Ben Gwilliam

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Released: Oct 16, 2006

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Contact Vent Recording
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empty spiel II
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magnetic flats in disc major
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Genre: Other
Location Northwest, UK
Profile Views: 14666
Last Login: 4/1/2012
Member Since 10/12/2006
Website www.thosesoundsbetween.co.uk
Record Label New Acoustical Pleasures, NurNichtNur
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Ben Gwilliam (b. 1980) is a sound artist active in the fields of sound installation, curation, improvising new music and performance. He describes his practice as drawing attention to those sounds between things, be it objects, spaces or recordings. It is these sounds and their contexts that reveal visual and musical processes of listening and looking. It is from this curiosity about sound-making/recording/finding and how abstract/descriptive that sounds can be, that he makes parallels and similarities unpicking the relationship between those uncovered sounds and moments of primary experience. In 2004 he was awarded an AHRB Postgraduate Award. In 2007 he was nominated for the Jerwood Artist platform Prize. He has worked and shown internationally in Exhibitions, Residencies and Festivals including ‘art@radio’, 2002 USA, Artoll Labor, 2002 DE, ‘Hothouse’ 2003 Liverpool, Hull Time Based Arts, 2003 UK, ‘ineditos 2004’, Madrid & Barcelona, ‘stance’, 2005 market gallery, Glasgow, and ‘Unsilently’, 2005 CAC, North Adams, USA, ‘Sonic Arts Expo 2006’, Manchester, UK, ‘Klang-Labor 06’, DE. His work has been featured on Resonance FM, and has work in several CD and Publication Releases. His has performed with artists such as Claus van Bebber, Espen Jensen, Helmut Lemke, Lee Patterson, and Jez Riley French, Rhodri Davies, Phil Durrant, Matt Davis, Hainer Woermann, Chris Heenan, Michael Vorfeld, and Sascha Demand. Since 2004 he has curated several experimental music and sound exhibitions including ‘re:sound’ 2005, UK, ‘Sculpting with Air’ Liverpool Biennial 2006 (co-curated with Lee Patterson), ‘then the silence increased’, 2007 UK (co-curated with Helmut Lemke). Current recording and performing duo's include Lemke-Gwilliam (with Helmut Lemke), Gwilliam-Woermann (with Hainer Woermann), and Vorfeld-Gwilliam (lights & tapes with Michael Vorfeld)
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second hand Reel-Reel tape machines, mixer, piezo contact mics', cut and spliced found tape, prepared field recordings, magnets, demagnetizer, telephone pick-ups, speakers, and minidisc.
Influences
.. .. .. .. .. early reel to reel experiments from the 50s' upto current improvisation of magnetic tape, Bryon Gysin/WSBurroughs/Antony Balch cutups, Heinrich Boll, Helmut Lemke, Claus van Bebber, Steve Roden, Brandon laBelle, Matt Rogalsky, Christian Marclay, Bernhard Guenter, KonkPack, Francisco Lopez, Paul Haywood, Burkhard Beins, Mark Wastell, Salfordian Ventilation shafts, Vito Acconci, Tom Marioni, John Cage, the Uher Aesthetic, surface listening, Sol Lewitt, Hanne Darboven, Michel Vorfeld, Merzbau, Joseph Beuys, Plunderphonics, Christof Migone, Nicholas Bourriaud, Paul Klee, Sten Nadolny (the discovery of slowness), Alvin Lucier, Artoll-kunst-Labor, blank cassette tapes, Erhard Hirt, Douglas Gordon, Jason Kahn, Joe Colley, The Art of Noises, Chris Watson, Toshiya Tsnuoda, Otomo Yoshide, the gramophone. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Sounds Like
A friend recently said that that my stuff visualises as mould .. .. ..MyGen.. ..Profile Generator.. ..

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