Workshop: THE SHAPES IN MUSIC with Flynn McHardy & Will Wolford - 25 November

THE SHAPES IN MUSIC

with Flynn McHardy & Will Walford 
Monday, 25 November
6.30-8.30pm

What are noises? What does listening to them involve? In what ways can we combine to transform them into visual objects?

Flynn McHardy and Will Walford invite participants to explore the intersection of visual art and experimental music through collaboration and experimentation. Building on Flynn’s previous workshop, we will start by examining what noises are and what the activity of listening to experimental music involves. Expanding on the work of Philosophers Kendall Walton and Andrew Kania, we will explore the idea that listening to experimental music involves hearing noises as moving shapes.

Using these ideas, we will present a number of activities that explore mark-making as a form of visual listening. In the spirit of groups like Fluxus the Scratch Orchestra, we will combine to experiment both as noise makers and as mark makers. Our aim will be to draw out specific ways in which texture, shape and gesture can be explored both visually and sonically. Sound making devices will be provided but feel free to bring your own!

Bios: 

Flynn Mchardy is a musician from London currently living in Manchester. He plays guitar in yeo rad trad folk group Brown Wimpenny, and is also a constituent part of acclaimed children's music quintet Hedgehog. He organizes experimental music performances in Manchester with Skribble, and recently released his first solo record ‘Good serious fun’ via SUPERPANG. With his musical sensibilities formed in appreciation and performance of improvised and rock music respectively, his solo work acts as a space, aside from his various collaborative projects, to reflect on how you listen to music.

Will Walford is a student currently living in Manchester who has an interest in illustration and collaborative forms of art, particularly those involved in translations. He organises the occasional collaborative drawing workshop and has introduced at least one class of French school children to the joys of writing poems with newspaper collages.

Materials are included
Note: STUDENT/UNWAGED discount of 33%
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The studio is on the 1st floor with no lift