NOISE Orchestra's installation utilises code controlled fluorescent lights that turn on and off at random intervals, these bursts of light create trigger pulses which spark up electromagnetic noise circuits to create a multi-layered collage of light and noise. The installation consist of improvised electrical hums, pulses, pops, clicks, static electricity tones and 60Hz hum that are at times rhythmically and texturally spacious, and at other times dark, frenetic and dense.

Noise Orchestra will perform with the circuits throughout the installation creating an extended audio improvisation that explores chaos, chance and human-machine interaction.

NOISE Orchestra are sound artists Vicky Clarke and David Birchall; we use light, analogue electronics, turntables and graphical scores to turn images and objects into NOISE; a process called graphical sound. We are interested in the exploration and interplay of light, materials and sound and our practice operates at the intersection of art, experimental music and technology. The duo are one of three artist groups selected for our 2017 ENLIGHT (European Light expression Network) residencies in the UK, Norway and Rome.

Renowned magical explorer, goblin scientist and storyteller Professor Jigget is searching for the Light Fantastic – the source of all inspiration, adventure and nonsense. Join him, the Wizard Humbringer, the Rave Witch and The Pie-Face Face Painters to catch a spark and light the night.

Led by Dr Oliver Bishop, Yan Tan Tethera love stories. They are powerful things. They believe in using this power to strengthen both children's and adult's understanding of their heritage, their environment, and their own capacity for imagination and creativity.  This is achieved through the three core Yan Tan Tethera services - storymaking and sharing workshops, storytelling performances, and environmental interpretation. A regular Curated Place collaborator they have been creating magical experiences since 2014.

Helmut Lemke is currently Sound Artist in Residence at the Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre. In February 2017 he moved everything associated with his art practice of more than 40 years into the Basement of the Fusilier Museum to work on his project LISTEN BACKWARDS to ADVANCE (LBtA). In LBtA Lemke investigates a 40 year career in sound art as a durational public performance through objects, photos, videos, sound recordings, writing, publications, drawings, and soundmachines. Helmut has created a publicly accessible Archive (1977 -2017) over the course of the project that is open to the public as a performative event and ongoing exhibition.

Helmut has also launched an online Radio program from his base in Bury. He will continue to broadcast from the basement every Wednesday from 7pm til late. On Wednesday the 18th of October his Radio will focus on the ENLIGHTEN Festival. His Guests will be Andy Brydon from Curated Place, director of the festival,and other artists who are involved inENLIGHTEN Bury. To tune in into the programs follow the links on the Helmut's website.

For the ENLIGHTEN Festival he will create a series if installations in the basement of the Fusilier Museum with the title ‘echoes of distant installations’. In this Installations Helmut revisits sound installations, objects and performances from 1985 until today.

His work in the Basement will be open on

Friday the 20th of October from 6 – 9pm, and

on Saturday the 21st of October from 12noon to 5pm and from 6pm to 9pm.

Until Nov the 17th the Installation will be open after appointment only.

please note that the evening openings of 20 and 21 October will be restricted. groups of up to 25 visitors will be allowed every 30 minutes.

www.sound-art.de

Helmut Lemke is a German sound artist who moved to the UK in 1996. Since he started his journey into the world of sound more than 40 years ago, Helmut Lemke has investigated sounds that are around us, some are obvious, some are familiar, some have to be found… and he has performed and exhibited process based work responding to his investigations.

Imagine you have a plastic bottle….

You fill it with water and you hang it upside down….

You make a little hole in the cap…

.and then you sit back,

you wait and you listen

-drips appear

– they fall

– they hit

 sounds…

 inaudible when the water squeezes through the little hole…

 imaginable when it falls…

audible when it hits

Events like this drive Helmut’s curiosity.

His international, and enthusiastically ecumenical practice, has lead him to work everywhere from the frozen seas round Greenland, to a palace in Venice for the 55th Biennale. Along the way he has collaborated with other Sound Artists and Musicians, with Dancers and Scientists, Visual Artists and Architects, Poets andArchaeologists, Performance Artists and Wildlife Rangers.

Since 1995 he has taught at art academies & universities in Germany, France, England, Finland, Thailand.

Helmut is still listening…

King Orfeo is a newly created projection artwork exploring the medieval retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Euridyce.  Bury Art Gallery is transformed into the Above and Below, as the Faery King steals away Lady Isobel while she sleeps in an orchard.  The King laments, and heads into the wild to search, turning mossy as the trees as the years pass.  And each night he leans against a tree to play his harp - notes of woe, notes of joy and notes of dancing that are powerful enough to release a Queen…  

Based on ancient ballad melody through lost until it was rediscovered in 1947, and reimagined in contemporary form, this is a timeless tale of the power of music and light over shadow.

