Aura Satz: AUTOMAMUSIC
A short extract of 'Automamusic' the film is now available online at The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music, to coincide with the cross-platform interview in the September 2010 issue.
Automamusic exhibitions:
Aura Satz: AUTOMAMUSIC
Artprojx Space
8 July - 16 August 2008, Preview 9th July 6-9pm
Open Monday-Saturday 11-6 or by appointment
Aura Satz’s 'Automamusic' project has at its core a film about mechanical music. Intricate views of self-playing violins, accordions, drums, pianolas, and orchestrions are offset by scenes in which floating musical instruments are played by invisible hands. The film highlights the similarities between the beginnings of musical reproduction in the 19th century and spiritualist invocations of the dead through sound. ‘Automamusic' breathes the ghost back into the machine, inhabiting the figurative space between sound and source, when music had not yet become abstracted into the grooves of the gramophone record. In addition to the series of hand-printed cibachrome photographs which recall spiritualist photography, the exhibition includes drawings inspired by early patents for mechanical or hybrid musical instruments.
The film 'Automamusic' was developed with support from Film and Video Umbrella, funded by Arts Council England and Artsadmin, with kind assistance from Film London Artist’s Moving Image Network and a special thanks to the Museum of Music Automatons, Seewen, Switzerland.
Weds 16 July 6.30-8.30pm
Andrew Renton (art critic/curator and Director of the Curatorial Programme, Goldsmiths University) in conversation with Aura Satz on the withdrawal of authorship in relation to sound, sound technology and sound art, with live mechanical music performance by Aura Satz.
RSVP required to info@artprojxspace.com
Artprojx Space
53 Beauchamp Place
London SW3 1NY
Tel: 020 7584 0717 or info@artprojxspace.com
AUTOMAMUSIC photographs are included in the group exhibition
IN SEARCH OF ALCHEMIC TIMES
5 August – 3 September 2011
Artists: Aura Satz, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Jennifer Walshe, Liliane Lijn, Nathan Witt, Peter Lewis and Makiko Nagaya, Rowena Harris, Steven Ounanian, Tom Badley, Unrealised Projects.
Curated by Cecilia Wee.
Thursday – Saturday 12-6pm
Wednesdays by appointment
235 Brompton Road
London SW3 2EP
email: cecilia@ceciliawee.com
email: info@insearchofalchemictimes.com
tel: 07527 640 419
http://insearchofalchemictimes.com/
Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008
Automamusic screenings:
Automamusic screened with Q&A session as part of
Transmediale 2012, In/Compatible video programme,
curated by Marcel Schwierin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
31 Jan - 5 Feb 2012
http://www.transmediale.de/content/programme-preview
Automamusic was screened as part of Mikhail Karikis' Love Songs for Broken Machines
Friday 22 October 2010 8pm
Venue: Hall One, Kings Place, London
Price: £21.50 £17.50 £14.50 £12.50 Saver Seats £9.50 Premium Seats £26.50
This event is a spectacle of music and video bringing together the hitch and glitch of failed technologies with the humour and romance of love songs. Contemporary vocal trio juice present the English premiere of specially commissioned songs by leading composers and pop artists including Gavin Bryars, Micachu, Dai Fujikura, Phillip Neil Martin, Anna Meredith, Damien Harron, E.laine, Roxanna Panufnik, Errollyn Wallen and Jim Moray.
They are joined by Ensemble Scratch the Surface who feature, amongst others, an audiovisual performance for modified piano by pinaist extrodinaire Leon Michener, a (re)construction of hybrid pianos by 'better known as' aka Lemon Drizzle the alter egos of composer Claudia Moliter and pianist Sarah Nicolls and films by visual artist Aura Satz and collective Flat-e.
This event is curated by Mikhail Karikis with Conall Gleeson and juice. Love Songs is a new commission funded by Arts Council England.
