Producers
OCM is a unique producer that
works to develop and present the highest quality and most innovative new music
and sound-based live events, to engage diverse local and national audiences
with its work, and to deepen understanding and appreciation of musical cultures
from within the UK and worldwide. Its raison d’être is to bring music, artists
and audiences together in ways that encourage and create memorable and meaningful
experiences for all.
Alongside
OCM’s regular concert programme in Oxford, the organisation commissions and
produces new work. Past commissions and
projects include Power Plant, (which
went on to become an international hit with Producer Simon Chatterton), award
winning sound artist Robert Jarvis’s Echolocation
(a sound installation for a choir of bats), and Music from the Genome (the world premiere of Michael Zev Gordon’s
award winning ‘Allele’ based on cutting edge research into the human genome,
performed at the UK’s national synchrotron facility Diamond Light Source). Ray
Lee’s Ethometric Museum was premiered
at Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science and has since been performed
across the UK and Europe. Ray Lee won a
2012 British Composer Award in Sonic Art for Ethometric Museum. OCM’s
contribution to the Cultural Olympiad was Mira Calix’s Nothing Is Set In Stone, which was premiered at Fairlop Waters in
June 2012 and was part of Secrets, presented by the Mayor of London and London
2012 Festival.
Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) provides a forum for dialogue
between the fields of Composition and Sound Art; including acousmatic,
collaborative, electroacoustic, experimental, interdisciplinary and
site-specific practices alongside engagement with field recording, and
soundscape studies. The Sonic Art Research Unit builds on established creative
dialogue between the fields of Fine Art and Music at Oxford Brookes University. SARU practitioners are: Prof. Paul Whitty, Dr
Paul Dibley, Stephen Cornford, Max Eastley, Dr Felicity Ford, Ray Lee, Paul
Newland, Mike Blow, Efthymios Chatzigiannis, Patrick Farmer, Shirley Pegna, and
Samuel Roberts.
Commissioners
Brighton Festival is an annual mixed arts
festival which takes place across three weeks in the city each May. The
festival attracts over 150,000 attendances and contributes £20m to the local
economy. Brighton Festival attracts inspiring and
internationally significant Guest Director’s who bring cohesion to the artistic
programme with British sculptor Anish Kapoor as inaugural curator in 2009
followed by the Godfather of modern music Brian Eno in 2010, the Burmese
Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2011 and actress and human rights
campaigner Vanessa Redgrave in 2012.
Brighton Festival is an innovative commissioning and producing arts
festival, offering an ambitious programme that makes the most of the city’s
distinctive atmosphere. Brighton
Festival is England’s most established mixed arts Festival and a major
milestone in the international cultural calendar The festival includes visual
art, theatre, music, books and debates, family friendly programme and outdoor
performances throughout the city including site-specific and unusual
locations. Brighton Dome & Brighton
Festival produces the annual Brighton Festival and also manages the three
venues of Brighton Dome year round. It aims to champion the power of the arts,
to enrich and change lives and inspire and enable artists to be their most
creative.
Without Walls: Founded in 2007, Without Walls
is a consortium of leading arts organisations and festivals dedicated to the
development of the UK’s outdoor arts sector.
We nurture talent and skills by producing new work through commissions
and co-productions, and promoting work that supports the growth of the outdoor
performance sector, on both the large and small scale. We are committed to improving the quality of
the work and raising the profile of the UK outdoor arts sector on the
international stage. Without Walls takes the interest of the outdoor arts
sector as a whole and we network and partner with a range of other
organisations and interests to achieve our aims. Without Walls is a consortium of festivals
dedicated to commissioning, presenting and supporting new outdoor work. The
members are: Brighton Festival, Greenwich & Docklands International
Festival, Hat Fair, Mintfest, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Salisbury
International Festival, and Stockton International Riverside Festival. Without
Walls is managed by XTRAX.
Funders
The participation of Max Eastley in Audible Forces has been supported by AHRC. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funds world-class, independent researchers in a wide range of subjects: ancient history, modern dance, archaeology, digital content, philosophy, English literature, design, the creative and performing arts, and much more. This financial year the AHRC will spend approximately £98m to fund research and postgraduate training in collaboration with a number of partners. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK. For further information on the AHRC, please go to: www.ahrc.ac.uk
OCM is supported using public funding by Arts Council England. www.artscouncil.org.uk
OCM gratefully acknowledges financial support
from PRS for Music Foundation. www.prsformusicfoundation.com
Embedded
Nathaniel
Mann is a Sound and Music Embedded artist in residence with the Pitt Rivers
Museum and OCM. Embedded is supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Pitt Rivers Museum was founded in 1884 when
General Pitt Rivers, an influential figure in the development of archaeology
and evolutionary anthropology, gave his personal collection of 20,000 items to
the University on the condition that a museum was built to house the material.
Sound and Music promotes fresh and challenging
new music and sound through a range of live events, learning projects and
digital content. Its focus is growing the stature and appreciation of
contemporary music, and its significant scale enables it to make a major impact
on public perceptions.
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