Illuminos are brothers Matt and Rob Vale, who for over 10 years have been creating visually inventive, memorable projection artworks and experiences. Their works ranges from very large scale illumination to small scale imagery, but always working to create something unique and specific to location and viewer. Formed around a principal of People, Site, Animation, and often combining elements of installation, dance, theatre, pyrotechnics and music, each project develops from an exploration of the emotions of an environment, aiming to capture the essence of a place, space or feeling as a shared moment of time.

Fossil Optical originates from Bristol and is well known on the live music and festival circuit for melting minds at a staggering scale. Fossil optical are now renowned as a leader in analogue projection that hits with a punch far surpassing digital methods.

Fossil Optical works with Pete Smith, a specialist in 16mm cine and slide projection, and they have recently collaborated with Pink Floyd projectionist and master inventor of lighting technology Peter Wynne Willson.

Expect to see stunning architectural effects across both The Rock and Armoury from the brightest projectors in the world.

In 1954 a Joint Committee of the House of Commons and House of Lords was called to consider homosexual offences and prostitution in society. The subsequent Wolfenden Report documented their findings and recommended that ‘homosexual behaviour between consenting adults be no longer a criminal offence’. Polari was a secretive language of the homosexual subculture which was predominantly prevalent among men in the 1960s. At a time when homosexuality was still taboo, the language provided gay men with a means to communicate exclusively and separately from suspicious eavesdroppers.

Wolfenden by Jez Dolan combines the official language of the report with Polari and highlights the differences between the public political voice and the hidden expressions of the gay community. Originally commissioned by the Houses of Parliament this light installation projecting the Polari text onto the walls of Bury Art Museum is part of his ongoing residency 60/50.   

Since February, artist Jez Dolan has been in residence at Bury Art Museum undertaking an ongoing series of artist-led interventions in the Permanent Collection Gallery entitled ‘60/50’. The project title refers to the significant anniversaries of 2017; 60 years since the Wolfenden Report recommended the decriminalisation of sexual relations in private between men, and 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act executed partial decriminalisation. Two of the most important milestones in UK LGBT+ emancipation and legislation. Both of these had significant impact around the world.

During his residency, Dolan has exhibited his own related work and has worked with the permanent collection at Bury Art Museum, creating a series of interventions from a queer perspective, drawing new parallels and casting new light on overlooked aspects of the collection, which celebrate and commemorate the queer histories which often remain concealed.

Jez Dolan’s practice is interdisciplinary, project-based and research-driven. He utilises a range of media accord- ing to the specific needs, demands and context of each project.

He is currently working with printmaking, photography, performance, installation and curating, whilst explor- ing the creation of new works from archival sources, through which we recall and revisit individual and shared memories and histories, often through the use of text as both visual presence and mode of communication.

He is interested in researching Queer identity; histories, heritage and personal archives, and how we place these, and ourselves in the wider world. Events and experiences always leave behind a trace or residual mark of their occurrence and it is these traces, marks and events which Jez is interested in exploring, expressing these ideas through a process which is performative, collaborative, and celebrates the physical act of ‘making’.

Sorry for real is a virtual apology on behalf of the western world. Trying to provide an apology for slavery, colonialism, segregation, apartheid, exploitation and genocide of black and indigenous bodies, and the current heritage of the colonial matrix power that is capitalism, white supremacy, and hetero-patriarchy, the work questions the apology-forgiveness narrative. What is the function of an apology? Who benefits from the apology? What power structures are hidden behind our apologetic age? Why do we need an apology? Should the present apologize for the past? What about forgiveness? Can an apology ever be enough to move on? And what is the face of oppression today?

Tabita Rezaire is a French - of Guyanese and Danish descent - video artist, health-tech-politix practitioner, and Kemetic/ Kundalini Yoga teacher based in Johannesburg.

Tabita’s practices unearth the possibilities of decolonial healing through the politics of technology. Navigating architectures of power- online and offline - her work tackles the pervasive matrix of coloniality and its affects on technology, sexuality, health and spirituality.

Through screen interfaces and energy streams, her digital healing activism offers substitute readings to dominant narratives decentering occidental authority and preaches to dismantle our oppressive white-supremacist-patriarchal-cis-hetero-globalized world screen.

Tabita is a founding member of the artist group NTU, half of the duo Malaxa, and mother of the house of SENEB.

She is represented by the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

Part of the permanent Irwell Sculpture Trail Ron Silliman’s neon text piece features a line from the American poet’s original work, Northern Soul, written after a visit to Bury in 2009. The work is a homage to the great Chico Escuela, is a part of Wharf Hypothesis, which itself is the opening movement of Northern Soul. The poet is certain this is the most read publication he will ever produce.

