TUESDAY 02 MARCH 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT 100306.34.New-Flyer.gif new exhibition in the vaults Three to Four The reinforced strongroom of the Foundry Bar is a reminder of the building's past as a bank, as well as an expression of its present as a centre for socialising, arts and creativity in this exciting and energetic part of London. A wind harp on the Foundry's roof is 'played' as the strings hum with the movements of air across them or are plucked by drops of rain and snow. The harp also responds to the vibrations of the building itself and the urban activity around it - slamming doors, passing traffic, planes flying overhead. The sounds heard in the strongroom are the sounds of the vault resonating to this activity. The vibrations also translate into a pulsating, ever-changing wall of pure colour distilled from the physical qualities of the space. The unique voice and character of the Foundry normally go unheard and unseen, but Three to Four allows the building to speak, an expression of the space and its surrounds. http://www.outputarts.com/ experimental live stream... [mp3] [ archive ]
FRIDAY 05 MARCH 10 12-1PM tune in to... THE FOUNDRY LATE LATE BREAKFAST SHOW broadcast live on RESONANCE 104.4FM streamed live on http://www.resonancefm.com archives on http://www.sanderswood.com/radio/ For today's show we are broadcasting a one hour live solo performance of the Three to Four wind harp on the roof of our building 100305.RIMG0205.jpg
SUNDAY 07 MARCH 10 >>basement REELNEWS 100307.reelnewstour.gif http://www.reelnews.co.uk >>bar floor RADIO JOY 100307.loves-dirty-habit-3-copy.jpg Ten years ago Tracey Moberly produced a show at the Foundry in Hoxton whose title LOVES DIRTY HABIT came from a Band of Holy Joy song. The premise as I remember it was that we set a thousand pink balloons up in to the night sky with a mobile phone number on and a request for any balloon finders to text in their 'Love's Dirty Habit'. The answers would be stuck on the gallery walls in the basement of the Foundry. The new language and future of communication was uppermost in our minds but we also wanted to throw a great party. The opening night was a blur of pink balloons and scuzzy texts that were zapped in from the hinterlands of London. It was a great night and a supreme show if memory serves. Tracey has kept the project very much alive and a decade on we revisit the notion. Nicola Jayne Maskrey and Inga Tillere will take Tracey's texts and set about visualising them from a new perspective. The Band Of Holy Joy will play a live set from a collection of songs they are about to release called Troubled Sleep, songs which are very much about Love's Dirty Habits: Betrayals, lustings, casual sexual murderings that kind of low and grand déclassé behaviour. As the Foundry is about to close its doors soon we would love to make this event as memorable as the first. Indeed... We want your texts and we want you to come. 7th March is the date 8pm is the time and the Foundry is the place. On Valentines Day we will issue a number. We want you to use it. 100307.loves-dirty-habit-400.jpg Radio Joy will broadcast the entire evening. The DJ Gavin Martin will spin the songs to keep the night flowing. Also with ANDREW BAILEY 100310.bailey.biglove3.gif
TUESDAY 09 MARCH 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art on the far wall THREAD Photo exhibition by Henrique Pavia 100309.Thread.jpg new art on the stair well DONK 100309.donk_IMG_7510.jpg new art in the library DOE(x) Hertzian Drifting. A narration on third landscape 100310.hertzian_drifting.gif The DOE(x) is a multidisciplinary project started on april 2009 in Prague. Basically the project skills explore some layers of urban context. From the concrete experience on the physical space to spectral geographies of the hertzian space. I will use the space on the library like an headquarters. Here I will show the material of my exploration along the Lea Valley. I will play EM interferences and sounds recorded along the river. I will exhibit images, sketches and notes about the exploration. The audiovisual performance is a narration using the collected materials of the city (EMF and VLF data, video, audio and GPS tracks). DOE(x).Layers and definitions. Hertzian space definition The dreams of electronic objects are made from electromagnetic radiation. These dreams radiate outwards from the object, creating a new, invisible, but physical environment that we call Hertzian space. It is here that