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Cornford,  Stephen / Ben Gwilliam: On Taking Things Apart (Winds Measure)

Sound and visual artists Stephen Cornford and Ben Gwilliam recorded their installation at Q-02 in Brussels, where they took apart a Grundik TK5 tape machine and repurposed the components to create these innovative and diverse recordings of stunning textures and interactions.
 

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Label: Winds Measure
Catalog ID: wm46
Squidco Product Code: 23362

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2016
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels
Recorded at Q-02, in Brussels, Belgium, during June, 2012.


Personnel:



Stephen Cornford-performer, composer

Ben Gwilliam-performer, composer


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Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

Grundig TK5 tape machine.

posted to Brussels
dismantled on arrival
various levers spun on motor
speakers used to amplify floor
resistors as styluses
fixing plate as broadcast antenna
feedback animated through chassis
springs heated & cooled
components crushed

All recorded to tape.
Remains buried.


Artist Biographies

"Stephen Cornford is an audio-visual artist working between installation and performance. His practice is concerned with reconfiguring consumer electronics as expressive and reflective devices. He studied at The Slade School of Fine Art and Dartington College of Arts and is currently a PhD candidate at Winchester School of Art with Jussi Parikka and Ian Dawson.

Stephen has had solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Berlin, Brighton, Bergen, Ljubljana & London and his work has been included in group exhibtions at the ZKM Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe; ICC, Tokyo; Haus der Electronische Kunst, Basel; Sigma Foundation, Venice and at Bienalles in Lodz and Poznan.

He is co-director the Audiograft Festival in Oxford and the Consumer Waste record label and is a founder member of Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film.

His audio work has been published by Rumpsti Pumsti, VLZprodukt, Senufo Editions, MoTA, Winds Measure, 3leaves, Vitrine, Mantile and Accidie and he has collaborated with Ben Gwilliam, Patrick Farmer, Daniel Bennett and Samuel Rodgers among others."

-Stephen Cornford Website (http://www.scrawn.co.uk/info.html)
5/31/2023

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"Ben Gwilliam is an artist whose work spans sound, film, installation & performance. His work explores how the mechanics of sound medias' reflect & distort human perception, often manipulating the space(s) & moment of experience. His fascination drives a curiosity that forms as durational performances and Installations, film & video works and writing.

He has exhibited & performed Internationally in spaces such as La casa Encendida Madrid, The Cornerhouse Manchester, Artists Unlimited Bielefeld, Modern Art Oxford, & FACT Liverpool. His performance and composed works have been commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices Festival (UK 2010), Rumilingen new music (CH 2010), University of Salford (UK 2008) & IOU Theatre (UK 2003).

His music and performances work has seen him collaborate with Artists such as Claus van Bebber, Helmut Lemke, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies, Hainer Woermann, Chris Heenan, Michael Vorfeld, and Sascha Demand, Jason Zeh, Stephen Cornford, Matt Wand and others."

-The Sounds Between (http://www.thosesoundsbetween.co.uk/ben-gwilliam/)
5/31/2023

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Track Listing:



1. Untitled 5:30

2. Untitled 12:52

3. Untitled 3:29

4. Untitled 9:53

5. Untitled 10:57

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Electro-Acoustic
Sound, Noise, &c.
Installation Sound Work
Duo Recordings
New in Experimental & Electronic Music

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