Ron Silliman, a major figure in international poetry, worked on his single huge poem, the Alphabet, from 1974 to 2004. He is now working on a second long poem called Universe of which Northern Soul forms part.

The Optikit is a light based modular synthesisor that uses spinnging cut paper disks to produce tones, beats and mixing control. It can be used either in a performance or run autonomously as an installation. We will work in collaboartion with The Owl Prpject to develop v2.0 of the project preparing the hardware for touring, developing the presentation of the work and giving the public the opportunity to laser cut their own optical sound discs inspired by the Bury Archives, landscape and urban environment. This project will grow into a major new proejct in 2018 bringing in a composer to work with the Owls on a new performance instrument.

Drawing on influences such as 70’s synthesiser culture, DIY woodworking and current digital crafts, the resulting artwork is a quirky and intriguing critique of the allure and production of technology. Owl Project make a distinctive range of musical and sculptural instruments that question human interaction with computer interfaces and our increasing appetite for new and often disposable technologies.

Owl Project is a collaborative group of artists consisting of Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons. They work with wood and electronics to fuse sculpture and sound art, creating music making machines, interfaces and objects which intermix pre-steam and digital technologies. Drawing on influences such as 70’s synthesiser culture, DIY woodworking and current digital crafts, the resulting artwork is a quirky and intriguing critique of the allure and production of technology. The result is a distinctive range of musical and sculptural instruments that critique human interaction with computer interfaces and our increasing appetite for new and often disposable technologies.

"Post Pansonic uppercase electronica"
(The Wire magazine, Nov, 2008)

“The Owl Project are a wonderful combination of inventiveness, precision, lateral thinking and single-minded quirkiness” 
(Tim Marlow, White Cube Gallery 2009 

James is one of the 2 founding members of electronica act Paris XY. James’ new musical engagement bears more emphasis on the live and energetic aspects of electronic music. Combining the core driving elements of House and Techno with the complex organic atmospheres and euphoric melodic arrangements that were prominent in his previous works.

James takes direct influence from the worlds of Philosophy, Science and Spirituality utilising lucid dream states, sacred geometry and both western and eastern philosophies to form concepts for his songs and his emerging visual art. The curiosity of mind expansion and soul searching have brought an ever increasing depth and dimension to his work. He discovered that the act of making music induces similar states to those found in deep meditation and he seeks to pull the audience into a transcendental hypnotic state that results in social connection and euphoria.

This year James stepped outside of his comfort zone to work alongside one of Hull’s most forward thinking theatre companies Middle Child. He provided a live electronic score for the award winning debut theatre adaption of Richard Millward’s Ten Story Love Song, which premiered at the Hull Truck Theatre and Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival.

Previous projects have seen him tour Europe playing a string of festivals and iconic music institutions including the monolithic Berghain in Berlin. He has toured with the legendary Gus Gus across Poland and Germany and worked as a Sound Designer for the Swedish synth company Elektron.

Steve Cobby is a British producer musician, composer, and DJ, based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. He is best known for being part of Fila Brazillia.

After disbanding his first commercially released band Ashley & Jackson on Big Life records, he co-founded Fila Brazilliawith David McSherry in 1990. Together they released 10 critically acclaimed lp's and produced over 70 remixes for artists as diverse as Radiohead, Busta Rhymes, Black Uhuru, Simple Minds, James, A Certain Ratio and Moloko.

He formed Pork Recordings with David Brennand in 1990 then 23 Records in '99 with Sim Lister and David McSherry and finally Steel Tiger Records in 2006 with Lister. More of an umbrella for his various projects than a label per se. His other writing and production collaborations include Heights of Abraham; J*S*T*A*R*S and The Cutler.

He's released two solo lp's as The Solid Doctor : How About Some Ether and Beats Means Highs. A third, entitled "Saudade" was released on his own imprint Déclassé in March 2014.

Numerous remixes, from Harold Budd and Theoretics to Jon Kennedy and Yesking have been undertaken in a solo capacity.

Fabric nightclub has played host to many Cobby DJ sets and this was rewarded with an appearance on Fabric 18 alongside fellow Hull alumni Bobby Beige and Bliss.

He co-produced Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli's debut solo l.p. 'The Twilight Singers' in 2000 and co-wrote and produced 'Three White Roses and a Budd ep with Bill Nelson and avant garde American composer Harold Budd. He's worked with Darren Emerson on his solo lp, in an engineering and writing capacity.

His collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder is under the guise of Hey Rube. Adam Regan from Different Drummer Records and Leftfoot promotions in Birmingham is also a regular collaborator. Their project, 'Chieftain'.

Cobby has DJ'd in many places around the world including Croatia, Sydney, San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. He has performed live in Europe, Japan and the United States.