Performances

Performances

Fabrica Gallery, Brighton - 23 March 2017
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Partial Facsimile at STRANGELOVE

 

In 2015/2016 members of Partial Facsimile took time away from the surround sound format and recorded and performed a side project named Broken Republic. The politically driven album ‘Sold’ can be heard and downloaded for free from our website: http://brokenrepublic.net/

Performances include:

Victorious Festival, Portsmouth

The Marwood Café, Brighton

Brighton Railway Station in support of the RMT workers strike

Save the Lodge concert at the Art Lodge, Portsmouth

Album Launch, The King Street Tavern, Southsea

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Fabrica Gallery

The German Expressionist Masterpiece by Robert Wiene had been visually restored and officially released on Blu-Ray. Partial Facsimile, in collaboration with Filmspot, was proud to have been invited to perform for a sold Fabrica Gallery.

 

 

Beastie Toys – A Christmas Cracker

Partial Facsimile members Alex Merron and Laila Hansen collaborated with musician Jacob Brandt for a unique performance in 5.1 surround sound at the Beastie Toy’s private view exhibition at Vine Street Studios in Brighton. A rehearsal of this performance was released as the three-track album Amidst the Pedals & Cables, and a physical copy is to be included in the British Library Sound Archive.

Please visit https://jacobbrant.bandcamp.com/album/amidst-the-pedals-and-cables-live to have a listen, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Redoubt

Redoubt Fortress, Eastbourne

Partial Facsimile scored a new sound track for this classic expressionist horror film (the first one of its kind according to legendary film critic Roger Ebert), set in a chilling hall at Redoubt Fortress in Eastbourne. This concert was in junction with Scalarama Film Festival, Filmspot and Bang & Olufsen of Brighton & Hove.

Meeching Industrial

Partial Facsimile collective were very excited to have been asked to take part in Fort Process, an international sound- and art festival set at Newhaven Fort. We conducted an informed improvisation concerning the industrial development of the location with a make-up of 5 musicians and 1 visual artist. Jamie Gillett’s brain wave controlled musical instrument, the Neuro-Harp, featured in our work as well as used in a solo performance.

‘Meeching Industrial’ is a tempo based piece exploring the industrial development in Bishopstone and Newhaven. It ranges from the year 1815 to 2015 with each minute representing one decade, with an extended 10-minute ‘future zone’ ending in 2025. The latter suggests the potential for a new industrial era. Each musician is instructed to improvise from historically syncopated audio and film that is mainly sourced locally. The sound will in-turn inspire live digital drawing.

In 477AD the Saxons arrived in Sussex and founded a village called Meeching on the estuary of the River Ouse. The name Meeching comes from the Saxon word meces and means the people or the camp of the sword. In 1579 a disastrous storm destroyed Meeching, and it was rebuilt and re-named Newhaven.

Making works that are accessible to a wide demographic is important in order for art not to be reserved solely for galleries or concert halls, but to rather help it exist in our immediate surroundings. We believe that by tapping into the local history and elicit sounds from spaces not necessarily designed for performances, these structures can be rejuvenated in an educational and ethereal way.

The sound-scape of the last 200 years is reflected in the instrumentation; vocals, blue boulders, pots and pans, double bass, dust bin- and snare drum, piano, electric guitar, synthesizer and iPad. The ‘Future Zone’ section includes a unique brain wave controlled instrument known as the Neuro-Harp constructed by Jamie Gillett. The performance will take place in Newhaven Fort’s ‘Grand Magazine’ as part of the Fort Process international sound-art festival 2014.

Special thanks to:
Newhaven Maritime Museum and South East Screen Archive for their support in providing historical documentation, images and film footage. We also thank Bang & Olufsen of Brighton & Hove for supplying the Beolab-14 surround sound cinema system and Lost Property for inviting us to perform. All of which without this performance would not have been possible.