Kings Place
90 York Way
London N1 9AG
Tel: 020 7520 1490
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes/love-songs-for-broken-machines
Artprojx presents OPERA & STILL-FILM
LOOP festival, Barcelona, Spain
22 - 31 May 2009, 17.00-19.30pm
OPERA is a selection of films by contemporary artists who have utilised, investigated and celebrated opera and contemporary classical music. Including films by Alice Anderson, Martha Colburn, Haris Epaminonda, Karen Knorr, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Tania Mouraud, Michelle Naismith, Mariele Neudecker, Jayne Parker, Sophy Rickett, Susanne Winterling.
STILL FILM is a selection of artist’s films with a sculptural sensibility. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Louise Camrass, Andrew Cross, Ryan Gander, William Hunt, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilations selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.
Espai Liceu
Rambla, 51-59
Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +93 485 9900
www.liceubarcelona.com
www.loop-barcelona.com
SonicRecycler5
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
Saturday 9th May 2009 16.00-23.00pm
A unique evening of provocative, entertaining and experimental music, presented by Sprawl, Brentford Recycling Action Group and Watermans. SonicRecycler5, the fifth in an annual series, is an event showcasing the many different strands of eclectic ideas in music, and promoting recycling concepts. With performers, DJ's, films, stalls and interactive presentations, it's a packed evening of radical sounds in a lovely Thameside venue, overlooking Kew Gardens - Think: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle.
Films by Aleks Kolkowski & Aura Satz will be shown from 3pm to 4pm at the Musical Museum
Watermans Artcentre
40 High Street, Brentford
London, TW8 0DS
Box Office 020 8232 1010 or online www.wegottickets.com
www.sprawl.org.uk/SonicRecyclerFrame.htm
Artprojx Presents... STILL FILM
at Site Gallery, Sheffield
4 & 5 March 2009
A selection of artist’s films with a sculptural sensibility. The films share a fixed camera gaze, an inherent quality and lingering effect despite their simplicity. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Louise Camrass, Andrew Cross, Ryan Gander, William Hunt, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilation selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.
Site Gallery
1 Brown Street
Sheffield S1 2BS
Tel:+44 (0)114 281 2077
Fax:+44 (0)114 281 2078
Email: info@sitegallery.org
Museum for Music Automatons, Seewen, Switzerland, and Museum of Music, Basel
16-18 January 2009
Also as part of Museumsnacht the Automatic Ensemble will premiere at the
Church of St. Leonhard (Basel) and the Museum for Music Automatons (Seewen)
click AUTOMATIC ENSEMBLE for further info
Museum für Musikautomaten
Sammlung Dr.h c. H. Weiss-Stauffacher
Bollhübel 1
4206 Seewen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 915 98 80
Fax +41 61 915 98 90
E-Mail: musikautomaten@bak.admin.ch
http://www.landesmuseen.ch/d/seewen/index.php
http://www.museumsnacht.ch/de/programm/museen/index.php?id=85
Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008
Late at Tate Britain: Rehang
Artprojx Presents... STILL FILM
Friday 6 June 2008, 19.30
A selection of artist’s films with a sculptural sensibility. The films share a fixed camera gaze, an inherent quality and lingering effect despite their simplicity. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Ryan Gander, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilation selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.
Tate Britain Auditorium
Millbank
London (England) SW1P 4RG
tel +44 (0)20 7887 8000
fax +44 (0)20 7887 8008
Free, tickets available on the night, no bookings taken
www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/latetatebritain/14333.htm
A screening and talk by Aura Satz
Photographer's Gallery
Wednesday 23rd January 2008 7pm
The Photographer’s gallery
6-8 Newport Street
London WC2H 7HY
Free, booking recommended
Information Desk +44(0)20 7831 1772 ext 201
Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008
Aura’s article ‘Music of its own Accord’ will be published in Leonardo Music Journal, issue 20, December 2010, including images of ‘Automamusic’