the secret life of electronic objects is played out, secret not only because we rarely glimpse it, but also because we are only just beginning to understand it. (Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby) Defining Liminal Space Liminal space is a place on the Threshold. This threshold is the idea of ambiguity and ambivalence. This in-between space allows active exchanges of ideologies, concepts and methods of working. Liminal indicates a transition from one state or space to another. The 'liminal space' might also be read as a metaphorical realm where ideas and concepts: artistic, political, cultural, social or otherwise, are in constant states of contestation and negotiation. These Thresholds and windows are boundaries between inside and outside, public and private; as a in a car, we experience space in motion, constantly adjusting our perspective. The Hertzian space of cities, once the territory of governmental agencies, private enterprise, and networks of ham radio operators, has evolved into a dynamic and contested site, where many competing interests are beginning to shape a new information overlay. In addition to and, indeed, beyond the established frequencies of radio waves carrying radio and television programs, police communications, and other wireless signals, today's urban data clouds are made up of "a new kind of data, collective and individual, aggregated and discrete, open and closed, constantly logging detailed patterns of behavior" (Hill 2008) This is the behavior of the street: constantly enacting new spatial relations and organizational adjacencies that are every bit as architectural as the formal articulations of bricks and mortar that constitute the traditional city. That this urban ballet of people, data, and space is predominantly non-visual should be less a detracting factor than an intellectual challenge to those invested in the design of urban space. Beneath the threshold of public vision, a new city is emerging, one requiring new methods and techniques by which we can productively engage in its design and formation. As with other aspects of the physical world, such as land, water, and air, the electromagnetic spectrum is a limited resource. A big parts of the wireless spectrum have become effectively reserved for private use, a kind of "public" space exists in the form of the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) radio bands. Because communication devices using the ISM bands must tolerate any interference from ISM equipment, these bands are typically given over to uses intended for unlicensed operation, since these devices typically need to be tolerant of interference from other devices anyway. ISM frequencies such as the 2.4 GHz band are set aside for license-free use by systems and devices such as WiFi, Bluetooth, cordless phones, and wireless surveillance cameras, and it is within this frequency range that a number of recent projects have attempted both to probe and to shape this new public terrain. The dreams of electronic objects are made from electromagnetic radiation. These dreams radiate outwards from the object, creating a new, invisible, but physical environment that we call Hertzian space. It is here that the secret life of electronic objects is played out, secret not only because we rarely glimpse it, but also because we are only just beginning to understand it. I will walk along the Lea River with: Lorenzo Tripodi (berlin) - researcher in urban studies and media activist Salvatore Livecchi (italy) - audio artist The past and future platform: July 2010 Platform #4 DOE(x) Paivascapes#1 - Nodar Artist Residency Center - Portugal March 2010 Platform #3 DOE(x) Lea Valley Exploration. Performance and Exhibition at The Foundry - London - UK July 2009 Platform #2 DOE(x) The Incredible 10 - Dresden - Germany April 2009 Platform #1 DOE(x) Hertzian walks - Enter4 - Prague >>basement JERICHO ORCHESTRA
WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 10 CHAOS CABERET 100310.chaos_caberet_003.jpg http://beingandsomething.wordpress.com
THURSDAY 11 MARCH 10 >>basement installation by ALISTAIR NEWTON 100311.Decasia2.jpg DECASIA A one-off expanded cinema night of found footage films with a soundtrack remixed live. The films will have a live accompaniment by the Camarillos who will be performing live - mixing in spoken word, cello, vocal abstractions illbient soundscapes, glitchy sfx, echoey field recordings and live loop manipulation. There will be two performances one at 7pm and one at 9pm. A night of unsettling fun is guaranteed. >>vaults HAPPY and GLORIOUS 100311.happy-and-glorious-final.gif
