is a recital to form the meeting place between working-classness and classical music, to find a form for an identity to exist within a culture that has ignored it.

Eastside Jazz Club

8-9pm

Why hate love?

An event about LGBTQ+ sex workers. The aim of the project is to allow sex workers from the LGBTQ+ community to speak freely and encourage the audience think about what they can do to change society’s negative perspective towards them.

Content Warning: Mention of rape, abuse, homophobia, racism, sex working, strong language.

The Lab

9.15-10.15pm

Music from the Garden with Peter and Luke

Peter and Luke both like synthesisers, recording crunchy and delicious sounds, and gardening. One day, they decided to get their synthesisers and microphones and go on an adventure to a horticulture and conservation project that Luke had found, to record the sounds of the activities and wildlife of the environment all around them. Join them on a journey through the garden, where some unexpected things might happen along the way. Music from the garden with Peter and Luke combines a mixture of concrète sounds, processed concrète sounds and trippy synthesis. (approx. time of performance c. 30 minutes)

The Lab

Time

Performance

Location

All day

a collection (exhibition)

Foyer

10.30-11.30am

Script Sirens Presents Spectrum

Spectrum is an anthology of eight short, animated films produced by writing collective Script Sirens. Each film was made by teaming up a writer with an animator and a composer. The result is a collection of short films which covers a wide range of themes, stories, animation styles and compositional approaches. Come along to see some of the films and hear from the composers about their experiences of working on the project.

Workshop room

12-1pm

S L U G C A T

What's missing from your life?

Are you feeling the void? Bored at WORK?

We have just the thing for you! An experience like no other, who even is Van Gogh anyway??

Taking place at none other than The Lab, join Slugcat Corp. for a three-day special event showing the history, insight and work from the ever elusive yet very famous company!

You will learn the Real Truth. Come on in! The coffee's still hot. Believe in the SLove.

The Lab

1.30-2pm

Experf does not do the house on the hill

Five students went to the beachside hills of Fairbourne, Wales. They brought melodicas, a kite, a pack of cards and an Irish bouzouki (amongst other things). They found things too, like sand dunes, steam trains, huge piles of slate and tiny fish. When they encountered things they liked they sometimes simply smiled and moved on. Other times they made art.

Foyer

3.30-4.30pm

Synthesised Material

Synthesised Material is a collaboration between Artist/Composer Catherine Mole and Composer/Performer Phillip Matty.

Catherine Mole is an experienced artist live painting to acoustic phenomenon. She has performed as a solo painter in her piece Radio Translations and was invited to perform as part of Gina McDonald's Gender; houses and homes. Phillip Matty spent much of the 2020 lockdown experimenting with analogue synthesis. Releasing an album of reimagining some of the works of JS Bach and Telemann.

The performance of Synthesised Material will create a synthesis between live improvised electronics and the creation of a new piece of visual art.

The Lab

5-5.30pm

Bass guitar songs (singer-songwriter series)

The Fargion's new piece, Bass Guitar Songs, is a drawn-out farewell performed by two non-bass guitarists. It is a playful and carefully structured musical world that revels in a sense of lacking, emptiness and limitation. The reductive lyrics, and simple bass riffs attempt to provide more than they are able to, while the music becomes more and more stretched out and desperate in its insistent repetition.

Eastside Jazz Club

7-8pm

Men, Mum and me: a collection (performance)

a collection of songs on subjects that frequently seem to cause issue for the modern woman; men, mums and the self. told through the medium of song, the show explores themes of vulnerability and how this can be shared with an audience.

gina is joined in her makeshift living room by her all-female ensemble of piano, harp, strings, woodwind, with special guest Peter Bell.

Content warnings: suggested SA and themes of abuse

Eastside Jazz Club

9-10pm

Wednesday Club: In concert

Wednesday Club is an energetic mix of experimental performers and composers from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Masters course, combining their skills to perform engaging work that ranges from musical chairs to neon-lit, dance-filled folk music.

The Lab

Time

Performance

Location

All day

Symphony in 4 movements for 2 hoppers and 2 humans

Two students wanted to go on some long journeys on some space hoppers to test their stamina, not just in fitness but also in conversation. They realised they needed someone to record this conversation, so they hired someone in a hi-vis with a fluffy microphone. The hoppers sounded quite interesting on different surfaces, so they made a symphony in four parts. The first three parts can be heard on headphones in the foyer throughout the festival. The fourth closes the festival (a live dance for two hoppers and two humans). The space hoppers are orange.

Upper Foyer

12-1pm

S L U G C A T

What's missing from your life? Are you feeling the void? Bored at WORK

We have just the thing for you! An experience like no other, who even is Van Gogh anyway??

Taking place at none other than The Lab, join Slugcat Corp. for a three-day special event showing the history, insight and work from the ever elusive yet very famous company!

You will learn the Real Truth.

Come on in! The coffee's still hot.

Believe in the SLove.

The Lab

1.30-2.30pm

Series and Repetition

The emphasis on repetition found in certain minimalist and post-minimalist works of art spurred on Adeline’s continued exploration and her application of the use of simple, limited materials in her own compositions. In this project, Adeline talks about her approach in Herringbone for piano solo where she uses as little material as possible, exploring them from every possible perspective.

Herringbone will be performed by Chen Jiayi, a 4th year piano major at the Conservatoire.

Recital Hall

5-6pm

Singer Songwriter (singer-songwriter series)

Come and see some of RBC’s singer songwriters in a new show. Starring James Mcilwrath, Aurora Rays, Zoe Mattelaer and Matthew Phillips, this varied array of new music showcases some of Birmingham’s upcoming songwriters. Hosted by Gina McDonald.

Eastside Jazz Club

6.30-7.30pm

Wrenne and Tanna at the Planetarium

Eliza Planets is where you will witness the story of the soul chase, told by Wrenne, Tanna Chamberlain, and Colin Hutcheson through immersive music and film and stunts. Only a few minor injuries were incurred during the creation of this piece. Not to be missed. Tickets must be purchased in advance following this link: BCU Students can take advantage of the concession ticket price of £2.50.

Planetarium, Think Tank

8.30-9.20pm

Wow! Look! Nothing!

Wow! Look! Nothing! is the newest band led by composer/bassist Si Paton. Having earned his stripes performing improvised music across the country where he developed an idiosyncratic and personalised language on the electric bass, he proceeded to mark his presence on the creative music community by leading the jazz-rock sextet Selectric, composing for ensembles such as Decibel, and as an accomplished researcher within improvisation and creative music.

Tasteful playing has been well and truly thrown out the window in favour of exploring the sonic euphoria that the likes of Swans, God, John Coltrane, Peter Brotzmann, Nate Wooley and Iannis Xenakis have been searching for. It’s something raw, earnest, and visceral (and occasionally discombobulated). But one thing it will not be is boring.

The Lab

10-10.15pm

Symphony in 4 movements for 2 hoppers and

2 humans

TBC