limina: audio-visual installation and lecture at Athens
Slingshot, Georgia, U.S.A.(March, 2013)
limina will be exhibited during the Slingshot
Festival in Athens, GA. There will a lecture on limina
during the festival at the University of Georgia.
limina: audio-visual installation at TROVE Gallery,
Birmingham, UK(October, 2012)
limina will be exhibited at TROVE Gallery as part of
the Virtual
Futures Salon, a series of unique underground events
exploring the convergence of technology, art, science and
philosophy.
limina: audio-visual installation at the Supersonic
Festival, Birmingham(October, 2012)
Responsive and self-reflexive: limina creates dynamic
sonic and visual forms from cellular agents. Fluctuations of
sound and movement within the space prompt limina's
sounds and visuals to flutter in response, as the threshold
between sparse cellularity and dense emergence is repeatedly
crossed. limina is built with the open-source
software Processing and Pure Data and released under a Creative
Commons license. All project files can be accessed for free at GitHub.
limina will be installed at Birmingham School of Art,
Margaret Street, and exhibited as part of the Supersonic
Festival (19th - 21st October, 2012) hosted by Capsule.
Catacumbas(September, 2012)
Sound-work to accompany Hugo Dalton's Light Drawings
exhibition as part of London Design Festival. Dalton's work is
being exhibited at Andipa
Gallery, London from 14th - 23rd September, 2012.
Mother Nature B.D.S.M.: a collaboration between Hugo
Dalton, Christine Sundt and J.R. Dooley at Bermondsey Project
Space, London(26th January - 19th February, 2012)
Visual
artist Hugo Dalton contends that Mother Nature is a
Dominatrix, not a benevolent figure, through an exhibition
of sculptural installations and wall drawings based on
cave-paintings at Lascaux. Dalton's site-specific drawings
at Crisis's Bermondsey Project Space will use imagery
associated with Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism to
evoke humankind's ancient, complex and increasingly
fetishised relationship with Mother Nature – source of
shelter, sustenance, pleasure and pain. The accompanying
sound-work explores these themes, providing an aural
backdrop to the exhibition and dance choreographed by
Christine Sundt.
Jonathan
Harvey: Madonna of Winter and Spring
The Barbican, London
27th - 29th January, 2012
As part of the Barbican's Total Immersion festival, Jonathan
Harvey's Madonna of Winter and Spring will be performed by
the BBC Symphony Orchestra with the live electronics
provided Integra Lab (Jamie Bullock and James Dooley).
Included in the live electronics is a Yamaha DX1 emulator
developed by the Integra Project. Part of the Integra
Project's research outcomes include migrating works created
with obsolete technologies to sustainable platforms.
Première of The physical impossibility of love in
the mind of the pleasure seeker
27th September - 1st October, 2011
Hannah Davey premières this performance installation during
Integra Festival 2011, Copenhagen. The work uses five poems by
Edward Lucie-Smith. The poems explore lust, eroticism and the
pursuit of facile, ephemeral pleasures. The performance is an
exploration of how these experiences become memories, colour
life and leave an aura of fragmentary bliss in their wake. The
live electronics for The physical impossibility...
were realised with the Integra Live software.
Hilda Paredes: Revelación
19th September, 2011
James Dooley and Tychonas Michailidis of Birmingham
Conservatoire's Integra Lab direct the live electronics for
French Première of Hilda Paredes Revelación at Théâtre Des
Bouffe Du Nord, Paris. The performance of this work – written
for ensemble, live electronics and dancers – sees Court-Circuit
joined by Ana Luján and Toni Aparisi in a multimedia
performance.
Hilda Paredes: Revelación
12th May, 2011
James Dooley and Tychonas Michailidis of Birmingham
Conservatoire's Integra Lab direct the live electronics for
World Première of Hilda Paredes Revelación at Palau de
les Arts, Valéncia as part of the 33rd ENSEMS contemporary music
festival. The performance of this work – written for ensemble,
live electronics and dancers – sees Grup Instrumental de
Valéncia joined by Ana Luján and Toni Aparisi in a multimedia
performance.
Première of Inscriptions
8th April 2011
Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. Inscriptions
uses ten poems of the same name by Edward Lucie-Smith as its
foundation. The poems were originally written for a portfolio of
prints by the Mexican artist Feliciano Bejar. Through the
technique of 'blind printing', Bejar impressed(inscribed)
designs into soft white paper. The text explores the many ways
in which experience is physically inscribed into life, and how
this is not always obviously perceived. A gravestone, a public
toilet, a tattoo, a patch of dead grass underneath a stone all
have their stories to tell; they all have their memories.
Première of Waiting for Andswaru
7th February 2011
James Dooley and Tychonas Michailidis, Birmingham Conservatoire,
UK. Waiting for Andswaru
draws inspiration from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting
for Godot. An absurd theme is
evoked by the piece’s use of anti-development. Rather, events
occur that obfuscate the listener’s perception, until,
finally, the original ideas re-emerge without reaching any
conclusion.
Première of Two Lamentations
15th June 2010
The Icarus Project, Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. Two
Lamentations for SATB choir uses pitch inflection to
create quasi-fugal textures; specific pitch is not indicated.
The text is taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Première of for violin and piano
8th March 2010
Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea, Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. for
violin and piano explores the natural sound decay of a
short musical figure. This figure is repeated incessently, but
never identically. Finally, an intense musical gesture destroys
the mundane system that initially dominated the work's
progression.
Première of Evolution is random mutation that is
successful in a particular environment
22nd February 2010
Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. Evolution...
is an algorithmic composition written in the Max/MSP visual
programming language.
Jeté - sound installation
21st - 25th July 2009
Part of the Movement exhibition organised
by reHub running concurrently with the 2009 IDRS convention at
Birmingham Conservatoire, UK.
Première of The Lily
23rd June 2009
The Icarus Project, Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. The
Lily is a setting of William Blake's poem of the same
title, and was written for The Icarus Project.
Première of Five Settings of Classical Middle
Eastern Poems
28th March 2009
Tongue Stuff, Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, London.
All the Night Creatures Sang - sound
installation
23rd - 27th March 2009
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. All the
Night Creatures Sang is an algorithmic composition that
mimics the sounds of a tropical rainforest during nighttime.
Première of Lovesong
26th March 2009
Decibel, Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. Lovesong is
a setting of Ted Hughes' poem of the same title.
Première of Sturm und Drang
14th March 2009
Staffordshire Symphony Orchestra, Lichfield Cathedral,
UK. Sturm und Drang was the result of an orchestral
project between J.R. Dooley and Staffordshire Performing Arts.