audiograft festival
14 - 17 March 2019
Various venues in Oxford
PWYD (Pay What You Decide)
In March we are once again invited into the wonderful world of experimental music and sound that is the annual audiograft festival.
This year the festival packs in four extraordinary days of sound and music events featuring the sounds of breath, animated flows of energy, the insides of synthesizers, percussive swarths of wheeled luggage, an immersive performance in a brutalist car park, vibraphones, field recordings, dreams, microcomputers, echoes, loops and wayward percussions.
audiograft 2019 celebrates the 10th year anniversary of Sound Diaries, a project on sounds and listening in daily life, with a performance at the Old Fire Station where our associate artist Felicity Ford will be joined by Neil Luck and Paul Whitty.
On Saturday 16/03 Olivia Block (USA), Sarah Hennies (USA) and Sonic Luz (AUT) are flying in to give you an evening of unusual, brave and loud experiences, with oscillators, vibraphones and optosonic synthesisers!
At the heart of the festival is an exhibition at OVADA featuring Luke Fowler’s tribute to the work of Martin Bartlett, a proudly gay Canadian composer who during the 1970s and 1980s pioneered the use of the ‘microcomputer’.
LAUNCH 14 / 03
OVADA, 6pm
Wth a performance by Tess Denman-Cleaver responding to Luke Fowler's film
followed by a mystery tour to an immersive audio narrative in a brutalist car park.
FRI 15/03: FELICITY FORD / NEIL LUCK / PAUL WHITTY
OLD FIRE STATION, 7.30PM
SAT 16/03: OLIVIA BLOCK / SARAH HENNIES / SONIC LUZ
OLD FIRE STATION, 7.30PM
SUN 17/03: HARRIET BUTLER / HELEN FROSI / RENZO SPITERI /
FUSION, 5PM
EXHIBITIONS
LUKE FOWLER at OVADA
HARRIET BUTLER / HELEN FROSI / RENZO SPITERI at FUSION and ARK - T
audiograft is curated by the SARU (Sonic Arts Research Unit) at Oxford Brookes University and co-promoted by OCM