FRIDAY 12 MARCH 10 12-1PM tune in to... THE FOUNDRY LATE LATE BREAKFAST SHOW broadcast live on RESONANCE 104.4FM streamed live on http://www.resonancefm.com archives on http://www.sanderswood.com/radio/
SATURDAY 13 MARCH 10 >> bar floor VINYL PLEASURES 100313.vinylpleasures_13_3_10s.jpg >> basement NOISE=NOISE 100313.n=n17.gif
TUESDAY 16 MARCH 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art in the vaults SAJ new art in the basement FOUNDRY EQUINOX 2010 100316.image-copyright-David-Binns_(c)2009.jpg From 16th to 21st March a series of activities in celebration of Spring Equinox will take place downstairs in the Foundry. Alongside still image displays and invocation of St Agnes Well, expect film, poetry and music. Spring Equinox is the space within the spiral through which the momentary APPEARANCE OF BALANCE between sunlight and darkness gives way once more to the OVERT WILDNESS of growth and renewal. It is a time to be conscious that what's past is prologue, that the seasons are as transient as ourselves, and that the best - if we prove up to it - is yet to come. Anticipate the unexpected to arise from............... .....THE EQUINOX PLOT! Further details to be announced. new art on the Far Wall BROKENSOUNDMUSIC Sleeve artworks for Rachael Dadd's Moth In The Motor mini-album http://www.brokensoundmusic.com/moth.htm
WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH 10 Kabarett Spielraum presents: MISSION TO PLANET EARTH 5 A private view of the Mission to Planet Earth 5 exhibition -- Photoshop mutations of the Foundry's graffiti and imagery from outer space. Come join us for incidental music and cabaret from the stalwarts of the Foundry. RUDE MECHANICALS LITE ANDREW BAILEY . DAVE RUSSELL ROSHI FEAT. PARS RADIO incidental recordings from SIR HECTOR (Disco_r.Dance) SPIKE SPIEGEL
FRIDAY 19 MARCH 10 12-1PM tune in to... THE FOUNDRY LATE LATE BREAKFAST SHOW broadcast live on RESONANCE 104.4FM streamed live on http://www.resonancefm.com archives on http://www.sanderswood.com/radio/ music by Rachael Dadd from her Moth In The Motor mini-album
TUESDAY 23 MARCH 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art on the far wall AKME04 new art in the vaults the KRAH
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TUESDAY 30 MARCH 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art on the bar wall BLURREAL new art in the library CHLOE EDWARDS
FRIDAY 02 APRIL 10 12-1PM tune in to... THE FOUNDRY LATE LATE BREAKFAST SHOW broadcast live on RESONANCE 104.4FM streamed live on http://www.resonancefm.com archives on http://www.sanderswood.com/radio/
SUNDAY 04 APRIL 10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry. arrive by 8. You will get a slot. Performance 8.30-9.30 hosted by VIZ the SPOON
TUESDAY 06 APRIL 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art on the bar wall SIMON BARNA 100406.SOR_header2.gif new art in the vaults SPEED of REACTION http://www.speedofreaction.com An interactive adventure throughout the streets of London. Mobile phones, QR codes, roller skates, films and fast reactions help your team solve puzzles and push you to ask your own questions. That was the game and now we have the exhibition that follows it. The game's players are the co-authors of the project. Producing material that will be the basis of this exhibition. You also get a taster of how to crack the codes. Minus the roller skates. new art in the basement 100406.alice-in-wonderland.jpg including works by CLARE JACKSON ANTIONETTE HARDING
FRIDAY 09 APRIL 10 12-1PM tune in to... THE FOUNDRY LATE LATE BREAKFAST SHOW broadcast live on RESONANCE 104.4FM streamed live on http://www.resonancefm.com archives on http://www.sanderswood.com/radio/
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TUESDAY 13 APRIL 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art in the basement ANNALISA BRAMBILLA http://www.annalisabrambilla.com new art in the vaults Three conversations shared over a pint... ...We're still here, feel free to join. Featuring: SARA FISHER FROSO PAPADIMITRIOU SCOT BRADBURY
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TUESDAY 20 APRIL 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art in the vaults TOMSILAV TEREK
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TUESDAY 27 APRIL 10 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT
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